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The five rockets stood outside The Boss's office for a couple of seconds not saying anything just looking at each other before Cassidy turned to Jessie and growled, "It's all your fault The Boss is mad at us."
Jessie glared at her and said, "If you hadn't attacked us this wouldn't have happened, so don't go blaming us for your mistakes."
With that she turned and stormed of down the corridor dragging her confused partner behind her. Not wanting to hang about with the enemy Meowth run quickly after his friends. Cassidy watched them go before turning to her partner, "How are we ever going to survive this?"
Butch shrugged and said, "Don't know what your so worried about. We're getting a free trip to a tropical island. It'll be easy to stay out of their way."
"I guess"
"That's the sprit, lets go pack."
"Fine you win, but I'm having the biggest suitcase."
"That's because you've got the most junk."
"Why you.." Cassidy turned to hit her partner, but he'd already started running down the corridor, she sighed and gave chase, promising herself she'd make him sorry for his last remark.
Meanwhile in Jessie and James' apartment, James was desperately trying to calm Jessie down, he wasn't doing a very good job. Jessie paced across the floor of the small living room, muttering angrily to herself as James trailed behind her trying to make her see that things weren't as bad as they seemed.
She stopped suddenly, causing James to slam into her back. He jumped back quickly expecting her to spin round and hit him but instead she turned slowly and said softly,
"James, what are we going to do?"
James sighed, unsure of what to say, knowing that in the state she was in the wrong answer would earn him a whack round the head, he finally settled on, "As long as we're together it'll be OK."
She smiled at that and said, "Thanks, but I still don't know how we're going to put up with 2 weeks of Cassidy's snide remarks."
"So ignore her, we're finally getting the vacation we deserve. Just think bright sunshine, a beach, the sea and best of all it's free."
Jessie laughed at that, "Sometimes you say just the right things you know that." James blushed bright red, and muttered a thank you. Jessie poked him in the arm, "Come on, let's go pack."
James nodded and followed her into the bedroom they shared. It was little bigger then the living room, there were two beds and two small wardrobes, one of each side of the room and a small cat bed in one corner were Meowth was currently sleeping. He'd run in here to hide from Jessie's wrath and fallen asleep. On spotting the sleeping cat Jessie walked over to him and poked him gently with the toe of her boot waking him up, he jumped up quickly and glanced up at the two humans. "What you wake me up for?"
"You can help us pack." Jessie said, sitting down on her bed.
"Why do I have to help? I haven't anything to pack."
"Because if you don't help, we'll give you to Butch and Cassidy as a peace offering." James said with a grin, sitting down next to Jessie. Meowth glared at the two of them, "All right, you win, I'll help, just don't leave with those two."
"Don't worry Meowth we won't." Jessie said. The cat pokemon leaped up onto the bed and settled himself between his two friends.
"We'll gonna survive this ain't we?" he asked his two friends quietly. The two humans reached down and stroked his head softly.
"Of course we will...." Jessie started.
"As long as we stick together." James finished.
Meowth began to purr softly as his two friends began to stroke behind his ears, usually he'd have scratched them by now but for once he liked feeling the closeness of them. They sat like this for a while, just thinking about the up and coming trail and what they were going to take with them. That was until Jessie leaped up with a shriek, knocking James over and startling Meowth.
James picked himself up and looked at Jessie who had started pacing again, "What's up now Jess?"
"We've got to go shopping. I just remembered I need a new swimming costume."
"Why what happened to the old ones?"
As soon as James said it, he regretted the question, he remembered quite clearly what had happened to her other ones.
Jessie grinned at him and said, "You should know, you were wearing one of them." James blushed, he really had to learn to keep his mouth shut, he hated being reminded about that incident. So instead of answering her he got of the bed and said, "I suppose we better go then."
Meowth started to laugh, causing the two humans to glance at him strangely, "Do you two know what time it is? All the shops are shut now, you'll have ta go in the morning." The two blushed slightly, they'd lost track of time and felt mighty silly about it too. "Oh well, we'll just have to pack in the morning then."
"Guess so." James said with a laugh, trying to cover his embarrassment over the last topic.
Meowth hopped of the bed and run over to his own, "Well if you no longer need me I'm going back ta bed, you two fools can do what you want."
With that he curled up again, and quickly fell asleep. Jessie glanced over at James who'd sat down on his own bed. She grinned at him and said, "I'm going to bed now, what about you?"
James blinked at her for a minute before answering, "There's a film on tonight I want to watch, so I'll be in once it's over."
"What is it?" He grinned at her and said, "It's called The Rattatas. It's an Italian film about killer Rattatas."
Jessie shook her head, James had the most bizarre taste in films. "OK, well enjoy your movie and don't wake me up when you come to bed."
James got up of his bed and said, "I won't Jess, I'll be real quiet."
Jessie laughed, James was never quiet. She shooed him out of the room and sat down on her bed. She smiled softly, knowing that what James had said was true as long as the three of them were together nothing Cassidy said would be able to effect them. With that thought she changed into her night-clothes, climbed into bed and was soon blissfully asleep.