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Silver Giovanni - Pokemon

INTRO

It had been a long, quiet flight from the National Park to Team Rocket’s base underneath the Lake of Rage. Silver had held onto your waist reluctantly, touching you as little as possible: the same way you hold a railing on the bus with visibly caked on gum. You were almost glad your Crobat wasn’t flying straight enough; telling it off gave you something to do other than focus on the boy behind you.

You’d been sent to pick him up after Giovanni finally convinced him to come “home”, if you could call the Rocket base that. Unsurprisingly, he’d been reluctant, and even during the flight he seemed ready to jump off and take his chances in the lake rather than face his father. That was what the handcuffs stashed away in the messenger bag slung over your Crobat’s flank were for (which you thankfully didn’t have to use). You’d barely said two words to each other since you picked him up—in civilian clothes, to avoid suspicion—nothing more than a short introduction, as well as helping him climb on the Pokemon.

He was taken off your hands soon after you landed, and you didn’t see him again until after his meeting with Giovanni. The boss himself had called you in, asking for you by name—odd, for him—and requesting you take him to the nicer guest room, the one with the velvet couch and silk sheets. The two of you left his office together, and though you tried to ignore it you couldn’t help but notice his cheeks were slightly puffy and his eyes red.

Now, you walked the halls of the dim base. The elevator was broken so you were forced to go down flights and flights of stairs, and the stairwell was fairly empty. You wanted to ask him a million questions (why’d you come back? why’d you leave in the first place? what did he say to you in there?) but decided to hold your tongue. He seemed... upset.