[FIN] Beauty and the Beast

[BlackPidgeot]

The Jigglypuff was still puzzled, though it did answer her question, even if curtly.

""  

[Tori Honoo]

Lovey blinked at the clipped response, but nodded all the same. She looked back to Dove, barking once with a wag of her tail.

With a nod, the girl stood again and lifted the eevee, taking it's place on the bench before setting it in her lap. "Are you here alone? she asked the strange pokemon, tilting her head in concern.  

[BlackPidgeot]

The Pokemon was still confused but as Dove sat and asked him a question, the thing bobbed his entire body in a supposed nod.

"Puff."  

[Tori Honoo]

Her brows furrowed, and Lovey sat back to watch. "Well that's no fun. Did you at least get to play at the party?"

Though how it could have been there without causing upset, she would have no idea. Surely there were too many children around for it to have gone on unnoticed....  

[BlackPidgeot]

The Jigglypuff shook its uh... body in a negative response to that question. Every time that he tried to meet or play with anyone, they ran away or tried to fight him, like with Rosie's Lopunny.

Just the thought caused the appearance challenged Pokemon to slump sadly. "Puuff puff." No one likes him.  

[Tori Honoo]

The girl's expression turned sympathetic as the moonpuff all but deflated, and she tentatively reached out to pat its head. "I'm sorry... Looks like I'm not the only one who had a hard night..."  

[BlackPidgeot]

The creature finally blinked when Dove reached out and patted him on the head. The Pokemon looking clearly confused. "Puff?"  

[Tori Honoo]

She smiled a little apologetically at its confused look, and rubbed its dead a little before settin her hands back in her lap. "I know the festival is over, and we're not really that interesting, but if you want, we have time to play!" she told it with a small smile. It was alone, and she knew far too well how bad it felt to not fit in. "I think there might be some flowers left over, if you want to make something with us."  

[BlackPidgeot]

Having his head rubbed was a very unfamiliar sensation, and he wasn't sure what to make of it. But it wasn't unpleasant. However, at the offer to join them, he seemed a bit reluctant and shuffled a foot. "Puuuuff."

Surely they didn't want -him- there.  

[Tori Honoo]

She offered a reassuring smile, then lifted the crown of roses she had worn earlier from its place on the bench between them and placed it on the jigglypuff's head with a giggle before standing up. "Come on, let's play!"  

[BlackPidgeot]

With the crown of roses placed on his head, the Pokemon looked up bewildered. The offer to play and the gesture of the flowers... touched the Jigglypuff deep down. Tears starting to well up in its deep crater like eyes.

"Puuuuuuff."

No one had ever been so nice to him before.  

[Tori Honoo]

At the sight of the pokemon's tears, she paused, then kneeled again, looking at it at eye level, her hand reaching out to gently pet it's head again. "Oh, what's wrong?" she asked softly, her expression concerned. It had seemed somewhat shy, but it had looked as though it wanted company.

Lovey sat at the side quietly, watching her trainer and the jigglypuff, lowering her head a little to watch it from a different angle, her expression also that of concern.  

[BlackPidgeot]

"Puuuuff," he bellowed again, then waddled forward to put his stubby little arms around Dove's leg in a hug. She was such a nice person!  

[Tori Honoo]

Dove blinked in confusion as the pokemon came forward and hugged her leg, tilting her head down to it then folded her legs, offering her open arms to it instead. "What's wrong?" she asked it again, her voice still soft and concerned.

Lovey stayed up on the bench, watching quietly, though still confused.  

[BlackPidgeot]

"Puff Puff," he said, although naturally she wouldn't be able to understand him. There was nothing wrong really, as his tears were that of joy, but that was kinda hard to convey when you had a face like his.