[FIN] Sad things yo

[Tori Honoo]

Though Dove hadn't entirely locked herself away from the world, she certainly hadn't made an effort to communicate with anyone. In fact, Lovey thought, as she lay in the armchair, watching the girl as she--finally--slept on the opposite couch, Lovey herself hadn't seen her trainer interact with any other humans, aside from those she was forced to speak with, and even then, the discussion had been scarce. Her ears tucked low, she looked to the wounded typhlosion on the rug below, then rose to her feet, glad he also seemed to be asleep.

As quietly as she could, the tiny eevee made her way into the girl's bedroom and dug through a half open suitcase of miscellaneous items, finally locating and struggling to slide her head into the lose purple ribbon the girl had bought for her not too long ago. If she was going out into the city alone, she certainly didn't want to look like a wild pokemon, and though it wasn't much, the ribbon would at least make her look like she belonged to someone.

A few moments later, after figuring out a way to let herself out of the apartment without waking the other two, Lovey made her way down the stairs and out of the building, heading out toward the shopping areas of town, in hopes of finding someone--anyone really-- that looked familiar and might be able to help Dove out of her downcast and helpless mood.  

[Blood_Goddess]

It had been a long day, and an emotional one.
Rosie could go all day, walking, traveling, shopping, dancing. She was known in her studio for her stamina, and could often times out last her own pokemon in training, something she tried to keep an eye out for.
But this exhausted she was feeling affected her entire body in a way that physically demanding activities could not.

Emotionally, she was exhausted.

She had gone to see Luke in the hospital earlier that day, and what she had seen, scared, and concerned her. She had stayed till he calmed down, and ended up sitting with him while he fell asleep.
She didn't pay attention to how long she had stayed there, gripping his hand and crying silently into her arm, scared for him.

He was still sleeping when she left. She got back to some training with her pokemon, letting them out and working.
By the time she was done, it was late, so she headed home, passing the shops on her way since she needed to find a vase for the flower she brought... a vase, how could she forget a vase.

"huh?" She glanced up when Pastin gave a light snort, and places his muzzle by her shoulder, the Rapidash following behind her.
It wasn't long before she spotted a small Eevee, though, after staring at it a couple of times, she noticed the small heart on her head. "Lovely?"  

[Tori Honoo]

Lovey paused, her ear flipping at her own name, then turned sharply toward the origin of the sound. When her eyes fell on Rosie, she yipped excitedly once, then darted to the girl, weaving between her feet in exstatic greeting.

Of all the humans she had met, this one would be the best for Dove, she was sure. What luck!  

[Blood_Goddess]

"Oh." Rosie blinked as the eevee ran over, slipping around her pink and white boots quickly.
"Lovely, Hi sweety... where is Dove?" the blond asked, glancing up into the crowd again, expecting to see the purple dressed women.  

[Tori Honoo]

When asked about her trainer, the we've stopped before Rosie and sank low to the ground, her ears drooping; she could, of course, tell the girl, though she knew full well the human wouldn't understand. Instead, she resorted to her contest training, allowing a soft whine to accompany her actions in hope of conveying her desire for Rosie's help through body language.

She did, however, flick her eyes to the Rapidash, wondering if he could be of any help in their communiation.  

[Blood_Goddess]

Rosie sure didn't understand what the Eevee was doing, but it was clear that she wasn't happy about something.
"Show me." She said, gently, standing back up.
It was the default, when you don't know what a pokemon is trying to tell you, "show me" usually helps to give clues.  

[Tori Honoo]

With a small huff and a nod of her head, the eevee turned tail and began to lead Rosie toward the loft, checking over her shoulder to be sure the girl was following.

After a careful walk back through the town, Lovey made her way up to a larger, expensive looking bed and breakfast and pawed at the door until it slid open, then slipped inside after a soft yap to the girl and rapidash behind her.  

[Blood_Goddess]

Rosie glanced around the bed and breakfast, she knew of this one of course. it was one of the finer ones in the city, one of the few that was recommended to visiting business associates.
She had never stayed here before, but she had over head about it when she was younger.

She assumed that this was where Dove was, but why Lovely was bringing her here, Rosie still wasn't sure.

Pastin and her continued to follow Lovely.  

[Tori Honoo]

With an encouraging nod of her head, Lovey made her way into the building and up a few flights of stairs, struggling to take each one more slowly to ensure the girl was following instead of bounding up them as she had become accustomed.

On the highest floor, the normal type stopped at the top of the stairs to wait a moment, then headed toward her mistress' room, pawing at the door with soft calls to her-- apparently, the owner of the suites had come by and closed the door. A privacy issue, he would have assumed.

From inside the room, Dove woke with a start as Sparky growled at the sound from the door, the blanket over her falling away quickly as she forced herself to her feet. When the large typhlosion realized, however, that the soft pokemon calls were familiar, he simply narrowed his eyes in disbelief. Surely Lovey hadn't been so foolish as to leave the apartment without Dove. His eyes flicked to the girl as she immediately rose and went to the door, tucking her long hair back over her shoulders in attempt to clean herself up just in case the landlord had accompanied her runaway eevee.

She opened the door, blinking wearily into the brighter light from the hallway, then at the girl that appeared a few paces away. Lovey looked anywhere but her trainer, unsure of how the girl would react to her plan to cheer her up.

Though a brief look of surprise flitted across her face, it faded to a soft look of unease and shame as she wrapped her free arm around her lean form. Quietly, with as much cheer as she could possibly muster, she greeted the girl, opening the door a little wider to invite her in, should she so choose to come. "Hey, Rosie..."

Lovey backed away a few paces  

[Blood_Goddess]

"Dove." Rosie said, blinking at the other girl, before accepting the silent invite in, Pastin letting out a heavy breath through his nose as he strode in after her.
"Lovely was out on the streets alone," She noted, glancing over at the Eevee.

It was extremely dangers for a pokemon to do that in Kodo, Rosie wasn't sure if Dove or Lovely even knew that though.  

[Tori Honoo]

Dove stepped back to let the girl and her pokemon into the room, blinking down then frowning at the eevee as she filed in behind them.

"Thank...Thank you for bringing her back... She should know better than to go out alone, especially now when-- " She paused, still trying to catch up and half asleep. Embarrassed at the state of her home-- though it was more than relatively tidy, save for a few misplaced pillows and an empty tea kettle and mug on the coffee table in front of the couch-- she moved inside as the door closed and began to straighten things a little, draping the blanket over the couch and tossing the pillow into the armchair next to Sparky.

Sparky simply watched the blonde girl curiously, then narrowed his eyes at Lovey. Lovey shrank, then jumped into the arm chair to settle in for her scolding.

Turning on another lamp to illuminate the room a little better, she made her way to the kitchen with the few little dishes. "Would you like something to drink...? I've got, um... tea, lemonade... anything, really..." Clearly, the girl had not been prepared to see anyone any time soon, let alone have anyone visit her personally, and her body language screamed of stress and weariness that had settled into her skin long before Rosie had arrived.  

[Blood_Goddess]

"Oh, no... no thank you I'm alright." Rosie tilted her head, watching Dove. "Is everything okay? Lovely seemed upset when we found her."
It was an unexpected visit, Rosie wasn't at all against the idea, but it was clear that things seemed a bit rough... or it might just have been the day she was thinking about.

Dove looked like she had been inside all day, while not feeling her best.  

[Tori Honoo]

Dove's shoulders sank after Rosie posed her question. "Everything is...." Fine? No, that would be a lie, and what good was someone who lied to people when trying to make friends? "Everything...is...."

She broke off and looked away, setting the kettle and mug down gently on the counter. "Everything hurts, and there's no where to run but away," she finally settled on, her throat tightening.  

[Blood_Goddess]

With how the last few days have been going, Rosie could guess that this is what she's been talking about. The blond tilted her head, watching the other women quietly. "Its been a hard few days... I know. You had us worried when you ran out of the hospital yesterday. Why do you want to run away?"  

[Tori Honoo]

Dove was silent for a few moments, before she turned to boil more water for tea, if not for both of them, then for herself. "I just..... I feel like I've stepped in and made everything worse, especially with Luke. Yesterday, he just..." Her eyes filled with tears as she recalled the young man's panic attack, and her own that had spawned from it. Though talking with Inigo had eased the pain, it hadn't completely erased the memory. "I panicked, and I shouldn't have... I shouldn't have given him reason to panic in the first place, but he was so upset already and then things just..."

She took a deep breath, forcing herself to calm. This wasn't going to be a fun storytelling.