From: Time Lady <sailrgal@swbell.net> Subject: Re: [PW!][LEAGUE] A Falling Out Date: Saturday, February 19, 2000 6:10 PM Continue wrote: > Time Lady wrote: > > >Damian sat in the hospital bed. His hands were in bandages, keeping > >him from being able to turn the pages of the magazine. He didn't feel > >like watching the television. All they seemed to show around here was > >news from the tournament. Same with radio. All he could do was sit > >with his thoughts and wait for the doctors. After the X-ray results, > >they would be able to remove the pieces of shattered pokeball > >imbedded in his hands. The pain killers they had given him weren't > >quite in effect yet. Bulletproof hovered over a table, confused as to > >what was happening. Damian heard a tap at the door. "Come in." > > > >"Kind of strange coming into a hospital to see you for a change," said > >Sarah Jane as she walked in, followed by Jon and Christy. > > > >"Hi," he said. He noticed Sarah Jane had only Pteryx with her. > >"Where are...." > > > >"Down in the waiting room with Shields," said Sarah Jane. "They > >wouldn't let me bring them up here. The two of them have been acting > >up." > > > >"I can imagine," said Damian. "You've probably heard by now." > > > >"Yeah," said Jon. "I can't believe it...." > > "Yeah, well, I, uh, I guess…I guess I can’t believe it either." was all > Damian managed. > > "So, what happened?" Jon tried something to keep things from sinking > into a heavy silence. "The TV didn’t get much. Just you two arguing > and then, you know." > > Damian looked down, avoiding the eyes of his friends. "I guess it was > like you saw. We got into an argument and things got really bad at the > end." He glanced back up when he finished speaking, looking to see > what was visible on his friends’ faces. > > "The news showed Drake using a Hyper Beam, but I remember them > also saying something about lacerations. How did that happen?" Sarah > Jane prodded out of concern. > > "I …," he paused as his mind searched for something. He couldn’t find > anything to cover it up, to hide the truth. He lowered his head. Facing > the truth was hard enough, he wasn’t sure that he could face his friends > at the same time. "It’s my fault. I started in on Drake because I lost. I > > thought he had gone back on our deal. I said a bunch of things, and > Drake started walking away. I was too mad, so I pulled out his > pokeball. I don’t think he wanted to hurt me, he only hit the pokeball > before I could use it. That’s why I’m here, the pokeball." > "I wouldn't have brought Drake to the match," said Sarah Jane. Damian and Jon blinked in surprise. "There was no guarantee he would fight, and there would've been too much temptation to just depend on him." "What about Shields?" asked Damian. "Don't you feel the same about him? That he's your man to go to in a clinch?" "No," said Sarah Jane. "My battle with Lance made me realize I was depending on Shields too much. And my last battle made me realize that I was also depending too much on Nipper. A good trainer needs to always have a few pokemon of each type ready. When I caught Bombadier, I practically neglected my Doduo. Sybil isn't even at half the levels she could be if I had been training her as well. And Hato-kun.... the poor Pidgey has never been away from my grandparents' home. You weren't counting on the idea that Drake wouldn't fight, and you set yourself up for disappointment." Damian stared at Sarah Jane wordlessly. "You felt he betrayed your trust," she said quietly. "When you took out the Pokeball, he probably felt the same way." An uncomfortable silence fell over the group. Jon looked back and forth between Sarah Jane and Damian. To try and break through the silence, Christy picked up the remote control and turned on the television. Commercials advertising Brock's Diner flashed across the screen, with pictures of a Vulpix sitting on an Onix. "I think he's gone for good," said Damian in a low voice. "Maybe," said Sarah Jane. "I hope he'll come back once he's had a chance to cool down and think things through." "And now, in the Pokemon League competion....," said the newscaster as the commercials ended, "The matchups for tomorrow's battles have been announced." He read off the list of those entered in the 0-6 badge division, then started on the 7+ group. "And the last matchup is Sarah Jane Eckert of Rosetta town versus Jon...." Christy dropped the remote control as Sarah Jane and Jon looked at each other in surprise. "You against me?" asked Jon. "It had to be, sooner or later," said Damian. "One of us would have wound up fighting the other." "I would have prefered later," said Sarah Jane. "Or never.... -- (o)_(o) || Time Lady, sailrgal@swbell.net _(^*^)_ || sailrgal@hotmail.com, sailrgal@my-dejanews.com (__ __) || Visit the Mystic Manor Homepage /_/\_\ || http://members.tripod.com/~MysticManor