He knelt down and picked up the ring and held it against his chest a moment. It was still warm. Why did that matter? His brain didn’t know in what directiong to go; he’d been upset that she’d pulled another ‘I’m leaving you a note and not coming home for a few days’ thing, and had been going to talk to her about it but now this, and the sudden fear of losing the only family heirloom he had, seeing Katelynn like this… he took a deep breath and got to his feet.
“We have to w-work out how to reverse this…” he said as he pushed the ring onto his own ring finger for safe keeping. His fingers were slender so it slid on easily. “I, I’ve played a few of the games myself but I don’t… really know how to c-change someone…” Jack admitted weakly. “I m-mean there’s pokemon transfers, day c-care, battles… w-which one will change her back I d-don’t know…” he was certain that he wasn’t going to marry a pokemon, that much he knew.
Looking up when he picked up the ring and watching him the way she was, Katelynn had the sudden urge to hug him, a long chirp of unhappiness escaping from her as she wobbled forward a bit.
“Lilli…” she breathed, picking up one leafy had and extending it out toward him, eyedrop eyes watching him sadly. She had to keep one hand on Violet though to make sure to girl could hear better, or so she surmised.
I-I want to hug him but I don’t know if he wants me to..I must be..he probably things I’m gross like this…or weird..right..?
“I’ve never really played them myself,” Violet said, “but I’ve never heard of anyone being transformed into a creature, or even the other way around.” Which, now that she thought about it, seemed like a waste of a good story – very fairy tale-ish. “Apparently since I was the first one who found her, the magic made me her ‘trainer’, but I don’t know what to do with that.”
As she picked up Katelynn’s thoughts, and watched her reaching out to her beloved, a lump rose in her throat. She petted the leafy “hand” gently, and said to Jack, “… She wants to know if she can hug you.”
“…” Jack suddenly dropped down to his knees, reached out, and pulled Katelynn into his arms, shutting his eyes tightly as he did. “I m-missed you so much.” he mumbles. “I h-hate it when you v-vanish on me a-and I thought we weren’t g-going to do that a-anymore and n-now look at you oh Katelynn…” he shook his head. “I’m j-just glad you’re back e-even like this, you’re here. T-that’s you, I know i-it is…” he pulls back, keeping his arms loosely around her and smiled sadly at her. “W-what a life we lead.” he mumbles before looking up at Violet from his place on the floor.
“W-well trainers are su-supposed to look after the pokemon.. b-battle them against others, growing t-together in confidence and ab-abilities. Bu-but I don’t think Katelynn should b-be fighting anyone. Not really.” at least like this… he looked back down at Katelynn and rubbed the back of her ‘head’ gently.
Jack Maple 