#//pachirisu is using tanis as a human shield~

[sweetlesson]

✿ Starter for @gummywyrmtrainer ✿

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A screech of protest rang out throughout the school and suddenly a small pachirisu was sprinting through the halls and out the nearest window. Following close on its heels was Saguaro with a bottle in hand and Goodra just ahead calling out entreaties to the fleeing pokemon. Normally he would never be seen in such a state by anyone, and normally he had himself well together, but today was a special case, and he paid no one any mind besides the pachirisu that had just disappeared out the window.

Pachirisu was... Very sick. It wasn't a serious illness, however. Simple enough to heal with rest and medicine, and Saguaro knew for a fact there wasn't even much need to bother the nurse for something like this. But the problem here was that Pachirisu hated medicine of almost any kind. Potions, proteins, medicinal herbs, you name it. Bitter concoctions were to Pachirisu what spicy food was to Saguaro, and getting her to take her medicine was always a challenge.

Today Goodra had been helping by trying to soothe and constrain Pachirisu, but she had slipped with surprising ease from her grasp and shot like a bolt out of the classroom. And this was how they had ended up sprinting breathless after the little thing right out of the academy and down the steps into the streets of Mesagoza.

"Please, Pachirisu, stop!" Saguaro called out between hard-earned breaths. "You are in no condition to be running like this!"

The rodent ignored him entirely, and it bounced its way up a streetlamp to hang out of reach. Saguaro stopped at the base of it call her down, reaching his hand up as far as he could stretch it to grab ahold of her.

"Sweetheart, you are making this so much harder than it has to be," he called up to her. "You feel awful right now, I can see it in your face. Please come down so that I ca--gaadh...!"

He was cut short as the pokemon attacked, sending an electric current down to her trainer. She hadn't meant for it to be so strong, to the point where he froze for several seconds jittering from the impact, but feeling as under the weather as she was she'd lost perspective of how much she was putting into it. Now feeling guilty on top of her petulance, Pachirisu jumped down again from the other side and found a dark-haired stranger to slip behind the leg of and hide.

Even if Saguaro hadn't quite recovered, Goodra had continued to chase her and was now standing in front of the stranger as well, cooing to Pachirisu and holding her hands out in front of her to try to coax her back out.