#she pulled up a screenshot where i was profusely apologizing for god knows what and was like “yeah u didnt actually do anything here”

[microwavestim]

i love my best friend more than anything, it just kinda hurts my feelings when she pulls up screenshots of her genuinely manipulating/gaslighting me and just laughs about them lol

[shadowphoenixrider]

I’ve had this Katla/Kabu fic idea playing out in my head all day today, and because I can’t be arsed to write it properly, here’s the cliff-notes version:

- Katla + all gym leaders + Leon + Hop are having a party because of Reasons (post-’yay we didn’t die’ day? post-championship match? god knows). 

- Kabu doesn’t want to be here, but it’s The Law so he is. But the company’s not bad (Hint Hint)

- Everyone’s getting buzzed on the alcohol. Kabu is watching himself and is relatively sober. Katla doesn’t usually drink, but Leon splashed out for some red wine and she likes that, so she drinks.

- She tries to pace herself, but since she doesn’t drink often, it goes awry. She gets very excitable and chatty, which everyone finds amusing, including Kabu, but he keeps a wary eye on her.

- Good thing too, as after a while she goes to him and mumbles that she’s overdone it and doesn’t feel safe to get back to her hotel room on her own. Could he walk her there?

- It takes about a nanosecond for him to say yes.

- The rest of the gang is too far into their booze to take any notice, but Kabu finds a sober-ish Nessa and lets her know he’s taking Katla home - she takes one look at Kat and agrees that he’s got the right idea.

- Katla can barely walk straight because of her dizziness, so she holds tight to Kabu’s arm as he leads her to the taxi rank. She keeps bumping into him and saying sorry, but he’s too deep in thought to care.

- For reasons he doesn’t quite understand (*coughhe’sgotfeelingsforhercough*), Kabu frets that if he leaves her alone in her hotel room she’s going to fall and crack her head open in the bathroom or choke on her vomit and die.

- Decides to take her to his place because he has a spare room and then at least he knows she’s in a safe place and someone can at least keep an eye on her.

- He tells her this. Katla vehemently denies she’s going to puke and he doesn’t have to do this, she’ll be fine. Kabu pulls the ‘please help settle an old man’s mind’ card, and she relents.

- Taxi dude makes noises about Katla puking in the taxi, much to Katla’s chagrin. Kabu tells him he’ll pick up the cleaning tab and taxi dude realizes who he’s talking to and gets a lot more polite.

- Plot twist: Katla doesn’t puke in the taxi. She gets very tried and almost falls asleep against Kabu. It makes him feel things, and he feels a bit guilty trying to keep her awake.

- Her legs give out in the lift to his flat, and she apologies profusely for being a burden. Kabu assures her she is very much not, and carries her to his apartment. She almost falls asleep again, and he keeps her awake by asking about her hotel room (room no., where’s her access card, etc.).

- Kabu puts her in the spare room, and manages to get her out of her shoes and coat before she is out like a light. He puts her to bed as is, and gets ready for bed himself.

- His rest is fitful, as he keeps waking up to check on her. She’s fine Kabu GO TO BED

- Despite this, he gets up at his usual time for his morning run. He checks on Katla again, leaving her a note explaining everything, a glass of water and a tab of painkillers.

- He takes a detour to the hotel to pick up a change of clothes for her. He feels incredibly awkward about it, but does it anyway.

- Katla wakes up during this time, and she’s got a hecking hangover when she does. She’s grateful for the water and painkillers, though she just wants to sleep and ignore life at the moment. (She also feels a bit guilty about staying ‘round Kabu’s).

- Kabu comes back with clothes and notices Katla’s risen from the dead. They have a brief talk; he’s thankful she’s ok, she’s grateful that he looked after her, though she feels bad for being such a disruption. He assures her it’s perfectly fine, he’d do it for anyone of his friends (liar).

- He leaves her to rest, trying to ignore that weird ass feeling that she’s staying in his apartment and he likes it and actually if she wanted to stay longer, well that’d be perfectly fine, really.

- But he’s a little worried he’s over-stepped his boundaries a little, what with the taking her home and the...touching her clothes. You know maybe he shouldn’t read into this and make it any worse than it already is.

- Katla sleeps until her head pounds a little less when she lifts it up, then she goes and has a shower and puts on the new clothes. Immediately feels better.

- Tidies up the room before she leaves, and finds Kabu’s kindly kept the blinds low so she can roam around without the morning sun blinding her.

- Finds him downstairs in the kitchen, cooking up breakfast with his Centiskorch skittering around. Centiskorch sees her first and lets its trainer know she’s there, then goes and get pets from her.

- Kabu is happy to see her up, even if she looks as shattered as he is. He’s even happier to see Centiskorch likes her and vice versa.

- “Mmm, sorry I kept you up, Kabu.”

- “You have nothing to apologise for.”

- Katla asks how long she can stay; she doesn’t want to impose, and the others will be waking up soon. Kabu points out that they were really going for it last night (he swore he saw a jagerbomb coming out when they left) and they probably won’t wake up until the middle of the day.

- “Oh, that makes sense.” *peers at the oven* “What’re you cooking?”

- Kabu sweats nervously. “Oh, the other day a little Rookidee might have told me you like a sausage sandwich, so I thought perhaps, if you’re feeling up to it...”

- Katla, internally: Marry me you handsome bastard

- Katla, externally: Damn, Hop never lets me have any secrets. Yeah, they’re my favourite. I’ll just have a small one, if that’s ok?

- Soft gentle fluff ensues as they chat together on the sofa, enjoying the peaceful morning together. Katla lets some of her not-giant Pokemon roam around with Kabu’s.

- “How is your Sizzlipede doing now?”

- “Oh, she’s doing fine.” *lets her out of her pokeball to reveal she’s evolved into a Centiskorch*

- Kabu, internally: Oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck

- Kabu, externally: Ah! She’s evolved into a fine Pokemon!

- Katla: Oh yes! She’s become my main fire and bug type Pokemon. *pets her* She’s so beautiful and gorgeous and tough as nails...

- Kabu’s kinda listening, but 90% of him is just gawking at the scene and pointedly ignoring the fact he’s slowly rolling head over heels in love.

- The two Centiskorch hit it off, much to their trainers’ delight.

- Katla/Kabu just spend the morning talking with each other and slowly inching closer to one another on the couch.

- Kabu finally admits (!!!) that he cares a lot for Katla and he hopes he hadn’t overstepped his boundaries. Katla says it’s fine, she trusts him and she actually cares a lot for him too.

- Long pause as they debate what to do next. Katla shifts a little closer. “You’re warm...”

- Kabu chuckles. “That might be the reason they call me the ‘ever-burning man of fire’.”

- Their knees are touching

- Oh my god they’re leaning into one another

- Katla’s Rotom phone beeps and startles them apart; Hop’s awake and wondering where she is because shouldn’t she be at breakfast at this time?

- Katla: Oh sorry, I drank a bit too much last night and Kabu let me stay over his place. I’ll be over in a little while.

- Hop: ...You’re at Kabu’s?! Shit sorry I didn’t realize didn’t mean to disturb you lol

- Katla: OMG HOP WE DIDN’T DO ANYTHING! HE’S A GENTLEMAN HE PUT ME IN A SEPARATE BED

- Too late Hop’s already texted Leon and the private League gossip groupchat is fucking erupting with variations of ‘did they do the do!?!?!?’ and ‘holy shit finally’.

- Katla decides to leave at this point. Both of them are disappointed she has to go, but she does, yet not before exchanging numbers.

- As she goes, Kabu can’t help but feel like a part of him has gone missing. However, because he’s a Complete Fucking Idiot, he doesn’t think it’s anything to do with Katla.

- Nessa contacts Kabu about Katla later. He tells her Katla’s ok, and that she said she cares about him.

- Nessa: Really? *in the groupchat: hold up guys I think I got something*

- Kabu: Yes. I’m very flattered to be one of things she cares about.

- Nessa in the groupchat: OH MY FUCKING ARCEUS KABU HAS TO BE DOING THIS ON PURPOSE NO ONE IS THIS THICK

- Raihan: w8 what happened whatd he do

- Nessa: Kat told him that she really cared for him and he was like ‘oh it’s nice to be one of the thing she cares about’

- Leon: YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING

- Nessa: *posts screenshot of the texts in groupchat* Nope

- groupchat explodes in frustration