[week 8] jessie

[todorable]

[Todomatsu barely makes it twelve hours after the trial before worry overrides giving people space, so when he doesn't see Jessie at breakfast on Monday, he heads over to her room straightaway. Since he can certainly empathize after that trial, though he would've been over to check in even if he didn't owe her one (or a few).]

Hey, wakey-wakey, it's me. Let me in, okay?

[Man, he sure hopes she's actually home. Not that he won't run around the ship looking for her, but he likes to limit the desperate searching to Fridays if he can help it]

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[toprotecttheworld]

None of that matters if it's for one of our allies! I'd do the same for you if you or one of your brothers were in Hell! Get with the program because I'd drag you in to help myself!

[basically in this hypothetical scenario, Totty is coming willingly or Jessie is shoving him in first...]

[todorable]

It--it's not like I don't want to be helpful! I just imagined being more helpful from the outside.

[in his hypothetical scenario, she is Jack Bauer and he is Chloe, safe at home in the office and away from eternal torture]

[toprotecttheworld]

[wow rude 24 is like the one show I haven't watched]

It doesn't matter now, does it. Shelley thought no one could help her. Maybe I wasn't a good enough fr...friend to her. I don't have very many of those.

[todorable]

[wow just watch season 2 for the girl being chased by a cougar]

...

[he gingerly places a hand on her arm? he keeps it light, not knowing if it's unwelcome, but--he's not all that great at comfort to begin with, so he just goes with the kind of stuff he'd want for himself.]

Maybe...you were a good enough friend to her that she didn't want to get you mixed up in anything.

[toprotecttheworld]

How does that work? I'm always in James' business whether he likes it or not!

[Please explain, Hot Totty.]

[todorable]

Well, is he always in yours? Or are there things you figure it would just he easier to do without him, because the particulars would be too hard to explain, or because he might try to do something you think could be messy, or dangerous, or just that you decided to take care of yourself. What...what if things went wrong, and you got trapped there? What if it didn't even make it that far, and you got scapegoated here? What if you talked her out of it, and she resented you for it later? There's a lot of things she could've been worrying about, because she cared about you...

[toprotecttheworld]

Oh. I never thought of like that.

[She wilts a little.]

There was one time...the time I found out James was obscenely wealthy, I left him behind because I thought he didn't need me or Team Rocket anymore. I didn't want to get in the way of his happiness, so Meowth and I set down the road ourselves.

[todorable]

I assume at some point you changed your mind. Or he did.

[toprotecttheworld]

You're right, of course. The next thing I saw...the Team Rocket balloon rose above the treetops, and he reached out for me and pulled us aboard. I'd never been more grateful.

[todorable]

...So all you have to do now, is figure out where to get that balloon.

[toprotecttheworld]

It's going to have to be a big balloon. It has to have room for you on board, too. At least until we can get you back to your brothers.

[todorable]

Hey, I don't take up that much space. And I make up for it with charm.

["also, thanks for remembering me for your imaginary escape plans"]