Ch 41: And if you don’t love me now
She should have been calm.
She was with her partner, she was out of that bloody cave, and she’d just cum harder than she had in ages.
But she wasn’t. While talking with Sandy was masking it, inside she was panicking.
So Hailey was now initiating. Ok, ok, cool cool cool, great. This changed things.
Did she now start letting Hailey know when she was feeling randy? Because that was, like, a lot of the time. Did she suggest new things to try or would that be too much, too fast and cause the girl to retreat back into her shell?
And if she just asked her would that be taken as hinting that she really wanted some fun time RIGHT NOW and pressure her?
It was maddening!
Being out of the cave was nice, back into the (fading) sunlight, but that still left them one person down.
Latty said goodbye, to Gem at least, and started waddling her way south, seemingly looking up in wonder at all the trees. Hailey didn’t think she’d ever be an underground girl, but even she could admit the little Sandshew was cute. She hopped the little Mon found her desire.
Still, Gem and her now found themselves with the same problem they’d had the other day. No real way to get back up the stairs, and an open question as to if they should even follow the forest south.
“So… when she… comes back, do you think it will be in the same spot she left?” For lack of anything better to do, they’d wandered back to the same clearing as before. At least it was close to the stairs up.
“Maybe? Honestly, search me, I’ve seen ghosts pull some fucky stuff before, but that’s a new one, at least as far as I can remember.” Gem’s shrug was about the best answer the Minun could give, a good reminder that Pokémon weren’t a monolith.
So, they waited.
Waited as the sun went down and the stars assumed their places. Hailey was really missing her paperbacks before long. At least before Gem reminded her that, with an Electric type around, you never had to worry about running down your batteries.
Snuggled up in the sleeping back, watching videos at 480p to save data, she looked so smug whenever the screen went black.
H0t_Wh33l5: So I’m currently stuck at the bottom of a hole
W1CK3D_WyrM: A HOLE??!?!??!
H0t_Wh33l5: Well, a valley is like a hole if you think about it :P Also, what is with that screen name?
W1CK3D_WyrM: … shit, I thought I was on my professional account
Doctor_C: So then, there is no problem?
H0t_Wh33l5: Really running two separate identities?
Doctor_C:I have a life outside of the hospital
H0t_Wh33l5: So I’ve been learning, against my will. Anyway, no not really, we’re in the valley under the Bike Path. Pomona pulled us down here cause she had to work. Did you know she just… schlorps up Pokémon?!?
Doctor_C: She’s a psychopomp? A strange one she is. I assume she hasn’t come back from the… other side yet?
H0t_Wh33l5: No, and she failed to mention how long she’d be.
Doctor_C: I’m not sure myself, we usually kept her type away from the Hospital, bad for moral. Anyway, are you sure you aren’t in trouble? I could be there in a few hours at most.
H0t_Wh33l5: No, don’t bother, she got me down here, her purple ass can damn well pull me back up. Besides, no reason to interrupt your apparently… interesting nightlife. I’m sure it’s had a real shot in the arm since you don’t have to bother with me anymore.
Doctor_C: You drastically overestimate how many duties I have. At most, I’ve been getting slightly more sleep. Besides, I am pretty sure I remember you saying once that if I ever talked about my vacations you’d cut your ears off.
H0t_Wh33l5: I don’t remember that, but that sounds like something I’d say, later “Wyrm”
H0t_Wh33l5: So yeah, no sign of her this morning. Dunno how long we’re going to be stuck down here
Fru1tiv0ir: Dang, she sounds more like my friends Staraptor partner than a ghost type. Is it at least nice there? Never bothered going to the Bike Path, why bother when there’s a train?
H0t_Wh33l5: Eh, nice enough. Been taking some pics, if you wake up early enough the sun glinting off the morning dew on the trees is really nice.
Fru1tiv0ir: Hard pass, I don’t wake up before noon unless the house is on fire, and Thẚo hasn’t done that in a while
H0t_Wh33l5: Well, the sun does rise later when you’re in a valley :V
Fru1tiv0ir: Even still. But you should post some of those pictures, I’ve only seen the ones with Gem. A lot of ones with Gem actually.
H0t_Wh33l5: Huh? I haven’t posted anything really. Wait…
H0t_Wh33l5: Oh that little gremlin. Ugh, at least she didn’t post all of them. Has she been commenting to?? I don’t remember following any of these people!
Fru1tiv0ir: So you’re saying there’s some she kept back? Those must be pretty saucy ( ⊙‿⊙)
H0t_Wh33l5: … no comment
B1g_N@Nab: BUT YOU CAN SHARE THEM WITH YOUR BIG GREEN FRIEND, RIGHT???
H0t_Wh33l5: What do you want them for? Don’t you have Brigit for that?
Fru1tiv0ir: I’m not a fleshlight
B1g_N@Nab: HAHA YES, BUT THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO SPICE THINGS UP IN THE BEDROOM, AND YOUR LITTLE SPARK IS PRETTY CUTE LITTLE ROOT
Fru1tiv0ir: Aside from the first part, I agree. Gem really does have nice thighs
B1g_N@Nab: ADDING A EVEN SMALLER THIRD IS A LOT OF FUN! THEN I GET TO STACK MY LOVERS BY SIZE!
H0t_Wh33l5: I feel like Gem would probably be excited by that, the only issue is she’d probably try to drag me in
B1g_N@Nab: WHY WOULD THAT BE A PROBLEM LITTLE ROOT?
H0t_Wh33l5: Listen, Gem may be hot but you don’t want my bony ass…
H0t_Wh33l5:… no reason. Anyway, once we finally catch Pomona (and I tie her to my chair by a cord) we should be back heading toward Oreburg before turning and trying our luck with Coronet, again
B1g_N@Nab: OH! LITTLE NANAB, WE SHOULD TAKE ANOTHER TRIP! GET YOU OUT OF THE HOUSE AGAIN. WE CAN MEET UP WITH THEM AT OREBURG! WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THAT HAILEY?
Fru1tiv0ir: Wait? Another trip? I just got out of the house like a week ago! Don’t I get a say in this?
B1g_N@Nab: NO
H0t_Wh33l5: We weren’t really planning on staying, but I did hear about the museum they have there…
B1g_N@Nab: THEN IT’S A DATE!
It ended up being almost three days before Pomona returned, and Hailey had been seriously considering their supply of MRE’s before then.
It was a quiet thing, like most things Pomona did, the sound of air slowly being displaced as she faded back in. Slow enough that Hailey was able to alert Gem. They were able to get into position with Hailey frowning, arms crossed, and Gem tapping her foot, hands on hips, before the Ghost fully re-materialized.
“Where have you been!” Hailey shouted. Gem joined in, with slightly more colourful language. For her part, Pomona just looked mildly confused.
“I would think that was fairly obvious.”
“Was it supposed to be obvious that you’d been gone three days, because it wasn’t to us!?” Gem shouted, while Hailey added “and it’s not like we knew how to get out of that cave! If it hadn’t been for that nice Sandshrew we could have still been down there.”
Pomona’s response was an opening of her eyes wide, eyebrows raised. Shock, contrition, embarrassment, they were left to guess at what exactly that meant.
“Three days? That is one of my longer jaunts. I did not expect-”
“One of the longer?” Gem’s foot was tapping so fast now she was liable to dig a hole. “So it’s random, and you knew that?”
“Well, the paths are never the same twice, but given our bond I did not think that-”
“Speaking of not thinking” Hailey jumped in, “I don’t think you thought about what it might be like for us to stumble upon what was basically a funeral in a dark cave! Luckily Sharp is… or I guess was, a nice lady. Still!”
The two of them were really crowding the ghost now, and despite being able to go intangible, she didn’t make any move to get away from them.
“I… merely wanted to try and share… to explain what my work was.” Pomona spoke slowly. Hailey wondered if she actually detected a tremor in her voice, or if it was just imagination.
“I can understand that.” She said, slightly lowing her voice, “and I wanted to know, but you didn’t explain anything, to either of us. You didn’t think about what might happen after you left and you left us in the dark, literally! Pomona” Hailey looked her right in the eyes. “I don’t exactly know much about relationships, but I don’t think that’s how you’re supposed to do them. So is this… Bond thing actually important to you?”
Hailey got the feeling she might have gone a bit far with the gasp that Gem let out at her side. Pomona actually put a hand up to to her chest.
“I… of course I do, I thought you would have understood after-” Hailey cut her off, hopefully for the last time.
“I can’t read minds Pomona, or whatever you two can do to me. I can’t read people for shit either so if you want me to know something, you need to tell me! So… tell me!”
There was a lengthy pause, as if Pomona didn’t quite know what she wanted to say. Eventually, she simply replied “yes, of course.”
“Ok.” Hailey let out the breath she’d been holding onto, hands resting back on her lap. “We can… keep trying. But first-” with surprising speed her hands shot up, the blanket was pretty useful for hiding things. “You aren’t going anywhere for a while!”
One of the tent ropes was now sloppily wrapped around Pomona’s wrist, Hailey trying her best to tie a clumsy knot.
Pomona just hummed.
“And if that doesn’t work then how about the fact I won’t suck your cock again if you pull another stunt like that!” Gem jumped in to break the ice. Still, as they both turned to look at the Minun, Hailey could feel the rope drop to the ground.
“Oh.” Pomona said. “I lost focus for a second there.”
Rather than the stairs, Pomona just floated them back up onto the bike path, gently touching down on one of the flat sections.
A few of the other bikers even pointed and whispered. Hailey thought she heard one say “Why don’t you ever do that?” while elbowing a large bird in the ribs. She couldn’t hear the grumbling reply, but it seemed to have something to do with the lady apparently always bringing her bike everywhere.
“Since we are… behind schedule somewhat now, is the plan still to go down to Oreburg then through the mountain? Or perhaps catch a train?” Pomona seemed a little hesitant to speak.
“Yeah, but a bit of a delay first, apparently we’re meeting Brigit and Thẚo in Oreburg. I guess that Tropius wants to get her out of the house again, but there is a museum in Oreburg I wouldn’t mind seeing. I dunno, what else is there to do there? You girls interested in mines at all?”
Pomona just shook her head, but Gem had more to say. “Ugh, no, I’ve done my underground quota for the year actually.”
“Bad luck moving to a place that’s bisected by a giant mountain then.” Hailey laughed, “but fair enough, no need to take the mine tour, we can just hang out with those two for an afternoon. Maybe Thẚo will cook again.”
“Quite looking forward to it are you?” Pomona said.
“I’ll say, she’s drooling.” Was Gem’s snide response. Hailey actually found herself checking the side of her mouth, nothing. What did these two jokers know? They hadn’t tasted the Tropius’ cooking.
“It will be finally interesting to meet this mystery grass type.” Pomona continued as if nothing had happened. “You ran into them before meeting either of us, I believe?”
“Yeah, in the Ravaged Path. Honestly I’m surprised Thẚo remembers me, she was struggling like you folks usually do back then, but damn can she cook.”
So what if they snickered about that, and they were. People always said that good cooking was worth a side trip, and Hailey had been feeling more than a little peckish lately.