[For Heather, that had been ... probably the hardest part of coming back.]
[She'd been able to come to terms with most other things... even with her father. But her team... waking up without a warm wriggly mass of Growlithe next to her had left a cold, hollow feeling in her chest for the first few months, and it still did, sometimes...]
[She catches him looking at the drawings when she turns around, and smiles a little tiredly.]
... Yeah.
Something tells me it wouldn't be the same if I tried it here.
[Without the others...]
[For a second or two, she just sort of... stares blankly in his direction, as though trying to COMPLETELY buy the fact that he's THERE, standing in her apartment. That awkward freeze-up that sometimes happens when you unexpectedly run into an old, too-long-unseen friend wasn't really at play here so much as... well. It's just a lot to take in.]
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[For Heather, that had been ... probably the hardest part of coming back.]
[She'd been able to come to terms with most other things... even with her father. But her team... waking up without a warm wriggly mass of Growlithe next to her had left a cold, hollow feeling in her chest for the first few months, and it still did, sometimes...]
[She catches him looking at the drawings when she turns around, and smiles a little tiredly.]
... Yeah.
Something tells me it wouldn't be the same if I tried it here.
[Without the others...]
[For a second or two, she just sort of... stares blankly in his direction, as though trying to COMPLETELY buy the fact that he's THERE, standing in her apartment. That awkward freeze-up that sometimes happens when you unexpectedly run into an old, too-long-unseen friend wasn't really at play here so much as... well. It's just a lot to take in.]
... How'd you find me?