soggypastry | 026 [Video/Action for Cherrygrove PokéCenter]

[Hi, Johto. Hve you been enjoying your...odd weekend? Hopefully so, because it's about to get weirder. Enjoy your view of Lightning hunched over a stove in the Cherrygrove Pokémon Center, stirring something in a pot. It's an odd sight, both with her hair twisted up into a messy bun and the fact that she's...actually cooking. Anyone who knows her knows that's not a good sign. Especially when she's starting to look a little bit frazzled.]

No, no, no...come on. Don't you dare burn.

[Yes, she's talking to her pot of...something. Unfortunately, this doesn't help her with the cooking and it's with a rather frustrated sound that she takes that pot off the stove, camera tracking her movements while she places it in the sink before scrubbing her face, leaving smears of chocolate down her cheeks as she takes a breath to regain her composure. Is she giving up? Not on your life.

She's just turning back to the counter, where there's enough ingredients for one more try along with a recipe book she's looking back at.]

You could always help, you know.

[A startled "Pika!" and...end feed. Spark still enjoys being Camera-chu, it seems.]

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_{[Part of his job, ma'am. :)]

[He breaks into another full-on smile at seeing that, though, tone amused and a little teasing to go with it.]}

Probably.

[And he can't do his job on someone else, huh? Ah, the problems with being twitterpated. At least she's in a good mood, though. It means she's only giving him a stern look, not a glare.]

No probably about it. No one likes burnt food.

_{[Nope, he really can't. Coop's a little like Sherlock Holmes except not as bad a role model.]

[He tilts his head in response, totally unfazed by that look.]}

Not really. But they might like the thought behind it, cliché as it may sound.

_{[In other words, don't take it so seriously!]}

[Well, that's a good thing. People need good role models...even if they're far too perceptive for their own good sometimes...and ignore stern looks too easily.]

I'm not sure about that. He's not really the sentimental type.

[It's Lightning. She always takes thing seriously!]

_{[He probably would've backed off a little if he hadn't been so full on :D-songs, but right now he feels great and like friendly teasing is the good way to go. So that's how he'll go about it.]}

It wouldn't surprise me if he made an exception for you.

[Good man, Coop. She could use someone who's not family being all :D at her for a bit. Might get her to lighten up even more than the songs....maybe.]

Maybe it wouldn't surprise you, but I'm not counting on it. He's just not the type.

[Matter of fact tone. It doesn't really seem to bug her all that much.]

_{[He'll try! He's everybody's life coach, this guy. (Except his own but ssh.)]

[But since she doesn't seem to mind, he shrugs.]}

To be perfectly honest I wouldn't have pegged you as the type either.

_{[The kind to make chocolate, that is.]}

[A nod; she can agree with that, easy.]

I wasn't. Not until today.

[Not until she had a reason to make them, anyway.]

Sneaks up on you, doesn't it?

_{[He kind of misses being in love, himself. It's pleasant and weird in all the right ways.]}

Something like that. I didn't expect it to happen like this.

[Pleasant and weird and...kind of frightening. At least, for her it is. It's her first love, after all.]

_{[Love is always frightening. It's just a matter of being brave (or foolish) enough to accept it.]}

Like what?

_{[He asks because he's curious.]}

[A pause; how can she put this...]

Here. I didn't expect to find someone in this place, so it's...unexpected.

[Very unexpected; falling in love was never something she thought she'd do.]

Makes things a little scarier, I imagine.

_{[He can see what she mean, but then adds to it.]}

That said, love has a tendency to be just that.

Unexpected.

[A nod; she's not vocally admitting it, but she still is kind of spooked. Probably always will be.]

Tell me about it. It's worse than monsters sneaking up on you from behind.

_{[He laughs, softly.]}

And hits you just as hard.

Sometimes harder. You can at least dodge the monsters most of the time.

[But they both leave scars. Only difference is...the one from this love doesn't hurt. Not yet, anyway.]

Fair point.

_{[Anything can leave scars, and everything leaves marks. You can only hope that they won't hurt to get.]}

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