He realizes that he and White are different when he's fourteen years and seven months old.
It's pretty awesome, getting to travel with her after so many years of planning and arguing and replanning and fantasizing. Well, at first it's a little weird—they need to relearn each other after so much time apart—but the awkwardness fades away after the first couple of weeks and then it's like they'd never said goodbye.
Accumula, Striation, Nacrene, Castelia. Pinwheel Forest, the Dreamyard, Skyarrow Bridge, the Desert Resort. Countless routes. They all sort of blur together, but the one constant is White right next to him; sometimes he's pulling her forward, sometimes it's the other way around, but most of the time they're in sync, charging ahead towards their own dreams, side-by-side.
It's not like they don't have their disagreements, or times where they're trying to go in opposite directions. Like when he (accidentally!) breaks some expensive filming equipment while training with Tula. Or when she needs Tep to do a modeling shoot right before his battle with Lenora.
The most annoying thing is that she refuses to tell him what the 'BW' in 'BW Agency' stands for. He tries to spring random guesses on her in the hope that he can surprise it out of her.
"Business Whimsicott?"
"No."
"Boldore...Water?"
"What?"
"Best Wishes?"
"That's already taken!"
But if that's the worst point, then he considers himself pretty lucky.
And he's gotta admit, it's cool to see White at work. Running the BW Agency is a ceaseless whirlwind of calling and booking and prepping and billing, not to mention the extra workload of planning Nimbasa's new musical. White handles it all with a practiced grace, juggling the needs of pokémon and people all the same.
It's a completely different skillset than pokémon battling; all collaboration and communication and...a bunch of other words like that. Either way, White excels at it.
She's really kind of incredible, all things considered.
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By Your Side - An AgencyShipping Fanfiction
FanfictionBlack was five years old when White moved to Nuvema town. They become close friends, and, soon enough, White gets a job application for Pokestar studios, which means she will have to leave Nuvema Town. Her home. Black's home. What will happen when t...
