Fated to be (+18)

Chapter 16: Why?

David woke again in the same tree as before, wearing nothing but his boxers, completely healed of his fight's damage. He began to question if what he had been through was all but a dream or an actual event that had happened.

'You like to get hurt, huh?' Gardevoir's voice calls through David's head

Looking at the tree entrance, he sees that there is indeed Gardevoir; however, he can see the bags under her eyes and some evident signs of exhaustion from something she was doing.

"You lo-"

'I know I look like something a Meowth dragged in...' Gardevior says with a tired tone easily portrayed through her psychic connection.

David expected this as he knew she was probably why he was fully healed after that fight with the Zoroark, so it was the best assumption he could come up with.

A small smile forms on David's lips as he sits up and pats his lap to Gardevior, who, after a small moment of absent-minded staring due to either being so tired that she was starting to zone out or David's actions took her aback.

Still, though, she moves over to David and lays her head on his lap, and he starts to massage her head a little to help her relax.

"You must have worried so much about me to work yourself this hard for my sake," David comments as he continues making sure that Gardevior gets the rest she needs

Eventually, she succumbs to David's hands and falls asleep, with a small amount of snoring being heard from her as she lies on his lap.

After staying with her for a few more minutes, David gets her off him and gently places her on the ground comfortably.

Leaving the tree for what felt like the hundredth time, David looked around the forest to see various grass-type Pokemon working to cover up the damage caused by the Zoroark attack.

Overseeing the work happened to be Lopunny and Lucario, who directed the areas that needed the most attention.

Not sure what else to do, David figures he ought to help since it was his fault that the Zoroarks attacked this community, so helping out would make him feel better about it.

 While he may not have magical abilities like the Pokemon, he could at least move the fallen charred branches and logs from where they fell and move them elsewhere if directed.

Lopunny seeing him try to help, directs David where to place the things he collects through simple hand gestures, which gets the point across.

David had to place the charred and charcoal logs off in a small area a fair distance away, which was fine since he was used to similar work when working for the construction site.

"Shit..." Thinking about such things brought his mood down as he realized he had to deal with getting another job

It would most likely be a crappy janitor job with way below-average pay and grueling hours that he could not complain about since... he needs to work off his debt.

'How many more days do I even have left?' David thinks about how much longer of his vacation he has left, considering how much of it has been spent helping Pokemon and a lot of passing out. He was unsure of how long he had been in the forest.

He had initially called out sick for three days and was sure that one day had passed since he had sex with Gardevior for an entire night.

The memories of what happened that night caused David to get a semi-hard on, so he had to take a second to divert his attention to something else, not to be walking around with a boner in his boxers around a bunch of Pokemon, and they would probably be weirded out by it.