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Fandom: Pokemon
Pairing: Jessie/James
Theme set: Delta
Title: To Extend Our Reach to the Stars Above
Rating: T
Warnings: Hints at sex.
Notes: None.
To Extend Our Reach to the Stars Above
1. Air
“Have you noticed that we seem to spend more time in the air than we do on the ground?” James asks her despondently one day, and although she smacks him upside the head and tells him not to be ridiculous, privately, she has to agree with him.
2. Apples
“I thought that what’s yours is mine,” says James grumpily as he watches Jessie devour the apple she had found on the ground minutes earlier; Jessie smirks flirtatiously and tosses him the core, stating that she had to eat around his bit to reach her own.
3. Beginning
They hadn’t even liked each other at the beginning of their training: he’d thought that she was arrogant; she’d thought that he was aloof and each had not-so-secretly wondered just how they’d survive being together.
4. Bugs
“You’ve got a Caterpie in your hair,” James says one day after another disastrous attempt at capturing Pikachu, and he reaches out to gently disentangle it from her silky locks…for a moment it seems like she will actually thank him for his trouble, but then she begins moaning about how that damned bug has ruined her hair with its goopy feet, and James can only sigh, knowing that she will never change.
5. Coffee
“Geez, youse two look rough,” Meowth comments as he hands each of his friends a mug of strong, black coffee, “were youse two up all night checkin’ out da new machine we’re gonna use taday?”; Jessie and James exchange knowing, devious grins and airily agree that it was something like that.
6. Dark
Even in her darkest hour she faces it alone; she doubts he’d want to know, anyway.
7. Despair
There’s a definitive line between Jessie and himself, between their backgrounds, between their morals, between their hearts, and sometimes he wonders if they’re just too different to ever stay together.
8. Doors
In her lifetime many doors have presented themselves to Jessie, only for each one of them to slam shut in her face whenever she began tentatively believing that she could reach her goal: her career as a performer, her career as a Coordinator, her career as a nurse; the only one that has remained open for her is her career in Team Rocket and her partnership with James, and in a strange sort of way that’s probably been the best thing that could have happened to her.
9. Drink
“James, you’re drunk,” Jessie says, wrinkling her nose as she tries to push her overly affectionate partner away from her, but when he continues to whine that he just wants to be close to her she relents, and as his drunken lips brush against the underside of her jaw, she fleetingly thinks that perhaps this isn’t a totally unpleasant situation.
10. Duty
They have a duty to be the villains, but sometimes they both wonder what it would be like to be on the winning side more often.
11. Earth
In their time in Team Rocket they have seen the earth from space quite a few times; in those moments, James always pauses to wonder just how insignificant their lives are in the grand scheme of things, an insignificance that is forgotten when Jessie turns her eyes on him.
12. End
They snipe and fight and quarrel like no one Meowth has ever met before, but in the end it doesn’t matter because they always bounce back towards each other.
13. Fall
James trips over a rock as the trio of thieves attempt to escape with Pikachu; he careens straight into Jessie just as she turns to see what the shrill shriek from her partner means; the force of James’ body has them both crashing to the ground, James arms by his comrade’s head, her legs trapped between his; staring into each other’s eyes, the heat rising steadily in their cheeks, they don’t even hear Meowth’s cries of dismay that Pikachu has managed to escape his net until the electric mouse is ordered to attack.
14. Fire
They sit close to the fire, warming their hands; with a sigh, Jessie rolls her head against her partner’s shoulder in a rare gesture of affection; he gives a start but smiles, the warmth in his body nothing compared to the warmth in his heart.
15. Flexible
“I don’t even wanna know how youse two managed ta do dat,” Meowth mutters, backing away from the two humans; Jessie and James grin triumphantly and wave their spanners in his face, claiming that it’s all in the wrist.
16. Flying
Jessie and James fly first class from Sinnoh to Kanto; it is the first time that Jessie has travelled in such luxury and James feels somewhat saddened to see the way her eyes light up at the sight of the extravagances that he has always taken for granted.
17. Food
They eat so rarely nowadays that even the sight of a tiny cracker has Jessie and James squabbling bitterly over who gets the spoils.
18. Foot
They lie together on their sides, and James’ breath shudders from his body as Jessie’s foot slides enticingly up his leg.
19. Grave
She often wonders if her mother ever got a grave or if nobody bothered because her body was never found; those thoughts leave her shivering with something she can’t quite name, and as though sensing her disturbing thoughts, James is always there by her side.
20. Green
His emerald eyes remind her of so many things: of the springy grass in summer, of the colour of their money on their long-awaited payday, of the good times that the two of them have shared.
21. Head
It’s a good thing that she is able to keep her head in these sorts of situations, Jessie thinks as she watches James flap around the campsite with his unruly Victreebel stuck to his head.
22. Hollow
Their friendship is effectively over, and the thought leaves James with a hollow feeling deep inside his chest.
23. Honour
If his parents could only know just what he’s been up to, James thinks tiredly as he watches Jessie sleep, her bare skin gilded silver by the moonlight; they’d denounce him as a son for destroying the honourable family name and might even take the inheritance away from him, but that doesn’t matter, not when what he has now is so much more important.
24. Hope
Hope is always there, driving them forward in whatever they do, that tiny spark that today maybe…just maybe they’ll succeed.
25. Light
It hits him like a Pikachu’s Thunderbolt, a holy epiphany, a spotlight on a stage, and it terrifies him.
26. Lost
She’s never had a constant in her life until him, a compass who constantly points north and keeps her grounded, preventing her from losing her way.
27. Metal
She watches the way his face lights up in an indescribable joy as he cradles the bottle caps she’s just presented to him close to his cheek; in order to stop her heart from lurching pleasantly at that look, she quickly turns away and mutters, “they’re just hunks of metal.”
28. New
She looks at the male expected to be her new partner with disdain; little does she know that that young man will become her most loyal friend in just a couple of days.
29. Old
She rests her chin on his chest, smirking when his hands drift up to rub the ridge between her shoulders contentedly, still almost unable to believe that her oldest friend is now her lover.
30. Peace
Meowth finds Jessie and James slumped against each other as they sleep; he smiles as he settles down beside them, deciding against rousing them because it’s so rare for such moments of peace to find them.
31. Poison
Jessie has a soft spot for poison Pokémon, particularly the serpentine variety; James has come to internally think that it’s because they can be docile when they want to be, fiercely protective when the times call for it and deadly poisonous to all those who get in their way, all traits that Jessie both admires and shares.
32. Pretty
Pretty isn’t exactly a word that James would associate with his partner: pretty sounds like a vulnerable little girl, someone fragile, something which Jessie is decidedly not; no, he believes that beautiful is a much more apt description of the fiery haired warrior whom he calls his best friend.
33. Rain
“I’m not crying,” she tells him forcefully as the rain pounds down around them, and all he can do is watch her turn away from him.
34. Regret
Sometimes, he regrets not reaching out to her and attempting to darn the holes that are tearing their relationship apart.
35. Roses
“You’re such a sap, James,” Jessie says, but he notices that she’s still holding the rose gently in her hands.
36. Secret
She vows that he will never know what’s in her heart…but it’s already too late.
37. Snakes
“Seviper,” she says in an offhand voice, “Poison Tail,” ordering the snake to attack the unsuspecting Raticate in front of them, and James is glad that she isn’t ordering the snake to attack him.
38. Snow
She loves to be out in the snow, but she also loves to watch the flakes swirl lazily from inside, tucked up cosy and warm in a bed with James’ arms wrapped around her bare waist and his mouth on the side of her neck.
39. Solid
She pounds her fists against his chest in a stricken sort of grief; for the first time she realises that he is a solid presence, firm despite his thin frame.
40. Spring
Spring is one of his favourite times of the year and, fresh into Sinnoh, it promises to be a good one for him and Jessie.
41. Stable
She smirks, watching James wrinkle his nose in distaste as he gingerly lowers himself to the straw-ridden floor, swearing quietly under his breath when an inquisitive Ponyta pushes its muzzle into his face; for all of his assurances that he’s lived rough before, he clearly hadn’t been telling the truth.
42. Strange
Meowth watches in confusion as his human companions share shy grins and avert their eyes, uncharacteristically bashful when their hands meet over the butter; failing to read the subtle shift in their relationship, the cat simply shakes his head and declares that he’ll never understand humans.
43. Summer
The sun beats down on the trio as they traipse tiredly after the twerps, and James has to avert his eyes from the sight of his partner casually removing her white overtop from her body to drape it over her arm, his temperature ricocheting out of control from more than just the summer’s heat.
44. Taboo
Jessie and James have never really discussed sex before, preferring to keep those conversations out of their lives despite being close friends; it has always been a bit of a taboo subject for them due to the potential embarrassment on both sides…until tonight, until this, the moment that has driven them into each other’s arms for the first time, and their awkwardness about the subject melts away with the layers of their clothing.
45. Ugly
It is strange how two people who have exactly the same face can be so different at the same time, with one possessing the holiest of beauties, truth, and the other the ugliness of deceit.
46. War
Jessie is awoken to a blow to the side of her head; with a surprised yelp she rolls onto her side to find James grinning at her like a child on Christmas Day, clutching a pillow; he hits her again as she tries to gain her bearings; shaking the blow off, she tackles him to the floor, intending to win this war.
47. Water
On their day off the two of them splash about in the shallows of a secret lake, shrieking like children as they dunk each other under and race each other short distances through the water (competitions that Jessie naturally wins every single time); Meowth smiles as he watches from a safe distance.
48. Welcome
She sometimes dreams of a better time in life, a time where James takes her hand and whispers, welcome home, Jess, softly into her ear with his eyes dancing with life; those occasions awaken her with an ache behind her eyes and a pain in her chest.
49. Winter
He messes up again, and the icy stare that she inflicts him with is colder than any winter.
50. Wood
Sometimes, it’s the simple things in life that matter, James reflects as he and Jessie set about collecting firewood for their evening’s campfire.
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Pairing: Jessie/James
Theme set: Delta
Title: To Extend Our Reach to the Stars Above
Rating: T
Warnings: Hints at sex.
Notes: None.
To Extend Our Reach to the Stars Above
1. Air
“Have you noticed that we seem to spend more time in the air than we do on the ground?” James asks her despondently one day, and although she smacks him upside the head and tells him not to be ridiculous, privately, she has to agree with him.
2. Apples
“I thought that what’s yours is mine,” says James grumpily as he watches Jessie devour the apple she had found on the ground minutes earlier; Jessie smirks flirtatiously and tosses him the core, stating that she had to eat around his bit to reach her own.
3. Beginning
They hadn’t even liked each other at the beginning of their training: he’d thought that she was arrogant; she’d thought that he was aloof and each had not-so-secretly wondered just how they’d survive being together.
4. Bugs
“You’ve got a Caterpie in your hair,” James says one day after another disastrous attempt at capturing Pikachu, and he reaches out to gently disentangle it from her silky locks…for a moment it seems like she will actually thank him for his trouble, but then she begins moaning about how that damned bug has ruined her hair with its goopy feet, and James can only sigh, knowing that she will never change.
5. Coffee
“Geez, youse two look rough,” Meowth comments as he hands each of his friends a mug of strong, black coffee, “were youse two up all night checkin’ out da new machine we’re gonna use taday?”; Jessie and James exchange knowing, devious grins and airily agree that it was something like that.
6. Dark
Even in her darkest hour she faces it alone; she doubts he’d want to know, anyway.
7. Despair
There’s a definitive line between Jessie and himself, between their backgrounds, between their morals, between their hearts, and sometimes he wonders if they’re just too different to ever stay together.
8. Doors
In her lifetime many doors have presented themselves to Jessie, only for each one of them to slam shut in her face whenever she began tentatively believing that she could reach her goal: her career as a performer, her career as a Coordinator, her career as a nurse; the only one that has remained open for her is her career in Team Rocket and her partnership with James, and in a strange sort of way that’s probably been the best thing that could have happened to her.
9. Drink
“James, you’re drunk,” Jessie says, wrinkling her nose as she tries to push her overly affectionate partner away from her, but when he continues to whine that he just wants to be close to her she relents, and as his drunken lips brush against the underside of her jaw, she fleetingly thinks that perhaps this isn’t a totally unpleasant situation.
10. Duty
They have a duty to be the villains, but sometimes they both wonder what it would be like to be on the winning side more often.
11. Earth
In their time in Team Rocket they have seen the earth from space quite a few times; in those moments, James always pauses to wonder just how insignificant their lives are in the grand scheme of things, an insignificance that is forgotten when Jessie turns her eyes on him.
12. End
They snipe and fight and quarrel like no one Meowth has ever met before, but in the end it doesn’t matter because they always bounce back towards each other.
13. Fall
James trips over a rock as the trio of thieves attempt to escape with Pikachu; he careens straight into Jessie just as she turns to see what the shrill shriek from her partner means; the force of James’ body has them both crashing to the ground, James arms by his comrade’s head, her legs trapped between his; staring into each other’s eyes, the heat rising steadily in their cheeks, they don’t even hear Meowth’s cries of dismay that Pikachu has managed to escape his net until the electric mouse is ordered to attack.
14. Fire
They sit close to the fire, warming their hands; with a sigh, Jessie rolls her head against her partner’s shoulder in a rare gesture of affection; he gives a start but smiles, the warmth in his body nothing compared to the warmth in his heart.
15. Flexible
“I don’t even wanna know how youse two managed ta do dat,” Meowth mutters, backing away from the two humans; Jessie and James grin triumphantly and wave their spanners in his face, claiming that it’s all in the wrist.
16. Flying
Jessie and James fly first class from Sinnoh to Kanto; it is the first time that Jessie has travelled in such luxury and James feels somewhat saddened to see the way her eyes light up at the sight of the extravagances that he has always taken for granted.
17. Food
They eat so rarely nowadays that even the sight of a tiny cracker has Jessie and James squabbling bitterly over who gets the spoils.
18. Foot
They lie together on their sides, and James’ breath shudders from his body as Jessie’s foot slides enticingly up his leg.
19. Grave
She often wonders if her mother ever got a grave or if nobody bothered because her body was never found; those thoughts leave her shivering with something she can’t quite name, and as though sensing her disturbing thoughts, James is always there by her side.
20. Green
His emerald eyes remind her of so many things: of the springy grass in summer, of the colour of their money on their long-awaited payday, of the good times that the two of them have shared.
21. Head
It’s a good thing that she is able to keep her head in these sorts of situations, Jessie thinks as she watches James flap around the campsite with his unruly Victreebel stuck to his head.
22. Hollow
Their friendship is effectively over, and the thought leaves James with a hollow feeling deep inside his chest.
23. Honour
If his parents could only know just what he’s been up to, James thinks tiredly as he watches Jessie sleep, her bare skin gilded silver by the moonlight; they’d denounce him as a son for destroying the honourable family name and might even take the inheritance away from him, but that doesn’t matter, not when what he has now is so much more important.
24. Hope
Hope is always there, driving them forward in whatever they do, that tiny spark that today maybe…just maybe they’ll succeed.
25. Light
It hits him like a Pikachu’s Thunderbolt, a holy epiphany, a spotlight on a stage, and it terrifies him.
26. Lost
She’s never had a constant in her life until him, a compass who constantly points north and keeps her grounded, preventing her from losing her way.
27. Metal
She watches the way his face lights up in an indescribable joy as he cradles the bottle caps she’s just presented to him close to his cheek; in order to stop her heart from lurching pleasantly at that look, she quickly turns away and mutters, “they’re just hunks of metal.”
28. New
She looks at the male expected to be her new partner with disdain; little does she know that that young man will become her most loyal friend in just a couple of days.
29. Old
She rests her chin on his chest, smirking when his hands drift up to rub the ridge between her shoulders contentedly, still almost unable to believe that her oldest friend is now her lover.
30. Peace
Meowth finds Jessie and James slumped against each other as they sleep; he smiles as he settles down beside them, deciding against rousing them because it’s so rare for such moments of peace to find them.
31. Poison
Jessie has a soft spot for poison Pokémon, particularly the serpentine variety; James has come to internally think that it’s because they can be docile when they want to be, fiercely protective when the times call for it and deadly poisonous to all those who get in their way, all traits that Jessie both admires and shares.
32. Pretty
Pretty isn’t exactly a word that James would associate with his partner: pretty sounds like a vulnerable little girl, someone fragile, something which Jessie is decidedly not; no, he believes that beautiful is a much more apt description of the fiery haired warrior whom he calls his best friend.
33. Rain
“I’m not crying,” she tells him forcefully as the rain pounds down around them, and all he can do is watch her turn away from him.
34. Regret
Sometimes, he regrets not reaching out to her and attempting to darn the holes that are tearing their relationship apart.
35. Roses
“You’re such a sap, James,” Jessie says, but he notices that she’s still holding the rose gently in her hands.
36. Secret
She vows that he will never know what’s in her heart…but it’s already too late.
37. Snakes
“Seviper,” she says in an offhand voice, “Poison Tail,” ordering the snake to attack the unsuspecting Raticate in front of them, and James is glad that she isn’t ordering the snake to attack him.
38. Snow
She loves to be out in the snow, but she also loves to watch the flakes swirl lazily from inside, tucked up cosy and warm in a bed with James’ arms wrapped around her bare waist and his mouth on the side of her neck.
39. Solid
She pounds her fists against his chest in a stricken sort of grief; for the first time she realises that he is a solid presence, firm despite his thin frame.
40. Spring
Spring is one of his favourite times of the year and, fresh into Sinnoh, it promises to be a good one for him and Jessie.
41. Stable
She smirks, watching James wrinkle his nose in distaste as he gingerly lowers himself to the straw-ridden floor, swearing quietly under his breath when an inquisitive Ponyta pushes its muzzle into his face; for all of his assurances that he’s lived rough before, he clearly hadn’t been telling the truth.
42. Strange
Meowth watches in confusion as his human companions share shy grins and avert their eyes, uncharacteristically bashful when their hands meet over the butter; failing to read the subtle shift in their relationship, the cat simply shakes his head and declares that he’ll never understand humans.
43. Summer
The sun beats down on the trio as they traipse tiredly after the twerps, and James has to avert his eyes from the sight of his partner casually removing her white overtop from her body to drape it over her arm, his temperature ricocheting out of control from more than just the summer’s heat.
44. Taboo
Jessie and James have never really discussed sex before, preferring to keep those conversations out of their lives despite being close friends; it has always been a bit of a taboo subject for them due to the potential embarrassment on both sides…until tonight, until this, the moment that has driven them into each other’s arms for the first time, and their awkwardness about the subject melts away with the layers of their clothing.
45. Ugly
It is strange how two people who have exactly the same face can be so different at the same time, with one possessing the holiest of beauties, truth, and the other the ugliness of deceit.
46. War
Jessie is awoken to a blow to the side of her head; with a surprised yelp she rolls onto her side to find James grinning at her like a child on Christmas Day, clutching a pillow; he hits her again as she tries to gain her bearings; shaking the blow off, she tackles him to the floor, intending to win this war.
47. Water
On their day off the two of them splash about in the shallows of a secret lake, shrieking like children as they dunk each other under and race each other short distances through the water (competitions that Jessie naturally wins every single time); Meowth smiles as he watches from a safe distance.
48. Welcome
She sometimes dreams of a better time in life, a time where James takes her hand and whispers, welcome home, Jess, softly into her ear with his eyes dancing with life; those occasions awaken her with an ache behind her eyes and a pain in her chest.
49. Winter
He messes up again, and the icy stare that she inflicts him with is colder than any winter.
50. Wood
Sometimes, it’s the simple things in life that matter, James reflects as he and Jessie set about collecting firewood for their evening’s campfire.
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