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7. Music
Sebastian pawed through the cabinet thoughtfully, registering the information as he saw it.
"Terrible. Just shameful," he mumbled, making sure Giovanni, who was in the room with him, could hear it. What he was looking at truly was pitiful, in his opinion.
"I don't understand. I really just don't understand it," he added, with a hint of disgust.
"What? What's the problem, exactly?" Giovanni asked him, curious of the object of Sebastian's commentary.
"Honestly, how can you tolerate this kind of thing?" Sebastian replied. "I mean, it's just... so embarrassing. And awful." Sebastian held up a CD. Freddie Mercury stared out from the cover. "Just looking at it brings me a shock of disbelief..."
"Look," Giovanni protested, somewhat defensively, to Sebastian, "some of us like Queen, is that really such a problem? Like me."
He sighed. That was the last time he let Sebastian borrow music from him, he knew that much.
8. Partner
They had each other. He knew that much.
The two had been caught again, no thanks to those three... morons, and as Butch sat on the bed in their cell, he couldn't help but think, ironically, how lucky he was to be there. Could he really ask for much more than Cassidy? She was cute- no, screw that, hot, but more importantly, money couldn't buy him a more loyal partner and friend. He smiled, thinking of all they'd been through. They'd seen their share of embarrassing failures, but more importantly, they were there for each other through it all. Butch wondered how much the two of them had grown closer in the past few years from those very incidents.
"Butch." He looked up at Cassidy, who was staring at him, a little nervously.
"Yeah, Cass? What?"
"When... d'ya think he's gonna get here? You know? To get us out?"
Butch paused. "Oh. You mean, the boss. Don't know. Soon, I'm sure. I mean, you called him, right? Don't tell me you wasted that phone call to bite Jessie's head off again." He laughed to himself, remembering the last time they'd been screwed over by those idiots. Cassidy couldn't bear to wait to yell at her rival, and ended up using their one call to give Jessie a piece of her mind. He was so pissed off when she did it... but looking back, it was just like her.
"Yeah, I called him. He's probably going to be pretty ticked off.. he didn't sound too happy earlier..."
"Most likely," Butch replied. "Eh, he'll get over it. Eventually."
The two sat in silence, their shared anxiety over their futures hanging thick in the air.
"You know what?" Butch asked, finally breaking the silence.
"What?"
"...I love you..." Butch said. There. The words finally came out.
Cassidy smiled back.
"I know," she replied.
10. Confession
The three sat on the ground, staring at each other.
"We know one of us did it," James said, annoyed. "So why doesn't the guilty party just come out and admit it?
Two pairs of eyes glared at the Meowth, who shrank away. "Why ya all lookin' at me?" he asked, the fear in his voice obvious. "Come on, those rice balls was there a minute ago, you all know that. An' there's only ones of us who gots a mouth big enough to eat all of them that quickly." He grinned innocently.
"Yeah," Jessie said, "so why don't you 'fess up now? We're going to beat the stuffing out of you either way. Might as well have some honor about you."
"No, not me!" Meowth protested. "Wobbuffet did it, we know he's always da culprit when our food goes missing!"
The other two thought for a while, then all three simultaneously turned to stare down Wobbuffet.
"That. Was. Our. LUNCH, you gluttinous blue blob!"
Wobbuffet waved his blue arms in protest. "Wobba! Wobbaa!"
"Yeah, we'll forgive you," Meowth snarled, baring his claws, "when you fork us over our lunch!"
"WOBBAA!" Wobbuffet quickly started running away as fast as his feet could take him, the other three following behind.
Meanwhile, in a tree not too far away from the scene of the crime, May's Munchlax laughed to itself as it watched the events unfolding below, making sure to time his dropping the plate so it whacked Meowth in the head.
I would have included #9, but it's a rather sucky Diamondshipping fic I need to rework a bit.