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They’re five and don’t get what marriage is, other than it’s a commitment to stay together forever. Green is loud and obnoxious and Ash hasn’t yet come into his own, but he’s pretty sure it’s always going to be like this. He proposes with a ringpop and they exchange hershey’s kisses, and tell everyone within earshot that they’re married.
Ash learns to stand on his own two feet and Green panics, cuts the wedding off. The friend divorce is messy and Green leaves him with nothing but his loneliness.
Kicks his ass hard. Arcanine is a beast and not even that nightmare of a Pikachu stands a chance. He grins down at him, feeling bright and self-assured. He won’t admit that he’s jealous to see Ash Ketchum with companions, or think about how much he wishes they were on this journey together.
“Well, smell you later loser. I got bigger fish to fry.”
He tries to breeze past but Ash catches his shoulder. Grabs his wrist and tries to yell at him, spins him around and their face to face. The kid is yelling at him and lecturing him even though he’s lost, and Green can’t help himself.
He laughs it off later but it doesn’t matter it happened. Ash looks stunned and the girl he’s with looks pissed but this is it. No going back.
He shoes him back and storms off.
They’re older now. Ash swings by Viridian Gym after trying to conquer another league, and Green flashes him a lazy grin. They’re less angry now and time has cooled their heads, though a friendly challenge still does the body good.
He tells him about the success of the gym, the doors it’s opened, and Ash tells him about the legends he’s encountered. It makes his heart burn with jealousy - but it’s the tales of his friends that make it all the worse.
Ash is having adventures without him.
When he leaves, he stops the other teen with a touch of the wrist. Bends to kiss his hand and grins up at him.
“You’d better be league royalty by the time you get back here!”
They’re travelling together. The three of them. Him, Misty and Ash. The tension is boiling over and he knows eventually, something’s going to crack. Even Ash seems to be catching on - he catches him looking at the two of them with a confused look, as if he’s seeing them for the very first time.
He doesn’t think he should make a move.
Yet under the starry skies, sitting on the Alolan beach, Green finds his hand seeking Ash’s. He squeezes gently and Ash squeezes back, and he tilts his head just in time to catch Ash’s lips as they crash against his in a clumsy kiss.
It’s all of them or none of them. They establish that early on and it sticks. Four years in and it’s stuck.
He comes home from the conference dead tired and wanting nothing more than to crawl into bed and die. But he sees them there, holding a card with his name on it - excited and so ready to see him home.
Gathers them both in his arms and kisses them with all the passion he has left in his tired bones.
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