#viridianrival

[rowansworstassistant-blog]

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send one for my muse’s reaction to your muse ---     

♡ = complimenting them .

The first, impulsive reaction was a slight frown. Lucas blinked at the older boy. He knew Professor Oak’s grandson only vaguely, from seeing him once in a while when he visited the lab. That wasn’t quite enough to get an idea of what he was like, but he certainly didn’t seem like the type to throw around compliments.

Lucas’s eyes flicked down to the sketch he had been working on, the one Green had mentioned. He wouldn’t say it was his best, but it was taking quite a lot of time. Rowan wanted him working on a few while he was away, the more detailed he could make them the better.

“Thanks,” he said slowly. “I’ve got better ones in my other sketchbook.

[retiredchampion-blog]

apple from the tree | sam&green

There’s a sense of pride that swells in his chest when he watches Green from the doorway of the panel room. He’s really come into himself the past few years, matured, and seeing him step down after a successful presentation is a bittersweet reminder to Sam that Green isn’t his baby anymore, that Sam will go back to Kanto after the conference and his nest will still be empty.

He’s been thinking too much lately.

Sam exhales, rubs the back of his neck sheepishly as he waits for the last stragglers from the panel to filter out. There had been the intention, earlier, to just go to bed after his own schedule was done for the evening, but a chance meeting with an old ghost had set his nerves on edge, kicked up a whirlwind of thought, and he needs something to ease his mind, settle it. He doesn’t particularly want to be drinking alone; he’s been doing too much of that lately, too.

“Done for the evening?” he asks across the room once they’re alone, announces his presence. The smile he offers Green is more subdued than usual, and that feels wrong. There’s the relief that he’s finally seeing his grandson again after a period of both of them being to busy to get together, but he should be happier, he should be a lot of things.

“It’s been a long day--for me, at least. I thought, if you didn’t have anything else planned, erm. We could grab a drink?”