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Wait you climb into Elliot too?? Do you not read the little pokedex blurbs or is this a case of not listening to them. [Dave stares at him and opens the fridge to check for leftovers. What can he nab that would serve as a good lunch?

Like a goddess, there's a pair of pizza boxes that would twinkle and sparkle if it were a cartoon. He snags both of them (they're teenagers they'll eat all of it) and carries them over to the table all waiter style.]

Lunch is on the house.

Anyway, is there any hints to what this bad thing is. Or will you be calling me from the Poke'center one day going, "Guess what I found out!". I really don't want that call, John. I want you to call me late at night when I'm supposed to be dead to the world for anything other than that.

Edited 2013-11-11 19:56 (UTC)

Yeah! Rose has been in there with me too. It's actually pretty comfy, you should join me some time. But I've had Elliot since he was a baby, he would never do anything to hurt me and I pretty much trust him with my life.

[Actual best ghost dad-butler. John reaches forward and grabs a slice of cold pizza because screw heating that stuff up. It just makes the cheese taste funny when you do that.]

Anyway, I think it's a little different with trainer-raised Pokémon. Kinda like how trainer-raised Shedinja won't nab your soul if you accidentally peek inside their backs. Wild ones though...

[Completely different story.]

So don't worry, you won't be getting any calls like that. [Hopefully.] Hell, this might be the first and only time I do it, given how unsure Imhotep was about it. I don't think he wanted to accidentally turn me into a real mummy, which is supposedly something they can do if people get inside them.

[He casually takes a bite of pizza as he says this. How John has managed to survive this long in Pokémon World without serious incident is a real wonder when you really sit down and think about it.]

Maybe you should heed his advice, it is his body. He knows it better than anyone. [Dave points out as he picks up a slice of pizza. He wolfs down the slice before he keeps going. He hasn't had time to sit down and eat lunch. Normally he'd have had it by now. Being paranoid and wary of something following him had spoiled his appetite.]

I mean despite being trainer-raised there are probably some dangerous things still happening. A sword doesn't stop being a sword just because it changed hands. It's still a lethal fucking weapon even if you dull the edges. Some Japanese style swords have a duller edge and were used for assassinations and stuff like that. They end dirtied the blade so it would make the wound all the more fatal if they didn't quite kill their targets.

Yeah, yeah. [If he had a free hand, you can bet he'd be waving it. But it hasn't been ten minutes yet so the ice is still on his eye and the other hand is occupied with the all-important pizza. And pizza > hand gestures.]

I heeded it enough not to stay in there for more than a couple of minutes, didn't I? [He takes another bite of pizza.]

Haha, that's kinda gross though, the whole dirtying their weapons thing. [A beat.] In fact, you could say that they were... [Okay, he actually puts the pizza down for this one, forming a single pistol with his now-free hand.] fighting dirty.

[Dave's expression goes from thoughtful and concerned to unimpressed. He swallows a few more bites of pizza.] That was the most awful pun I've ever heard. You didn't even make it witty. It just flopped on the floor like a fish out of water, gasping for the wit air you didn't give it.

[He swallows more pizza and wolfs down another slice. Dave stares at the sauce on his fingers then just pops a finger in his mouth, sucking on it.] Why you gotta hurt a guy like that.

Scuze you, that was plenty witty! Your sense of humor just isn't as finely tuned as mine. But that's okay, [He puts down his pizza and claps his hand on Dave's shoulder, giving him a serious-yet-supportive look.] we all have things we're bad at.

[Dave set his food down and without another word just walked away. Witty? No, that pun was so terrible even the dead went 'duddddde baaad'.]

Hey what. Wait! Where are you going!? Oh my god, I was kidding!! [John sets the ice pack down and twists in his chair to call to Dave.] Dude, come on, get back here!!

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