Peaks and Valleys Adjacent
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Peaks and Valleys by clefairytea
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series)
09 Dec 2017
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Blue is Kanto Champion for thirty-nine minutes.
That’s it. Technically, he’s part of the Hall of Fame, technically he’s an accepted Champion. Technically, the title was his once, so it will always be his. Technically, he can’t lose it. He just loses being the present Champion.
He also, briefly, held the Kanto record for youngest ever Pokemon League champion. That was until Red, three months younger, caught up to him.
Really, Blue hadn’t even been surprised.
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Blue loses the Championship, Red disappears up a mountain, and everything that happens afterwards.Series
- Part 1 of Peaks and Valleys Adjacent
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Baby It's Cold Outside (because we're on an uninhabitable mountain) by clefairytea
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series)
01 Dec 2018
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‘Uh, look, I don’t want to be the downer here, but are you sure he’ll even appreciate this?’
Red’s Mom stared at Blue, the kind of million-yard gaze both her and her son were such experts in.
‘It’s Winterstar,’ she said simply, tone completely calm, but her grip tightened on the gift in her hands, crinkling the paper. She glanced down, smoothed down the wrapping, and then thrust it into Blue’s hands.
‘I don’t think my son would enjoy being alone on Winterstar,’ she said, simply, ‘Even he doesn’t like his solitude that much.’
Blue sighed, running a hand through his hair. He didn’t come back from Kalos for winter break for this. Running around delivering Red his care packages wasn’t exactly his idea of a good time.
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Blue visits Red over the holidays.Series
- Part 2 of Peaks and Valleys Adjacent
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Daisy's Great Idea by clefairytea
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series)
04 Dec 2018
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‘I swear, I will only be gone for two hours.’
Daisy stares at her little brother, and can see he's not convinced. He’s doing what he thinks is his most winning smile - the one he used to practice in the mirror as a kid - and that means he’s nervous. She isn’t sure if Red is too, but she never knows what's going through his head.
‘Just. Isn’t M around to babysit?' Blue asks, rubbing a hand through his hair, ‘This is more her scene.’
Daisy rolls her eyes, bouncing her daughter in her arms.
‘Masami has been helping me practice! She wants to see me up there. Besides, she always babysits,’ she says. She’s sure that Blue just thinks Red’s mother is some kind of Ultra-Mom with no interests outside of babying people. From his perspective, that probably seems true, but only because he requires so much babying.
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Blue babysits his niece.Series
- Part 3 of Peaks and Valleys Adjacent
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Blue wasn’t often awake before Red. Red was usually out of bed at 5am sharp, off to do his morning training regime. He would run himself and his Pokémon ragged for two hours exactly before returning to shower, drink a protein shake, set up a percolator of coffee, and wait for Blue to stagger out of bed, whining for caffeine. There were rare exceptions, but that was usually the routine.
This was one exception.
Blue woke up at 4:12am with something horrible travelling from his gut to the back of his mouth, a headache that felt like a steel bar being wrapped around his skull, and a throat so dry he was sure he hadn’t seen a fluid in twenty years.
Stumbling out of bed, he rushed to the ensuite, dropping to his knees and emptying what felt like the entire contents of his body into the toilet.
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Blue is sick, Red is dealing with it.Series
- Part 4 of Peaks and Valleys Adjacent
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Red's Halfway House for Troubled Trainers by clefairytea
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), Pocket Monsters: Sun & Moon | Pokemon Sun & Moon Versions
22 Dec 2018
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‘Are you sure you’ll be okay by yourself for a few weeks?’
It’s the fifteenth time Blue has asked, and it’s starting to get on Red’s nerves. Something must show on his face, because Blue waves a hand, sighing.
‘It’s not that. I know you can take care of yourself,’ he shrugs, and then rests a hand gently on the cast on Red’s leg, ‘It’s this.’
Red glances down, frowning. His frown deepens at the signatures scrawled across the plaster – he’d initially tried to stop people from doing it, didn’t like the messiness, but a couple of the Battle Tree regulars did it anyway. As always, people really didn’t get ‘no’. Eventually, he gave in.
Even though Blue signed last, he managed to take up the most space.
‘I can cancel,’ Blue offers, again, but his heart is not in it. He’s been looking forward to this. They’ve been looking forward to this.
The plan had been Kalos, for four weeks. Blue had gotten an invitation to take part in a research tour, an expedition of the mountains. Naturally, Red had been immediately invited, with the plan to extend the expedition to a more personal tour of the country afterwards.
Then, Red broke his leg.
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Blue goes away for a few weeks.Series
- Part 5 of Peaks and Valleys Adjacent
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Under Emergency Measures by clefairytea
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series)
04 Dec 2019
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It was no good – the wall of snow outside the door had jammed it closed. Not even Machamp could force his way through – at least, not without threatening to bring Masami’s entire house down around them. Blue leaned looked about at the windows, contemplating the upper floor. A kid could maybe wiggle out of the window in Red’s old room, but that was about it. Even then, the storm outside would make it dangerous.
Next to him, Red grabbed Charizard’s Pokéball from his best.
“Good idea,” Blue said, getting ready to send Arcanine out himself.
“Oh no you don’t!”
Masami appeared between them, seizing her son and Blue by the arm. Although they now both towered over her, her grip was just as firm as it had been when they were six years old.
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Red and Blue are snowed in.Unfortunately, so are their parents.
Series
- Part 6 of Peaks and Valleys Adjacent
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Sinnoh was ridiculously cold. Blue knew he’d just gotten used to the tropical Alolan climate, but he honestly did not know how people lived up here!
Red, naturally, was in his element. The cold suited him, as did how sparsely populated and trecherous must of Sinnoh was. He looked to be itching to get up Mt Coronet and start their research expedition already.
Cynthia must have spotted him looking longingly at the horizon because she laughed.
“Oh, yes, we’ll be heading up there soon,” she said, and then grimaced, “but there are materials I need to get from someone at Eterna University first.”
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Blue and Red spend some time in Sinnoh.Series
- Part 7 of Peaks and Valleys Adjacent
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Your love has come home (And so has your worst enemy) by clefairytea
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), Pocket Monsters: Sun & Moon | Pokemon Sun & Moon Versions
17 Dec 2019
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“Lillie’s coming back!”
Hau practically couldn’t keep both feet on the floor. The second he’d torn open the letter he’d taken one look at it and tossed it into the air, whooping and swinging Moon around by her arm.
Moon knew she should be just as happy. In fact, she’d be happier. Yet for some reason all that happened was a cold pit of dread opened in her stomach, everything else falling through.
Seeing Lillie was going to be hard, after all this time, but that wasn’t what made her feel so cold.
The problem was who Lillie would bring with her.
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Lillie is coming back to Alola. Moon isn't sure how to feel about it.Series
- Part 8 of Peaks and Valleys Adjacent
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His name is Red and he watches from the stands by clefairytea
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), Pocket Monsters: Sword & Shield | Pokemon Sword & Shield Versions
21 Dec 2019
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When Blue accepted to an offer from former Champion Leon to come to Galar to do some exhibition matches for the new Battle Tower, he had just been sort of imagining a smaller Unova. He didn’t relaly know much about Galar – it was fairly small, after all, and didn’t really have a particularly close relationship to either Kanto or Alola. Mostly, all that came to mind when somebody said ‘Galar’ to him was fish and chips, wizard novels, and Dynamax battles. It was only the latter, really, either he or Red were particularly interested in.
It turned out there was a lot more to see in Galar than he’d anticipated.
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Red and Blue explore Galar.Series
- Part 9 of Peaks and Valleys Adjacent