@NinianJinx
[Route 701 Pokemon Center-Next Morning]Bright side. He could in fact carry the Professor that far-let's hear it for years of experience lugging heavy artifacts away from recently burgled museums while the police shouted impotently at him and he merrily expressed his affection for them through several specific, finger-heavy gestures. It tended to build the upper body strength excellently.
Brighter side. Evidently a gaggle of trainers had checked in just a bit before they'd arrived. So they were down to one room. Which meant he got to spend more time comparing the professor to various, small, adorable animals and to get-semi lost in the wide eyes said animals normally sported.
Not-so bright side. He'd woken up basically *hanging* off the 'Prof. So he was used to using Houndoom as a pillow. Sue him. Bodyheat was bodyheat, insofar as the sleepy mind was concerned.
Really. Waking up on the chest of someone you barely knew wasn't that....bad of a way to wake up. Considering he'd once spent the night in a rowboat, pursued by police.
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....It still took some explaining though. As they were making their way down the hallway, groggy and sleepy and in the middle of an awkward silence namely. Surely the best time for hasty explanations.
"I uh. Honestly didn't mean anything by it....?" He tried.