When Jessie came back home, she felt like a total wreck. There she was, trying to convince a young girl not to ruin her life with lies, when she did the exact same.
She opened the door slowly and enter the house. She found James there, sitting next to a radio.
"Jessie, it’s all over the news," He said quietly. Jessie was glad that it did. At least the plan works and she’ll benefit from the crazy situation.
"They say he’s accused with pretty serious stuff", he said.
Jessie didn’t answer, she just took off her coat and sat next to him.
"Tell me what he did to you, Jessie."
She froze. She didn’t want to tell all those embarrassing details to James, and lie to him any further. "Leave it, James."
"Please, I want to know. They say he verbally abused you for a while, but I never heard him say anything like that to you."
"He called me over to talk with me and said all those things when you weren’t there", she answered shortly.
"And he told you... what?"
"Leave it, James, I don’t want to talk about it."
He got up and sat next to her, and he hugged her shoulder. "You’ll feel better if you talk about it."
"Look what this whole thing did to Meowth."
"That’s because he’s loyal to his old trainer. You know how much that evil man means to him. But I believe you and I want to help. Please, tell me,
what did he say?"
"All kinds of stuff. How pretty I was and how sexy I looked, and he offered
me thing, you know."
James looked at her sadly. It hurt him to hear all those things.
"Did he physically hurt you?"
"Only once... he... attacked me, that’s where I got the bruises and that’s why I decided to complain."
He looked more angry as she spoke. "The son of a bitch..."
"Please, James, I told you to leave it. I don’t want you to react that way." She felt bad that those lies made him so upset.
He hugged her tighter. "I’m so sorry, Jess. I’m sorry that he hurt you. I’m sorry that I didn’t help. I should have helped you, Jessie, I should have stopped him..."
"Don’t talk nonsense. You didn’t know."
"I should have guessed", he hugged her and buried his face in her neck, "I should have known that an evil sick man like him is capable of hurting you like that."
"James, stop it. You didn’t know and there was nothing you could do."
"I can just kill him. I should have killed him, I should have done something to stop that bastard."
He frightened her, and she didn’t know what he was going to do. She had never seen him so angry.
"He should pay. He must pay... I’ll kill him!" He jumped angrily.
"What are you going to do, James?"
"I’ll kill the son of a bitch! I’ll show him, once and for all!" And after saying that he suddenly grabbed the keys to the team’s van and ran fast though the door.
"James! Don’t do anything crazy! You’ll get yourself killed!" She jumped and ran after him, but he was already in the van, stepped on the gas and drove away.
"J-a-m-e-s!!! No!!! Come back here!" She yelled after him but he drove fast and disappeared. She ran into the house, crying hysterically, and quickly called Lauren.
"Jessica, dear, what’s wrong?"
"Lauren, everything has gone wrong! This whole plan is going out of hand!" She cried.
"Tell me what’s wrong, Jessica."
"It’s James, he’s... going to do something crazy, he went to see the boss, he’ll get himself killed!"
"You have to go after him. Giovanni will definitely kill him."
Jessie hung up quickly. She was so hysteric that she couldn’t think straight. Suddenly she remembered the old bicycles in the garage. She ran to the garage and jumped on the bicycles. Without wasting a second, she took off and rode them as fast as she could to the Team Rocket HQ.
It took her too long, far too long to get there. The HQ was far away and it took her about an hour to get there, while in a car it’s a 20-30 minutes ride.
She was afraid that she was too late and with out thinking it through, she jumped through the door, set to rescue James. But the moment she ran through the door, two big and strong men dressed in black caught her, held her down with force and one of them injected something into her arm.
Jessie immediately fell down and everything turned black.
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While she was out, Jessie had another dream. This time she saw her mother, holding a little baby in her arms, and Lauren was standing next to her and they both smiled. But Lauren looked a lot younger. Then, Her mother gave the little baby a toy- a little object shaped like the letter R, and she and Lauren smiled happily as the baby played with it.
Jessie woke up slowly, with a splitting headache, and could hardly focus in the face of the Team Rocket’s boss. She found herself lying in James’ arms, and she was so happy to see that he’s still alive, that she accidentally blurted out loud: "You’re alive!"
"Not for long, though", the boss said in a cold scary voice, "Thanks to your lies and deceits. I knew you were a failure, Jessie, but I’ve never known you’re such a lost case. How does it feel? To lose all the power that you thought you had?"
"Jessie didn’t lie", James tried to stand up for her.
"Shut up, you useless nothing. You don’t know nothing about your friend here", He came closer to them and bent a little so that his face were just above Jessie’s. He lifted her chin with his finger, and James tightened his grip of Jessie in fear, trying to protect her from the boss.
"You know what, Jessie", he smiled evilly, "Maybe you’re not a loser at all. After all- lying like that and scheming the way you did- why it’s just perfect for Team Rocket! Too bad you weren’t as good in the team as you were in throwing accusations at me!"
"Leave us alone..." Jessie whispered weakly, still hazy from the drugs that the men injected to her.
"Oh, you little stupid girl. You actually thought that you could face me or try to hurt me in any way? You fool..."
"You deserve to be punished for what you did..." James spat quietly.
"Shut up!" The boss screamed maniacally very close to Jessie and James’ faces, and they stuck to each other in horror, "I should kill you both now and get it over with. You useless fools."
Jessie and James saw their end coming, when suddenly the door opened and a strong light came from the outside. Jessie could hardly see the short blue dress and blue shoes with the matching blue hat, a hat which had wide brim. Then, They heard a voice.
"Leave the kids alone, Giovanni."
