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"Leaf?"

"Who-who's there?" asks the voice coming from down the alley. A leafeon walks out from behind a trashcan which was blocking her view, the sliver of moon high in the sky, casting a dim light down on them, the only other light coming from a bare, flickering bulb hanging off the wall of a building a few feet away.

"A Leafeon? What are you doing here?" She is wearing a dress which is riddled with tears and holes, covered in dirt from head to toe, clearly not having had a bath in days. It's too dark to see very much, but he can tell her hair is a tangled mess too, filled with leaves. "Leaf leaf leafeon." he says to her, forgetting that she can't understand him. Tears streaming down her face, she crawls over to him, wrapping him in a hug and crying into his fur.

He looks at her, unsure of what to do with this little girl crying on him, using his fur like a rag. She mumbles something, the noise muffled by his fur, but he can still slightly hear her, enough to know that she said something, but not what she said. "Leaf?" She assumes he wants to know why she's crying, so she answers him, pulling herself away from his body long enough to answer him.

"I'm crying because my mommy and daddy don't want me, they kicked me out, saying they don't have enough money to afford me, and I'm hungry." The Leafeon thinks for a moment, considering what to do. He can't just leave the little girl all alone, but he doesn't know what to do with her, his kind nature not allowing him to abandon a child of any species, pokemon or not. "Leafeon" he slips out of her grasp, not going more than a foot away from her.

She sniffles, rubbing her eyes with the back of her hand and looking at him. "Where are you going? Don't leave me here, please? I'm scared. It's so dark." He turns away from her, looking back at her over his shoulder and nodding his head, hoping she gets the message. He starts to walk away, looking back to see if she is following him, but she hasn't moved, still sitting on the ground. He sighs, hanging his head for a second, wondering why he is even bothering with the little girl. He walks over to her again, biting her dress with his fangs and pulling her along for a few inches.

"Oh, you want me to follow you" She finally realizes, getting up. With a nod of his head, he starts to walk away again, this time following him. The walk by building after building, all the lights off and and all the people asleep, tucked into bed. He walks to the edge of town, looking back every couple minutes to make sure she is still there, continuing to walk when he is sure she is. They make it to edge of the forest without encountering any other people or pokemon, and he enters the woods. She's a bit hesitant, always told not to go into the forest because of all the wild pokemon, but she trusts the leafeon wouldn't lead her anywhere bad. They walk through the woods, the Leafeon ducking under branches and weaving through the trees, stopping every few seconds so she can catch up, unfamiliar with the woods, not knowing where he is leading her, but following dutifully since she has nowhere else to go.

After about ten minutes of walking, they arrive in a clearing, a lonely stump with scorch marks, the grass and flowers the only things occupying the space. He jumps onto the stump, waiting for the little girl to catch up. She steps into the clearing, walking over to the Leafeon on the stump silently, looking around the clearing. "Is this where you live?" She asks quietly, not wanting to disrupt the peace of the forest. He shakes his head, jumping off the stump and walking to the edge of the clearing, shoving aside vines and a shrub, revealing a small opening in a rock face that she hadn't noticed since it was covered.

He walks in, followed by the little girl who has to crouch on her hands and knees, the space too big for her to enter standing upright. She crawls through the tunnel, entering a cave that the Leafeon stopped in. He walks to a spot on by the wall, where a pile of berries sit. "Are those for me?" She asks, her stomach rumbling at the sight of food. The Leafeon nods, and the little girl shuffles over, kneeling over and picking one up, sticking it into her mouth and eating it. She hurriedly eats them one after another, soon devouring the entire pile. She walks over and gives him another hug.

"Thank you." He nods to her, walking over to the other side of the cave, sitting on the edge of a pile of leaves and leaves to leave room for her on what he had obviously been using as a bed for a long time. His head rests on his paws, and the little girl walks over to the pile as well, laying down and cuddling up to the Leafeon, using his body as a makeshift pillow. He glances at her and shrugs, not really bothered, closing his eyes and going to sleep, followed shortly by the little girl.