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[quickattackjack]

Jack watched Walter from over the rim of his glasses for quite some time. He watched how he tended to the little critter on his lap, his quiet mannerisms.

"Why are you in the Rockets, Walter? You know you could run away if you wished..."

[11121_assumption]

Walter didn't look up, focusing on Assumption in his lap. "Running away doesn't work. When I was alive, I tried to run away from the people who had taken me in. I could never escape." Team Rocket didn't ask as much as the Order but there were enough similiarities. We provide for you. You will give back to us. There will be consquences for failure.

Do not tell anyone what happens here.

"They gave me my Pokemon when I first came here. I owe them for that. In the labs, I don't have to hurt any of them."

[quickattackjack]

Jack's endless curiosity bubbled in his chest. He wanted to ask Walter so many things about where he was from and who had captured him. He wanted to know his plans from here on out but...he withheld.

You don't stay in Johto for over five years without learning a little tact.

And there was always the possibility of Walter having other reasons, just as Jack had reasons of his own.

"Ah, you're in the labs! That would explain why I haven't seen you too often."

And that meant that Walter wasn't doing any harm. There was still a chance he could eventually convince Walter to join him in his uprising some lofty day far away.

"You couldn't show me the lab sometime, could you? They put me in the field so I don't have a pass..."

[11121_assumption]

Walter lifted his head, considering Jack. The labs were almost his 'safe place' in HQ, away from the other Rocket recruits. Nobody else he knew was currently employed down there, so it made it a great way to avoid others. Granted the only Rocket he currently actively avoiding was Felix. But it was a place were he knew Manaka or Wrath wouldn't suddenly appear by his side.

"I could." He wasn't promising to however. He paused, considering his next words. "They're...not always kind, to the Pokemon there." He let the words hang, waiting to hear Jack's reaction and watching him very carefully. Would he brush off their suffering?

[quickattackjack]

Jack's reaction was an understanding but unhappy humming sound. Of course they wouldn't be...but if he could learn something--anything about what Team Rocket had planned...

"They aren't kind to any Pokemon." He glanced back to his fox who was furiously trying to dry off and shooting the giant fish evil eyes every chance she got.

[11121_assumption]

Walter relaxed a little. It seemed like Jack was similar to himself in that regard. They didn't like it, but they understood that it's simply what humans do to anything and anyone around them. He pulled Assumption closer, idly petting him as he considered the Vulpix. It sounded like Jack suspected cruelty in her past. Would...could Team Rocket have had a hand in Assumption's past? He knew his starter had lost his mother. And...he remembered in his childhood, hearing some of the other 'orphans' cry out for their parents until they learned better.

The comfort quiet was broken only the soft crackling of the fire as Walter lost himself in thoughts and the slow rhythm of petting Assumption.

Then Radio burst out of his Pokeball again. Walter sighed heavily. "Radio. Why."