thunderstonereject:

Platonic Requests for Affection

All it takes is one wrong move and everything they worked so hard for would be over.

Thor moved wrong, and it was all over.

Now here he sat, hours later on the floor of their hotel room staring blankly at the ground. His wounds from the earlier match were gone thanks to the efforts of Nurse Joy and Chansey, nothing more than phantom pains of what had been the worst battle of his life. Their opponent was some scrawny kid from some random small town, and his team didn’t look like anything to write home about. It would be an easy win he thought.

They were stronger than this kid, no way they’d lose! Now that he’s sitting on the floor doing a bit of self reflecting, the electric rodent comes to a sudden realization that fills him to the brim with shame. He had broken the very first rule Kai had ever ingrained into him.

‘Never underestimate your opponent. Don’t get cocky just because you think you have the upper hand.’

Thor had gotten cocky and it cost them the match. One of the biggest matches in their career, a fight that they’d been training for so long for, and he flubbed it, all while being tossed around the field like a sack of potatoes. It was humiliating. The sound of door locks clicking into place causes the rodents ears to perk and his head quickly turns towards the door. Kai stood in the middle of the threshold, they meet gazes for a brief moment, only for Thor to quickly glance away and lower his head, his eyes were beginning to water. He couldn’t look him in the eye, not after what he did.

He’d let Kai down, he should’ve been quick enough, should’ve been stronger. If only he wasn’t such an idiot then maybe–

“I’ll hold you as long as you need.”

Breath hitching in his throat, Thor freezes upon seeing Kai swiftly cross the room and drop to his knees so he could wrap his arms around him. Kai’s embrace, coupled with the soft whisper of words against his ears brings the rodent to tears. The water that swelled in his eyes spilling over as he cried against the slate-haired trainer’s shoulder.

[“I-I’m sorry! If… If it wasn’t for me, we could’ve–”]

He couldn’t even get the rest of his words out, choking on them as he violently sobbed, frame shaking in the other’s hold. Eventually his cries settled down and Thor returns the firm embrace, face buried deeply into Kai’s shoulder.

[“I’m sorry Kai, I’ll do better next time.”]

He makes a promise to himself, that from this moment on he would get stronger so they wouldn’t suffer another loss like this one ever again.