#anyway I feel like Tulip would get along great with all of Ash's pokemon

[forthedancingandthethriving]

"Hello." Tulip gently coos to the Bayleef, smiling at it croons and leans into her hand.

It had been a few days after the whole event with her parents, and the Avatars decided to have an impromptu meet-up, mostly to just relax. Ash had brought along several Pokemon this time around, one of them being his Bayleef. She had wandered over to Tulip, who had been busy just mindlessly working on some small machines.

"Aren't you a beauty." Tulip giggles, watching as Bayleef plops down beside the enginner, gazing curiously at the machine.

"Oh, this?" Tulip tilts her head. "Well, Ash was getting curious about just how strong all his Pokémon were, and so I had the idea to make a machine that basically.. measures the power behind a move!" The engineer explains, to Bayleef's delight. "It'll be a while until it's ready, so I'll be working on it on and off."

"Leef!" the Pokemon chirps, leaning her head down to rest on Tulip's lap.

The Pokemon watches with bright and curious eyes, though it doesn't escape her how Tulip occasionally winces when her arms twist or move, or how she hisses in pain when she brushes her shoulder against her cheek to remove some oil.

Bayleef slowly moves her head so as not to catch Tulip's attention and narrows her eyes at the human's cheek.

There was just a small hit of purple and black.

Bayleef let out a soft "bay.." at the realization. She hadn't been there at the event, but she had heard all about it from Dragonite and the other Pokemon Ash took. (Pikachu had been nursing his hangover.)

The Leaf Pokemon remembers Noivern mentioning how Tulip was very skittish about her arms and how the Sound Wave Pokemon had picked up on her hisses of pain when she had been changing inside her van.

It didn't take too much of a genius to know why.

"Leef." Bayleef gently croons, leaning forward and biting down on Tulip's jacket sleeve, stopping her from moving that arm.

"Huh? What's wrong?" Tulip frowns as she sets down a wrench to look at the Pokemon.

Bayleef sets her two front feet on Tulip's lap before closing her eyes and focusing. A soft pink enveloped Pokemon's body before she leans her head forward and uses Heal Pulse on Tulip.

Tulip gasps softly as a gentle, warm feeling pulses throughout her body. The stinging pain that had been persisting in her arms from the hits from her father and the aching pain on the cheek from the slap from Archie all faded.

Bayleef lets out a pleased croon as she stops using Heal Pulse and looks up at Tulip with what's clearly a smile.

Tulip stares in shock before she smiles and gently scratches Bayleef's head. "Thank you. Just don't mention this to Ash or Pikachu, yeah? Cause goodness knows they'd probably try storming their way back there."

Bayleef let's out a "Leef!" in confirmation before lowering head and doing an 'X' motion with the leaf on top of her head.

Tulip laughs softly before she resumes the work on her machine, with Bayleef resting her hand on the Avatar's lap, no longer worried about the state of Ash's best friend.