Bucky was gone and he'd taken Scrapper and Jenny with him. The room around Felix was quite where the last time he'd been there it had been full of noise. Now there was sorrow instead of joy. Sunny and all the others were curled around one another in a pile. The misery …show more content…
The news he'd just received had shaken both him and his trainer down to the core. Steve was gone. The soldier had been swallowed up by the cold waters of the Arctic. Gone like Bucky and Scrapper and so many others were gone and they were never going to come back. The only good news about his death was that he hadn't taken Sunny and Liberty with him. It was a selfish thought, but Felix wasn't sure what he'd have done if Steve's Pokémon had been taken with him. Felix shuddered at the mere thought.
The last thing he wanted was to lose more friends to Hydra and now he wouldn't. All they'd had to pay for that freedom was one of the best men that Felix had ever known. Turning Felix shoved his head into Howard's lap and whined low in his throat. It took a moment for his human to respond, but when he did, he let go of his own dark hair and buried his fingers into Felix's fur. There were tears in his brown eyes that threatened to fall at any given moment.
Leaning forward Felix ran his tongue over his trainer’s face licking the salty drops away before they had a chance to fall. They had survived the loss of Howard's parents and their Pokémon and as painful as it was they would survive this too. All of them would. They just had to keep moving forward for as long as they were able. That didn't, however, mean that they didn't have time to grieve for their lost