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Light duty was something she was grateful for, considering her current condition, but the reason she was taking it easy, was out of understanding the necessity, not practically out of want.
Would she rather be out training hard with her pokemon and doing those easy but annoying grunt missions that required at least a portion of her physical health, or would she rather be sitting? Doing whatever odd job they could find for her, some of the times a job any child could do? No thank you
Faleen was ready to get back to her normal duties, but she wasn’t going to push it. Not with a wound like this.

The dark blond Grunt still couldn’t train her pokemon quite yet, and she knew they were getting very antsy about it, had had promised them soon, since she planned on taking the doctor’s advice about not straining herself too soon.
This meant that Faleen had a little more extra time, time that she took for her own studies.

With one elbow propped up onto the tables surface in the cafeteria, her hand slid under her hair shoulder length hair to hold her head up over a warn blue text book, her hazel eyes scanning the pages, gaze drifting away from the text only to shift to another book where she would take a moment to scribble something out on, or doodle a quick reference image.
While she was usually seen in her grunt uniform, she had started taking to wearing casual, the baggy shirt hung off of her shoulders, long to over part of large pants that draped loosely and low on her hips.
Next to her was an empty tray of food and cup up water, in need of a refill. Had she wanted it she showed no indication.
An Umbreon sat curled up on the seat next to her, though is eyes were open, clearly bored

Jarred away from her studies when she heard someone stuttering close to her, head snapping up quickly until her eyes caught sight... of a meek looking Grunt.
It took her a moment to reolize what he said, once she got over the surprise of how much he stuttered
"Be my guest" Faleen answered with a slight gesture to the seat.
"I'm not being a table hog, I promise" glancing around the room at the others at the tables, it was no wonder he came over here. she hadn't noticed she had a table to herself...
Looking back over to the other grunt with a delicate incline of her head. "I haven't seen you around before"
Intrigued by this Rocket.

From his own seat, Umbreon pushed himself into a taller sitting position, peering over the table at the voice that was coming from the other side with a small frown.

Faleen smiled in amusement, watching the smaller young man trying to eat quickly, while being polite, boy did she know how that felt, and he was clearly younger then she was.
"well, first, don't call me ma'am" she said, lowering the hand holding her head up onto the table. "we're both Grunts here. my name is Faleen"
she didn't look angry or annoyed when she said it, still smiling pleasantly.
"last week huh?" continuing her conversation, admittedly curious, mostly as to what he was doing in Rocket, nervous guy like this.
"How's it been going so far? pretty intense, hum?"

This was much more interesting to Umbreon then sitting there while his master read. pushing himself up so that his paws were on the table, eying the burger the grunt was eating.

"a Trainee, I see. Well, still just call me Faleen, I haven't come close to earning being called ma'am" grinning softly at his little slip up, then correcting himself, she shook her head, placing a page marking in the book she was reading before she closed it, folding her hands neatly on top of the book cover.
turning her attention to the pokemon that Liam released, her head tilted slightly at the water type. A Totodile, Kofuku had one of those.
"Your more then welcome to" she replied to his question to her, but it was to no surprise that Umbreon flattened his ears back at the sight of the other pokemon, and slid back off of the table and back into his chair. "Don't take offense, he's not very social."
reaching out to rub the ring over Umbreon's forehead. the dark types red eyes still on the small trainer, flicking over to the water type every now and then.

"Yeah well, I can never tell with Umbreon" there was a fondness in her voice when she replied to Liam's comment, still rubbing at his yellow ring before pulling her hand back and setting it onto the table.
"he won't start anything, don't worry." Faleen reassured Liam, knowing Umbreon can look pretty intimidating with how he stares.

watching the other pokemon while it ate, before he turned his red eyes down onto the other half of the burger, the one sitting in front of him.
pushing himself slowly back up to prop his front legs on the table, the dark eon lowed his head to table a bite out of it, his gaze still on the other pokemon.

"So" Faleen continued, reaching over to pick up her water cup, to finish it off. "Liam, how long have you had... Artie?" she asked, to confirm if it was his name.

Umbreon just stared, in a very uncaring fashion, slowly eating bite by bite, almost purposefully, until the other pokemon turned away.
taking the burger into his mouth, Umbreon picked it up, and moved it down to his chair, where he sat, and ate more privately.

Arching her eyebrows when the water pokemon squirted its master in the face, not looking as amused as Liam was about it.
but she didn't say anything, unsure if it was something playful between the two, or if the Totodile was just disrespectful, from the way Liam laughed, Faleen could guess he was okay with it.
at the sight of water though, she had hurriedly scooped the book off the table. some of her notes got sprinkled since she didn't have time to get those out of the way,
glancing over them as the water soaked in and spread over her words, blurring the pen ink, she didn't say anything, acting quite indifferent to it, and returned her gaze to the younger Rocket, lowering the book safely onto her lap.

"Mmm" she shook her head as she responded to his questions. "No, he doesn't have a nickname. him or Shuppet. I got Umbreon when I joined Rocket, so he's the newest pokemon on my team, I'm really new to all this pokemon training."

"Its oddly nice to hear that, most people here have been working with pokemon all there life. I feel like I've got a lot of catching up to do."
Folding her hands on the table, looking over at the trainee and his new pokemon.
"Yes" she said, without question "I do like being a member of Team Rocket, though I wouldn't exactly say its easy..." tilting her head slightly, smiling softly, she hoped it would not worry the trainee to much, but she wasn't going to lie to him.
"I got shot on my first mission" she said with an awkward grin. "I'm so new to pokemon, but I haven't been treated any different from anyone else. I just have to try that much harder."

Umbreon finished the burger, shaking himself out, content, and settled himself down onto the seat again, closing his eyes as he laid his chin upon his paws.

"The cops know we were there stealing Pokemon, we were surrounded while we tried to get away and I guess I took a stray bullet, a lot of the group got shot actually, not a very successful night"
The grunt explained, reaching over for her cup, only to peer into the empty container.

Umbreon remained where he was, not even opening his eyes or changing his breath.