10 Works by Zestyzigzagoon
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The Gift of Giving by Zestyzigzagoon
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Anime 1997-2023)
25 Dec 2025
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May usually considered herself a good gift-giver, but year after year, there was one person that she consistently couldn’t find a good-enough gift for. May loved her fiancé and the life they shared, but Drew didn’t make gift-giving easy.
Or, a short and sweet oneshot for all of your domestic holiday fluff needs.
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Moving across the country to a town she’d never been to with no backup plan had to have been either the bravest or dumbest thing May Maple had ever done. But she’d certainly done it, for better or worse. Her life was now in shades of rust-colored dirt and crimson sunsets, with the wind in her hair and the sun on her face. Life in Oak Ridge was everything she’d wanted- something exciting, something new, something worth chasing after.
She hadn’t anticipated the abundance of horses or the eclectic townsfolk, though. She especially hadn’t anticipated the run-down house, the ride-or-die friendships, or the weekly horse riding lessons with a certain green-haired someone.
Only one thing was for sure- she’d wanted a change of pace, something new, and she’d sure gotten it.Or, a modern Wild West CS AU. Contains feel-good friendships, a home renovation side quest, horses, and a lot of flirting.
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If It Hit You in the Face by Zestyzigzagoon
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Anime 1997-2023)
06 Jun 2025
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“May, I don’t think you’d know flirting if it hit you in the face,” Drew stated simply, amusement shining in his eyes.
“What? Yes, I would!”
He smirked and raised an eyebrow. “Are you absolutely sure about that?”
“I am absolutely sure,” she mimicked, “That I’d know flirting if it hit me in the face, yes. Though, you’re the one who knows all about getting hit in the face, huh?”
He laughed, a bright sound that broke through the morning silence; but it was shortly followed with a sharp wince of pain. Drew looked back up reassuringly after a moment, meeting May’s concerned eyes. A small smile lingered on his lips. “Yeah, well. Whose fault is that, hm?”
Or, a stray snowball. A bloody nose. Idiot teenagers. An underpaid Nurse Joy. A soft conversation. Ensuing shenanigans. -
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May is an energetic magazine columnist who walks into a bar, but in lieu of a punchline, she finds a pesky couples-only policy in place for Valentine’s day that prevents her from entering. Drew is a stranger who has a cynical outlook on romance, but the joke’s on him when he finds himself volunteering to be May’s date for the evening so that she can get in and get her article written. It’s just a single fake date. A work obligation, really; a one-evening-only performance that neither of them will have to attend ever again.
But the acting’s coming a little too naturally, even after the curtain call.
Or, a fake dating fic in which a chance meeting with a stranger, a brief agreement to be partners in crime for the evening, and an unexpectedly real spark begins to blur the line between facades and fondness. All the world’s a stage, and method acting is dangerous business.
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Morning-After Melancholy (Reprise) by Zestyzigzagoon
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Anime)
15 Sep 2024
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It was a cold, rainy morning that well-suited Drew’s mood upon waking up alone again.
Rain pelted against the window in steady rhythm and a wet chill hung in the air, seeping into Drew’s skin through gaps in the disheveled covers. The occasional rumble of thunder interrupted the piercing silence of the morning. His room was dark, and any light that came in through the windows somehow made everything feel darker in the grey gloom that it cast.
He took a deep breath, feeling the cold morning air enter and exit his lungs. The scent of fallen petrichor and fading perfume filled his senses.
The morning-after was always the hardest.
Or, a reimagining of an old fic of mine in which Drew muses on the life that he wants and the things that keep him from it. Largely prose.
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When Am I Going To Lose You? by Zestyzigzagoon
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Anime)
25 Mar 2024
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It was a perfect moment, all things considered. Golden rays of sun peeked through the window, a crisp breeze blew in through fluttering curtains, a gorgeous sunrise shone through the incoming rain clouds that hadn’t yet arrived, a hot cup of coffee warmed his hand, and the best thing to have ever happened to Drew laid beside him, her arm draped over his torso.
It was a perfect moment.
Moments always end, his thoughts reminded him, spiraling in a one-way track that he couldn’t derail.
When am I going to lose this?
When am I going to lose you?
A fic in which Drew worries about losing someone who's not going anywhere, no matter what, and she reassures him. Fluff.
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May thought that moving in with her best friend made perfect sense. They’d both wanted a home base for the coordinating off-season, it would save a lot of money, and she found that she and Drew made a pretty good team. That was all. It meant nothing else, which she’d insist to anyone who implied otherwise. Including herself. She was just moving in with her friend, that was all. But as it turned out, ‘just moving in with her friend’ and assembling their furniture together, in their house, that they now lived in together, made May happier than it probably should have.
And she wasn’t the only one.Or, to summarize in the form of a popular internet meme: “And they were roommates.”
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Two years. It had been two years since May and Drew had broken up, but it had been far from two years since she'd ended back up at his house. Life had a way of dragging her back to his doorstep, no matter how many times she swore up and down she'd never return there again. Every single time, from the moment her feet hit his driveway to his doormat to his couch to his bedroom, she swore it would be the last time. She swore she'd break the cycle and finally break free of the memories of stolen kisses on borrowed time. No more returning to what they'd agreed to leave behind.
This would be the last time.
Every time's the last time.
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Contest dress codes had quickly become the bane of Drew’s existence. Not only did they defeat the point of contests (which were to show off the Pokémon and not the trainer), but they highlighted a painfully simple gap in Drew’s otherwise embellished skillset: tying a tie. Drew didn’t know if he should be embarrassed about or thankful for the fact that May happened to know how to tie a tie. But as her warm hands brushed against his neck as she tied it for him, he was leaning towards 'thankful' and then some.
Or, to summarize in simpler terms: the inherent eroticism of tying your rival’s tie for them.
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Oneshot. Rewritten.