Trigger warning: Depression, self harm

Upon entering Guzma's room, Moon saw the boss of team skull laying in his throne, a pillow supporting his back and his legs thrown over the side of the chair, a Wimpod snuggling with him as he was napping. "Guzma~" she called out to him and he lazily opened one eye "So you're back," he stated as the girl walked towards his throne and plopped down on top of him. Guzma was barely fast enough to get the Wimpod out of the way before you plopped down on his middle, said Wimpod was now crawling underneath the bed again. "Get off of me ya brat. I had just gotten that Wimpod from underneath the bed, it took me three hours!" Guzma said while trying to push the girl off of him. But she was stronger than he had estimated and pushed back while whining "But I don't wanna get off Guzma~"

Suddenly, upon noticing the presence of Moon, Guzma's Golisopod came out of his PokéBall on its own and got on top of the two of them, pushing Moon against Guzma's chest, their faces mere inches apart from each other.

And maybe this was all they needed to realise that maybe the other person had the same feelings they had. Their eyes locked onto each other and they seemed to stare into each other's souls as their faces moved closer to each other unconsciously.
But just as they were almost close enough to kiss each other, the door opened and Plumeria was seen in the opening "Guz I-" she started when she suddenly saw the position they were in. Guzma and Moon dangerously close to each other, almost kissing as well with Guzma's Golisopod on top of them. Guzma's head snapped in her direction, his hair getting in Moon's face which caused her to sit up a bit more straight as well and also look at Plumeria. "I see I am interrupting something, I'll come back later," she said as she turned around and walked out of the room again, closing the door behind her.

When Plumeria had closed the door, Guzma suddenly pushed Moon and his Golisopod away and shook his head "What is wrong with me? This is all just wrong; how old are ya again, 11?" Guzma asked the girl seated on his lap now. She looked back in disbelief, partly because Guzma had just pushed her away after they had shared such an intimate moment together, but partly because Guzma was completely wrong as he guessed her age.

"I'm 16 Guzma…" she told him with a slightly annoyed tone in her voice.
"Still," Guzma said shaking his head "I'll be 26 soon. This wouldn't be legal. Besides, a girl like you should find herself a nice prince charming that can take care of her, not some depressed kid like me… And think of how this would influence your reputation as a champion." Guzma told her. But Moon just huffs and shakes her head "Are you still going on about that Guzma? I don't give a single fuck about my reputation as a champion. Besides, I really like this depressed kid."

Guzma shakes his head as he looks into her eyes "Look Moon, I like you too. I like you a lot. But it's just because I like you so much that I can't let you love me. I would never be able to give you the happiness you deserve. So just get me out of yer damn mind kiddo."
Moon shakes her head in disbelief and a single tear slips from her eye, followed by a few more as she yells "I can't believe you're this egoistic Guzma. You're just a big egoist that only thinks of his own happiness!"

Now it was Guzma who was shaking. Moon did not know if it was because he was also going to cry, or if he was just this angry. When he looked up and she saw his expression though, she knew it was the latter and she got honestly scared of the Team Skull boss.

"Get out," Guzma said softly, but Moon could hear the pure anger in his voice; maybe she had gone too far this time. She removed herself from his lap, even his Golisopod was hiding underneath the bed now its master was this angry. Moon stood in front of his throne now but didn't remove herself from the room just yet.
Guzma looked up and the girl shuddered as she saw his expression.
Guzma yelled "GET OUT!"

Moon was shaking in fear as she stepped back. She yelled back "Fuck you Guzma! I hate your guts!" before running out of the room and throwing the door shut.
Only when Guzma heard the front door of the mansion close shut again, he noticed tears were falling from his eyes and streaming over his cheeks. When the first sob escaped him, he hid his head in his arms as he got into a foetus-like position. He only looked up again when his Golisopod nudged him and looked at him with an expression that said 'Go after her'. He rubbed the insect Pokémon's head and told him "I can't go after her buddy. It's for her own good that she can't get involved with the likes of me…"

Plumeria, who had been just outside the door the whole time and had heard everything that had happened inside of the room, sighed and shook her head as she walked away from the room.
"Guzma… Sometimes you need to put your own happiness in front of other's, you know…" she whispered to herself.
She informed the other grunts to stay away from his room for now since it was unknown how Guzma might react at the moment.

When Guzma didn't show up at dinner, she sighed and shook her head when a grunt asked her if they should go and fetch the boss. "No, just let him be. I'll bring him some food after dinner."
So when she went to check on him again after dinner, with a plate of food and a cup of hot Tapu Cocoa, she found him in his bed together with his Golisopod. She nudged him slightly and he squirmed as he woke up. "Hey Guz, I got you some food and a cup of Tapu Cocoa since you didn't show up at dinner. Make sure to eat something, okay?"
Guzma looked up. Plumeria seemed really worried about him. "Did Moon return?" he asked but Plumeria shook her head sadly "We haven't seen her or heard anything from her since she ran away. But I'm sure she'll come back Guz, she always does," she said as she sat next to Guzma. He sipped his cocoa while Plumeria brought up the subject "About earlier. I accidentally heard everything that happened, and I just wanted to ask: Why did you send her away if you loved her so much Guz?"

"Plumes…" he started, had she really heard everything? "I can't love her. First of all, I'm almost ten years older than she is; that's already pretty illegal. But most of all… I don't deserve her love. She deserves to be happy and I will never be able to make her happy…" he explained.
"Guz, she said she loved you," Plumeria told her boss who looked at her with a shocked expression upon hearing this. He had always thought that she might like him a bit more than friends too, but he had never really gotten a confirmation about the fact. She had even told him she hated him not so long ago…
But he shook his head "Plumes, my parents didn't even love me, then why on earth would a pretty and nice, seemingly perfect, girl like her love me?" he asked her. And with the mention of his parents, tears lined up in his eyes and the scars on his back started to hurt again. "Look Guz, I only have a vague idea of what happened in your past, but I know that if I ever see your dad; I'll personally smash his head in. but now you've got Team Skull. We all love you Guz. You're our beloved boss. And Moon saw you as her boy. Try apologizing to her when she returns, okay?" Plumeria told him and Guzma nodded "I will…"

But Moon didn't return that night, or the next day. And when Moon hadn't returned two days after the whole incident, Plumeria was getting worried as well. Guzma hadn't left his room since Moon had left and the grunts were getting worried about their boss and Moon too. So Plumeria took off to Kukui's lab to ask him if he knew something more about the girl's whereabouts. She took the car in front of the mansion and two grunts with her.
When she arrived at the lab, it was late in the afternoon already and she told the grunts to go get some groceries while she would talk to Kukui.
She walked into the lab and greeted Burnet. Professor Burnet called her husband downstairs so Plumeria could talk to him. "You Plumeria, what's up. How's Guzma doing?"
"Not so good," Plumeria said as she shakes her head "That's what I wanted to talk about with you. Do you know where Moon is? Ever since she left Po Town Guzma's been down. Really down…"

Kukui looked down. He was one of the only people to know about Moon's membership in Team Skull and her close relationship with their boss. Along with Moon's mom, Hala, Hau and Lillie.
"Moon came here two days ago…" he said and Plumeria looked hopeful
"Where is she now? I need to drag her ass over to Po Town so Guzma can live a little again;"
"She…" Kukui started "Moon left on the last boat to Unova that same night. She said she wanted to visit some family that lived there. She didn't say when or if she would return…"

Plumeria looked in shock at the professor. "Oh no," she whispered "How do I tell Guzma?".
She suddenly got a really bad feeling and felt as if she couldn't breathe anymore. Then she felt a hand on her shoulder and looked up into Kukui's eyes. "Hey, I'm sure Guzma will beat himself up about this. But I'm also sure that he'll get through this. He's been through some shit in his youth, he'll survive this as well."
Plumeria smiled weakly as she stepped out of the lab again "Thanks for helping professor."

She met up with the grunts and they drove home altogether, Plumeria looking a bit defeated. How should she tell Guzma that Moon had travelled to another region and would maybe never return.

When they returned at the mansion, Plumeria told the two grunts that went with her to inform the other grunts about Moon and to stay away from Guzma's room. She then walked up to his room and entered. She found Guzma on his throne with a Wimpod in his lap and he looked up as she entered the room "I got some news on Moon…" she said, and immediately Guzma looked a lot more interested and asked "What is it?"
"She apparentely took off to Unova and it's unsure when or whether she will return," she informed the boss who grew silent upon hearing this. "Tell the grunts to handle this shit, I'm off to Unova," he said and Plumeria stood in front of the door "No. You are not going to Unova. Just stay here and wait until she comes back," Plumeria said and left the room, leaving two grunts to guard the door so Guzma would not take off on his own.

Weeks passed since Guzma had heard the bad news and the Team Skull boss seemed to get into a depression. He had at least stopped trying to sneak off to Unova. But when Plumeria went to bring him his food one day, she noticed drops of red on the white sheets of his bed "Guzma? What's with the blood?" she asked him, pretty unfazed because it wasn't very rare for Guzma to punch a wall or something till his fists were bleeding. But this time, Guzma just shrugged it off as nothing. But Plumeria had seen enough…

And then, a week later, Guzma went back to his old self as if nothing had happened and Moon had never existed. Plumeria did not quite understand what had caused him to change so much so quickly, but she didn't bother to question him and was just happy that Team Skull had their old boss back.

"Welcome back boss."
"Back? Ya boi's never been gone," he told her with a cocky grin.