Despite all the lush vegetation in the area and the towering trees Ilex forest was the kind of place that Jackson actually fequented quite often. It was one of the main places he was assigned to patrol, by now he practically had most of the area memorized. Though even if he didn't he had a pretty well put together map in his bag of the forest. A map that he himself had made during his many patrols throughout the area.

At the moment the man was wearing his ranger uniform, with the exception of the hat they were given to wear. During solo patrols eh didn't really wear the hat it wasn't exactly his style anyway. On his back was a decent sized black bag that held the majority of his supplies, as well as his trusted Trapinch whose head was sticking out of the bag.

Jackson had been patrolling throughout the forest for almost two entire hours now and at this point the man was ready to take a little break. There was a specific spot in the forest that he knew of, a place where he frequently took breaks. He often sat against the old fallen tree and just relax in the company of his pokemon. in all his time in the forest and taking breaks in that certain spot Jackson honestly never saw another soul when he was at the fallen tree.

However today was definitely different from the rest, upon entering the small clearing where the fallen over tree resided Jackson was immediately greeted with the sight of someone else sitting up against his tree already. From where he entered the actual area he was straight ahead of the blue haired girl, he just assumed that at this point she already had seen him so walking away as if he never came would of just been awkward. Reaching a hand up to rub at the back of his neck for a moment he blurted out

"Sorry ma'am didn't mean to disturb you, I didn't realize someone else was here already."

The neutral tone that the woman spoke to him in cause him off guard at first. Sure it wasn't too out there for someone to not take interest in the words of a random stranger but the words that accompanied the tone mixed in a weird way to him. It seemed like the kind of thing that would only be said in either a joking manner or when actually taken offence to. However she didn't seem to really be aiming for either of those, heck it seemed more like she was spouting off a random fact then a preference.

"Oh, sorry about. Was just trying to be polite and all that junk.." He blurted out still a bit stunned at the neutral tone she had spoken in a few moments ago. It was genuinely a bit weird to hear those words in that kind of tone. Maybe he did actually offend her after all and she was just trying to down play it or something along those lines. Though it had already happened there wasn't anything he could do to change it now.

When the topic switched to her prodding about the missing hat Jackson couldn't help but laugh a little bit at her little joke. Slipping one of his hands down into his pocket he shook his head a little, smiling over at the woman who was sitting against the tree. "Nooo not exactly missing it, more along the lines of purposely lost it. Hats aren't really my style I think, plus I don;t really that hat specifically either." Despite the joking nature of how Jackson said that there was truth to his words, he chose not to wear that hat any chance that he had, he just didn't really like hats.

When you have a great head of hair you gotta flaunt it right?

Although the major thing that grabbed his attention from all of this wasn't the girl or her words, but the small Aron that was now charging at him. Some people might of just took it as the pokemon trying to attack and freaked out or struck back at it but as a ranger Jackson had seen rampaging and aggressive pokemon before and this didn't exactly seem like it. With how small the Aron was it was easy for the man to step out of the way so it'd miss him.

Once he did Jackson couldn't help but face the Aron and grin, now giving the woman a view of his back and in turn the trapinch sticking out of his bag. "Hey little guy, how ya doing~" He sort of cooed out as he looked down at the Aron with a grin on his face.

In a strange way for a brief moment Jackson forgot there was even a woman behind him against the tree. The little rambunctious Aron in front of him had all of his attention at this second. He wasn't necessarily trying to be rude and ignore the woman, or anything along those lines, he just thought the Aron was adorable. Although he wouldn't ignore the woman completely that'd be way too rude without any reasoning behind it, he was just literally staring at the Aron instead of her now.

Now that the Aron seemed to of calmed down he wasn't really worried about it charging at him again, despite how little that thing was Jackson knew it was pretty heavy. Getting hit by one of those wouldn't be the nice gentle tap you'd expect from a tiny pokemon. The words she spoke didn't seem to have any malice in them yet again, but they also again seemed like the kind of words you'd expect a touch of malice behind. Maybe she was just good at hiding things? Not that it mattered much, it was just a simple question at the end of the day and one he had no problem with.

"Well its just a little alteration, nothing too major. Plus since its just that dumb hat I could always try and play it off, say that I just forgot it at home or something." The man wasn't really sure why he was just admitting that out loud to a random person but it shouldn't cause any problems..right?

After thinking for a few seconds Jackson decided that it probably wouldn't be too bad to give the aron a little treat right? Luckily he kept a couple on his person during work, slipping a hand down into one of the lower pockets of his pants, an extra pocket further down his leg. After digging around for a few seconds he pulled out two little treats. He wouldn't miss them that pocket was literally full of treats.

However as he was holding the two treats out to Aron he felt his backpack wiggle around and suddenly lose about thirty pounds, which mean Gaia had hopped out of the back. Glancing back for a second he was greeted with the sight of the random woman holding a treat of her own out for his pokemon, chuckling a bit he turned his attention back to the Aron to see if it ate the treat. Assuming that the always hungry Gaia would be fine with taking the treat from the woman.

As the woman's aron wiggled closer to the treats in his hand Jackson couldn't help but chuckle a bit and wiggle the hand around slightly, trying to entice it into taking the treats. Though just as soon as he did that the Aron had already snatched the food out of his outstretched hand, leaving him with an empty moving hand now. With yet another chuckle after the pokemon finished eating the treats the man reached out and gave it a quick but gentle pat on the head before turning around to face the woman yet again with the Aron next to him.

However while Aron had taken the treats right out of the man's hand, albeit with some hesitation, the Trapinch on the other hand didn't take the treat right away. Instead the Trapinch had sat down right in front of the blue haired woman and opened its mouth up wide for her to just toss the treat right inside. Trapinch wasn't really picky at all when it came to food, though it did have its favorite flavor it would happily gobble down anything. With how wide its mouth was though Trapinch didn't want to just take the treat out of her hand and risk biting it, waiting for it to be tossed in was better.

"Guess I did get lucky then huh..I just have some random flavors mixed around in that pocket so I hoped he'd like at least one of em." He blurted out as he reached a hand up to scratch at the back of his neck, smiling over at the woman for a moment. "Yeah his name's Gaia, and I'm Jackson. Its nice to meet ya."