Cassie hesitated. She still didn't like this situation and probably never really would, but she didn't have the right to decide what was best for Pikachu and Gible. They were clearly intelligent creatures, smart enough to understand what they were agreeing too. If they were happy...

A part of her still believed that there was some type of deceit going on here, but with all her instincts screaming at her that this wasn't true, she was having trouble forcing the issue.

"If that's what you two really want," she began softly, speaking to the Pokemon, "Then I'm sorry that I interfered. I really do only want what's best for you two. If you really believe that these... fights are what's best then I'll stay out of it, no matter how I feel."

She looked at Ash, still uncertain about what to make of the boy. "I suppose that I owe you an apology as well." For now. Unless she found out later that something more was going on here. "So, I'm sorry."

She wouldn't give anything more than that though. She still didn't really agree with what he was doing, but as long as Pikachu and Gible weren't being forced to act against their own will and they were happy, then she had no right to say anything. She would not appreciate being told what to do either, even if that person thought that they were doing it to protect her.

The lines between right and wrong had blurred a long time ago for her. She was very familiar with that gray space in between.