[Canon]

And so the little big Eevee went on to evolve into a Flareon and spend the rest of his teenage years visiting his many past lives. For a long time he never went back to the time period where he met his "veeloved" little Eevee, disappearing after developing a strong friendship with her. Eri finally decided to return to that time period, choosing a point in her adulthood rather than childhood to see how she had grown.

His first sight of her was her violently tearing apart her dinner, scarfing it down in chunks while he was locked in a cage.

And his heart went all pitter patter for some fucked up reason as he floofed up

and then he realised o shit i shouldnt be here whoooooooooooops and came back later w more stealth