I love doing themes. It’s relaxing and prompts plotbunnies. Plus, they can be drabbles, not like the long fic I normally write…

Title: Content
Author: Shadow/Phantomness
Pairing: Championshipping (Lance x Red)
Fandom: Pokémon
Theme: #18, Content
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Pokemon belongs to Nintendo and Shogakukan Comics. This non-profit, non-copyright infringing fanfiction belongs to me under international copyright laws and taking it is plagiarism. Thank you. *Phantomness bows*

Notes: <> for telepathy, ** for thoughts, italics if a pokemon talks

Warnings: AU, Het, Fluff

The sunlight is streaming in through the large bay windows as he pets Lance’s hair. Outside, Pidgeys are chirping and the sky is the purest blue ever seen.

He smiles.

Lance turns to look at him, and her eyes are strangely distant.

“Do you regret it?” She asks.

“Loving you?”

She nods, and he feels the shiver that goes through her frame when she asks the question. It might strike some as being unfair, but Red is experienced in matters of the heart now, and he remembers.

In the past, he would say yes.

Now, he says no.

Her face lights up as he tells her the truth, and she kisses him. Then they break apart and go back to their contemplations.

Yes, Red thinks, as he glances outside the glass windows, ignoring the iron bars, and the fence of barbed wire he can also see, he doesn’t mind.

Having her here with him makes everything better.

Freedom is a state of mind, and the Elite Four and the Champion may be trapped, but for now, when he has her – he’s free.

End Fic

Completed 9/21/06

So I passed my first chemistry test. Yatta! Maybe I ought to do some character studies… sometime.

Lance: You seriously overwork yourself. No wonder you’re so stressed

Phantomness: ^_^()