Title: Pessimistic
Author: Shadow/Phantomness
Pairing: Championshipping (Lance x Red)
Fandom: Pokémon
Theme: #73, Pessimistic
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. Special-verse

Warnings: AU future! Fic, het

No matter what everyone says, Lance is not pessimistic. Red isn’t an optimist either, to balance out the other end of the spectrum. The Elite Four’s Leader is a realist, and as for Red, well…

All he has to do is trust Lance, and trust his Pokémon. What more is needed?

Of course, maybe the gossips are right. Maybe it is dangerous to trust the Dragon Master. After all, she did try to destroy humanity at Cerise Island, and people’s memories can be very long.

Red doesn’t care.

He’ll snuggle into bed with his wife at night and give her soft butterfly kisses. And they live together, because everyone trusts that if Lance goes insane, he can restrain her. What else would a Champion do?

It’s a stupid idea, really.

With Red around, Lance really has no reason to snap. After all, since he can tie her down to sanity so easily, perhaps there are some things in this world that it would be a pity to destroy.

She has no desire to break his heart.

The girls sigh, and hope that Red will get tired of this crusade so he’ll become popular again.

He laughs when she tells him these things. Those girls are fools. Now that he’s tasted heaven, why should he need earth?

So he kisses her and pets her long, pretty hair, and Lance’s golden eyes are clouded, but that’s all right, because he’ll take care of her from now on. She needs him, and the Champion likes being needed. She’s powerful, and he loves power, especially if the power is now wedded to his reason.

In a way, he is the one in control.

So how could he possibly worry over the future?

End Fic

Completed 10/12/06

Edited 8/9/09

Yeah… somewhat seme! Red