What is that horrible noise? I hate alarms.

Title: Broken
Author: Shadow/Phantomness
Pairing: Championshipping (Lance x Red/Ash)
Fandom: Pokémon
Theme: #37, Break
Rating: PG-13
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, Shonen-ai, adultery

When he is angry, Lance breaks things. Usually they’re cheap, gaudy trinkets, easily replaceable, and he sweeps the rubbish up and burns it after the rage has worn off. There are many different things that make Lance angry, from stupid bureaucrats to dangerous fangirls, but he burns hottest when he finds out that the one he loves has been cheating on him.

Lance finally leaves his office and releases Dragonite, hoping that a midnight flight will clear his mind, but it doesn’t help, and Dragonite sighs and drops him off in a desolate area where he can damage things all he wants. Lance does. In the morning, his rage has burned to ashes, and there is nothing left but a cold glitter in his eyes, mirror-bright, hiding the shards of his soul.

When Ash comes back, Lance hugs him, not questioning why, and Ash misses the emptiness. Ash kisses him, and misses the pain. When Ash leaves, he misses the anger and the sorrow both. Ash doesn’t realize this, though, until Lance is gone for real and there is nothing left but a stranger with polished words and a frozen visage, and by then, it’s too late.

End Fic

Completed 4/12/07

I am on such an angst kick right now. *Hugs Lance* And Lance has anger management issues! And Ash is a naïve idiot who might possibly cheat. Yes.