Title: Heart of Mine
Author: Shadow/Phantomness
Pairing: Championshipping (Lance x Red/Ash)
Fandom: Pokémon
Theme: #75, Heart
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: Fanon, shonen-ai

It’s not fair, Red thinks, as he snuggles up against Lance’s chest. He knows that the war will not end without the Sacred Sword, but he can’t do it. He listens to Lance’s heartbeat, and he wishes that things were different, that there was some other way, that the legendary pokemon had never come up with this mad scheme. Lance cannot remember, and Red is grateful, because he doubts his lover would trust so easily and smile so often if he knew how many betrayals lurked behind innocent chocolate brown eyes. But Red is Serebii’s Chosen, and this time, he carries the memories and experiences of them all.

If Lance calls the Sacred Sword, he will die. If Charlotte calls the Sacred Shield, she will die. But unless both weapons are called, the war will never be won. Even their supernatural abilities only draw the battles to a stalemate. There is never a clear victory, and there will never be one until certain conditions are fulfilled.

The Unown have written it in letters for eternity, but he just can’t do it. Not yet. He knows that it is expected of him, that one day, he will have to tell the truth, and they will have to sacrifice everything for a world that is corrupt and rotting from the inside out. He knows that their lives will spare those of many pokemon, and many humans, but he loves them, his lover and his older sister, and he can’t just tell them to die!

So he keeps the secret deep in his heart, and waits.

End Fic

Completed 8/1/07