Title: Too Fat
Author: Shadow/Phantomness
Pairing: Championshipping (Lance x Ash/Red)
Fandom: Pokémon
Theme: #26, Body Fat
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: Anorexia, friendship

When Red stops eating, Lance notices. The Champion is not fat, but perhaps a tad chubby. Still, as he sees Red slimming down remarkably fast, he decides that it is time to do something – especially when Red collapses minutes after his pokémon battle, trembling like a leaf in the wind. It’s lucky the camera crews haven’t managed to bug the locker room.

Lance takes him back to his room and feeds him sugar water, glucose and electrolytes, to bring his body back on track. He makes chicken soup loaded with herbs and crushed multivitamin pills, and Red is too weak to resist him.

“That was foolish of you.” He says, and Red flushes, but won’t answer. Still, Red obediently eats everything Lance sets before him, and doesn’t push them away crying ‘fat’ or ‘calories’, so it’s an improvement.

Lance keeps him bedridden for two weeks, and then hypnotizes him. Poliwrath is more than happy to help his master, and as Red dreams, Lance plants subliminal suggestions in his mind – not to worry about weight, and above all, to avoid reading those teen magazines with their stick-thin models created in computer animation.

Red doesn’t know what Lance has done, but now mirrors don’t scare him anymore, and since he gets plenty of exercise training his pokémon, he quits worrying about his weight.

And Lance watches him, and smiles in relief.

End Fic

Completed 9/8/06

That theme is very disturbing… and yeah, it’d work better if Red was a girl, but we work with what we have…