Prozac… *Eyes roll*

Title: Keep Pretending
Author: Shadow/Phantomness
Pairing: Championshipping (Lance x Ash/Red)
Fandom: Pokémon
Theme: #28, Secret
Rating: G
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: Het, incorrect gender pronouns

Lance knows Red’s secret.

He feels it in the tense lines of his body when they sit together, not even touching, and how Red will take Motrin and hot chocolate to bed every night a week once a month. He can see it in the feminine curves of his body, and the stubborn refusal of his voice to crack and deepen.

Lance knows Red’s secret, but he doesn’t tell.

Red knows that Lance knows her secret. Sometimes, when she’s sick of the façade, she’ll undo the chest bindings and change out of her jeans and t-shirt into something nice, maybe a cute sundress or a pair of slinky silk wraps to hug her frame. When that happens, she’ll comb the spikes out of her hair and dye it brown permanently. Then, she and Lance can go out and no one will know whom she really is.

Someday, Red thinks, she will work up the courage to tell, but until then, she can keep pretending.

And since Lance is so constant, he’ll kiss her no matter what she’s wearing, which is nice too.

End Fic

Completed 9/7/06

Red: So I’m the girl?
Phantomness: Yep~!