Title: Someday
Author: Shadow/Phantomness
Pairing: Championshipping (Lance x Ash/Red)
Fandom: Pokémon
Theme: #98, Cloud
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: AU, Child abuse, alcoholism, implied shonen-ai and shota and incest, starvation

Someday, Red thinks, as he sleeps soundly in his little bed, Father will come home and take him away from this woman who claims to be his mother but really isn’t. He knows that his mother used to be pretty and skinny but then she went to the hospital and they switched her with this fat lady who carries around two little babies that smell like spit and sour milk.

Delia drinks her martinis, slopping alcohol over the sides, and Red huddles in his room as the two babies wail. They don’t belong to him and they certainly aren’t his brothers because he knows his real mother wouldn’t replace him with these ugly things. He hopes they’ll shrivel up and die, and he sits by his desk lamp as he re-reads the letters in cream paper that Father sends every month.

Last month Father sent him a Caterpie doll and then one of them made it dirty and then the woman took it away – to wash it, she said, but it never came back, and now he gets the mail himself and locks the door of his room so these things can’t take his things away any more.

When Lance comes home, he finds Delia has become a drunken sop and two fat grubs in a crib, starving. He ignores them, because they aren’t his children, since he hasn’t touched her in months, and takes Red away.

They fly away on Dragonair above the clouds, and Red clutches his Father close.

He knew the story would come true eventually. And now he and Father can live in the pretty white house by the sea, and all of the water pokémon will come and play with him, and Father will make him delicious things to eat, and cuddle him and kiss him, and he’ll never see the woman or those two again.

And he’s happy.

End Fic

Completed 9/8/06

Not really incest or shonen-ai unless you squint… *Squints* this was rather fun to write, though I’m not too sure I can write like a kid anymore.

Red: Oh well

Lance: This is actually the beginning of a series of interconnected drabbles. Read on!

Phantomness: Hai~!