Title: Tick-Tock
Author: Shadow/Phantomness
Pairing: Championshipping (Lance x Ash/Red)
Fandom: Pokémon
Theme: #84, 72 hours
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: Shonen-ai, character death

Seventy-Two hours without sleep could drive the sanest man mad. Neither the Champion nor the Dragon Master had been particularly sane to begin with. Their relationship was evidence of that fact.

Now, they stood back-to-back, swords in hand, as they watched the Kantonian army surround them.

“Red?”

“Yes, Lance?” He was amazed that his voice still held steady.

“I love you.”

“I love you too.”

The army moved. Their forms blurred, as they tore through the massed ranks like a scythe through new grain. Finally, the last man was vanquished. They stood there, covered in blood, and laughed.

“One last kiss for the road?” Lance asked.

Red smiled, and tipped his head up. They kissed.

When reinforcements arrived moments later, both were dead.

End Fic

Completed 7/25/06

Come on, I had to angst sometime. Looks like the sugar shock of fluff finally wore off.

Shoyko: *Cries*

Lance: *Hugs Red*

Red: *Hides from Author*