Title: Halo Effect
Author: Shadow/Phantomness
Pairing: Championshipping (Lance x Red)
Fandom: Pokémon
Theme: #15, Halo Effect
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. Pokemon Special/Adventures-verse

Warnings: AU, het

As much as people liked to believe that they did not see in terms of black and white, they really did. A person who complained was believed to be negative all the time. A friendly person was positive. Red was a friendly person. Thus, he was a good person. Nice people just should not be evil!

That was why it was such a shock to Professor Oak and his friends, when they found out that he was married, to Lance of all people, the hard way, by catching them together in his tent.

Fortunately, they had dressed quickly.

When – how – had that happened? For that matter, Lance was a woman?

Yellow took it badly. She burst into tears and ran off. No one went after her, feeling that privacy would be better. She would have to think it through by herself.

Blue was sympathetic – the blonde had had a crush on Red for ages, ever since he had saved her in the Viridian Forest and helped her catch her first Pokemon. However, she had to admit, Red seemed happy.

Green took it without a flicker of expression, but promptly went on a long training trip. Professor Oak just sighed.

He would let the younger generation make mistakes. No doubt, Red would soon come to his senses, and get back together with Yellow.

Lance knew better, but kept her opinion to herself, as she and her husband sat on his front porch and watched the stars.

End Fic

Completed 11/9/09

The Halo Effect, as defined by Wikipedia, is “Halo effect refers to the cognitive bias which in a series of perceptions the interpretation of later ones are influenced by perception of former ones.”