Title: Daddy Issues
Authors: Shadow/Phantomness
Pairing: Championshipping (Lance x Red)
Fandom: Pokémon
Theme: #2, Daddy Issues
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, het

Red doesn’t like boys. Maybe it’s because they’ll grow up into men and leave her behind, just like Dad left Mom. She doesn’t know why being a Trainer means cutting all familial bonds, but it irritates her because she hasn’t seen her father since she was five years old. Ten years is a long time.

Perhaps he’s dead, or became an alcoholic. He might have gone broke and joined Team Rocket, though that just sounds odd. Or, he could be a polygamist and have another family somewhere.

She scowls.

“Red-chan,” Lance calls, and she turns. She’s not sure what to feel about him. Yes, he’s a man, but he hasn’t hurt her yet. The key word, of course, is yet. What if he does?

She’s glad he’s not anything but a friend right now, and she accepts the cup of apple cider from him, but she’s not going to make the same mistake her mother did. If she falls in love, she’s going to make sure this man is hers, for keeps.

Until she figures out how to do it, though, she can only be his Champion.

He grins at her, and they sit on the edge of the stairs together, waiting.

End Fic

Completed 6/14/09

Wikipedia is my love. ^^

Seriously though, “Daddy Issues” is a slang psychology term, not official, that describes a woman who has/had a bad relationship with her father, and it may cause her to hate men, be excessively promiscuous, etcetera…

I wonder if this can be applied to males.