Title: Projection
Author: Shadow/Phantomness
Pairing: Championshipping (Lance x Red)
Fandom: Pokémon
Theme: #33, Projection
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: Het, AU

Red closed his eyes as he heard the footsteps approach. “Hi Yellow.”

“Red.” She said worriedly. “What’s wrong with you? Ever since Cerise Island, you’ve been…strange.”

He opened his eyes slowly. “Strange? How?”

“Well, you’re so quiet, and you don’t train much anymore…” She began hesitantly.

He sat up, his eyes flaring, and Yellow involuntarily took a step back. “I’m fine, Yellow. I just need a break! I was frozen as an ice statue for weeks for crying out loud! Besides, you seem to be doing fine on your own, so why don’t you leave me alone?”

She stared at him, stricken, and ran off, while Red huffed.

Yellow was such a brat. Sure, he had saved his life, or so he thought, and maybe Yellow had spared the world, but… but at what cost?

“I miss you.” He said, his hand moving inside his jacket to stroke the silver dragon necklace he had taken from his lover’s corpse, when he’d gone back to Cerise in the dead of night and buried her with his own hands, her body almost unrecognizable from the lava, nothing but charred bones and ashes left.

He missed Lance.

End Fic

Completed 12/10/06

Edited 4/20/09

Projection is attributing one’s own undesirable characteristics or motives to other people. (From Introductory Psychology, 7^th edition by James Kalat)