Title: Watcher

Author: Shadow/Phantomness

Pairing: Championshipping (Lance x Red/Ash)

Fandom: Pokémon

Theme: #3, Glitter

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

She’s beautiful and delicate, like a pretty butterfly. He smiles as he watches her. He would so love to marry her and break her, crush her wings with pins, but alas, he already has a wife and she’s not quite stupid enough to have a fortuitous accident. Besides, she already has a fiancé, a pretty boy if he ever saw one, and he idly wonders if he should break them both.

Lance feels the eyes on him as he and Red waltz around the ballroom, but he keeps his silence, though he feels his blood boiling. The man is nothing but a fat, money-lending Count who the King favors. He brushes a kiss across Red’s lips, and smiles, gazing into her beautiful eyes. They really are unique, sparkling like rubies, and her long black hair is exquisite, so different from her sister’s blonde curls.

She returns the favor, and they waltz, as the Court sighs and swoons, and that night, they kiss beneath the moon.

Lance is nothing if not careful, and he knows quite clearly that unless he acts, the Count will ruin things, so he vows to protect Red. That night, after the stars have burned out, he slips out of the man’s room and wipes the blood off, glad that things did not go too far. His ruse worked though, the man was almost beside himself.

Lance knows he is beautiful, and he knows how to use it as a weapon, as sharp as his sword, so he swiftly eliminates the opposition, and keeps Red innocent. She’ll never know, how he glitters in the dark like a fallen star, and even if she did, she wouldn’t care. Love can hide a multitude of faults, after all.

Their marriage is a success, and she never has cause to wonder, and he chooses to forget that unpleasant detail, so they shimmer and glint like a perfect couple for the rest of their days.

End Fic

Completed 4/24/07

I hate public speaking!

Red: *Hugs Lance*

Lance: ^^

Phantomness: Lance can play dirty, and very vicious!