Title: Future
Author: Shadow/Phantomness
Pairing: Championshipping (Lance x Red)
Fandom: Pokémon
Theme: #36, Store of Value

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. Game-verse

Warnings: AU, Het, insanity

 

            “Isn’t he pretty?” Red asked, and her voice sang with midsummer madness. “Isn’t he absolutely beautiful?”

            Green felt something cold and hard settle in his throat, and behind him, he heard his sister suck in a breath, eyes widening in shock. The man’s eyes were closed, crimson hair long and loose behind him, dressed in skintight black, floating limply in a vat filled with pearly pink liquid. His mind idly identified it as a nutrient base.

            If not for the wings, he would look perfectly human. Sharp metal curled behind him in glittering arcs of steel, and Green suddenly was very grateful that all that skin was covered. He did not wish to see the horrible scars that might mar someone’s body. Implants that severe…!

            What had happened here?

 

            “Of course,” She told them, and her voice was perfectly calm, “He won’t wake up again, not even if I want him to. I cried and I sobbed and I pleaded, and I promised but he wouldn’t wake up.”

            The Champion sighed, resting her fingertips against the glass wall separating her from the Dragon Master, and her husband.

            “It will take time. He needs to heal, but someday, he will, and when he does, I’ll be there for him.” She promised.

            Green and May exchanged glances, and wondered if it would be all right to bring up the fact that Red really should give up.

 

End Fic

Completed 1/17/06

Edited 6/1/09

A Store of Value is an item that people can use to transfer purchasing power from the present to the future (Brief Principles of Macroeconomics, 4th Edition by N. Gregory Mankiw) Inflation inside, money is a pretty good store of value as long as the government hasn’t fallen… or anything dramatic.