Title: Façade
Author: Shadow/Phantomness
Pairing: Championshipping (Lance x Ash/Red)
Fandom: Pokémon
Theme: #13, Façade
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: Het, cross-dressing

Red’s not confident, so he fakes it.

It’s unrealistic, his psychologist says, her pencil tapping on the yellow notepad while he lies on her paisley-patterned couch. “What are you afraid of? Why can’t you be more self-confident?”

He feels awfully like she’s mocking him, so he says good-bye to her and goes back to the Plateau, silently fuming.

She has no clue what his life is like!

Lance smiles when he comes in, and makes him cookies, lemon-flavored sprinkled with a light topping of sugar.

“Bad day?”

“The worst.” He answers. She laughs, and flips her long hair in a girlish gesture, one of the only ones she makes.

He understands why she wears black silk and silversteel. It helps her pretend to be a boy, because she doesn’t want to be a girl.

Lorelei is different. She is cold, and Agatha is respected, but Lance… if she were a girl… they’d care for nothing but her pretty face, so she’d rather much be a boy.

Red smiles.

Lance kisses him, and he decides that really, does it matter? They are all faking already…

So it changes nothing, and he kisses her back.

End Fic

Completed 10/22/06

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