Title: Strength
Author: Shadow/Phantomness
Pairing: Championshipping (Lance x Ash/Red)
Fandom: Pokémon
Theme: #24, Strengths
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: Shonen-ai

Even Champions have weaknesses.

Red bites his tongue and tries hard not to scream as he feels Lance set his bones back in place. The Dragon Master gives him an apologetic smile, before he finishes. Then he places his hands over Red’s skin as the blue light of the Viridian Forest surrounds them both.

It’s soothing, but he still feels squeamish as he feels bone and muscle and flesh knit together once more.

Lance sighs in relief, seeing unmarred skin. “It worked.”

Red quits worrying his lip then, and Lance feeds him hot tea with chrysanthemum blooms steeped in it. He sips slowly, and falls into dreamless sleep, wishing that he could be as strong and cool and powerful as Lance is.

But when Red sleeps, Lance kisses him, ever so softly, and wishes that he had the strength to confess his feelings, instead of… playing.

He doesn’t want to hurt Red, but what if Red rejects him?

Broken hearts are harder to mend than broken bones.

And Red sighs, wordlessly, and arches towards the soft touch.

End Fic

Completed 10/19/06

Aw… kind of fluffy angst…

Lance: *Sigh*

Phantomness: I’m bushed. I had to tutor algebra for 4 hours today! This is on top of taking college classes, too…