Title: Right Now
Author: Shadow/Phantomness
Pairing: Championshipping (Lance x Ash/Red)
Fandom: Pokémon
Theme: #25, Right Now
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, angst

Right now, Red is perched in Lance’s lap and Lance is leaning back in his swivel chair, the heavy black leather one that had to be specially mail-ordered from Hoenn. Their lips are touching in a perfectly innocent kiss, and Red’s heart is beating just a little too fast for things to be entirely innocent. Lance has an arm around Red’s shoulders, steadying him, and his golden eyes are bright as he gazes into the Champion’s face, tracing the invisible lines of his physiognomy.

Green quietly shuts the door and tiptoes away, trying to calm his beating heart. As he walks down the hall, he sees Bruno grunting while lifting what must be five hundred pounds at least, and he smells coffee wafting in from the percolator they keep in the den. Agatha and Lorelei are having tea, but he has no desire to join them as he slips back to his room.

He flings himself onto the bed and cries, cries for a friendship lost because he knows – he knows – that he has been replaced.

Lance is Red’s most important person now and it hurts.

End Fic

Completed 10/30/06

Wonder if I’m really halfway through…

Actually, this was fun to write! ^^