Title: Worries
Author: Shadow/Phantomness
Pairing: Championshipping (Lance x Red)
Fandom: Pokémon
Theme: #33, Worries (Theme Set #2)
Rating: G
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, implied shonen-ai

Red doesn’t have a lot of worries. Perhaps he should, but he doesn’t care enough to worry. He has his pokémon, and he has his parents far off in Houen, busy working on developing some prototype to match Silph’s Master Ball, and he has the Elite Four, who take care of him while he lives at Indigo Plateau, nine months out of every year.

He has no reason to worry, and he’s very happy about it.

Lance smiles when Red tells him this, and doesn’t mention how he has a lot to do, balancing and keeping pokémon populations at sustainable levels and dealing with companies that break the environmental laws and of course, keeping the sizable population fed through times of feast and famine.

It matters little. He’ll let Red stay innocent, and keep the burden to himself, and he thinks – sometimes – that Red knows this, subconsciously.

But Red smiles at him and brings him tea and cookies when he’s up late, and he’ll smile as he takes his reading glasses off and rubs his eyes, and they’ll have weak tea and chocolate chip cookies, and then he’ll shoo Red off to bed and go back to work.

It’s a comfortable routine.

End Fic

Completed 12/5/06