Title: Forget Me Not
Author: Shadow/Phantomness
Pairing: Championshipping (Lance x Red)
Fandom: Pokémon
Theme: #34, Forget-Me-Not
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

When Red wakes up, he doesn’t know where he is. The doctors and nurses are all cheerful, telling him that it’s so horrible for the Champion of the Pokemon League to be injured in an accident saving two little kids from Team Magma, but he just blinks at them and tries to figure out what is going on.

He puts on his clothes, the blue jeans and the black t-shirt and the red-and-white jacket and pokemon league cap, and feels better, and as he glances in the mirror at his reflection, he can (luckily) recognize himself and what he should look like.

He returns to Indigo Plateau, flying high on Charizard’s back, and he relishes in the feel of flying, knowing that at least this, he truly likes.

There’s a mountain of paperwork to sort through, and meetings to be held, so by the time he realizes that something is wrong, it’s three months in and their winter vacation is coming up.

The Elite Three are cheerful, all talking about what they’re going to do, Lorelei says she’ll be heading to the Orange Islands for some fun in the sun, and Agatha laughs and says she’ll drop by and see her grandchildren, and Bruno…

Bruno just grunts.

But somehow, this cheerful triad is missing something.

He doesn’t figure out what until later, and by that time, there’s mud soaking into his knees as he kneels in front of the gravestone, and he sobs as he traces the letters, because he knows that what he should have remembered was the most important person of all.

Lance….

End Fic

Completed 10/30/06

Game is practically Zensho anyways. ^^

Lance: Angst again?

Shoyko: *Sobs*

Phantomness: *Shrugs* It was that or lemons, and I’m not in a lemon mood