Title: If I could change the past
Author: Shadow/Phantomness
Pairing: Championshipping (Lance x Ash)
Fandom: Pokémon
Theme: #39, If I could change the past
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: AU, Shonen-ai, angst

When Ash sees Lance again, it’s purely by accident, and he almost – almost doesn’t recognize him. He’s talking to a girl with long wavy hair, and they’re both looking very serious. Lance’s hair isn’t the dark red he remembered, it’s a light blonde, almost white, and he’s changed his skintight bodysuits and flowing cape for dark suits and a briefcase. His hair is cut short and out of its stylized spikes, and he’s wearing glasses, of all things.

They’re sitting in a coffee shop, and Lance is typing something onto his laptop while he talks, and the girl – no woman is nodding, while writing on her palm-held computer device, taking sips of something black and steaming out of a large coffee mug in between sentences.

The idea that Lance is alive hits him before everything else, and he screams his name across the coffee shop. Heads turn to stare at him and Lance just adjusts his glasses with a finger, golden eyes cool behind steel frames, and says quite calmly that his name is Wataru and he’s never seen him before.

Ash’s heart stops.

The woman says something in – Japanese? Chinese? Ash can’t tell which language it is, since he’s never spoken anything but English despite his heritage, and then they both pack up and leave, and they walk away. Right. Past. Him.

And it hurts.

End Fic

Completed 12/2/06

I hate final exams… this takes place after Theme #23, Jealousy. Time to make Ash guilt!