Title: Blurry
Author: Shadow/Phantomness
Pairing: Rideshipping (Ash Ketchum x Lara Laramie)
Fandom: Pokémon
Theme: #45, Games
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Pokemon belongs to Satoshi Tajiri, 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: Het
There was once a girl with lovely blue hair, who was an excellent rider, the best in the land. She lived in a valley that teamed with pokémon, so many of them that they outnumbered the people six to one. Despite this, they all lived in peace and happiness. Perhaps she was a little proud, for she scorned the advances of her neighbor, Dario, who was almost as good as she, but not quite.
One day, there was a race, the Great Race as it was told, and she would have competed, but then something happened to her Tauros herd, and while Growlithe was rounding them up Ponyta reared and she fell and broke her arm, so she let Ash, whom she had just met a few hours ago but seemed like a nice enough boy, if a little scruffy, race for her. After all, he had managed to calm Ponyta down, so despite her first impression of seeing him as a thief trying to poach her ranch’s pokémon, she decided to give him the benefit of the doubt.
His riding skills, however, left much to be desired.
All Lara wanted was not to lose face, but he won, he really did, and she was so proud of him. Then she found out that Dario cheated, that jerk, and it stung.
But then Ash hugged her, and Rapidash licked her face, and Lara tried very hard to put the pain behind her, to blur it into nothingness. Then she discovered that it wasn’t so hard to do, though she was sad when Ash and his friends left.
Would he come back?
She hoped so.
Maybe it was unreasonable, developing a crush on someone just out of the blue, but Lara could deal with it.
She would wait.
Besides,
Ash had won the race, and was therefore
an honorary member of the
She wondered how he would react if he told her.
End Fic
Completed 8/28/08
Back to back science classes are a real drag…