Title: Chastity
Author: Shadow/Phantomness
Pairing: Championshipping (Lance x Red)
Fandom: Pokémon
Theme: #4, Chastity
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: Het, fanon references

Red rather likes studying. He doesn’t like physics much, but chemistry is fun to play around with and biology is positively fascinating. Perhaps someday, if he ever loses his Champion position, he will become a Pokemon Nurse – not a Nurse Joy of course, but something similar. He thinks he might enjoy that, helping patch up pokémon after battles. It makes both the pokemon and the trainer happy, doesn’t it?

Lance walks in, stifling a yawn. There’s a tray in her hands, with hot chocolate for both of them, and Red accepts a cup with a smile.

She returns it, as they sit down next to each other and exchange shy smiles.

The Elite trainer told him, a few months ago, when Red first realized his feelings, that as much as she would like to, she was not allowed any sexual contact until the five years of training as Dragon Master were up. There were only six months left now, but even so…

It was so difficult, being in love but unable to express it.

It was too tempting, so they quit touching each other. It hurt both of them, but they had to be patient and persevere…

The changes were lovely though. Red eyed Lance’s eyes, beautiful molten gold, and her long crimson hair, and the slim form encased in silversteel armor. He sighed as he sipped his hot chocolate, but its warmth was nothing compared to the feeling of Lance’s arms around him in a brief hug, once in a blue moon.

“Soon,” She promises. * Very soon, you will be mine. *

He just has to be patient a little longer…

So he buries himself in his studies, and finds other things to occupy his attention, and he is doing quite well. Lance is not often at the Plateau, using off in some distant land training, and that helps too.

Until then, she will place chaste kisses on his lips, and then vanish.

Red touches his lips with a smile, and waits…

Because good things come to one who waits, right?

He’ll throw himself into the books, and write passionate sonnets that sound terrible but help relieve tension, and learn.

He is learning a lot. He thinks that this will help when he battles, and it does. He knows where all the weak spots on a pokémon’s body are, regardless of species, and he knows the weak points of each species.

And when Lance finally returns with Dragon Mastery in her grip, they kiss passionately for the first time, before running to the nearest bureaucracy to register their marriage certificate, because things are heating up.

End Fic

Completed 10/18/06

Edited 5/12/09

Chastity is Purity, Courage and boldness, embracing of moral wholesomeness and achieving purity of thought through education and betterment. It also involves practicing sexual abstinence.

Great…

Yeah, so I decided to use the idea of forced chastity, because nothing besides Pokemon would keep Lance away from Red…