Title: Inferiority Complex
Author: Shadow/Phantomness
Pairing: Championshipping (Lance x Red/Ash)
Fandom: Pokémon
Theme: #6, Inferiority Complex
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
Summary: A jealous Ash makes Red forget Lance, but it doesn't quite work out.
Sometimes, Ash really hates his brother. Red is three years older and he's most certainly not the Chosen One, but for some reason, Lance loves him. It's just not fair! Red is a better trainer too, and he's Indigo League Champion, but Ash made Orange League so that's fair, isn't it?
Still…
He tells Slowpoke to use amnesia before things get too far, and Slowpoke does, and Red forgets. Retrograde amnesia, and that's enough to keep him from remembering Lance, right?
Ash forgot one thing.
Amnesia only affects explicit memory. Emotional memory is contained elsewhere, and nothing short of physically removing the amygdala will get rid of that. So Red feels affection every time Lance comes near him, even though he doesn't know why, and he makes a guess that is quite fortunate, and so when Ash finds out that Lance and Red are a couple, he's furious.
… But not as angry as Red is when his memories return, and Lance simply smirks and watches.
End Fic
Completed 12/9/06
We didn't cover Adler when we did Freud and personality, but an inferiority complex is pretty obvious…