Title: Skinner Box
Author: Shadow/Phantomness
Pairing: Championshipping (Lance x Red)
Fandom: Pokémon
Theme: #24, Skinner Box
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
Summary: Red feels like love is routine but Lance is just worried.
Sometimes, Red feels as though he is in a box.
This doesn't happen all the time of course, but… when he has dinner with Lance and they cuddle, he can't help but feel a bit repetitive.
Shouldn't love feel different?
He asks Lance this, and Lance frowns, and asks him if they should do things differently, instead of the weekly dinner date.
Red is about to suggest yes, when he sees a terrible dark suspicion in Lance's eyes, and then he realizes why Lance has been acting so oddly – almost as though their love life is on a schedule. He throws his arms around Lance's neck and kisses him, and then he whispers to the surprised Dragon Trainer that no, he is not having an affair.
He's just…. Tired.
Lance looks at him then, and sighs, and suggests that they ditch the paperwork and go skiing in Houen. Red just gapes at him, before he cheers and runs off to pack.
Maybe a change in routine is fun once in a while but…
He wouldn't give up this love with Lance for anything!
And as Lance gets up, he smiles, because the last block of operant conditioning has finally clicked shut, and now he is sure that Red will never leave.
End Fic
Completed 12/1/06
I learned in psychology that a skinner box was the device you put an animal in when you wanted to train it…reinforcing it for similar behaviors over and over…
And yeah, new themes list!
Way too much influence from psychology class…