Title: Implicit Memory
Author: Shadow/Phantomness
Pairing: Championshipping (Lance x Red)
Fandom: Pokémon
Theme: #41, Implicit Memory
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: Lance has amnesia.

"Lance… what are you doing?"

The Dragon Master froze, blinking as he turned to face the Champion. Instantly, the blades on his fingertips vanished as a confused expression made it's way across his face. "I…I don't know." He said honestly.

Red frowned. "I'm not angry or anything. It just looked cool."

"What did?"

"You know… where you were dancing, with all those blades…" Red stopped short at the lack of comprehension on Lance's face. "You didn't know?"

Lance shook his head.

"I see…" Red deflated slightly, before he walked over and put a reassuring arm on the Dragon Master's shoulder, no easy feat, since Lance was taller than he was.

"Don't worry about it. It's the amnesia, ne?"

Lance gave a single nod, before Red hugged him tightly.

"Don't worry, Lance. Everything will be all right. I promise!"

The Dragon Master nodded, as he allowed the Champion to drag him outside into the sunshine.

But if everything was so wonderful, why couldn't he remember?

End Fic

Completed 12/11/06

Implicit memory encompasses Classical conditioning, Priming, and Procedural Memory, which is the memory of how to do something, for example, how to eat tie your shoes, that sort of thing… it's different from Episodic memory, which is the memory of your life, and semantic memory, which is the memory of facts, like what level a Pikachu evolves to Raichu and such.

So Lance could lose his memories but remember how to Dragon dance… how he lost his memories will probably be explained in another fic. The original bunny I had is that the Indigo Council caught the Elite Four, erased their memories, and used them to protect the League…