Red ~ // Klance

2 - Locked in

"I'll be right back, don't start without me!" Lance yelled back at Hunk as he ran out of the kitchen and towards the hanger.

It was still early morning and the paladins finished up their training for the day.

Since Keith was visiting, Allura suggested that everyone take the day off to enjoy some time together. After this visit, it may be a while before they see Keith again.

Speaking of- no one had seen Keith and it was already well past breakfast time. Shiro assumed he was probably catching up on sleep and ordered everyone to leave him alone until he wakes up.

Lance knew that Keith sleeping in was pretty unlikely but he wasn't about to argue with Space Dad.

Not that the Red paladin even cared about Keith's whereabouts anymore, why should he?

Right now he just wanted to help Hunk make some tacos. He was sure they wouldn't even be remotely close to the ones his mother made back at home but it was worth trying.

The friends were just about ready to get started when Lance realized he forgot the weird alien taco seasoning he got at the space mall back at his lion.

Going through the hanger, he plopped down inside of Red "Morning beautiful, just came to pick up something." Lance hummed to his Lion as he looked around for the seasoning.

Aha! Found it! It only took a dobosh or two for Lance to locate the bag of seasoning he purchased the day prior.

Tucking the pouch into his pocket, Lance made his way to the exit of the cockpit. That's when Lance tripped over what felt to be a large sack of rice.

"What the quiznak!" Lance panicked, just barely being able to catch himself with his arms before crashing into the floor. The Cuban boy's heart nearly stopped hearing a small groan from underneath him.

Keith!?

Keith pushed himself up, gently rubbing his eyes with the back of his hand and yawning. "Mornin' Lance" Keith looked around, quickly remembering what happened.

"Uhhh would you like to explain to me why you are just sleeping in my Lion?" Lance crossed his arms childishly.

"Maybe you'd like to ask her? She's not letting me out. " Keith said plainly, too drained to argue with Lance.

"Lame excuse, you were probably trying to take her back. I know how much you love Red."

"What the hell is your issue? I wasn't trying to steal Red from you, you're her rightful paladin as of now. I just want to leave, maybe she'll listen to you?" Keith asked hopefully.

"You're the one with the issue, I don't even know how you got in here in the first place." Lance went over to the mouth waiting for Red to open as she would whenever Lance got in or out of the cockpit. No response...

Lance started to get nervous, feeling Keith's expectant gaze stab into the side of his head. "Ahem" Lance stood up straighter, giving a few gentle knocks on Red's jaw. "Open up please, Lancey Lance found what he needed. Hunk is waiting for me."

Nothing

"I said I need to go, can you let us Leave?" Again when there was no response, Lance started doing what he did best(worst).

"Hey Red, have I ever told you that your body is out of the world?"

That's when Keith lost it and fell over on his ass from laughing too hard. This caught Lance off guard considering Keith wasn't the humorous type.

"Stop laughing idiot! Did you have any better ideas?" Lance pouted.

"I'm sorry I can't, that might be your worst pick-up line yet. Also? Do you think that if I had come up with an idea good enough I would still be in here?" Keith said still giggling like a madman.

"I guess not... I have my helmet on me though so I'll see if Allura can get Red to let us out." Lance smiled optimistically.

"Alright then." Keith slid down back onto the floor waiting for Lance to make the call.

Keith couldn't explain it well, but he felt annoyed at how happy Lance sounded at the mention of Allura.

I just want to get out of here before Lance starts pissing me off Keith thought as he impatiently toyed with a loose thread on his jacket.

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Here you go, I got the second chapter of this weird Klance book thingy out! Owo it didn't take too long either.

I'll be trying to get the third chapter of this out soon, I'm not actually sure how many parts I want this book to be. I'm gonna do my best to keep this to just a few chapters.

As I was writing this it occurred to me that I might have misgendered the Red Lion. On the wiki, Red was described as male but I have been using traditionally feminine terms and pronouns. Since I already started this story I will keep referring to the lion as she/her.

I apologize if I confused or offended anyone. I know some prefer using they/them for the lions, others go off of what the paladins call their lions. These are giant magic space cats so I'm not sure what are the lion's canon pronouns are.

Again I'm really sorry if I upset anyone by assuming Red was she/her but for the sake of this book, those will be Red's pronouns.

I put a question at the end of last chapter so I'll do it again because why not?

Do you have any pets? If so what animal are they and what are their names?

(I had two budgies named KitKat and Emilio, KitKat had unfortunately passed a few days ago so I ended up getting another budgie so Emilio wouldn't be alone. This new budgie is named Lafayette [or Lafayetta, we aren't sure of the gender yet])

March 16, 2021