burning blue (KLANCE)

1. doomsday date

LPOV

I know, I know, I got some explaining to do.

You see, the last time I heard Hunk's voice, it crackled in roars through my earpiece before the bang of a nearby explosion tore itself through my eardrums and tuned the world around me into one high note. I couldn't hear the walls crumbling down or the chunks of earth that shot up with its power. The ground shook under my back while Keith hung above me, shielding me from the rain of stone dust and the shower of glass shards that fell down, shimmering sharply. Grey ash coated his black hair. Even through his breastplate, I could feel his heart hammering against my chest.

"Keith, Keith get out of there!" hunk must have yelled.

When Keith slightly unfolded himself from his grip on me, he was shaking so badly that the dust on top of his head was falling down the black strands. Tears had cut clear tracks over his ashen cheeks.

"Hold on Lance please, just a little longer," he sobbed as he pushed down on the gash of ripped open flesh and almost black dried blood. His knees slithered through the puddle when he scooted a bit forwards, leaving red trails to sink into the earth. I wanted to beg him to please not leave me there, but nothing besides bloody gurgles spat out of my mouth. My fingers grasped so tightly around his, it could have broken his knuckles. Eyes wide from panic stared up at him as raw fear crashed through every vein in my body and fried it with pain and terror.

"Keith you have to move, now!" cried Hunk's voice.

"I can't, I can't!" Keith wailed. He gasped for breath as his tears streamed down and spat open on my face, "he has lost too much blood, if I move him he'll die!"

Another explosion ripped through the ground. Keith ducked over me with a half-scream half-sob as the building next to us collapsed on its pillars. The avalanche of ruins that tumbled down made the ground around us shudder.

"Keith!"

A thick smoke rose up and covered the last clear patches of sky. I kept staring at it while watching the colors blend into one blurry mash. With every raspy squeak of an inhale, my body grew heavier until the point where my legs and fingertips had started tingling from numbness.

"don't fall asleep!" Keith all but angrily screamed at me while shaking my head, as if he could scowl me back to life, "you better listen to me McClean!"

I didn't know whether his eyes were bloodshot from crying or the pungent smoke that had started to shroud around us.

"Keith you need to leave now! The last foundation isn't holding it much longer!" Shiro's voice, my brain vaguely registered.

A crack burst open in the ground right next to Keith's leg.

"G-go," I tried to choke out through the iron taste that lingered everywhere in my throat. My lips tried to form the word again but the numbing tingling made my face muscles spasm, in the end I could only cling my fingers into a fist full of Keith's hair and push him slightly away with the last bit of energy I had stored in my body. His raven haired head slipped from my bloody fingers. His lilac eyes filled themselves with pained tears as my arm bonelessly fell back to my side.

My eyelids grew heavier the longer I tried to look at him.

"No!" Keith cried. A trail of snot dripped out of his nose. "No, you're going home with me! You're going home with me alright?! A-and then you can taunt me again and call me stupid and I'll scream at you and stuff, but you're coming home with me!"

A drip of blood trickled out of the corner of my mouth as it twitched upwards. I wanted to say that he was being an idiot, but only the faintest wheeze slipped out of my mouth. That's the thing about Keith, he's kind of like a puppy you keep kicking and kicking, hoping for it to understand to go away, only to see it standing a second later at your side again.