Helping Love | Klance | ✓

Chapter Fifty Five

Lance blinked, when did he fall asleep? he looked to his right and saw Cole sleeping with Mela laying on his stomach, he smiled fondly. He always did want kids of his own and now he has them, they may be half siblings but they're still his babies. He looked up and saw Keith nose pressed against his head, he smiled and nuzzled closer to him inhaling his scent that he missed. Keith didn't open his eyes but tightened his arms around him "You awake now?" his voice was gruff with sleep "I don't even know when I fell asleep" Lance snickered and he felt Keith smile against his head. "I missed you Kitty" Keith muttered against his head as Lance smiled "Me too Keef" 

Lance went through the crates for the rations, he could have sworn there was some meat in this crate so where is it? He frowned and looked around the storage area, where could that entire crate of meat gone? Lifting up things and searching the corners he caught a trail of a mess that he was sure wasn't there before and bent down to see, did something come in here and take the meat? No one he was aware of knew that Voltron was back so then who took the meat and left a mess. He stood up and went to investigate, he didn't feel the need to get everyone else riled up over something that may be so little to not worry about. At least, he hoped it was nothing that could be dangerous or worrying. 

Following the trail he found some left over meat on the ground and picked it up, was this discarded or forgotten? again he frowned and heard some rustling bushes on the left side and gasped and let his ears and tail out to better get an idea what he was dealing with. Listening to the sounds it was footsteps, 4 if he was correct but they all sounded in sync like an animal keeping a low profile on it's prey to not be spotted. Another rustle and another perk the sound made his ears twitch and his slitted eyes to furrow and narrow down on where the movement is being made, he pulled his foot back just slightly and dug it into the ground, waiting for another movement when he found it he lunged towards the bushes with the strength he had and bulldozed into whatever it was and they both went rolling around in the dirt. 

He heard a yelp of an animal and froze where he was and looked to where his hand was tightened, a tail. His eyes shot up to who's tail it was and found a wolf starring daggers at him when pain of it's tail in its eyes. He hesitantly released it's tail and tried to move but the wolf growled so he didn't move "Okay so moving is not an option is he going to eat my throat out for my stupidity?" Lance began his ramble for what he was going to do to get out of his situation that he got himself in. The wolf continued to stare at Lance before really noticing his ears and became somewhat curious of his ears and sniffed them making them twitch, Lance frowned at it "Please don't do that, I don't even like loud sounds or water in them" The wolf huffed at him but eventually let Lance move went back into the bushes, he raised and eyebrow and realized that the meat he found was a few feet from him when he tackled the wolf he got up and dusted himself off and went over and picked up the meat then thought about the wolf, that one was sure unordinary however it's space, what's not ordinary? He pondered if he should go look for the wolf then after about 40 minutes of trying to decide on an answer he decided he would and turned in the direction only to shriek and jump a few feet in the air when the wolf was there next to him looking at him. Lance nearly had a heart attack.

He looked at the wolf and pointed at it, "You nearly gave me a heart attack" he had one of the weirdest glares on his face the wolf's eyes trailed to the meat Lance had in his hand and Lance's eyes followed where its stare was before he landed on the meat he had then his eyes trailed back to the wolf. "Do you, um.. Want this? Have you been taking my meat rations?" by the way the tail inclined towards the wolf told Lance that yes he was the culprit. "Now that I've figured out where the meat was disappearing to, here" he crouched in front of the wolf and offered up the meat making the wolf look at him with caution and hesitancy, Lance remembered that hesitancy and caution he did it a lot growing up. He offered up a calm gentle expression to the wolf and let his tail swish in slow motions and his ears fell to his head, he was showing he wasn't a danger and that he was no threat but a friend instead. 

With a little bit of tension releasing from the wolf's shoulders he stretched his neck out to a small degree and used his teeth to grab the offered meat and Lance continued to be still and show that he wasn't a threat because he knows what it's like to be venerable, to be scared and hesitant. He knew. The wolf ate the meat and sniffed Lance's palm, "I'm friendly don't worry and sorry for grabbing your tail, I know the feeling" understanding he pressed his snout into his palm signaling a form of trust. He smiled, his ears perking up and his tail wagged, he may have just made a new friend.

"Thank you"

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7/30/23