Accidental Intentions

26 • Walls

Lance supposed if it weren't for the awkward atmosphere he would have found it funny. But more than anything he wanted to disappear from the scene and get back to pretending nothing ever happened. But there was a problem.

Shiro had activated the invisible maze.

"Shiro!" Keith pounded on the walls. "This isn't funny! Let us out!"

Nothing.

"Dammit!" Keith slammed his fist against the barrier and rested his forehead against it in defeat.

"Seriously? He just locked us in? That seems rather..." Lance drifted off.

"Childish?" Keith offered.

Woah.

"I was thinking more along the lines of cruel and unusual, but that works too I guess," Lance joked.

The Red Paladin whirled around to face him. "This isn't funny! Okay? I don't want to see you or your stupid face right now — or ever again, for that matter! But I'm stuck here. With you! And you wanna make a joke?" Keith shouted.

Lance jumped, Oh he hates me hates me.

Yeah the whole thing was embarrassing and uncomfortable, but Keith really was that angry over it. Lance supposed it never would have happened if it weren't for Keith's stupid shower. Or if Lance had never found out about the arrangement between Keith and Pidge. Or if Shiro had never found out. If he had never gotten a concussion. It was just a kiss. Heck, it was an accident. Okay maybe a little more than an accident, but the both agreed it was a mistake. Right? And it wasn't like he was gonna tell anyone. Lance just might as well out himself in the process.

"Okay. Point taken. Not funny," he tried to step back from the seething Keith, but was stopped by a wall.

Keith crossed his arms and pointedly looked anywhere else except Lance.

Lance took that as his cue to leave. Only he couldn't. After standing there in gut-wrenching awkward silence for far too long, Lance slid his hands along the wall, feeling for a way out or at least to get further from Keith, even if he couldn't escape him entirely.

Lance got an idea. Reaching up, he felt to see how tall the invisible wall was.

Sweet!

It was a bit of a stretch, but his fingers were able to curl around the top of the wall. Placing a foot on the wall to push, he launched himself up and over the wall. That was harder than he thought. Lance gaged the distance between where he was and where he knew the maze to end. He would only have to do that approximately forty-seven more times.

Keith's eyes got huge. Tentatively, he reached for the top of the wall. And reached. And jumped. And reached again.

Lance wanted to laugh but he did not have enough faith in the walls to save him from Keith's fury. Instead he hopped back into the wall. "Want a hand?" he offered without malice, still a safe distance from Keith's reach.

Keith's eyes spelled murder.

"Fine. Stay here." Lance said.

"Wait..." Keith grumbled through clenched teeth while looking at the floor.

"Here," Lance extended his arm.

Keith stared that the hand offered him for so long that Lance almost feared that he might bite it like a wild animal. But then, for the briefest of tics, Keith's dark eyes rose to meet his before he broke the contact and firmly took his hand.