Fear || klance

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"Lance!" I exclaim. I watch the ground fall beneath him. My feet move on there own towards him. I grab his hand at the last second, but I didn't have a good grip.

"Keith," he says slowly, "let go." Chills make it down my spine.

"What? Lance I would-"

"Keith!" He screams. "Please let go." He finally looks me in eyes.

Usually, his eyes are like a hot summer day. The tide rides slowly on the sand while it glows. But now, it was a storm. Lightning crashed, the waves had engulfed the sand, swallowing him whole.

I choke back tears, "Lance, why?"

His face fell, the quickness of the change of his emotion would scare a demon.

"Why? Since when do you fucking care! I'm a seventh wheel! And it's not you guys need me, I can be replaced just like that!" I've never seen him like this, why was he saying these things?

"I don't understand Lance." I say in a calm tone.

"Of course you wouldn't! You're perfect!"

"Lance-"

"No I'm done!" He then pulls up his bayard and hits my hand, crushing it, making me lose my grip.

"Lance!" I sob. I put my hand over my mouth and choke back tears.

-

"Okay I think that's enough, why don't we go check on the paladins?" Allura smiled brightly.

She got Shiro up first. "How was it." She asks gently.

Shiro glared at her, "We were just shown our worst fears, how do you think?"

"Oh yeah, sorry. Well it's a bonding exercise, you all will talk about it now and comfort each other." She smiles and starts to walk away. "Oh and can you go get Keith?"

Shiro sighs, "Fine." he's still sluggish from the nightmare but forces to move himself towards Keith's chamber.

"Hey Keith you okay?" Shiro asks.

No response.

Shiro's breath hitches and opens the door. The first thing he notices is that Keith is not on the table, but in a corner shaking with tears flowing down his cheeks.

"Keith!"

-

Everything is blurry. My hands won't stop shaking and tears won't stop coming. I'm gasping for air but my lungs don't seem to be working. Bile in my stomach threatens to come up but I keep it down.

"Keith!" I hear someone call, but they seem so far, so distant.

I can't make out a face but they pick me up and take me out of the room.

-

"You alright Lance?" Allura asks me.

"Yea, just a little spooked." I say shakily.

"Keith!" I hear someone scream. Allura and I lock eyes and hurry out of the room.

We then see Shiro holding Keith, who is shaking and with tears falling.

"Oh god what happened?" I ask, moving over to Keith.

"I-I don't know I found him like this."

"What the fuck?" Pidge yells, running over with Hunk. Coran follows behind them.

"I haven't seen someone react this intensely to this." Coran says in shock.

"How do we calm him down?" Hunk asks.

"We could neutralize him." Coran suggests.

"I don't know if that would help this, we don't know what's going on."

"Well I can tell you." I say loudly, "he's having a panic attack."

-

"How do we stop it?" Shiro asks raising an eyebrow.

"Well you can start by putting him on the ground."

Shiro realizes and then sets him down quickly, Keith was now gasping for air.

Lance sat down next to him, "Hey Keith?" Lance asks.

No response.

"Keith." He says closer to his face, but Keith won't look at him.

"Ugh." Lance groans. He then sits on his knees on his knees and pulls Keith's face close and forces there foreheads to touch.

"Keith I want you to start counting up by three, okay I'll help you start, say it with me."

Lance has gotten his attention.

"....3....6..9,12,15,18..."

The fear from Keith's eyes started to fade and his hands were no longer shaking.

"...39, 42, 45..."

Keith had started to slow down to remember the numbers.

"I thinks that's good." Lance says while pushing Keith's hand down that he was counting on.

Him and Keith make eye contact. Keith attacks him with a hug. "Thank you." Keith whispers in his ear, causing chills to go down his spine.

Lance can feel his face getting hot. He starts to pull away. "Oh, uh no problem."

"How did you know what to do?" Pidge asks behind him.

"I used to have panic attacks, but they have subsided." Lance lied right threw his teeth. He still does have panic attacks, and they are getting worse, but for a first time panic attack, his little trick worked well.

"Oh." Is all Shiro said

"Well now that everything is okay why don't Hunk and I go start the food?" Coran asks.

"Sounds good." Allura said and they left. The others left shortly after that.

Keith and Lance were both still sitting on the floor, Lance got up first, "Well should we go get dinner?" Lance gave him his hand, Keith gladly accepted.

"Yeah."