(A/N) HEY HEY HEY!!!! IF YOU HAVENT WATCHED SEASON 4, DROP WHAT YOURE DOING AND GO WATCH IT NOW!! THIS CHAPTER WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS! I AM WARNING YOU NOW. DONT YELL AT ME IF YOU READ THIS W/O WATCHING IT, I AM BREAKABLE AND SO IS MY HEArt also I'm sorry if I get something wrong or something's inaccurate I was still in shock over Matt and stuff. Haha, Hahahahahahaha
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It's been a month since Keith left.
Lance had tried to replace him with Matt, to make a new rival because it was so strange not to fight with someone, but that didn't work because Matt asked for a truce about a week in.
Hunk constantly asked if Lance was okay. Well, more than usual.
Lance would always just nod or say "Yeah" in return. Pidge would just look at him with this look in her eyes, like she was saying "I know how it feels.", But he knew she didn't. Not really, she didn't lose her boyf- best friend, she didn't lose her best friend, she lost her brother and that can't be the same. Since when was Keith his best friend? He didn't know honestly. And Keith wasn't even lost, he quit (he had told Pidge she couldn't do that and she made sure to make as many salty remarks about that as possible).
And then, Lance remembered his own family. He remembered that he might not have lost any siblings, but they lost him. He may never see them again.
Lance had never gotten to go on that date with Keith.
Keith left before he could.
He regretted acting like it was a big deal, regretted pretending that he didn't want to go on a date with Keith because heaven knows if the other Paladins found out he'd probably want to push up daisies.
And then, three months in when Lance lost any hope he had left of Keith coming back, that's exactly what he did.
He came back, and Lance was the first to notice.
He stood there for a minute, and when he realized it was actually him, Keith Kogane, Knife McEdgeBlade, he leaped for Keith with as much grace as a hippopotamus on ice skates in a pool of sandpaper and snakes, and hugged him. (How oddly specific.)
"Hey Lance!" Keith laughed and hugged Lance back.
"You left me!"
"Did you die?"
"Multiple times, on the inside. And once on the outside-"
"Woah, woah, did you really miss me that much?"
"How could you be surprised, we were- Uh, nevermind."
"Supposed to go on a date?"
"I said nevermind."
"Well, I say we kiss and make up, and let the other Paladins melt."
"Oh,hoho, hohoho."
"Don't do that dorky laugh at me. It's adorable and I missed it."
"Wow, you missed my laugh but not me? I am offended."
"I missed you more than your laugh, you dumbo. Kiss and make up?"
"You were serious?"
"I'll take that as a yes."
Keith pried Lance off him and kissed on the cheek.
"So, let's go burn their eyesockets out with our love."
"O-okay-"
Keith practically dragged him to everyone else, which would have been difficult until they got close enough to hear them playing some weird alien Uno (Courtesy of Coran, who answered a dumb question with an even dumber answer and it led to consequences).
Keith stood in the doorway and tried to pick Lance up, but the little snurt had the audacity to stop and ask what he was doing, giving them away.
"Keith?"
Everyone immediately gushed over the fact that Klance was holding hands (Even Allura, Shiro had blurted out the definition on accident in front of her and now EveryoneOnTheShipShipsIt™).
The rest of the night was spent talking about things that happened while Keith was gone, why he was there, where he was staying (Matt had taken Keith's room after he left, so it was decided that unfortunately for Lance, Keith would be sleeping on the Paladin's floor. He was 'done with his edgy independent stage' according to Matt, who had been all too informed of everyone Pidge knew). Keith learned that Lotor had moved into the castle.
And now, everything is fine until further notice, or until Keith decides to leave again.
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'And then, three months in when Lance lost any hope he had left of Lance coming back, that's exactly what he did.' Scuse me brain this ain't how it works
Autocorrect named Lotor to Motor and I might die
This is the end for now, I might do some smol chapters after this b ut
Also, yes, I'm all in for that Lotor Redemption™ sign me up right now imagine him giving Lance his shampoo because he saw the handbook and flipping his hair like "I got ya, boi, don't worry it's all good yo the shampoo doesn't cost anything"
He sleeps in Kaltenecker's room tho but that's ok because he's learning social skills like how not to threaten someone's entire race because you want a necklace
ALSO ALSOO THE STORY HAS 600 READS AND COUNTING WHAAAAAT
