Keith paused and looked sidways at the tanned male. He seemed frozen in place, staring at something ahead.
Keith furrowed his brows, looking in the direction lance is staring to see the image of a tall lean man with flowing white hair. Lotor.
He looked back at the taller male with a confused yet concerned expression. His eye widened in shock as lance grabbed onto his bicep with a shaking hand, his vice like grip almost cutting off circulation.
"L-lance are you ok?" Keith said, wincing slightly at the strong grip the man had on his arm.
"N-n-never mind, I-i dont want you to waste your money on me, a-after all you just bought me all these clothes.." lance said fiddling with the end of his jersey, dragging keith away from the menace.
Keith stumbled behind lance, briefly catching a glimpse of lotors shocked face, that turned to disgust a moment before he looked away.
The black haired boy stared at the form of lance infront of him, his expression pinched into a worried frown.
"Uh yeah...ok I guess we can eat back at the dorm- Dude! Slow down." Keith stopped, pulling lance to a halt along with him, "Lance are you ok? You seem a bit odd." Keith questions, with a worried look.
Lance froze,
"I-its nothing...really. I just want to go home." Lance said, casting his eyes low, avoiding eye contact with the concerned male infront of him.
Keith stared a moment longer before giving into the males request,
"Ok..we'll go." He smiled, removing his hand from lances loosened grip.
The two made their way to the underground parkinglot slowly, keith going lances pace. They made it to keiths oddly coloured pickup truck, and just as keith unlocked the doors a smooth voice called from behind them.
"Ah, keith I didn't think id catchvyou in time." Lotor spoke with fake sincerity as he snaked his way up to the two men,
The moment lance heard lotors slimy voice he froze, every muscle in his body telling him run to flee but those same muscles refusing to move an inch.
Unaware to lance's struggles, keith turned to the snake with an annoyed huff
"What do you want lotor? Im kinda busy." Lotor laughed, a sound that sounded like rotten honey to keiths ears
"I just wanted to say hi to you and this....friend of yours," his expression shifted to a frosted glare when his eyes met the back of the shaking boys head but almost immediately taking its usual shape.
Lances body jerked slightly at a sudden touch to his shoulder and the spun around, ready to fight. His eyes met Keith's soft lavender blue eyes and he relaxed slightly, before realizing lotor now had his predatory gaze locked with his own. Lance was unable to look away from the man, frozen in fear as lotor analyzed him curiously. Recognition sparked in his steal grey eyes.
"So it really is you." He said, his voice dropping dangerously low "oh how you've ruined yourself-" he was cut off by Keiths demanding voice
"Lotor what are you talking about? And get away from lance!" He said, trying to put himself between lance and the intruder, but lotor held his ground.
"Lance?- What a terrible name youve chosen for yourself.." lotor breathed a disgusted sigh as he looked lance up and down with an even more disgusted look on his face.
"You know Miá, you used to be a really hot chick...but look at what you've done to yourself...such a shame." Lotor reaches a hand to brush hair from lances face, the tall boy tensed, shaking in fear of the man in Front of him,
"Dont touch him!" Keith yells grabbing lotors hand and twisting it away from the petrified lance
"Ooh keith darling, that actually hurt." Lotor pulled his hand to his chest in mock hurt "dont tell me you actually care about this abomination??" The question struck a chord with keith, causing his anger to flare.
He reached for lotor, taking him by the collar "TAKE THAT THE FUCK BACK!" Keith snarled baring his teeth in lotors face
"Oh. I see now." Lotor smirked at Keiths out burst "you like it dont you?"
"You son of a bitch..." he practically grinds out "take back what you said about lance or so help me I will beat you to a bloody fucking pulp!" Keith threw lotor against the wall, almost lifting the taller man off of his feet.
"Oh you're right." Lotor put a hand to his cheek and tilted his head "I guess you wouldn't want the monster to feel bad-" keith cut him off with a powerful punch to his jaw, causing his head to smack against the concrete wall behind him. Keith threw lotor to the ground at lances feet and straddle him throwing gard punches to his head and torso.
"Keith.." Lance wimpered, barely auditable. Keith ignored lance
"Keith." Lance said again, louder and more forceful, still getting ignored by keith who is too enraged to think clearly.
"KEITH STOP...please..," lance shouted, shoving Keith off of lotor, who could do little to defend himself, ran the second keith was away. Lance sat on keith as he had done to lotor, pinning his arms down and waited for him to calm down.
"Please...I cant handle it right now, so please...just stop and lets just go." Keith looked up at lance in shock, he had stopped him from possibly killing or at least maiming someone. There were massive tears pooling in his eyes, spilling over, they landed on keiths cheeks.
Keith blinked up at the broken boy and his own heart broke.
"I am so, so sorry lance..." keith sat up, lance got off of him a moved to curl up against the wall next to Keith "I am so sorry I lost myself like that, I guess im a bit of a temper.." Keith chuckled sourly, refusing to meet lances eyes "he just- he said such awful things about you a-and I- I just couldn't let that stand. Something just- snapped." Keith explained, putting his hand pn the sides of his head and curled into himself.
"I..I get it keith," lance said quietly, putting a hand on Keith back comfortingly. "Wow, im here comforting you...yet I feel like im about to fall apart..." lance muttered body seezing up slightly as he sucked in air, barely able to keep himself together. Keith looked up a lance, he was shaking, going into a panicked state.
"Hey, hey come on its ok, its ok." Keith moved to sit in Front of lance, panicking slightly as he knew what was happening.
"I cant! I cant! I cant! I CANT!" Lance ignored keith attempts to calm him, he clutched at the sides of his head forcefully, almost ripping out his own hair. He started rocking back and forth slamming his head against the concrete wall behind him.
"Lance! Oh my god...what do I do, what do I do!" Keith panicked at the sick thud of lances head meeting the wall for a second time, as he hysterical repeated the words 'i can't'.
Keith took lances face in his hands forcefully, successfully halting the harm being done and looked at his eyes, the were cloudy and detached. Lance was somewhere else in his head, too deep into his head.
"Lance please, its ok everything is ok" keith rested his forehead on lances and let his tears fall. "Its ok I promise, I will never let anyone hurt you like that again. But please come back to me.." keith wrapped lance up in his arm, trying to settle the boys violent shaking
The two sat like that for a long time before a croaky voice filled the silence
"Keith...?" The black haired boys head snapped to look at the tanned boy so fast he swore he'd gotten whiplash.
"Lance!" Keith exclaims pulling lance closer to him than he already was "are you ok...?" He whispered. Lance who was a little shocked by the position that they were in, hesitantly wrapped his arms around keiths middle.
"No..im Really not, but im better than I was before." He smiled sadly at keith "thank you for sticking around, and thank you for standing up for me like that." Keith looked up at lance a soft smile on his face.
"You're welcome, but im just glad you're ok.." the two sat like that for awhile longer before lance spoke up again.
"So I guess I have some explaining to do.."
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Fanfiction(this fic is currently undergoing a full rewrite, and will not be getting updates until all chapters have been redone) This is a Trans Lance au in which Lance having been ashamed of who he is, fled his unsupportive home to like with his aunt, leavin...
