Guarded Soul.

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Hunk, Lance, Keith and Pidge were spending their Saturday night in Hunk's basement. Curtains blocking out all natural light, junk food littering the table and speakers blaring gunshot sounds from Keith and Lance's heated battle on Call Of Duty.

"Pidge... Lance... I need to talk to you." Hunk spoke up suddenly, his fingers playing with each other in nervousness.

Pidge looked up from her comic book to glance at Hunk before she smiled.

"Okay." She said, placing the book down and waiting expectantly.

Lance pressed the home button on the Xbox to pause the game, Keith groaning and complaining that he was about to win, he looked at Hunk as well with a small encouraging smile.

"Uh I mean... I-I need to speak to you like... alone." He said, glancing at Keith and then back to the two angels.

Lance raised and eyebrow skeptically, curiosity coursing through him. Why can't Keith hear?

Keith was now sitting silently on his beanbag, also wondering what Hunk wanted to talk about without him... they were best friends, surely he could handle whatever it was. He wondered if it was about him and felt a wave of anxiety wash over him.

Nevertheless Lance got up and followed Hunk up and out of his basement and into the living room, Pidge not far behind him.

"What's up Hunk?" He asked when they were out of Keith's earshot.

"I uh... I was wondering whether I should tell you or not because I didn't want you to get mad at me..." He started, not making eye contact.

"Hey, just tell us. I'm sure we won't get mad." Pidge spoke up in a serious voice.

Hunk being nervous was never a good thing... because he was usually very gifted when it came to gut instincts.

Hunk sighed and ran a hand over his face in stress. He then finally looked up to his friends and opened his mouth to speak.

"I know that you two are angels."

Complete and utter silence followed those seven words.

Lance and Pidge stared at him blankly for a few seconds before the latter began to laugh.

"Hunk, seriously. What's up?" Lance said, laughing along.

Hunk shook his head sadly.

"You don't have to pretend like you don't know what I'm talking about... I know that you two are angels and I know that you can get in serious trouble if anyone finds out that I know. That's why I was hesitant to say anything."

The smiles dropped from the teens faces and Hunk watched with a frown as they visibly paled.

Lance felt like the room was spinning...

They'd been found out. Their cover was blown.

Hunk must have heard their conversation about telling Coran at school... how could they have been so naive as to think nobody would find out!?

Though he seemed completely calm on the outside, Lance's heart was pounding in his rib cage, his thoughts coming and going faster than the speed of light.

Though he was internally freaking out, to the point where he thought he might just pass out, Pidge was the first to snap.

"I knew that I heard someone! It was you wasn't it!? You were eavesdropping even though I explicitly told you that I didn't want anyone to hear the conversation!" She shouted angrily, going to run at Hunk.