Hungry (Zombie! Keith x Lance AU)

Chapter 6

Thanks for 100 reads! And for that I'll be posting THREE new chapters this week because I have spring break! Enjoy the chappie!

Keith and Lance returned to the apartment with a bag full of food that they had raided from a nearby abandoned house, finally getting the chance to refill the pantry/fridge, even by just the slightest. When they arrived back at the apartment their noses were greeted with an unfamiliar but undeniably delicious smell coming from the kitchen. Hunk always could somehow make a delicious meal from near nothing, Lance explained to a confused Keith.

As they sat down side by side at the table, the six original members of the apartment dug into a home cooked meal of stir fried chicken and rice, Keith just sat with his arms crossed and watched the others eat. As most of his internal organs were no longer functional, eating would cause him mass bleeding and pain, but he couldn't reveal to the others just yet his true self, so he simply chose to do nothing.

"Hey, are you alright? Hunk's cooking is always really good, even if this is the apocalypse." Lance whispered to Keith.

All he got for a reply was, "I can't," from Keith before lance shrugged and returned to his dinner.

After many confused looks and refusing to bathe Keith and Lance crawled into the couch that they shared, Lance spooning Keith once again.

"Hey Lance?" Keith croaked. It was 2 am.

"Yeah?" Lance whispered back, fearful of waking the other survivors.

"What if it happens again, and I really can't control myself? What are you gonna do with me?" Keith worried, turning around to face the warm teen next to him.

"What do you mean, 'what am I gonna do?' I'll just fight you off until you come to your senses."

Keith sighed, "That didn't work so well last time," Keith continued to stare into the other's ocean blue eyes, sparkling with the faint light of the moon bleeding through the window. Now that the apocalypse had started, all the businesses and shops were abandoned, and stopped polluting the atmosphere, and plants were growing quickly in number after not being tended to. The ozone was finally starting to heal, but all that mattered now were Lance's eyes.

"Lance?" Keith repeated, and Lance hummed. "If I lose control, kill me. Please. I'll only hurt-"

"I'm NOT going to kill you!" Lance shouted, tears pricking his perfect eyes, bringing the ocean to life in the form of the sad, salty tears flowing from them.

Apparently, shouting something morbid in the middle of the night will cause slight alarm to fellow roommates. Duly noted.

"Is everyone okay?" Shiro shouted, in only sweatpants and with his hair floof sticking out in unheard of directions. Next was Hunk, barreling into the room with a yellow nightgown and matching lion slippers they had all stole from a local mall.

"A-Are you guys alright? We hard some shouting and-"

"We're fine, Hunk. I just had another nightmare. Go back to sleep, big guy." Lance pleaded, and Hunk nodded slowly, not noticing Lance and Keith were cuddling, and thankfully no one noticed Keith's mangled arm was carefully tucked out of view.

"Well, you two lovebirds should get some sleep. I'm surprised Keith managed to calm you down this fast." Shiro pointed out, and Lance immediately let out a forced shaky breath to sell the idea.

"U-Um yea I'm fine now though, go back to sleep dad." Lance suggested to Shiro, and he nodded before returning to his room. Lance called after a few seconds, "We're not lovebirds!" To which Keith partially frowned at before burying his face into Lance's chest and falling asleep. They'd have come back to the topic later, with thought.

Sorry this one is way shorter than normal but I will be posting again today if not early tomorrow. I'm trying to write a lot but not force bad or boring fillers into your minds. REMEMBER , THREE MORE FULL CHAPTERS THIS WEEK. see ya! Also thanks again for 100 reads! I never thought I would ever get this far!!!