It's Different There (Klance Alternate Reality AU)

Part 13

After picking up his normal everyday clothes, Lance headed towards the showers and gladly stripped out of his sweaty paladin armor and washed himself off in cool water. Sighing contently at the water pressure the Castle's shower gave off and trying to clear his mind of any thoughts of Keith and just relax. 

Keith went to the dining room and sat next to Pidge, who seemed enraptured in her computer. He didn't bother looking at the screen, knowing what he would see; meaningless jabber that made no sense to anyone but her. When he asked her what she was working on she hesitated before responding with "trying to find a way to contact the Allura from our reality." Keith seemed to have ended their short conversation with silence as his violet eyes looked over to Hunk, who was happily munching on some food he had cooked. There was a plate of hand-sized donuts on the table, colored a weird shade of bluish purple or red. Keith reached for one and examined it for a second.

" what is in this? " he asked Hunk, who took a break to look up at him holding the red donut. He shrugged. "Don't know. I just cooked something in the kitchen and tried it. It's good. Go ahead, eat as many as you'd like" he prompted, mentioning toward the plate. So Keith did, he took a bite and felt the strange sweet taste of what was almost like strawberry filled his senses. It was really good. So he ate at least 3 more before finally feeling full.
Before long, Hunk had enough as well and leaned back in his chair, hands on stomach.
"Now that right there is something I want back on Earth" he said, closing his eyes with a satisfied expression. Keith smiled in agreement.
"Where's Lance?" Hunk asked, sitting up again and leaning over the table with his chin rested oh his balled fist.
"He should be here in a second" Keith replied, looking off to the side.
"You guys sleep well last night?" He winked. Keith was a bit confused, but he didn't have time to answer before Lance walked in.

Once certain he was completely clean he dried himself off with a towel, taking extra care with his hair, and pulled his comfy clothes on. Heading down towards the kitchen he took a deep inhale as the smell of Hunk's baked goods filled his senses. Stepping inside he beamed at everyone, "wow Hunk it smells great in here!" he exclaimed while finding the batch of red and bluish donuts.
"Yeah, and they taste better then they smell," Pidge remarked without taking her attention off of her computer. Lance watched for a moment as her fingers danced across they keyboard quickly. Not even trying to figure out what she was working on he pulled up a seat next to Keith, and stuffed a large bite of donut in his mouth. His eyes widened as the taste flooded his mouth, he stared at the donut like it was only in the world that held any meaning. "Hunk.. I could live off of this.." he muttered before stuffing his mouth full with another bite.

Hunk chuckled humorously. "Strange. Keith said the same thing."
" I didn't say I could live off them. I just said we needed them on Earth. " Keith responded leaning over the table with his head cupped in his hands.
Pidge eventually brought her eyes away from the computer screen to look at the two of them. "Did both of you have fun last night?" She asked, her eyebrows raised skeptically, a smirk across her face.
Keith stated in confusion for a moment. "No? We were sleeping." He said simply .
"Confused, are we?" She asked, pulling out her phone and scrolling until she found what she was looking for.
She turned the phone around to show them a picture of Lance spooning Keith back in the tent. Keith didn't know this happened. Did Lance know? Why did Pidge take a picture of it?!
"What--" Keith began to say before she jerked the phone away and began laughing maniacally. Hunk joined in but in a less evil way.
Keith could feel his face completely red, his eyes wide.

Once Pidge revealed the picture of Lance spooning Keith he choked on his donut a little and coughed several times. Then once he stopped his minor choking he felt his entire face flush into a brightly colored red. "Pidge!" He exclaimed in disbelief for her betrayal. How could he explain this one? He struggled to find a way to defend his actions this time, and glancing at Keith he saw how red in the face he was too.
Pidge was in fits of giggles and laughter st this point, but when she finally calmed down she saw Lance giving her a pleading glare to stop. He was already having a hard enough time with the alternates shoving it in his face that the way he looked at Keith was more then just a friend. He'd never tell him, he couldn't. He had no idea how Keith would react so he constantly pushed his feelings down and tried to ignore them.