flower boy - klance

eleven

pidge walked into the city hospital near her dorm building, and breathed in the sterile hospital smell that was so familiar to her. she visited this hospital every sunday to donate blood and deliver things like flowers and cards that were sent to patients in the building. the community service built up on her resume, but if she was being honest with herself, she just liked the distraction.

there was a cart of balloons and stuffed animals waiting for her at the door, with patient room numbers written on little cards stuck to each item. she continued her rounds like she usually did, sometimes leaving things for sleeping patients, or sitting and talking to them after delivering their gifts.

she smiled as she looked down at a stuffed hippo with the room number "309-09" written on it. when she arrived at the room, she recognized the patient occupying it.

it was the man from her computer class, who sat behind her and laughed when she wrote stupid jokes in the coding she emailed to him during class. he was awake, fixing his prosthetic arm back on.

"takashi shirogane," she said, holding up the hippo and shaking it. "you've got a gift!"

he looked up in surprise, but smiled when he saw pidge and the gift. "hello, katie!" he said as she entered, putting the hippopotamus down on his bed and sitting in the plastic chair next to it. "do you work here?"

pidge laughed. "no, i'm just here for community service on sundays." she looks down at the stuffed hippo and reads the tag. "says here it's from-" she cuts herself off.

"from who?"

"keith kogane..." she recognizes the name, the boy hunk met in the hallway. the boy with long dark hair and a massive red carnation.

lance's soulmate.

"yeah," shiro says, not noticing pidge's state of shock and smiling. "he's my little brother. do you know him?"

"uh, not personally, but," she hesitated. "i know who his soulmate is..."

takashi looked up. just as stunned as pidge was previously, his eyes didn't leave pidge's. "you... you know who his soulmate is!?" he said, getting louder.

pidge panicked, screaming her entire situation to shiro; hunk met keith in the hallway, hunk couldn't keep his big mouth shut, lance started crying when hunk said he told keith he cut his head open listening to ke$ha.

shiro screamed back, freaking out on the same frequency as pidge; keith probably followed hunk back to your dorm, he probably watches lance sleep now, his name is lance?

pidge breathed for a moment, holding her hands out. "let's think about this for a moment. what does your keith look like?"

shiro took no hesitation to describe his little brother. "he's korean, with long black hair and a purple scar on the side of his face. he's got a big carnation on his head and a birthmark on his wrist." he paused. "does that sound about right? what does lance look like?"

pidge gulped. "he's cuban, with short brown hair and blue eyes. he's got a lilac on his wrist and he cut open the side of his head about eight or nine months ago."

shiro's wide-eyed expression didn't waver. "jesus, they're fucking soulmates."