Muted Treasure

Awaken

Keith looked at Lance, Keith smiled and went in for a hug. Lance cringed at the action, he tried to pull out of the ravens arms. He looked at Keith weirdly, trying not to move as much because of his injuries. Lance looked down at his hands, he couldn't make contact with the stranger. Keith looking at Lance worried, Lance kept his gaze down at the bed afraid to look up.

"Lance? This isn't funny, look at me please baby." Keith begged, he tried to put his hand under Lance's chin to make Lance look at him. Lance turned his head to stop the action, he looked around for something to write down. Not comfortable talking to this person, he saw a pen on the desk and a napkin near the sink. He weakly pointed at it trying to get the raven a little bit far away from him. Once he got the pen and napkin, he quickly wrote down what he needed.

"Excuse me? Um can you call Blake, she's my mom. I just wanna go home." Lance wrote down, he turned his head and looked around his surroundings.

"Why am I here?" Lance wrote down again, he turned back to Keith. Lance saw the boy starting to cry, he felt uncomfortable with the stranger crying in front of him. But he put his hand on the ravens shoulder, silently consoling him the best he could.

"You don't remember me. The doctors told me this might happen, but I hoped...you could have remember me. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to worry you. Maybe I should go." Keith smiled and got up, he was about to walk but a hand stopped him. Lance looked at him, his face turned scared. The thought of him being alone scared him more than stuck in this place with a stranger.

"Hey, I'm sorry, I won't leave." Keith smiled and sat back down quickly, Keith held Lance's hand and smiled.

"I'm Keith, we go to school together. I was- well I am your boyfriend." Keith smiled. He hated how he almost said 'was', Lance was still Keith's. He grabbed the napkin again and started writing again.

"Keith, it sound very familiar actually. Well my name is lance, well you knew that obviously." Lance showed the boy what he wrote, half smiling at Keith. He grabbed the napkin again from Keith and wrote down more quickly this time.

"You said boyfriend, am I really your boyfriend?" Lance slid the paper back over asking the boy, his eyes shined a little. Keith nodded and chuckled, smiling over at the injured boy.

"Yeah, I'm your boyfriend Lance." Keith smiled, Lance smiled and looked at Keith.

"What all do you remember Lance?" Keith asked, Lance put his hand up to chin and thought for a second. He grabbed the napkin again, trying to remember everything he knew so far.

"Well, I remember moving here, to New York i mean, I remember going to school.." Lance slid the paper for Keith to look at. While Keith was reading it, Lance stared at the boy. Studying the boy until he remembered, he snatched the paper away. Keith looking at Lance shocked, he noticed the boy looking furious while writing.

"It's you! Why are you here! You never leave me alone do you?! Why can't you leave me alone! I have done nothing to you! Nothing! You've picked me ever since I moved here, where's Lana?! Are you lying about me being your boyfriend?!" He slid the paper over furiously, Keith looked at the boy. He saw anger and sadness, but also doubt in his eyes. The heart monitors started beeping more, Keith's eyes widened.

"Lance no! I wouldn't lie to you! I'm sorry about before, I just was so confused and wanted to be closer to you and-"

Lance banged his hand on the table getting him to quiet. He yanked the napkin back, huffing with anger at the raven.

"Why can't you leave me alone! You're just like them! I've done nothing wrong to you, why does me breathing and just trying to live bother you so bad! I hate you! I hate you so much, just leave me alone!" Lance threw the paper at the boy, while Keith was reading Lance held his head, the heart monitors beeping rapidly. Keith quickly looked up from his reading and tried to comfort Lance, but all he saw was hatred in his eyes. Lance started smacking Keith's hand's away, Keith trying to calm Lance down. But he saw that it only made him worse, he quickly got up from his place next to Lance and went to the hallway.

"Help! It's Lance! Please." Keith screamed, nurses came running. They ran into his room, the sound of beeping still rung in Keith's ears. He looked up and saw Blake, she was in a long black skirt that went down to her knees, it was tight and clings to her hips nicely. She had a long-sleeved white button up shirt with black heels, she came running as fast she could. She had coffee in her hand and her purse in the other.

"Keith's what's going on?!" Blake yelled, she was panting a little from running. She looked around frantically, trying to see inside her sons room.

"Lance woke up." Keith said with tears in his eyes. Blake smiled and tried to hug Keith, but saw his tears.

"Why are you sad about that? Shouldn't you be happy?" Blake asked, Keith wiped his face.

"He doesn't remember our relationship." Keith cried, he started shaking. Blake looked at the boy shocked, she put her non occupied hand on his shoulder.

"Oh dear, amnesia could be short term. You never know, he could get his memory back!" Blake smiled, Keith shook his head and tears streaming down his face.

"He said he hated me, he hates me and I caused him to be this way." Keith cried, Blake put her coffee on the desk next to her and then wrapped her arms around Keith. She rubbed his back and held him as Keith's sobbed.

"You don't know that Keith, he says things he doesn't mean at times. Trust me, he said he hated me when he was little all the time. He's confused." Blake sighed, she rubbed Keith's back some more. Until Keith back up, he wiped his eyes. They were red a puffy, the bags under them were prominent from the lack of sleep from the last couple weeks. A sound of tapping of shoes made them both turn around, a tall man came running around the corner and Blake smiled.

"How's Lance?" Justin asked, he looked at the two, he saw the remorseful look on Blake's and the sadden one on Keith's.

"Bud, what's wrong? Is lance okay?" Justin asked again, he put his hand on Keith's shoulder.

"He's awake, he doesn't remember much. He only remembers me by the beginning of the year." Keith didn't look at Justin's eyes, his gaze kept at the floor as he explained.

"I see, well things will get better. It's just a bump in the road. He'll remember you sooner or later, he does really love you Keith." Justin smiled, Keith nodded. The two hugged the raven headed boy tightly, Justin rubbing his back as Keith calmed down.

"Can we see him?" Justin asked, Keith shook his head and explained to him what happened. Justin then walked up to a nurse that was near Lance's room and talked to her for a couple minutes then walked over.

"We can see him again in a few minutes, he had to be sedated." Justin said, Blake hugged her husband as her body shook.

Keith just stood there, he had no idea what to do anymore. He didn't wanna give up on Lance. He loves that boy, he wanted to live the rest of his life with him. He just wanted his Lance back.
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