Klance fluff//angst//smut

Forever old

Standing in the training room, a bot not far upfront of me.

It's getting hard to breathe, thinking about my old friend.

He stood right here, same place as me, same sword in his hand.

But then he left, met his mom. Haven't talked to him since.

It hurts. Knowing what he tried to do, what he was forced to do.

I miss him.

Though he wasn't my friend. No. He was my rival. Because I'm an idiot, hated that he was better at everything than me.

"End training sequence!" I yelled.

I wish he would stay out of my mind.

But it's just not possible. He meant so much to me. Though he doesn't know that.

My breathing was short and quick, feeling lightheaded.

"Lance?" His voice echoed around the room, and I whipped around, looking for him.

"Curse my imagination!" I growled, falling to my knees, using the sword as balance.

"Lance? Lance where are you!" Hunk called from the hall.

"Do you think he's in there again?" I heard pidges soft voice ask.

"Probably..." I groaned, they always find me like this.

Standing up I yelled, "start training sequence!" And charged for the bot.

It dodged me, and tried to hit a blow. But I remember all his moves, quick to dodge and hit the bot.

The bot froze up, before evaporating, sword falling to the ground with a clank. "Your getting better?" Pidge called from behind me, I waved her off, "come on lance. We all know your hurting." She said getting closer to me.

"Just bug off Katie!" I yelled; glaring at her. "Yea it might be messing with me but that doesn't mean I want to talk about it!" I growled.

"Do not call me Katie!" She yelled back, "I get it your in a mood. But you know how much I hate my name." She turned on her heels and left, leaving hunk with me.

"Lance. That was just a jerk move." I groaned, dropping to the floor.

"Well I'm sorry that I don't have someone I can bug about this crap anymore!!" I screamed, tears trickling down my face, "just leave me alone!" Dropping my head into my knees I began quietly sobbing. "You both already know I don't want to talk about it, so stop bothering me about it!"

Hunk sighed, "we came here to get you. Keith called saying that he'd be here soon. And that he wanted us to really meet his mother." My head shot up and I looked at him.

"Really?" He nodded, smiling at me. He helped me up and whipped away my tears. "Im gunna go make sure it doesn't look like i had been crying..."

He nodded, walking with me back to my room. There was a awkward silence forming around us and I hated it. But I wasn't gunna break it.

We stepped in; it was bland compared to my one back at home. There was a couple pictures here and there but that was pretty well it, a couple of my family and on of me and Keith when we were younger. Though he doesn't remember that... I sighed; walking into my bathroom.

I washed my face while making a little small talk with hunk. "He's almost here!" I heard allura, our leader, say over the intercom, "everyone come to the hanger!"

Taking a deep breath we made our way there. Everyone was in their armor, even allura was. Coran, the engineer, was standing to the side.

Minutes later the hatch opened and in flew a ship, landing right upfront of us. Keith stepped out of it, a dog jumping out behind him and his mother walking out; a smile placed on her lips.

"Keith-," I started but was cut off by him

"I don't have time for you Lance." He growled , sending me a  glare as a girl with marks like allura, and long blonde hair stepped out of the ship. "Everyone I would like you to meet my mother, krolia, and Romelle, a Altean we found on a mission." Allura slowly walked over to them, but I just back away, before turning and running out of the room.

I ran to mine and sat on my bed, gripping my hair. Tears fell from my eyes, "why did you think he would actually want to talk to you!? He hates you!"

I heard a knock on the door, but didn't answer, "Lance? You okay?" Of course Keith comes down here.

"I'm fIne" Nice voice crack! I groaned.

"I have a hard time believing that. Can you let me in??" I sighed before standing, opening the door and walking back to my bed, dropping down on it. He walked in, shutting the door behind him and sat down at the edge of the bed.

He looks so different now. He doesn't have a mullet anymore, no it's longer, and put into a braid like his mother's. He also looks a lot stronger, and taller. Though his eyes are dull, like he wished he was somewhere else. "You wanna tell me what's wrong? Or are we just gunna sit in silence?"

I sighed, looking away. "As much as I'd love to sit in silence, I should probably say it before the team brings it up. It's been awful not having you here. Honestly you keep me sane, which is weird since all I ever did was mess with you and make jokes. I never realized how important you were to me until you left. I mean yea, I knew there was something, but I couldn't tell what it was. I just thought it was hate, since I'd never felt that way before. But then after you left it you were all that was in my mind, which confused me, because I still believed I hated you..." I laid my arm over my eyes, I'm crying?? "I still don't really understand it. But what I do understand is that I need you to be here, it was so hard not having you to mess with after something stressful happened, I never knew how much you influenced me... I mean, while you were gone I kept snapping at everyone. Calling pidge by their birth name, katie. Yelling at hunk, which is surprising because I could never bring myself to yell at him before, he's like a big cinnamon roll. But with you being gone it was easy for me to snap. I mean I snapped at Shiro, space dad. Like what!? I mean it was full on yelling and i don't even remember why i yelled at him in the first place— oh wait it was because he asked how I was doing...." I let off a breath, "I lashed out at some random alien, who asked how I was being that they could tell how people were feeling, they wanted to make sure I was okay. But I just lashed out at him, and made the other aliens realize I really wasn't in the mood to talk. I really want to go back and apologize for everyone I lashed out on. But I mean I got into a fist fight with someone because they were trying to read my mind. And that didn't really sit well with the others on the planet.... so I was kicked out, forced to stay in the castle."

"Wow... didn't realize that you were that dependent on me." He laughed, "honestly sounds like you like me."

"No, I mean I—," I thought for a minute, thinking of every dumb remark I made to Keith, the reason I did it. Us back on Earth with the garrison where me and Keith use to be friends before Shiro went missing, and Keith disappeared soon after. I like Keith... woah..

"You good over there lance?" Keith asked, waving a hand in my face.

"Huh? Oh yea sorry just spaced out. Anyways, we should probably get back to the team yea?"