The truck flew over a speed bump. "Watch your heads!" Pidge yelled.
Keith rubbed the bump that began to form on the top of his head, "Gee, thanks for the warning."
"We're almost at the beach!" She ignored him, "Get ready to run!"
Hunk clutched his stomach, and his face turned green. "Pidge! Couldn't you have picked a smoother road!?"
Lance watched Hunk in awe. "Woah, I didn't know humans could change color!"
Pidge accommodated Hunk, deciding to drift in the sand instead of slamming on the brakes. "GO, GO, GO!"
Keith pulled Lance out and made sure to hold him high enough so his tail wouldn't drag on the ground. "You okay?"
"I'd be more concerned about them!" Lance pointed back, where Shiro and the rest were already jumping out of their own cars.
Pidge snapped at Hunk. "Hurry! Vomit on them!"
Shiro balled his hands into fists. "Keith! Stop!"
"No!"
"You don't understand what you're doing!"
"Neither do you!" Keith turned back to glare at his brother. "You always want to be the responsible one, but you're not! You knew, Shiro! You knew what happened to Mom and Dad and you didn't tell me! You lied to me! You knew who Coran really was and you did nothing to help him!"
"Creatures like them don't deserve to be helped! How could you still side with them after what they did to our parents!"
"Maybe they had a reason to! Did you ever think of that? After the way humans have treated them, hunted them... you! you hurt Lance! You beat him and stuck him in a tank and turned him into a freakshow! How does that go unpunished!"
"They're wild animals!"
"So are we! We still have urges that make us fight, make us hurt each other, make us kill people, and for what?! We're no better than they are!"
"Keith..." Lance gripped his shirt, gasping softly, "I need---water... I've been out---out for too long."
And Keith could tell. Lance's skin was beginning to flake, and his lips were looking extremely raw. "Okay, okay hold on just a little bit longer." He turned back to the ocean, ignoring Shiro's call.
Instead of yelling after Keith again, Shiro turned to Adam. "Do something! He listens to you more!"
Adam looked between the two, not sure who to stand by, but eventually he took a deep breath and jogged forward. "Keith!"
And the younger stopped. Adam came up beside him with tight shoulders, glancing back to Shiro. "Adam... please." Keith begged him.
Adam knew what he had to do, so he grabbed Keith's arm and rearranged it around Lance's torso. "It's better if you hold him like this. He'll be more secure."
Shiro couldn't believe his eyes. Keith, he could understand... but now Adam? "What are you doing?!" He ran forward at the two, but Adam held his arms out.
"Shiro, think about this. You're being irrational. It's another living being!"
"It's a monster!"
"It's not the fish that's the monster." Adam held Shiro's shoulders, trying to find any sanity left in his love's eyes. "Takashi, you need to let the past go; Keith has accepted what happened-"
"He doesn't even know what happened!"
"I think I get the gist of it." Keith rolled his eyes at Shiro's behavior. "Mom and Dad were out sailing, maybe they got too close, but yeah. They... they're gone now."
