Intruder Alert

Chapter 21

"L-Lance?" Pidge asked her voice shaking.

"Yeah?" Lance replied from behind her. He noticed her completely frozen in front of him. He watched as the flashlight's beam made its way higher revealing a person standing in front of them.

The face was Lance's the only thing that was different was that the eyes were opened wide staring into her soul. The mouth was twisted up into a creepy grin, sending chills down His spine. The impostor took a step forward and instinctively Pidge took a step back and grabbed Lance's sleeve pulling on it.

"R-R-R...." she couldn't get the word out of her mouth, "R-R-R-RUN!" she finally managed to scream the word and without hesitation Lance took off running in the opposite direction Pidge close behind. Lance kept going not bothering to check to see if Pidge was still behind him. Only when he heard her scream did he stop and make his way back to her.

He pulled his bayard from his belt activating it immediately. He stopped taking aim at the shadowy figure above the younger paladin. 

He fired. The blue blast streaked towards the creature. It hit it's mark making the creature growl. He watched as the creature backed off, that was his cue he ran up to Pidge looking down in horror at the amount of blood pooling around her body. 

Just as he reached her a hand gripped his throat closing his airways until he couldn't breath. No matter what he did the hand only tightened. As his body weakened from the lack of air he watched as his vision blurred into blackness.

Lance jerked awake sweat drenching his forehead, neck, back, chest. He threw the blankets back peeling the shirt from his skin and dropping it on the floor.

On either side of him Hunk and Keith slept on their cots. Not giving them a second thought Lance made his way over to a sink. He was running his hands over his face, through his hair, and down the back of his neck. When he finally reached the sink he turned on the cold water splashing it over his face. 

It's just a dream Lance. 

He kept telling himself the same thing. Unfortunately he knew that it wasn't too much of that dream was too real. The screams, the blood, the gunshot. It shook him right to his core. Every time he closed his eyes he saw the same thing. 

Drying his face he turned back to the cots. He noticed immediately someone standing next to his cot, with the lights in the room dimmed to practically pitch black it was impossible to see who was there exactly.

He turned for just a second to throw the towel back onto the counter when he turned back the figure was gone. Lance rubbed his eyes blinking a few times as well. Cautiously he walked towards his cot. He didn't see any threat until he sat down on his bed. 

There resting on his pillow was his bayard. His eyes widened, he backed up towards the end of his cot. He'd left that in the tunnels when Allura and the others had first found him. This wasn't going to be over soon, not by a long shot. 

The thought scared him. How long were they going to have to endure this torture? Were they ever going to win?

He sighed resting his face in his hands for a moment before running them through his hair. He stopped halfway staring at the ground. If all this pain and torture could end.

"Lance?"

He jerked up looking straight into the face of Coran. "C-Coran when did you get here?"

"I've been here for a while!" Coran replied flashing a smile, "You were sedated when I walked in on the others all huddled up in here." He flashed another smile.

Lance's face dropped his mouth opening slightly, "but how's that possible. I watched him break your legs." Lance replied voice cracking in the process.

Coran then went for his throat, "Tell anyone that I'm not the real Coran and I'll end your life without a second thought. I'm sure you'd appreciate it too. After all you've been through hell and I'm sure death would be a mercy to you."

Lance gasped as he fell back onto the bed. He grit his teeth watching as the creature stared down at him. 

"No matter how hard you try, how many of my copies you capture you'll never get me. I'll always be one step ahead."

AN: So Sorry for the long wait but Chapter 21 is here now!! And I'll try and have 'She Chose You' , 'Wake Me Up', and 'Challenge Accepted' Updates here soon!  :)