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Morning came around far too quickly for Keith. He slowly rolled his eyes and groaned , pulling his duvet tightly around himself wanting to go back to sleep. Then there was a knock on the door , which made Keith get out of bed. He grumbled and slowly made his way to the door, duvet wrapped around him.
When the door opened, Lance was standing the with a plate of food and a glass of some orange liquid. Keith dreaded to think what that is. Lance gave the other a chipper smile , "morning, you didn't come down for breakfast so i brought you something to eat ..." he shyed at the last few words. Keith looked down at the plate of food, seeing it had digestible foods on it. Must have been hunks day to cook. He gave Lance a small smile uttuerly unsure how to react to this gesture. Lance had never went out his way to do anything for Keith before , "uh, thank you.. Lance , that's ... really nice"
"Its fine dude!" He smiled and stood there for a second "oh- I should go.." he began to walk away. "Wait, Why don't you come in?" He offered. Lances eyes lit up "yeah! Alright!" Lance skipped into Keith's room and sat at the desk chair. Keith closed his door and placed the plate and the glass on the desk. "That is just normal orange juice, don't worry" Lance assued and spun around on the spinny chair. Keith praised the Lord for that and took a sip of the drink.
Keith sat on the desk and and at the pancakes off the plate. "How are you feeling today? Y'know after yesterday.." he asked , seeing how Lance's smile wavered and gave a shrug "I'm fine, it's just ... life" Lance shrugged it off and looked away. Keith patted Lance's shoulder , "I get it dude , does it happen often?"
Lance didn't look at him and brushed his hair out his face , "I appreciate the concern , its .. cool of you , but I don't really wanna talk about it"
The mullet head looked at Lance before sighed , "sure , just don't let this shit get in the way of our job" Keith jabbed Lance's shoulder with a warning look. Lance finally looked at him then frowned down at his lap "kay" he muttered and crossed his arms, Keith noticed how hard Lance was biting on his lip. "Don't... bite your lip , it might hurt" and took a sip of his drink.
Lance stopped and huffed. Keith gave Lance the last pancake, "I know I can be annoying sometimes but if you need anything, just come to me" Keith then said. Lance gave a pause in his movements and then shook his head , "don't worry I'll be fine" he decided "so , calm down it was just a panic attack it happnes"
Keith stayed quite for a second , jaw clenched. Lance looked around the room and then back up at Keith , "Wanna go to the pool?" He asked, eyes sparkling with hope. Keith gave a slanted smile "I've just ate, I might drown"
Lance rolled his eyes, "please that's just superstition, I've eaten while swimming ,chill out" Lance stood up and pulled Keith off the desk. Keith rolled his eyes, seeing how he won't be getting out of this. Something deep down just wanted him to stay happy, he would dread to see Lance so damaged again.
"Let me get my swimming shorts , I'll meet you there" Keith claimed and pulled open his wardrobe. Lance swung side to side for a second and then nodded his head , "Okay, don't be too long" and he hurried away.
Keith stared at the door and cursed under his breath.
"You talk for anything about so much, and not important things!" He yelled into his hands mad. Be wanted to help Lance if he often had panic attacks , they can be scary and not something anyone should have to face without help.
Keith changed into his swimming shorts and got a towel.
At the pool, which was the right way around, Lance was already there. He was sitting at the side of the pool looking down longingly at the water. Keith sat down next to him, dipping his legs into the pool. Lance looked over at the other and grinned "took your time" he teased and flicked some of the pool water at Keith. Keith grunted and shot Lance a warning look. Lance just grinned playfully. "I was bearly ten minutes" he told Lance and looked across the pool. Lance shrugged.
"What you thinking about?" Keith then asked as a lonely face expression appeared on Lance's face once more. Lance scolded Keith, "That's none of your business, I want the other , mean , grumpy, emo Keith back" he huffed and shook his head disappointed. Keith rolled his eyes and shoved Lance into the pool, who fell in with a high pitched 'epp!'. Keith had a small smile and watched as Lance just sat at the bottom of the pool. He wasn't worried if Lance was okay or not , he had seen the boy under water , he was like a fish. Back when everyone found out Keith was Galra, Keith and Lance had got into an argument about who could stay under water longer. Answer was Lance, by very far.
Lance stayed under water for a good few minutes before coming back up for air. His brown hair plastared to his forhead, maoing him look stupid.
Keith smirked , "miss me?" He asked. Lance rolled his eyes and leaned his elbows on the side of the pool , "not even!" He splashed water at Keith again "get in the water , come on!" Lance pulled him into the water. "Lance!" Keith cried as he fell in, his own hair now stuck over his eyes. Lance laughed and pushed Keiths hair out his eyes. Keith flinched but Lance just smiled with red cheeks. Keith shook his head like a dog , drying it slightly.
"Remeber those mermaids me and Hunk found that once?" Lance asked , Keith nodded his head as they leaned against the pool wall , "I always wonder if they are okay, cause they were in trouble for a while before we found them"
Keith just looked at Lance and clicked his tounge , "could say that about almost everywhere we've gone" he said. Lance stopped all movements for a second before sighing. "Well, when we next get a break lets go see them"
Lance thought for a second and nodded his head, "yeah, it's a date" he grinned. Keith looked back at the pool, "Wanna race?" He offered. Lances narrowed his eyes "I'll just win" he stuck out his tounge and flicked more water at Keith. "Stop fliching water at me Lance!" Keith blinked harshly as the water had gotten into his eyes. Lance laughed and already began to swim to the other side of the pool. "Hey! Cheater!" He yelled and began to swim also. Of course , without Lance cheating he would have still won. The man was a mermaid. Lance reached the end way before Keith did , he grinned as he saw Keith swimming as fast as he could. Lance couldn't help but judge how the mullet head was going the breath stoke- and poorly at that. Lance sat on the edge of the pool and kicked the water at his teammate as he got closer.
Keith soon clung to the side of the pool and spat water from his mouth and to Lance. "Rude!" Lance flinched Keith's forehead and watched as the mulley head oulled himself out the water. Lance stared down at Keith's abs, wet and well toned abs. Lance flnched and let out a giddy squeek as he looked away, hand covering his mouth.
Keith looked over at Lance with a raised eyebrow , "what?"
Lance shook his head , hoping his face wasn't as red as it felt. "Nothing! Just , aha" Lance couldn't look back at Keith through his giddiness "ahah"
Keith rolled his eyes , "you are a weird one" he told his teammate but it only earned another amount of water being splashed at him.
"Keith, what's your favourite animal?" Lance then asked out if nowhere. Keith shrugged , "never though lt much about it, wolfs I guess , cause of Kosmo"
"Boring , I like cows" Keith looked over at him, "cows?" He pulled a face. "Don't pull that face! Cows are amazing , take Kaltenecker for example"
"Did you like cowes after getting Kaltenecker or before?" Keith asked, seeing how a cow was a weird one. "Oh long before I even got into cadets! On my family farm we had some dairy cows and I used to sit with them for hours on end" Lance grinned , head no longer busy over Keith's abs , infact thinking back to simple times before all the space became issues "but of course they stuck so my ma would hose me down before I was allowed back into the house" Keith laughed, shaking. He had met Lance's family a couple themselves before from when families would come to the cadets to visit the kids. Lances mom was the sweetest , so thinking imaging that made him giggle.
"I miss my ma" Lance then whispered , it was clearly a private thought but Keith heard it. "Guess that's another thing we gotta do when we get a break" Keith lightly elbows Lance "see your ma" The burnette sighed happily and leaned onto Keith , "I really like that idea" he couldn't help but smile.
Keith patted Lance's back before smoothing away a bit , feeling uncomfortable from the skin to skin contact. "I also wanna go to the cadet academy, stick it to all the teachers that said I was a bad pilot"
Keith nodded his head , "gotta join you with that, give them a proper goodbye"
Lance laughed , "why did they kick you out in the end?"
Keith clicked his toune "I wonder why, might be the constant fights or me stealing things or maybe disrespect to the teachers" he listed. Keith smiled as Lance frowned down at the pool, "fights with... me?" He looked back at Keith with a guilty expression. Keith rolled his eyes, "how even? We got into pointless banta but we never got into fist fights or blah blah"
"I remember you threw a chair at James" Lance said quietly, as if it was a secret. Keith nodded his head , "stuck up bitch , do not regret that" Lance smiled, Keith mirrored it "but none of me getting expelled was your fault , dude" he assured, "it was James"
"Ugh James" Lance scoffed , brightness in his voice.
The two boys laughed, talked and swam and raced for a couple hours before Keith began to complain about his skin beginning to wrinkle. Lance couldn't help but huff at Keith's stupidness and they got out the pool, drying themselves off. "Ready for lunch?" Keith asked as he watched Lance carefully dry his hair. Lance looked over at Keith, "already?" He looked around the pool room for a clock but found none. "Yeah, we've been in the pool for ages"
"Huh, uh yeah, lunch then" Lance nodded his head "let's get changed first though"
"Oviously" Keith rolled his eyes , Lance threw his towel at him "no sass" he tutted.
After they got changed, Keith and Lance searched for something edible and something nice to eat. "I want something sweet to eat!" Lance declared and danced around the kitchen looking for something Hunk had made and maybe even left for them. Keith rolled his eyes and chopped up an apple. As Lance moved around, Keith's eyes followed him.
Keith then took a depe breath, "Alright, look Lance make a promise with me" he said , voice stern. Lance spun around and looked at him up and down, "what promise? I won't be doing anything with my beautiful body for you" he wagged his index finger.
"If you ever feel panicked, stressed , sad or even a little blue for a second come talk to me about it" Keith said, narrowing his eyes. Lance copied this "Dude, you're thinking too much about the panic attack" Lance turned back to looking around for something to eat. "Lance... promise me" Keith sighed , popping a peice of apple into his mouth.
Lance strided up to Keith , arms crossed to make him look bigger. Keith gave a small smile, not in anyway intimated "just promise me and I won't bring up your panic attack unless you bring it up" he held out his pinky and held a piece of apple to Lance slips. Lance blushed heavily and chewed into the apple, "okay.." he linked their pinkies and then smoothly pulled and held Keith's hands.