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And there’s the other thing—it’s Lance. It’s only Lance. It’s only ever been Lance.
Lance smiles a little, softly, sweetly, and then lifts his hand to Keith’s jaw, his fingertips light, smiling up at Keith through his dark lashes. “Are you okay enough for this?” he asks.
Keith considers the question. “How am I supposed to know?”
"When you can say, “yes,” with great confidence, and mean it," Lance says, smiling, his eyes crinkling warmly.
“I don’t get it,” Keith says, softly, glancing at the blue crescents on Lance’s cheeks, "I don’t get how you’re so fine. You always seemed so fine.”
Lance searches Keith’s eyes for a moment. “I wasn’t. You just didn’t see that part.”
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Following a devastating error in leadership, Keith finds himself suspended and Earth-bound, untethered as he attempts to outrun the weight of his grief--and suddenly rekindled desire, as a perfectly well-adjusted Lance re-enters his life.