[Lance watches as Keith leans forward and struggles, hears that tremor in his voice and the instinct to slide over and-
He bites his lip hard enough to draw a bit of red blood and looks away, feeling a prickling at his eyes. Again, it's swallowed down with great effort and he tightly crosses his arms, shoulders hunching. Not only can he not comfort Keith the way he wants to, Keith is talking about something really complicated and difficult for both of them for different reasons. It's a lot.
His head turns to look at the fire when it bursts to life nearby and faintly, he realizes the connection. But that's an issue to address later perhaps. Right now, he just nods when Keith says he knows why. Because he does. There are many things he knows about Keith that he banished to some far corner of his brain where it could hurt him less, but now confronted with this, the information is brought back to the fore.]
I know. [His voice is barely above a whisper. Then he closes his eyes and heaves a bit of a rattled and shallow breath (thanks Maul).] I really wish I could tell you it's not gonna happen again. To any of us… but we'll always come back to you. Sleepers don't stay dead in the Waking World either.
[His voice took on a peculiar soft tone when he says that they'll always come back. One he's used only when talking to Allura, at least to Keith's memory. Immediately, Lance is looking away again, belatedly realizing how he'd just sounded.]
no subject
He bites his lip hard enough to draw a bit of red blood and looks away, feeling a prickling at his eyes. Again, it's swallowed down with great effort and he tightly crosses his arms, shoulders hunching. Not only can he not comfort Keith the way he wants to, Keith is talking about something really complicated and difficult for both of them for different reasons. It's a lot.
His head turns to look at the fire when it bursts to life nearby and faintly, he realizes the connection. But that's an issue to address later perhaps. Right now, he just nods when Keith says he knows why. Because he does. There are many things he knows about Keith that he banished to some far corner of his brain where it could hurt him less, but now confronted with this, the information is brought back to the fore.]
I know. [His voice is barely above a whisper. Then he closes his eyes and heaves a bit of a rattled and shallow breath (thanks Maul).] I really wish I could tell you it's not gonna happen again. To any of us… but we'll always come back to you. Sleepers don't stay dead in the Waking World either.
[His voice took on a peculiar soft tone when he says that they'll always come back. One he's used only when talking to Allura, at least to Keith's memory. Immediately, Lance is looking away again, belatedly realizing how he'd just sounded.]