•Chapter 7•

                                    

                                          
Repeated words are there on purpose
                          
Also sorry for not updating in like what one, two months???? Like always, I have no excuses ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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-1 day after rescue Lance- 
                          
I sat on my bed, along in my room, waiting for Keith to come back. The door opened and I looked over expecting to see Keith, but Shiro walked in and shut the door behind him.
                          
"Hey Lance." Shiro waved and sat down at my desk across the room from me. I stayed silent. 
                          
"Listen, I know that it can be tough talking about what happened, but you need to talk sometimes so I'm always here for you." Shiro said with an empathetic smile.
                          
"I'm fine." I looked over at the door waiting for Keith to walk in.
                          
"Where's Keith?" I turn back to Shiro, tilting my head to the side.
                          
Shiro started to shift in his seat. "I don't think it's the best idea-" I cut him off.
                          
"Shiro, I want to talk to Keith." He sighed and got up. The former Champion walked to the door and opened it to reveal Keith standing there, waiting. Shiro whispered something to Keith that I couldn't hear, before leaving the two of us alone. 
                          
"Keith I'm sorry for talking so much before." I mumbled out. I should have stayed quiet. 
                          
While I was alone, between when Shiro made Keith leaving me yesterday and when Shiro came in to talk, I came to the conclusion that Keith just didn't want to admit that he is superior out load. That can be the only reason why he didn't respond and told me to stop, but I still don't know why he was crying. So I'll respect that, and just serve him with a little bit more subtly.
                          
"Lance, it's okay to talk." Keith responded, with a concerned look. So he'll let me talk. Good to know. 
                          
"I need you to tell me what happened on that ship. I know that Shiro tried to ask you, but you can tell me." He smiled again. Keith has been doing a lot of smiling since I got back, is it because now he can use me again? That must be it.
                          
"What do you want to know?" I don't want to say anything Keith doesn't like.
                          
"For starters, you do you keep calling Lotor 'my Prince' or 'my Love?'" Keith looked down slightly, his face scrunched up in anger as he said the pet names.
                          
"I'm not allowed to call him anything else." I tell him. 
                          
Keith got up, walked to me and kneeled in front of me, so that our eyes are even. "He can't do anything to you now. Not now not ever, you're safe Lance. You can stop calling him that." 
                          
"You don't want me to call him that anymore?" I questioned.
                          
"No, I don't. I don't want you to have to call that vial monster your love."
                          
"If you don't want me to, I won't." Whatever Keith wants me to do, I will. Keith didn't say it out loud but he must want me to do whatever he said like Lotor did. Why else would he have taken me back from Lotor.
                          
Keith reached up and held my face in his hands. I couldn't stop thinking about how Lotor did the same thing for so long. "I love you Lance, you love me too right?"
                          
"Of course I love you." I smiled. In all honesty I have no idea if I love him still. Lotor told me that I don't love him, and it was only the attraction to power. 
                          
"I'm going to get you some food. You stay here." Keith kissed my forehead and exited the room.
                          
-Keith-