CONTACT POST.

[secondnature]

username: keith

✉ ☏ 📷

(credit for pic)

Comments

[secondnature]

Yeah ... some fight. Where we have to capture a suicidal agent and keep him from killing himself while stopping my teammates from hurting him.

[The whole scenario is rough. Lance being sick on top of Shiro just makes it worse. If Keith can't find a way to make that work out, then he doesn't know what to do.]

[competing]

[ a beat. ]

See? I miss out on all the fun.

[ okay, that extra whine is thrown in to try and lighten the mood... ]

[secondnature]

Yeah ... some fun. Hopefully we won't be dragging it out for much longer.

[The thought of that is a little nauseating for him. A cure has to happen. A solution has to happen.]

[competing]

[ he nods mutely, the levity he'd tried for disappearing as quickly and abruptly as it'd come.

he's been trying not to think about it this whole time, what's to come. losing his mind like that. he remembers all the times he'd come cross an infected before, how much conscious work it took him to remind himself that these were real people he was dealing with, and not the mindless monsters he's seen in all those movies back home.

the thought that maybe one day someone — maybe even keith — might look at him like that puts a large lump in his throat he can't quite swallow. ]

...I'm scared, man.

[ he'll say it now. just now. one little confession, and then that's it, because he knows he can't afford to be scared past this, not when they still have so much fight left to do. ]

[secondnature]

[Since his arms are already crossed, Keith draws his legs closer and looks down, making it almost impossible for Lance to see his face. In a time like this, he knows Shiro would probably grab someone's shoulder, but he's well aware of the risk of any contact right now. It's hard.

And it's scary.]

We all are, [he manages. It's a refrain he'll say a lot over the next few days. People are scared. They have a right to be.]

[competing]

[ it's some kind of cruel irony, he thinks, that the one thing he wants now — that contact, any kind of it — is the one thing he shouldn't be asking from keith. he wants to. but he shouldn't.

so when keith curls withdraws, so does lance. ]

You should probably get your blood tested too.

[secondnature]

... Yeah, I guess it is time to look into that, huh? [Keith doesn't feel bad, but it might only be a matter of time.]

[competing]

Yeah, probably. [ definitely. ]

Guess it's a good thing we've been too busy to make out or anything, huh? Heh.

[ yeeeah he should probably stop trying to lighten the mood. his jokes are just getting worse. ]

[secondnature]

Honestly ... that hadn't even crossed my mind. But it's a good thing.

[He is the worst boyfriend.]

[competing]

[ the w o r s t ]

Ouch.

[secondnature]

I've been busy! [Keith fails at being a teenage boy on top of it.]

[competing]

[ you're killing me. ]

Oh come on! You haven't even thought about it? Once?

[secondnature]

Come on, people are dying! Things got really complicated after the light show.

[There's a long pause.]

Does it help that I'm thinking about it now? [... No. Probably not.]

[competing]

[ well that's fair, it's a pretty harrowing time, and keith does have a tendancy towards tunnel-vision...

but still! not even once? ]

No, cuz I made you!

[ he sits back once more and sulks. ]

You know what, you owe me two — no, three — random make-out thoughts now!

[secondnature]

I don't owe you anything! Just get better and we can do the thing. [The make-outs. Obviously.]

[competing]

Oh, sure, let me just hop up on some Vitamin C and I'll be a-okay!

[secondnature]

I'm not expecting you to get better immediately! But there's no point in thinking about a thing that we can't do anyway.

[competing]

[ muttering: ]

But if we could...

[secondnature]

[Insert Keith frustrated sound.]

But we can't.

[competing]

That's why I said if!

[ okay this isn't going anywhere. lance is hungry and frustrated and now thanks to the topic of conversation at hand, he's also frustrated, so he gets up just to get out some of that antsy energy. he goes to the kitchen, starting to poke around the cupboards and refrigerator. ]

[secondnature]

... What are you doing? This isn't even your apartment!

[This hunger thing is pretty bad, he realizes. ... It's probably a good thing that they have it here, and not where they're forced to eat space goo.]

[competing]

Oh come on, [ this brought to you around a mouthful of slim jim, ] you guys got plenty of food here! Don't be stingy.

[secondnature]

All we have is junk food. Is that what you want to eat right now?

[If Keith knew more about how fatty foods are bad for the skin, he'd say that here.

But he doesn't.]

[competing]

[ and lance, likewise, opts not to mention the kind of food he really wants to eat right now instead. ]

Yeah, about that, did you guys seriously just live off of Slim Jims and Cup o' Noodles? [ not judging but... also kind of judging. ]

[secondnature]

We also have a stack of frozen pizza in the freezer.

[It's gross, but ... well. Shiro getting sick basically threw any sense of decency and trying to be adults out the window.]