Concerned Lance is the best Lance.

Finally something I drew ^^^^ and it was most like a sketch thing but then I decided that I should post it just like that.

And soon I have reached 300 reads, omg, thank you guys! I honestly didn't think I would come this far and it just warms my heart that people want to read my words.

So therefore I'm now offering you a Lance point of view again and I'll try to make this chapter less angsty because the last chapter didn't end quite happy.

O O O

You know the feeling when you just want to strangle someone and at the same time hug the living day light out of that someone?

Well, that feeling is quite new to me. I'm not used to it. It's more likely I just want to strangle someone.

Specifically my maths teacher.

And Iverson back in the Garrison.

It was just yesterday that we found Keith in Jombonia, injured in too many places and terrifyingly a calm expression on his face, as if he's enjoying something. Maybe something in his dream, and I have no idea what those stupid Jomboni's are offering but I know that we can offer something even better:

Our love. And as cheesy as it sounds, he's clearly lacking of it, so we can start of there.

I look over at his healing pod, at his still body and his floating hair. I look at Shiro who's leaning against the pod and resting his forehead and forearms on it, his head turned down. He's muttering things none of us can hear and it's scaring me too much. This side of him is entirely new, and not the most fun to see. I know that Keith's condition when we found him wasn't good at all and I understand why Shiro cried.

But something tells me that it's just more to it. It's like he experienced something like that before.

"Food's ready!" Me, Pidge and Shiro hears from outside the room and we all look to see Hunk come in with bowls of food goo balancing on his arm like the true chef he is. He has a big smile on his face and I can tell that he wants to brighten up the mood as much as possible.

I smile at him. Just his presence is brightening enough and that's a big reason as to why we became best buddies.

Wow, I can get so cheesy when I'm tired.

"I made the goo a little special tonight", Hunk says as he places the bowls in front of me and Pidge sitting on the rounded stairs in front of all the pods standing in a circle. Pidge thanks him and I continue to smile at him. "You know, celebrating we found Keith..." He walks over to Shiro and offers him the bowl but Shiro just looks down at it, lips sealed and an apathetic expression painted on his face. After some seconds he just shakes his head and press his forehead against the pod again.

Hunk face drops and he lowers his hand with his bowl then shrugs and place it on the floor beside Keith's pod.

I stare daggers into Shiro's back, glaring at him. Okay, something is seriously wrong with him. Concerned for Keith or not, you just don't say no to Hunk's cooking and kill his sparkle.

I'm going to have serious talk with him later, and if it means making a complete fool out me, then fine.

"Thank you Hunk", I say as he sits down next to me and starts eating his food, a little less happy but still showing signs of joy. I take a big scoop of the green mush and place it in my mouth, instantly tasting pure bliss. "MMMmm", I exclaim loud enough for Shiro to hear. "This is AMAZING! I can't believe those who's MISSING THE OPPORTUNITY TO TASTE THIS!" I cock my head at Shiro just to see he's in the same position as before, not moving at all.

"I'm glad you like it", Hunk says with a small smile and his eyes glimmers.

"Like it? I LOVE IT..."

"Lance, please be more quiet", Pidge whines and she leans back on the stairs, the bowl balancing on her stomach as she eats from it, her eyes squinted. "My head hurts and obviously your high pitched voice isn't helping."

I can tell she is tired but still it looks like she's used to it. Like gamers that live most of their lives on Red Bull late at night and sleep the whole day off until night comes again and it all goes over again. Like cycle.

Her eyes are completely red and dark circles under her eyes is evident. But I don't look better in the slightest. I'm not one to ever ruin my sleeping routine and when I do it looks like I stayed up for a decade. My eyes are puffy and my eyelids heavy, and it feel like I'm swollen under my eyes, and like my whole face is numb. I'm pretty sure my eyes are twitching, making me look like a psycho.

"Where's Allura and Coran?" I ask and take one more scoop of this delicious version of food goo.

Just as I ask this, we all hear a song blast through the whole castle and I raise my eyebrows, recognizing the song after just two seconds. My eyes widen and I look over at Pidge, her eyes as big as mine and her mouth open in a kind of surprised smile.

"No..." She shakes her head and her smile grows. "No, don't tell me... oh my..."

"Paladins!" Allura chirps and she dances in to the room, just moving her shoulders back and forth while Coran follows in behind her. I wouldn't call what he's doing as dancing, because he looks more like a fish on dry shore, desperately trying to get back into the ocean. He makes a weird move with his arms and almost hit his own face in the progress just as Post Malone starts to rap the first lines in Rockstars.

"To save the mood we have used Pidge music device from Earth to broadcast it through the castle", Allura shouts over the song. Pidge's face is red as she tries to hold back laughter but fails miserably. Hunk seems uncomfortable by all the swearing and I'm contemplating if I should die of laughter or just rap along, or something. It's a cute attempt they made to easy the mood, but maybe the chose of song wasn't the best.

But then, Pidge is already much happier so that's a bonus. As for Hunk and Shiro, well, not a bonus.

"I must say, you earthlings have a very... inscrutable taste of music", Coran shouts and Allura continues to move her shoulders beside him and add a little shake with her hips for more action. Coran goes back to the wiggly fish dance again Pidge just loses it as she bursts out laughing so hard it sounds like she's having an asthma attack. She leans forward and clutch her stomach and I smile, looking at Keith's still unconscious body and thinking what a bummer he's missing this. Missing Allura and Coran dancing like fools and Pidge almost fainting due to the laughter and Hunk sitting and making a Jesus cross over his chest due to all the nastiness and swearing and Shiro just shaking his head.

I think than when Keith wakes up, this will for sure be something fun to tell him. Because he will wake up. As soon as he's fully healed and out of the pod, we will pour the Nunlea over him and try to talk him out of his sleep.

Besides, we're not done teaching each other our home languages yet.

O O O

I have officially spent my whole miserably day here in the healing pod room, staring at Keith without blinking until I see in a blur. Allura managed to get Shiro to do somethings else than mumble things while slamming his forehead against Keith's pod, but she couldn't convince me to do the same. As well as Pidge, because she already passed out on the stairs with her mouth slightly open, soft snores coming out, and her glasses almost dropping from her face. Hunk is either stress cooking, or sleeping.

I sigh and walk around the whole big room to keep myself awake. I have no idea why I do this for Keith - out of all people - but actually, I know exactly why I do it. Why deny it for myself when it's already that obvious?

"Stupid Mullet", I mutter as I stand in front his pod with my arms crossed and my eyes desperately trying to close. I imagine him getting out of the pod and still be asleep. "Too afraid to wake up, huh?" His face is hard to read now but all I see is that all his features is softer and less bruised. I have no idea what is going on in his dream and that's what frustrates me the most. He shouldn't be in that pod. We shouldn't have searched for him after disappearing from the castle after... the night we had. I have no idea if that shouldn't have happened as well but now it all has, and I should just live with it.

I pierce my eyes into his soul, only this time he's not even aware of it. I lose all my cool. "I will seriously hold a mirror over his face so his ugly reflection is the first thing he's going to see when he wakes up!" My voice is loud enough to wake Pidge up.

"Oh my God, Lance. Just go to sleep." I hear her huff and ten seconds later she's snoring again.

Maybe I should take what she said into consideration - even if I already have these past hours - but my stubborn side won't let me sleep. Even if I want to more than ever. It's like I'm waiting to be the first one to see Keith out of the pod, but I know it won't happen anytime soon. So why not just go to sleep?

I sigh again and turn around to carry Pidge to her room and then go back to my own, but then I hear a faint swish and I turn around the same second as Keith falls forwards, still with closed eyes.

I gasp and jump forward, catching him in my arms and setting us both on the stairs. His face is resting on my chest and I can already feel my face getting ten times warmer.

Huh, now I'm the one cradling him in my arms.

O O O

Why Rockstars? Because the whole society is tormenting me with that song so I just have to have it in my books, right?

*quietly sobbing in a corner*