Guess who was going through the Langst tag and got inspired and sad?Â
So Lance and Keith were friends in high school, but fell out of touch when Keith moved away for college.Â
Half a year later, Keith moved back home after deciding college wasnât for him and dropping out. Lance was thrilled that one of his friends had moved back and reached out to his old friend to reconnect. Keith agreed and they went out to a bar together.Â
They woke up in bed together the next morning with horrible hangovers and evidence of last nightâs deeds dried on the sheets.Â
Keith tells Lance that he doesnât do relationships but that the sex was amazing and he would be up for it again if Lance was.Â
Poor, pinning Lance has had feelings for Keith since high school. He figures that a friendâs with benefits relationship is the best he was ever going to get with Keith and agrees.Â
It becomes apparent that Keith was more interested in the Benefits part of their agreement very quickly. Sex was soon all he wanted from Lance, no hanging out, no talking, nothing but a few hours in bed.Â
Lance is deeply hurt, feeling like he has lost one of his best friends all over again. He keeps trying to repair the friendship that he thinks heâs at fault for breaking, but nothings working.Â
If he invites Keith over for pizza and a movie, Keith thinks itâs a booty call. They have sex and then Keithâs gone.Â
If he asks Keith to go to a bar or club with him, Keith gets handsy and they end up fooling around in one of their cars and then Keith goes home.Â
Lance is at the end of his rope and pulling his hair out in frustration. Then he finds out that he isnât the only one Keith has been sleeping with. Turns out Keithâs got a new guy in his bed every other night.Â
Lance is heartbroken. He had thought he was the only one. He feels used. Itâs like he doesnât even know Keith anymore. Heâs lost Keith.
He canât do it anymore. He canât keep giving and giving himself to Keith for nothing.
He starts ignoring calls and texts from Keith.Â
Hunk and Pidge worry and ask if heâs alright, but he just smiles and waves away their worries. Itâs hard for them to keep tabs on Lance when they have college classes and live in different states now, but they try their best.
 There are nights when heâs tempted to call Keith and invite him over because his bed is way to empty and he misses Keith like nothing else, but he manages.
Its around this time that his friend from college, Allura, introduces him to her friend since childhood, Lotor.
Lotor is hands down the most gorgeous guy Lance has ever seen. He was charming and just as flirty as Lance and laughed at his jokes. The two hit it off right away and Allura is so fucking smug because sheâs been trying to set the two up for months.
They begin dating and Lance is honestly in awe of his boyfriend. Lotor seems perfect. Wealthy, handsome, charming, and loving. Lance is head over heels, stupidly in love.
Then Keith comes over to his apartment one night.
Keith asks him where he had been and why Lance hasnât been answering his texts- he was worried!
Lance has no time for this. Heâs blunt and harsh and tells Keith to go to someone else for sex, because Lance is dating someone now.
Keith goes pale. He tries to ask something, but keeps stuttering and restarting. Finally, he pushes past Lance and runs out of the apartment, leaving a confused Lance behind.
Things are going great with Lotor. Lance falls fast and hard and Lotor is right there with him. Lotor talks about Lance moving in with him and about their future together. Lance is so happy about the prospect of a future that he doesnât stop to wonder if its what he really wants with Lotor.
Weeks after Keithâs last visit, he comes back drunk at 4 in the morning.
Lance lets him in, fully intending to call a taxi to take him home, but Keith has other plans. Heâs throwing himself at Lance within minutes, asking him for just one more time.
Lance aint having that. Nope. It is not a thing that is happening.
Then Keith starts to cry. He keeps saying that heâs sorry and that he needs Lance and that he doesnât care that Lance loves someone else. Says that he needs Lance, that he loves-
âLance?â Lotor comes out of Lanceâs bedroom still half asleep and hair a beautiful mess. Heâs instantly awake when he sees Keith and his face goes dangerously blank. âWhats going on?â
Lance explains that heâs just calling a taxi to take Keith home, since heâs been drinking. Lotorâs face looses the blank look and heâs all sweet smiles and helpfulness again.
Keith curls up on Lanceâs couch and tries not to cry.
After sending Keith home, Lance apologizes for waking up Lotor, but his boyfriend says he has nothing to be sorry for. Lance is sweet enough to help anyone, and Keith is in the wrong for taking advantage of that, that Lance did nothing wrong.
Lance is so lucky to have Lotor.
Keith wakes up to a text from Lance asking if he got home safe. Keithâs heart clenches, because he is so in love with Lance and he fucked up so badly.
He lies and pretends that he doesnât remember going over to Lanceâs place and humiliating himself because its easier.
The next day, Keith ventures out to get food and finds himself getting shoved into an alleyway between abandoned buildings and getting the shit kicked out of him.
He gets thrown around a bit, the wind knocked out of him, and a more then one bruise before heâs thrown to the ground.
Lotor and four girls are staring down at him once his head stops spinning.
Lotor tells Keith that if he tries to contact Lance again, the beating will be worse and a bone or two may be broken. Tells him that if he tries to tell Lance about this, Keithâs landlord will suddenly find a reason to evict him from his apartment.Â
Doesnât Keith realize that heâs going to ruin Lance? That heâll drag Lance down with him if Keith keeps holding onto him? He tells Keith that Lance deserves better then a college drop out turned slut whose going no where in life.
Keith already knows all this, he doesnât need to reminder.
Keith is left in the alley with a split lip and bruised ribs while Lotor and the girls drive off in a sports car more expensive then Keithâs student debt.
SO. Iâm kinda half way through actually writing this as a ficâŠ