CW: MCD, demons, supernatural reference 🙀
Lance didn’t know a lot. He knew nothing about how to build a toaster or how wifi worked, nothing about chemistry and he only just got by with math. He wasn’t logically smart, he was more in tune with people and emotions. But even then, psychologist defiantly knew more than he did.
There was nothing Lance knew that no one else didn’t, especially seen as he told his twin sister everything, no matter how embarrassing.
Except…
Lance never wanted to acknowledge what happened when he was nine and his beloved dog Mitsy died. He didn’t want to believe that the man he saw was real, that his eyes didn’t lie about how the others were so inhuman. He remembered the man’s name only because he kept seeing him in nightmares, remembering his words everything something went wrong,
“Just call out and I’ll be there, I’ll give you anything you want. I’m sure you understand.”
Lance didn’t at first, and when he did he denied it and shoved it down as hard as he could.
But then Hunk got hit. Not just with anything, but a giant metal fist from an armoured Galra that broke his ribs so badly they shattered throughout his lungs and… he didn’t even have much time to gasp and feel fear before his heart bailed out.
Lance was clutching his face, begging him to come back, too scared to try CPR if it was broken ribs that out him there in the first place.
Pidge was screaming and sobbing.
Shiro was standing in shock.
Keith was still stabbing the Galrans face despite him being long gone.
The coms were silent.
“Just call my name…”
Would it even still work so far from earth?
“Anything you want.”
The chance of it being real was large, especially when Lance was also such an imaginative child and grief can distorted your reality.
“I’m sure you understand.”
Lance did. It was worth it, right? Surely anything was worth keeping someone like Hunk in the world? Even if what Lance thought was about to happen did happen, and what that could mean about other parts of the world, no Holy Ghost was as bright and warm as Hunk.
It was worth it, for Hunk.
Lance stopped crying and stood up, closing his eyes and forming his resolve.
“Crowley, I want to make a deal.”
Silence followed before a smooth voice spoke behind him, the sound of Pidge’s gasp and the feel of all their confusion not important as Crowley put a hand on his shoulder.
“I’m listening.”












