request: horseback riding klance-- keith is a ranch hand at a farm that gives horseback rides and lance shows up (he knows how to ride a horse hes no fool but keiths hot and lance has a crush so) and endgame here is lance on a horse behind keith bc his horse like startled and ran back to the farm or something and they're super far out on the trail so they have no choice!!!!
Lance had been hustling the farm hand at first, but he couldn't really complain about the outcome of his own antics this time. It's on the pretty-well-played side of things, as far as his results are.
"You're going to have to hold on tighter." Keith says in a voice that is just above a grumble. He is open about his unenthusiasm for this outcome. "Red's a little more bold, so I don't want you to fall again."
"Roger." Lance obliges despite his nerves, grinning through each inch he has to wrap his arms more around his cowboy savior. Red, the mare under them, makes a nickering sound. "Does this happen often?"
Keith doesn't hold back, and Lance grins a bit wider, loving the side of him that isn't dipped in a customer service candy coating. "Which part? The part where you manage to tick off the most tolerant horse we have? That we give to the toddlers? Yeah. All the time. Especially the being kicked off and crying part."
"Oh good." Lance doesn't miss the sarcasm but chooses to expertly breeze on. "I was worried I was special." Keith grumbles at that, and Lance would have the heart to be offended if he didn't see the ranch in the distance to signal the coming end to his escapade. "Is it weirder if I ask for your number on the horse or off?"
Keith snarls, "On." Then, maybe because he's afraid his boss will see him be grumpy, his face becomes neutral. "My phone's in my back pocket, do not fall off this horse, too. Just put your number in under 'moron'."
Lance can't help but be surprised at the forwardness of the agreement, despite being the one to have asked in the first place. Hesitantly, just by a bit, he snakes a hand between them to extract the phone, getting the wrong pocket at first and wanting to throw himself off the horse himself knowing he cupped his butt without meaning to this early on. "On it." He says when he finds it, glad the phone isn't locked if only to save one more level of Keith being able to change his mind.
When they get back to the ranch, he falls again during his dismount. It couldn't have been too embarrassing, though, because Keith still texts him to make sure he doesn't have too much of a concussion to go get something to eat.
