Summary: Basically, a story where Shiro gets the paladins to tape a recording of what they want to tell the others e.g. last wish, etc. They are only able to play them if one of them dies, you get the drift.
It’s been 3 weeks since Lance sacrificed himself for the others.
“It’s time to accept that he’s gone,” Allura stated trying to hid the sorrow in her voice.
Hunk was sitting on the cough going over memories of lance and him as children and all the trouble they use to get in to.
Pidge’s mind was blank for the first time after becoming a paladin. If she was thinking about something it was about all the times she’d made fun of lance for his bad english and how the last real conversation they had together. She told him, how he was an idiot and that she wished she could replace him with anyone less annoying then him.
Keith was broken, it had been so long since any of them got hurt, he forgot how it was war and that people got hurt, some even died. But it had to Lance why couldn’t have been someone else anyone was better, as long as it was Lance.
Shiro was tired, he hadn’t been sleeping at all, ever since lance disappeared. But why should he sleep, lance doesn’t get to sleep, he doesn’t get to anything; he can’t eat, laugh, smile anything so why should shiro get too. It isn’t fair.
So when the recording started everyone held their breath as a smiling lance came on screen.
“Is this thing on” Lances familiar voice was heard as he fiddled with something behind the camera.
“Damn! I’ve never been any good at this, maybe I’ll just get Pidge to help later if this doesn’t work,” Lance muttered to himself as he came and sat in front of the camera. His piercing blue eyes, looking into the camera with an innocent gleam to them.
He looked at the camera, a little embarrassed
“GAAgh, why do I have to do this again, it’s embarrassing,” he wined as he looks off camera,
“I told you it so we have something to show, your family, if something unfortunate happens, which it won’t” Shiro familiar voice could be heard along with a faint chuckle
“Oh shut up” Lance said with an annoyed look.
“Come on Keith lets leave this little sour puss to his video log” Shiro said with a little chuckle as he came on camera and kissed Lance on the forehead before walking of screen, Keith following close behind, but not before posing for the camera and kissing Lance on the cheek.
Lance was quiet even after the paladins heard the doors slide open and shut clear indicating that Shiro and Keith had left the room. Lance sighed
“Right back to business, let’s see, I’m suppose to, say where I want to be buried and stuff right”
--- A pang of guilt it Shiro’s heart as watch the screen, they didn’t have lance’s body, it went missing. He looked to Keith and noticed his hands clenched, He placed his hand over his clenched fist and gave him a reassuring smile ‘it wasn’t your fault.’
“Well in case I do die, then I would prefer to be cremated and let loss on the open sea in Cuba, but if that ain’t possible than inside the galra air vents so I can give them one last annoyance even after death” Lance said making funny hand movement like he was shooting galra forces, but that came to an end when he slipped and face planted the floor.
“Hehe that could have gone better” Lance said rubbing his nose. “But if your going to show this video to my family, I just want to say to Mama, Papi, Apollo, Calisto, Mayte, Novia, and Carlo. Te amo y siento que me marcho antes que tu”
--- Hunk listened to Lance’s words and repeated them in his head over and over again before he was forced back into reality by Coran’s hand on his shoulder. Knowing why everyone was looking at him, he was crying.
“Sorry it’s just, he sounded like he knew it was going to happen” Hunk said, surprised by how small his voice sounded.
“God I hate this emotional Crap,” Lance said sniffing as he tried to hide the tears in his eyes.
“Mama, you always said you’d kill me if I came back with so much as a scratch on me, but does this count, as a scratch probably not right” Lance laughed,
“But I’ll have you know, Novia was right”
--- ‘wait what,’ Novia? If Keith remembered correctly Novia was the first to know about Lance sexuality and preferences, Apollo was the the second oldest and most energetic surprisingly enough, then Novia was an angel with intelligence and beauty and Carlo was rude and rather loud but lance loved him anyway then there was Calisto and Mayte, Keith remembered Lance bragging about how beautiful they both were and how much Lance loved all his siblings made Kieth a little jealous about how he didn’t have any siblings,
“Now... Hunk and Pidge” Lance said his face showing a serious frown
--- Keith heard Hunk breathe hitch and he looked over to see both staring at the screen as if Lance would disappear if they looked away
“I know I shouldn’t be saying this but I have to get it off my chest, Okay....” Lance looked super guilty which confused everyone what was he hiding.
“You know the puppy, we found outside of Garrison on one of our late night explorations and we decided to keep it in Hunk and my room but then it disappeared.... Well it didn’t disappear while you were away on engineering camp, when I was looking after it I noticed a bump on it’s belly so I took it to the vet to see what was up found out it had cancer and it was at the point it was better to put it down, and I didn’t tell you and I thought it would be better, then you got angry and upset and you guys were angry at me for like a month.....
Sorry for lying to you and thank you for being my friends and I guess I’ll go see how that dog’s feeling now,” sorry for leaving you
--- Pidge looked at the screen, seriously his last message to them and it was about a bloody mongrel they found over 4 years ago. He was still feeling bad about that, but for some reason it made Pidge laugh, a dog, a fucking dog.
Everyone was so confused as they stared at Pidge, she was laughing, it wasn’t a happy laugh.
Allura didn’t know why she did it, but she was drawn to the feeling Pidge need someone, as she pulled pidge into a hug cradling her head as her laughter became tears and wines
“WHY” Pidge screamed as cried “WHY DID YOU LEAVE, IT’S JUST A FUCKING DOG LANCE”
Coran wasted no time as he took Allura and pidge and left the room.
The room went quiet, Shiro looked over to Hunk, He had never seen the big man look so small before.
“I think I should go see how Pidge is doing” Hunk said with a broken smile plastered to his face. Shiro listen to the door slide open and close.
Shiro looked back to the screen it was the only light in this pitch black room.
“Umm Right still have two more people to say bye too. I just want to say before I get to the end. Shiro, you are the strongest person I know, when I felt weak you gave me a back to lean on and when ever I felt like shit you would give me love that I could never repay, I love you and Keith you’re a proper arsehole and I hate your guts but you and I had a lot of bonding moments and I love your jokes and your silly mullet, I love you, both of you. So to end this great life I want to say that to my loves Shiro, Keith I leave my everything, my makeup kit, my giant blue lion response best to blue or Kitty Kat,..... and my heart. I’m gonna miss you guys and I still and always will love you” Lance said smiling as if he could see his right through the screen
“Oi Lance, hurry up man or Allura’s going have our asses” as a small smiling pidge and a worried looking Hunk came running up to Lance and yanking him out of screen.
As the screen went blank.
--- Shiro didn’t realise he was crying until he felt water land on his hand, he had cried the whole three weeks after Lance’s death, alone in his room. But for some reason it felt like the first time he really realised that Lance isn’t coming back and he didn’t care who saw.
--- Keith didn’t know how he felt at that moment, he was numb, in his head all he could think was ‘ is this real, it must be some prank there’s no way Lance is gone no no no no no no no no’
He looked over to the man sitting next to him hoping to see his boyfriend laughing saying ‘how it as all a funny joke that everyone was play on him’, lance was in the other room waiting to jump out and scare him, but no what he saw was his strong boyfriend that didn’t even let torture by the galra scare him, crying.
All they could say was things were never the same. Lance was gone and he wasn’t coming back.