@taylor-tut thanks for the idea
“Thanks anyway Pidge, see you guys soon”
Keith sighed as he pulled off his helmet and threw it to the ground in frustration.
Him and Lance had been sent to investigate a cave network while the others were busy with castle repairs.
Everything was fine until a sudden earth quake triggered a cave in trapping the two in a caver barely bigger then a closet.
“N-no luck?” Lance shivered looking up from where he was slouched against the wall.
They had been trapped for nearly three hours now and in that time the ‘little’ cold Lance had been suffering in silence with for the last week turned into uncontrollable shivering, bone rattling coughing and a fever so high that the cavern felt like a sauna.
Keith sighed “the scanners are still down, it could take hours for them to find us.”
He looked terrible, his skin washed out covered in sweat with breathing too shallow.
Keith would of been fine with waiting if it were just him, but Lance needed medical attention, fever reducers and water at the very least.
But the cavern barely had oxygen.
“How you feeling?” Keith asked kneeling down next to him as he placed a hand on his forehead frowning.
“Your fevers gone up again...”
“Cold.” Lance mumbled as he leaned into Keith’s chest.
Keith bit his lip, this was bad... like really bad.
Lance thought it was cold while Keith was stripped down to his under shirt and boxers and still sweating his ass off.
“I know buddy.” He sighed as Lance cuddled up to him.
Keith sat down and pulled the younger boy onto his lap running his fingers soothingly through Lance’s sweaty hair.
Keith tried not to panic when lance went limp in his arms, telling himself he was merely asleep.
Still his breathing was so uneven and laboured that he just couldn’t relax until the others dug them out nearly six hours later.
The two of them were placed in pods.
Keith because he was severely dehydrated, and Lance because that ‘little’ cold was pneumonia and his fever was 106 by time they got him back to the castle.
Soon as Keith fell out of his pod he stayed sitting in front of Lance’s until he stumbled out almost a week later.
“Lance!” Keith yelled as he pulled Lance into a hug.
He laughed groggily “man miss me much?”
“I was worried” Keith mumbled burying his face in Lance’s chest crying.
Lance wrapped his arms around him. “Well don’t I’m fine, all thanks to you... and our bonding moment.”
Keith chuckled looking up at him “you better not forget this one.”
