Ayyy I’m back! I got a random inspiration fairy yay! Thanks to @promptsforvoltron for this one. Don’t forget to send me prompts :D!
Lance giggled as he saw Keith approach the food goo. All Keith had on his mind was to eat and then rest up after a hard day of training. All Lance had on his mind was how funny mullet was going to look after he discovered his prank. Before Keith took a bite Lance got up and ran out of the room. But even in the hallway he could hear the small explosion and Keith’s shriek of surprise.
Pidge winced and turned to look at who had interrupted her coding. Only to burst out laughing when she saw the state Keith was in. His clothes were covered in goo and he had several chunks of something stuck in his hair.
“Jesus,” Pidge said while laughing, “What happened to you?”
“Lance! He put something in the goo and it blew up in my face!”, Keith said.
Pidge nodded before turning back to her computer. “It was probably the exploding pepper I gave him”, she added as an afterthought.
Pidge scoffed,”Chill out, all I did was give him the pepper. How was I supposed to know he would use it to prank you?”. She glanced at Keith and saw his unimpressed face. “Look, just get him back if you’re so angry about it.”
“I can’t. I have literally no idea how to prank.”, Keith said.
“I’ll help you then. It’s only fair since I helped Lance. Besides I’ve been wanting to prank him for a while. It’s a win-win.”
Keith thought about it for a second before nodding.
“Excellent!”, Pidge gave of a smile so unnerving Keith almost regretted letting her in on this, “Here’s what we’re going to do…”
Lance was on his way to Blue’s hanger when Pidge ran up to him. He greeted her with is signature finger guns. But as she got closer he noticed that she was crying. “Woah, hey what wrong!?”, Lance asked.
“Lance you have to help Keith, he- I cant- just, HELP!”, Pidge wailed. She was shaking and looking around frantically.
“Pidge calm down!” Lance grabbed Pidge’s arms and hugged her, “I need you to tell me what wrong.”
“Me and Keith were walking and the airlock malfunctioned! H-he’s stuck!” Pidge explained frantically, “Please help!”
Lance took off to the nearest airlock. “Keith! Keith!”
He saw the doors closed and ran to the control panel. The doors opened instantly when he pressed the button and he ran inside. If Lance had been thinking clearer he might have noticed the fact that the doors seemed to be working fine and that Keith was nowhere to be seen. But in that moment all he could imagine was Keith dying by being sucked out into space.
After a moment he stopped and looked around. Keith wasn’t here. Then he heard the airlock doors closing. He whirled around and saw Pidge hi-five Keith. Keith laughed and tapped on the glass.
Lance sighed, “Haha, very funny. You got me!”
“Yeah we did”, Pidge cheered.
“Can you two now kindly let me out?”
Keith smirked as he started walking away. “Y’know I don’t think we will.”, he called over his shoulder. Pidge blew a raspberry and skipped off in the other direction.
Lance ran forward and started banging on the glass,“Guys! Guys wait! Hey this isn’t- it isn’t funny open the door! Pidge! Keith please! Open the door!”.
“Man we got him good!” Pidge cackled as she ran into the lounge room.
“That was amazing! I’ve never seen him so scared!”, Keith agreed.
Pidge plopped down on the couch and smiled, “We’ll get him out in like, thirty minutes.”
Keith sat down on the opposite couch before responding, “Make it an hour.”
After several minutes of banging on the door Lance realized they weren’t coming back anytime soon. He turned around and sank to the floor. He remembered his claustrophobia acting up as a kid. It got so bad his mama had to take him to a doctor. He thought he had gotten over it, but it must have resurfaced after he got stuck when the castle malfunctioned. Tears started streaming down his face and he gasped for air. The walls seemed to be closing in and he looked around frantically.
“Please…”, he called out weakly, “Open the door.”
“Hey guys”, Hunk greeted as he walked in, “I made some cookies!”
Pidge jumped up and ran over, only to pout when Hunk held them out of her reach.
“Nuh-uh, sorry Pidge. Lance always gets first taste. It’s tradition. Speaking of Lance, have you seen him? I checked in his room but he’s not there”, Hunk said.
Keith nodded, “Oh, yeah! Me and Pidge locked him in the airlock.”
The tray clattered to the ground. Keith and Pidge gaped at Hunk’s horrified face.
He couldn’t breathe. He couldn’t breathe. He couldn’t breathe. No matter how much he gasped he couldn’t get enough air. He was choking. Slowly the world seemed to fade out. He could no longer hear himself gasping. He laid his head against the door and stared at the floor numbly as the world faded to black.
Hunk tore down the hallway, a panicked expression on his face. Pidge and Keith were right behind him.
“There!” Pidge said, and pointed to the airlock.
They gasped when they saw Lance on the floor. Pidge sank to the ground and started sobbing. Keith felt guilt eating up at him as he turned away. Hunk opened the door and ran to Lance.
“Help me get him to a pod!”, Hunk yelled.
Pidge nodded and took off to get Coran. Keith helped pick Lance up but Hunk could carry him on his own. As he ran to the pods he shot a worried glance to Lance. “Don’t worry buddy. I got you now.”
Lance could faintly hear other voices. Where was he? It was dark. Suddenly the memories of what happened flooded his mind. The last thing he remembered was fainting. The doors of the healing pod burst open and he fell forward.
His senses swiftly returned as a piercing screech blasted his eardrums and something slammed into him. He looked down to see Pidge crying as she hugged him.
“I’m so sorry! You have claustrophobia and I didn’t know and you-”, she paused for breath before shakily continuing,” Lance I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have put you through that and I understand if you hate me.”
He blinked in surprise for a moment then hugged her back. “ Pidge I don’t hate you. I never told you I had claustrophobia, it’s not your fault.”
Lance looked up to see Keith. His gaze was on the ground and his arms were crossed. Slowly Keith looked up, and Lance saw how red his eyes were.
“It’s my fault.”, Keith mumbled. “I heard you screaming as I walked away. I should have opened the door then. I’m-”, His voice cracked and he looked down again,”I’m sorry.”
Lance look back and forth between Pidge and Keith, his eyes wide in surprise.
“Do you guys understand what you did was wrong?”, Lance asked
Keith nodded and Pidge whispered out a yes.
“Aren’t you going to lecture us? Or shout at us?” Keith asked
“Nah. You beat yourself up already, there’s no need for me to shout. And besides, you understand what you did was wrong. It doesn’t make what you did okay, but you won’t do it again.”, Lance smiled. “Now come on, I am dying for some of Hunk’s cookies.”
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