(Lance x Keith)

I've seen a lot of prompts and fan art about something like this so I thought I'd write one. I know it's not the best but I wanted to do it.

The communicator rang once again causing Lance to sigh dejectedly. It's been a month since he last talked to Keith and he's missed him a lot. Lance thought this long distance relationship would be better, but the whole thing completely backfired. Keith is always busy, everyone else is busy as well, and Lance is just there taking up space that could be filled with someone better fit to handle it.

Lance sighs loudly trying to call one last time before ultimately he is going to quit for the night. It rings and rings and rings. Lance is about to cancel the call when with the last ring he picks up.

Lance gasps happily, his smile brightens, and he grins at the phone as he places at his ear. "WHAT!?!" Keith's aggressive voice yells into the communicator and Lance has to pull it away a little as to not hurt his ears.

"Um, hey Babe," Lance says softly hoping he wasn't interrupting anything.

"Lance?" Keith asks pulling the communicator back and looking to see that it is in fact his boyfriend that he is talking to. "Hey Lance! It's been a while."

"Yeah, a month to be exact," Lance chuckles though there isn't much humor in it other than how he's trying to sound happy. "How have you been?"

"Busy," Keith says shortly not paying much to his boyfriend. "There's a lot going on here."

"Here as well, yeah Pidge and Hunk are fixing up a cargo ship that was destroyed in our last battle. It was pretty bad I-" Lance is explaining happy that his boyfriend is actually there on the other end and he isn't just talking to himself, like always.

"I'm sorry now isn't the best time, we are busy beyond belief. Sorry I've got to go, love ya," Keith says shortly and hangs up leaving Lance staring at the wall of his room phone still cliched to his head.

That's when the tears started, and didn't stop. Lance carefully laid down on his bed wary of his injuries as he never could bring himself to ask for any help. Keith's always so busy anyways, Lance doesn't want to put more on his plate than he already has.

"I really am all alone," Lance whispers to the air, tears streaming down his cheeks as he stares up at the ceiling. "Shiro has leader things, Allura has princess things, the others are just too jam packed with other things, and Keith has no time for me. I know he's out fighting battle but he can't even talk to me. Why did I think this would work?"

After that Lance didn't try to call Keith again, well he does but he only leaves voicemails because that's all he gets...his voicemail. He slowly became even more distanced from the others while all he ever did was lay in his bed in utter pain. Blood leaking from every wound, scars cover his body but he didn't even seem to care. Everyday is a continuous cycle for him that he hasn't broken since that call with Keith. Sleep, eat, fight, call Keith, cry, eat, cry, sleep, repeat.

It was three months later Keith got a call as he was about to head out on another mission. He was just going to shut it off but he saw that it was Pidge, she never called him. "Yeah?" Keith says as he grabs his sword and heads out of his room.

"Keith!" Pidge and seemingly Hunk yells into the phone behind her.

"What's up guys? I don't got much time, I'm about to head out. Is it quick?" Keith asks as he boards the shuttle with the other troops as they prepare the shuttle for flight.

"Um, not really well actually it's La-" Pidge is saying but then one of the commanders gesture for him to shut it off so he quickly cuts her off.

"Sorry, I have to go I'll call you back later," Keith says handing up and buckling in as the shuttle lifts into the air.

He doesn't call her back until three days later when he finally gets a day off from the nonstop missions. But when that pick up it isn't who he thought it would be. "Keith," Shiro says over the phone confusing Keith immensely.

"Why do you have Pidge's communicator?" Keith asks as his ears pay closer attention to Shiro's back ground to hear Pidge crying. Pidge never cries. "What's wrong?"

"If you would havE LISTENED BEFORE YOU WOULD KNOW!" Pidge pretty much yells through the phone hurting Keith's ears. Shiro takes a deep breath trying to calm her down along with himself and not be as aggressive. "It's Lance."

Keith is confused not sure what that means, is it so bad that Pidge is crying over it. "What did he do this time?" Keith sighs rolling his eyes at his boyfriend. As Shiro explains the situation Keith freezes staring straight in front of him in utter shock. He hangs up quickly shoving the communicator in his pocket and rushes out of his room and straight to a ship. He hops in and flies to the coordinates that Coran sends him.

He can barely breath as he tries not to hyperventilate while flying. How could this have happened? Lance was always so... Lance. The happy, lovable goofball who always made everyone laugh. Keith didn't want to believe it, he had to see it with his own eyes.

When Keith got there he rushed straight to the medic bay to see everyone there. Pidge in Hunk's arms as he tries to comfort her, Allura standing next to Shiro as they both look sorrowful, and Coran who just stares at the cryotube that Lance is in.

"What happened?" Keith chokes out as he stares at his beaten and bruised boyfriend as he sleeps.

"Well, we've all been extremely busy lately and Lance has been distancing himself since he spends most of his time in his room. After missions he just disappears and reappears at dinner but four days ago was the worst fight we have been in in a while. We were surrounded and they shot at Pidge but he shielded her. We didn't think much of it because he's been through worse and we could easily get him to a cryotube. But when he didn't get up we knew something was wrong," Shiro is explaining when he sighs closing his eyes and rubbing the bridge of his nose.

"We found something," Allura adds softly looking at me with sadness in her eyes.

"SoMETHING!?! WE DID'T JUST FIND SOMETHING! WE FOUND EVERYTHING! HIS BODY WAS COVERED IN BRUISES AND SCARS!" Pidge screams, though she isn't sure if she's mad at Lance for not telling them or mad at herself for not noticing. She began to breakdown again and her voice softened. "He didn't have enough strength to get up from this battle because he had already been beaten down by all the rest of them."

"Why? How did this happen?" Keith asks turning to look at Shiro, Allura, and Coran.

"He never came to me for his injuries, I don't even think he treated them. He must of been in so much pain," Coran says absentmindedly as he still stares at Lance.

"He just kind of... gave up," Shiro further estimates what Coran had said glancing at Keith. "He fought hard but when we got back he kind of fell in on himself. He wasn't the Lance we all know."

"I don't think he ever has been that Lance," Hunk says drawing everyone's attention. "At the garrison he would take these pills twice maybe three times a day. I didn't pay much attention to it cause he was always so happy and nothing seemed to be wrong. But then I found out it was medication for depression, he brushed it off as if everything was okay. I believed him but after that I paid more attention."

"Lance was depressed?" Keith whispers to himself wondering how terrible of a boyfriend he was while the others just ignored him as Hunk continued.

"He was always doubting himself no matter what he did. You, Keith, was a big part of why he doubted himself," Hunk says pointing at him as he stares in shock.

"Me? Why?" Keith asks not understanding.

"You got everything so easily, you were the top of the class, and every professor compared him to you. That's how the whole rivalry started, I think he just wanted something to convince himself that maybe one day he could win, that he could beat you at something. But then when he was alone, I really saw the true Lance," Hunk sighs placing his head in his hands at the memory. "I was heading to his room to tell him something and when I opened his door I heard sobbing. I didn't announce I was there and walked in. What I saw, is something I wish I could unsee."

"What was it?" Shiro asks looking at Hunk worried that it was what he thought.

"No, he wasn't self harming as you may think but he just looked so terrible and worn out and I wish to never see him like that. His eyes were swollen from crying, his skin was pale, he had large bags under his eyes, and he looked so broken. I tried to help him but you know how stubborn Lance is, so after sometime of not seeing that Lance I kind of just forgot," Hunk says running his fingers through his hair as he sighs dejectedly staring at the floor.

"Is he going to be okay?" Keith whispers looking at Coran who sighs looking back at him.

"The results are unsure, he is not simply sleeping because of the cryotube but yet he is in a coma. How long that lasts is up to him," Coran says turning back to Lance.

"He called you everyday," Pidge says standing up trying to control herself and breath.

"What?" Keith responds quietly.

"He called you EVERYDAY but you never responded, look at your messages," Pidge says glaring at him as she points at his communicator. Keith only nods not believing it as he gets it out and sees three months worth of voice mails. That's when the tears start to flow.

"How? What?" Keith croaks trying to control his tears but isn't able to as he stares at all of them.

"He missed you, so much. Every time we said your name you could just see him deflate. Why did you never call?" Allura asks staring at this broken, crying boy as he cry's about his own broken boy.

"We were just so busy, and I never even thought about it," Keith says in disbelief that he had never even thought to call his own boyfriend once in a while. "I never even thought about it. WHAT KIND OF BOYFRIEND AM I? HE NEEDED ME AND I WASN'T THERE FOR HIM! I ONLY THOUGHT OF MYSELF!"

"Calm down Keith, you can talk to him about it when he gets out," Shiro says placing his hand on Keith's shoulder to calm him. He only shrugged it off and went to sit next to the tube to wait for Lance to wake up. Please wake up.

I think I'm going to leave it off there. If you want me to do a second part tell me. Should it be about Lance and Keith talking, Lance's voicemails, or both?

I hope you enjoyed see you next time✌🏻