Lance has a problem, not a big one per say, but a problem none the less. He can't sleep.

I know some people may be saying "well I can't sleep either sometimes so why does it matter?" And honestly it doesn't but its an all the time thing where he try's and try's but nothing works.

there's a reason he can't sleep. He's used to helping everyone in his house first which when there's 10 stubborn people living with you it tends to make actually sleeping after pretty difficult.

He got 2 1/2 hours of sleep at most a week on earth which was bad but he wouldn't show it. Now that he's in space those 2 1/2 hours meant nothing because when you spend all your energy you sleep but lance is so accustomed to it that he can't because he isn't satisfied with it.

Lances pov.
It's 1 am castle time and I should be asleep even though I'm almost positive no one else is. Then an idea pops into my head. Maybe if I walk around a bit it will help? So I walk to the kitchen and hear pots and pans rattling.

Hunk is probably stress baking so I walk in and for sure there he is.

"Hey buddy it's 1 you should sleep I'll clean this up" I say softly. Hunk jumps slightly but shakes his head no.

"I can't make you clean up my mess" he says back while not even paying attention. I sigh and try and convince him for another 30 minutes that it's fine and I don't mind cleaning up for him. Finally he agrees and leaves.

"How the quiznak did he make such a big mess" I whisper to myself but get along with my cleaning anyways which ends up taking 35 minutes. Once I'm done I go to the main room and see pidge sitting there typing along on her laptop.

"Pidge pod you need to sleep it's 2:08 am and we have stuff to do tomorrow" I say lightly hoping she'll listen. She looks up slightly glaring at me.

" I'm trying to find Matt and my dad, AND tracking the galra right now lance I'll sleep later" she replies lazily. I sigh and start counting to 5 and she quickly puts her laptop down.

Thank you mother for your scary counting magic.

" pidge you're going to put your laptop away and go to bed you hear me?" I say sternly.
She looks a little scared for a second then smirks.

"Only if you carry me to my room, and tuck me in" she says smugly not thinking I'll actually do it.
I go up to her and scoop her up bridal style and take her to her room. "Put in your password" I say so I can get in. She still seems a little shook by the fact I actually just carried her to her room but puts in her password anyways.

I lay her down on her bed, making a mental note to come and clean her room later. I pull up her covers and lay her down. She is already cuddling her pillow so I can tell she's tired. "Goodnight pidgiey sleep well" I whisper while petting her hair. She gives a little squeak in response and I smile.

After leaving her room it's 2:28 and I'm still awake and active. As I'm walking past the rooms I hear small cries coming from someone's room I listen closely and find it's coming from shiros room.

I knock and the sniffing stops. Shiro opens his door and looks at me confused.
"Hey lance what do you need?" He says.

"Well I heard you crying and I came to see why, it's 2:30 am you should be asleep not crying so why are you?" I say. Shiro invites me in and tells me about all his worry's and about his time with the galra. I comfort him and eventually after awhile of hugging and whispering in his ear how he's doing good leading us I hear small snores coming from his mouth. I smile and put him to bed.

As I'm walking I hear coran doing something in the observatory and so I go in and find him looking at pictures of altea. I tap him on the shoulder and he looks up at me.

"Oh, my boy it's only you" he says.
"What are you doing up coran it's 4:34 you need to sleep." I say back

" oh I was just look at photos of altea I miss it there very much" he says sadly. I let him tell me about it until I force him to sleep.

Next I go to the training room and find Allura and Keith. They're doing something I think it may be planning so I go and ask. They say they're just doing some last minute planning for tomorrow and so I let them tell me before finally telling them to sleep.
"Well why not we've been at thins for awhile so sure, night lance, night allura" says Keith and so does allura.

Once I make sure they're all asleep and doing a coupe of checks just to make sure, it's 6:50 am and we have training at 7:30 am so what's the point in sleeping right now amirite.

~~~tippity time skip like 4 months nobody pov~~~

Lance has been doing the same thing every night, make sure everyone is asleep, walk around, train and clean, realize it's to late to sleep anyways and goes to breakfast. He gets around 1-2 hours every 3-4 days, His dark circles and paler skin are very prominent without a bunch of makeup but he's happy anyways because the important people have gotten sleep.

~~ Keith pov ~~

During breakfast I've been feeling more refreshed because I've been getting sleep so I can pay more attention. Lance isn't here yet, probably putting on makeup, hunk is eating along with shiro, allura, and coran.

Right now pidge has this huge grin on her face and I can tell she did something. I look at her for a solid 5 minutes before asking " pidge what did you do?"
She smirks more before quickly yelling out "I took lances makeup so that he doesn't spend as much time on it"
Everybody looks over at her confused but also happy they've all wondered how lance looks without his precious makeup anyways so they don't mind much.
When lance finally strolls in he has his hood up so we can see his face and looks at pidge.

"Haha gremlin real funny now where'd you put my makeup?" He asks her sounding kinda angry. Shiro wasn't pleased with his tone and looked annoyed.

" look lance I know you be embarrassed to be seen without makeup but it's rude to tsk to people like that, also take off your hood that's also rude" says shiro in his dad voice. Lance slowly lowers his hood and gets food we haven't seen his face yet maybe he is just really insecure about his skin? When he finally sits we look at his face and all gasp. Lance looks so tired and defeated. His dark circles are way way way wayyyy worse than pidges ever have been and he looks uncharacteristically pale.

"Woah lance buddy how much sleep have you gotten in the past week?" Says hunk concerned.
Lance smiles weakly before slurring out "around an hour or so since Monday (it's Friday)"

" Lance you're such a hypocrite you tell me to sleep all the time when you don't even sleep yourself" Says pidge

We all look around and at the same time say " he does that for me too"

Lance just looks away from us sadly.
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