"You sure you're alright?" Kiara asked Lance for the millionth time. Only to get the same reply as always.
"Yes. I'm fine." It worried her, that Lance kept denying help when he clearly was anything but fine. It also hurt her, hurt her to see his hurt, clear in his eyes and face and the whole rest of his body too. Kiara looked at Lance and wrapped her arms around him, almost too tightly. She positioned her face right next to Lance's ear and whispered, "I love you." And she placed a gentle peck on his lips.

Lance blushed, even though it was just a soft brush of the lips, nothing really intimate, or touchy, but still something Lance very much loved, even if it only lasted a second. And when they pulled apart, Lance finally managed to smile, and Kiara managed a smile too.

Lance loved Kiara's smile, her dimples and freckles that were only noticeable with a smile, the way her eyes shone with the happiness, and how her smile was a genuine smile, not a fake one. Kiara could say the same about Lance's smile, his teeth were showing just a little and his eyes were bright again, filled with color, along with his cheeks. His faint freckles became more visible and his head tilted back slightly, he was also truly, genuinely smiling and that made Kiara even happier to know that her simple, sweet gesture could affect Lance in such an amazingly major way.

"I love you" they both said at the same time, smiling but blushing. Lance heard something in the distance, it sounded like agruing, Lance sighed in annoyance.

Lance walked out to the living room, Kiara following close behind, searching around for any signs of Zac, but there weren't any. They stopped in front of two little kids, a boy and a girl, who aside from the hair length, looked exactly alike. They were crying and yelling and pulling a blue and yellow toy dump truck back and forth between each other. "IT'S MY TURN TO PLAY WITH IT!" "NO IT'S MY TURN!" Lance sighed and picked up the toy. "ENOUGH!" He shouted, "Neither of you are playing with this, till you can learn to share. Understood?" Lance's face was so stern, even Kiara was slightly scared. She could see how stressed Lance was, basically having to be the parent of his siblings.

He'd make such a great father, Kiara decided, he handled it calm and fair, and finished one problem and move to the next, Kiara was nearly in awe.

He was fair and efficient and Kiara couldn't help but think of how their kids might react to their father's parenting, if they'd be scared or left unfazed or what. Then she realized she was thinking about having kids with Lance, she was thinking way too far in advance and the realization brought color up to her cheeks, leaving them temporarily stained a light red.

Lance looked up with a small smile, "ya okay there Kiara?" she blushed worse when Lance realized she was blushing "y-yeah I'm okay"

"You stuttered." Lance pointed out, jokingly, but he could tell Kiara wasn't enjoying the joke as much as him so he went serious, "Hey, I'm sorry." He put a hand on her shoulder, " Seriously though, what's up? Do you want to talk?" Kiara inched away, "N-nothing." She muttered under her breath, hating herself for being such an idiot.

Lance wasn't so easy to give up, "okay.." he said, "later then?" he asked, eyebrows raised. "fine.." she replied, not wanting to fight Lance at that point. "Yay, thank you babe-I mean-Kiara-"
"you stuttered" Kiara mocked.
"shut up!" he yelped, starting to blush.

"Make me." Kiara said and that Lance did, he couldn't help himself, she'd basically asked for it, he crashed his lips against hers and soon they were deep into a passionate kiss. Lance licked at Kiara's lower lip and she opened a her mouth a little wider, allowing Lance's tongue to wander through her mouth.

Lance noted how when Kiara was-well, Kiara, she was less dominate when she was Keith. was that a thing with genderfluid people? Lance didn't really know..

"hey, you okay?" Kiara prompted, Lance blinked "what?"
"you...you were staring?"
'o-oh...ah...s-sorry" Lance stuttered, blushing "just thinking," he adds,
she nods, "oh, alright..what about?"
"you." Lance said automatically, it was Kara's turn to blush.

"Y-you think about me?" Kiara asked quietly and Lance nodded in reply.
"All the time" Lance said, pulling Kiara into him, deepening the blush on her cheeks. The two looked into each other's eyes, smiles playing at both faces. They leaned into each other and just like that, they were kissing again, kissing passionately, like there's no tomorrow, like they'll never see each other again.