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keith "i didn't come here to make friends" mccree ([personal profile] emblazes) wrote2017-07-02 08:34 am

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[personal profile] competing 2017-09-06 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he was so close to accessing that sweet, sweet bliss known as the REM cycle, only to be rudely interrupted by some loudmouth...

hang on.

he's the only loudmouth around here...!

he stirs, but only slightly, just enough that part of his face can be seen. one hand flops uselessly in the air, attempting to wave the buzzing fly away. ]


Fivemoreminutes...
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[personal profile] competing 2017-09-06 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[ okay so, all of this? totally not helping with that whole "trying to sleep" thing. so when he's suddenly picked up and made to sit upright, he grunts in obvious discontent. at least it manages to wrench his eyes open. sorta open.

he peers at keith with the most petulant of frowns. ]


Hey... this is my room now... getout.

[ yeah he's gonna try and twist away from keith now, rolling onto his side and tipping towards the other end of the couch. ]
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[personal profile] competing 2017-09-06 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ like a good boy (or a boy with no real say in this given how little energy and strength he has left), lance rises to his feet along with keith's urging. ]

Hey.

[ he turns to keith suddenly, which in this case is really more like leaning all his weight on the other boy, and using that momentum to swing his head to the side, which just results in bumped foreheads, but at least with their foreheads pressed together like this now, lance can maintain a steady eye contact. because what he's about to say is super important, and not at all spurred on by lack of blood or anything like that. ]

...make sure to use the hamster ones.

[ band-aids. he bought the house hamster band-aids because of course he did. ]
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[personal profile] competing 2017-09-06 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ the walk from the living room to the bathroom sure is a lot longer when you're barely walking. but to his credit, he tries, dragging each foot little by little with keith's continued coaxing. the conversation is a welcome distraction; he almost forgets how his bruised ribs object to all the talking. ]

No no no. [ he certainly sounds a bit like he's drunk, words slurring slightly, but it's just the lightheartedness talking here... ] Band-aids. Band-aids. I got us all hamster ones, because they're kinda like the space mice, you know?? I figure it might help make Allura feel a little less outnumbered.

[ because they're dumb boys.

anyway, lance sighs heavily, head lolling slightly against keith's temple. ]


I'm thirsty, [ he announces.

well damn bitch me too. ]
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[personal profile] competing 2017-09-07 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ lance contemplates that question for a long time. or, at least however long it takes for that cup to be filled, which feels like a long time to a dehydrated man. it's only when he sees it filled to the brim (and then some, pay attention keith don't waste water) that he realizes he should speak. ]

Yeah.

[ ... i mean it's technically true. he keeps watching the cup, clearly waiting for it to come closer. he doesn't really want to risk lifting any arms at the moment, especially now that he's sort of settled on the toilet as he is. ]

After she kicked me.

[ okay... we're getting somewhere... ]
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[personal profile] competing 2017-09-07 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ brb he's gonna just chug the whole thing first, thanks. he hadn't realized just how thirsty he was till that first drop of water touched his tongue, but to be fair he'd been out all day, saving all kinds of lives... playing all kinds of arcade games...

but once he's downed the thing he's licking at his lips, contemplating asking for a second cup... maybe he should pace himself. can you get over-full on water?? ]


I didn't really get her name.

[ he sighs, and no it's not the love-struck kind of sigh one might expect from lance when he's talking about a girl. there's a sharp frown on his lips, a deep furrow to his brow even as he closes his eyes and tilts his head back against the wall. it's a meager attempt to try and crawl back towards that rest he'd been looking for earlier. ]

A bunch of the new people that woke up... some of them were in pretty bad shape in that simulation. I think she thought we all betrayed her or something... She was pretty mad.
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[personal profile] competing 2017-09-07 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ lance isn't too out of it that he would miss the anger in the other boy's voice, but he actually misunderstands that it's directed at himself. to be fair, he had been pretty stupid back there, acting more like the red paladin than he would have liked— ]

No, it was just me.

[ —but at the time, he couldn't really afford to stop and wait for any back up. ]

And I wouldn't say it was for no reason, either... She really thought she was betrayed. [ the water worked to rejuvenate him a little, but already he can feel a bit of his words begin to slur together. he's completely still as keith tugs on his shirt, too tired and beat to really care. save for a couple of cuts, it's the bruising that's really all that concerning, almost his entire torso looking like some kindergartener fingerpainted purple all over it. ]

Anyway I tried to talk some sense into her but she wasn't really having it, so then I tried to hug her to get her warm to snap her out of it [ LOOK he was told that's how they could help okay?? ] but she was having that way less.
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[personal profile] competing 2017-09-07 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
I couldn't not do something. [ in the end, that's the whole of it. sure, he would have preferred to just talk it out, as is his nature, but well that wasn't looking likely, he had to do what he could. in the end, it all sort of worked out, and he definitely isn't quite as bad as he could have been.

he quiets when keith leans down to tend to the wound on his arm, expression scrunching up slightly. the ointment is unrecognizable to lance, but it has a shadp, crisp smell that he doesn't automatically trust. still, he trusts keith, and so doesn't put up a fuss when he starts applying it—

but he's definitely wishing he'd given out a good warning befofe hand. hissing, lance jumps in his seat a little, hands flying down to grip at the edge of the porcelain. it just reopens that wound again, tbh, but the ointment is... slowly but surely doing something about it.

he gives keith a Look, as if he were annoyed... but tbh it's more that the pain has brought him back to the present a bit more, and he's angry at himself for not looking a little tougher in front of him. hmph. ]
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[personal profile] competing 2017-09-08 11:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ it takes lance a couple of moments to remember the hanster bandaids, somehow having forgot all about mentioning them from the get-go. in the end, it's the thinking about thinking about them that actually distracts him from the aches, instead of the actual bandaids themselves.

relaxing a bit now, he tries to finally take stock of himself. apart from his arm, no other limb seems to really be in any rough shape. he'd sprained his ankle there for a bit (again) but it seems to have healed up just fine by now — or maybe just the pain of it pales in comparison to everything else.

a deep breath, and then a pause. ]


I think my ribs are bruised.

[ you're not jamming that ointment downhis throat, though.... ]
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[personal profile] competing 2017-09-09 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[ there is a lull between keith's question and his response, seemingly distracted by the strangely tender removal of his boots. in the interim, he takes a couple of deep breaths, contemplative. ]

...Bruised.

[ if they were broken, it would hurt a lot more, wouldn't it?

there is a long pause, eyes stalling over keith's hands in the fading light. ]


Am I dying?
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[personal profile] competing 2017-09-10 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't think I was.

[ it all hurts a little too much to feel like death; wasn't that supposed to be one sweet release? and though he had felt a flare of that fear, there had been something infinitely comforting in keith's presence that hadn't allowed the fear to linger. especially not after hearing such conviction in the other boy's tone.

still, he can't help but babble. up on his feet now, with blood and oxygen rushing back up to his brain, his lightheadedness makes his already instinctual lack of filter that much more unavoidable: ]


For a second, though — for a second I thought I was.

[ once more he leans heavily on keith, using the shorter boy for full support. once more their faces are mere inches apart, and his eyes are left to stare intently wherever they could fall. ]

And then I thought, If I was gonna die, there's definitely something I wanna do before I never get the chance to do it anymore—.
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[personal profile] competing 2017-09-10 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ and then he stops abruptly, quieting into a heavy pause. then his eyes seem to glaze over, like a visible glitch, and his expression slackens as his head begins to tilt the other way. ]

...Buuuuut I'm not. Which is — yay. Great. That's — great.

[ another pause, but much more brief and awkward. ]

Why am I standing again?

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