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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 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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[personal profile] competing 2017-09-10 02:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[ lance squints at some distant spot in their path, clearly trying to make sense of something. ]

Didn't you move out...?

[ so much for keeping the confusion to a minimum. though, to be fair, having such trivial details to focus on is helping him, at least as far as keeping his head clear of his own conflicting thoughts, which in turn encourages his body to move on auto-pilot. ]
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[personal profile] competing 2017-09-10 02:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[ wasn't that the point though?

lance isn't too sure anymore, it's so hard to tell once he's suddenly horizontal, and staring up at the underside of his own bed. he remembers the last time he had this view — coincidentally the first night keith had slept on the couch. lance wound up sleeping here, only because he'd been too lazy to climb up into his own bed, of course. of course.

his nose wrinkles slightly. ]


I'm gonna have so much laundry to do...

[ who knows what kind of dirt and blood and ointment junk he's getting all over these sheets. sigh. SIGH. ]
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[personal profile] competing 2017-09-10 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ fair... fair... lance is the one to actually voice the worry, and just because he'd felt complete comfort and trust in keith's determined answer to never let such a thing happen, that doesn't necessarily mean the other boy has moved on from the same concern. lance could definitely stand to be a bit more thoughtful...

but that's somewhat difficult when it occurs to him, quite belatedly, that he's technically laying on a bed that still strangely smells like keith (?? when did he know what keith smells like), wearing nothing but his damp socks and his blue space boxer briefs. his lips press into a thin line, and after too many long stretches of silence and intense staring, lance slowly slips his hands over his lap and just sort of... half-rolls onto his side. back to keith.

SO ANYWAY................. ]


Uh. Thanks. [ his mind sort of just scrambles for any old thing to say, but some genuine gratitude is probably not a bad place to start. it would have had to come up eventually. ] For dressing my wound and... [ taking care of him... making him feel better about not dying... ]

You know... stuff.
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[personal profile] competing 2017-09-10 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[ somehow, the fact that keith isn't making a bigger deal out of this is making lance feel like it's a bigger deal than it probably (???) actually is. and that's just so annoying. why can't be ever be happy. when will he Rest.

in any case, the sudden cold ointment against the back of his legs has him nearly jumping right off the bed. he twists around to try and swat at keith's hands, when he knows the boy's only just trying to help but good gravy man it's so cold and also it tickles. ]


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