#spoiler: lance loves clark gable
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Hi! I really love your writing (i am so in love with paper skin) so if you're willing, 16 with klance for the ask thing? :D
S8 Canonverse-ish, but let’s pretend it ends a whole lot better and Allura lives and even though you don’t see him at all Adam is alive and engaged to Shiro (yes these are v. important details.😉). Thank you @thetolkiengeek for giving this a once-over. :D
20. things you said that i wasn’t meant to hear
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“Lance?” Keith asks, tentatively knocking on the side of the open doorway.
Lance is sitting alone in one of the lounges on the Atlas. He looks up from his tablet at Keith.
“Yeah?” he answers. “Uh, you can come in? It’s a common room, mullet.”
Keith is wringing his hands. “Okay I should just say this so–Shiro and I were–ugh.”
“What?” Lance chuckles. “You look nervous, Keith what’s going on?”
“I’m from Texas, Lance.”
He rolls his eyes. “Gasp. Shock. Horror. Keith, how dare you keep this secret from your team,” he deadpans.
“I speak Spanish. I mean, I understand Spanish. I understand like contextual things I just can’t speak back fluently and I–”
“Do you want lessons or something? I can give you some fun Cuban swears and slang words.”
“I know…” Keith hesitates. “I know contextual stuff. I’ve snuck into night clubs in Austin to see some concerts and shows… Some of the were drag shows. So I know slang.”
Lance doesn’t respond.
“I heard you and Veronica talking.”
“Oh.”
“I wasn’t trying to listen in. You two were arguing really loud and you can’t just un-hear things, right? But I think you weren’t saying it in English for a reason, and Shiro was saying you probably had this expectation of privacy—I didn’t tell him what I heard, but I heard it. So it’s not fair to like… lie by omission, and pretend I don’t know what I know.”
Lance nods. “That’s definitely… yeah I would want to know and I wouldn’t have been happy if you hadn’t said anything.”
“So… I know that you’re bisexual. And you haven’t told your parents,” Keith sits down next to Lance on the couch. “Veronica was really mad about that. Are you two going to be okay?”
Lance rolls back his shoulders, rubbing his neck. “Yeah, she just wanted me to say something before the Atlas left Earth. I had this pact that if I ever got on an off-planet mission from the Garrison I had to come out if I hadn’t already.”
“Makes sense.”
“I probably should have then, I just didn’t really think that they’d get it. ‘Hey, so I know I’m going on a date with a space Princess, but I also like dudes, whatcha think?’” Lance laughs. “There’d be a lot to unpack, yeah?”
“Dating a girl doesn’t mean you stop being bisexual.”
Lance groans. “You sound like my sister.”
Keith bites his lip. “I never got to tell my Pop.”
“And you regret it?”
Keith nods. “I hope he knew. I mean, I never said anything about girls or whatever. But I never got to say the words to him when he was around. I never got to look at him and say ‘Hey Dad, I’m gay’ and feel relief or rejection. I guess I can pretend he’d react how I’d want him to, like telling me he loves and accepts me. But what if he wouldn’t have? I’ll never know for sure.”
“Did you tell your Mom?”
Keith nods. “She said if falling in love with an alien was any indication, that he’d believe love is love no matter what.”
“Well yeah, then I think he would have to,” Lance chuckles.
“You wanna know the fucked up thing? I would have still wanted to tell him even if I knew he would reject or disown me. He died not knowing a really important part of me… even though he kept important parts of my own history from me.”
Keith looks at Lance. He nods him on to keep speaking, looking deep into his eyes.
“I resented him for not telling me about my mom, that he knew I was part Galra. I hated him for leaving me before he should have,” Keith presses his mouth together. “I hate myself for not saying it the moment I knew.”
Lance looks down at his tablet in his lap. “When was that?”
“When I was eight and I wanted to watch The Birdcage because I loved Robin Williams movies and someone in my class told me I couldn’t because it was about two men that were married and I was like 'Men can do that?!’ And then I asked my teacher and he sent me home with a note for my Pop.”
Lance laughs. “Seriously?!”
“Yeah, he took one look at the note, grabbed a bottle of bourbon, took a drink, and proceeded to explain to me what 'gay’ and 'lesbian’ meant. He took another shot of bourbon right after and told me that I could see the movie—when I was older. Not because of the gay stuff, but because it had too much swearing and I wouldn’t understand all of the jokes.”
“Did you see it?”
“Yeah, I actually woke up at three in the morning and watched it on cable while he was asleep. They censored the swears, so I figured it was okay?”
“What did you think?”
“I think I wanted to marry the son, he was cute,” Keith smiles. “I was pretty stoked that men could get married to other men. I mean, I didn’t know it still was illegal so I just kind of kept that in the back of my pocket.”
“So… I wanted to be Clark Gable in It Happened One Night,” Lance smiles. “I wanted to be that kind of suave, worldly, fast-talking and sharp-witted guy. And then I wanted to be Han Solo. And then Captain Kirk.”
“But then, one day you realized you wanted them to be as suave and charming with you too?”
“I still think about the walls of Jericho coming down in that movie. And sometimes there’s a girl on the other side, sometimes there’s a guy.” Lance licks his lips. “That’s the only way I can think to explain it.”
“You flirt with girls a lot.”
“I never learned how to flirt with guys,” Lance shrugs.
“If it doesn’t work out with Allura, I’ll teach you–” Keith’s eyes go wide. “I… totally just said that out loud. Oh fuck. I am so sorry, I didn’t mean it.”
Lance stands up. “That’s too bad. Would’ve been a really smooth, suave line if it was intentional.”
“I guess,” Keith watches as Lance stretches out long limbs. “You can have it for if you ever need to flirt with a guy, I mean, I guess it’s just like flirting with a girl only––ugh. Flirting is not my thing. At all. Ever. Are you going somewhere?”
“Yeah, gonna go call my parents. I can’t really keep putting it off, especially if I break through the walls of Jericho, and there’s my dream guy on the other side.”
Keith smiles. “I’m happy for you, Lance.”
“Then maybe we can watch The Birdcage and It Happened One Night as a way to keep me from hyperventilating in case it doesn’t work out?”
“That would be fun, but I’m hoping it works out the way you want.”
Lance nods and turns to leave, but spins on his heels. “For the record, it didn’t work out with Allura. We’re just friends.”
“Oh?”
“Which you knew, because Veronica and I were arguing about that too.”
“Yeah, but I didn’t mean to hear that either. Also the stuff about a long-haired friend that you wanted to ask out next.”
“I might have almost had a teeny-tiny, itty-bitty, full on panic-attack type meltdown when she asked if she could ask them out. So she called me out on harboring a not-so-secret crush on them. I fessed up to Allura that night about it. She said it was okay, and she always thought we’d be better together than her and I.”
“Wow, that’s really mature of you both.” Keith says. “So, Veronica pretended she wanted to hook up with Romelle? I mean, I’m guessing she’s the long-haired friend in question.”
Lance laughs. “Actually, mullet, I already asked out the long-haired friend on a movie date.”
Keith blinks.
“I’m not sure if he sad yes though, he’s being really vague. Guess I have to work on my guy-flirting some more.”
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From the Writing Prompt Meme!
#klance#klance ficlet#em answers#l-x-ie#s8 canonverse-ish#s8 but without everything bad#veronica is the sister we need#implied allurance (platonic though)#coming out#tw: homophobia mention#tw: biphobia mention#writing prompt meme#writing prompt#em writes#spoiler: the walls of jericho come down and Keith is there#spoiler: keith knows the entire fosse fosse fosse monologue#spoiler: lance loves clark gable#;)#I hope you like it even though we changed prompts!!
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