Walk into Love
Lance hated the term "falling in love".
It was a sad term. Falling was never a fun thing. It left you panicked and disoriented and desperately trying to right yourself.
To fall in love implies that you'll eventually catch yourself, scrape your knee, or maybe never stop falling. That third option doesn't sound so bad, does it? The feeling in your stomach must be similar, after all. But, realistically, there's no such thing.
Lance realized early on the beginnings of a crush on Keith. Sometime after the first time Shiro died, making Keith the black paladin, did he notice it. Just little things. Love doesn't have to be all consuming nor dominating. The person you're crushing on, that you like or possibly even love, doesn't have to be someone you replace everyone around you with. People tend to try and do that. Substitute a hundred different people in your life with someone you deem to have "fallen" in love with.
It tears you apart. It's not possible to do that.To love someone with all your heart, to prioritize or make them your everything. That's what mamá did. Love papa with everything in her heart, and when he left, he left with her heart. It broke her in more ways than could be fixed.
When you love someone, they shouldn't have your whole heart. Rather, a piece of it. You should know, be able to trust each other, that even if it wasn't your whole heart, they should treat it tenderly.
So when Lance realized the budding feeling in his gut, he followed it out of curiosity. It did not infringe on the time he spent with friends. It didn't affect his emotions negatively, and it didn't ruin his life.
The more he began to know Keith, really know him, the more he allowed himself to "fall". (Although, he wouldn't quite call it that.)
Lance saw Keith's ugliest moments. He saw his faults and his mistakes. Lance saw these and continued forward. He walked into love.
Lance witnessed all Keith had to offer and took it in stride.
But because Lance didn't exist alone, nor did he wish to, he did not verbalize these now blooming feelings. It would be selfish to do so, (not because it would make Keith uncomfortable or anything, Lance saw the blushing and the staring and the fidgeting,) but because of the timing. There was already so much on Keith's plate, what with Shiro and all, Lance kept his feelings unsaid.
He did not stop his actions, however. He did not make an effort to hide his affection, but he restrained from saying the words that'd likely throw Keith through quite the loop.
But Lance, although typically impatient, was more than willing to wait for someone if it was Keith.
Lance knew what he walked into.
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show ur arts pls!!! i want to see them!!
Here are some of them there kinda old. Sorry this is late
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hey mr snaps and pops do you like books?? do you ever read in your spooky lil downtime?? what kinda stories are you into?
"You forgot the crackles."
>He hums a bit to himself about it.
"Can't say I spare a lot of time for reading. Who even knows if I can read."
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