/TW/ be careful my dumplings

Chapter Two - We Failed Him

To say the team was horrified was a understatment. they were now sitting surrounding Lance's cryo-pod, waiting for Shiro to tell them what happened. They were

getting ready for dinner and Shiro was given the job to go get Lance but what the paladins didn't expect was to be sitting down at the table when a scared Shiro ran into

the room screaming about how Lance needed a cryo-pod. Once Coran had set up the pod Shiro nearly threw him into it, perfect timing too as Lance's breaths were

getting more spaced out and uneven. But now came the long wait for Lance to get out. And Allura still not knowing what Lance had done set off a bomb with one

question to Shiro.

"What did Lance do this time Shiro? Was he goofing off again?" Allura asked not even trying to hide the annoyance in her voice, Pidge and Keith both grumbled their

agreements with Allura's question. Shiro stood up anger in his eyes and no-one could have even dreamed of what his what about to say next.

"WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST SAY?! HOW FUCKING DARE YOU SAY THAT AS IF YOU HAVEN'T HURT HIM ENOUGH YOU BITCH!".

Allura stood there mouth opened wide shellshocked from what the usaully calm leader just said.

"Woah Shiro calm down, She just asked a question. There's nothing wrong with that." Kieth said worried about his fostered brother.

"OH IS IT! I'M SORRY, I JUST YOU KNOW THINK SHE SHOULD STOP BLAMING SHIT ON LANCE! ALL OF US SHOULD FUCKING STOP SHITTING ON

LANCE, He-he doesn't deserve that, he's through enough allura, fucking enough!". Shiro fell to the floor sobbing. Pidge was just about to say something when Keith

quickly clapped his hand over her mouth. Hunk walked over to Shiro encasing him into a full on bear hug asking him what had happened. Shiro soon collected himself

and explained what had happened.

"When I went to go find him for dinner my first stop was his room and and um". "take your time buddy take your time" Hunk calmly said. Shiro contuined.

"His front door was un-unlocked and I thought that was weird and so I went in and their was a note on his desk and I-I saw the first few words an-and it was a sui-sui"

"A suicide note" Hunk said much too coldy and much too calmly for what this meant. A hush went over the room and Shiro went on.

"His ba-bathroom door was locked and I-I was scared so I banged and banged on it and I-I broke it." Shiro swallowed."And Lance was lying in the ba-bathtub and it

was full of water and his was falling in ex-expect the water was-was orange and lance had cut his wrist and it was really bad and-and-and." Hunk cut Shiro off."It's

alright buddy, you can stop".

The room was quiet expect for the quiet sounds of sniffling. Keith looked a mix between mad and heartbroken, Pidge was silently crying with a horrified expression on

her face, Allura was crying into Coran's shoulder who was just looking at the pod with a unreadable expression and Hunk was just there hugging Shiro and looking at

Lance's pod with scorn and guilt.

it felt like years untill Hunk cleared his throat and started speaking "I'll bring out the cots we'll sleep here tonight". Everyone nodded. After setting up Coran and Hunk

started talking in a corner away from the group. While the rest of the crew was around Lance's pod. Pidge started the converstation.

"H-how could he do this to us" she spat the words out like poison.

"He failed us" Keith said angerily.

"No, he didn't fail us" Allura said much to the others surprise.

"We failed him, we failed him so horribly". Shiro finished for her.

"Keith, Princess do you remeber when we had that converstation in the lounge a couple weeks ago?" Shiro started

"Oh my god" "He heard that" Allura said appaled at herself, fresh tears coming from her eyes.

"Coran can you bring me the lounge footage from a few weeks ago before Lance started distancing himself from the group?" Shiro asked his voice breaking.

Coran brought it up everyone hearing what Allura and Kieth said. Lance had heard the whole damn thing.

"I hurt him, I hurt him so bad!" Keith screamed.

"All three of us hurt him Keith, Allura and I take blame as well." Shiro said looking ashamed and distraught. Allura mumbled agreement.

Hunk sighed causing everyone to look at him. "He was like this before, hell even before the garrsion, I talked him out of jumping off our school building once". Hunk

said sadly.

"How did I not notice, at the garrsion?" Pidge said heartbroken.

"He was a good actor, even I thought he was getting better. I can't say I'm not dissapointed in him but I can't blame him. You guys reminded him of his family i guess".

Hunk said sounding even sadder.

"Isn't that a good thing? doesn't he love his family?" Keith said confused.

He loves his siblings, there a difference. But it isn't my place to tell you guys about his past. He'll tell you guys himself, I'll make sure of that. But now we have to wait

so let's get some rest, we'll contuine when he gets out." Hunk said tiredly. Everyone nodded and they began to get on their own respective cots but in the end they just

made a huge nest things out of blankets and pillows and cuddled together, even Coran and Allura joined. All of themm tried to ignore the horrible feeling in their guts as

they drifted off into restless sleep.

TBC...