One shot and Christmas is in jeopardy

A/N: It's the 14th already, and I'm posting this before watching Voltron, I'm not ready in any way, but yeah, have fun reading!

14th of December

Knocking, loud and clear like glass falling and shattering. Lance tried and failed, to ignore the light knocking. "Coming now" Lance mumbled and walked over to the door, opening it partly. "What?" Lance asked, his head was still ringing after yesterday. "B-breakfast," Keith said unsure, he was a little taken back by the unfriendliness in Lance's voice and eyes. A tick after tick, Lance realized how big of a jerk he had sounded like. "So sorry, I just woke up," Lance said with an apologizing look in his eyes.

"Hey, you look, eh, worse than yesterday, did you still not sleep well," Keith asked concerned, looking at Lance intensely. When he didn't get an answer, Keith sighed, his facial features covered in concern and frustration. "I know something's wrong, please, tell me and let me help you" Keith walking in front of Lance, taking his hands, glaring the taller boy straight in the eyes. Lance flinched, looking shocked at Keith for a tick before looking ashamed away. "I don't think it's something you can help with," Lance said with a small, sad smile. He pushed gently past Keith, walking further down the hall.

Lance took a deep breath before walking into breakfast. Keith had caught up with him, so they walked in together. "Hey, Lance, Keith, good morning to you both" Hunk said excitedly. Pidge and Shiro followed Hunk's lead by both saying good morning to the newcomers. Coran said something in Altean that they all assumed was a greeting, and Allura was reading a book so she just hummed as her own greeting. The Cuban sat and spaced out while he was eating, only hearing parts of conversations that passed around.

"I would just like an LGBT ship to be canon, Cifa and Sami would be so perfect to each other" Keith said in a conversation with Shiro. "I thought Adam and I scared you from all LGBT ships," Shiro said with a chuckle "And is it even called LGBT in Altean" Shiro looked so curious as he said it.

"Pidge, I'm telling you, if we put lights in it, it would look awesome," Hunk said with great passion in his voice. "But wouldn't it make it too heavy, and I don't think there is space inside to build it," Pidge said, sounding really concentrated like she was doing the math in her head (Which she properly did, now that he thought about it)

When everyone had finished they all, except Coran (He had something he should fix), went into the launch, it was something that they had done a lot in December. They were all laughing and telling stories from earth, or Altea in Allura's case. Keith looked over at Lance, noticed that the other boy was slowly growing paler. "Lance, are you okay?" Keith whispered concerned. Lance looked over at Keith, his hearing growing wobbly, and the ringing turning to deafening silence. "Oh no," Lance whispered because that meant the siren would begin in 5… 4… 3… 2…1

Keith watched as Lance clenched his teeth together, and as his nails buried themselves into the exposed skin on his arms. "Lance, what's happening?" Keith sounded a little panicked, but he had kept his voice down so the others wouldn't notice. "R-reall-ly mmm-m-uch pa-ai-in" Lance managed to say out of his gritted teeth. By this Keith couldn't keep his cool any longer. "Where does it hurt?" Keith asked urgently, ignoring the confused questions from the others. "Please, be silent, it… it will pass" Lance said with a strained voice, holding back a whimper.

Lance was holding back screams of pain, the team shouldn't hear those, it would make them even more scared and worried. He pressed his hands as hard as his sprained wrist allowed, trying to block out the noise and the pain. His teammates' concerned words were muffled down to mummers, impossible to hear the words, but their comfort still reached Lance. He could feel a warm hand on his back, it was going slowly around in circles.

Lance could feel the siren disappear, and the pain slowly going away. Lance slowly removed his hands from his ears and met the worried glances from his teammates. "Lance, what the fuck was that?" Pidge said, looking shocked and scared. "language Pidge" Shiro mumbled, but everyone ignored him. Lance looked down at his shaking hands, hearing the blood rushing in his right ear. "I… I wanted to tell you about it, but… What if it is unfixable, what if you don't want me after finding out?" Lance said, not daring to look up at his friends.

"Hey, It's fine, we can't help if you don't tell us, alright" Lance had never heard, nor believed that it would ever happen, Keith talking this soft. "O-ok, Remember the 2nd of December, we were on a galra cruiser, and I got shot in the ear. S-something broke, and the… cryo-pod didn't heal it" Lance said with a small voice. He heard Pidge gasp, Hunk breathe in sharp, and Shiro's metal hand clunch together. He could feel Allura giving his shoulder a little squeeze, and Keith's hand stopping in shock for a few ticks before continuing to going around in comforting circles.

"You don't mean…" Hunk asks, not daring to say the last words, but everyone knew what was talking about. "Yeah, I'm deaf in one ear," Lance said finally looking up to meet his friends' eyes.

A/N: Short author notes today, huh? That's fun, I'm just really tired and I need to do some things before I can watch Voltron, so gotta go, bye, see ya in chapter 15