It's been a while

Pidgeon: so mom and dad just called

Pidgeon: Rover got out again

Quizsnacc: isn't this the third time this month

Matthaniel: yeah except this time they can't find him. They've been looking for like an hour.

aDAB: Have they checked behind the house?

Matthaniel: all his usual place. He's nowhere to be found

Pidgeon: so matt and I are going to head out to help search

Matthaniel: sorry to break up the party

Shirodone: there's no need to apologize. We'll help

Quizsnacc: coran and I are already heading to the park to look. His phone is dead but he asked me to tell you we're gonna do our best

Shirodone: Adam and I will search our neighborhood

Pidgeon: seriously, thanks guys

Matthaniel: yeah thanks

Quizsnacc: 3

Shirodone: Lance, Keith, sorry to cut things short but we need as many people as we can get.

Lance Mclance: I'm right in the middle of this date and I cannot reschedule

Lance Mclance: I have far, far too many non-refundable deposits and yk crippling debt

Shirodone: I know your bet is important to you, but this is important to the Holts. We need you

Lance Mclance: yeah okay

Firelord Zuko: We'll search nearby animal shelters and let you know if we find anything

Shirodone: thanks, you two

"This sucks," Lance whines as they walk towards the exit.

This is the fourth animal shelter they've left empty handed. Keith scoffs loudly.
"It's the most fun I've had all evening."
"Kind of the point, genius. And by the way, As soon as we're done, it's back to the date."

They both slide into the car and Lance slams the door loudly.

"You're always so dramatic," Keith snaps at him.
"Not so perfect yourself, Mr Academic Probation. Just in case you'd forgotten about that little detail."

Keith's hands are balled into fists. Lance stares angrily out the window.

Lance's phone lights up as they walk out of their fifth shelter empty handed. The others are having just as much luck as they are, despite the amount of ground they're collectively covering.

There's a text from Shiro: "hope you two are getting along". If by that he meant 'driving in complete silence, not even looking at each other' then they were just peachy.

They both walk out of their fourth animal shelter of the evening empty handed.

"It's a shame I didn't get to total this car. It's a total piece of crap," Keith bites.
"Yeah well-"

Lance stops. He thinks about what Shiro would say if he could see the two of them; so wrapped up in their own bullshit in the midst of the crisis. Pidge loved that dog and they were barely helping the Holts get him back. He starts the ignition, catching Keith's look of surprise in his peripheral. This is the first time Lance had ever held back from giving him a piece of his mind.

"You want to know why I love it so much?" he finally says, not moving his eyes from the road. "It's because after I got my licence, my mom bought it for me. That might not sound like much to you, but my family doesn't have a lot. I busted my ass working away my summer to get enough to pay for driving lessons so that I could help my parents drive around my siblings in my dad's old car. And then my mom must have cashed out a kidney or something to get me this baby. Yeah she's old as hell, but I'll never forget what she did for me."

Keith is quiet for a very long time.

"You never told me that."
He shoots him a smile, "You never asked."

In my head they're kinda taking turns driving so that's why who's in the driver's seat may switch around