(LANCE ISNT DUMB YOU ARE

THIS IS NOT A SLOW BURN STORY. IF YOU WANT SLOW BURN WATCH THE FUCKING CANONICAL SERIES

This chapter has a flashback, basically Keith was in a relationship with a son of Hermes, and this is why he's scared of loving someone. Songs from Hamilton, because I can't write songs and this is a musical fic, I'm not sure if that's a thing but it is now. Sofia didn't know what was going on other than they went out, he did something with a girl, and they broke up. Btw she has Percy Jackson level obliviousness.

Last chapter was updated early in honour of the season 8 trailer. Wtf I'll just make this a new chapter

Ok so basically Sofia kinda had a crush on Liam but not much. This literally has no impact on the story other than I love the song. Basically Angelica's part of the Reynolds pamphlet mixed with congratulations.

Don't talk about how much this is like Hamilton. I am aware, but soon the story will kick off. Don't get me wrong, there will still be a lot of Hamilton references. I love it! Plus I didnt have this idea before but sofia plays Angelica in a movie based on the musical I just can't be bothered to go back and edit it. The trailer is non-stop from szin on YouTube, all rights go to them cause I can't describe things and it's kind of what I was imagining anyway, the trailer is two parts of the video; first one is from 2:58-4:12 and 5:06-6:22. Basically every one looks like they do in the video except that Sofia is Angelica. And I'm also thinking of doing a high school au for this. What do you (probably the only person still insane enough to read this) think? I'll finish this first. ALSO THERES A LOT MORE DETAIL ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED WHEN KEITH WAS IN SPACE SO YOU NEED TO PAY CLOSE ATTENTION AND NOT QUESTION ANYTHING CAUSE I CANT BE BOTHERED TO CHANGE PREVIOUS CHAPTERS

P.S. sorry for ranting)

Chapter 6: Required love is great pt.2

~~~Sofia~~~

"Damn, you decided to tell EVERYONE whilst Keith was here...WITHOUT TELLING HIM BEFORE?" Harriette screamed down his ear, I smiled at the daughter of Demeter. Seeing Liam hurt, I had liked him: not anymore. He saw me, and came over to me. He didn't even look sorry, he was the reason I left the garrison early. ONE DAY, I can't leave for ONE DAY without everything going to shit. I grabbed his arm.

"Ramiers," Liam's surname I sing, "Congratulations," my voice is dry, "You have invented a new kind of stupid

A 'damage you can never undo' kind of stupid

An 'open all the cages in the zoo' kind of stupid

'Truly, you didn't think this through?' kind of stupid."

"Sofia, I'm just happy you're back." He says ignoring everything i just said, the selfish bastard.

"I'm not here for you.

I know my brother like I know my own mind

You will never find anyone as trusting or as kind

And a million years ago, he said to me 'this one's mine'

So I stood by

Do you know why?

I love my brother more than anything in this life

I will choose his happiness over mine every time

Put what we had aside

Kogane is the best thing in our lives

I'm standing at his side.

You could never be satisfied.

GOD I HOPE YOURE SATISFIED

Ramiers? Congratulations." I slap him and walk off.

"OHHHHHHH!" Harriette screams, "LIKE THAT ROAST BARBECUE RAMIERS? SUCK IT"

Keith saw that. I know he's seeing it right now.

~~~Lance~~~

Keith went silent for a while. He started crying again. He leans his head in between my neck and shoulder, crying his eyes out.

"Ok, ok, calm," Keith whispers to himself, "Lance? Can I show you something?"

~~~basically he shows him both flashbacks~~~

"Oh wow"

"Yeah?" Keith scowls, but it's more sad than angry. He looks so unlike Keith, he looks helpless. I try and focus on that fact instead of how cute he looks.

~~~Keith~~~

"That's rough. Do you- do you want a hug or?" What? Did Lance? Did he just? Ask to- comfort me? I must've pulled a face because he winced.

"Ok," he shrugged, "I get it. It hurts but you've got to learn how to say goodbye." He half smiles, his eyes caring. NO KEITH STOP, you can't- you can't do this to yourself again. I try not to cry.

"Well, I taught myself to never say hi." I laugh.

"But you still did," Lance cups my face in his hands. Good gods how am I supposed to interpret this? Without getting my hopes up- "Keith I have no idea if you realise it or not but you- you said hi, to so many people. Every time you risk your life, do something reckless for someone else: you don't necessarily say hi to them but you kinda- nod in their direction. You acknowledge them. So don't ever think that you shut people out. Remember when you first met me, yeah? You let me Hunk and pidge on your bike after we all came after Shiro -your brother- and we had no personal relationship to him. Ok, maybe Pidge did kinda have a- uhh- válido- VALID reason for that, but you still helped us. Wait, where was I going with this?" That was when I realised how close our lips were, how close we were. Lance had slowly eased me closer to him, emotionally and physically.

~~~Lance~~~

Confession time? I could have kept going but I was forgetting English. That only happens when I'm flustered, focused or something important's about to happen. I wasn't too sure about which one it was, but any isn't good right now. I could see Keith's eyes scan my face, when they met mine I might have forgot how to breathe. Eyes sparkling purple, but kinda greyish purple, Keith's eye colour.

"Lance?" Keith's voice shook.

"Keith?" I breathed out. His eyes went sad, the sparkle lost.

"I can't get this close to you." He mutters, "I can't-"

"What? Why?"

"Because that'll make it harder to-"

"No. No, you're not leaving again."

~~Keefy~~

"So what happens when shiro gets better? Huh? Where do I go? What do I do?"

"You stay Keith, you stay with us. With Sofia," he pauses, "with me"

"Lance?" I ask, looking at his eyes, shiny with tears and think just fuck it all, you won't be here for much longer and there's a chance you may die so yolo?

"What?" He says looking up, a single tear rolls down his face, which is still in my hands, mine in his.

"Can I- can I kiss yo-" and I'm cut off by his lips against mine.

~~~Lance~~~

Don't ask me what was going through my head, he was pouting. I cave whenever one of my siblings or nieces or nephews pout. I will literally give them my soul if they asked with puppy dog eyes.

"FUCKING SHIT!" Someone very audibly screams. Me and Keith jump apart. Hunk pokes his head through the door.

"Hey Keith, you're looking better now. Can you come calm Sofia down? She just died." Hunk asks.

"Wait WHAT?" Keith looked up from the ground at Hunk.

"IN MAGIC AND MANOR!" Hunk added, "We got bored and put you guys on a side quest."

"FUCKING SHIT SHIRO FUCKER HELL!" Sofia screamed again.

"Huh, Sofia's always had um- colourful? vocabulary." Keith sniggers.

I push past him into the room "Can you even put characters on a side quest?"

"Why, yes my boy," Coran says, "if you had read the instruction manual it says that 1 or more chosen characters can go on a side quest if the players are away from the game."

"So what is the side quest?" I ask as Keith and Hunk walk in.

"Due to Keith's character type we decided that the most fitness side quest would be the 'free the princess' side quest." Allura says cheerfully in her posh person voice.

"BASICALLY KEITH GOT CAPTURED AND LANCE WENT TO SAVE HIM!" Sofia screams, she screams a lot, "NOW CAN WE CARRY ON WITH THE GAME?"

"I think Sofia's had a long day, maybe we should get an early nigh-" Shiro starts. Sofia snaps her head around to look at Shiro.

"Bitch I dare you," she snipes at him, "TELL ME TO GO TO BED!"

"Sofia-" Keith tries to calm her down.

"KEITH STAY OUT OF THIS. I NEED TO MAKE SURE THIS SIX YEAR OLD ISNT TELLING AN ADULT WHAT TO DO."

"But Shiro isn't-" Pidge

"When's his birthday? FEB RU ARY 29TH LEAP DAY! AND THERES ONLY BEEN SIX IN HIS LIFETIME! HE IS A FUCKING SIX YEAR OLD!" Shiro sighed as Pidge laughed hysterically, "Adam?" He said like the vine. I gasped, he just referenced vine!

"Wait. What day is it today?" Sofia rubs her temples, as her face screws up in concentration.

"Don't ask us we stopped counting after the first few weeks, Y'know saving the universe was more a priority."

Sofia narrows her eyes, she whispered underneath her breath, "So if last week was the 14th that means that it should be 9 days later. It's been 8!"

Keith narrowed his eyes, and sighed.

"What is it Sofia?" He asks.

"Nah, it's nothing. Just me and Noah's anniversary today but it's not a big deal." She lies I can see it. The way her eyes light up and she just waves it away as if it's nothing, I've seen Rachel do that so many times. (A/N ahhh fuck it) and I know my sister like I know my own mind. I narrow my eyes but don't say anything.

~~~Sofia et le time skip~~~

Tomorrow is Keith's birthday, when I disappeared/appeared it was the 14th of October, Keith's birthday is on the 23rd. Tomorrow, well, in a few hours. Shiro got his way, everyone's now in their rooms. I got lumped in with Pidge.

"Tell me what happened." Pidge pokes me.

I sigh she's been like this for the past hour. Begging to know about infinity war 2. I sigh again.

"No. Do you like Hamilton though?" I ask turning around and leaning on my elbow. I know there's a movie for that, I smile. I was in it. Angelica Schuyler, like my mother, not that they now that anyway. Chiron used the mist to make it look like I grew up in an orphanage and went to a small school.

"Huh?"

"Hamilton?" I repeat, "the musical?"

"Yes!" Her eyes light up, "I mean the first time I went to see it I was like 12. Shut up, I was good at history I knew what happened. Also my parents are ok with the language as long as I don't repeat it and it's educational. I swear it's my favourite musical not that I like musicals normally." She rants on, whilst smirking I take my phone out.

"Do you have a WiFi here?" I interrupt her, she looks up.

"Well duh. I need to be able to access the galra tech."

"How good is it?" I ask opening settings.

"Pretty? I guess. I works well enough to get the galra intel pretty much instantly. I don't know about things from Earth, assuming that's what you're tryna get?"

"Pass and router?" I ask. I chuckle at the names.

"Huh? Oh the router is penny get your own WiFi and the password? It's One does not simply take the hobbits to Isengard. No spaces, each word starts with a capital."

"Good one."

"Yep. Was a bit homesick when I made that one."

I type it in, and wait till the WiFi connects and look at the other WiFi names. 'MrSexyAndHeKnowsIt' Lance; 'ChickenChowMe-in' Hunk I'm guessing; 'ineedagaytablet' Shiro, I remember Adam saying that on a video chat once; 'DontBreatheInMyDirection' Keith, the edgelord. I roll my eyes, as I click on YouTube. Trending is 'Sofia Patel best moments' I have to scroll down to find 'Hamilton: history repeats itself, first trailer'. At first the screen is black then it starts.

She screams, and when Angelica (me) appears she gasps and hits my arm repeatedly with wide eyes. I smirk at her sideways. At the end the screen flashes black, the words in gold flash against the black 'Hamilton: history repeats itself' and '16th January'.

"When is that?" She demands.

"It was out this year." I smile sadly.

"Wait, what day is it?"

"23rd October. Otherwise known as Keiths birthday. I need your help."

"Wait. Keiths birthday is today?"

"Yep!"

"Wait it's coming- came out on the 16th jan? That's Lin's birthday right?"

I nod, "It was going to be the 17th February because of the first performance, and then it was gonna be jan 11th cause it was Alexander Hamilton's bday. But then they decided on the 16th. Hey, where's Keith's room? We need to catch up, he's missed so much on our end of things."

"Oh, it's down the hall, 4 doors to your left if you just walk out and it's opposite our side of the wall."

"Ok," I stand up and stretch, "when I get back we can watch Hamilton if you want. I was given it for free, y'know cause I'm in it."

"YES!" She jumps. I laugh and walk out. Looking to the right, I see Lance walking out of a back into Pidge's room, I wait for him to walk past. Counting 4 doors down I come face to face with the door that Lance walked out of. I narrow my eyes.

~~Lance~~

After Shiro decides Sofia needs sleep (when he finds out shes been running on pure adrenaline for the past 4 days) Keith grabs my wrist and drags me off to his room. I open my mouth, he shoots a glare at me strong enough to bend steal.

"No. Stop, no sex jokes. We need to talk," he closes his eyes, "We cant ignore what happened, don't pretend like nothing happened. Lance... please." I open my mouth and then close it. He looks at me with sad eyes and his mouth pouts a little.

"Okay..." I take a deep breath in.

"Don't do that." Keith shoots at me.

"What? Breathe? Aww Keith you wound me. And here I was thinking we had something."

"No," he laughs, shallowly: its like a laugh from a blind person who was just told to look around, "It's just how you look when doing it. When you 'take a breath' your face goes all." His hands wave in the air.

"All?"

"I never said this: cute."

I fake a bug gasp, "No way! Bad boy emo Keith Kogane, just called me: lowly Lance McClain, cute."

"Ugh, sometimes I have no idea why I like you."

"Aww babe, wait. We need to talk about this, what we are, what the team knows, whats going on." Keith looks at me skeptically.

"Well... this is the first time I've ever said this to anyone, but... I want to be your boyfriend."

"Ditto," I nod, his breath hitches and he looks at me with wide eyes as I walk over to him, "I mean how could I resist this?" I take his chin in my hand and tilt his lips up to mine. He closes the gap between us as I take my hand out from under his chin and put it in the crook of his neck. We break the kiss to smile, foreheads still touching, lips pressed together.

"We-need-to-know," Keith stutters as I pester him with kisses, then he pushes away and laughs wholeheartedly, "how fast you want to take this."

"I'm happiest when you are so I'm good with whatever you are." I murmur as I stand on my tiptoes slightly to rest my chin on his head.

"Ok, so we do whatever feels right?"

"'Course."

"And what about the rest of the team?"

"I remember that, my auntie was once telling me about this girl she dated once. They told no one. Not even their mutual friends, any family, nada. And then mi tía was at the mall with her friends and she saw her making out with some guy, and she didn't look like she was enjoy it. Tía Samantha talked to her about it and it turns out she was ashamed of her. Moral of the story is: depending on what you feel about it I'm good."

"What are you? In 2 ways, how are you so perfect? And sexuality; you never told me, cause that's another thing. You haven't come out to them."

"Well, I'm no straight like Shiro- whats so funny?" I ask, confused as Keith nearly pisses himself laughing.

"He's- not- straight- he's- probably- the- most- homosexual-man-I've-ever-met," Keith tries to talk, but can't stop laughing suddenly he does, "Shit. I never said anything. I don't know if he's comfortable with you knowing. Don't mention it."

"Hmmmm, maybe a kiss will help keep my mouth shut?"

"Haha, you wish. Answer the question first."

"Well, I don't entirely know. I never had any crushes on guys before you, but I've had loads on girls. So does that make me bi with a preference?" Keith studies me with his eyes, he swipes his hair out of his face. Is this boy trying to kill me?

"Well... What you told me sounds like hetroflexible? It's basically bi but with a massive preference to the opposite sex. God, I'm starting to sound like Nico. But yeah, some people identify as bi with a preference others can be homoflexible or hetroflexible." He rambles.

"Oh."

"Wait, this wasn't the original question."

"What was?"

"What are we telling the team?"

"I said I'm comfortable with whatever you are."

"But you're not even out to them!" Keith whispers.

"Keith," I stop myself halfway through breathing in, "Look, I like you a lot." He sniggers. I look at him, does he not like me? Dread starts to crawl through my chest. No, he said he wanted to be my boyfriend.

"Sorry, it's just with Sofia around-"

"It's weird."

"No! No! It's just- she's Hamiltrash? I think thats what it's called. And if she knew what you just said then, she'd be screaming 'COLD IN MY PROFESSIONS, WARM IN MY FRIENDSHIPS'. You probably have no idea whats going on do you?"

"I understood until you said Hamiltrash. What is that?"

"You ever heard of Hamilton? Basically," he sighs, "When some people like something they call themselves the trash of the thing, in the words of Lin Manuel Miranda. It's basically the two words mushed together. Why are we talking about this? Oh, yeah. There's this song and it goes 'Laurens I like you a lot' and yeah. There were some... homosexual letters written between them. It doesn't really matter but, yeah."

I smile, "Sofia means a lot to you, doesn't she?"

He gets a sad faraway look in his eyes, one like what hunk tells me I look like whenever I talk about my family at home, 'remembering happier times' is how he described it. "Yeah, she means the world to me. She- she'd probably say the same thing about me. 2 years ago at least. I don't know about now, I jus- I can't forgive myself." Why? What did he do?

"Why?"

"I- I forgot about her." He starts crying then, tears roll down his face silently.

"So?" I shrug, "Keith, you were busy saving planets. And it's not like I think about my family all the time. Right now? Im thinking about you. And that happens often you wouldn't know how often." He tucks a bit of hair behind my ear.

"Maybe you can teach me?