The night went by smoothly so far, the boys ordered a huge three course meal from room service.
"I haven't seen this much food since my family dinners every holiday!" Lance said admiring the copious amounts of food. He dished himself up a little bit of everything and sat on the sofa sipping some iced coffee.
"Eat up, there is more than enough for seconds." Keith smiled sitting next to him. Lance seemed to relax as the night went on, no call from Shiro yet. Keith was on edge the longer it took. He didn't know why he hadn't been heard from. It wasn't right. Something was going om but he didn't want to worry Lance anymore than he had to.
"Man, this is soo good" Lance crooned between bites of potato salad. Keith smiled glad to see him enjoying the food.
"Just wait until dessert" Keith said eating his way through his own plate. Lance's face seem to light up at the thought and ate a bit faster now. The two boys ate and talked for hours before finally calling it a night. Lance seemed to forget about Shiro as he sleepily crawled into the bed and buried himself in the blankets. Keith thought it was better this way, maybe Shiro wouldn't make a big deal out of him leaving and realize Lance is better off without him. Keith watched Lance get cozy and start dozing off before shutting the door quietly for the night. Keith flopped onto the couch pretty tired himself. It didn't take long for Keith to fall asleep either.
"Stop! Leave me alone! Please just stop! It hurts1" Keith shot up at the screams panicked. What was happening? He could just hear Lance crying out in pain from in the bedroom. He was up in a second murder in his eyes. Had Shiro snuck in?! He flung open the door ready to fight seeing only a boy huddled in the corner crying. Keith calmed down realizing he must be having a nightmare. Keith's heart jerked a bit hearing the sounds Lance made as he dreamed. Keith crouched down in front of him and slowly shook him.
"Lance" He said softly. " It's okay, it's a dream." He soothed trying to wake him. Keith shook a bit harder finally able to snap him out of it. Lance looked around confused as to why he was on the floor.
"Lance...You okay?" Keith asked watching him carefully.
"I..don't know" He replied still half asleep.
"You were having a nightmare." Keith said helping him up and back to the bed. Lance laid down again.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to wake you" Lance apologized feeling bad.
"No worries, I'm glad you're okay now." Keith smiled and said goodnight before heading out again. Lance seemed to fall right to sleep again, lucky him, after hearing him scream like that it had made Keith's blood curdle and his heart to race and he was wide awake.
The next morning Keith was up for work and called Lance in for work. He was still sleeping and needed the day off. Keith checked in on him once more before leaving for work having left a small note on the counter explaining his disappearance. Lance woke up a few hours later realizing he had missed work. He checked his phone and sighed in relief seeing they had excused him for the day. Lance rolled out of bed and walked out of the bedroom rubbing the remaining sleep from his eyes. He yawned looking around he empty hotel room. He noticed a small folded paper sitting neatly on the counter and he scooped it up to read it. Keith had gone to work. Lance looked around eyeing the TV and decided to just chill and watch some TV. The note read to make sure he ordered breakfast so Lance was flipping through the breakfast menu as America's Next Top Model played in the background. He decided on pancakes and bacon so he called it in. Once he was off the phone he turned up the volume and watched his favorite show, they had allowed male models to compete now and man oh man was Lance all about it. It didn't seem long before a knock came at the door.
"Man! That was super quick!" Lance cheered hopping up to get his food. He reached for the doorknob and opened it and his whole body felt like it got dunked in ice water. It was not room service behind the door, but a very mad Shiro who was smirking as he looked down at the small scared child in front of him.
"Found you"
Lance could feel his heartbeat in his ears hoping this was another nightmare. He wanted to shut the door or run or move but he was frozen in place.
"I wondered where you were Babe. But then I remembered, Keith. I know some people, they looked into him for me and I found out he was staying here. Nice place. So I knew you'd probably have slinked over here with those big sad eyes as you filled his head with your lies to make me look bad. Did you sleep with him? Trade sex for a hiding place? Well, it didn't work well huh?" Shiro couldn't help but enjoy how scared he looked right now.
"Are you going to invite me in?" Shiro asked leaning down a bit so he could look him in the eyes.
"Y-you're not welcome here" Lance said his voice barely able to form words. Shiro made a mock sad face.
"I'm hurt Lance.." He said grasping his chest. "But then again. I don't care what you think" Shiro then shoved Lance with as much force as he could pushing him into the room and onto the ground. Lance cried out in surprise as Shiro shut ad locked the door. Oh god. Lance scrambled up bit Shiro sent his foot into his back knocking him down again. Lance begged for him to stop but he just leaned down over the writhing body of the boy under his boot.
"Oh Lance. You really should not have left."
