Lance woke up slowly, losing the feeling of numbness, until everything was back except his sight. He wasn't sure if it was because it was dark where he was, or because his eyelids were closed. Either way, it was dark and cold. And god knows Lance and cold does not go together, unless it was water. It was his element and he new it.

Lance heard a low humm of a familliar melody. He couldn't remember from where he'd hear it before, nor if it was from blue or his own mind trying to calm him down, distract him from the burning sensation in his shoulder. It did not take long for him to realize where the melody was from, and in shock opened his own eyes.

It took a little time to get a grip over reality again as everything came crashing down on him. All the memories, the realization that his eyes were close-feeling stupid over that fact too-finding out why his abdomen didn't hurt, and why both his shouders did and most of all, finally approximately knowing his where abouts.

The room he found himself in felt ghostly familliar and it struck hum soon that it was because he had been absentmindedly singing the words for the melody in a hushed tone. As he stopped singing, nothing felt familiar any longer. The dark blue painted walls, The small window that was the only source of light which illuminated the cuffs around his wrists, hanging from the cieling. The poition he was sitting in wasn't comfotable, far from it. He remebered the shots he'd taken, He remember the way kieth looked so broken as he saw the panel and he remembered feeling numb as he heard the others fuss about what was happening.

Everything came at the same time and it made him want to throw up. Even worse, his head felt empty. Blue's presence wasn't there. He had never been so far away from blue that he couln't feel her presence, not since the garrison. The constant reminder that she was there always made him feel safe these three years he had spent in space. His head felt so empty it made him even more sick.

he leaned forward to stop himself from emptying the contents of his stomach on the floor. The almost forgotten chains shaked and Lance gasped as the burning sensation worsened. He glared to his side, only now taking note about how healed his wounds were. He made motions to try and stand up, and for a while it seemed impossible. The way he was 'sitting' made it that way. He was low enough so that his knees were lying on the ground but he was just high enough so he wasn't sitting on them. It put so mch strain on his arms, even when he wasn't trying to stand up, it burned through his whole body. Lance gritted his teeth, trying again and succesfully making it up from his place on the floor.

He gasped as the pain slowly subsided and he was able to inspect his wounds a little better.

As much as it was a relief to see that they had healed quite much, he also felt a pang in his chest. A bit of hope seeped out of him. It should have taken weeks or even months to heal this much. his mind went to dark places he'd forgotten existed even though he was deep down in his head a lot.

He drew conclusions based on nothing but longer healed wonds, seconds later remembering that the castles healing pods, well, heal. 10 000 years to get further than Altean tech, was something that was more than possible. The list of reasons they'd only heal him a minimum was endless. Torture, make him weaker, blow his hope and so on. It just kind of made sense to him. He was smarter than he'd lead on the others to believe- well, at least he hoped.

He shook his head, just to see if he had his helmet was still on, because his armor still was -well , except his chestplate-. He was surprised that it was. He wasn't surprised that he hadn't felt it before. The armor changed to match their form, but not the helmets. Lances was waaay to big, the same way Hunks was a tad bit small, and Pidges midget head for some reason fit perfectly in hers.

Now if I can reach the comm... Lance though, stretching his non-injured arm upwards and towards the chains, it let him walk little closer to his other side, where he could reach his head. He could easily press the button. Hopefully they answer...

They were in the midle of training when they heard someone trying to talk with them. It was a little weird. The emoticons that popped up was faceless, which meant it was either a paladin or somene who they hadn't met that somehow found a way to contact the lions. It even took a few minutes untill Hunk saw it and tol the others, adding that there was something suspicios about it.

"I'm going to track it. Just hold on a moment." Pidge started furiously pushing buttons at the speed of sound. A minute later she had a picture up on her screen with an unfamiliar Galra ship. "It's from a Galra ship. It might be..." She didn't dare utter his name. nobody had since they told Allura and Coran about what happened to him. "Prisoners" She settled for.

"Or it's a trap." kieth said, crossing his arms. Hunk squirmed. He wanted to say something, but decided not to.

"Let's make them leave a message. We might be in danger if they can track us id we answer." Shiro said in the same tone he always had when he found a good solution.

"If it is the enemy, we could just worm-hole away!" Hunk retorted. It was rare to see the guy talk back, but e had been doing that more often since Lance was captured. They really were best friends.

"I'm sorry to say this, but if we do answer and they have a skilled hacker, they could hack the lions. It would acces them everything. The comm, the controls AND our location." Pidge said, putting an emphasis on the word 'And'.

Kieth knew the argument wasn't over and just pushed the button that would let them hear the message. Hunk protested at first, but stopped as oon as he heard sparkling electricity on the other end, and shut up to be able to hear the message.

There was a huff of amusement that could clearly be heard. Few seconds later They heard a voice. "Umm, Hey... It's umm... It's me." It was Lance. Hunk let out a mangled cry of joy, Pidge was literally a ray of sunshine. They had found him! Kieth's moth was agape. He was the only one who had accepted that Lance was gone, and that it was his fault. Shiro just sat there, and for a moment, Hunk swore he heard their leader whisper Lance's name. " Of course you wouldn't answer. I guess Pidge hacked it and knows this is sending from a Galra ship. Ummmm... I'm going to call again, if you can pick up, please do. If you can't for any reason, leave it on message. I'm kind of stuck, so please don't call me, i think the gaurds would hear it. so, umm... Bye?"

The contact was lost. The air felt tense through the comms. it was so quiet. it wasn't a bad tense though. "We need to contact Allura. Let her hear what Lance is saying. Get her to record it." Shiro said. He was choking back tears, noth from sadness and joy. He was so over joyed that he was alive! He was! But the way his voice sounded- so broken and tired, it stung. It was his fault and the knowlege that Lance wasn't blaming him nor Kieth, actally, ot anybody just hurt him even more.

They quickly put Allura on line, as she answered, sounding really worried. "yes? did you meet any problems?" She called, her face etched with worry.

Pidge was quick with wanting to answer, but Hunk was quicker. "It's Lance!" She clearly hadn't picked up on Hunks cheerful attitude, or just brushed it os as denial or something along that line because she clearly deflated at that.

"So you got the video..." She whispered. "Im sorry you had to see that."

"What are you talking about?! Lance contacted us! He will be calling us soon again!" Pidge nearlt exploded in her seat.

"oh, i'll hang along to hear what he's saying. Please connect the castle to the call." Pidge didn't need to be told twice as she had already connected Allura to the Lions speakers.

"You're in. All we have to do now is wait." She barely had time to finish her sentence because of Lance. He was calling again. It just felt so amazing, he was well and alive. or, at least alive. They weren't too sure about how well he was. they answered the call withing a tick, waiting for some unpleasant news to be loaded on them.

A/N: That's it! Hpe you enjoyed. Please Reveiw, i'd really appreciate that. Thank you so much for reading! More coming in the next four days.

That was all from me,

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