Necessarily Useless [Klance]

Lance walked through the corridor of the castle, still noticing the little details in the metal interior design. It was similar to Earthen facilities in a way.

Earth....his home...his family was there. Waiting for him, not knowing if he was dead or alive. He missed Marco, Luis, Veronica, Rachel, mama, papa-he misses everyone.

But...he's a part of Voltron now, the legendary defender of the universe. He could be useful, but....

Shiro, Pidge, Allura, Hunk, Keith..they have the ability to create Voltron without him. They didn't necessarily...need him anymore.

And with those thoughts constantly swirling in his brain his facade started to crack.

He walked to his room, his head hung low and his hands gripping the arms of his green jacket in an attempt to keep himself together.

"Lance!" Pidge ran up to him, Hunk on their left side. "We need you in the control room, we're coming up with a plan to infiltrate the Galra cruiser on a nearby planet and maybe gather some intel." Pidge grabbed his arm and pulled him with much force, enough to make him stumble under his feet from time to time.

"Hey Lance, buddy, are you okay? You hungry? I'll cook us some food after the meeting to get our tummies full. How bout that?" Hunk smiles cheerfully and Lance reciprocated it with a smirk.

"Yeah that'd be awesome man! I skipped breakfast this morning cause of training."

"You've been training a lot lately Lance, but you still gotta eat or the atoms in your cells will deteriorate and-"

"I know Pidge, I know!" Lance chuckled as they entered the control room where everyone was already waiting. "Don't worry about me! I'll be fine!"

"Okay, now that Lance is here we can start."

"We wouldn't have started late if the idiot wasn't so careless," Keith muttered, shooting a glare Lance's way. The Cuban boy flinched inwardly but sent a playful smirk back instead of a smile of pain. No one could know....not like they'd care anyway.

Allura started talking about the plan, it seemed easy enough. They would bust in with the green lions cloaking, gather intel, plant a virus and get out before getting spotted. And after that, they'd form Voltron and take out the ships before the virus is overridden.

"Seems like an easy peasy plan!" Lance chirped, leaning back with a flirtatious smirk on his face. "Maybe the princess will be impressed by my skills this time."

Everyone gave him the face, the faces he hated so much but it lightened the mood to a degree so he had to be content.

"Are you kidding me? You don't take anything serious, don't you?" Pidge said boredly with an amused chuckle. Hunk laughed as he walked to through the corridor with the team.

"Why bother asking? Lance has always been like this ever since I've known him," Hunk clicked his tongue in a playful manner but it was enough to make the boy wince, unnoticeably. Well, what he thought was unnoticed.

"Stop teasing me!" Lance pouted playfully even though he wanted to cry. "I happen to think Allura is finally looking my way!"

"Yeah, with goggles so she won't burn her eyes," Keith insulted. The words made Lance ridged and he lost his appetite immediately.

"Wow thanks, I'm gonna go." Lance sighed, making Hunk and Pidge look at each other confused.

"You're not gonna eat?" Hunk asked, "Didn't you skip breakfast?"

"Yeah but I'm not hungry. That lecture made me tired," Lance yawned dramatically as he smiled, trying to make it seem he wasn't obviously forcing it. "I'll see ya guys tomorrow!"

"Yeah! Make sure you eat breakfast tomorrow! I'll drag you out of bed if I have to!" Hunk called, making the others chuckle and walked away down to the cafeteria.

Lance watched them, his smile falling with every step they took. Didn't they notice? Didn't they see? Did they even care?

Lance shook his head went went down to the blue lions chamber. Even though he wasn't its main pilot anymore, he still felt as if he had a strong connection to it.

"Hey blue..." he sat down crisscrossed in front of the lion. Usually it had its particle barrier up but it never did when Lance entered for no reason.

The lion flashed its eyes and Lance giggled a bit.

"Ya know, you're the only one who listens to my bull crap. I sometimes forget I'm not your paladin anymore..." A sad smile graced his lips as he heard mice enter the room. They jumped on his lap excitedly and the boy just scratched their heads. "This is our little secret."

The lion flashed its eyes again before laying its head on its metal paws.

Lance shuffled himself near the blue machine and rested his hand on it, tracing the manufacturing lines and the metal dents all those battles caused. He missed blue, and it seemed like blue missed him.

"I feel like y'all are the only ones that...that listen to me..." One tear fell, and then another, and then another. His head fell into his hands as he tried to contain his sobs. "I wanna go home. I wanna go see my family back on earth. I wanna see my brothers and sisters and my little niece and nephew. I wanna play soccer in the small front yards again and tackle Marco to the ground in football. I wanna taste Ma's amazing cooking and dads terrible barbecue. I wanna see them again!"

Lance laughed before removing his hands, looking down at the salt pools in his palms. "I guess that makes me a baby. But we all have different ways to cope...I should be happy my folks are safe while Pidge...Pidge doesn't even know if her family's alive or not."

The mice looked at him with sad eyes and squeaked in response. He hadn't an idea of what they we're saying but he smiled painfully at them. "Don't tell Allura. We wouldn't want to worry her and the others, haha~"

The lion flashed his lights and Lance responded by patting the metal snout of his friend. "Be good to Allura and the others okay?" Lance thought for a moment. "Hey could you do me a favor?"

The machine moved his head up in anticipation. If it wasn't for the fact that he knew for sure this thing was metal, he would've mistaken it for an actual alien cat.

"I want you to record me. And if something were to happen to me I want you to play it for the others. And what I mean if something happens to me I mean when I'm...fatally injured or something. Can you do that for me?"

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I made a Klance fanfic
I made a Klance fanfic

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