When Two Worlds Collide

Chapter 7

The next time Keith woke up, he felt marginally better than he had the first time. He felt floaty and light, it was awesome. His mind was so muddled that it took a while for all of the pure and raw panic that he had felt earlier to return at full force. Keith shot up out of the bed and started to flumble with the covers of the bed to try and free himself from them. In the process of this, he didn't notice that the door to the room that he was in had opened until he heard a voice. "Keith! Take it easy man, calm down." Lance said as he came over to the bed to try and calm down his friend. He was finally able to get him to stop flailing about when he realized that it was Lance who was in the room with him. "Lance." He gasped out with a sob and lunged at him. Lance was absolutely sure that there was a look of shock on his face. Keith wasn't a very touchy feely person. He didn't even like shaking hands with people, let alone hug them. So this was a very, very new thing. "Yeah, yeah I'm here Keith, it's alright, everything's ok." Lance told him. Keith just sobbed into his shirt.

When Keith finally felt emotionally stable enough to speak he pulled away from Lance's chest to get a good look at him. "Are you ok? Are you hurt? Where are the others, are they ok?" Keith asked frantically. The look of question on Lance's face wasn't doing him any favors either. What if he didn't know where everyone else went? What if he had been brainwashed and this was all a trap just to get the lions? He needed to find the others now. "Keith, Keith, hey look at me don't space out man, what are you talking about?" Lance asked him. And Keith really had to keep himself from biting Lance's head off at that very moment. He couldn't believe how stupid he was being! "What do you mean what am I talking about?" Keith said. "What I mean is where are the others?! We've been captured and we have to find them!" Keith shouted. At this point he was beyond fuming and he couldn't believe that Lance was being so calm about this. He had to get out of here and get to the rest of his team.

When Lance noticed that Keith was trying to get up again, he grabbed him by his shoulders and pushed back down onto the bed. "Woah, slow down there man, what are you talking about?" Lance asked him. "Who got captured, we certainly haven't, nothing has happened around here that's even remotely that interesting in weeks!" Lance told him. Keith sat there and looked at him for a moment. "So, we aren't in danger? Everyone's ok?" Keith asked him. And he sounded so small that it was breaking Lance's heart. Lance shook his head. "Everyone's alright, whatever it was that you saw or what you thought you saw was a nightmare." Lance told him. Keith closed his eyes and leaned back against the bed. It was then that he realized that these sheets have a different feel to them than his own. It dawned on him that this wasn't his room. His eyes snapped open and they started searching around the room. He realized that he was in Lance's room. With all of the pictures of his family and friends and their adventures in space.

"Why am I in your room?" Keith asked him. The last thing that he remembers was that the two of them were in his bedroom talking. Lance figured that he would ask that eventually, but it took him longer than he thought it would take. "Well, you probably don't remember it but we were in your room first." Keith nodded his head at that, he did remember it. "But you fell asleep on me, and not that long after you started tossing and turning violently, I had stayed since I didn't want to wake you because I know that you haven't been sleeping, but anyway all of a sudden you just rolled out of bed and onto the floor and just starting vomiting." That he did not remember, but that probably explained why he felt like he was currently dying at the moment, he hated vomiting. "It looked like something of a horror movie, when you finally stopped I got you cleaned up enough to drag you in here to my room so you could sleep and I could go back in your room to clean." Lance told him. "I just finished cleaning your room up, now we just have to let it air out a little bit more, but I honestly thought that you would sleep longer than this."