Day 1: Fever
“Keith!!! I’m dying* Lance moaned from his place huddled under a pile of blankets on the couch.
“Your not dying it’s just a cold.” Keith rolled his eyes.
Their last mission was on a ice planet and Lance’s temperature regulator was damaged and by time they returned to the castle he was shivering uncontrollably and running a low fever after an hour.
Hunk had gone into full mother hen mode and practically carried him to the couch and decided Lance wasn’t to move until he was better.
Not even Shiro or Allura dared argue with Hunk and simply decided the team would take time off until Lance was better and that they would take shifts looking after him.
That was about three hours ago and only ten minuets into Keith’s turn and he was already going crazy.
“I know I am! I feel like I’m already dead...” Lance trailed off thanks to a violent shiver wrapping the blanket a little closer around himself.
Keith sighed “here if it says your fevers worse then maybe I’ll believe you.” He popped a thermometer he had gotten from Allura and waited for the beep.
He was slightly surprised that Lance didn’t say anything and just lay there staring at the wall with glassy eyes.
Keith felt a pang if worry until he read the thermometer.
“99.9 degrees like I said your fine.”
Lance didn’t answer, instead he burrowed under the blankets either trying to get some sleep or sulking.
Keith rolled his eyes “whatever.” He left not even checking one last time.
“Ah Keith I was looking for you.”
Keith looked up from sharpening his knife to see Coran standing in his doorway.
“Oh hey what’s up?” He asked placing the blade down with the others.
“I do belive the princess gave you a device to record Lance’s temperature, but I also belive she forgot to tell you you have to add six to convert it to human number-“
Keith cut Coran off as he ran out of the room.
If his math was right that meant he had left Lance on his own for nearly twenty minuets with a 105 degree fever!
Soon as Keith skidded into the common room he was greeted with a frantic Hunk and a seizing Lance.
“Oh God I...”
“Nows not the time Keith, we need to get him to a pod now!” Shiro yelled running from behind and scooped Lance up in his arms.
Keith followed on auto pilot as he watched Lance far too pale and far too still inside the pod.
“So what happened?” Shiro asked crossing his arms.
“I... I thought he was fine. He was complaining so I thought...”
“That you could leave him!” Hunk snapped “did you ever consider that he was complaining because that was the only way he would get attention at home!”
Hunk was shaking with anger now “he could of died because you didn’t want to be bothered to deal with him... Lance deserves better then you!”
Keith stood there in shock. It was true he led Lance on more then once only to leave... he just never realised how much his actions could hurt the blue paladin.
“I’m sorry...”
“Don’t apologise to me. Save it for Lance and you better be here when he wake up.” Hunk sighed as he walked out of the room followed by Shiro.
Keith placed a hand on the glass of Lance’s pod “I’ll be here... always.”
