Amnesia

CHAPTER 6 - A "Simple" Operation

We had to wait 2 days to get into the Garrison, but we made had made it. Shiro, Allura, and Coran led us to where the security cameras are kept.

"So how are we gonna get the footage?" Hunk inquired.

"Don't worry, I got this." Shiro had a keycard and opened the door.

"We have 30 minutes to check, in and out, we're not supposed to be here and I shouldn't have this keycard to get us in here alright?" Shiro looked at all of us and we nodded. He logged into the camera's database and took certain footages from what Coran had told us, and the times I described.

"Okay, so here's the camera footage from where Lotor was in all the places from 10 to 12, that's what you need correct?" Shiro inquired, I nodded rapidly and observed the footage. I quickly scanned through everything, but he had never gone near the exits or outside.

"This is ridiculous, he hasn't left at all!" I exclaimed frustrated, Shiro put his hand on my shoulder, my eyes started to strain as I kept watching, closely observing his every action.

"Listen Keith, maybe Lotor didn't take Lance and you're over think-" I cut off Shiro.

"NO I'M NOT OVER THINKING THIS!" I exclaimed, "I know he did it, and this footage may not seem like he did, but I fucking know he did." I shoved away Shiro's hand.

"Keith, clearly he didn't leave until 1 and that's what it's showing." Allura said softly, I looked at her devastated.

"What if he manipulated the video ahead of time or after words so he could go and do it huh?!" I bursted, I know he did it, only a conniving sinister flirt boyfriend thief like himself would do such a thing. I held back my tears of anger and took a deep breath.

"Keith, you shouldn't yell so much, it'll ruin your voice." I heard a familiar voice at the door, I turned my head and saw him at the door.

"What the fuck are you doing here Lotor?" I inquired gritting my teeth.

"Just thought I'd stop by and see what all the commotion was about." Lotor smiled at me tenderly. "So what are you looking at, and where's Lance? Isn't he always with you?"

"I thought you could actually tell us where Lance is." I hissed. Shiro went in front of me and gripped my hand tightly.

"We're just looking through something, we didn't mean to cause a commotion."

"This commotion wouldn't have happened if Lotor hadn't been a little shit and-" Shiro gripped my hand tighter and I shrieked.

"Then why is there a group of you, and you're causing little Keith to be in pain?" Lotor inquired. Little Keith? LITTLE KEITH?! I broke myself free of Shiro's grasp and pushed him aside. I got up in Lotor's face and exclaimed;

"Listen up here Lotor, we know what you did and you might as well fess up and give Lance back!"

"What do you mean give Lance back?" Lotor sounded like he was worried, "Has something happened to dear Lance?"

"Oh don't fucking pretend like you don't know! We all know that you tried to kill me and that you kidnapped Lance!" I grabbed Lotor's shirt and growled.

"Tried to kill you?" Lotor paused, "and kidnap Lance? What have you gone crazy?" Lotor sneered and ripped off my hand.

"Oh please! Don't pretend like you don't know!" I felt hot tears streaming down my face, Hunk came up behind and pulled me back a little bit.

"Okay Keith you need to calm down this is getting a bit out of hand." Pidge said I turned my head and groaned.

"Why do you assume that it was me? Maybe you did almost die, but what if Lance wanted to leave on his own?" Lotor sassed and got closer to me.

"Why would Lance want to leave on his own? I've never done anything to hurt or upset him!"
"Maybe because he didn't want a hot head boyfriend like yourself! " Lotor sneered.

"Okay listen both of you," Shiro got between us, " your bickering is not going to get you anywhere!" Lotor looked at me and smiled menacingly.

"So let me take a wild assumption, you're looking at the monitors to see if I had left the building at all last Friday night?"

"Yes." I calmly said, he pushed me out of the way and looked.

"Oh look there I am," Lotor chuckled, "doing my work, unlike majority of you who work here are doing at the moment, and some who don't even attend here!"

"Lance is apart of our lives too so we have a right to be here." Coran mumbled under his breath to Pidge.

"Why are you saying that to me?" Pidge inquired in a low whisper folding her arms.

I watched time go by, we only have 10 minutes left here dammit. Lotor looked at me and said;

"Well, it seems that your assumption has been proven wrong, here it even shows that I was here all night." I titled my head down and sighed;

"I don't fucking believe it."

"Well, I'll be on my way, good luck finding dear Lancey Lance!" Lotor left quickly. Don't call him Lancey Lance you asshole. We all stood there in utter shock.

"You really thought we had him didn't you Keith?" Hunk sniffled. I turned to everyone.

"Yah, I'm sorry for my shitty attitude and dragging you all into this."

Shiro, Coran, and Allura went to work while Pidge, Hunk and I waited for the train. Nobody said anything, it was silent. Until Pidge broke it.

"I was thinking about what Lotor had said, and I realized something." Hunk and I quickly turned our attention to Pidge.

"What did you notice?" Hunk inquired.

"Well, when Keith went on the crazy tangent accusing Lotor, Keith never specified when he almost died and when this all happened."

"Okay..."
"But when Lotor guessed what we were doing he said 'checking to see if I had left the building at all Friday night?' before he even looked at the footage and time!"

"You're right Pidge," I became wide-eyed, "I never did specify when it had happened!"

"That is incredibly suspicious, but what if he took a random guess?" Hunk's thought almost defied Pidge's theory, but Pidge covered that up.

"I highly doubt he took a random guess, he could've said the afternoon, and I don't think he was checking on us because of a commotion"

"Lotor works a few floors above where we were, and it was during his teaching schedule, not during a break or anything!" I took careful notice of Lotor's schedule when I took lookouts for him.

"and did anyone else notice in the footage he kept repeating his actions over and over?" Hunk added on.

"Lotor possibly manipulated the videos, thinking that we would come and check them!" I whispered.

"He came up to check on us with a planned excuse thinking none of us would know where he was supposed to be, but Keith somehow knows which is a plus for us, and that last night gave him away entirely!"

"Lotor is most definitely involved, he can deny it all he wants, we just figured out the flaws in his plan!" Hunk exclaimed as the bus arrived.

The bus doors opened, but we ran back to the Garrison in a full hurry. We have our hypothesis that were proven by Lotor's actions, we have witnesses, we have almost everything we need to prove Lotor guilty, but we were still missing a few things. Where was he keeping Lance, and how did he know where we were going to be last night? We need to answer those questions too.

"I just hope they believe what we've figured out." Pidge breathed as we reached the Garrison entrance.

They have to believe us.