Most Formidable Opponent To The Most Formidable Ally

Family

~ Keith's P.O.V

I knock on Lance's door to hear no response.

"I'm coming in." I tell him, I know that he's in his room.

I enter his room to see him lying down on his bed.

"Lance..."

"What you need, Keith?" He still faces the wall

"...Hunk told us everything."

"I see... I don't need your pity. You guys can just stop worrying about me. I'm fine."

"Clearly you're not, Lance."

"How would you know?"

"Because you're still blaming yourself aren't you."

"... just leave. I'm fine."

"Lance let me-"

"I've been alright so far, so I will remain the same. You don't need to care."

My hand turns into a fist form. I sprint to the guy and went on top of him.

"W-what are you doing?!" He tries to get me off but I hold his wrists down, my knee between his legs.

"This is not funny Keith."

"Lance, you don't have the right to say whenever I care or not, to do this or that or to even say what I feel or not. I care for you because you are important. Like all the others, you are my family."

"..."

"I know how it feels to lose someone so important to you, Lance. Trust me I know so well. But you have to know that it  isn't your fault. There was nothing you could've done, there's no way you could've controlled it! It happened! But it wasn't your fault! It wasn't you who made it happen and it wasn't you who held that weapon that got your sister! Your sister would say the same to you or I'm sure she did, Lance!"

Lance gives me a glare and then made me go to the bottom and him on top now, "How would you know what my sister would say or said to me?! Huh?! If I didn't join anything in the beginning, if only I was appreciative with what I had! She wouldn't have died! I should've been the one dead! I didn't do anything for her!"

"Lance, you did all you could do for her... think. Don't make yourself the assailant. You were always with her no matter what you did. You protected her and she never once hated you, now did she?"

"..."

"You gave her such a fun time while young... remember her smiles, her laughs, her tears that she has spent with you! You gave her what she needed, happiness."

"Ngh...ngh..."

"You even put her life above yours at the last moment! It happened, but you were still able to try and protect her! You did all you can. She loved you and you loved her at the very end."

".... hicc..."

I put my hand on the side of his face.

"You did not kill her. You loved her."

I bring my hand near his waist and pull up his shirt to show the scar from the bullet and then I caressed it, "Scars heal and they don't completely go away, but it shows the person how much they went through and for what they went through, and it shows that you are here, stronger and beautiful."

Lance gets off of me and stands on the floor... clearly holding back his tears.

"Keith... I... I..." he reaches his hand, not knowing what to do.