#and the frame for this if u looked carefully/compared? the frame is directly pulled from the thorns in sleeping beauty concept art

[suntails]

touch the spindle, touch it i say!

[sparklebitch]

can u do a funny one or angsty body swap klance one??

This is so freaking long omg o-o. Hope you guys like it!

Trigger warnings are posted in the tags.

Lance stacked the last box into his new room and straightenedup with a sigh. He wiped the sweat off his forehead and looked around. The roomwas similar to his old one, maybe a little smaller. It was hard to find a shipthat was large enough for all of them to live, and also have a hangar big enoughto hold all the lions. It took some time, but Coran managed to find onesuitable for their needs.

Lance felt a pang in his heart as he thought about thecastle. It had been his home for over a year and, though it would never be Home it was the closest thing he hadfound out here. Now, everything was different.

Lance opened the top box and pulled out the crumpledpicture of his family. He always carried it with him when he was at the garrison,so luckily, he had it on him when he was teleported into space. Lance carefullyplaced it on top of the dresser that was anchored to the wall near the smallbed frame, so that it was the first thing that he saw when he woke up. That waswhat kept him going.

They were the only reason he continued on.

Lance, his mood now considerably darker than it hadbeen previously, turned and left the room, no longer able to stand being alonewith himself and his thoughts. Lance walked down the hall, not entirely surewhere he was going. He hadn’t looked around much, so he had no idea where anythingwas. He ended up in a small sitting room, much like the one in the castle, thoughtmuch smaller. Lance was surprised to find that it was already occupied.

“Hey,” Keith said as Lance walked into the room. Lanceblinked at Keith. He still hadn’t gotten used to the new Keith. Keith wasn’tdifferent exactly, he was just… bigger. Much bigger. His muscles were more defined,and he had finally grown into his ears. Keith’s hair was longer too, having grownout in the time that he was away. And he was taller, taller than Lance. Lancetried to forget this fact.

“Hey” Lance greeted, hovering in the doorway. He wasn’tsure if they were good. Keith had been a little hostile when he first returned,but Lance wasn’t sure if that was just because his message was urgent, or hewas angry with Lance. “You unpacked?” he asked, not knowing what else today.Keith shrugged.

“Kind of” he said. Lance noticed that Keith’s new spacedog was asleep on the couch next to him. “I’m just… not ready yet. Ya know?” hesaid, peering up at Lance. Lance nodded in relief. That was Keith’s way ofletting Lance know that they were fine.

“Yeah, totally. It’s not the castle” he said, takingthis as an invitation to join Keith. He crossed the room and sat on the greyishcouch. It was uncomfortable, nothing like the one in the castle. Lance toldhimself to stop comparing everything to the castle, but it was hard not to. Thecastle was so perfect.

“Yeah” Keith said, making a face. “It’ll just takesome time to get used to this” he gestured to the room. Lance nodded and thenlooked down at the dog, who had woken up and was now nudging his hand.

“Hey there” Lance cooed, petting his head. “What’s hisname?” he asked. Keith smiled.

“Yorak” he told him. “That’s what my mom wanted to callme” Keith explained. Lance stuck out his tongue as Yorak rolled over onto Lance’slap.

“Hi Yorak” Lance laughed, petting the giant white andblue dog. Yorak licked at Lance’s hand. “Does he have any toys?” Lance asked asthe dog hopped off the couch and ran in a circle, barking in excitement.

“Uh, yeah” Keith looked around and then got off thecouch to retrieve a braided rope from the floor. “He likes to play fetch” Lancetook the rope and tossed it across the room. Yorak sped across the floor fasterthan Lance had seen anything move before. He leapt into the air and caught therope before turning and teleporting directly to Lance’s side. Lance’s mouthdropped open in shock. “Oh, and he also does that” Lance turned to Keith, his eyeswide.

“You have a magic space dog… that can teleport” Keithblushed and brushed his hair out of his eyes.

“Um. Yes.” he said. Lance’s mouth stretched into agrin.

“That’s so cool” he whispered before turning back tothe dog. He took the rope out of his mouth and threw it again.

“Yeah I- I guess it is” Keith said, watching Lanceplay with his dog.

“He’s so cute” Lance laughed gleefully. Keith crossedhis arms and smiled at him.

“He likes you” he commented. Lance picked up the ropethat Yorak had been playing with. Lance straightened up and threw the rope acrossthe room. Yorak took off across the room, teleporting back and forth until hecaught the rope. “He was still a puppy when I found him. Or, he found me Iguess” Keith moved so he was standing next to Lance, watching Yorak bound towardthem. “He’s grown so much since them” Lance smiled fondly at Keith as he spoke.He obviously loved his space puppy.

“Where did you get his name—” Lance was cut off by Keith’sscream. Lance’s head whipped around right as Yorak teleported right in front ofthem, knocking them over. Lance instinctually reached for Keith, while Keith heldout his hands to stop the dog. Yorak barked in surprise and teleported, draggedKeith and Lance with him. The last thing Lance remember was cold darkness, andthen nothing.

~   ~

When Lance woke up his head was pounding, and his bodyached. He groaned as he rolled over. He immediately bumped into something.Something wet. Lance cringed and craned his neck to get away from the object.The object followed him.

“What happened in here!?” A voice cried from behindLance. Lance groaned again and pried his eyes open. His body felt heavy and hislimbs were too long. “Lance, Keith, are you alright?” It was Pidge. Pidge wasscreaming.

“Shh” A voice came from next to him. “Too loud” Lancepaused. It was a voice he had never heard before. Lance stretched out his limbs,grimacing at the soreness that pulled at his muscles. He slowly opened his eyesand saw the source of the wetness was Yorak’s nose. Lance reached up to movehis face away from his own, and then paused. Something covered his hand.

It was Keith’s glove.

Lance frowned and turned his hand over. His skinlooked different, lighter. ‘Maybe it’s the lighting’ Lance thought to himselfas he sat up. His eyes landed on the body next to him, and he realized that itwas not, in fact the lighting.

Across from Lance, was… Lance.

Lance, or, the other Lance, looked back at him. Someonescreamed, Lance wasn’t sure if it was him or the other him.

“What the fuck!” Lance screeched. The other him stareddown at his hands.

“Lance, what the hell happened!?” The other him yelled.Lance frowned.

“What are you talking about? Who are you?” The otherhim looked up with a look of pure confusion.

“What do you mean who am I- Lance, it’s me. Keith” hesaid, like it was the most obvious thing in the world. “It’s me! I’m in your-and you’re in my- What is happening!?” Keith’s voice, which sounded like Lance’s,raised in panic.

“Are you guys okay?” Shiro asked in concern, turningthe corner and seeing Lance and Keith sprawled out on the floor shouting at eachother. Shiro turned to Pidge for answers. She shrugged in response.

“Keith is in my—”

“Lance is me-!” The two of them shouted at the sametime. Shiro furrowed his eyebrows and walked closer to them.

“What? Will you- Guys, calm down. Just tell me what’sgoing on” he said calmly. Keith and Lance continued to talk over each other fora few seconds before they both stopped and stared at each other as the realityof the situation sunk in.

“We- Yorak jumped on us and—” Lance began to explain.He was more than freaked out by the fact that his voice sounded like Keith’s.

“He teleported, and we went with him and we- we—” Keithturned to look at Lance. A shiver ran down Lance’s spine as his own eyes staredback at him. It was beyond creepy. “We switched” Shiro looked back and forth betweenthe two of them.

“You… switched? Switched what?” Lance looked up atShiro.

“Bodies. We switched bodies” Shiro was silent for a longmoment before turning his back to them and muttering something to himself.

“You two,” Shiro huffed and turned back to them. “Youhad we worried that something was wrong” he said. Keith let out a loud noise.

“Worried that- Shiro, we switched bodies!” He stressed. “I am in Lance’s body and Lance is in mybody” he said, pointing at Lance and then back at himself. “I’d say that’s prettyfucking worrisome!” Keith said, his voice cracking as he spoke.

“Lance, cut it out” Shiro said, rubbing his forehead. “Wejust got settled into the ship, we don’t have time for—”

“He’s not joking Shiro!” Lance spoke up, climbing tohis feet. He was startled at how tall he was. “We- Fuck you’re tall!” Lanceexclaimed suddenly, staring down at his legs. He knew Keith had grown, but nowthat Lance was literally in Keith’s shoes he realized just how tall the boy was.“What the hell was your mother feeding you while you were away!?” Lance stretchedhis arms out and felt his biceps. “Nice” he commented absently.

“Stop that!” Keith exclaimed, jumping to his feet. “That’sweird!” Lance continued to poke and prod his new body, marveling at all Keith’stoned muscles.

“Seriously, do you work out? You’re fucking ripped!”Keith stomped over and batted Lance’s hands away from his body.

“Stop! Leave my body alone!”

“Finders keepers!” Lance shouted childishly. Keith shookhis head in disbelief.

“You didn’t findmy body!” he pointed out. Lance frowned.

“Fine. Possession is nine-tenths of the law” Lanceargued. “My body. I can do whatever I want”

“What. The fuck. Is happening” Pidge commented fromthe side of the room. The others had gathered there as well, all staring atKeith and Lance in utter confusion.

“You- you actually switched bodies?” Shiro asked, squintinghis eyes at the two of them. Keith nodded. Shiro turned to Lance. Lance noddedvigorously.

“That’s what we’ve been trying to tell you!” Shiro’seyes widened.

“Shit” he said.

“Y- eah” Lance drew out the word.

“How?” Pidge asked. Lance shrugged, making the I-don’t-knowsound.

If they were ever going to switch back, they wouldhave to figure out how they had gotten that way in the first place.

~   ~

“Lance, err- Keith, will you hold still” Shiro askedwith a sigh. Keith made a face and stilled his bouncing knee.

“Sorry” he said. “I’m just… I can’t focus” Everyonehad moved into the make-shift infirmary they had made in one of the emptybedrooms on the new ship. They didn’t have much there, save for one healing podand a few various medical supplies.

“ADHD is a bitch” Lance commented by his side. Theywere both sitting on a table. Coran and Shiro were poking and prodding, tryingto figure out how their consciousnesses had switch. They already determinedthat it happened because they had teleported with Yorak, but they still neededto figure out exactly how, and how to change them back.

“How do you deal with this” Keith asked through grittedteeth. He scratched relentlessly at his arm. Lance shrugged.

“Don’t worry, give it eighteen or so years and you’llget used to it” he joked. Keith shot Lance a look that Lance couldn’t decipher.

“Man, this is so weird” Hunk said. His eyes bounced backand forth between Lance and Keith. “Lance is all quiet and sullen and Keith isloud and bouncy” his mouth made an ‘o’ shape as he watched the two of them.

“Try being in someone else’s body” Lance grumbled. Hewas swinging his legs over the side of the table, still fascinated with howlong his legs were. Keith was squirming and tapping his fingers on the tableloudly.

“Walk me through it again” Shiro said for the fourthtime since they had started running tests on them. Lance sighed.

“We were playing with Yorak, and he ran into us and weteleported with him. When we woke up, I was a brooding emo and Keith was a dashing—”

“Lance” Shiro said sternly. Lance ducked his head.

“Sorry”

“Christ, this is so freaky” Pidge breathed, squinting hereyes at Lance.

“Can you fix this?” Keith asked. “And soon? I’d reallylike my body back” Lance crossed his arms and frowned.

“You want your body back? Or you just don’t want to bein mine?” he asked. Keith shot a look at Lance.

“Lance…” Lane shook his head.

“Never mind. Sorry” he said shortly. “Are you almostdone with these tests?” Coran typing away on a computer, completely lost in analyzingthe data.

“Hmm? Oh, yes. I suppose you can leave for now. I’ll findyou if I find out anything” Coran said absently. Lance hopped off the table andbrushed the hair out of his eyes. Keith’s hair was so much longer than Lance’s.It was softer than it looked.

“I’ll be, uh, in my room” Lance said, quickly walkingaway. He didn’t know why he was upset. Just that he had to get out of there.

~   ~

Keith ended up in Lance’s room after Shiro and Coranhad finished running their tests. The results had all been inconclusive, butCoran was optimistic that he would find a way to reverse what had been done. Itwould just take time.

“What’s up?” Lance asked as Keith knocked on the doorframe.

“Just wanted to make sure you weren’t doing anything weirdto me” he said. Lance opened up his mouth to protest, but Keith held up hishands. “Kidding” he said with a small smile. Lance relaxed. He had been tryingto unpack his room but hadn’t got very far. It felt wrong, doing something normalafter something so abnormal happened to him. “I couldn’t sleep. It felt…”

“Weird” Lance provided. “Like it’s wrong to do somethingso normal after… this” Keith nodded as he stepped into the room, the doorclosing behind him.

“Exactly” Keith stopped in front of Lance’s bed,hesitating. “Are you… alright?” he asked. “You left really suddenly” Lancechewed on his lip.

“I’m in someone else’s body. I think I’m allowed to bea little weird” Lance said defensively.

“I’m not- Aside from that, are you alright?” he asked.Lance wrung his hands together.

“Do you… do you really hate me so much that you can’tstand switching bodies with me?” he asked in a small voice. It was still weirdto hear Keith’s voice when he spoke. He would never get used to it. Keithblinked in stunned silence.

“I- What? Lance, I don’t hate you” he said in confusion.“What I said earlier about wanting to switch back, I didn’t mean that I couldn’tstand being in your body, I just meant that- Fuck, Lance” Keith tugged on his-Lance’s- hair. His hand hovered in mid hair for a moment, like he was expectinghis hair to be longer. “This- this—” Keith waved his hands in front of him. “Allof this is just so much! I feel so weird, like I’m still me and I have all mythoughts but I’m in your body. I didn’t even know that you had ADHD and now I have it. Kind of” Keith turned andstarted pacing the room.

“Keith…”

“I feel like this is kind of my fault because Yorak ismy dog. I brought him here. I don’t evenknow what he is, or what he can do. And now were… like this and we don’t know how long it’ll last. Or if we can evenswitch it back!” Keith continued, not hearing Lance. “I feel- I feel so-!”Keith groaned and pulled on his hair again, stopping at the edge of the bed. “Idon’t know how you do it” He said. “Deal with ADHD. It’s so… God, I never imaginedit’d be like this. I didn’t even know you hadADHD” Lance looked at Keith with pity in his eyes. Lance barely even noticedhis ADHD anymore. He had it almost completely under control, but Keith? Keithhad never dealt with it before.

“It’s not your fault” Lance said. “You didn’t knowthat something like this would happen. I mean, who would think that your spacedog would Freaky Friday us” Keith frowned.

“What?” Lance shook his head.

“Never mind. It’s not your fault. And I’m sure thatShiro and Coran will be able to fix us. They can do anything. But yeah… this is…really weird” Keith huffed and sat down heavily on the edge of Lance’s bed.

“I feel so… wired” he said. “Like I can’t sit still” Hedrummed his fingers against his leg.

“It’ll wear down after a bit” Lance said. “You justneed to calm down. You’re freaking yourself out” Keith nodded. Lance let out a half-laughhalf-sigh and put his hand on Keith’s. Keith laughed shortly and dropped hishands.

“Also, you’re so fucking lanky” Keith complained, sprawlingout on Lance’s bed.

“I’m lanky?”Lance repeated. “I’m not the one who’s eighteen freakin’ feet tall! I swear yougrew like nine feet since you left. I hit my head on everything!” They staredat each other for a moment before bursting out into laughter.

“I missed you” Lance said, the fondness in his voice moreevident then he realized. “When you were away” Keith smiled up at him, stilllaying on the bed.

“I missed you too” he said. There was something abouthis eyes and made Lance know that something was up.

“How long…” he pulled his knees up to his chest. “Howlong were you out there? In space, with your mother” he elaborated. Keithpinched his lips together and glanced away.

“Uh, a long time” his voice grew quieter. Lance cockedhis head and waited for Keith to continue. “Almost two years, I think” Lance’smouth opened in surprise. Two years. Keith was in space with his mom for twoyears.

“Wow” Was all Lance could think to say.

“Yeah” Keith closed his eyes and stretched out hisarms and legs before curling up into a ball. “It- I really missed you. All ofyou. I mean, I’m glad that I got to spend that time with my mom but… It was… itwas a long time” he said quietly. Lance watched Keith, a mix of emotionsswirling in him.

“It was a long time” Keith peeked his eyes open. Lanceran his hands through his hair. He would never get tired of running his handsthrough Keith’s long silky hair.

“I think I understand you now, Lance” Keith said softly.Lance strained to hear him. Keith looked half asleep. “I get it” Lance frowned.

“What do you mean?” he asked. But Keith was alreadyasleep.

Lance said leaning back against the wall. By switchingbodies Lance had learned more about Keith than he had even known before. Hefelt closer to the boy than he ever had.

Now they had to figure out how to undo it.

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