#i promise i KNOW the summary sounds angsty but uhhhhh this chapter really is sappy as hell

[existwound-moved]

to breathe in this mirage by existwound

M | 34k | 3/4 | Keith/Lance

Chapter 3 Summary:

Lance is just going to put it out there.  He’s aware of what that warm bloom in his chest, the splintering feeling inside his ribs and what the dream-like, happy-delirious fuzz in his head means. He knows what that feeling has mutated into. And he’s so painfully aware of what it means that it’s getting more insistent with every passing day, with every glance, with every time that his eyes find Keith’s first when something funny happens, and with every time Keith is already looking at him, visibly biting down a smile.  He knows it. He knows it. He knows it. He just hasn’t vocalized it yet, hasn’t put it out into the world. And he hasn’t told Keith yet.  Because he knows too, that when he eventually goes back to his own time, his heart is going to shatter into a million pieces, pruning and shriveling in his chest to the point where it’s unrecognizable as what it once was.

or: Lance unwillingly takes one for the team and wakes up ten years in the future. 

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