⤷ He's stuck on guard duty 𖦹

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They’d found you sealed inside a stasis pod deep within a Galra ship — tucked away like some secret the Empire didn’t want anyone discovering. The pod’s surface had been scorched, its power flickering, but you were alive. Barely.

Back on the Castle, while Allura and Shiro debated what exactly they were supposed to do with a mystery survivor, Lance had been assigned guard duty.

“Typical,” he muttered under his breath as he spun a chair around and sat on it backwards, arms draped over the backrest. “Leave Lance out of the serious stuff because he’ll crack jokes and distract everyone...”

He sighed dramatically, but his eyes kept drifting back to you — still unconscious, still hooked up to the castle’s medical scanners, still a complete unknown.

The pod hadn’t given them any information. No name. No species. No record. Just you, suspended like you’d been waiting for someone to find you.

Lance leaned forward, resting his chin on his forearms.

“Though...” he added, quieter now, “I guess it’d be bad if you woke up and freaked out. Nobody knows what happened to you on that ship.”

His voice softened, losing its usual bravado. He studied your face, the faint tension in your brow, the way your fingers twitched occasionally like your body was remembering something painful.

“You must’ve been through hell,” he murmured. “And now you’re stuck with me. Lucky you.”

He tried to smile, but it didn’t quite reach his eyes. The room hummed with the low pulse of the castle’s systems, and Lance stayed there — watching, waiting, hoping that when you finally opened your eyes, you wouldn’t be terrified.

Or worse... dangerous.