OK BUT LIKE
What if one day Pidge finds out about how homesick Lance is when he let’s slip that he used to fall asleep to the sounds of the waves crashing on the beach by his house and how hard falling asleep is some nights without it. Pidge totally understands because she misses her glow in the dark star stickers and her stuffed animals that used to help her sleep, and she wants to help so she cobbles together a noise maker that sounds like ocean waves and gives it to him. And she apologizes that it’s not perfect and rambles about it but he just grabs her and hugs her super tight and tears up while thanking her for giving him back even the smallest piece of his home. And she blushes and tells him that she understands missing home a lot, and they stay up and talk about all of the things they used to have in their rooms and life and everything.
And hey, what if Pidge had a stuffed elephant that she got at a build a bear type place that she dressed up like an astronaut and named (Dr.)Penelope Peanut. (She was 7 when she got her.) And even when she hit her teens she still slept with it, and when she missed her dad and brother or worried about things she would hold it close and it would help her sleep. But she had to leave it at the garrison and she tells lance how much she misses it, so to return the favor he uses his sewing/knitting skills and stuff he finds around the castle to make her a replica of it. And it’s not perfect and the cloth doesn’t really match but it’s cute and dressed as a paladin and Pidge pretty much cries when he gives it to her. He tells her that he knows it’s not her elephant but maybe she can be like its little sister or something and Pidge instantly dubs her penelope jr. and even though she’s kinda embarrassed she hugs Lance and tears up and thanks him.
Even after they are grown up and back on earth and everything is better Lance still listens to his noise maker when he’s away from home and Pidge still holds tight to her elephants, and both are forever grateful to the other for what they did to make the hards times a little bit better.
