[Pidge doesn't get an answer as quickly as she'd probably like. Lance needs to find the words that don't feel thick and heavy in his mouth, but they don't come. He knows he should tell Pidge. She and Hunk need to know the story Lance has been keeping tucked deep down inside of him for over a year. The only way he can is by keeping his face pressed right where it is.]

I was protecting Allura when we were fixing that planet's armor plates. [Allura. Something--Someone--else that's left Lance with some kind of emotional tangle he can't quite unravel just yet.] I took a hit for her and...

[And he died. But he doesn't want to say those words again.]

Allura brought me back, just like she did Shiro.

[But it doesn't matter in the end when death is death and it seems like the Grim Reaper has a thing out for Lance, between this, the bomb, and the Galra invasion.]