[Why do you do this? Is this what it's like for other people when Lance doesn't let them get away with this sort of thing?
His options here are either to tell the truth or lie, and he's a terrible liar.]
That's part of it.
[Most of it. The rest of it is that Lance is secretive and hesitant to actually trust people, although he doesn't think there's any risk in that sense as far as telling Drake. And it's tempting, because no one else who knows can actually understand what it's like.
But he's still hesitating, because the professionalism thing isn't easy to ignore.]
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His options here are either to tell the truth or lie, and he's a terrible liar.]
That's part of it.
[Most of it. The rest of it is that Lance is secretive and hesitant to actually trust people, although he doesn't think there's any risk in that sense as far as telling Drake. And it's tempting, because no one else who knows can actually understand what it's like.
But he's still hesitating, because the professionalism thing isn't easy to ignore.]