Kidge One Shots

Day 16-Road trip

Road trip-I plan on finishing the month lol

She loves her brother but he can be annoying...which is why she left before he could stop her. They had planned this road trip for months, but then his job changed his vacation time and he thought she would just cancel the whole trip. Argument after argument ensued with no resolution. Each were sure they were right in typical Holt fashion. Yet, she could not change her vacation and she just didn't understand why she couldn't do the trip on her own. She had her Ph.d for goodness sake, she could take a two week trip by herself.

Which is why when she found herself in this predicament, she just could not bring herself to call him. This was just embarrassing. She tried calling Hunk, Allura, hell she even called Lance. All with no response. She sat in the car looking at her phone. Did she dare call Shiro. He was her brother's boyfriend but he was really nice. Maybe he could help her and ...no. Not gonna happen. Ugghhhh.

She thought absently of Keith. But, she didn't really know him well enough to ask this kind of favor. Not to mention, she felt all tongue tied around him. He was just, too good looking for her to feel completely at ease around. Shaking her head, she refocused, well, she put a call into triple A so she'd just have to wait.

A few hours later, she moved beyond bored and annoyed into well and truly pissed. It was now dark and she was cold. She thought about just building a fire on the side of the road but she didn't really want to walk through the forest in the dark. She kept turning the car on and off to keep it warm but she was dangerously low on gas by now.  Again she wished she knew that the damn car didn't have a spare tire. She wrongly assumed that every car had one!! Fuck.

Suddenly, the roar of a motorcycle sliced through the night She abruptly sat up. Crap. She looked like easy pickings for a serial killer. She frantically rummaged through her nap sack for her mace. Held tightly in her hand she saw the light from the bike in her review mirror and tried to sit up and look bigger.

Silence. She watched the light turn off and could vaguely see a silhouette approach on her driver side. Heart beat racing she debated staying in the car versus getting out. Either way she felt she was at a disadvantage. If she got out she could run, but honestly she wasn't fast. If she stayed in, she could see him breaking the glass of her compact car. Damn. If she died, Matt would totally be proven right.

Tap, tap. Jumping slightly she looked up...to see KEITH?!?! She let out a tiny squeal and then frantically opened the door. "What are you doing here?"

Keith shook his head, "Some road trip, you got like four hours away before getting stuck with a flat?"

Pidge could feel her face getting hot, "Okay well, I went to a few museums and got a little delayed. Um, how did you know I was here?"

"Hunk saw you called but you didn't pickup. Then he went into detective mode and tracked you. You hadn't moved. So he called Lance, who got a garbled message about you having a flat. Luckily you shared your trip route with Shiro when you thought he was going. So I snuck in his room and sent it to myself."

Pidge was still trying to take in the man in front of her. Wind blown hair, goggles pulled up, black shirt and leather jacket, dark jeans and boots. He was too hot. She blinked. "Okay, but why are YOU here?"

He looked down, rubbing his neck, "Yeah well, maybe I was the only one of us who had any vacation time to use. I rarely use it, so, um, I took a couple of weeks and decided to see if, um, you needed help. If not, it's no big I could just ride it out, you know follow your trip, it's not like I'm the best at planning anyways."

Pidge felt her heart race again but this time, it wasn't from fear. "So um, wanna go on a road trip. With me?"

Keith's face breaks into a slow grin. "Yeah, hop on my bike and let's get your car situated. We could either rent a trailer for the bike or I could store it for a bit."

Pidge starts to turn, then stops. With her back to him, she queries, "Um, Matt didn't ask you to do this di-" when her voice abruptly dies off.

Keith suddenly held the door closed, and his back was to her front. With her body between Keith's and the car door she freezes. He lowers his head and rasps out, "God Holt how can someone so smart be so dumb. Matt does not know. Shiro doesn't even know. But somehow Lance figured out I have had a thing for you since high school and I'm done waiting for the right time. I'm taking my shot."