Being in the same room as Shiro was hard for Lance, he refuses to be in the same room as him as long as another paladin is in the room with them, Lance had to convince Allura into not having them both do a chore together.
Now on Shiro's behalf, he knows there was some kind of connection with Lance when he was still at the garrison. Over the months of being a paladin of Voltron, he still doesn't understand the reason why Lance won't have an actual conversation with him one on one. He wishes he could at least be in the same room as Lance alone without the boy leaving.
Now that he thinks of it... him and Lance have never really done anything together, like chores.. training... missions... what?? He's going to have to ask Allura about it. Speak of the devil.
"PALADINS THE GALRA ARE ATTACKING, GET TO YOUR LIONS IMMEDIATELY"
You can hear Coran in the background
"CASTLE DEFENSES ARE DOWN!"
Shiro sped out of the training room, already being in his armor, he went through his lion thing and popped into Blacks cockpit in no-time.
Meanwhile, Lance was jamming out to a song stuck in his head while struggling to put on his armor, running to Blues drop off. Lance jumps on the zip line when he was done putting on his armor, hopping into the the entrance to the small car cart.
Shiro flies out of the castle, "It's not that bad out here guys, it shouldn't take long." He stated seeing.... no Galra.. anything. Black looks around, purring in the back of Shiro's mind. "Allura..? Are you sure there are galra out there fighting...?" Shiro asked confused.
Lance flew out of the castle in a hurry, then saw exactly what Shiro saw.. No Galra... No nothing.. "Is this some kind of joke..?" He growled, looking at the castle, to see that the castles particle barrier was up.
Allura and Pidge have planned something absolutely evil, but beautiful. Now remember when Lance confessed to Katie about him and Shiro? Well, it seems as if Pidge doesn't remember either. Damn, even the cock block doesn't remember cock blocking. Kind of sad if you ask me. But their plan was to see what is going on with Shiro and Lance, they both see that Lance is completely dodging Shiro, so the two girls are simply locking them out of the castle until they can learn to get along. They did this to Lance and Keith and it turned out they never had anything wrong with each other, just the fact that Keith thought it was Lance who was fucking his brother, and he was completely correct, but Lance said "absolutely not" and they've been chill ever sense.
Lance then started screaming at Allura and Pidge, knowing what they were doing "NONONONONO KATHERINE HOLT LET ME IN RIGHT NOW OR I SWEAR TO JESUS CRACKERS YOU ARE NEVER GETTING YOUR HEADPHONES BACK"
Shiro was taken aback at Lances screaming, he knew that they were locked out the minute Lance came out of the castle, but he didn't think Lance was going to be so upset about it, he honestly didn't know it was this serious. Listening to Lance and Pidge argue, it ended with Allura telling them to go to the planet under them. That ended with a grumbling Lance flying to the planet and Shiro following.
Lance was beyond pissed at this point. Welp, no getting out of this one. He sighed then changed their chatting to private so they can converse in peace. "Can we just find a way out of this? Please..?" He asked, landing his lion
Shiro was utterly shocked, Lance didn't want to talk to him? When there's no one else around to snoop? Well he should've seen that coming honestly.
"No.. Lance, we need to talk about this. I've been trying to for months now, it's only for the best."
Of course Shiro wanted to talk, that's just like him. Duh durr- "Fine. Just, outside of the lions..." Lance said, watching Black land. Lance sighed and walked out of Blue, her particle barrier went up as Lance plopped down on a log. He rubbed his face, ashamed of himself, this wouldn't of happened if he just confessed the first time Shiro asked.
Shiro saw Lance sitting on the log, looking stressed. The older man sat next to the Cuban boy, rubbing his back. For a second he felt De Ja Vu. He had another memory, but not one from the Galra..
"Ugh this test got me shakin- bacon" Lance groaned, leaning against the person rubbing his back with support.
"It's got everyone 'shakin'" Shiro laughed as he hugged Lance close. The two then laughed at the word choice Lance used before.
Shiro stood up from the log and gasped, pointing at Lance in shock, not able to get words out.
Lance screeched at the sudden movement, looking at Shiro with hands up, "Slow it Tiger!!" He screeched with wide eyes.
But Shiro just stood there with a shocked look, "I-I- y-y-you????" He asked, confused, gripping his hair.
"Oh god you learned just from rubbing my back??!?" Lance asked, standing up, "I should've known." He groaned, "It didn't only happen once."
Shiro gasped, "I ACTUALLY KNEW YOU???"
Lance laughed nervously, then stood there for a second, "In what way do you remember?"
"WaIt-" Shiro squawked, "Did we not like eachother??"
"NNNOOOO-"
"Alright, good" Shiro sighed in relief.
"That's all?" Lance asked, upset that that's all he got.
"What do you mean..?" Shiro asked.
Lance sighed, "It's nothing.." he said, flicking his hair back, putting on a smile, "Sssooo now you know why I was avoiding you, can we go now? Yeah? Thanks!" He said quickly, speed walking to his lion.
Shiro grabbed the back of Lances armor suit, sighing and sitting the boy on the log, "That's why you were avoiding me? Because we were friends in the Garrison?"
"Yep! Exactly why," Lance chuckled nervously.
Shiro looked at Lance and swore he saw tears build up in his eyes, so he nodded, "Yeah.. Alright.." Shiro said, placing his hand on Lances shoulder. And of course he saw another flash back of Lance in Garrison uniform in front of him, but it immediately went away when Lance spoke.
"I'll try," he smiled sadly, "We should head off now." The Cuban said, walking over to Blues particle barrier, it immediately went down as the robotic lion sensed her paladins distress.
Shiro felt as if he should've been there to comfort Lance. He didn't know why, but he just felt the need. But he ignored that small part in him and walked to Black, touching the particle barrier and watched it disappear. Sighing, he walked into Blacks cockpit, hearing the soothing sounds of the robotic lion trying to comfort him. Shiro smiled and patted the control panel in a soothing manner, thanking his lion.
Lance sighed and then flew off in Blue.
~•~
When the two found the castle again, Lance spoke in his comms, "Guys we're fine let us in."
"What was the problem?" Pidge asked, looking at her nails.
"Apparently we knew each other in the Garrison." Shiro stated simply.
"That's it??" Allura asked.
Lance sighed as the particle barrier for the castle went down, "Yep. We knew each other and he didn't remember!" He chuckled, "Kind of hit me hard."
Shiro chuckled and thought only if he told me sooner.
When they flew in he saw Lance walking out of the hangar, and watched the Cuban looked back at him. He swore he was back at the Garrison for a minute there. Blinking away the thought, he watched Lance walk out of the hangar and watched the boy stroll off to his room, he just knew there was more to the story. This was going to be harder then he thought