Keith Pov
I woke up in the pod and I honestly don't remember what happened but I felt this odd urge to ask Lance if he was okay and about what happened but I ignored it and went to my room to clean up. As I limped down the quiet hallways I heard a faint crying from Lances room so I thought I would knock on his door.
"Hey, Lance are you okay" Nothing he doesn't answer alright I will just open the door and what I saw made my face go pale it was like everything was in slow motion Lance was experiencing a nightmare but his arms were all cut up and he was screaming and crying I immediately ran to him ignoring the fact that I was limping and hurt.
"LANCE WAKE UP YOUR OKAY"
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH" Lance screamed as he violently sat up
"k...Keith" he said quietly all I could do was hug him even if I didn't really like to touch people I could see that he needed it.
"Lance are you okay?"
"yeah I'm fine just a bad dream" my heart broke because I could easily see that he wasn't okay, I could see that he was breaking apart into pieces, his world was beginning to crumble. I cradled him for what seemed like hours all while lance stayed silent and cried until finally he broke and he whimpered
"Im..s.. orr...y"
He sounded so broken, so defeated, I felt so mad why was he sorry to me he his perfect I loved him He was my joy when all darkness came over me I lived for him otherwise I would be long gone but he keeps me going.
"sorry for what!!"
"I'm not strong" Lance muttered "I'm useless and broken"
"....."
I pulled away to go get bandages and fix him up, afterward I again pulled him closer "lance" I breathed down his neck "you're not broken, your perfect"
It was hard for Lance to believe anyone could think he was perfect
"no, I'm not"
"yes you are"
I simply stated
"You are my pride and joy I love you lance"
There was a long silence
"Keith"
"Yes"
"I... I Love you too"
I stopped hugging him but our faces came really close that I could feel his shallow breaths so I slowly leaned in closing the gap between out lips and had a long passionate kiss, his lips tasting like salt form all the tears yet so soft and so kissable I was practically melting. We parted after a long loving kiss, both of us had nothing to say just sat in an embarrassing silence I was the one to break the awkward silence.
"Please don't do this ever again. It really scares me" I looked away and started to tear up but refused to show my tears
"I-okay" he sniffled and nuzzled back into a hug which ended up turning into snuggles he snuggled against my chest and we both fell asleep in no time due to the fact of us both being comforted by one another.
Lance pov
When I woke up I didn't feel the same the warmth from before was gone and I looked around for Keith and saw him sitting by my window in my room.
"k...Keith" I said groggily from just waking up
"huh..Oh, lance good morning" I saw him wipe what looked to be tears of his face but I decided to ignore them.
"so why were you up so early"
"oh it's nothing just couldn't sleep," he said with a stammer from lying I could tell that he wasn't fine but I thought about it and let go.
(time skip to lunch)
I was so hungry because we did a team training with the bots it was exciting but we still had one more training after lunch but whatever we get to eat now yeahhh. I am a little worried because Keith didn't eat breakfast but he claimed he ate it before people were up but part of me doesn't believe him I really hope he is okay. all of us went to our rooms to change out of our armor and the headed to lunch I, of course, got there last I'm always last I'm not surprised. when I got there I realized Keith wasn't eating anything I grabbed his hand under the table and whispered to him
"Hey Keith are you okay this is the second meal you haven't eaten what's going on"
"nothing lance just I'm not hungry that's all"
I know he was lying but I didn't want to push him but I was generally concerned I soon forgot about. I ate my lunch talking to hunk and pidge making a joke here and there then Allura stood up to make an announcement
"all of you paladins should come to your next team workout in your regular clothes okay" I felt kind of queasy when Alluar said that, what could we be doing that doesn't require our armor
"Alluar why don't we need our armor"
"you will see lance it is a surprise" I know surprises are supposed to be happy but I had a bad feeling about this one.
(time skip to the training room)
"Okay so everyone is going to put on one of these telecommunicators and we are going to look back into each paladins memories to form Voltron better, sharing something will take a lot of work " all I could think was shit if I mess up they will see all my flaws I started to panic and I could see that Keith was panicking too well we will see how this goes. allura said the order of who is going first all the way to last and luckily I was last so we went through everyone the last to go were Kieth then me.
Keith Pov
"Hey guys I was thinking maybe I don't go you know and we can just end here"
"Keith, there is nothing to be afraid of you can share anything with us there are no secrets in this castle" Allura said not think of what I had been through I but my telecommunicator back on and tried to focus on how me Shiro just meet but everything was going wrong all I could think was shit, some of the other paladins were yelling at me.
"Keith you have to concentrate" Shiro firmly stated
"Keith concentrate it HURTS MY HEAD!!" pidge yelled
"KIETH" they all yelled
we were all being pulled into one of my worst past dreams we could ever be in. it was when I was 6 and my dad was killed
"Dad look how cool I am I can fly this really cool drone," I said but then Booom crumble, its began to rain mistles from the sky
"dad what's happening"
"Keith the galar are here they are attacking take this knife and hide okay" I began to tear up
"dad.. wait DON'T LEAVE ME DAD" he walked out the door and that was the last time I had ever heard from him when the bombs blew over I cam out of the closet still crying
"d..dad" I sniffled and walked outside I searched for 3 days before I found him
"DAD" I called his name but he never responded
"DAD"
"OMG DAD ARE YOU OKAY" I finally found him but he was long gone and dead I sobbed for days I tried so hard to wake him up anything just to make him, okay but he wasn't and I finally buried him but after that I grew closer and closer to wanting to die that house was always quiet and I had to take care of myself. Being alone for years and watching your dad die is unimaginable
The dream cut out there before it went to me meeting Shiro I came out of it sobbing it was silent except for my quiet sobs until pidge broke the silence
"Keith"
"Keith I'm so sorry" then hunk came to talk
"Keith you can talk to us really"
they all were swarming me I was being overwhelmed I didn't know what to do but one thing I knew the only thing I can rely on I pulled my knife out making them jump back and this is all I could say
"l..leave...me...alone"
"Keith come on you need to talk to us" hunk came closer and I screamed
"LEAVE ME ALONE" and with that, I ran out of the room and went to my room crying not being able to handle what happened. In short, I ended up staying over 3 weeks in my room only letting Lance in every once in a while to give me food that I would play with not really eat.
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