#keith looks so small and innocent omg his EYES

[hear-the-black-lion-roar]

Something dumb that’s been living in my head for some time now, based on a chat with a friend. Context under the cut, cringe warning.

|'ve been thinking about that joke how Ulaz gets a silly costume to help Shiro during the "no Galra allowed" episodes and I actually really like the idea. Like, even though they don't settle down after the war since there are still planets to discover and explore, alien cultures to befriend/battle, and trying to bring back some order to the universe devastated by the war with the Galra Empire, there are fairly long periods of time they spend at home on Earth which is also where these states hit Shiro the most often because there's nothing that would distract his mind intensely enough. And it's really hard for both of them, Shiro really doesn't need the guilt to add to the distress he already feels during those episodes and Ulaz feels desperately helpless because he can't really do anything other than talking to him through the closed door. And since Keith isn't always around to help, he decides to try if putting on a mask would work.

So during one of those episodes, Shiro is being a complete mess in his room when all of a sudden Ulaz knocks and says someone's there to see him. He doesn't even bother to respond, he's miserable to all hell and doesn't want to be bothered. Yet when he turns around when the door open, there's a 2,5 meter tall fucking bright pink fluffy plushie unicorn trying to fit through, almost knocking his head off by the doorframe. Now, Shiro is completely stunned. His brain simply doesn't have a program for "home invasion by a giant plushie" scenario so he just stares with his mouth hanging open while the unicorn is shuffling closer, nearly stumbling over his own feet because he can't see shit from inside the costume.

When he croutches down to him, Shiro can only muster: "...Why."

"Well I learned that humans often use the fake stuffed animals as comfort objects..."

"So you turned yourself into one?"

"Yes. I purposely chose a herbivorous creature to present as non-threateningly as possible, plus one that is, as I've been told, heavily associated with childhood, fantasy worlds, innocence, dreaming, and so on. Also, it's fluffy. And you have a strong affinity for fluff."

He starts to explain how he thought that if his form is not that of a Galra, he can hopefully safely provide him with physical comfort, and Shiro just hugs him, laughing and crying at the same time because it's probably the most thoughful gesture anyone ever did for him. So Ulaz picks him up, carries him at the couch, lies down, and lets him rest on him, gently stroking his hair and back. Shiro manages to choke out, "You know, every time I think I can't possibly love you even more, you always prove me wrong," before breaking down in tears again, eventually crying himself to sleep while being softly sing to.

The next morning, Keith gets back there and when he enters Shiro's room, he initially thinks he's sleeping on a giant plushie. He almost has a heart attack when the plushie lift his head and gestures to him to be quiet. He then carefully untangle himself from Shiro, covers him with a blanket and gets out of the room and out of the costume before Kosmo gets completely crazy because OMG HUGE CHEWING TOY! and tries to tear his tail off. Keith decided a long time ago he won't be surprised by anything that's happening in that house and just asks, "He gets freaked by anything Galra-shaped again?", and when Ulaz nods, "Why didn't you call me? I'd get here sooner."

"You were on a fairly important mission. I can't exactly call you off on a whim."

"You know very well you can when it's Shiro."

"I'd like to remind you that the responsibility you took upon yourself when you joined the Blades is not a small one. You better prove you are indeed a reliable member."

Keith of course pouts because IT'S SHIRO DAMMIT AND YOU OF ALL PEOPLE SHOULD UNDERSTAND!

Ulaz just pats him on the shoulder and show him to the room. "Go to him. He'll be happy to see you when he wakes up. I'll go make some breakfast." and starts to leave. Keith calls after him and says, "Thanks. For everything you do for him." Ulaz just smiles. "It's my duty and my pleasure." Which for Keith is pretty obvious since he gets kicked out of the house every time those two want to have some adult fun.

He then goes in and together with Kosmo he snuggles to Shiro until he wakes up. And when he does, Keith presents him with a beautiful crystal figurine that looks a lot like his DnD character he got for him and Shiro is just done, he barely pulled himself together, his hair is a mess, his eyes are swollen from crying, probably looks like a zombie, yet no one cares and everyone is nice at him. So he hugs him with "I love you," and when Kosmo snuggles to him as well for some ear scratches, Shiro frowns at him: "Not you, you shredded my favourite boots and I still didn't forgive you." Space doggo is offended because the boots didn't even taste that good.

[whattheklance]

Wecavod 4

wecavod= “What Else Could a Virgin Omega Do?”

So this is probably the most chaotic of chunks of information from my original notes.

I have the original timeline that I was never sure about and glad changed to what realfakedoors and me came up with, but here’s what was floating around in my notes long before that.

There’s also some chunks of dialogue related to some of the bullet points, or some summaries of scenes and scenarios. It’s all kind of a jumble, but if you’d like to read it, here it is.

Original “Timeline”

Lance decides to try speed dating. mixture of bored and creeped out interactions (this happening only after he tried and failed to see keith again cuz keith is popular)

Keith learns Lance speed dating news from a coworker (see a brief dialogue thing I have below this list)

Possibly keith at work more?? ruing his new popularity. or maybe a keith dream about lance? (this one might not be necessary at all. just an idea if more angst is needed or to build suspense)

Lance assertive flirting at a club leads to being stalked by a scary alpha.

Keith enraged at finding out about lance’s plight from coworker

Lance catches Keith talking w/ shiro but can't hear anything. Makes a lot of assumptions

Keith & shiro? + matt conversation?? Maybe Keith is talking to them about lance? Maybe he's keeping everything about lance to himself but is spitballing ideas of changing his "career path"

matt/shiro wedding. lance and keith were invited separately. possibly use this location & event for confession of feelings, but with a lot of awkward and shy stuff leading up to it.

if the wedding is where they get together then next would be the hottest steamiest night between them afterward. a long time coming (pun intended). cuz they know they love each other. Or possible deliberately postpone this and give them some absurdly innocent and/or awkward interactions before they finally have their first night "together."

(END OF TIMELINE)

SMALL BITS OF WRITTEN DIALOGUE

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Keith is told by a coworker that they saw Lance at speed dating.

Keith: "What are YOU doing dating?" (author's note: as employees at the brothel it's in their contract that they can't be casual dating for health/safety reasons.)

Coworker: "Moral support"

yaddayaddayaddda. They talk some more. Keith doesn't care about small talk. He's in his own head until...

Coworker: "I could still smell you on him."

Keith felt like he'd been kicked in the gut. He couldn't breath. Lingering scent post-knotting was normal for a few days. But it'd been over a month. His heart tightened as his brain struggled to assign meaning to that new piece of information.

Confusion.

Keith's hopes are up but he still dares not believe.

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The "Stalking" idea

Lance tries to be "loose" in reaction to his extreme attachment to Keith, and decides to respond to getting hit on at a club to get a date or one night stand.

maybe lance was starting to smell "in heat" even before he feels it so the alpha gets aggressive. Follows Lance out of the club, harassing him.

Not wanting to lead the guy home he took a detour. unsure of what to do or where he was going. He ended up walking by the brothel's entrance

TWO IDEAS about this scene -lance could seek asylum there to escape his stalker OR -2 or 3 alphas inside the brothel could hear/smell what was going on outside and they come out to intervene. Lance asks them about Keith and they tell him just that–he's booked.

Dialogue after Lance is long gone and Keith is between clients

Keith: "Why do you smell like him???"

Guy (rolo?): "Who?"

K: "You know DAMN WELL who. Everybody does."

G: "Chill, man. He was only here for a bit."

Keith's mind raced. a glimpse of hope. Was Lance scheduling a new appointment? Had he stopped by to try to see Keith?

G: "(continued) An Alpha was stalking him so we helped him out. Poor dude didn't know we could already smell the preheat on him."

Lance had been in fucking danger and Keith wasn't the one to help him. He didn't even know. Damn, he would've settled with just being in the same room with him even if it meant seeing him if only for a second. He never hated his life before, but that was the only way to describe this sickening feeling.

Keith hated that lance was HERE and he didn't get to see him. He hated that he couldn't be the one to help him, protect him. More than all that he hated himself that he was in here...doing his job, fucking another nobody.

G: "You need to get your Alpha-self in order. You can't go claiming or dibs on clients. Who says he even wants to see you again?"

hearing someone tell him the precise words keith feared the most sent him almost feral, shoving his coworker so hard he hit the tile and slide across it.

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Lance catching Shiro and Keith talking together somewhere

possibly have lance catch the two of them from a distance and be able to suspect that they had a history

Seeing familiar signs from Keith with the added pain that Shiro could touch him nonchalantly and Keith not only didn't flinch, he seemed comforted.

Between that and a certain fondness in Shiro eyes that's similar to the way he looks at Matt

Lance gets juvenile ideas about "omg does Matt know?? Only to see Matt join them later and nothing about either Shiro or Keith's body language changes

They weren't hiding anything from matt. He'd have been shocked if Shiro had, but of course that guy was true.

Whatever Shiro and Keith were talking about Matt was in the know. Both were equally contributing to the conversation with Keith

Why did his mind immediately jump to intimate things between them?? They're both alphas. But thinking on it lance realized that Shiro had an alpha girlfriend in high school and as far as he knew it, the only people before Matt that Shiro had ever been with had been alphas.

Course he never knew anything about Shiro's sex life, even though high school him would've given his right arm to learn even one detail.

(Possible) Keith side of the same scene (or maybe just some in general characterization to include throughout)

Keith depression? He has a contract with the brothel and has never worked anywhere else. He dropped out of school so he doesn't even have a diploma.

He can't even think about going after Lance until sex isn't his job. It has to be Lance and no one else. He wouldn't be able to stand seeing Lance's face if he had to go to work.

Shiro and Matt offered advice in regards to what he could do if/when he got out

But he didn't want to risk his good livelihood cuz he doesn't even know if lance would accept him. He doesn't want to pursue lance while this is his job, but he doesn't want to sacrifice his job without knowing if he has a chance with lance. what to do.

If the above scene happens before the wedding: Lance having already had the surprise seeing them together, and learning keith and shiro know each other. At the wedding Keith initiates conversation cuz he has no idea that Lance knows Shiro. Lance wants to damn well know the answer after seeing them together.

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Shiro/Matt wedding: the first klance interaction since...Lance’s heat

Lance goes stag, and is hyperaware that most people have a date or at least a 'plus one.' The last thing he ever would've expected was to encounter KEITH.

"How do you know Shiro" conversation

upon being face to face for the first time in a WHILE this is the first thing out of both their mouths

Keith: (conversationally) "So, how do you know Shiro?"

Lance: (sputtering indignantly) "How do I know Shiro? I grew up with him. How do YOU know Shiro???"

Keith hesitated with his drink at his lips, searching for a 'way' to word it.

Keith: (slowly) "Well~I guess you could say we worked together." Regretting the words the moment they left his mouth.

Lance: Lance stared slack-jawed. "No––No way." shock/stunned, mouth hanging open

Keith: "No-no-no-no. Not like that. I didn't mean––"

Lance took a deep breath and relaxed again.

Well Keith kind of did mean it, but Lance didn't need to know that, especially if they're childhood friends.

Keith massaged the truth a bit, it wasn't his place to tell Lance about something Shiro hadn't. It was Shiro's business.

From Keith's brief acquaintance with Shiro, it was a little eerie that he already had a connection to Lance from the year he was old enough to take his job. He was 18 and a new employee at the brothel, having dropped out of school. Not long after, an older guy joined up too. The notorious virgin Alpha hired only getting hired because of how fucking hot he was.

That'd be story for a different day...what was he thinking?? Like he'd get to see Lance enough to eventually tell him about that? He was constantly catching himself acting like they were already "in" a relationship.

**LATER**

Lance: (watching Matt with Shiro in their slow dance, eyes staring at Matt's suit collar that had to be hiding a mark Shiro made long before this day. It gave him chills thinking about it.) "I wonder what it feels like to be mated, claimed."

Keith almost choked on his drink when Lance suddenly said that introspectively. His heart raced. His body tensed. Was Lance addressing him or just talking to himself out loud??

KLANCE DANCING (at least one 'slow dance')––I want this to be important

So possibly have a wedding dance between them where the vibes Keith gets from lance give him the courage to take a chance.???????

Holding lance close cheek to cheek, chests pressed together arms wrapped around each other, hands pressed into backs. Whenever they spoke they looked each other in the eye, noses almost touching.

Both felt drunk on the others scent, fighting a strong urge to just close the distance for a kiss. They both wanted that taste again.

maybe they kiss? and it gets heated but their brains get in the way? OR they ALMOST kiss but one of them pulls away.

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FUTURE . after angst and miscommunication

would KEITH "confess first??" maybe? but expect no reciprocation when he does.

the line below is text FROM A FANART by artisttothebone

Lance: "I love your eyes, your hair, your smile, I love YOU Keith"

maybe make it something like...

Lance: "I love the warmth of your arms around me, the sound of your breathing, the feel of your laugh when I touch your chest. Every time I have to leave your side I die a little inside because I never want to be apart from you. I love YOU, Keith. You."

Keith: "Lance–"

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POST CLIMAX (they've been a together for a while)

Keith job situation. Decides to get his GED to eventually pursue psychology and language studies.

Insert jokes from Lance about having a high school boyfriend, and it implying some huge age gap, or that he's robbing the cradle etc.

Keith saying: "you KNOW, I'm actually OLDER than you"

And

"Its not high school, it's high school equivalent"

Lance knows all that he just loves how easy it is to rile Keith up, being so flappable. Lance always showers his love afterward