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foolinafable · 7 months ago

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It's for the best .ೃ࿐

Keith Kogane x Fem!Reader Synopsis: locked in a cell, the white paladin remembers her happier times and hopes that she can make it back to a certain black paladin. Word count: 3.7K Tags: slight angst, flashbacks, mentions of torture but not graphic, set tentatively around season 4 Notes: Apparently, vld is having a resurgence so send in some requests!

You knew it was for the best. Sat cross-legged in the confines of your cell with a small smile on your lips, contented, knowing that you have done everything you could, that this wasn't in vain- rather it was what was supposed to happen. For the betterment of the entire universe, sometimes sacrifices need to be made. You remember telling Keith something similar during one of his many brooding moments. Now wishing that you could remember which conversation it was or maybe just that you had paid more attention to your time together, especially now you didn’t think you would ever see the boy with the mullet again.

You were sat next to Hunk, the pair of you looking up giddily at Takashi Shirogane, the famed astro explorer. He was speaking to the class about his recent accomplishment as he had just broken the record for the fastest orbital velocity. Everyone had tried the flight simulator and despite not being able to get passed level 3- like the rest of the class you were still excited by the prospect of meeting the youngest pilot to ever lead a mission in space. Even more happy that you had done better than James Griffin in the simulator- as he never stopped going on about his good grades and how much better he is. So to wipe that smirk off his face made it all worth it. As you and Hunk were fangirling in the corner you heard Griffins whining causing your attention to go back to the simulator, where apparently one more person was having a go. The pair of you walked towards the commotion as the annoyed brunette sounded out “No way! Keith made it past level five?! Thing's got to be broken.” That was the first moment you saw him, well properly at least. The young boy with a mullet and a ‘disciplinary issue’ if you were to listen to what your teachers told you. He walked away from the training simulator with a grin on his face and you couldn’t help but smile too. Especially when he looked your way as he walked off.

‘He doesn't even know you're gone’ you muse to yourself, and it’s true. The last you had heard from him was on the other side of a screen during a planning meeting with the Blade surrounded by your teammates, who similarly had yet to know the fate of the white paladin of Voltron. They would soon realise when you don't return through the wormhole and when they find your lion broken and alone. But then it will already be too late, as the galaran ship that held you prisoner was already galaxies away taking you towards inevitable doom. You think you're pathetic, as you are already giving up but what else can you do, your weapon is gone, lion missing, and you are locked in a cell with only your body inside of it with nobody even knowing where you are- not even you. Worry roots deeply inside of yourself as you think of your friends, a lump in your throat growing at the thought of them discovering that you're gone- they have all lost enough already. You’re sure Lance would try to be enthusiastic, claiming that they found Shiro so they could find you. Still, even he would know the saddening truth that the galarans won’t make the same mistake twice as he tries to hide his tears from Pidge who would be clinging to Hunk, begging him to tell her it’s not true- she only just got her brother back and now she has lost her sister- blood related or not. You knew it would destroy the team if you couldn’t get back to them and what worries you is that you're struggling to see a way that you can.

It was nerve-wracking, waiting to find out who Iverson and the rest of the teachers decided to team you up with for the simulators. It was a big deal, as this was going to be your team for the rest of your time in the Garrison. Last year you couldn’t wait for this moment, but maybe that was because you were certain that the boy with the mullet would be by your side as you were as Shiro put it “the only person that can put up with him” but he left, dropped out without so much of a goodbye, and you could understand, the loss of Shiro, Matt and Sam was difficult for everyone but nobody took it worse than Keith and you suppose it made sense as Shiro was all the boy had. You shook the thoughts of him out of your mind when Iverson finally came into the room, twiddling the rings on your rings on your fingers as you stood near Hunk who looked ghostly pale and going on queasy as you both prayed that the older man would do you both a solid and put you two together. You listened as he called names into groups, feeling somewhat better when Griffin was put in a group that didn't include you. Then your name was called and you were told to stand next to a tall Cuban boy wearing blue, you smiled as you walked up to him and he smiled back seemingly just as nervous as you were, then a smaller boy with round glass and a green jumper joined the group, your eyes squinting when looking at him, almost as if you had seen him before but you couldn’t place where. But before you could question it Hunk's name fell out of Iverson’s lips, you looked up in alarm as you saw Hunk coming towards your group, shocked that your prayers had been answered. The fear that was eating away at you was dulled slightly as he came to stand next to you. Sure it wasn’t the team that you wanted but maybe this wouldn’t be so bad after all.

Being in space has always made your internal clock question how long has passed, but it seems to be worse when alone in this cell. You believe it has been a few days based on the number of trays of food delivered to your cell, the only interaction with another you’ve had this whole time. At least you think, as you find yourself waking up exhausted with pains and aches all over your body, but you have no memory of doing anything or even anyone coming into your cell in the first place. You thought you would've been face to face with Zarkon or his witch by now, but as time passes, you struggle to believe that would happen at all, which causes a pit to develop in your stomach as the unknown of your future begins to dawn on you.

You can still hear the conforming hum of your lion in the back of your head, trying to reassure you that all is well but as the days pass by you begin to believe it less and less simply repeating to yourself that it was for the best.

“Things could’ve been a lot worse” you theorised. Sat with Pidge in this trash heap with your lions completely shut down. At least you were together and there were (up to now) no enemies trying to kill you both. To be honest, you wouldn’t want to be stuck here with anyone else. After Pidge finally revealed to everyone that she was in fact a girl, something you had figured out back in your garrison days, not long after you had become a team and saw the photo of her and Matt taken prior to the Kerberos mission, but you only knew because he had shown it to you first, during one of his many tutoring sessions with you. You liked to think that while Shiro was Keith’s mentor, Matt was yours. A sentiment he very much enjoyed, so much that Pidge later told you that she had already known who you were when she met you. A fact that made your heart swell. Your friendship with Matt was one of the many reasons that Pidge thought of you like a sister and the main reason you looked after her so much- you wanted to look after her for him while he couldn’t and while this mindset got you into many arguments with Keith over putting her safety over your own you wouldn’t change a thing because you knew it was the right thing to do (Also Keith couldn’t really say anything as he constantly put himself in harms way for everyone on the team.) You couldn’t help but feel protective over her as she was the youngest out of your ragtag bunch and was annoyingly the only one you could baby as you were the second youngest of the group as Lance loved to remind you. While being here with Pidge definitely made you feel a little better, you couldn’t help but be relentlessly worried for the rest of the group, as they always found some way to get into trouble- especially Lance and Keith. It was like trouble sought them out, always getting into some sort of issue whether it be with aliens or with each other. So you couldn’t help but double over in laughter when Pidge using her junk-made paladins started an argument between the fake Lance and Keith. Eventually, you both decided that you had waited around for help long enough and decided to try and find your own way back to the castle. Pidge made you gather together materials to make a home beacon signal in hopes that it could reach the castles of lions to allow them to find you two. No surprise to you Pidge’s brilliance worked its magic as the castle of lions appeared in the sky from a wormhole, the pair of you hugged each other happy knowing that you weren’t going to grow old on a trash pile as you had both dramatically claimed. You two were more than ready to return to the fight against Zarkon to save the universe and hopefully, find Pidge’s family.

You dream of him, black hair, violet eyes and his grumpy temperament clouding your thoughts as you try to rest. But, when you wake cold and alone in that dark cell you are reminded of the present and how you need to try and stop yourself from dreaming of the past.

Thought it was “just goodbye for now” you bitterly mumbled as you awoke from another dream of him. This time the memory sticks with you- of the goodbye you shared as he left to find himself with the blades, those were the words he uttered to you as you blanketed him in your embrace. That it was temporary, that you two would come back together again and you remember how you smiled through your sadness nodding at his words, believing him truthfully- as you always did. But you are now struggling to believe it anymore and you don't know if you are more mad at him for uttering those words or yourself for trusting them to be true. Up to now, all attempts to contact your lion have failed miserably but you can still hear your lion if you concentrate enough- as though you two are connected to the same string and you pray that it never snaps, clinging onto it like a lifeline.

You were buzzing, tapping your hands against your legs as you bounced on the balls of your feet, waiting for Pidges Lion in the cockpit while the rest of the team looked at you, amused. Lance, clearly feeding off your joyous attitude, ruffled the hair on your head, messing it up slightly. You turned to the boy, pouting as he withdrew his hands, using your own to try to flatten whatever mess he had made as he giggled at your reaction. A smile quickly returned to your face when Pidge stepped out of her lion with a familiar boy following behind her, you ran towards the pair, wrapping your arms around Matt’s shoulders in welcome, your smile only increasing when he hugged back with just as much gusto, you could hear Lance muttering something about someone being jealous if they were here to Hunk and Shiro but you weren’t paying close enough attention to anything he said, instead, you were very happy that the man who you would call a brother was really okay and just like Shiro had survived the Kerberos mission. When the family reunion had ended Pidge introduced Matt to the rest of the group, except for Keith as he was yet again away on some mission with the Blades. You watched amused as Matt’s eyes landed on Allura and something similar to what you see in a romcom played out as he screamed “You are so beautiful!” you struggled to keep the giggles to yourself as you saw Coran turn red in anger, clearly seeing this as an inappropriate way to talk to the princess and finding humour in Lance’s clear jealousy as Hunk made the boy walk away from the group. You decided to do something similar telling Pidge to give Matt a tour of the castle ship as you walked away with Coran and Allura, pulling both the alteans away with your hands.

Calming down an angry altean was albeit harder than you expected, especially when Allura was of no help at all as she was just laughing at how worked up the older man had become, but you understood it was because he felt so protective over her especially since there was no Alfor to help him and she was like Coran’s little girl so nobody would ever be good enough, you whispered just as much to him as Allura was talking to her mice and that seemed to make him less annoyed, knowing that somebody else understood him. It wasn’t until later when gossiping with Allura about your lives before all this, that she mentioned that it wasn’t just Matt’s interaction with her that annoyed Coran but also his interaction with you, claiming that he always got annoyed when others in his eyes tried to “flirt” with you, her or Pidge. However, she quickly noted that he never got annoyed or got Lance and Hunk to intimidate Keith like he did anyone else when it comes to you a comment made your cheeks burn.

You startle awake to the sound of your cell door being opened, eyes darting towards the light, confused when the door continues to open, eyes squinting from the light now surrounding you for the first time in weeks as you try to identify the body in front of you when a voice gasped out and a familiar voice spoke your name. All worry evaporated from your body as Matt Holt wrapped you in a hug and you knew for the first time in weeks that everything would be okay and that maybe Keith was right- it was just goodbye for now.

You now sat in the control room of the ship you had been captured in surrounded by freedom fighters. After hearing over hacked intercoms about it carrying ‘precious cargo’ for the emperor, they had infiltrated and taken control of the ship.

“And that was me was it?” you mused looking towards the Holt boy to which he cracked a smile sending you a simple nod in response. You had changed into your white and silver spacesuit and your bayard had been retrieved for you. Now more than ready to return home to the castle of lions, to the paladins and to him.

The first thing you saw, unsurprisingly, as the ship came out of the wormhole was your lion, growling in happiness, bounding towards her paladin only stopping when she was at the front of the ship, eyes locked onto you. You smiled gleefully at your lion feeling your connection stronger than ever, as though the string that attached the you two was unwavering, unbreakable. As soon as the ship reached the castle of lions you were enveloped in the paladin’s embrace, you would’ve fallen over when Pidge launched herself into your arms, legs wrapped around your middle like a koala, if weren’t for Lance keeping you balanced by surrounding you in a hug from behind. Hunk joined the misfit group of cadets finishing off the group hug similar to how they used to in the Garrison when they, for once, completed the training simulator much to Iverson’s shock. Thoughts of worry could be seen swimming through Shiro’s eyes as you caught them when looking up, he nodded at you, the tension flinging off him like water down a hill as you turned back to your family holding Pidge and Lance by the backs of their heads, smiling and reassuring them that this was real, that you were real as tears dropped from the twos eyes. You could feel Hunk’s laboured breaths, clearly trying to stay strong for the group as the rest were blubbering messes. Walking away from your embrace and towards the freedom fighters with Shiro shaking hands and thanking them for getting you back to them as the trio dropped towards the floor, holding onto each other like it was the last time.

It was only later when you had changed into your everyday wear, speaking with Allura and Coran holding both of their hands, stroking them gently that the paladins noticed the new scars decorating your arms and some scorch marks adjourned your neck along with bruising that you wouldn’t comment on. Or rather that you couldn’t as you claimed to not remember anything except for the dark room you were kept in and then Matt saving you. Another change was your hair, which had a white streak in it, you simply chuckled at the development turning to Shiro claiming "We match now" causing everyone to laugh and they supposed it fit you well - “As she is the white paladin” Lance claimed.

It was only when Coran transferred your memories temporarily into a crystal that they all saw what you endured on the ship, you were beaten and tortured for answers, electrocuted, burned for sport and tested on by some druids. At that point, they stopped watching as Shiro was looking rather green, probably from remembering his own time with those vile creatures. But you mused that you were lucky as you still had all your limbs and according to Coran who looked at your scan results from the healing pod whatever they were trying on you didn’t work as you were the same as you were before, “except for a few scars and a new hair colour that is” He pondered twiddling his moustache. And he was right of course you didn’t feel any different, maybe a bit more anxious at night and a few more nightmares but who could blame you after being trapped in a dark room for weeks. Of course, the memory loss was slightly concerning but they all believed it to be a coping mechanism to keep you sane and you were glad that you could only properly remember the dark room, that it was all that really haunted you at night and that those things you saw on the screen projected from your mind didn’t and you hoped it stayed that way.

The entire universe that was apart of the coalition let out a sigh of relief when it was revealed by Allura on comms to the members of the alliance that the white paladin of Voltron had been found and returned mostly unharmed. However, nobody’s relief could be felt greater than that of Keith Kogane who had been fighting with Kolivan for weeks when they received the information of your disappearance and probable capture, he remembers the way his legs nearly gave out from under him when during a meeting with Allura the altean claimed that Voltron couldn’t come to the rescue this time as they were missing a paladin- missing you. He Surprisingly didn’t even need to sneak out on a blade ship to try and find the castle of lions to see if it was true, rather Kolivan who was probably fed up with his moping simply turned to the boy and gave him ship and co-ordinates simply asking him to back in time for the next meeting. The older Galaran didn’t think he'd see the boy move so fast, mumbling annoyed about how much more work would get done if he did.

You didn’t hear him on comms asking for Coran to allow him into the cockpit, too busy in the training deck with Shiro and Allura showing them that despite being out of action for a few weeks you were ready to get back out there because as you told them “the galra don’t wait for anyone” and that “this revolution wasn’t going to fight itself.” You didn’t even hear your teammates asking for you to come to the control room over comms, far too busy fighting the training dummies and your comms device left on the side. What you did notice was when you were lifted from behind, a pair of pale arms grabbing you by the waist causing a gasp to erupt from your throat, You spun around ready to attack until your eyes met his, and then your sword dropped to the floor as Keith held you in his arms, staring intensely at you as if you would disappear if he dared to look away for even a second. You quickly returned the embrace, arms circling his back as you threw your head onto his chest, almost unbelieving that he was there, his arms moved, crowding around your head pulling you impossibly closer to his body as he noticed the white strand of hair, his fingers pressed against it confused as he rested his nose atop your head, breathing you in, reminding himself that this was in fact, real and not just one of his sick dreams he has been having since finding out you were gone.

Being held in his arms made everything real, and you thought that if you had to through everything all over again just to have this moment, in his arms, you would. It was all be for the best if you ended up in his arms at the end of it all.

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fourtwentybuds · 1 year ago

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blackterrae · 1 year ago

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Ideas for Black!Reader Fic

I am going to try my hand again at writing. And I wanted to share some people and fandoms that I love. If you don’t know these shows/actors/franchises/movies/streamers I’m putting you on! For the following:

Princess Bride

Alice In Borderland

Johnny Depp- All his characters

Napoleon Dynamite

Cameron Monaghan- I know that there are fics out there but it’s only always his Jerome/Jeremiah roles never just him or Cal Kestis

Anthony Carrigan- I loved Anothy as Victor Zsasz

Paul Dano- There are Riddler fics but not as many for his other roles

Damsel

The Entire Cast of Hawaii Five-0 (2010) - Don’t even get me started on how good this show is! And the cast looks amazing!

Chicago Med/Fire/PD- These shows have so much potential for fanfic storylines!

The Game (2006)- Has great potential for slow burns and fluffs.

Star Wars franchise (1977-present) - I know I said Cal Kestis but there are also other characters like Anakin, Luke, Obi Wan,Boba Fett (etc.)

NCIS franchise- I honestly love this franchise and it’s characters!

Hamilton

Any/All Sports Men- Jude Bellingham,Lewis Hamilton,LaMelo Ball,Allen Iverson(etc.)

Berleezy - He’s handsome and he’s funny!

Coryxkenshin- I literally love him and his videos!

Albert Aretz (Flamingo)- Look … he may be the epitome of mediocre white man but I like what I like!

AMP- Duke Dennis, Kai Cenat, Agent 00, ChrisNxtDoor,Davis, and Fanum ( all I gotta say is love a black man from infinity to infinity🗣️)

Beta Squad- A British YouTube/ streamer group!

SOMEBROS- Berleezy, Rico, ,PG, Joe (etc.)

WWE- come on now, do I even need to explain!!!

Four Brothers- All the cast but Garrett Hedland in particular!

Peacemaker - Don’t get me wrong I love Adrian Chase but I want to see just as much Peacemaker x black!reader fics because 2 words… JOHN CENA

MAWS- New animated Superman show! Love!

Smallville - The entire cast is hot! Tbh I fell hard for Tom Welling when I was younger when he was in Cheaper By The Dozen. Plus they literally whitewashed Vixen. COME ON! Vixen is a black female hero btw. She was also with Jon (Green Lantern) at one point.

Justice League/Justice League Unlimited (2001 and 2004)- I mean I literally can’t find any Jon Stewart x black!reader fics and he was with a BLACK WOMAN!

Warner Bros Franchise (minus the looney tunes & space jam)- There are lots of popular franchises that this company has from Fast & Furious to The Matrix!

Peaky Blinders- Saw a Tommy shelby x arms dealer black!female reader fic on my previous account but even then I couldn’t find it again on that account. So it’s gone with the wind. And the cast (i.e the actors and other characters they’ve portrayed). Example: Cillian Murphy as Johnathan Crane.

The Bear

FBI (All)

The good doctor

Tiktokers: Vinnie hacker

Blue Bloods

Will Poulter- I haven’t really seen any Adam Warlock fics

Slashers

Stranger Things

Cruel Intentions

Burnt

Dave Lizewski

Eddie Redmayne

Macgyver (2016)

Fresh Prince of Belair

Guardians of the galaxy- Explanation? Do I really need one?

On My Block

Descendants (characters will be the actors age in real life.duh)- Love Boo-boo Stewart & Mitchell Hope!

Matt Rife

Joey Bragg (Liv &Maddie) - What can I say I love dorks!

The Boys- Haven’t seen that many fics about the characters and a black reader

Once Upon A Time- I love dark fairytales sometimes because they remind me that not every story has a happy ending and you have to learn from them. But this series is good for any theme really.

Walker Texas Ranger (1993)

Top Gun

Nicolas Galitzine

Magcon: Whether you saw their vines on YouTube or vine, you know who they are

Dolan Twins

Mission Impossible

Euphoria- Entire show has great storylines with the potential of drama in fics

Shameless- Especially Carl Gallagher and Lip Gallagher

Creed- Michael B Jordan need I say more

Keanu Reeves- There are very few fics about Keanu but I’ve seen a few of his John Wick x black!reader fics (chef’s kiss) but never see any of The Matrix Fics!Also Ted (Bill & Ted)

River Phoenix

Batman Beyond

Rider Strong

Danny Gonzalez

Timothée Chalamet

Past-Present Singers & Rappers/ Groups -Bow Wow, Tupac, Lil Baby, Nelly, Omarion, Prince, Michael Jackson, Jon B,Usher, Central Cee, Måneskin, New Edition, BTS, James, PRETTYMUCH Bay, Daniel Caesar, October London, Steve Lacey, Artemas, YUNGBLUD, Andy Biersack,Eduardo Vega(etc.)

Anime(Any kind!)- Would love to see other shows, I know hunterxhunter,aot,one piece (etc.)

Bridgerton- There is very little Bridgerton stories catered around a black reader.

Marvel- Now that’s not to say that there aren’t any in fact there are many but I never see (Tobey Maguire Spider-Man stories and it seems like everyone tends to focus on the famous Marvel characters like The Avengers but not on other aspects like X-men or better yet, heroes that haven’t even gotten their own movie but are just as amazing like Squadron Supreme , it’s equivalent to DCU’s Justice League.

Secret Invasion- Not gonna lie , I’m feening for Gravik.😳

DCEU- Another franchise that pushes its other characters to the side. For example, Hush (Thomas Elliot) is literally the epitome of Bruce Wayne gone bad!

Ross Lynch- There are so many roles that Ross did so well in Like Teen Beach Movie or Sabrina.

Highschool Musical Franchise (2006- present ) I’m not just talking about HSMTS (2019), I mean even further back than that. I don’t see any Troy Bolton x black!reader and that’s crazy. I also can’t find any Zac Efron x black!reader

Interview with a Vampire (1994) and (2022)

Austin Butler- He did well in his role as Elvis!

Vikings - There are a good amount but still!

Transformers

Suits

Saved By The Bell

The Goldbergs

Parks & Recreation

Leverage

The Outsiders

Heart of Stone

New York Undercover (1994)

Addams Family

Victorious

Matpat

ICarly

The Real Bros of Simi Valley (2017)

Think Like A Man (2012)

One on One (2001)

Scorpion (2014)

The King of Queens (1998)

G.I. Joe Franchise

Terminator

Beware the Batman (2013)

Any and all Asian Idols/Actors

Seal Team

Mortal Combat

Bill and Ted

Barbie

Detroit: Become Human

Will Trent

Bones

Tokyo Vice

Growing Pains

Graceful Family (Kdrama)[Any Asian Drama shows or movies would be great as well]

The Regime

Batman: The animated series

The Sympathizer

The Invitation

Jawbreaker

Hunger Games

Saved By the Bell

Eve (2003)

Yellowstone

Superstore

Rodrick Heffley

Tracker

Girlfriends

Grown-ish

CSI

Kingsman

Jury Duty

Scoot Pilgrim vs the world

21 Jump Street (The Show and Movies)

Sky High

The Outsiders

Left

Midsomer Murders

Wayne (perhaps college AU characters will be the actors age in real life)

Carrington Bornstein

Yakuza

He’s Harmless I swear ( Webtoon comic)

Kaleidoscope ( formerly Webtoon turned Tapas comic)

Legends of Tomorrow

You

If anyone needs ideas for these franchises/movies/shows/actors/webtoons , then holla at me! I got you!

Also add more to the list if anything that you would like to see comes to mind.

Also tag black writers who you want to see this!

@sheabuttahwrites @shinsouscatpisssmell @cocoamoonmalfoy @heathenarmyimagines @cinewhore @cocoamoonmalfoy @stxxllaaa @glitterjuju @lilvampirina @breanime @blackmissfrizzle @afro-hispwriter @stargirlfics @lavenderursa @clydesducktape @pettyprocrastination @theblvckvenus @plantvenuss @punani @n-slayaaaaa @infernalodie @halfofmysoulsblog @iridecsense @tomhardydallasstarsgirl @supremethunda @thekrazykeke @canumoveurseatup-no @hiatuswhore @avintagekiss24 @ohcaptains @iguessweallcrazyithinktho @xsapphirescrollsx @sunflowertuliplily @bakarilennox @batfamily14 @ramp-it-up @blackreaders-assemble @royallyprincesslilly @funnyexel @blackterrae @slashisms @artemisthewh0re @shelbydelrey @toocriticalharlow @v-era-18 @vampsired @queenimmadolla @sinnerlillith @greengoblinswifey @apocalypse-shuffle

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anxious-salt-lamp · 15 days ago

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Bobby Sox ~ Chapter 1

[this started as a drabble.. here we goo..}

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Saturday, August 26th, 20XX

Keith got out of the driver’s seat of his car and shut the door behind him. He walked towards the club. A sign above the entrance shone brightly in the neon light, displaying the name of the club, “Lion’s Den.” He then paused and turned around to look at his company.

“James, come on. The show’s gonna be starting soon.” Keith turned to look at him, crossing her arms. James held his hands up in the air. “Alright, alright! Jeez!” Keith rolled his eyes and continued to walk toward the venue. It was a local punk rock bar, Keith had been here a handful of times to see some of the bands. No one particularly spectacular had played before. Or at least none that he remembered being any good.

Keith made it to the door, where the bouncer looked him up and down. “ID.” The bouncer was large and burly, with a bald head and only one good eye. He said a name tag that said ‘Iverson’. Keith reached into his back pocket and pulled out his wallet, before handing his ID to the bouncer. ‘Iverson’ looked over his ID, up and down, front and back, before he nodded, stepping aside and gesturing at the door. Keith walked past him and into the club. Once past the door, Keith made his way to the bar, where he ordered a drink of water. James quickly caught up to him and ordered a gin and tonic from the bar.

With a water bottle in hand, Keith made his way toward the backstage where he saw his brother. Shiro was messing around with a long black bass, adjusting its tuning and listening closely to a portable amp that he had set up nearby. Shiro looked over and smiled as he saw Keith and James approach. Shiro perked up. He unslung his bass from around his shoulder before setting it down on a traveling guitar stand. He then ran over in a brisk jog over to the two of them.

Shiro then wrapped his arms around his brother, to which Keith returned the hug reluctantly with one arm. Shiro then ruffled Keith’s hair a bit as he looked at him. “Keith, I am glad you could make it.”

Keith fixed his now ruffled hair. “Yup. I made it…” Shiro smiled at Keith before looking over to James, his face shifting to a cold, neutral. “James. Nice seeing ya.” Shiro feigned a smile towards James as the latter raised a hand in return.

“Come! Meet the rest of the band,” Shiro said b efore he dragged his brother backstage. Keith sighed, not bothering to go against his brother’s wishes. Keith stared at the floor as Shiro dragged him along. James followed close behind the two of them.

Shiro brought him over to a group of people he didn’t know. There was a white brunette girl? Person? Keith couldn’t tell but it wasn’t his business. There was a large brown guy with dark hair, a skinny tan guy with brunette hair, and then a tall dark-skinned girl with long white hair.

“Guys! This is my brother Keith.” Shiro called out to the band, and they all turned their head to look at him. Shiro then pointed out everyone in the band. “Keith.. This is Pidge, Hunk, Lance, and Allura.” Shiro explained everyone’s role in the band. Pidge was on keyboard and synth, Hunk was their drummer, Lance was the vocalist and guitarist, Shiro was on bass, and Allura was their manager. They all perked up in different intervals and waved their hellos toward the two of them, mostly toward Keith though.

Keith waved an awkward hello, taking in the ragtag group Shiro played with. Lance caught Keith’s eye, and he kinda started at Lance for a moment, and Lance even looked back at him. Lance made his way over and smiled, extending his hand out. “The name’s Lance. I feel like I have seen you before..” Keith pondered for a moment, did he know him? It would’ve had to of been when… It couldn’t be. Keith looked Lance up and down before his hand met Lance’s and they shook.

James noticed this interaction between the two. He came up and proceeded to wrap an arm around Keith’s shoulders. James looked at Lance with half-lidded eyes “Hey there. Name’s James.. Nice to meet you.” James had a sly and his eyes centered on him.

James used his free hand and extended it out towards Lance, mirroring the latter’s previous gesture. “James. Nice to meet ya.” Lance extended his hand out and cautiously shook his hand, before looking James up and down. “Uh huh.. Nice to meet you I guess, man..” Keith then walked over to James and pulled back. “Babe, really?” James just rolled his eyes as he then let go of Keith.

Keith looked over to Lance, “Sorry about him..” Lance looked Keith up and down and then looked over to James. “Boyfriend?” Lance raised an eyebrow as he looked between the two of them. Keith was a bit surprised, “Uh. Yeah.” Lance nodded as he gave James a side eye, “Well, it was nice meeting you, Keith.” Lance then walked away, his back to the two of them. Keith with a pang of something, in his chest.

Shiro walked over to Keith and put a hand on his shoulder. “Sorry about Lance... He’s usually a lot more chipper.” Keith shrugged as he didn’t look back at his brother. “It’s fine. I will let you get back to setting up for tonight.” Shiro nodded and went back to tuning his bass.

James and Keith moved through the crowd, only bumping into one or two people to make them up to the barricade. There was a decent crowd, enough where they had to push through the crowd. But not so crowded that they didn’t have space to breathe as they made it to the barricade.

Lance walked up to the mic and looked amongst the crowd, seeing Keith and giving him a bit of a smile. “Hey guys! My name is Lance, and we are the Paladins! This is our first time performing here! So we hope you enjoy it If you like what you hear, please go pick up some t-shirts in the back!” Lance pulled away from the mic and looked to Hunk, who started the countdown.

“1…2… 1! 2! 3! 4!” Hunk hit his drumstick in time.

Lance slung out a riff on his guitar before he grabbed onto his mic with two hands. He pulled it close to his lips, to the point that it looked like they were touching.

“Don’t want to be an American idiot!”

Keith’s eyes widened as they began playing. He just stared at them. James looked over and raised an eyebrow at Keith. James looked up at the band and shrugged at their performance. He probably could’ve swallowed a fly or two with the way his jaw was dropped.

Keith didn’t take his eyes off the band. He couldn’t take his eyes off them. Not even realizing that James had slipped off somewhere. He couldn’t take his eyes off them. They were all so focused, His eyes flipped between them all, but he couldn’t take his eyes off of that guitarist. The way he sang into the mic, the way his fingers manipulated the guitar pic on the strings. He swore he could see the sweat dripping off his brow.

At the end of every song, Keith cheered and clapped for the band. But if you asked if he did, he would deny it at every instance. He may not have known their songs, but he was having the time of his life.

When their set ended, Keith went up to his brother with wide eyes. “Shiro! That was awesome!” Shiro laughed as he rubbed the back of his neck. “Thanks, Keith,” Shiro looked around Keith, scanning the area and the people around him. “Where’s James?” Keith glanced around him and shrugged. “I have no idea... He’s around here somewhere.” Shiro nodded.

Lance came over and looked at Keith, a wide smile on his face. “yeah we were awesome! though Pidge did come in late at some parts..” Pidge rolled their eyes and socked him in his arm. Lance whined, to which Keith laughed a bit. Lance looked over and smiled.

Moments later, a crowd of girls came over and surrounded them. Lance smirked as he then wrapped his arms around the ladies. “Why hello ladies~ How about I treat you to a drink?” The girls giggled as they walked off with him to the bar.

Keith rolled his eyes, of course, the cute lead singer was into girls. He watched the gaggle of hetero walk away before turning his attention back to Shiro. “Y’all did great though. I didn’t know you guys had any actual talent. Kinda makes me want to get into it.” Keith nudged Shiro with his elbow as he laughed.

Shiro looked at him before putting his hand on his shoulder. “You should come to our band practices sometime. I can show you a thing or two about the bass.” Keith smiled at him and playfully rolled his eyes. “I don’t know… I don’t want to intrude on your guy’s practice.” Keith held his hands up.

Hunk walked over and then patted his other shoulder. “You wouldn’t be intruding. You could be our test audience for new songs. Plus it gives me a reason to make more snacks!” Hunk smiled as he then started mumbling about different recipes. Pidhe looked up from their computer and gestured to Hunk. “Watch out, we are like guinea pigs to him.”

Kieth laughed a little bit as he glanced at Shiro, to which his brother shrugged. “I don’t know man..” Shiro then gave him a side-eye. “It’d be an excuse for you to get out of the house every once in a while.” Shiro leaned in close to Keith’s ear. “It’d also give you a reason to be around Lance.” Keith’s face flushed as he then reached over and smacked Shiro’s arm. Shiro didn’t say anything else as he pulled away to rub his arm. “I am just saying... I saw where you were looking..”

Keith rolled his eyes. “Shut up. I’ll come to your guys’ practice. But not for that last reason.” Shiro smiled and patted Keith’s back. “Good. I'll text ya the address and let you know when we have practice.” Keith nodded as he continued to chat with the rest of the band. They all met through the university they all attended. Shiro was a teaching assistant to a professor they all shared, and they all got attached, and Shiro essentially ‘adopted’ them. Not surprising though as Shiro tended to pick up strays, both animal and human, and keep an eye out for them. Keith was the prime example of that habit.

Keith glanced over to Lance who was at the bar no longer surrounded by girls. James also lurking around the bar, ordering another drink from the bartender. He could see that James was wobbling around a bit, and he tried to grab onto the counter and looked at Lance, they were chatting about something he couldn’t hear. Lance looked completely disinterested as he kept sipping his drink.

He rolled his eyes as he then made his way over to the bar. He put his hand on James’ shoulder who turned to look at him. “What?” While only one word, James had extended it out to be an attempt at several syllables. Keith rolled his eyes and then looked to Lance.

“Sorry about him. He’s annoying when drunk.” Keith said as he helped James to sit on the barstool, and then ordered a cup of coffee for James. To which James denied that he was drunk. But Keith only heard, “I’m... N-... Drink..”

Keith looked to Lance, “You guys were great. Probably the best band that I have seen play here.” Lance smiled a bit at Keith as he raised his drink. “Thanks, I appreciate that.” Lance turned to look at the crowd before he glanced over to Keith. “It’s our first show. So I am grateful that we didn’t bomb it.”

Keith looked at Lance in surprise, “Wait... This was your first performance? But Shiro has been part of the band for a while…” Lance didn’t turn to look back at Keith minus a side glance as he nodded. “Yeah. We’ve been playing together for a while but this was our first real live performance.” Lance had a smile on his lips.

Keith pursed his lips, frankly impressed. “I’m excited to see where you guys perform next.” Lance turned to Keith with a smile on his face. “We should hopefully be performing here as regulars. We’ll find out when we speak to the manager at the end of the night.”

Keith continued to chat with Lance. He was also wrapped up in the adoptive family that was the band. He worked part-time as a barista and he was studying agriculture, but really wanted to be a space pilot one day. Keith revealed that he was a college dropout, but he was a mechanic nearby, teaching tae kwon do on the weekends.

James came over and wrapped his arms around Keith and started to whisper in his ear. Keith rolled his eyes as Lance looked at the two of them. The edge of Lance’s mouth twitched a bit. James kept trying to cling to Keith and attempt to kiss him.

“James come on. Time to go home.” Keith wrapped an arm around James and supported him up to stand on his feet. James leaned into Keith as he whined, “But I don’t want to… I want to hang around the band more. Especially this guy..” James wiggled his eyebrows at Lance. Keith rolled his eyes as he began to drag James out of the bar. “Yeah, no.”

Keith looked to Lance. “I’ll see ya at practice then?” Lance’s face softened a bit as he nodded. “Yeah. I’ll see you at practice.” Lance stood up and waved Keith goodbye before making his way back to the rest of the band.

Keith dragged James out of the club, passing by Iverson, and making their way to Keith’s car. Keith unlocked the car as they approached. He went to the passenger side of the car and loaded James in and buckled him up.

Keith drove them home as James put a hand on Keith’s leg. To which Keith shook it off. “James. You’re drunk. I am not indulging you when you’re like this.” James whined as he pulled away from Keith. “You’re no fun..”

With rolled eyes, Keith drove them back to his apartment. After unlocking the door, Keith unloaded James onto his couch, who passed out like a light. He tossed a blanket on top of him before he made his way to his room. He laid back on his bed, staring up at one of the posters on his ceiling. Recounting the night as a whole. From the crowd to the band, the performance, Lance...

Keith shook his head. There’s no chance there. That guy was one hundred percent heterosexual, and homophobic?? He couldn’t decipher, but Lance always gave him and James weird looks throughout the night.

It didn’t matter, he wanted to see them perform again. He needed to see them perform again. That was when his phone chimed, he leaned over it and picked it up. It was a text from an unknown number.

Lance: Hey! ^w^ Shiro gave me your number, wanted to let you know we are having practice on Monday at my place. Here’s the address: [xxxx]

Keith smiled at his phone as he looked at the ceiling with a smile on his face. He was looking forward to Monday.

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