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Allura slowly opened her eyes. She really hoped she was back in her time. But she wasn’t. She saw the same furniture she seen the day before. ‘No!’ She thought to herself, ‘Quiznak! I thought I would be back in my own time!’ She groaned and sat up. In front of the bed, there was Shiro, holding Alfor in his arms.
“Good morning,” said Shiro as he looked towards her way. “Did you sleep well?”
“Good morning, Shiro. And yes, I guess I did.” She removed the blanket off her and sat on the edge of the bed. “How’s Alfor?” she asked.
“He’s fine. He seemed to have a good night’s rest since he didn’t cry when he woke up. Usually it’s a good sign when he’s woken up happy and quiet.”
“That’s good.” Allura stood up and walked towards Shiro, “I-I bet you did not have a good night’s rest in that chair. May I?” she asked as she had her arm out.
“Of course,” he responded as he handed Alfor to Allura.
She smiled and held Alfor close to her chest and bounced up and down, “Good morning, Alfor. Your daddy says you had a good night’s rest. I can see you are very happy. You must have had a good dreams, huh?” she says to him. Alfor smiled and place his hand on her face. He sure was happy to see her. She looked up at Shiro and noticed he was rubbing his neck. He defiantly did not sleep well. “Shiro, you are sore from sleeping on the chair, aren’t you?”
“I’m fine, princess. I slept fine,” he said.
She wasn’t sure if he was cold towards her or still stressed over the situation. Either way, she felt bad for him. She wished he woke up to the Allura he married, not the Allura he met several months ago in her time.
“Shiro, please. Sleep in the bed tonight. It’s alright, I promise. I don’t want you to hurt because of me,” she begged.
“It’s inappropriate princess, I’ll be okay in the chair.”
Princess. Now he’s calling her princess. Just like he does in her time. He was being formal with her.
Allura set Alfor down into the crib for a moment. She then turned to Shiro and place her hand on his arm. He looked at her in shock since he didn’t think she would touch him when the baby wasn’t involved, especially because of what happened the previous morning.
“Shiro, if I said it is fine, I mean it. I do not want you to suffer and have no sleep. Think about what it could do to your body. You also need to be well… for Alfor,” she says in concern.
He looked down and sighed. She was right. He was suffering not being able to sleep in their bed, with his wife. But, he wanted to sleep with her, hold her close to him while her head on his chest, telling each other, ‘I love you,’ though he wasn’t able to do that with her anymore. Not in this state.
“Look Shiro, I understand you don’t want to make me feel uncomfortable and whatnot, but I really want you to sleep in the bed tonight. Don’t worry about me, I’ll be fine with it.”
“Okay… Princess, I will,” he said looking up at her now.
She smiled at him in relief. “Okay, it’s all settled then.”
Alfor began to cry in the crib suddenly which, Allura let go of Shiro’s arm to tend to him. “I’m sorry for putting you down, Alfor,” she said as she reached into the crib for him, “mommy and daddy needed to talk, that’s all.” She bounced him up and down to cheer him up, though, he was still very fussy again.
“He’s probably hungry,” said Shiro.
“Oh, right. Of course.”
“I’ll go ahead and feed him in the kitchen,” he says, taking Alfor from her, “go and get ready for the day, I’ll take care of him.”
“Oh… Okay,” she nodded, “I’ll meet you both in the kitchen.” She lightly pinched Alfor’s cheek and smiled at him, “Daddy is going to give you breakfast, love. Mommy is going to meet you there, okay?”
Shiro then headed out the room with Alfor and Allura headed into the bathroom.
“Shiro is hurt, I know he is,” she said to herself. “I need to make it up to him. But how?” Allura shook her head and proceeded to wash her face and brush her teeth. She headed back to the room and put her clothes for the day quickly after. Before she left the room, she quickly fixed the bed and noticed on the side that Shiro would sleep in, there was a frame faced down. “Huh?” she said to herself as she walked over to the frame. She lifted it up to see a picture of her, Shiro and Alfor, who seemed to be just born at the time it was taken. Allura’s heart sank. “He must have been hurt just looking at it,” she whispered. She fixed the frame up right and took in a deep breath. “I’m sorry, Shiro.”
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Allura headed down to the kitchen and spotted several familiar faces.
“Good morning,” they all said in unison.
“Uh, good morning everyone.” She says. She then notices a navy-blue animal running up to her, in which she backed away quickly. “W-what is that beast!” she said sounding afraid.
“Oh yeah, that’s Kosmo, Keith’s space dog,” said Pidge. “You haven’t met him yet in your time, he’s nice and pretty cool if you ask me. He teleports and shit. You didn’t like him at first but, he grew on you.”
“Pidge, language,” Shiro said.
Allura looked down at Kosmo who was wagging his tail. “Do-does he want something from me?” she asked.
“You could just pet him,” said Keith, “he basically wants you to great each other.”
Allura was very hesitant but felt like if she did not pet Kosmo, he would not let her through.
“Uh, good morning to you too Kosmo,” she said as she lightly patted his head, “wow, his hair is so soft.” Everyone laughed.
“How did you sleep, princess?” Coran asked as he walked up to her.
“I slept well thank you.”
“Please sit princess. Hunk is making breakfast,” Coran said leading her further into the kitchen.
“Yeah! I’m making your favorite,” Hunk said with a huge smile on his face, “Pancakes! Look, I already made baby Alfor mini ones.” Hunk pointed towards where Alfor and Shiro was. Shiro was cutting up the mini pancakes in extra small pieces so that Alfor was able to eat it.
“I see!” Allura said and couldn’t help but giggle. She walked over to the empty seat next to Alfor’s highchair. “Are they delicious Alfor?”
Alfor raised his arm while chewing on a piece of his pancake, showing in fact he did find them very delicious.
“It’s his favorite too. He likes a lot of things his mommy likes,” said Shiro giving her a faint smile.
“Aw, Alfor,” she says, “you want to be just like mommy, huh?” She leaned in to kiss Alfor’s cheek, which in reaction to it, Alfor ended up grabbing her hair.
“Alfor, no! That’s not nice,” Shiro says as he grabbed his hand that held Allura’s hair. “Look, Alfor, do you want more pancakes? I’ll let you feed yourself.” Shiro said as he untangled Allura’s hair from Alfor’s hand and handed him another small piece of pancake.
“It’s alright, Shiro, he’s just a baby,” she said as she pushed back Alfor’s hair.
“Na, Allura,” said Lance chewing on his pancake, “He’s practically almost one years old, you have to start teaching them now. When my oldest nephew was about Alfor’s age, my sister-in-law allowed him to do whatever he wanted and didn’t teach him any discipline, so when it came to him getting older, it was a lot harder to get him to understand. It’s better to teach them early so that they won’t be such a hassle when they start getting bigger and learning stuff.”
“Lance,” Keith said, “he’s still a baby though, that makes no sense.”
“Trust me babe, it does. When my niece was the same age, they basically did the opposite and taught her some discipline and she was a lot easier to take care of in my opinion.”
“Keith you didn’t have nieces and nephews before Alfor, you won’t get it,” Hunk said as he handed a plate of pancakes to Allura, “Lance is right. As much as we love baby Alfor, he still needs to learn.”
“Aw, but he’s the first born. Let them spoil him just a bit,” said Romelle, “how can you resist that face!?”
“Okay guys,” said Shiro, “he is our son and we raise him how we want to.” Everyone stood quiet. It seemed like he came off a bit harsh, though Allura knew he was just not in the mood.
“Shiro’s right,” she says. “We will raise Alfor how we want to but thank you for your opinions. We will take them into consideration.” She gave Shiro a smile, in which he gave he a slight one back and continued to feed Alfor. Allura took her fork and knife and began to cut her pancake up.
“Don’t forget the syrup,” said Shiro he says as he grabbed the syrup bottle from the middle of the table and reached over to her plate to pour it over her pancakes. “You like your pancakes with syrup.”
“Oh, uh thank you, Shiro,” she said. She took a bite of the pancake and thought she fell in love with food. “Oh my, Hunk! These are delicious!”
“Thank you, thank you,” Hunk said, taking a bow, “They are made with my love for everyone here!”
“Wow,” she says as she stabs her fork into another piece of pancake, “I can see why Alfor also loves it so much!” She took another bite of the pancake and moaned. “So delicious.”
“Princess, would you like some coffee with that?” Coran asked.
“Coffee?”
“Oh, you didn’t have coffee until we came to earth,” said Romelle, “it’s quite a weird beverage, but the earthlings basically live off of it, especially in the morning.”
“She’s right,” said Lance, again with a mouth full of pancakes, “we love coffee, even though the aftermath sometimes isn’t so good.”
“Well… okay, I’ll have some,” Allura says.
“Coran, remember to put creamer and two sugars for her. That’s how she would usually drink it,” said Shiro still feeding Alfor.
“Of course,” Coran said as he poured coffee in a mug for her.
“Wow, Shiro,” said Allura, “you sure pay attention to what I like in this time.”
“Well I should know. You’re technically my wife,” he says.
“That don’t mean anything,” said Lance as he turned to Keith, “Keith still forgets how I like my coffee.”
“Lance, that was like twice. Also, you are very anal with the amount of creamer to sugar ratio with your coffee. You literally say you can’t drink your coffee without the right amount.”
Shiro groaned. “Keith, please don’t use that word in front of Alfor.”
“What word?” Keith asked.
“Anal, mullet! Also, it’s not that hard to get it right. You just have no patients.”
“Oh, shut up, Lance. It should not take patients to make a stupid coffee.”
“Lance, Keith, please. Language!” Shiro raised his voice.
Both men crossed their arms and turned away from each other. “Sorry, Shiro,” they both said together.
Allura giggled. “You two are still the same. It’s kind of hard to believe you two are actually a couple.”
“Yeah, sometimes I find it hard to believe we are actually a couple too,” said Keith.
“Oh, quiet you! You love me, get over it,” said Lance.
Allura giggled again then looked at Shiro to say something but realized he didn’t have a plate of food for himself.
“Are you not eating, Shiro?” she asked.
Shiro shook his head, “no not yet. I rather feed Alfor first, then I will eat.”
“Are you sure? I could feed him instead, if you want, so you could eat.”
“It’s fine, princess. Just eat your food first, don’t worry about me.”
Allura frowned. “Well… okay.”
Everyone seemed to notice the tension between the two, in which Romelle quickly changed the subject to get rid of the awkwardness.
“So, Pidge! Did you and Coran find anything about Allura’s condition?” Romelle asked.
“Not yet, Romelle,” Pidge said, “there’s a lot more information than I thought about Altean health and body, so we have a lot to look through. It’s gonna be a lengthy process.”
“Hopefully you find something. If you need any help, I will be glad to do so.”
“I think Coran and I could handle it. This isn’t the first time we had to go through so much data, right Coran?”
“That’s right number five,” he said putting down his coffee, “I think Pidge and I could manage. You just stick by Allura’s side for now.”
“Well… okay, of course.”
“Do you know how long it would take?” asked Keith.
Coran put his hand on his chin, “well, I am not for certain, it could take days or even weeks. The Alteans were notorious for taking down every single detail about everything.”
“That’s why you guys were so technically advance or whatever,” said Pidge.
“That’s right! We made sure everything was written so that we can further our knowledge!”
Allura laughed a little, “I remember when father would make Coran write down any new information he found, whether it was about technology or with outer space.”
“Yes, he did!” Coran laughed as well.
“Well, there are some pros and cons about that method,” Pidge interrupted, “the pro is that it helped us a lot, but the con is we now have to look through every single piece data to see if we could find something about your condition, Allura.”
“You sure you guys don’t need any help?” Lance asked.
“Yeah, we would be more than happy to help!” said Hunk.
“No offense guys, but you all won’t be any help. Maybe Hunk and my brother can help, or even my dad, but Lance and Keith, you two have no patience looking through all that information.” Pidge responded.
“Are you calling us stupid?” Keith asked.
“Keith, please,” groaned Shiro
“I didn’t say that, you did,” Pidge said, sipping their coffee.
“Fu-” Keith started but saw Shiro was staring him down, making sure he did not finish that word. Instead he flipped them off.
“Keith!” shouted Shiro.
“What!? It’s going to be hard for the baby to even copy that.”
Shiro groaned. “All of you grow up. You guys aren’t five.”
“Sorry,” both Keith and Pidge said together.
Allura cleared her throat. “Well, thank you guys for wanting to help. I really appreciate it. Do your best.”
“Yeah, so do I, guys,” Shiro said giving Alfor the last piece of his food.
Allura couldn’t help but look at Shiro after that. He was desperate to have his wife back.
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Allura and Romelle walked the halls of her home. Allura held sleeping Alfor against her chest and sang him a lullaby softly.
“I swear Allura, sometimes you make me want to have a baby. I mean look how cute and tiny they can be,” Romelle said, pinching Alfor’s cheek very lightly, trying not to wake him up.
Allura laughed, “Well, maybe it’s time you think about settling down if you want one.”
“Oh, no!” she said placing her hands in front of her chest, “I’m not ready for that.”
Allura laughed again, “Oh, Romelle.”
They continued to walk towards where the backyard was, which the guys were. It was a beautiful sunny day, so Allura figured it would be nice to get some fresh air.
Once they reached the opened doors that led to the backyard, they overheard the conversation between the four men who had their backs faced away from the doorway.
“Shiro. Are you sure you’re alright?” Hunk asked.
“Yeah man, you look super depressed,” said Lance.
“Romelle, wait,” Allura whispered to her. Romelle listened and followed Allura behind the wall on the side of the doors that lead outside.
“Allura, we shouldn’t be listening to-”
“Shh!”
They heard Shiro sigh. “I’m okay now,” he said, “I told everyone to stop worrying about me. We should worry about getting Allura’s memories back,” he said as he threw a stick so that Kosmo could go fetch it.
“You are obviously not okay, Shiro,” says Keith, “you are moping around because Allura lost her memories. We understand you are hurt, but at least don’t show it. I can tell Allura feels really bad, but it’s not her fault.”
‘Wow,’ Allura thought, ‘I never thought Keith of all people, would notice’
“Of course, I know that. It’s just that…. I miss my wife that’s all. I know it’s still Allura, but it’s old Allura. The Allura before we got married. I woke up this morning, thinking yesterday was a dream and that I would have Allura back to normal, but that wasn’t the case. I thought I could handle it, and I told her we will get through this, but I just feel like I really can’t do it.”
“Yes, I understand that Shiro, hell if Lance lost his memories, I would not act the same way you were towards Allura. You have to be there for her until she gains her memory back,” Keith said. “You even called her Princess. You haven’t called her that since before you guys started dating. We all noticed.”
“Yeah, Shiro. I haven’t heard you call Allura, Princess, in a long time. She may have not noticed but we sure did,” said Lance. “Look man, it’s hard, we get it, but I think you should change your attitude a bit. She probably already feels really bad about the situation and blames herself. You know better than anyone that she tends to do that. Just treat her like you use to. You’re acting like she’s a stranger.”
Allura couldn’t help but let a tear fall down her cheek.
“Allura…” Romelle whispered in concern.
Allura wiped the tear away with the hand that touched Alfor’s back before she placed the hand back on his back. “I’m okay, Romelle,” she whispered back.
Shiro ran his hand across his hair, “Okay, okay, I get it. I will. If there’s anything I don’t want to do, it’s hurt Allura’s feelings. I honestly really didn’t notice how I was acting. I’m sorry.”
“You shouldn’t apologize to us, you should apologize to Allura,” said Hunk, “I think she would appreciate it.”
“Yeah, you’re right.”
Allura felt Alfor move a bit, assuming he was about to wake up, so she did not take the chance of letting him expose them. She quickly sucked up any tears she felt coming down and walked into the yard, Romelle following behind her. “Hey everyone,” she said, “I see you all are enjoying the beautiful weather.” She gave them a big smile, hiding the fact she was tearing up not even a minute ago.
“We are!” Hunk said, “it’s a nice day to just relax, don’t you think?”
Allura lightly laughed, “yes, it is.” She then felt Alfor move some more and lift his head up from her chest. He rubbed his eye with one and looked up at Allura before placing his head on her chest again, this time he had his eyes slightly opened. “Looks like my little sleepy head is awake.”
Lance walked over to Allura, and placed his hand on Alfor’s head, “Hey, Alfie. It’s time for you to wake so uncle Lance can let you take a ride on Kosmo. You love Kosmo.”
“Lance, Kosmo is not a horse. Also, he’s a baby, that’s not safe,” Keith groaned.
“I know that! But also, Kosmo is like the safest and smartest dog in the universe, he will be careful!”
“Lance, he’s not a dog! He’s a wolf!”
“Same thing. They come from the same family.”
“Lance, I prefer not to allow that,” said Allura, “He’s very little.”
“Ugh. Fine. You guys are no fun.”
Allura smiled at Lance before she walked over to Shiro, who was on one knee, petting Kosmo on the head for fetching the stick.
“Alfor, look. It’s your friend Kosmo. Do you want to say hi?” Shiro asked.
Alfor quickly picked his head up from Allura’s chest, most likely because he really liked Kosmo and did want to say hi.
Allura giggled and knelt down to Kosmo as well. “Alfor, say hi.”
Alfor looked at Kosmo in excitement before he reached his hand out and patted Kosmo’s head. His eyes became big, as if he never seen him before, and giggled. Everyone let out a light laugh as well.
“Aw Alfor, you really do love Kosmo, huh?”
“He does,” she heard Shiro say, “He wasn’t even scared of him when they met, like most babies.”
“Well,” Allura said giving him a faint smile, “he’s very friendly like his dad.”
Shiro felt bad. He really did want to and needed to apologize to Allura right then and there, though he decided to do it when he was alone with her late on.
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Night came again. Shiro walked out the bathroom with Alfor in his arm, wrapped in a towel. He laid him down on the bed, next to where Allura sat, and continued to dry him off more with the towel.
“That was refreshing, huh buddy?” he said as he planted a kiss on his forehead. Alfor giggled and wiggled around a lot in excitement. He probably loved baths as well.
Allura leaned in and sniffed him, “mmm, Alfor, you smell so good!” she said than playfully kissed his cheeks several times.
“Allura, do you mind grabbing me a diaper before he pees on our bed. The last thing we need is that. Also, his onesie, please I forgot to take that out before I bathed him.” he said giving her a slight laugh.
“Yes, of course. No worries.” She smiled at him before she got up and headed over to where his diapers were.
“Don’t pee on the bed, buddy, mommy and daddy have to sleep on it, just wait a little longer in case you have to go,” he said.
Allura walked back over quickly and handed Shiro the diaper. He quickly put him in his diaper. She then handed him the onesie, which Shiro had trouble putting on him because Alfor started to get sleepy and fussy suddenly.
“Alright, there we go,” said Shiro. He picked Alfor up and gave him to Allura, “it’s your turn now.”
Allura stood up with Alfor and headed to the rocking chair where she was going to breastfeed him. She sat down and did what she did yesterday to put him to sleep, which worked pretty quickly. Alfor slowly began to close his eyes, though opened them when he realized he was falling asleep. Allura couldn’t help but smile because of how cute he was when he was trying to fight his sleep. But as soon as Allura hummed him a lullaby, he began to fall fast asleep.
Shiro sat at the edge of the bed and watched them both. His heart still ached, though he knew he had to be better, and act better, for them.
“Allura,” he started, “I……. I’m sorry.”
She looked up and to his direction. “About what Shiro?” she asked, trying to hide the fact that she knew exactly about what.
“I’m sorry how I’ve been acting today, it… it’s just that I thought I was in a dream, myself, thinking what happened yesterday was all in my head, but it wasn’t. I shouldn’t of been so cold to you all day. I really did not mean it. I don’t want you to feel bad and blame yourself for the situation. It’s not your fault. At all. I know I told you we will get through this, but I wasn’t even trying today.” He sighed, “I have to man up and do what I said I would. So, I will for now on, I promise. And if you notice I’m not, call me out on it, please. I don’t want you to feel hurt because of me. I don’t want you to think I am against you. You are my wife, and I love you so damn much.”
He looked as if he was about to tear up, which made Allura’s heart sank. She heard his voice in her head, saying, “I love you,” over and over again.
She looked back at sleeping Alfor before she spoke up again. “Shiro, come over here,” she told him.
He nodded and got up from the bed and walked over to her. He knelt down by the rocking chair and looked up at her. She turned to him and gave him a faint smile.
“Thank you, Shiro. That really means a lot to me.” She tried holding back her tears for him. She didn’t want him to think he hurt her feelings again. “I knew how you felt, and I saw the picture frame of all three of us was faced down. I don’t blame you for how you are feeling Shiro, don’t ever think that. You are hurt that I’m not the Allura you married, but I’ll try to be.”
“Allura, you don’t have to.”
“But I want to Shiro. If I married you, I must have loved you dearly Shiro, so I’m willing to be the Allura you married.”
He stood silent and stared at her. He felt a tear come down his face. He could help but want to kiss her and tell her everything will be alright, but instead he got up and kissed her on her temple.
“Thank you, Allura.”
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Allura stood up in the bed, waiting for Shiro to come out the shower. She couldn’t help but blush over Shiro kissing her on the forehead. But also, she began to turn red because Shiro was going to share the bed with her tonight. She never did such a thing. Well, older her has, but that didn’t matter. ‘It’s just sleeping Allura, relax,’ she thought to herself. Just then, she heard the bathroom door open, which made her jump and heart beat quick. She turned to face the direction of the bathroom to see Shiro drying his hair with the towel. He wore a black tank top and sweats, which Allura could not help admiring him. ‘Has he always looked like that?’ she asked herself. ‘of course, he did stupid, Shiro always knew how to keep in shape.’ She couldn’t help but blush harder. Once he removed the towel off his head, she quickly turned the other way, hiding her blush from him. He places the towel in the laundry basket besides the bathroom door and headed quietly over to his side of the bed.
He sat on his side and turned to face Allura, who was looking down trying to still hide her blush. “Allura, are you sure you’re okay with this? Really, I could sleep on the chair again. It’s not a problem.”
She shook her head and looked up at him, “I-it’s okay, really!”
He knew she was embarrassed. He seen that same face when Allura confessed her love for him. He remembered she blurred out that she fell in love with him and when she realized what she said, she looked away and hesitated, hiding her blush. She couldn’t even face him until he moved her face to face him and kissed her. He smiled at the thought of that memory.
“Well, okay Allura. If you feel uncomfortable, just tell me okay? I’ll move right away to the chair.”
“That won’t be necessary, Shiro, really.” She looked away, still blushing. She couldn’t help it and it was hard for her to stop.
“Okay, well good night then, Allura,” he says.
“Good night, Shiro,” she says as she quickly reached over to shut off the lamp on her side table and quickly tucked herself under the blanket.
Shiro couldn’t hold back his smiled, ‘Good night, my love’ he thought to himself before he also shut off his lamp and tucked himself into the bed.
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Several weeks past, and still nothing. Allura was still stuck in her older self, though, with the help of Shiro and the others, she was able to get by a lot better than the first two days. Her and Shiro had no problems with each other, and he continued to share the bed with her. She also got to meet others that she was told that she had not met yet in her time, such as Krolia, the Holts, Lance and Hunk’s family, as well as some of the people who worked in the Garrison. Pidge and Coran still haven’t found out what happened with Allura, but they still did not give up. There were centuries of information to look through, so they continued for Allura’s sake.
Allura began not to mind this time though. She found herself becoming very close to Shiro, as well as slowly falling for him. She couldn’t help herself. Shiro was very kind and helpful to her, and he always looked out for her.
“Good morning,” Shiro said as he placed a kiss sleepy Allura’s forehead while she was still laying down.
Allura smiled at him, “Good morning.”
“You woke up early. Are you okay?” he asked.
“I’m fine,” she says, rubbing her eye, “I don’t think it’s good to oversleep anyways.”
He gave her a smile and kissed her forehead again, “Well the baby is still asleep. He would probably wake up in the next few minutes, but right now, we have a few minutes to ourselves.”
She gave him a smile back and sat up, “Let’s enjoy it, especially since for the past two mornings he woke up crying.”
He placed rubbed her cheek with his hand and looked at her as if he was falling in love all over again with her. “Right,” he says. “By the way, Allura, I wanted to ask you something,” he removed his hand from her face and grabbed her hand, “I was thinking, well, w-would you like to go on a date with me today?”
Allura tilted her head to the side in confusion. “A date? Do married couples go on dates?”
Shiro laughed, “Well, yes, sometimes they do. We actually did a few months back when Alfor was only three months. Lance and Keith watched Alfor for us and made us go on one, especially since we were very exhausted from the lack of sleep we had at the beginning, and they thought it would be nice for us to have some alone time together and time to relax.”
“We allowed Keith and Lance to take care of Alfor?”
He laughed again, “Yeah, we did. You hesitated at first, but Veronica backed up Lance and said that he would take care of their niece and nephew perfectly fine, so he wasn’t a problem. You were more worried about Keith with babysitting though since he had no experience.”
“Well, okay then,” she laughed, “we will go on one. But, can we take Alfor, please. I just feel bad leaving him behind.” She looked up at him with her bright blue eyes he couldn’t resist. How could he say no to her?
“Of course.” He lifted up her hand and kissed it, “he can come.”
Allura grinned and opened her arms to give Shiro a hug, “Thank you, Shiro.”
He wrapped his arms around her as well, holding her closer, “anything for you.”
They heard a small noise coming from the end of the bed, which made them pull away from each other.
“So much for a few minutes,” laughed Shiro. They both got up and headed to the crib to see little Alfor sitting up, waiting for them to take him out. “Well, good morning buddy,” Shiro says as he reached into the crib to pick him up. Alfor rubbed his eyes, still looking very sleepy. “You wake up just like mommy, you know that,” he laughed.
Allura giggled, “Are you teasing me, Shiro?” She leaned and kissed Alfor’s cheek, “good morning, sweetheart.”
“Maybe,” he says.
They both laughed. “Well, that does not bother me, because I appreciate that Alfor follows mommy,” she says, “isn’t that right, Alfor.”
“Well, I like that he’s like his mommy too.” As he kissed his head, they both heard a sound that sounded like growling.
“Looks like someone is hungry,” Allura giggled.
“Don’t worry, Alfor, we will get you something to eat.”
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“Oh no, what do I wear,” Allura said to herself in the bathroom. “Do I wear blue or pink?” she held both summer dresses against her body, figuring out which one would be best for their date. “Ugh. It’s so hard to choose!”
A knock came from the bathroom door. “Allura, are you ready yet?” Shiro asked.
“Quiznak,” she whispered, “Uh. Just a second! I’m almost done!”
“Okay,” she heard him say on the other side of the door.
“Okay, Allura. Just pick!” She switched the dresses back and forth against her body. “Um…. Okay screw it, I’ll wear blue.” She stripped down and put on the blue summer dress on. She flattened the bottom of the dress to get rid of some of the wrinkles and looked into the mirror. “Good choice, Allura.” She put her hair into a half up, half down hairstyle and applied a light layer of lip gloss on her lips. “Perfect…. I think. More like I hope.”
She quickly grabbed her other clothes from the floor, folded them up and exited the bathroom. She saw Shiro playing with Alfor on the rug where the rocking chair stood. She couldn’t help but smile at Alfor’s little giggles as Shiro played peek-a-boo with him.
Shiro heard her walking over and looked up at her. “Wow, you look beautiful, Allura.”
Allura blushed. “Thank you, Shiro,” she said turning her head to the side.
Shiro grabbed Alfor and picked up Alfor and stood up. “Doesn’t mommy look beautiful Alfor.” Alfor bounced in excitement and reached for Allura, in which she took him from Shiro.
“I will take that as a yes,” she says as kisses him on the cheek. “Oh no, sorry, Alfor. I forgot I put lip gloss on,” she said as she wiped the gloss off his cheeks.”
Shiro laughed, “He will be okay, this wouldn’t be the first time. Are we ready to go?”
“Oh yes! Can you please grab my white cardigan and a sweater for Alfor? Just in case the temperature goes down.” Shiro nodded and proceeded to get Allura and Alfor’s things, “Oh don’t forget his baby bag.”
“Don’t worry, I won’t,” he says as he walked over to grab the baby bag from the hook it hung on. “Alright, lets head out.”
They headed downstairs and spotted Coran, who was holding a basket.
“There you two are! I was waiting for you,” said Coran.
“Sorry, it was my fault,” said Allura. “I could not choose what dress to wear.”
“That’s alright, princess, I understand,” he said as he handed the basket to Shiro, “Hunk dropped this off for you three, since he did not trust my culinary skills, and wants you all to enjoy yourselves.”
“We will,” both Shiro and Allura said.
“Well, don’t let me keep you any longer, go ahead you love birds.”
Allura and Shiro blushed. “Well, t-thanks Coran,” Allura said as she quickly headed for the door, Shiro behind her. “We are off.”
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The date was a picnic by a lake not too far from where they lived. The scenery was beautiful, and Allura couldn’t help but be amazed.
“Shiro, I still can’t believe how beautiful this place is!” she says, playing with a very hyper Alfor on her lap.
“I knew you would like it. You don’t recall this place, but this was where we had our first date.”
“Wow, really? Did I enjoy it this much back then?” she asked.
“Yeah, you loved it. You thought it was nice and stared at the scenery more than you looked at me,” he laughed.
“Oh, Shiro, I’m sorry! I can see why I could not have helped it before.”
“That’s alright. I still had a good time that day. Probably one of the most bests days in my life,” he said.
“So, what was your first best day of your life?” she asked as she turned to face him.
“Do you really want to know?”
“Of course! Now tell me, please!” she begged.
“Alright, Alright,” he laughed. “Well there’s actually a tie between the best day of my life. The day we got married, and the day Alfor was born.”
Allura couldn’t help but smile, “Shiro,” she said in a soft voice, “I’m glad those were the best days in your life.”
Shiro got closer to her and Alfor and placed a hand on her cheek. “I’m glad too.”
They stared at each other for a few seconds. Shiro began to lean his face towards Allura, which Allura began to blush heavily, but was stopped by a screaming baby.
“What’s the matter Alfor? Why are you screaming?” Allura asked him.
“This wouldn’t be the first time he’s done that,” Shiro told her. “He is very selfish when it comes to kisses from mommy, isn’t that right buddy?” Shiro ticked Alfor a little, which caused him to giggle a lot. “You get jealous when daddy wants to kiss mommy.”
Allura giggled, still blushing, “Aw, Alfor. Mommy gives you plenty of kisses, there is no need to be jealous.” She planted several kisses on Alfor’s cheek, which caused him to giggle even more. “Daddy hasn’t had a kiss from mommy in a while, just let him have one.”
Shiro blushed. He felt like it was his first date again, getting nervous to kiss his own wife. “She’s right, Alfor. Daddy deserves kisses from mommy too!”
They couldn’t help but both laugh. Shiro wrapped his arm around Allura and pulled her and Alfor in closer to him.
“Alfor, can daddy give mommy a kiss? Or are you going to be angry again?” she said as she touched his nose with hers. Alfor giggled again.
“Well, I take that as a yes, how about you, Allura?” he said looking down at her.
She looked up at him, “I think it was.”
He leaned his face close to hers. She felt his lips touch hers, which her heart could not stop beating extremely fast, though she ignored it, for that she was kissing the man she fell in love with. He pulled back and smiled at her, in which she smiled back and leaned in for another kiss.
“I love you, Allura”
“I love you, Takashi.”
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“Okay, I think he’s completely asleep now,” said Allura, as she finished rocking him to sleep later that night.
“Okay, let’s do this as softly and quickly as possible,” Shiro whispered as he gently took Alfor out of Allura’s arms. He laid down and placed Alfor on his chest carefully, trying not to wake him up. Allura and him looked at Alfor, hoping he wouldn’t wake up and noticed he was not with Allura anymore, which he stood fast asleep. “Success.”
Allura placed a kiss on Alfor’s head before laid her head on his shoulder, in order to cuddle with both her boys. She brushed Alfor’s hair back and couldn’t help but melt at the sight of the ones she loved.
“I’m so glad happiness I found,” she said as she looked towards Shiro’s face.
Shiro rubbed her back and smiled at her, “So am I.”
She slowly got up, trying not to wake up Alfor, and planted kiss on Shiro’s lips. “Thank you, Shiro. I love you.”
“No. Thank you, Allura. I love you too.” She leaned forward in for another kiss before she went back into his arms. She slowly felt herself drifting into her sleep, seeing the sight of her husband and son before falling asleep completely. She was happy. She was with the man she loved, and her child.
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“Princess,” said a voice. “Princess, wake up.”
Allura moaned. She slowly opened her eyes to a face she did not think she would see.
“Coran? What are you doing in my room?” she asked, still with her eyes not completely opened.
“I came to check on you. You were slept for a full quintant. I was worried something happened, like maybe became sick or something,” he told her.
Allura rubbed her eyes and opened them completely. She looked around and noticed the room was different. It was her room at the castle.
“I… I am back,” she whispered.
“What was that princess?” Coran asked.
“Oh uh… nothing Coran, I just has this very weird dream that I thought I was in the future.”
“Was it a good dream at least?”
Allura stood still for a minute, then nodded and smiled at him. “Yes, actually. It was. I enjoyed it very much.”
Coran placed his hand on her shoulder and smiled at her. “That’s good to hear. Are you feeling better now?”
“Yes. I feel completely healed and energized.”
“Well, thank the stars,” Coran laughed, “Now come on and get dressed into something else. You haven’t eaten, and the others are waiting for you. They are worried sick.”
“Yes, Coran.”
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Allura walked into the dining room and saw all the paladins sitting around the table.
“Allura!” they all shouted. They got up and walked over to her.
“We were worried sick about you,” said Lance.
“Yeah! You slept so long we thought something happened to you!” said Hunk.
“Thank you, everyone.” Allura said, “I feel much better now.”
“How are you feeling, Princess?” asked the black paladin.
She looked up at Shiro and couldn’t help but blush from the memories of her dream. “I-I am fine. Thank you, Shiro.”
“That’s good to hear, Princess,” he said smiling at her. “It’s good to have you back with us.”
“Yes, it’s good to be back.” She smiled back.
‘Even if it was a dream, I wish it would be my reality,’ she said to herself.
“Alright paladins, let’s eat, shall we?”