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My Ballerina (Sway Me Side To Side) by negativefouriq
Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender
28 Dec 2023
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“What did you say you were looking for, again?”
Keith closes his eyes and tips his head back, letting it thunk gently on the thin wall under the big window, in the corner of the apartment where they’ve shoved their bed. He lets his eyes go blurry, lets the stars they stuck on the ceiling before they did anything else turn into bright green dots. They’re real constellations. The two of them spent hours on them; Lance on Keith’s shoulders, tripping and shouting and laughing.
“I need tickets,” Keith says quietly. He turns his gaze slowly to Lance, who is sleeping soundly again, who has bags under his eyes, whose hands twitch every few seconds, who frowns deeply. “And we can’t — these are the only ones I could find. That I can even pretend to afford. I need it to be —” He swallows. “I need you to tell me they’re real.”
Pidge is quiet for a moment. The only sound is her breathing, her nail tapping slowly on the edge of her screen.
“The link is exactly what it says it is.”
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OR: Lance has been depressed. Keith desperately wants to fix it, and with a Christmas miracle he might just manage. -
If You Promise Not To Cry (I'll Tell You Just What I Would Say) by negativefouriq for mothmanavenue
Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender
28 Dec 2023
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Lance,
When I was a kid I read about how grief makes you hurt but time makes you forget. I read about how men begin to forget the shape of their late wives’ smile. Or the slope of her nose. I read about how children begin to forget the slant of their fathers’ shoulder. How mothers forget the way their babies curled their fist.
Missing you hurts like unravelling.
You’re all I think about.I will never forget the fit of your hand in mine as long as I remember how to speak. And I will know the ridges of your teeth so long as I can taste. I will know the length of your back as long as I can walk. I will remember the curve of your lips as long as I can blink. I will know the way you glowed in floating blue starlight until my brain shuts down and my organs fail me.Patroclus said I will know him in death and at the end of the world.
I will know you every waking second of my life, and I will make myself remember for every nanosecond in between.
Nothing will compare to holding you in my arms again.
Keith
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OR: Letters, across a galaxy. -
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Lance wasn’t the sappy type. Really! Lance; ladies man; heartbreaker. His friends were a different story, of course. He would do anything for them. So, he couldn’t really explain what about Keith’s smile made him all… gooey. And why he wanted to make him do it more. They were not friends! They were rivals, end of story.
Now, usually Keith rolled his eyes when Lance made jokes. But every once in a while…
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“Is it hot out here or is it just you?”“It’s probably the two suns.” He walked off.
“I hate to see you go but I love to watch you walk away,” Lance shouted.
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And The Words Are Stuck In My Throat (But You Hear Them Anyway) by negativefouriq
Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender
24 Oct 2023
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Lance places a cool hand on his shoulder, concerned, bin of counted bandages left abandoned behind him. Almost immediately his face coils in disgust.
“Aw, gross, you’re sweaty.”
But he doesn’t move his hand.
Keith stares.
How did he — how did he miss it, before?
“Keith?” Lance asks again, alarm clouding his face. “You okay, buddy?”
His fingers curve absentmindedly along the junction of Keith’s neck, and he leans in closer, and he smells so fucking good and he always does and Keith is lightheaded from more than just his cross-castle sprint.
“You’re in love with me,” he blurts, and he didn’t mean to say it like that but there’s no doubt in his words.
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OR: Keith isn't always observant. But Lance is openly, constantly obvious. -
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When The World Turned Upside Down by Fantasy_Addict
Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender
17 Oct 2023
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Keith’s life had been great....then made even better by his daughter. She was a surprise. Unexpected, but not unwanted. Even still, she shouldn’t have existed.
Now, Keith will do anything for his little girl....even if it means revealing her existence to his friends, who he’s afraid will judge him.(I’m sorry, this summary sucks. Point is, there are not enough single parent Keith fics and that needs to change.)
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He winces. This one is…bad. He’s reminded, painfully, of the first time he ever witnessed Lance have an episode, hunched over a toilet bowl and shaking so bad Keith had been convinced he was seizing. The then-Blue Paladin had begged him, in between gags and heaves, not to tell anyone. Keith, who had only really known him for six months, six months of near-constant arguing broken up only by rare moments of true teamwork, who had barely considered them friends, had already been halfway out the door, Coran’s name on his tongue.
Keith had been scared shitless. He didn’t know what was wrong, but he knew enough to know that it was serious, that Lance was in real danger. His mind flashed to poisoning from a backstabbing ally, alien sickness a human immune system couldn’t fight off. A million different worst-case scenarios had rushed through his head, making Keith want to throw up himself.
But the terror in Lance’s eyes had scared him a thousand times more than whatever was wrong with him. So he had swallowed his fear, then, and kept his mouth shut, placing a tentative hand on Lance’s back as he vomited and carefully watched the door.
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OR: Lance gets migraines. -
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//Oh, I love it and I hate it at the same time
You and I drink the poison from the same vine
Oh, I love it and I hate it at the same time
Hidin' all of our sins from the daylight
From the daylight, runnin' from the daylight
From the daylight, runnin' from the daylight
Oh, I love it and I hate it at the same time//eyes flutter softly
violet meets blue
the ocean crashes within
and whispered words flow like a stream
a silent oath to the other
and melded arms wrapped round the other -
I Need A Man (Who's Patient And Kind) by negativefouriq
Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender
09 Oct 2023
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“I am going to get eaten,” Keith says miserably. “My luck is going to wear out. I’m gonna say something stupid and offend your third cousin or trip over someone’s toddler and destroy your mother’s flan by crashing into the table and upending hot coffee on an elderly person. Then I’ll get arrested for assault and you’ll have to visit me in prison and my cellmate will make a comment about you or something and I’ll have to kill him and then I’ll get retried and the death sentence, probably, and then Red will bust me out of prison and cause intergalactic meltdowns and —”
Lance can’t hold back anymore. Quick as a dart he reaches out, fisting Keith’s collar, and yanks him over the gearshift, kissing him softly and soundly until Keith sighs, surprise fading into something calmer, relaxed. His hand comes up to cup Lance’s cheek.
“You need a Xanax,” Lance says gently as he pulls away.
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OR: Keith is meeting Lance's entire extended family. He's a little peaked about it.He has nothing to worry about.
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There's No Morning Glory (it was war, it wasn't fair) by mothmanavenue
Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender
18 Sep 2023
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He raises his head, expecting to see the heavens above him. He wants to take in the freshly healed scar of the newly collapsed Rigel star system. Wants to know how the blazing lights of thousands of planets worth of warfare looks set against the familiar earth sky. He think he might look at the constellations, like he did not far from here a hundred years ago, tucked into his dads strong, solid arms, the scratch of a stubbly chin accompanying a moving mouth as it named Orion, Cassiopeia, Gemini.
He looks up expecting to see stars, and instead he sees the sun.
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A ceasefire has been called, and the future is wide open
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Keith and the team return to Earth and learn of Adam's death. Keith learns how to start grieving with a support system. He learns what it's like to be part of a family and people who love him unconditionally while working through his complex emotions about Adam's death. Grieving beside family is much different than by yourself.
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- Part 2 of you're so precious to us all
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look at me (because i exist i exist i exist) by Anonymous
Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender
17 Aug 2023
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They didn’t need him or want him there. Just like he’d thought when he left.
“Keith, you ran away. Maybe you should’ve just stayed away.”
How many times had he been called temperamental, rash, a lone wolf? The team didn’t like him.
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What Lance said to Keith while they were floating aimlessly in space gets to Keith more than he cares to admit. -
Give Up Your Dream Of Going Away (Forget Your Sailors In Galway) by negativefouriq
Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender
13 Aug 2023
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But over time, he learned to trust his team. Not with his secret — not yet — but enough to admit bits and pieces, press fragments of his experiences into their hands. The exhilaration of swimming with sharks that swarmed near the island. The welcoming feeling of home in the ocean. The freedom of speeding through the waves. Small things, quiet things, but truths to him nonetheless. He eventually worked up the courage to even part with his pelt, briefly, in training, or eating, or simply bonding. Found the strength to set the jacket out of arm’s reach.
Perhaps the choice was foolish.
Because now his second greatest fear has come true — he may not have lost his pelt, true, but he is now bonded in eternity with another. When Keith handed Lance his coat, he unknowingly claimed Lance, as a prize and as a mate.
A feat of fate and magic that cannot be undone.
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OR: Keith accidentally hands Lance his pelt. Lance doesn't know where to go, from there. -
I've Said Too Much (You Promise I Can't Ever Say Enough) by negativefouriq
Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender
13 Aug 2023
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“I hope I die first.”
Lance blinks. He looks over at his boyfriend, wondering if he spaced out long enough that his brain just made something the fuck up to get him back on track (wouldn’t be the first time).
“…Pardon?”
Keith continues to eat, unbothered, casual. He’s not even feigning casualness, either — he tends to half-lid his eyes when he’s pretending something doesn’t bother him. He’s completely at ease, right now, hand still warm and heavy on Lance’s thigh.
“Sometimes I just think about how there’s a possibility that you’ll die before me, I guess.” He turns to Lance, finally, smiling sheepishly. “Sorry. That was emo. I just…you go silent, sometimes, and I’m worried I’ll have to miss every time you spoke.”
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OR: Sometimes Lance catches himself, when his motormouth runs hot and he forgets to keep it down. He doesn't need to do that around Keith, he finds. -
5 times Lance influenced Keith's appearance, and 1 time Keith influenced Lance's by demivoid
Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender
28 Jul 2023
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Back at the Garrison, Lance had knitted himself a lot of different items. Ranging from the most comfortable socks one could imagine, to a blanket cosier than could be encountered in a market. The desert wasn't cold during the day, but when the sun dipped behind the horizon, the temperature plummeted, often near zero. And so, Lance decided to put to work the skills he had gathered from his abuela when he lived in Cuba and make himself socks. And then he made sweaters. That then progressed into making many more clothes for himself, Hunk, Pidge, and occasionally other friends.
This work is a piece made for Lance's Birthday! Happy birthday to our Blue and Red Paladin!
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“Can you get ahold of him?”
Pidge sighed. “Yeah, probably. This really can’t wait?” She took one look at his pitiful face. “Okay, I’ll try to get a message out to him. What do you want me to say?”
“That I need him. I mean! I need to talk to him. Urgently. As soon as possible. It’s very important.”
“Lance, he’s going to think you’re in trouble or something.”
“Good! Maybe he’ll get here faster!”
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Summer Dreams, Ripped At The Seams (But Oh, Those Summer Nights) by negativefouriq
Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender
23 Jun 2023
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“Alright,” Lance says eventually. He squeezes back. “Let’s go somewhere. Got any other fancy-schmancy places that aren’t burned down? We’re dressed for it, at least.”
Keith frowns, trying to think. It’s true that they’re both decently dressed up — Keith is wearing the slacks that make his ass look fat as hell and Lance is wearing his least scruffy converse — but Keith genuinely can’t think of a single fancy place that will let them in on such short notice on a Friday evening. The best place he can think of is the particularly well-maintained Dairy Queen on the other end of town, and that won’t cut it. Not that Lance would mind (he likes to be treated but has made it abundantly clear that he just likes spending time with Keith), but they’ve just done that before. Keith wants to do something special.
He brightens as the idea dawns on him. It’s no high-dining, but he knows Lance will like it.
“C’mon. Get in the car, I’ve got an idea.”
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OR: Their plans fall through, but Keith is determined to sweep Lance off his feet. He manages. -
So, Darling (Save The Last Dance For Me) by negativefouriq
Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender
23 Jun 2023
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Sivo squints. He had originally assumed that Keith was simply too awkward or shy to join in the celebration, like Sivo once was himself, but now the advisor is not so sure. Keith’s posture is not hunched, like someone who is uncomfortable. In fact he looks relaxed, pleased. He’s watching wistfully, almost, gazing into the crowd, but there is no desire to join, really. How strange. Sivo leans closer, trying to trace the man’s eyes. Whom is he watching, then, if he’s not simply watching the crowd? Whom has this young man singled out?
Keith must notice his struggle, because he chuckles slightly to himself. He tilts his head in Sivo’s direction, gesturing for him to lean close, follow his pointing finger. Before he can say anything, a loud, high-pitched laugh rings through the crowd, cutting over the music and dancing and chatting, and Keith’s smile gets wider.
“That’s the Red Paladin of Voltron,” Keith says, softer even than before; not quieter but saccharine, almost. Besotted.
Oh.
“I see,” says Sivo, not even bothering to hide his smile. “A Paladin. Quite the…choice, of people to admire.”
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OR: Keith reunites with Lance at a dance. -
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Thud, thud, thud, goes the sound of hurried footsteps in the hallway behind him, soon disappearing behind a turn. Lance releases a small sigh of relief, knowing that the hostages are safe beyond that point.
Drip, drip, drip, goes the blood.
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Lance gets himself injured on a routine mission and is rescued by a very familiar Blade of Marmora. -
Ain't No River Wide Enough (To Keep Me From Getting To You, Babe) by negativefouriq
Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender
28 May 2023
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Lance finishes rubbing the lotion into his legs and sets it back on the bedside table, leaning over the laptop screen to grab his hairbrush. He mutters a near-silent “Shit, sorry,” as he accidentally bumps the screen with his chest, catching the edge of his robe on the corner of the screen and loosening it. He adjusts the screen again, carefully grabbing his brush and moving back away so as not to hit it again. When he settles back onto the bed, he catches Keith’s eyes looking hastily back to his face, again. He shakes his head fondly as he untwists his towel from his hair and starts to brush through the damp curls.
Poor Keith. Must be hard for him to do anything…fun, ahem, in shared barracks. Rip to him, honestly, because Lance does not have that problem. Say what you will about the castle, but at least he has his own room and a lock on his door.
“You’re distracted today,” Lance comments, smirking slightly. He lets his robe slip down his shoulder, watching Keith’s eyes follow the movement.
“Am not,” Keith protests.
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OR: Keith and Lance video chat. They both drive each other a little batty.