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"Child Proof Caps"
"Can someone get me one of my pills?" Keith asked.
As Krolia was holding him, it left Kolivan as the one who had to get his kit some medicine. He carefully picked up one of the little orange bottles, which looked tiny in his claws. He twisted the cap, which only moved a tiny bit. He tried to twist it further, but it didn't budge. Kolivan growled at the little orange bottle. He had led many operatives into battle (figuratively and literally), but this tiny Earth bottle was beating him.
"Is there a problem, Kolivan?"
"The lid is stuck."
Keith blinked. "Can I see it?"
Kolivan brought the little bottle over to his kit. Keith looked at the lid. It looked to be okay. A little orange tab caught his attention. He pushed the tab down and twisted the cap open. Kolivan's eyes widened at the ease at which Keith opened the bottle, and Keith chuckled.
"How did you do that, kit? I couldn't get it to move."
Keith smiled. "To open it, you have to hold this little tab down while twisting the cap."
"Why would they make the lid difficult to get off?"
Keith blushed as he swallowed his pill. "Shiro thought it would be amusing to tell the nursing staff to put our medications in bottles with child-proof lids."
"These are kit proof?" Kolivan repeated.
"Yeah." Keith handed the pill bottle back to Kolivan and snuggled back into his mother's arms, drifting off to sleep and purring.
Kolivan sat back down in his chair by the bed with the bottle in his hands. He stared at it in disbelief. He was the leader of a rebel faction of Galra who worked in the shadows to take down the oppressive Galra Empire. How did a bottle designed to keep mischievous kits out of it defeat him?
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Shiro walked by to check on the Paladins hours later and paused at the door to Keith's room. He could hear the twin purrs of Keith and Krolia, but what concerned him was Kolivan was staring at one of Keith's prescriptions. Shiro cautiously entered the room. "Kolivan, is everything all right?"
"What? Hello, Shiro. Yes, everything is fine."
"Is there a problem with Keith's medicine?"
"I couldn't open it."
Shiro blinked and held back a laugh. "I see. Does Keith still need to take it?"
"No. The kit opened it with no issue."
"Okay then. I was just checking on everyone before retiring for the night."
"Good night, Shiro."
"Good night." Shiro managed to slip out of the room and flee to the furthest room, which fortunately was Lance's room, before he bursted into laughter. Lance was just plain confused before Shiro regained enough breath to explain to Lance what was so funny, and Lance laughed too.
Fin