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It gave you a few stretches and yawns before you could be fully awake. You groaned when you realised you're still alive and have to live another training day.
Despite your endless desire to collapse back in bed, you swung your legs over to the side and walked towards your door, which sild open automatically for you.
You didn't care if you looked like a sleep-deprived hag. Your tummy was begging for food and that's all that matters.
Walking into the kitchen and grabbing the hose for the space goo, the first thing Hunk asked you was, "Have you seen Keith?"
What a great way to greet good morning, you say to yourself.
"Probably in the training deck or something. You know how he is." You muttered and sat beside Lance and Pidge.
"He's not there though." Shiro shrugged.
You ate your space goo with eyes that looked like you wanted to die.
Allura suddenly barged in the kitchen. "Good morning everyone! Today we will be training again. After you all eat, go inside your lions immediately and Coran will give the signal. (Y/n), since you finished training level three yesterday, go on level four, alright?"
"Um, objection, I barely finished off the level three yesterday and I don't think I can survive this any longer." You said but Allura just smiled at you.
"Of course you can! You're working for Voltron, (Y/n)!" And with that, she walked out of the room.
"I swear to god these trainings aren't for human beings." Pidge complained and everyone agreed.
Somehow, Shiro and Keith are the only ones who are ready for anything. You can't almost believe that they're humans. You even saw Shiro doing push ups after training and Keith fighting a gladiator in the training deck, also after the lion trainings.
Allura barged in the kitchen again. "Oh right, where's Keith?" She asked.
"His mullet murdered him." Lance said and leaned back on the chair, feeling proud of himself. Hunk chuckled at his reckon.
"No, seriously. Make sure to find him before training starts. We can't begin without a missing paladin." Allura sighed and walked off.
"(Y/n), could you go and look for him?" Shiro asked and placed his plate on the sink.
"Pidge can do it," you said and she turned around from her laptop and scowled at you.
You rolled your eyes and groaned, slumping your shoulders. "Why is it always me?"
Space dad just crossed his arms over his chest and that's when you knew you had to follow him.
You let out another 'ugh' and hopped down from your seat after you finished your space goo and space juice. Thankfully, the food and drink that you just had increased your motivation and now you can move without feeling lazy.
Inside your head, you complained about how it was always you who always does everything whenever there's a problem. It's the similar thing about siblings, the older sibling and the parents ask the youngest to do the chores.
The last time you had ranted out to Hunk about Shiro forcing you to crawl in and clean the air vents when there's Pidge, who can fit really well inside those air vents. And this is a castle-ship with super duper high technology, who the hell needs air vents in a place like this?
Looking for Keith made you think about all the moments you had together, which was really rare because he's so unapproachable. The first time he said a word to you was when he asked you to train with him, because he was getting bored of fighting a robot, apparently.
Last week, you bumped into Keith in the middle of the night while you were trying to steal snacks from the fridge. Since he was with you, the both if you decided to watch the stars instead.
There was actually a time where he ranted to you about how much of a douchebag Lance is, and that's probably the most words he had said to you.
"Hey." Suddenly out of nowhere, Lance whispered near your ear that made you squeal a bit. He chuckled at your reaction.
"Found him yet?" He asked and you sighed, shaking your head.
"I don't even know why we should worry about him. He seems like a guy who can manage by himself." You observed, heading for the pool.
"You have the hots for him, don't you?" He said as his eyebrows wiggled. You hit his shoulder with your fist and grimaced.
"That's disgusting."
"Stop hiding it. We all know, (Y/n)." He winked. You hit him again.
"Maybe it's Keith who has a crush on me, but we're not dating." You rolled your eyes. Dating Keith wasn't a problem to you and you would like him only if he was more kinder.
"Right." Was all he said as he stepped in the elevator that brough him to the pool. You asked if he's there and he shouts from the top that he isn't. You let out another groan-sigh.
Since he wasn't in the training deck, said by the space dad, all you could think of was his room. Probably he overslept, but that has never happened before.
You knocked on his door thrice and waited for an answer. When you had none, you knocked again.
"Keith?" You said as you continued knocking. You had a feeling that he was in here, in some way that you don't know.
Finally, you heard a sound from the inside, a sound as if he dropped something heavy.
"Keith? Are you alright?" You yelled, hoping that he'd hear you.
"(Y/n).." he said with a frail and quiet voice.
"What's wrong, Keith?" You asked him, trying to sound as calm as possible
"(Y/n), go away." He wailed but you noticed the crack in his voice.
"Keith please. I'm here for you." You were never a person who's good at kind words. You learned some from Hunk, but you still had the difficultly to calm people down.
You had never seen Keith like this. Mostly he's just emotionless so it's hard to tell what he's feeling.
With the long pause, you stepped away from his door and decided to just go tell the others that he locked himself in.
Before you could go, he said hesitantly. "Okay, but promise me you won't tell the anyone."
"I promise."
The door opened and it was dark inside. Keith sat at the farthest corner from the door. You could tell because of two glowing things looked you and on the floor immediately.
"May I turn on the lights?" You asked quietly and you saw the figure nod. You slowly reached for the light switch beside the door and when you did, he flinched at the brightness.
Keith sat with his legs near his chest and his head down, hiding himself from you. You knew this was Keith, but with purple skin and large, fluffy ears.
You walked over to him and kneeled down, taking his arms off of his face and placing your hands gently to either side of his head, lifting it up.
He looked at you with sad, glowing yellow eyes as tears ran down from his face to his chin.
"You're still Keith, Keith," you said and gave him a small smile as you wipe his tears away with your thumb.
"I'm Keith, but I had become what everyone wants to destroy," he sobbed.
"Look at me. It doesn't matter if you're Galra, human, or somewhere in between. You are Keith Kogane, the red paladin of Voltron." You told him and his eyes widen at his full name being pronounced by you.
"And nothing, not even cute alien genes, will ever change that. Okay?" You smiled and he sobbed again, harder, and he nodded his head vigorously and wrapped his arms around you.
"I love you, (Y/n). Thank you so much." He buried his head at the crook of your neck.
"I love you too, Keith."
EXTRA SCENES:
"Are you seeing what I'm seeing." Pidge said nonchalantly, elbowing Lance as Lance nodded emotionlessly, not believing what they're seeing.
"OH MY GOSH DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS, (Y/N)." Hunk said excitedly, and balls his fist.
"WE HAVE A CAT!" You and Hunk said in unison, jumping into the air.
You pet Keith's head and scratched the back of his ears as he tries to act like it's not bothering him.
"Here are all the cat toys I have!" Coran entered the room, bringing a bag overflowing of yarns and sqeaky mouse toys. Allura's mice hides behind Allura.
"I'm not a cat!" Keith exclaims and blushes but purrs at your touch behind his ears.
"(Y/n)... is a furry?" Lance whispers and Pidge chokes.