It's because I love you

Good morning

Pidge and Lance share a calm morning, appreciating each other's presence while sharing soft kisses.

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These were Pidge's favorite kind of morning.

The ones where she was able to sleep for the duration of the entire night without any alarms rudely waking her up, indicating that the Galra were attacking and that their help was needed somewhere.

The ones she knew that no early exercise sessions were planned. That usually meant that even Shiro and Allura were too tired to encourage them to do their best. Not even Keith who practically lived on their training deck could be found there as he was also sleeping comfortably in his bed.

The ones where Hunk wouldn't even be seen in the kitchen, choosing to sleep for once instead of making breakfast as early as possible in case someone was hungry. Preferring to stay in bed as long as he could, not minding making the others wait.

The ones when she knew the day that was about to start was heading to be a relaxing one, if everything went right. No stressing diplomatic meeting. No spending vargas trying to finish a project or analyzing something they had found on a mission. No having to plan a complicated or risky operation to free a planet from the Galra's control.

The ones where a warm body was holding her close against its chest, refusing to let her go.

Making her feel like the most loved girl in the entire universe.

Making her feel something she thought could only happen in those romantic movies she usually hated to watch on earth.

They always managed to make her roll her eyes, not believing that a love like that existed. Even less that one would eventually find her. At this time, she still believed she'd never find her anima gemella, as her parents loved to call each other.

The fact that it was Lance's body next to hers, that he was the one to bring those kinds of emotions out of her made things a hundred times better.

As much as she wished to stay there for the entire day, they were still paladins of Voltron with tasks to accomplish, they had to get up. She didn't want someone to come and have to do it instead. They knew they were together, the girl was just embarrassed of the teasing comments they would receive. And she was not sure Shiro would appreciate it. He sometimes acted pretty much like an overprotective father would.

Like he did with all of them.

Despite her effort, Pidge tried stretching her muscle from how demanding the day before to no avail. The girl discovered that she couldn't move at all. How could he use that much force even when he was asleep?

Well, she was very comfortable now anyway.

After a few doboshes of much needed silence, the green paladin felt her boyfriend stir awake. She looked up at his face.

One of Lance's favorite things to tease her about was how confused she seemed when she would wake up, blinking profusely for multiple ticks, rubbing her half-open eyes, yawing, scratching her face, burying her it in her pillow in hopes of prolonging her slumber... The list went on.

He was always quick to deny it when she remarked he had the same waking up habits as her. But he did, every time, without a fault. Pidge found it adorable, making him blush when she commented on it, much to Hunk's fun and Lance's embarrassment.

When he was finally beginning to gain awareness, he looked down at her, smiling like a dork when he realized she was already awake, wearing an identical expression as she observed him.

"Good morning Pidgeon," said Lance in his usual start of the day voice that never failed to make her flush. "Good morning sharpshooter." The girl's eyes instinctively shut themself, relieving in the tender kiss her boyfriend placed on her forehead as he brought his hands to cradle her freckled covered cheeks and most of her face.

Seriously, why did everyone on that ship seem to have much bigger hands than hers? The first time someone pointed this out, the young girl was quick to snap back that her hands were normal sized (that's not true and she knew it), theirs were just too big.

"Sleep well?" He kissed her closed eyelids, Pidge only hummed as a response. He placed another kiss at the corner of her mouth. "I certainly did, thanks to you glued against me the entire night. "Pidge chuckled. "You're the clingy one, not me and you missed your target."

They met in the middle, both immediately relaxing once their lips were finally pressed against the other's. Eventually, Pidge tried to pull away, quickly realizing that she'd have to use too much strength to get out of Lance's possessive hold on her body. She was way too tired for this and she wasn't exactly complaining, the kiss was pretty great.

Unfortunately, they both needed to breathe.

As he pulled away from her mouth to press a soft kiss to her pink cheeks, the green paladin figured this meant that her boyfriend was finally satisfied and would make a move to step out of his bed. They practically never slept in her own, as it was covered in a bunch of her unfinished projects, occupying the space that was supposed to belong to their bodies. It was time to start getting ready for the most likely tiring day that was awaiting them and that's what they were about to do.

She was wrong.

The now much more away Cuban kept kissing her, moving to her nose. "I want to wake up next to you till the day we both die of old age." He kissed the top of her head, taking a tick to bury his face into her soft hair. He could tell from the smell that she had used the products he recommended to her when she took her shower last night. Not that he hadn't noticed when they were cuddling before falling asleep amongst the many blankets she brought from her own room. "You know that I'll love you forever, right?" Another one on the junctures between her neck and shoulder.

"Will you love me forever?" said Lance, pouting while observing her calm expression.

"I will, now do what I told you and stop missing your target sharpshooter."

They were probably going to be late for breakfast, again. Worth it.

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Sorry this took so long, thought the chapter was already posted!

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