K-TH76

Chapter 7

A/N- and now the angst gets worse as Galra Keith comes into play😈
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It was just supposed to be a routine mission.

Keith had begged Shiro to let him leave the castle with the team for just something small. He felt so trapped while they walked on eggshells around him. After two days, Shiro relented. The mission was a simple supply mission. Who knew it could go so wrong?

"KEITH LOOK OUT!"

Lance leapt through the oncoming fire from the hostile aliens they had encountered. Keith was knocked down out of the way of a laser blast. However, he felt the thump as it gouged a hole in Lance's side.

Keith stared wide-eyed for a few seconds before he started screaming. He put his hands to the wound desperately trying to stop the gushing flow of blood not even noticing that the aliens had stopped firing until he heard the laughter.

He turned towards it. They were laughing. They were laughing at his pain. They were laughing at the fact that Lance might die. UnFORgIveABLe!¡!

He came back to himself surrounded by a pile of corpses torn to shreds by claws. What could have... as he raised his hand to pick up a clawed up weapon for inspection he saw what did it.

His arms were covered in blood. The purple fur that seemed both familiar and terrifying covering him was matted down with it. His new freakishly sharp claws were still dripping with it. Keith dropped to his knees. "no," he whispered. "nonononNoNoNoNONONONONONOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"

His screaming attracted the others. They ran over. Each one stoped for a second to stare at their friend. Then Shiro steeled himself. Keith looked and sounded more terrified than ever. The red paladin sounded so broken as his screams slowed into a chanting mantra of quiet no's.

Hunk picked up Lance hurting to the castle to get him medical attention. Shiro gently and slowly picked up the lump little kid he had begun to think of as his little brother. He cradled him close the fuzzy purple ears on his head were smushed against his chest.

The next morning Keith sat on a medial bed human again. Coran looked puzzled at a set of test results. "This can't be right," he mused.

"What is it," Allura asked walking closer to see the screen.

"Well it seems that Keith himself is entirely human. K is the one that is the alien," Coran specified.

Hunk looked confused. "But how is that possible. They are the same person just different personalities."

"The mind is a strange organ." Coran explained. "It seems that K's mixture of altean and Galrian DNA slowed himself to change on a molecular level by wanting so bad to not be what he is."

Keith slowly got up while Pidge, Hunk, and Allura talked. Shiro was in the training room trying to work out his anger with the Galra for doing this to him and Keith. Keith slowly made his way to the healing pods. "Hey Lance," he said placing a hand on the glass of the pod.

He tried to smile slightly as if trying to keep a strong face but then his eyes started to leek. He bit his lip trying to hold the smile as tears dropped down in a stream. Finally he gave in and collapsed to his knees sobbing. "I can't do this," he sobbed, "I can't deal with how f***ed up this s**t is! I wish you were awake. You would probably tell some dumb pun and make me laugh a bit. Then maybe if I asked you would hold me again like you did that night."

He put his head in his hands as he leaned bodily against the pod curling up at the foot of it. Lance's jacket in his hands after he stole it on the way here. He wrapped around himself as the sobs slowly turned into sniffles then hiccups then he drifted off to sleep. His face stained with tears and strange lilac colored bruises forming on his face and hands.