My Keith

Growing Up pt 1

*Age 6*
"Julia! Wait!" Lance calls before tripping over his little feet and falling to the ground.
"Lance!" Julia runs to him and help him up. "Are you okay?"
"Oww, my knee!"
The pair see the cut on Lance's knee.
"Mama! Lance is hurt!" Julia yells and their mother rushes outside
"Sh shhh it's okay, you'll be fine." His mother says in an attempt to calm him.
*Age 10*
Lance jumps into the pool after his brother Dan, the scar on his knee visible. When he first got it he was a bit self conscious but now he barely gives it a second thought.
"Dan, have you heard of Takashi Shirogane?" Lance asks but Dan shakes his head no.
"He's the coolest pilot ever! He's in space and I'm gonna grow up to be just like him!"
*age 14*
"Lance, keep studying, follow your dreams. I'm begging you please." Julia says and holds Lance's trembling hand.
"D-dont talk like that, Jules the doctors said you'd be okay."
"They said there's a chance I might live but Lance, I can't go on like this. In a bed, I'm too expensive for Mama and Papa to take care of, I stopped taking my meds. I told the doctors I don't need them."
"Jules no! Y-you have to live, please"
"Visiting hours are over, you have to leave." A nurse says.
"Alright, get some rest Jules. "
She didnt wake up.
*age 15*
"I have to get in. Show them im special. Dan's the oldest, Kayla is the amazing dancer, Matthew is the musician, and Lila is the baby. I'm done being the 7th wheel of this family. I'm gonna be the one who goes to school AND graduates." Lance says as he nervously studies, his entrance exam early the next morning.
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"Mama! I-I did it! I got in as a pilot!" The entire house cheers and takes turns hugging Lance.
"I'm finally not the 7th wheel..." He murmrs to himself.
*age 16*
"McClain, McClain, McClain, where's my name?" Lance mumbles looking at the list. He finds it at the bottom of the page, just barely passing. He sighs and walks away, defeated. He's been trying so hard to pass, to do this for her. He still remembers her words
"Follow your dreams. Im begging you, please." That was the last time he saw her, she had been off her meds too long.
I'm never going to be good enough, not like Shiro, not like Keith even if he was a drop out. ' Lance thinks, bitterly.
I'm just never enough.'
*Age 19*
"Im so far from home." Lance mumbles, looking out the ships window. He's a paladin of Voltron, has a lion, same as the others but once again feels as he doesnt fit in. Shiro's the leader, Hunk and Pidge are great with machines, Pidge is fantastic at strategy, Keith is amazing in combat but Lance, what's he good at? He likes to think he's the 'sharpshooter' of the group.
'Am I really good enough to call myself that? Probably not.' He wonders to himself. Why is he feeling this way, like a fifth wheel, 7th if you count the super cool space princess and cool alien. '7th wheel again? Great job, Lance.' He insults himself. But why? Maybe it's because in the few months he's been with all of them, he's begun to consider them family.
(Hey guys im starting backstories, this is Lance's. Who would you rather have next, Pidge, Hunk, or shiro? Comment who you want next and maybe some ideas of what their life should be like?? Thanks!)
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