Hijacking Reality

Chapter 19

DISCLAIMER: *Spoiler alerts for anyone who hasn't seen the show yet*

Also prepare for a bumpy ride. I had a totally different idea for this chapter but Keith and Lance thought otherwise. (They all have minds of their own now)

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"So you aren't allowed to see Villosis for 3 months," Keith added after a small silence of processing the story of Evenon's lover, "Why?"

Evenon fingered the comfortably textured grass, "His father makes him go away and fight battles in different area's of the planet. They usually last about 3 months and sometimes longer depending on the amount of Keres that join the mission. Their armies are strictly formed by drafts of the community. Most of their population is made up of woman and children. Most of the grown men died out during their previous war on their original planet."

"What about the women? I am sure they can fight," Keith thinks of Allura and Pidge as a definition of girls putting up a good fight, "Surely they know that they too can battle."

"That may be true in some cases but the Keres believe otherwise. They think that women are weak and can only raise children, especially since the numbers are down for men, they want more births. It's sad that they were demoted to just childbirth," Evenon explained with a twinkle of pain in his eye, "Villosis hasn't seen his own mother in years because they sent her to a birth unit. His dad was furious because they impregnate the women against their will. Even if he is high in the ranks, he still couldn't save his wife."

Keith furrowed his brows as he backed up for a moment not accepting this scary truth, "That's horrible. How could anybody from any race do that? What kind of leader allows something horrendous like that?"

"Desperate times cause for desperate measures as they say," the cybelion looked down at his hands as the shadows covered his expression, "All I want is to help Villosis, like he helped me. Help his mother escape so they can be together again. His father hates me but that is okay. As long as he can be together with his family. No matter how much I want to run away with him. I would give up my freedom just to be with him. Become a prisoner walking into the Keres's territory. I'd do it for him."

The red paladin swallowed as he didn't need to even look at Evenon's face to detect the seriousness and the love he felt for his Keres counterpart. All he could do was feel sorry for him, unless him and his friends ended the war.

"You know my friends and I," he placed his gloved palm to Evenon's shoulder, something he would not have done earlier when they met, "We can stop this war."

"By what? Burning them all alive," from the shadows, his eyes flickered with a piercing glare, "If my mother commands you, then that is what will happen and I will never forgive you."

Keith pursed his lips, "At first I will admit that I would have followed her request."

Evenon's glower intensified but Keith put his hand up in a sort of surrender, "But I don't believe that now. It was wrong of me to assume anything. You need both sides of a fight to get a handle of how to make it stop. I see that now and trust me, that isn't the first time I've come across something like that. The Galra are like that too."

"The Keres may be monsters in their own way but the Galra, they don't know when to stop. They are the real leviathans of the universe. Sucking up planet life one by one. I hate them," he growled, "Everybody hates them."

"I'm half Galra," Keith's voice strained as he told his number one most sensitive secret to a boy who didn't like him in the first place.

There was no explanation needed. It was a statement, a fact as true as can be. He was part of those 'leviathans', the race that devoured anything in the foreseeable universe. That was him. That was Keith. He couldn't help that he is half, just as Attis couldn't help that he is half. He learned to cope with it after Shiro helped him through. Telling him that he was the good guy and he would always be one. That he was chosen to be a paladin for a reason. Keith could do nothing else but to admit that he was a hero and he would do no harm to anyone. He did hurt people though and most importantly, he hurt Lance. So now, he could only reminisce of what kind of hero would do that. Abandon the one they care for the most.