A Pain Too Great (Shidge/Klance AU)

13-What's This?

"Lance, its been a week and we can't find anything on where Pidge and Shiro were taken!" Keith whined as the two sat on Lance's bed. "What if we never find them! What if they're dead?"

"Keith, stop thinking like that. Think positive. Maybe they escaped and landed on a planet full of women, and only women!" Lance said, trying to cheer his friend up. "Bet Shiro would enjoy himself. Ugh, lucky guy!"

"Lance, only you would enjoy that. Shiro isn't an alien girl-loving idiot like you, and Pidge is a girl herself! But you're right, that would be better then being in Galra hands," Keith said, trying to think positively, "but I can't help but think that they haven't. Plus if they did, wouldn't they have Green?"

"They would, but they wouldn't be able to contact us unless they were close by!" Lance said, "I don't really understand all the techy stuff like Pidge, but I know that if the castle's to far from our lions, we can't talk to it."

Keith leaned on Lance. He was tired. For the past week, the paladins and the princess searched for their missing friends. Nothing was ever found. Everyone seemed to have something missing from them, like a piece of their soul. It was clear that during the time they worked together against Zarkon, they had all become closer then just friends. They had became a second family.

In Pidge's journal, it was obvious that she thought that. "Lance?" Keith whispered.

"What is it, Mullet?" Lance asked before he yawned. He then waited for Keith to reply, but only light snores came from the other male. "Oh, come on! I'm not carrying you!" Lance quietly complained, trying not to wake Keith up.

Lance carefully laid Keith down onto his bed and pulled the blue covers over him. With that the blue paladin left his own room and decided to sleep on the couch. He didn't know why he felt like he couldn't awake Keith. Maybe Keith wasn't all that bad.

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"I don't ever want to sleep on a floor again," Pidge said as she jumped on the bed, which was just a mattress on the ground. Since they won, their earned a better cell. One with a bed and an actual toilet. Shiro laughed as he watched the teen.

"You won't have to, hopefully. Though, there's only one bed and it's only large enough for one person, so I'll still be sleeping on the floor," he told her as he checked the cell out. It was larger then their last one, was only furnished with the mattress and toilet, and had a small window with bars.

"Tiny window!" Pidge sang as she looked out into space. She then stopped jumping and walked over to the taller man, "and Shiro I'll feel terrible if you slept on the floor while I have the bed! We can switch out. I'll be fine. Maybe we can get another cell if we continue as Beast and Beauty."

"If your okay with it, I'm fine with switching out the bed. You get it first," Shiro explained to his best friend's sister. She smiled and turned away to jump back on the bed. Her laughter was the only thing making a sound.

"So, Pidge. Are we not going to talk about the thing that happened out in the arena? The other thing then us obliterating that gladiator...," Shiro asked causing Pidge to fall off the matress in surprise.

"I was kinda hoping that you forgot... It was a 'in the moment' thing and I would like to forget it myself..." Pidge answered awkwardly as she stood, wiping off her shirt. Though, dirt wouldn't matter, the brown thing was torn and dirty already.