A Pain Too Great (Shidge/Klance AU)

16-A Change?

Shiro waited patiently in the cell for Pidge to awake. Her leg was bandaged up with a piece of cloth from a curtain, "courtesy" of Lotor. Across from the cell containing the two, was another cell holding the most annoying person Shiro thought possible.

Ivairan.

He hadn't stopped asking questions since he was thrown in there. It was always based around two things—what Pidge was talking about and where they came from.

"Answer me! What was Katie talking about? Who's this Allura and Coran? Where did you guys even come from? Those weapons you used were from Voltron, right? How did they get into Galra hands?" the Altean boy questioned. Shiro glanced at him with a cool demeanor. On the inside, he was wishing the guy would shut up, though.

"Pidge was talking about Allura and Coran, the last two Alteans we know off, well until now," Shiro reluctantly said with the thought that if he answered the questions, the boy would be quiet.

"Pidge? Then why did you say Katie? WAIT there are other Alteans?" he practically squealed. He stood and rambled things about impossibility since the original Altea was destroyed by Zarkon and that the King was killed with his people.

"Listen, Katie is her real name, but she goes by Pidge. I'm still trying to go back to calling her Pidge. Allura and Coran are close to the previous king. Allura is his daughter, Coran is his trusted colleague. When Zarkon attacked, King Alfor put Allura and Coran into a deep sleep for 10,000 years," Shiro explained, keeping his annoyance under control.

"Princess Allura? She's the Allura Kat-... Pidge was talking about? Wow...," the Altean stranger muttered in disbelief.

Shiro then had a question of his own. "How are you alive?" He didn't want to sound rude, but as soon as the thought entered his mind, he couldn't push it aside.

"You wouldn't believe me," the Altean said, his back turned to them. Suddenly, a ear-splitting scream was heard from the mattress Pidge slept on. Tears streamed out of her eyes and fell off her face and onto the mattress.

"I hate that guy!" Pidge screeched sitting up, "he's mischievous and its annoying!"

"Why thank you, I'll take it as a complement," Ivairan said as he looked over his shoulder at them. Pidge blinked at him.

"You've got to be kidding me." She stood and went to the bars and looked down the hallways. "Grape? Grape! Please move us to a different cell! Our old one would be okay! A new, better one would be amazing!"

"I thought you never wanted to sleep on the floor again?" Shiro said with a smile, trying to cheer her up. Pidge looked at him with her pitiful, sad expression.

"I see I've gained a hater," the alien boy said before laughing as Pidge desperately looked down the hallways. When she realized she was stuck here across from the guy who put her in a nightmare for who knows how long.

"It isn't a laughing matter! You threw me into a torturous terror! I wanted to escape so bad, but I couldn't! I kept telling myself to wake up, but I couldn't!" Pidge screamed, tears still streaming from her eyes.

She had had a nightmare again after finally having a pleasant dream. Her nightmares mixed with her good dream, causing a massive terror dream. She never wants to think of that demon dream again.