I'd die for them (Voltron Legendary Defenders fanfic)

We had a bonding moment.

Lance had been out half the night and by the time he realised how late it was, a certain red paladin had come searching for him, only because of Shiro's orders though.

To be honest though, Lance couldn't care about the others, his anger was long gone, but the resentment that came after had started to take root. Until Mullet head showed up.

"HEY! IDIOT YOU UP THERE!? HUNK AND PIDGE ARE STARTING TO GET WORRIED!"

Of course the statement was true but everyone else was also worried, but Keith knew that those three were the closest. The red paladin stood at the Blue Lion's feet, cranking his neck he could barley see the tips of Lance's feet as they dangled off of the lions head. All that happened was a shout down to the paladin, no movement.

"WELL THEN, TELL THEM GOOD FOR THEM! YOU GUYS ARE THE ONES WHO DONT WANT A SCREW UP, THOUGHT I WAS DOING YOU GUYS A FAVOUR!"

That was it. That was to dark, even for Keith who everybody had proclaimed as the 'emo child' that sounded to much like he was giving up. So Keith started to climb up the gigantic robotic blue lion and without (with loads of) help from the lion, he reached the top and saw a face on Lance he didn't see often.

He looked down right pissed.

But you could tell from Lance's posture while lying on the head of his lion, he wasn't full of anger. He was sprawled out, feet hanging over the edge, arms folded beneath his head while he went from looking at the star's to Keith.

"What do you want Mullet."

Keith rolled his eyes at the comment, both of them knew neither were in the mood to argue, they were both silent until Lance shuffled to the side a bit and patterned space next to him and with a huff breathed out an, " Are you going to lay with me or just stare?"

Which knocked Keith into action, the teen taking his place next to the other, Lance's facial expression had softened while Keith lay next to him, no sound but the Buzz of alien insects and a suspicious noise that sounded like a hum of 'sitting in a tree' coming from Blue underneath them.

Keith was the first to brake the drowning silence:

"What the Hell man. You blew up today, you've NEVER blown up...that's my thing."

Normally sarcasm from him could get at least a fake smile to twitch at the Cuban teens lips but he still looked like he was away with the fairies, next to Keith physically, but mentally he was in a place Keith would never be able to reach. Keith sighed and started to speak again:

"Look Lance, this whole conversation thing works both ways you know, I speak then you-"

"Get to the point Keith."

Keith froze. Lance NEVER called him by his real name unless something was seriously wrong. Keith turned his head and looked at Lance, noticing how stiff he looked compared to his normal relaxed posture and how his eyes seemed to be swirling with thoughts Keith knew he'd never keep up with.

"Look Lance, all I'm saying is, what happened? Look we both know I'm not the best at this," Lance scoffed making Keith elbow him, getting a small smirk on the Cubans lips one also on his, "The least you can do, is cooperated with me here. I listen, you know that. How many times have I listened for you?"

Lance's smirk went away and a genuine sad smile graced his lips as he glanced Keith and whispered seemingly ashamed, "To many for me to count....."

"Exactly. So talk sharpshooter."

Something hit Lance then, only Keith or Pidge called him that, Pidge always did it as a joke saying he could shoot a fly at a hundred yards but could barley pilot a cargo plane. Keith on the other hand, he only did it when he knew he had Lance needed comfort. It was kind of like the anti-safe word. Instead of meaning stop, it meant ' You're safe, I'll listen go on tell me. '

"Why Keith? Why am I the one that always screws up!? All I'm good for is making a laughing stock of myself and being a fucking burden!"

Lance continued to speak, his voice rising to an angry shout but only to go down to a whisper to repeat itself as he continued his rant of how bad and horrible he was for the team. Eventually he stopped because he broke out in sobs. Keith sat the both of them up and pulled the other teen into a hug, which he gladly accepted. His crying, open emotional self that wasn't guarded by his walls was his true self. And as he started to hiccup because of how bad his crying was he only got out one more sentence before having to calm himself down.

"I'm just ruining it for everyone, I'll get someone killed!"

Keith just held him during this, only pulling away when Lance started to breath erratic, but after he calmed down Keith started to talk,voice level and subconsciously running his hands through Lance's hair while Lance's forehead rested on his shoulder;

"You are not useless, you are not a waste of space, you are an important part of this team, You are essentially the first Paladin out of us because you were the first to pilot the lions  after 10,000 years! Lance that makes you special, you didn't need to prove anything like the others did. So what if you mess up on missions!? We all do. And today? The reason Shiro and Allura were so hard on you? Because even though you joined the fight again AFTER SAVING CHILDREN FROM DIEING , there was those ten minutes that Shiro didn't know if you were alive."

Keith paused his rant and Lance looked up at him, making Keith grab the sides of Lance's face and cupped his cheeks the two teens had their forehead's pressed together as Keith continued:

"And his biggest fear is losing one of us Lance. He was so hard on you because he thought he'd killed you! We all thought you'd crashed or something, or you'd been captured. It didn't help that you had your com turned off! And Lance remember this, you're important to the team and.........you're important to me."

The two teens looked at each other , lips so close they could feel the others breath but neither we're brave enough to initiate the kiss they both wanted, but being Keith still, he went back to being his dense self and ruined the moment. Pulling away and letting go of Lance completely, causing said male to fall onto his back, and started to slide down Blues neck and back.

"Come on, like I said Hunk and Pidge are worried so lets go before Shiro starts going all Space Dad on me as well."

Lance also slid down and the two walked back, with Blue behind them, to the Castle. When they got to the hanger Keith started off straight away to the human exit but before he went, he stopped in the door way and called out:

"Sweet dreams Sharpshooter."

And with that he walked off down the hallway into the old and dark yet mystical castle that they all lived in.