Voltron One Shots

Just Like Home

Prompt: When lance lists his immediate family in S5 he doesnt mention his dad and it got my langst gears turning. Lance's dad was abusive. His mother would always try to take the brunt of the abuse. Shiro possessed by haggar, loses his temper with lance. Hunk takes blame because Shiro has been really harsh with lance lately. Except it's worse than usual. And Shiro is livid. He's screaming at hunk and getting in his face about Lance's mistake. Lance can't handle watching someone he loves get hurt again. He spirals into a panic attack, blacks out, he sees his father instead of shiro and lashes out at him physically. The rest of the crew try to snap him out of it and shiro comes back to himself. Lance feels horrible.

Trigger warnings: abuse

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The last thing Lance remembers is Shiro's face in front of his. He knew he was yelling, but he couldn't hear the words. The minute he raised his voice Lance shut down. He had just been talking about how much he missed his family, but this was too much like home.

The yelling didn't last long, before Coran was ushering Shiro away. Lance felt numb as he stood there, still not able to hear anything. Hunk appeared in front of his face. He looked concerned. He put his hand on Lance's shoulder and helped him sit down.

"...ance?" Lance put his head in his hands. "Guys, just... give him some space. Yeah, he's fine, just—" Lance groaned, and then the noise stopped. He sucked in a breath.

"Lance, are you okay?" Hunk asked, crouching down in front of him. Hunk was the only one that knew what his life was like at home. He was the only one who knew about Lance's father. "Just breathe, just breathe. You're okay. It's not him. He's not here" Lance took a few more calming breaths and then nodded.

"It's okay" he said, his voice shaking despite his efforts to keep it steady. "I'm okay. I'm okay" he wasn't sure who he was trying to convince.

"He didn't mean it" Hunk said softly. "He's stressed out. We're all stressed out. He would never—" Lance waved his hand.

"It doesn't matter" he stood up abruptly. "I'm fine"

"Lance—" Hunk protested. Lance walked out of the room without another word. He didn't want Hunk to worry about him. There was no need for him to get worked up about this. Lance had just freaked out. He hadn't meant to react that way, it was just something that happened sometimes when people yelled at him.

He hoped that the others hadn't seen too much. He didn't want them asking questions. He just wanted that to be over with.

"Shiro, what's wrong with you?" Hunk asked, trying to keep his tone neutral. He was angry, but he didn't want Shiro to know. He had been acting weird lately. He was always on edge, like he was moments away from an outburst. But he had never lashed out like that.

"What are you talking about?" Shiro asked, looking confused. Hunk crossed his arms and stepped closer to him. Shiro got a weird look on his face and stepped back.

"I'm talking about yesterday. You had no right to freak out on Lance like that. I understand that you're—" Shiro straightened his back and gave Hunk a hard look.

"Excuse me?" he said. Hunk faltered.

"Wh- uh..." Shiro crossed his arms, flexing his muscles intimidatingly.

"I didn't 'freak out' on Lance" he said. "I reprimanded him on a mistake he made. I told him what he did wrong, so that it wouldn't happen again" Shiro said sharply.

"It wasn't even Lance's fault!" Hunk said, raising his voice. He was starting to lose his cool. "He tripped. It was a mistake. People make mistakes!"