An Age a Month

3 Years (Again) Part 1

Lance sat giggling in Keith's arms.

"Daddy, daddy!" his arms flew round Keith's neck. Still in shock Keith said nothing, only stared.
'Lance is three again.'

The doors opened behind him and Coran came into the room with a bottle.

"Oh Quiznak! Lance your three!"

"Coran!" Keith exclaimed as Lance started repeating, quiznak over and over.

'This is great' Keith thought. 'I knew I was doing the right thing.'

Alarms suddenly started blaring and Allura voice could be heard throughout the castle. 

"The Galra are attacking, paladins to your lions!"

Keith usually ran off as soon as the alarm was heard. But Lance was a toddler that needed him. But Voltron couldn't fight two paladins short.

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*with Haggar*

"Why are we attacking now? I thought we were waiting for kur-"

Haggar waved her hand silencing the general.

"There has been an interesting development. It seems the blue Paladin has be reduced to nothing more than a mere child. All we need is the black paladin to return to his lion. Then the plan can proceed"

The general nodded and sent fleets towards the Altean castle.

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*with Keith*

"Lance please, I promise I'll be right back. I need to help the team"

Keith was attempting to pass Lance off to Coran, but the toddler refused somehow sensing Keith would be leaving the castle.

Lance wasn't sobbing like he did before, but tears were freely falling down his face.

"Daddy... please.. come too.."

"Lance you can't go with me this time." Keith said. His instinct were screaming, to stay with the child, comfort him. But he knew he had to help the team.

"Please..." his voice was tiny. "Don't leave me"

Flashbacks plagued both paladins heads of the times Tom left Lance alone, lonely, cold and scared.

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3 year old Lance, toddler up to his mother reaching up for her. Rosa complied and lifted the child onto her hip.

"Mama?"

"Si, mi Hijo"

"Why does daddy leave in the garage and you don't?"

Rosa stares at her son. "What do you mean, hijo"

"When you go away, daddy says I must stay in the garage."

Rosa narrowed her eyes. She dismissed the accusation and told Lance to go play. It was Saturday afternoon so Tom would be in the garage.

Rosa entered and argued with Tom. Lance stood by the door, listening to his parents shouting.

"He says you leave him in there!"

"Only when I'm working in there too!"

"That's not what he told me!"

"YOUR SON is turning into a bit of liar then!"

Rosa left the garage fuming.

The next time Rosa has to leave Lance in Toms cafe, she was hesitant but she had the opportunity for a promotion at work since Tom was fired.

Tom has reassured her that he was looking after Lance. So she went to the interview, hoping her son was okay.

As soon as Rosa drove away, with the other kids for the school run. Tom grabbed Lance by the arm and threw him into the cold garage.

"How dare you go to your mother! Getting me into trouble because of your incompetence."

He picked up the boy by his arm, his legs dangling in the air.

"You spill to your mother again, and leaving you here alone won't be the only thing I do."

He squeezed the toddlers arm making the boy sob.

"You ungrateful brat."

He threw him to the floor once again.

"No one will know, if you have no one to tell. You are worthless, nothing... but everything will be okay if you keep your mouth shut."
The garage door slammed and locked.

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The teams voices through the helmets brought Keith out of his thoughts from the flashback. He hugged Lance desperately as the 3 year old clung into him.

Coran patted Keith on the shoulder going to tell Allura there was no way he could leave Lance now. Especially after he saw the flashback too.

Tears fell down Keith's cheek.

"I'm so sorry Lance. I promise I will never leave you."

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Hey guys,

Sorry for the long wait. I have a lot of assignments to complete for uni. So I will try to upload more frequently.

Next chapter  will be more focused on the fight between the rest of the team and Haggar.

Also having a bit of writers block atm, so maybe next will be and Q and A of sorts if you guys leave any questions you want ask feel free.
Ask anything you want to know
If there not a lot or any I won't bother. But it might be fun 😊

Maybe it'll give some inspiration 😂

Thanks
Alice XX 💕💕