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"Keith!" Shiro shouted as he knocked on Keith's bedroom door for the second time, "We're going to be late! We have a mission and the princess still has to debrief us! Come out!"

"I'm gay!"

Shiro's eyes widened a bit and he paused to think of a good response, "Not really what I meant but I love and support you!"

A moment later Keith came out in his paladin armor, "Good to know. Now let's get going."

Shiro chuckled, "Oh, so now you're the one rushing me?"

Keith shrugged, "Rushing goes both ways, Shiro."

"I'm not sure that's entirely correct."

They soon made it to the control room, they were the first ones there.

Shiro sighed before speaking, "So... Are you going to tell anyone else what you told me?"

Keith sat down, "Nope."

Shiro frowned, "Why not? They'd all accept you. And you told me so easily."

"I know they'd accept me. But telling you is different than telling them. You're like a brother to me, and you're gay too. I want you to know. But no one else needs to know I'm gay."

"You're gay!"

Both Shiro and Keith quickly turned their attention to the door, Allura had walked in just in time to hear Keith's last two words.

Keith stood up, "Don't tell anyone!"

"Why not?"

Shiro sighed, "It's his secret to keep."

"But why would you want to keep it a secret? Why would you want to hide part of who you are?" Allura frowned.

"Well-" Keith stopped talking as the door opened again.

This time it was Lance entering the room, "Hey guys! What are you talking about?"

Keith smiled just a tiny bit but did his best to hide it, "Nothing important. We're just waiting for everyone else to get here."

Lance nodded, "Pidge and Hunk are messing with some weird sciencey stuff but they said they'd be up in a minute. I don't know where Coran is though."

Allura looked at Lance, then Keith, then Lance, then Keith. Then she smiled. She had always noticed their behavior regarding the other, jabbing at each other when together but praising each other when apart. She also noticed the secret smiles and kind moments they shared, which have been slowly becoming more common, and their arguments being replaced with banter. She saw it all in a different light now that she had this new information. But she didn't say anything about it, "I'm sure he's around here somewhere."

"Speak of the devil," Shiro said as Coran came into the room.

Allura looked confused, "What's a devil?"

Keith chuckled, "It's just a figure of speech." He thought that religion was too complicated of a subject to get into.

"Where were you?" Lance asked, "I looked for you."

"Apparently not hard enough," Coran joked, "I was making some minor adjustments to the teludav. It's not damaged, but it would've been if we made another jump. But all is well now."

Shiro nodded, "It's good you caught it beforehand."

Keith sat down again, "Now we wait for the nerds, who have zero concept of time."

Lance chuckled a bit, "I'm pretty sure their one minute is our fifteen minutes."

Keith smiled at him, "Says the boy who can't tell addition from multiplication. 'Ten thousand is like one hundred plus ten.'"

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