Graceful (KeithxReader)

Chapter 11 : Apologies

(Y/N)'S POV

I stood in the kitchen with Hunk and Pidge. It had been about ten minutes since the whole, fiasco. Lance has gone to do who knows what. I was watching Hunk cook, while Pidge was working on her computer.

Hunk turns around to me then freezes look out the door way. The tension in the room lifts as I look around to see Keith standing there.

His face is deadpanned, though his hands are curled into fists, showing that's he's angry about something. "Can I talk to (Y/n), please?" He says.

Hunk and Pidge look at me and I nod. "Sure." I say briefly. Keith signals me to join him just outside the kitchen, so I walk out taking one last look back and Pidge who gives me a thumbs up.

Once outside the kitchen Keith turns to me. "So..." I trail off.

"I'm so sorry (Y/n)!" He quickly says. "I was being stupid and I was angry and jealous." He says looking at his shoes.

I raise one of my eyebrows. "Jealous? Why were you jealous?" I smile, confused.

Keith face become red as he looks up at me with wide eyes. "I-uh... umm, I." He flutters. This time it's my turn to deadpan him. He mumbles something.

"What?" I lean forward smiling, not catching what he said.

"Lance. I was jealous of Lance." He sighs. "You guys where just hanging out so much. I saw you go into his room the other night."

My smile fades. "You saw that." I narrow my eyes. "What else did you see?"

Keith's face becomes horrified. "Nothing! Did you guys kiss!" He almost screams.

I throw back my head and laugh. "Lance and me!? Kiss!?! No, no we didn't kiss." My laugh fades out to a giggle.

Keith sighs. "Oh. Oh good." He takes a step towards me. Our faces just centre metres apart. I stare into his beautiful dark eyes. He smiles down at me leaning forward.

A squeal sounds from next to us. We slowly, turn our heads. Hunk and Pidge stand there. Hunk frozen, holding a bowl, with his tongue out about to lick the spoon in his other hand and Pidge staring up at us with thrilled eyes. "It's happening!" She cries.

Keith and I quickly step away from each other. "I-I no, nothing happened." Keith quickly replies.

"Nope no, I don't know what your talking about." I mange to choke out.

"What are you guys doing?" Lance asks walking up behind me.

Pidge jumps in front of me opening her mouth. Though before a word can pass her lips, I cover them with my hand. "Nothing. Pidge is just being weird." I smile innocently.

"Right..." Lance turns to Keith. "Well I hope you didn't say anything stupid." He glared at the red Paladin, poking him in the chest.

I sigh. "No Lance. Come on." I grab his arm and walk off. Before taking the corner I take one last look at Keith.

KEITH'S POV

I walk into my room and flop onto my bed, thinking of the events that just happened. We almost kissed. Stupid Pidge. I rub my eyes, hoping I just didn't ruin everything.

A knock sound on my door. "Come in." I groan. The door slides open and a familiar girl walks in. (Y/n) stand there smiling at me. "Oh. Hey!" I sit up quickly.

"Hey..." She waves.

"Did you, umm need something?" I rub the back of my neck. I have no idea why I'm so nervous now. I was so confident before.

"Er... yes." She says walking over to me. She bends down smirks and then kisses me on the lips. As quickly as it started it stopped. Her soft lips left mine and I stare up at her surprised. "That was to make up from earlier." She states. Looking down at my frozen face, she chuckles before heading out of my room.

As soon, as she leaves, I snap out of it. I look at my door and wonder if I should go after her. While trying to make my decision, an announcement sounds through the castle. "Paladins and
(Y/n), please come to the bridge." Allura commands.

I get up, walking to the bridge. When I see (Y/n) in front of me, I can't help but blush. Luckily she doesn't turn around and see my red checks.

On the bridge Allura tells us the mission. "Ok Paladins... and (Y/n). This is an information mission. Your goal is to sneak into the ship unnoticed and sneak out. We need this information to defeat Zarkon." The princess states.  "Now go!"

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(Y/N)'S POV

My first mission with the team was going well at first. We managed to sneak on to the Galra ship with no problems. Now Pidge was trying to upload the information to some kind of devise, while the rest of us stood guard.

"How much longer Pidge?" Shiro asks in his deep leader-heroic voice. He has his head just poked around the door to look for any coming Galra soldiers.

"Just a few ticks." Pidge responds.

Moments later there is a quiet beep and Pidge stands up from her squaring position. "Ok let's go!" She says walking up at to Shiro. The leader looks around the corner before ushering the group out of the control room.

We were almost back to where we had landed the green lion when a sudden pain ran through my shoulder. No! Not now! I grips my shoulder and let out a scream causing the rest of the team to turn my way with alarmed looks.

"(Y/n)!" Keith says, running up to me. Through all the pain I hadn't realised I was now down on my knees. "What's wrong? What's going on!?" Keith asks frantically.

Lance and Shiro ran up behind him. "We need to get back to the castle!" Lance yells. Shiro only nods and pushes past Keith to pick me up.

My vision begins to go blurry but I can still spot a figure behind us. Hunched over and long white hair. Even though I can barely see her face I can feel her wicked gaze on me. The pain increases in my shoulder and I let out another cry of pain as Shiro carries me through the mouth of the green lion.

I felt the lion lift off and head towards the castle. Pidge sat in the pilots seat while the others crowded around. I barely stand myself mainly leaning against Shiro as the pain begins to ease. It takes me a while to realise that everyone - apart from Pidge - is starring at me. Great...

KEITH'S POV

My gaze stays glued to (Y/n) as I watch her stand up straight, ready to catch her if she fell. I was really worried when she suddenly screamed from in the Galra base. I thought she had been shot. But looking at her now, she seems fine.

She gave us an awkward smile as the green lion landed in its hanger. "What was that?" Shiro asks, look down at
(Y/n).

"Nothing, I don't know what your talking about." (Y/n) shrugs. Lance sighs shaking his head slightly and Pidge just gives her a 'really?' kind of look. "Seriously guys, I'm fine." (Y/n) says more sternly. She turned around her (h/c) hair waving behind her, making her way out of the green lion.

"(Y/n)!" Shiro yells, follow after his sister. The rest of us follow but by the time we all get out, (Y/n) is gone.

"Wow, how does someone walk so fast?" Hunk asks.

We all look at each other confused at the recent events. I look at Shiro, who seems worried, his face reflecting my own expression. Out of the corner of my eye I spot Lance. He doesn't look confused, just unsure. He opens his mouth to say something put shuts it again.

I narrow my eye at him and he looks up noticing me. "Have you got something to say Lance?" I fold my arms.

The paladin's turn to Lance as Allura and Coran enter the hanger. "What's going on? What happened?" Allura asks.

"Ask Lance." I growl.

Lance closes his eyes and sighs. Opening them again he looks at Shiro. "I'll tell you... but if (Y/n) asks, it wasn't me." Walking out he mumbles. "She's going to kill me."