When Two Worlds Collide

Chapter 16

Chapter 16

Keith was frustrated, to say the very least. Ever since they've gotten Shiro back, things have been tense, for lack of a better term. Shiro's been unusual ever since they convinced him to leave his room. They tried to get him to go and work with Black, but the one time that he tried he got rejected, and never went back. So, he's resided himself to be extra help on the ship with Coran since Allura's in Blue now. And normally Keith wouldn't mind, he's always gone to Shiro for advice and guidance when he needed it. Now was not one of those times. Lately, it seems like everything that Keith does is wrong. Every decision that he makes, Shiro buts in over the comms and undermines him until they do what he wants. And Keith knows that Shiro is just trying to help and he doesn't want them dead. And that part of the reason that he's so hard on him right now is that he's like a little brother to Shiro. He just wants Keith and everyone else safe and not make themselves an even bigger target for the Garla than they already are. But when they're trying to track down Lotor, so that they can figure out his plans and stop him and bring peace to the universe, it gets a little bit annoying. Don't get him wrong though, Keith loves his brother, he really does, he owes Shiro his everything. But at the moment he really wanted to bash his older brother's brains into a concrete cement wall. HARD. Shiro was the one who wanted him to take over and now that he has, he's treating Keith like he was the biggest screw to ever exist and that he was disappointed in him. It was driving him mad, but he couldn't, or more like wouldn't stand up for himself against the older male.

And to top things off, Keith's also been helping Kolivan and the Blade by going on missions with them. He's been running himself ragged for weeks, and it was beginning to take its toll on him. And to make matters worse he hasn't been sleeping at all either, His insomnia has been acting up again and with a new vengeance. Every time that he has laid down to go to sleep, his brain is suddenly wide awake and can't turn off. So, he's just given up at this point and spends his nights training and planning missions and doing research on future allies to make up for his lack of being there and lack of leadership. So far he's pretty sure that no one has noticed at all, and if they have then they don't comment on it. Most likely it was because of the fact that he's established himself as a workaholic ever since they've come to space. And over the past couple of months his work schedule could rival that of Shiro's, it was that bad. He knew that he had bitten off more than he could chew, and he knew it, but he didn't know what else to do. One of the only people that Keith actually felt comfortable confiding in was acting pissed off at him all the time. And then there was Lance, but he couldn't do that to him.

Lance has come to know more about his past and medical history than Keith cares to admit. And even though they're "fate pairs" or whatever, things are still rather awkward between each other. And part of that reason was that they still haven't explained to Shiro what happened to them on planet Mooie Juweeltje and the fact that Keith can get pregnant. He knows that they should have informed Shiro the minute that he woke up, but he just couldn't. Even though Shiro and Keith act like they're related, there's still this awkwardness between the two of them when it comes to intimate details of their personal lives. Keith had a panic attack and a full scale mental breakdown when he came out to Shiro and told him that he was gay. And he knew that he had nothing to worry about because Shiro himself was also gay. But it still didn't settle the anxiety that was coiled up tightly in his stomach like a snake, just waiting for the right chance to strike out. That had been a very emotional and taxing conversation for Keith at the time. He still couldn't get over that, even today. Man, he really needed to sleep.

Since he couldn't sleep and he was told that he couldn't use the training room per Shiro and Lance's orders. They had both figured out that Keith was working himself to the point of exhaustion. And it didn't help that earlier in the week, he had come in late to a mission and Allura had bitten his head off. He was so distraught, from watching one of his fellow blades die right in front of him, to Allura yelling at him, he had gone and trained so much that he had collapsed from exhaustion during the middle of the simulation. He was lucky that Pidge had come in when she did to run some upgrades on the simulator's control system or else the gladiator would have killed him, just like Roger almost did all those years ago. She was able to stop the gladiator and pulled Keith out of the room and took him to the med bay. Where he proceeded to get an earful from both Shiro and Lance about testing his limits and what not. Keith ended up with only a couple of bruises and went to his room to try and sleep. Which didn't happen at all, so he was stuck at square one, yet again.