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Shadows of the past and present

Warning: fire, hallucinations, human combustion
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It's late into the night and Keith sits in bed, sleep not an option after all the recurring nightmares that plague his dreams when he does. He doesn't want to remember them but the nightmares are always clear as day in his head. He sits up and goes to the training deck to keep him up and away from any ounce of tiredness from his eyes away and his mind awake.

Shiro wakes up around 6:00 a.m and does his regular schedule of brushing his teeth, do morning warm ups, taking a shower, and go to the training deck to do better in battle.

After taking a shower and changing into his regular clothes he walks to the training deck. As he gets closer he hears the sound of metal clanking against each other, he peaks inside and is surprised to see Keith awake and training against the bots. The training isn't a surprise that's normal for him but what does catch him off guard is that he's awake at this time, usually he is the one awake at this time not Keith.

"End training sequence!" Shiro says, the bots disappear and Keith turns his view towards him. "Hey I almost had it!" He says, sounding slightly pissed. "Calm down edge lord I think you've had enough training if you're up at this time and before me, what kept you up?" Shiro asked, walking towards him as Keith glanced at him before gazing at the floor, "it's nothing, just woke up early and decided to train." He shrugged, Shiro looks at him and leaves it at that, patting his shoulder, "alright then, get some food, hunk's not going to get up for a while so go eat." Shiro says, Keith nods and walks out the trainer deck. Shiro watches him, sighs and begins his own training.

Keith walks to his room, glancing at the bed before going to the restroom to wash up. He looks at his reflection, did he always look this miserable? His eyes sag a bit and he looked as if he just saw a puppy get kicked. He shook his head and washed his face before doing his other business.

He walked out of his room, hearing the muffled sound of metal against metal and walked to the kitchen. He got some food goo and sat down, the silence was deafening, he didn't like it.

He didn't know what to do once he finished, he wandered the castle to see what he could do, his feet landed him to the lounge were the seats remain empty for the shadows to sit on, and he sat himself on the corner, he grabbed the controller or what seemed to be like a controller and pressed random buttons until it turned on. Apparently, altean have the power buttons on the bottom corner of the remote not the top corner like humans.

As he flicked through random channels the mice decided to make an entrance and decided to watch with Keith, one on his head, one on his lap, and the other two on his shoulder. He looked at them, sighed, and continued to flick through different channels until apparently the mice decided they liked the animal documentary and Keith let them watch, he could watch whatever as long as it filled the silence.

Just as the lack of sleep was about to slap him in the face the sound of the door opening jolted him awake and he looked over his shoulder making sure not to bother the mice and saw Allura standing there smiling at the scene of Keith and the mice getting along.

"Can I help you?" Keith asked after a few seconds of Allura not saying anything to get her from staring at him like that, she blinked and laughed, "right sorry, I was looking for the mice when I realized they weren't in my room, but it seems like they made you their new company." She explained, "oh do you want them back? Here sorry." He said as he was about to lift the one on his head off when Allura interrupted him. "Oh no need to bother, you both seem to be doing well and I wouldn't want to bother your bonding time, have fun!" She said as she walked off leaving Keith the mice along again, he slightly shrugged and went back to paying attention to the documentary which was talking about what seemed to be monkeys in their natural habitat doing some weird looking activity.