Of Dropouts And Dogs (Klance Fanfiction)

(CoverArt is my own)

"I thought your mutt had bad hair, turns out his owner has it even worse"

"And I thought your cat was the most annoying thing on the planet, I guess we were both wrong "

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Being alone is something empty, it eats away at you like a starved animal that has been deprived of valuable nutrition needed to survive. With that emptiness comes a sense of longing, a need to have something....anything.....to fill that void of nothingness so that they may feel complete again. Keith Kogane knows this feeling all to well and has grown to despise it, the only thing he had as a child was his foster brother Takashi along with a stray puppy found in a local dumpster. Soon enough his brother was stripped away from his cold fingers, just like everything else in his life. However, through it all he still had his four-legged companion who was more than just a mutt to him, he was family. The only one he had left in the cruel dark place known as today's society. In a strange twist of events Takashi Shirogane's name makes its way back to a now fully grown Keith, enthralled at the news he quickly drops everything to be with his brother once again. Except now something is missing, and it's not just Shiro's once scrawny figure, his arm is now gone, replaced by a prosthetic one that is quite the hassle. Once again it is just the two brother's and their aging dog against the world. Or so that's what Keith thought would happen............

None of them planned for sunkissed skin and bright blue eyes to fill up a void inside Keith's heart he had grown to ignore. A hole that was expected to stay vacant forever.
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(They/Them pronouns for Pidge)

(Warning: Cursing and Character Death [The only Angst besides Keith's childhood])

(I STAYED UP ALL NIGHT AND WENT THROUGH FIFTY BIG STICKY NOTES TO DEVELOP A STORYLINE FOR THIS)

(I'm not joking my entire wall was filled with just sticky notes, I was surviving on ramen and Mountain Dew)