skaylanphear:

Back on my old shit five seconds after I said I was moving on. ANYWAY!

The voltron crew likes parallels, yeah?

So we get team Voltron defending Earth. It’s not going super great, but they succeed in the end. And as they’re landing at the garrison, a frantic message comes in for Lance from his sister, Veronica, or something, and it basically goes something like – 

“Lance, Varadero was hit! Lance! Cuba…” 

And like that, Lance is off, the red lion zipping cross-planet to Cuba. The other paladins are following, asking what’s going on, but Lance is too distracted to answer. 

He lands on he beach, only to see that the area where he grew up and where his parents’ house is has basically been destroyed, the lasers that did the deed having set things ablaze. 

But Lance… He has to do something! He has to save his parents! So he rushes into the flames just as the other lions are landing on the beach. 

Keith sees him run into the fire and a cold chill encompasses him as he rushes out of the black lion. He wasn’t there when his father was killed in a fire, but he’s imagined it over and over and over again and the sight of Lance rushing into the flames sends him into a frantic sort of anxiety. 

He gets it, he does. If he could have saved his father from that fire, he would have. But he’s also terrified because that fire took everything from him and now Lance has rushed into one, just as his father had. 

He can’t lose Lance the same way.

Ignoring the panicked discussion all around him, he rushes forward as well, yelling into his com and hoping Lance answers. He doesn’t. 

Behind Keith, Krolia calls to him, but he can’t afford to look back. 

He dashes through the flames, calling Lance’s name and ignoring the way his body wants to panic, if only in response to the many nightmares he had as a child. 

He does eventually find Lance. He’s standing before a large house, which is just as ablaze as everything else. And it’s only by sheer luck that Keith manages to reach Lance just before he’s about to rush in. 

Lance struggles and screams, distraught, but Keith doesn’t let him go.

All within seconds, while the house before them cracks on its foundation and begins to collapse. 

Lance’s sobbing screams remind Keith of his own, back when he’d first heard of the fire and the collapsing house that had taken his father’s life.

That now took Lance’s parents as well. 

The house falls and it’s only because Keith was pulling Lance back that they managed to stay out of harm’s way. Maybe Keith drags him the rest of the way out, maybe he has to knock Lance out in order to do it, or maybe they’re in danger and one of the lions comes to save them. Probably Red. 

Either way, Keith pulls Lance from the wreckage, knowing full well that they’d been too late. 

The funeral is held a week later. It’s a rainy day and Lance, as well as all of his siblings and other family members, attend. The paladins attend as well. In the end, Lance alone remains standing at his parents’ grave, weighed down with guilt and grief. 

Behind him, the paladins watch, until Keith finally steps forward. 

He goes to Lance’s side and places a gentle hand on his shoulder.

“Hey, man…” 

Lance is heartbroken, tears streaming down his cheeks. 

Keith gets it. “You know I know exactly how you feel…” Maybe Lance, knowing this is true, nods before turning into him, maybe crying on his shoulder while Keith holds him around the back with one hand while holding an umbrella aloft with the other. 

Allura comes up as well, as she also intimately understands, and all the paladins offer their own bits of support. Shiro is probably the one to say something about how his parents wouldn’t blame him, etc… 

Yeah, anyway, thanks for reading about my depressing need for parallels between Keith and Lance, BYE!