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!
Ok so this was gonna be the last part, but I’ve gotta do a little epilogue thing because… well I just gotta.
Anyway I’m thrilled I could get this out before season 7. Season 6 really inspired me with the whole visions things and I just went NUTS and needed to fulfil my Klance needs. I just want these boys to talk 😥
Okay, but why are soulmate AUs always so easy? Like, somehow your soulmate is always in the same area as you, or in the same country at the very least. Like, what are the odds?
I want a Klance AU where Lance is, as always, super pumped to meet his soulmate, and so he writes on his arm all the time, hoping they’ll write back. And at some point when he’s a kid, he just gets frustrated because there’s been no sign of his soulmate so he writes in huge, block, threatening letters “WILL YOU JUST TALK TO ME, YOU JERK?!”
And Keith, who’s watched these statements he can’t read appear on his arm for years, is just like, wow, okay, maybe I’ll translate this one. And when he gets Shiro to tell him what it means, he’s not only offended, but kind of upset and so all he writes back is “아니요” and nothing else (“no” in Korean).
Lance can’t fucking read it, but he’s excited that his soulmate finally wrote back. But before he can even figure out what language it is, Keith washes his arm and it’s gone. And no matter how much Lance writes, his soulmate never says anything back to him after that.
It’s clear to Lance then that they don’t speak the same language, but he keeps trying. Until some point in early high school when he finally just gives up, bitter, and all out refuses to even try and talk to his soulmate.
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