ROUGE

       The shout had her recoiling ever so slightly out of shock, red orbs blinking         wide as she stared up at him. He’d never yelled at her like that before, and        she didn’t like it at all. Her form visibly deflated as she realized what she had        done was bad, lips tipping downward into a saddened frown. “I was just         worried, you were putting off these distressed signals and I thought someone        might have captured you or something. I don’t want what happened to Shiro        happening to you too.” Confessing her silent fear, the lionesses fists would         clench in anger as she felt the burn behind her eyes signalling tears of        frustration were fixing to form. She couldn’t understand why what she did was        so bad, and the fact Keith was angry at her didn’t make the situation any better.

       Nearly jumping out of her skin in surprise at his sudden jolt, she blinked         rapidly in an attempt to calm herself before realizing he had responded to        her call. “You were distressed, and I thought you were in trouble so I came        to make sure you were safe.” Ignoring the shouting echoing down the hallways        behind her as the other members had figured out the ‘intruder’ had gone into        Keith’s room, her eyes stayed focused on him as she was determined to         find out why her former Paladin had been feeling the way he was earlier before        she came barging in. “Is there something wrong, why were you feeling so upset?”

       That was a question she had definitely not expected from the Paladin,        and she was unsure with just how to respond to his inquiry. Of course        she missed Keith, the two had been closely bonded for a while and it        still stung to know that he had been ripped away from her but on the         other hand she had grown to like this new Paladin of hers. Slender        fingertips tapped against the other as she hummed in thought, flickering        her gaze up finally to pin down the male before her. “Yes, but I know he’s        where he needs to be right now and there’s nothing I can do about that.         I’m needed here, with you and the rest of the team.”

      It was easy for her to sneak inside after shifting down into her more human       and go running off down the winding hallways as the Blades began trying to       piece together who had attacked them. Using her senses as a guide to where       Keith was staying, she all but tumbled into the room and allow her shoulders to        slump ever so slightly in silent relief. He was safe. Prodding his side with a nimble       finger, the lioness would tip her head to the side slightly as she observed his        sleeping expression. “Keith?”

       The foreboding feeling in her chest was the first to rise the        lioness from her slumber, before realizing what she was         feeling in that moment was coming from her former Red        Paladin. Upon this realization, she shot up from where she        had been curled on the males old bed to run off into her hangar        for take off. Ever since Keith had left her for the Blade of Marmora,        Red had spiraled into a bundle of stress and anxiety over the        safety of the male while he was out of her reach which resulted        in times like these where she’s flying off into space in the dead of        night to make sure he was safe even if it did mean blowing a hole        into the side of the Blade’s base just to get inside.

       “Call it feline intuition.” That or she had hounded Shiro        for days until he told her the next time Keith would be        visiting so she could be sure to not be out on a mission        and be able to properly see him. “Why are you stopping        by anyways?”

       “Well well well, look who decided to visit.”        Why she was seated on the Red Paladins        bed by herself, no one will ever know. 

       “Despite the fact you kept crashing me into rocks for a while.”        A playful smile would hint at her lips to show she wasn’t really         upset with him over it. It was true she did miss Keith, but she         had slowly begun to warm up to the Blue Paladin over time.

    grrr