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Missed
Lance isn't the best or brightest. He isn't the funniest or most likeable. Lance doesn't command attention, he has to fight for it.
Lance's friends are geniuses. Top of the class, prodigies.
Despite this, Lance knows he is loved. Lance loves his friends. And he knows they love him just as much as he loves them. He is needed.
19,072 words AO3
Talk It Out
Keith had noticed for quite some time now that Lance wasn't being his usual self. He had waited for someone else to say something and approach Lance about it - but no one ever did. So once they got Shiro back, he decided that he wouldn't wait any longer and make him talk.
Lance doesn't want to talk about it. At all. Not with Keith, not with anyone else. But somehow, one way or another, Keith gets him to open up. And Lance's reward? A new boyfriend.
10,955 words AO3
3 years gone
Lance and Keith have been dating a little under three years now. On a mission, Keith and Red crash. Keith ends up losing his memory. He doesn't remember who he is or anything about the team or Lance's and his relationship.
21,959 words AO3
Cut It Out, Restart
“Sorry guys,” Lance’s voice is clear now, like the static that lives in the earpiece of Keith’s headset is holding its breath too. “I guess you’ll have to find a new Red Paladin after all.”
Someone leaves, someone comes back and war is tough, but we are tougher.
15,073 words AO3
Three Little Questions
Everyday Lance went to each of his teammates and asked them a question. Everyday Lance was turned away by all but one of them. They didn't know what they were doing to Lance and only one person was going to be able to fix it.
5,548 words AO3
Find Yourself (And Be That)
The one where Lance crashes on a Planet after a mission, can't contact his team, his insecurities strike, he losses his bond with Blue, he saves an entire planet, wins a war and he finds his self worth along the way.
8,574 words AO3
Drastic Measures
Lance is struggling with his insecurities and fears that the team doesn't need him. But their true feelings become clear when Lance literally sticks his hand into a life or death situation.
8,679 words AO3
The Simplest of Plans
Lance is badly hurt, he needs to get a message to his team to let them know that he and Blue are down but how can he get to his communicator when he is in so much pain?
5,600 words AO3
Reach out for you (break these walls)
Keith is trying to make himself smaller, to bury his head deeper in his knees, and Lance’s heart freezes in his chest. Anger dissipating like an exploded firework, Lance lets his hand fall limply to his side, mind blurring with static. When he tries to speak, nothing comes out but a choked noise, so he tries again.
“Keith,” he breathes. “Keith I’m not going to hurt you.”
9,139 words AO3
Leave Me Alone (don't leave me alone)
Lance groans in pain, holding his injuries.He thinks he'll black out from the impacts but it's not before he feels time melt; the way it always does when he knows something's gone horribly wrong.That's when he starts to feel hot.His head is burning with a throb that lets him know how fast his heart is beating.His fingers feel hot for other reasons as they now clutch the skin between his ribs just above where the bottle first struck.The heat is liquid.It's thick.It's blood.
Or
The paladins find out that most of Lance's scars aren't from battles against the Galra, but instead from the battles he fought before Voltron.
4,705 words AO3
torn wires
When Lance falls apart after a devastating mission, the team has to try and pull the pieces back together.
14250 words AO3
Heroism Gets You Killed
Five times Lance McClain recklessly risked his life to prove his worth to his teammates, and one time they showed him he had nothing to prove.
15,428 words AO3
What Keeps Him Whole
Lance struggles in space. He knows that he is doing good by being part of the Voltron team, but everything is just constantly moving, difficult, and unrelenting. He's tired. He doesn't know what's keeping him going anymore.
6,398 words AO3
his own worth
In the middle of the conversation, Lance stops talking and no one notices. It’s not like he had been leading the conversation, for he hadn’t been, but somehow the fact that his lack of input or opinion isn’t noticed tightens the grip loneliness has on his heart. He looks down at his food, his face burning, his throat tightening up.
6,270 words AO3
The Skies Are Black But Our Hearts Are Made of Gold
Lance knows for sure Keith doesn't like him. Not as a friend, nor family, and definitely not as a life long partner.
He's content that he's at least dying with knowledge of that.
So he watches Keith's mercilessly sword fall upon the gang of soldiers, leaving a blood bath in his wake.
He thinks he's beginning to understand why Keith hates him so much.
He doesn't want to deal with a mess like this.
A mess Lance left behind.
5,495 words AO3
Silence Speaks Louder
He still turns up for meals and training and annoying people every once in a while, but he's more subdued, from tiredness, he's less talkative, from lack of wanting to, and he's better at training, due to training an extra three hours a night sometimes.
Lance becomes more and more depressed as the weeks go on, but nobody mentions it, they don't even seem to notice aside from the fact his obnoxious personality has taken a backseat as Lance isolates himself.
5,325 words AO3
I'm With You
Lance pinned the whole mission down to four huge missteps:The first was in sending Keith with him.
6,372 words AO3
we'll make it, you and me
"Keith, if we make it out of this alive, I'm going to kiss you."
6,421 words AO3
Leaving For Good (Letters from Lance)
"Dear Paladins of Voltron (and Coran),
If you're reading this, then that means you've forced your way into my bedroom and discovered that I'm no longer in it. It means that you found my computer, and noticed that I left something behind for you. I'm sorry that I couldn't leave something bigger, better, worth your time and effort, but I'm not very good in that area. I don't know how to be... enough."
15,694 words AO3
Why don't you see me?
When Lance was a little boy, he was never noticed. He was invisible. So lance made up a game! It usually went like this: “Mom, (insert utterly ridiculous statement here), goodbye!” “Ok honey, be careful.” And then silence It went on like that for years, at least until he was accepted into the Garrison at the age of 14. The Cuban got his 15 minutes of fame, and then he was sent off. Now, Lance finds the same things happening, so he changes the rules just a bit to make things a bit more…. Physical.
6,183 words AO3
Inessential
“Gotcha,” Lance breathed as he hit the target dead center. He wasn’t called their sharpshooter for nothing and he aimed to keep that title.
He took another deep breath, closing one eye and lining up to hit the next target when a sharp, stabbing pain erupted in his gut, knocking the wind out of him and causing him to fire off to the side, missing it completely.
6,088 words AO3
A/B/O
Vigil
Omega's aren't an impossible puzzle but they treat him like one.
6,512 words AO3
Modern
(I'm Not) Better Off Without You
(Series not completed 9,952 words 2 works)
“So you think I deserve to be happy?”
“Yes! Lance, that’s all I want for you.”
“Then why did you break up with me?”
“I told you, I-”
“Because you made me so happy, Keith. You made me the happiest I’ve ever been in my life. I didn’t care that you didn’t want to cuddle a lot or talk about sappy shit. I didn’t care that you didn’t like pda. All I cared about was being able to just be with you.”
5,936 words AO3
Hurry up and come back
“I like you”
This isn’t how Keith planned on spending his Friday night, chilling in on a couch playing Mario Cart with one of his closest friends. Not like this, with Lance’s face beet red and looking at him straight in the eyes..
Looking for... Something. He don’t know what. But it’s something he can’t give.
17,147 words AO3
Just a Joke
“I think I’m going to kill myself,” he announced. “I know that finals are a stressful time, but that doesn’t mean you should joke about something like that,” Shiro scolded mildly.
Lance’s chest tightened and he forced a smile.
"Yeah, you're right. Poor joke."
6,937 words AO3
Happier
Lance can't just stay and watch Keith move on. It's selfish, he knows, but he isn't strong enough to stay. Solitude doesn't hold anymore charms for Keith now, not since Lance. And especially not since their break-up but why can't he find someone who wants him back? What does it take to be happier?
14,082 words AO3
Panic Attack
Keith made sure Lance didn’t know how much of a difference he made in his life. Lance didn’t need to know that he was the only thing that made Keith happy, he didn’t need to know that the days they had class together were always his favorites, he didn’t need to know Lance made him feel like he could finally be better, be normal, for once. No, Lance didn’t need that presure. But then one day Keith goes to class and Lance completely ignores him, and maybe he should have told him after all.
Lance was having a hard enough time in English without being distracted by the gorgeous boy sitting next to him. Keith. Smart, shy, but still completely badass. And Lance had it bad for him. When he starts failing the class Lance decides he needs to pay more attention to Professor Coran instead of Mr. Mullet Man. After all what could go wrong, he would pay attention to him again after he started passing. Right?
5,988 words AO3
Of Heroes and Hellfire
It started with a house fire.
Which, admittedly, made things sound a hell of a lot more dramatic then they actually were. Lance had seen plenty of house fires these past few months.
He was a firefighter, after all.
But then again, the fire wasn't the part that was out of the ordinary. That was Keith, or what he learned the name of the infuriating yet attractive policeman at the scene was.
Because that was the first time they met.
Lance wanted to save people, so he became a firefighter. Keith wanted to save people, so he became a police officer. This is the story of how they fall in love.
12,329 words AO3
Hold on, please
“Shut up. It’s still me hanging out with Plax and the term ‘date’ was implied,” Lance bragged, “so, help me choose an outfit.”
Keith stomach did an uncomfortable flip when Plaxum’s nickname was dropped into the conversation.
Or: Keith has a crush on Lance and suddenly his world is falling apart when he hears Lance has a date.
6,940 words AO3
Icky (this fic made my face look dumb)
A little bit of pining in their life
A little bit of sickness by his side
A little bit of happiness is what they need
A little bit of depression is what I see
A little bit of angst in the sun
A little bit of crying all night long
A little bit of comfort there he is
A little bit of you that makes me your man
Fic in which Lance McClain goes to a coffee shop everyday and Keith Kogane falls harder with each visit.
Lance has some really bad allergies.
8284 words AO3
