#egg fics

Pidge stays on the balcony for a little while after grabbing a drink from (*insert names of people who are in charge of the room*)’s mini-fridge, watching the sky’s portrait continue being painted with colors. Not too long after getting her drink, the horizon slowly gains a streak of gold as the sun is reborn from the earth, the wispy clouds a strange yet beautiful silhouette against the canvas.

She heard movement behind her, from where she’s perched herself on a chair. She turns her head to see Hunk, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes, shuffling over to her.

“Mornin’, big man,” Pidge says, shooting a two-fingered wave to her groggy newcomer.

“Good-” Hunk yawns. “-morning.” He stretches his arms and back, facing the sun. “Y’know, I really missed seeing the sunrise from Earth. Though we’ve witnessed many different sunrises on many different planets, home’s is-” Another yawn, as he ties his trademark bandana under his bangs and ties the knot on the back of his head. “- still the prettiest to look at.”

“Ditto, both on missing the sunrise and witnessing others,” Pidge replied, giving a yawn of her own shortly after. “Aw great, you’re gonna make me sleepy again from your yawning alone.”

“Oops?” Hunk shrugs while turning around and walking back into the room, passing their roommates for that night. “I might as well start cooki… okay now that’s just adorable.”

He starts grinning and motions with his hands for Pidge to come back into the room. She quirks an eyebrow, but leaves her roosting spot on the chair to look at Hunk is smiling about.

What she sees is pure blackmail material seeing the way her fellow paladins act.

Shiro and Allura are asleep sitting upright at the foot of one of the beds, the Altean Princess resting her head on the Black Paladin’s shoulder, he himself laying his own head on top of her’s. Pidge catches Allura nuzzling into Shiro’s neck, the side of his mouth quirking upward for a second in response. Their fingers are woven together between their sleeping bodies.

The Green Paladin snickers softly as she starts snapping pictures of the scene. “Ohoho, I see Space Mom and Dad have seemed to make advancements other than in battle strategies and technology for once.”

“That’s not the end of it. Look to the right,” Hunk says, gesturing to a place on the floor. He then proceeds to take a box of breakfast sausages out of his bag.

Pidge follows his gesture to be met with Keith and Lance. Asleep side by side, and quite close in proximity that is, their chests basically touching. Not only that, their legs are tangled together, and Keith’s arm is loosely wrapped around Lance’s sleeping figure, as if he was actually trying to snuggle with Lance.

Pidge continues to take pictures. “oh my god, this is too good. Lance and Keith are gonna flip out when they find themselves like this,” she whisper-shouts towards Hunk. “I mean seriously, Keith is like…” She crosses her arm and tilts her head downwards. “‘My name is Keith. I’m so emo, and I’m thirsty for Lance but I don't and will not want to admit it yet and I’m always jealous about him flirting with Allura!!’”

Hunk muffled a snicker behind his hand. “Don’t get me started on Lance about Keith. He’s always ranting about him but honestly it’s more like lowkey whining about how Keith is hot, and I’m pretty sure he means more than just hot-headed. Send me those pictures you took by the way,” he says as he continues preparing breakfast for the team.

The shorter hums in response. “I would continue this conversation, but it’s 6 A.M, and the drive to the con building is pretty far away.”

Pidge produces a wireless speaker from her bag, turns it on, and connects her phone to it. She then goes on YouTube, searches something up, and then clicks on a video.

“Hunk?” Pidge says.

“Yeah?” Hunk yells over his shoulder.

“Brace your eardrums for this and enjoy the show.”

And she turns the volume up to max.

The very start wakes everyone up with a jolt.

Everyone that was woken up let out startled screams and discontented groans, however their sounds were drowned out by the ear rape and Pidge’s hysterical laughter.

The first thing Keith noticed about his position is that oh my god. I slept right next to Lance. There is a blanket. Over our legs. We slept under the same blanket. He then remembers the final minutes before he went to sleep, where Lance laid his head on his shoulder, and very sleepily and stupidly let him be this way, and fell asleep snuggling with him.

Oh my quiznaking god I snuggled with him… lord take me now.

“PIDGE, WHAT THE QUIZNAK?!” Lance screams, now immediately up and on his knees. He, like the others, UCKare severely triggered. “YOU WAKE US UP WITH EAR RAPE AND RICKROLL?! YOU LITTLE SHIT I WON’T HESITA-”

The Green Paladin pauses the ear rape video. “Okay okay, Ocean Man,” Pidge says, raising her arms up in surrender, however a mischievous look plastered upon her face. “However before you kill me, I wanna know why you were sleeping next to Keith all…” She wriggles her eyebrows. “... couple-like.”

Lance quirks an eyebrow, confused. “Huh?” He then looks to his right, and sees Keith, slightly groggy yet wide-eyed, running his fingers through his bed-head mullet (oh god why is that so hot- wait what?), avoiding eye contact with him. Keith was also very close in proximity, and the blanket covering both boys’ legs only contributed to the fact.

Keith had already seemed to notice this and was very red.

Lance himself ended up doing the same.

Oh god oh god oh god Pidge why are you like this does he remember last night? What he did? D- Keith thought, but his racing thoughts were abruptly cut off by a pillow slamming into his face.

When he grabbed the pillow and pulled it off his face, he was met with Pidge and the others, trying not to explode from laughter, save for Hunk as he was already in the buffet. In addition to the laughter, Lance gave a shit-eating grin, but was also seemingly blushing out of embarrassment.

“Oops?” Lance said. “I was just trying to match how much you wanna tap male ass in the form of the force of a pillow hitting you in the face.”

Keith blinked, then in a flash pinned down Lance with a firm push from his palm to the other boy’s chest, that hand slamming on the floor next to Lance’s face once he hit the floor.

Lance, internally, was a fucking mess.

Here he was, pinned down by the Red Paladin after slight teasing, in front of his teammates, who were probably laughing and/or staring at the scene that unfolded in front of their eyes.

Keith, hovering over Lance now, gave a smirk. In a low, slightly flirtatious voice, he said, “Like that?”, which honestly, was doing a number of things to him mentally, and hopefully-not-but-probably physically. He was pretty sure his face was as red as the Red Lion’s body.

The Red Paladin, however, was freaking out. Did I say it like I did that one time in the snowball asteroid field?!

Lance was about to probably combust because of this rare, handsome, really fucking hot (okay whoa there buddy) Keith on top of him, but then he was met with a pillow full force to the face.

The thoughts subsided, replaced with the flame of battle.

“OKAY, IT’S FUCKING ON MULLET. ARE YOU READY TO SURRENDE-” Lance was forcefully hit again with Keith’s pillow.

He flopped on the floor with an abundance of dramatics. “Shiro, I’ve been hit,” Lance wails. “Avenge me, you beautiful 5-year-old!” He then makes choking noises to imitate death. Keith snickers while smothering Lance’s face with his feathery weapon and repeatedly smacking him with it.

Shiro laughs, slowly scooching away hugging his own pillow. “Nope, sorry Lance. I pick and choose battles, and it seems like a personal situation. Sorry!”

Pidge is observing the situation, obviously loving it. “Ha, truly number one in the `Top 10 Anime Betrayals’.”

“Well, we’re technically not an anime, our animation is owned by Dreamworks and Studio Mir, so we’re more like anime-inspired. Actual anime is animation straight from Japan,” mumbles Coran, watching from the sidelines.

Allura hears Coran mumbling and turns to him. “Hm? Coran, did you say something?”

“Ah, nothing important,” Coran replies.

Meanwhile, Shiro continues on. “I don’t know, you guys seem really occupied over there,” he says in a slight teasing tone.

“Yeah, probably, while you’re probably thinking, ‘wow, Allura is the most beautiful being in the universe, and I know this because I’ve been across the entire universe!’” Lance retaliates.

“I’m with Lance on this one, sorry Shiro,” Keith adds, still trying to lowkey suffocate Lance under him. “You guys fell asleep holding hands and looking quite content at that. C’mon guys.”

Shiro then turns a shade of red. He turns to Allura, who is also blushing. Their eyes meet, have some sort of understanding. Somewhat along the lines of, hey, you're embarrassed, I’m embarrassed, they’re responsible for this, let’s kick their asses. They nod in confirmation.

Then they hurl their pillows at Keith and Lance together in tandem.

This sparks the start of a pillow war, pillows being thrown between the Red, Blue and Black Paladins and the Princess. Pidge, Hunk, Coran, and Shay all witness the intense thwipping of pillows flying through the air and hitting each other in the face, along with a long stream of comments.

Eventually, everyone joins in the fight for the fun of it, except for Hunk, who was smiling to himself, looking over his friends every now and then as he eats the food he got from the buffet.

After 15 minutes, Hunk calls everyone to breakfast down at the buffet, and the paladins and their companions get their food- while still giddy from their pillow battle- and get back to their respective hotel rooms to get ready for Day 2.

Everyone shortly meets up after that, and in no time they’re back in the line for Day 2 of AX at 8 A.M. However, since they got their badges yesterday, they didn’t have to wait in line. But as they were in the car Lance notices Pidge typing something into her phone.

A minute later, his phone buzzes with two text notifications.

Keith also receives a text shortly after.

The texts both of them receive are a short message and a YouTube link from Pidge.

Pidgeon Molt(ing)/Pidge

Have some music I found today, I think it’d suit you, ya dense fucker ‘,;P

https://youtu.be/AzpHVQTlbdU

Well, it doesn't look like the rickroll link at least, Lance thinks, as he clicks, and plugs in his headphones.

Keith simply reads the message and clicks on the link.

The link sends them to a video with a song from a musical, Be More Chill. Lance has heard about, but never watched or listened to himself, while Keith on the other hand has listened to this song once or twice.

Another notification pops up in front of them as the instrumental starts.

Lance’s says this:

Pidgeon Molt(ing)

After listening to this, I want you to honestly tell me and Hunk how you feel about quote unquote “Mr. Mullet Man” later in person or through text

Lance frowns at this. Why Keith? Sure, I’ve been in compromising situations with him, but… He shakes his head to cut off his thoughts, and listens to the song and the lyrics.

Pidge’s message to Keith however, says:

Pidge

Just listen to it I already know how much you like this song so eh I sent it to a few other people?? Besides you honestly could be Christine or Jeremy… or both???

Keith lets out a sigh through his nose, smiling. He lets the music play and starts losing himself in the song.

“You’re used to thinking about him in a certain way

From the persona that he displays

Then one day it changes

And he changes…

From a guy that you’d never be into

Into a guy that you’d kinda be into

From a guy that I’d never be into

Into a guy that I’d kinda be into

Is he worth it?”

If Lance was the guy who this girl was talk/singing to, he’d definitely say “yes”. He knows himself that you can’t control when you gain crushes or fall in love-

Wait. Pidge said to think about Keith… Lance thought.

He looks over to the boy in question, who is nodding his head to his own music, eyes closed with a smile on his face. His hair falls repeatedly over his eyes, but he seems to not notice or care.

He looks so… carefree. He so stony and hotheaded at most times, even after we defeated Zarkon and Lotor, but yet sometimes… those moments when he genuinely smiles and has fun…

I like it. I really want to see more of it.

Meanwhile, Hunk, walking next to him, was observing Lance and Keith listening to the song.

He got a text notification.

Katie Holt (Pidge)

Is Lance listening to it

I know Keith is he’s bouncing his head

Hunkie Chunkie

Yeah, he is. And he is looking very contemplative. And he’s also staring at Keith like an ethereal being.

Katie Holt (Pidge)

Good phase 1 of Operation Klance Con is a go

Hunkie Chunkie

Wait, we had a name AND a plan for a thing we merely discussed before 6 A.M in the morning?

Katie Holt (Pidge)

Nah

Actually it sounds cool you wanna keep the name

Hunkie Chunkie

Sure. We’ll discuss the plan later…

Lance continued listening to the song, watching Keith bop his head to whatever music he was listening to.

The music drew to an end, and he laughed when Christine anticlimactically sang out “yeah, that guy that I’d kinda be into is… Jake.”

He put the song back on repeat to listen to it again and think about the lyrics and his own feelings.

Then came the verse again.

“Say there’s this person that you never knew that well

You thought that you had him pegged but now you can tell he’s gone

From a guy that you’d never be into

Into a guy that you’d kinda be into

From a guy that I’d never be into

Into a guy that I’d kinda be into

Is he worth it?”

In this verse, Lance could relate, in regards to Keith.

Way back when at the Garrison, he was all of a sudden plucked out of the cargo pilot class straight into fighter class, apparently because Keith Kogane, top pilot in the class, had temper issues and was kicked out.

The general consistently reminded him of that, for every single slip-up he made.

He always saw Keith as this talented, impulsive hothead who apparently does not have a sense for trends, proof cited in his mullet. That’s how most people saw him.

Months after when he saw Keith again along with Hunk and Pidge, he just had to follow him, to find Shiro, only to find out that he doesn’t even remember him. His replacement as a fighter pilot, Lance’s self-proclaimed rival.

And then they found Blue, flew to Arus, met Allura and Coran, and suddenly became part of Voltron.

Despite the entire change in scenery, Lance only continued to him as the guy at the Garrison and a rival, and it kept him from cooperating with him. And it seemed that Keith had the same mutual feelings.

And then the fight with Zendak happened.

After he recovered, he denied he remembered anything, but… he did. He remembered Keith giving him his hand, and instead of pulling him up, kneeling down to where he was sitting, all bruised up and slipping in and out of consciousness. Him telling Keith they were a good team while giving a weak smile. Keith reciprocating the smile before he fell unconscious again.

Then waking up for a minute while Keith was carrying him over to a healing pod, then passing out yet again.

From that event on, their dynamic… changed in a way. They still did bicker, sure, but they worked together much more easily and willingly. They gradually learnt more and more about one another, along with the whole team.

And then when Shiro disappeared… Keith trusted him with Red. A lion as impulsive as him, whose trust and respect had to be earned. He also helped him cope with the temporary loss of Shiro, talking with and comforting Keith as necessary.

Keith was still the same boy from the Garrison, his rival… but as time went on Lance found much more behind the prejudicial wall he had built around Keith, way back when. As impulsive as he is, he cares about others, so much to even rescue a being from the enemy. He isn’t as stony as people make him to be. He doesn’t really get jokes, he cries, he has fears, he has good days and bad days. It’s part of him, it’s part of who he is, Keith’s human.

Well, he’s technically half human, half Galra… living being??? Ah, whatever.

So in that way… he can relate to Christine, in thinking you had a person pegged. But being into him?...

…

“Absolutely,” sings out Jeremy and his Squip, and Lance agrees on his end.

Hunkie Chunkie

Lance has been staring at Keith for more than a minute. I can hear him thinking.

And it looks like we’ve hit realization.

Katie Holt (Pidge)

It seems my purpose for this song has been fulfilled thank you BMC

Lance decides to listen to the rest of the musical from the beginning to pass the time in the line.

By the time he finishes “Michael in the Bathroom” (poor Michael… sounds like a bad panic attack, Lance thinks), they are back inside the convention center. Shay, Rax, and Matt met up with them at the entrance with matching cosplays.

“Alright, paladins, day two of Anime Expo. What’s the plan?” Coran asked, twiddling with his mustache, as well as donning a simple green Scouting Legion Jacket, while Allura wears a Military Police version of the jacket. The rest of Team Voltron wear full Scouting Legion uniform cosplay, except for Pidge, wearing a Garrison jacket.

“Are you wearing that thing ironically?” Lance asked, seeing as the paladins were… well… students themselves in the Garrison. “Wait, how did you and Allura even get those jackets?!”

“Bought the badges and sewed them onto jackets. You just don’t really think about it cuz most of the time it’s always Scouting Legion people want. All versions of the jackets are generally the same price on the Internet, if you want to buy it off of eBay or something,” Pidge replies with a shrug.

“Jackets apart,” Keith said, checking his outfit, “I think we look pretty quiznaking awesome.” He sneaks a glance at Lance, who notices, and returns a smile.

“I totally second that, and I’m totally loving it, cuz I’m totally the best looking one,” Lance says, posing and changing his soft smile into a sarcastic grin. His replies from the team were a mix of laughing and groaning. Keith covered his mouth with a hand, but Lance could tell by the crinkles at the side of his eyes that he was hiding a smile.

“I know you’re smiling Keith,” Lance sings. “Come on, you know you’re allowed to exhibit enjoyment and let loose here. We’re not fighting aliens, we’re back home, it’s an expo!”

Keith drops his hand, however confused by Lance’s statement. The boy in question pokes the Red Paladin in the side, making him laugh and cover his eyes with a hand by habit.

“C’mon, Keef, lemme see it!” Lance coaxes, taking Keith’s hand covering his hand in his own.

Keith finally gives up trying to hide his smile and looks at Lance, laughing so carefree. Once he calms down, he looks at the Blue Paladin, giving him that smile that he longed to see. Lance feels his face heating up.

“Y’know Lance, at some points you never change,” Keith says in almost a whisper, the tenderness in his eyes unshielded. Lance lets out a soft laugh, returning the smile.

Meanwhile, Pidge, Hunk, Shay, Shiro, Allura, and Coran look at the intimate display between the two boys.

“Is it just me and Pidge, or are Keith and Lance probably going to follow the ‘red and blue characters are in love’ trope from a lot of books and TV shows?” Hunk asked the group while the two in question were having their moment.

They all looked at each other then back at Pidge. Their faces were blank as they nodded.

“Honestly, I could tell even before the space mice filled me in,” Allura said. “Their courtship rituals are… blatantly obvious.” Coran simply nods in agreement.

“Yeah,” Shiro agreed. “Keith always talks to me in our free time, and since he’s like my little brother, well… I know him pretty well and I can read him like a book. Besides, he trusts me with secrets, but honestly this-” the Black Paladin gestures to Lance and Keith. “- doesn’t look like a secret, or at least trying to keep it.”

Everyone expectantly turns to Shay, who just shrugs. “I do not know of other Skylings’ courtship rituals, so I simply did not look into it. However as this seems like one according to the rest of you, I believe they are doing that… how did you say it again Pidge?” She turns to the shortest of the group.

“Pining?” Pidge suggests.

“Ah yes, ‘pining’. They are pining,” Shay says.

Everyone else agreed and waited for Lance and Keith to notice that they were staring at them. It admittedly took a while, and it was only because Pidge ended up playing “Careless Whisper” from her endless library of audio memes.

“You gonna have a bonding moment you finally remember, Lance?” Pidge snickered, and Lance groaned.

“Pidge, please stop.”

“The Pidgeon makes no promises~” she sings while walking off towards Artists Alley.

From there, the team follows her, and for the next couple hours they spend their time wandering around Artist Alley, buying fan merchandise and taking pictures with other cosplayers, and attending panels.

-

“Oh my god, they have a pin that says ‘Space Dad’,” Keith chokes out while laughing. “Lance, should we get it?”

“Already way ahead of you, Keith.” He says as she holds out her hand, revealing a copy of that pin, as well as an assortment of other space-related buttons.

-

“Katie, you are not buying us hats that say ‘problematic’,” Matt says.

“Says my brother who bought like, half of the Kanan merch here in this entire area,” Pidge replies.

“SHE IS MY BEST GIRL AND OSHIMEN I SACRIFICED FUCKING 3 OF MY DREAM URS OF OTHER GIRLS JUST TO CONTINUE THE OSHIMEN CHALLENGE. I. AM. DEDICATED.”

“Yup, getting the hat set.”

-

“Wait, so Shiro, are you kinda like Marco because you lost your right arm?”

“Lance. No. Marco lost like almost all his right half of his body and died. I only lost my right arm, which is now a pretty badass prosthetic, and I’m alive. I think… wait, what if I’m still floating out in space?”

“Shiro, calm down,” Hunk says.

“What if I’m still in cryosleep and all of you are figments of my imagination?”

“Shiro. You’re fine.”

“What if this is the afterlife and I’m actually dea-”

“Okay, that’s enough existential crisis for Space Dad,” Lance says, and pats Shiro’s back, who would basically have a dark shadow masking his eyes and have squiggly lines over his head if he was an anime character right now.

-

“Is that a… dancing hot dog?” Allura says as she squints her eyes at a t-shirt display.

“Seems quite so, Princess,” Coran says. “Apparently this is what humans call a ‘meme’, as well as many more photographs, like this adorable specimen!” He points at a picture of Doge.

“Human culture is weird,” the Altean princess decides.

-

Before the gang could even notice, the sun has traveled to the western part of the sky, and they walk out of the convention center, caps emblazoned with the word “problematic”. Matt’s is decorated with Kanan buttons, and Shiro’s cap has a pin that says “Space Dad”.

The plaza in front of the place is still relatively crowded, but less hectic than inside the building. Many people are seen taking group pictures and chilling outside. A performer duo finishes a piece on the sidewalk, and passerby applaud.

Team Voltron starts walking back to their van after saying goodbye to Shay, Matt and Rax when the music playing from a speaker changes, and suddenly both Keith and Shiro stop abruptly in their tracks, catching the attention of the rest of them.

Lance, who has a pin on his Survey Corps. jacket that says “uranus is out of this world”, turns around, confused. “Uh, guys? You okay?”

Shiro smiles. “Yeah, definitely. Something Keith and I remember from a while back came up, right?” He looks over at Keith, who is donning a nostalgic, yet energetic smile.

“Definitely. Do you still remember our choreography Shiro?!” He asks.

“It’s been a while, so I might be a bit rusty. But hell yeah, I still remember.”

Keith’s eyes grow brighter. “Wanna do it for old times’ sake?”

“I thought you’d ask that, and the answer is definitely yes,” Shiro replies, then walks with Keith to a more open spot on the pavement.

Lance, Pidge, Hunk, and Shay at first are confused, when Allura suddenly says, “Oh, so this is what the mice told me about!”

“Wait,” Matt asks, “You know about Keith and Shiro’s dance?”

“Dance?!” The Blue, Green and Yellow Paladins echo, bewildered. Shay is still quite confused. Then Pidge straightens.

“Oh yeah, now I remember! It’s their song playing right now!” She says, and nudges Lance’s arm. “You might want to prepare your bisexual pining heart for this. Allura looks full-on ready. It’s gonna be fucking amazing.”

“Pidge, what do you mean? And how have I not heard of th-” Lance starts, but then shuts himself up when he sees Keith and Shiro in position, then moving in sync, mirroring each other’s movements to the beat of a BTS song.

However, as Lance starts to notice, the choreography both boys are dancing isn’t simply a copy of the original dance for the song, cut down for two people.

(And he knows this, because he has watched BTS’s MVs, thank you very much.)

No, this was a dance made from just the two of them, Brogane trademarked and choreographed.

An audience started building up around their display, some taking their phones out and recording, many cheering.

Keith then did a certain move where he ran his hands up his body, through his mullet, then turned to Lance, and smirked.

And then he winked.

He quiznaking winked.

This sent another fresh wave of cheers through the crowd, Team Voltron’s louder than the rest (although admittedly Allura’s cheers could be heard as the loudest of the group). However, Lance was only semi-aware of this, as he was currently occupied on pondering why he hasn’t melted into a puddle on the floor yet by the sheer heat of the Broganes’ dance and the fire in his cheeks.

Oh god, when did Keith and Shiro MAKE this dance?! This is way too seductive for my own good, quiznak! Lance thought, watching the rest of the performance.

A minute later, Keith and Shiro drew to their final pose, the music ending and their chests heaving out of exertion. Their audience clapped and cheered enthusiastically, multiple wolf whistles being heard as well. The Black and Red Paladins bowed, then walked back over to the group.

“It’s just as I remember it,” Matt says, still applauding the two as he hands the two boys water bottles. “You couldn't even tell that they hadn't danced this together in a few years!”

“That. Was. Amazing! I didn’t know you guys could dance like that!” Hunk took the Broganes into a tight hug then let them go.

“I agree. The dance was quite enjoyable to experience!” Shay adds on as she walks and stands next to Hunk.

Allura and Lance both exploded with the same question. “WHERE AND WHEN DID YOU LEARN THAT DANCE?!”

Keith blinked, smiled, and replied first. “Well, it was around a year before Shiro and Matt left for the the Kerberos mission. Me and him were really close and loved the same music, and we randomly decided one day to make our own choreography to one of our favorite BTS songs.”

“At first it was a little thing we did on a whim,” Shiro continued, “but eventually the dance ended up being our thing, and it stuck with us. We made tweaks and practiced it like we were actually going to perform it for a huge audience. We danced it for Matt and Katie one time, and that’s how they know about it!”

Lance was impressed. “I never really thought of you guys dancing together, K-pop at that. But seriously, you guys were amazing!”

“Wait, what’s K-pop?” Allura asked, eyebrows scrunched up in confusion. “Is it a genre?”

“Right you are, Princess,” Coran answers. “According to Keith, ‘tis a type of music that is popular in a country called Korea, hence the ‘K’ in ‘K-pop’, as well as here in America.”

“Anyways, let’s head back to the hotel now, it’s already 7 P.M. and we still have 2 more days left of AX,” Shiro says. “And this time, no staying up late!”

On the way back, Pidge and Hunk notice Lance staring aimlessly ahead, looking contemplative again.

They nodded to each other, and Pidge took out her phone and texted something to Lance. Seconds later, Lance opened his phone.

Pidgeon Molt(ing)

So do you have your answer ^^

Lance looked up at Keith in front of him, who was happily ranting about a Mothman cosplayer he met at the con today with Shiro and Allura.

Hunk and Pidge saw him smile fondly at the scene, and looked back at them while texting his response.

Ocean Man

Oh yeah

His “best ass in the galaxy” pin is spot on ;;;)))))

Pidgeon Molt(ing)

ha, ha. -_-

Pidge however then looked up to see Lance smiling awkwardly at her and Hunk.

Team Voltron continued their walk back to the van, facing the setting sun, the Garrison trio satisfied with Lance’s real answer as it reflected in that smile and his eyes.