#piningkeith

Not sure how "new" these are, but here's a few I've read recently and really enjoyed:

Never - Saasan

91k. (Explicit). Contains: rape/non-con.

Keith is in a helluva tight spot thanks to his own impulsive behavior. He'll be dying in the arena any day now, no doubt, and until then he's better off keeping his head down and his eyes averted. But, when the dangers outside the ring are worse than any opponent he meets in the arena, Keith learns a painful truth: Some tragedies are impossible to look away from.

found and lost (and found again) - ticktockclockwork

27k. (Mature).

Dear Takashi, my name is Keith. I am six years and a half old. I go to PS 407 and I am yor new pen pal. - As children Keith and Shiro become friends through their schools penpal program but when Shiro loses touch with him after Keith's father dies, he figures he'll never hear from him again. Then over a decade later he receives a message over facebook that changes the course of his life forever. Told through letters, texts, phone calls, and video calls, this is a story of how Keith and Shiro find each other, lose each other, and then find each other again.

Never Let Go - perfchan

31k. (Explicit).

Two glassy blue eyes look down at Shiro from the bed of the pickup truck. The dog is huge, white and dove gray markings reminiscent of a wolf, and a thick coat built for the winter to come. Shiro blinks up at the dog, and the dog looks back. He can’t resist: “Hello there,” Shiro says, friendly. * Shiro begins a new career in the sprawling Alaskan wilderness. He expects to fly. He doesn't expect to fall in love.

Vicious Terms - perfchan

60k. (Explicit).

Keith: Owned by Marmora Institute, a man with extraordinary abilities is assigned to solve the case of attempted murder of one of the colony’s most powerful men. He does not know that, regardless of his success, this case will be his last. Shiro: One of the highest ranking members of the Garrison, a man who has everything to lose when he inadvertently discovers subterfuge bigger than the Garrison itself. He’ll find his own fate in the colony’s darkest secrets. One contract with the most vicious of terms brings them together.

how we were - bog gremlin (tomatocages)

8k. (Teen).

We’re finally here! My companion piece for the fic Breath into Me by the awesome @starellas (also known as BlueStarPaladin on Ao3) for the Klance Pinefest!!

It was a fun and stressful time being apart of this but I’m so happy I made it through!

Thank you so much for the opportunity @klancepinefest to join and for helping me through my very first zine!!

Check out more of my art on instagram: @ashbro.arts

The Boy Next Door - rosegardenlake

15k. Teen.

Keith's having a hard time with the idea of moving. He's going to miss the desert; that's where his heart belongs. Not this, not the ocean. But when he sees the boy next door, friendly smile on his face, holding a surfboard underneath a muscular arm, Keith thinks that will probably help.

Maybe not a “super active sex life,” but you can check out this post, plus these:

Turn My Back And Catch Me - HypotheticalWoman

ongoing, 10/? chapters, 51k. (Explicit). Contains: abo dynamics, Shiro/Curtis, Keith/Blade of Marmora.

When Keith is mourning his lost opportunities and lack of purpose at Shiro's wedding, Kolivan offers him an important job, uniquely suited to someone of his abilities - perhaps clouded by grief, Keith jumps at the chance to bear the next generation of Blades. Given his previous (terrible) sexual experience, he's amazed to find how cushy the job is - but with the abount of guilt he's carrying around, can he allow himself to enjoy it or is he going to need help? Can Lance be helped with the grief caused by Allura's death? What *is* an adequate number of rodeos, anyway?

Regrets, I Have a Few - PiscesDragon

ongoing, 14/? chapters, 57k. (Mature). Contains: Shiro/Curtis, Keith/Others.

Shiro was not an overthinker. It had been trained into him through many years in the military that muscle memory and quick thinking saved lives. As a pilot, all actions had to become second nature. Feelings had no place in a cockpit or a battlefield. All emotional triggers had to be suppressed, compartmentalized and pushed down so deeply that they couldn’t impact you.

This training had saved his life as a prisoner of the Galra Empire. It helped him train the other paladins and make quick decisions during battle as the leader of Voltron. It had probably kept him sane in the endless expanse of the Black Lion’s consciousness. His ingrained conditioning had supported him while Captain of the Atlas and snapped him out of sheer panic as he watched his dearest friends - his family - fall to the Earth and their potential deaths.

It had made him a good soldier and an excellent pilot, but military preparation and emotionless indoctrination was absolute crap for his mental health and personal relationships.

He was a disaster as a husband.

And he had been absolutely blind to his own feelings for his best friend.

tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow - flusteredkeith @flusteredkeith

36k. (Teen).

Drafted to fight the alien invaders ravaging Earth, Keith is immediately dropped into a brutal bloodbath of a battle and is killed within minutes.

And then he wakes up.

Stuck in an everlasting time loop that forces him to relive the same day over and over again, Keith slowly improves his skill on the battlefield and grows closer to Shiro, his trusted comrade in arms.

But with each repeated day, Keith begins to wonder: will the day ever come when they finally defeat the Galra once and for all?

In The Stars You’ll Find Me - ShirosNeverDie (oftenretold)

3k. (General).

Maybe it was his natural stubborness that made Shiro hold onto his promise, even though no one would know if he had broken it, or even if what he had experienced was real. But when he looked up at the sky all he could think about was finding him again, and finally being able to say, “You were right. You believed I could, and I did. I can never thank you enough.”

Window of Opportunity - eugyne (AreteNike) @maternalcube

11k. (Teen).

Team Voltron is stuck in a time loop, and until they figure out how to escape it, they can do pretty much whatever they want with no consequences whatsoever.

It may or may not be a good thing that Keith and Lance are the only ones who know.

Amaranthine - midnightflame @bymidnightflame

35k. (Explicit). Contains: NSFW content, major character death.

Keith had watched him fall. One moment standing there, then knees had hit the dirt and the rest of Shiro’s body had followed. One moment was all it took for the world to run black, then fire up red as blood across the earth. Just when grief sinks its claws into him, morning breaks with scenes Keith knows because he has already lived them, knows that in just a few hours his entire world will end once more.

Shiro had watched him fall. One moment standing there, and on the next, Keith’s body had dropped to the ground, heavy and silent. One moment for the panic to start snarling in its cage and set the world buzzing with static in his ears. And just when the grief sinks in, morning breaks with scenes Shiro knows far too well because he has walked every step of them, and he knows that in another day the best part of his world will end once more.

It happens again and again, their world recycling itself as one end is traded for another. That is until the inevitable reality of their circumstances brings Shiro and Keith to a standstill, leaving them with a choice hinging on their faith in the universe.

Sail Across the Sky Just to Get to You - stardropdream @stardropdream

18k. (Teen).

“You’re so important to me,” Shiro says. He looks at Keith, as if waiting for the response.

“Yeah,” Keith says. “You’re important to me, too, Shiro.”

“Yeah?” Shiro whispers, and Keith can’t place the tone, or the reason why he should look so relieved following Keith’s statement.

“Of course,” Keith tells him.

Or: The one where Shiro and Keith start dating, but Keith doesn’t know that.

series: Death And Ninja Mullet (or, the Sheith Bleach AU) - artsy_alice @artsy-alice

ongoing, 3/? works, 47k. (Teen).

“I’m a shinigami and certain circumstances happened that forced me to pass my powers to Keith. Now we’ve been informed that there’s a monster in town and we have to fight it before it can harm innocent people, both living and dead.”

…or the Bleach AU feat. Shinigami Shiro and Substitute Shinigami Keith.No prior knowledge of Bleach required! :)

you give him everything - gardevoirite @softlysheith

1k. (General). Contains: past Adam/Shiro

Adam presses his lips together and nods. Maybe it is just a Shiro-and-Keith thing.

“I’m still happy for you. Both of you. After everything I’ve done, he deserves to be with someone who’d never give up on him.”

“Be with—“ Keith’s face goes from a healthy shade of pink to tomato red in the next second. “What? No, no. We’re not – together. Not like that.”

What? “That’s… not what I heard from Shiro. He said he loves being with you.”

Keith and Adam find closure of their own.     

it’s a friend? date - adamantine

3k. (Teen and Up Audiences)

“Keith, what do you think this is?” The anger in Shiro’s voice has turned into an emotion Keith can’t quite place, which is somehow more unnerving. Shiro’s supposed to be his best friend. He’s not supposed to feel lost and unsettled around him.

“Huh?”

It’s Shiro’s turn to look lost. “When I asked you out for dinner last week, what did you think I meant?”

The question makes no sense to Keith. “That you wanted to eat dinner with me?” Is there a coded message he’s not grasping?

Or the one where Shiro’s dating skills are rusty and Keith’s are entirely nonexistent.

Here’s a bonus one where they’re both clueless dorks:

We’re So Not A Thing - EnvyBakemono

1k. (General Audiences)

“This is Hunk. What’s u-““How long have Shiro and I been together?” Keith asked, panic rising.There was silence on the other end of the line. Keith could almost hear the gears clicking in Hunk’s brain. Then – “Dude. Dude.”“Don’t give me that tone,” Keith snapped. “It’s not like anybody told me.”

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Keith doesn’t MEAN to be oblivious. It just…happens sometimes. And when it catches up to him, it means a solid two hours of freaking out. Luckily, Shiro is…

Not a whole lot better.