#shitor

FOR EVERYONE COMPLAINING, IT'S NOT JUST HER

1- this was before season 7, so I didn't know that much of shippers before

2- I think there IS Plance and Lotura there

3- NO, Shatt is better in my opinion

Ok this is a little(ish) Valentine’s headcannon that popped in to my head as I was scrolling through tumblr. As always I don’t own Voltron.

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Valentine’s Day is coming up soon and Shiro knows it. He also knows that the one he wants to do something special for, is someone who has no clue what Valentine’s Day even is. So then, why does the Paladin feel like there is so much pressure on him to do something nice for Lotor? Probably, because it has been a rough past few months for Prince Lotor with his Father, his Generals, and everyone else in the Castle.

Many pieces of crumpled up paper litter the Paladin’s desk and the surrounding floor. They are each filled with different Valentine’s Day ideas that could be nice for him to do for the Prince. Shiro has been writing the ideas down and rereading them for hours now. Deciding that each idea that he comes up with is stupid, he then crumples it up and tosses it aside.

As Shiro finishes writing his latest attempt and begins to reread it, Lotor starts to walk down the hall. Shiro drags his fingers through the white part of his hair pulling it back in frustration as he finishes reading this attempt at coming up with something good. After a couple of ticks he crumples that one up as well and tosses it aside. The Paladin then makes a loud frustrated noise and slams his fist on the desk. At this point the Prince is just passing his room and hears the sound.

Lotor stops in his tracks and looks back at the door. He is not positive but he thinks that room and voice belongs to the Black Paladin. He stands there for a couple ticks trying to decide if he should investigate or just keep walking as if he had heard nothing.

Before the Prince can fully decide what he’s going to do. He hears a grown that almost sounded like a growl and then another loud thump.

Lotor sighs and approaches the door quietly. He slowly raises his hand and lightly knocks on the door. There is silence for a few ticks and the Prince almost turns to leave, but he stops when he hears a faint “Enter.” coming from inside the room.

Lotor is positive that it is Shiro on the other side of the door now. Which is a relief because the other Paladins tolerate his presents a lot less. At lest with the Black Paladin he knows that they can be civil with each other.

The Prince opens the door slowly unsure of what exactly he will find on the other side of it. Once the door is fully open, he sees that Shiro is at his desk, but he has his head down and is not looking in the direction of the door.

Lotor remains silent taking in the sight before him. He sees the balls of papers scattered around the Paladin and he looks almost like he is defeated. This is something the Prince has never seen from him before now. He has always shown strength whenever Lotor has encountered him before.

Shiro’s voice is faint and slightly muffled when he speaks. “What is it?…Is there something wrong?”

The Prince sighs and steps into the room closing the door behind him. Shiro does not move as he waits for an answer. He hears the door close and he assumes it is one of the other Paladins. He waits for them to ask him what’s wrong or if he is ok, but there is still silence.

Lotor lingers by the door unsure if he should move closer to the Paladin or just stay where he is. After a few more ticks Shiro’s voice comes again. “What is it?…Do you have something to tell or ask me?” Still he gets no response. If he did not know any better he would think that there was no one there.

The Paladin sighs and raises his head rubbing his eyes. “If you come to check on me I am….” He stops speaking as he finely looks towards the door to see who is standing there.

Shiro’s eyes widen and he raises his eyebrows in shock as he sees that it is Prince Lotor that has entered his room. The Prince raises an eyebrow at him slightly amused by the shocked look on the Paladins face. He takes a couple small steps closer to Shiro.

“I take it by the look on your face that you were not expecting me?” The Paladin shakes his head but does not speak. “Hmm, right… no doubt you were probably expecting one of the other Paladins?” Shiro nods and still says nothing just looking at Lotor in disbelief. “I…was just…making sure that everything is ok…but if your not going to speak to me I will just go then.”

As Lotor turns to leave Shiro panics and finely finds his voice again. “No! Wait! I do not want you to leave quite yet…”

The Prince stops and turns back to face the Paladin. He smirks at him, “So you do remember how to speak.”

Shiro can feel his face starting to get more and more warm. Mostly because he just basically word vomited at Prince Lotor. Despite this he nods again “Yes I do remember how…you…ah…you…just through me off guard…like you said, I was…not expecting to see you…” The Paladin knows his face is noticeably red now.

Lotor takes in his words and notices the redness that has appeared on his face. “I see.”

Shiro swallows before trying to speak again. “Did…ju…You came to check on me? Really?”

The Prince folds his arms, raising an eyebrow again, “Yes…” He sighs, “I heard the loud noises coming from this room and I decided to investigate…”

“I see…” The Paladin looks at the floor then back at him. “…thank you…but I am fine…I just…was trying to work something out and I have not been having much luck.” He scratches the back of his head and laughs nervously.

“Were you trying to work out a strategy or something?“ Lotor starts to move to pick up some of the papers on the floor “Let’s see what you’ve got, maybe I can be of some help to you.”

Shiro’s eyes widen, “No, you don’t have to do that I will…” But it was too late Lotor had already started to read some of the papers. The Paladin went quite as he helplessly watched the Prince read and he hope that he could not read his language.

“Hmm…I forgot that you don’t wright in Altean or Galran.”

“Yep your right I don’t… so you really don’t…” Shiro falls silent as Lotor raises a hand as if to wave his words away and continues to focus on the papers.

After a few more Doboshes the Prince finely speaks to Shiro. “So I have been able to decipher your strange characters that you wright with.”

Shiro’s heart sinks a little “You have?”

Sounding slightly impatient “Yes I have. I have studied many alien languages over my life time so deciphering your’s was not that hard for me…However…” The Prince looks back at the papers. “There are a couple things I don’t understand and I would appreciate it if you would explain them to me. First this Val…en…tine’s thing…what is it? Is it a code word for something?” Lotor looks at the Paladin waiting for an answer.

Crap! The Prince really had been able to figure it out. If he was not so nervous about what he would think after he fully understood what was written. He would be even more impressed with Prince Lotor’s skills.

Shiro can feel his face becoming really warm again. “And what else do you have a question about…?” He tries not to let his voice crack but it does a little.

“Are you not going to answer my first question?” Lotor folds his arms again.

The Paladin closes his eyes for a tick or two. Then looks back to the Prince, “No, I will answer your question…I…ah…owe you that much at least… I just want to know all of them in case one has to do with the other…“

Lotor relaxes a little “I see…well ok then…Why am I mentioned in these?” He gestures to the papers in his hand.

After a few ticks Shiro takes a deep breath and the Prince watches him as he waits for an answer. “Valentine’s Day…is a holiday that is celebrated back on Earth… It’s a day were many people do something special for someone they care about. Most of the time they give them cards, little gifts, or arrange a nice meal for them… A lot of the time people do these things for there spouses or partners but not always.” The Paladin pauses looking up at Lotor trying to read his expression. But there is not really one to read… he is just watching and listening.

The Prince raises his eyebrow “You have still not tolled me why my name is mentioned.”

Shiro nods “Right…um…” He sighs “Its Because I wanted…to do something special…for you.” His can feel his heart beating fast as he waits for a reaction to what he has said.

“Why? I am neither your spouse nor partner… So…then…does…that mean you Care about me?… Which does not make much sense…to me because we don’t know each other well enough for that…”

Shiro sighs “Yea I know…But…you have been through so much lately. With your Father making you an enemy to the Empire, your Generals turning on you, coming to live here in the Castle of Lions and everything that comes with that…the good and the bad… You have lost pretty much everything that was normal for you…I…I know how that feels…to be constantly surrounded by things you’re not used to…So that’s partly why I wanted to do something nice for you… and I thought I could use Valentine’s as an excuse.

“You said ‘partly’…if that’s only part of the reason, what is the other part?”

Shiro’s face starts to go extremely warm again. “Um..The…ah… Other part…is because…I want to get to know you better. I have noticed that the more time I spend with you, the more things I find that I like about you.” He pauses, looking for a reaction, but all he sees is the same thing as before. Lotor looking at him and listening to what he saying. “The first time…we met, I could tell right away that fighting you was going to be different…and not just because you are a lot smaller then most of my other opponents…That fight…“ Shiro pauses, closing his eyes for a tick trying only to focus on the fight with the Prince and not anything else from that time.

It is not hard for Lotor to figure out why he stopped talking. He knows the Arena well and what the prisoners of the Galra Empire do there. The whole reason that fight had even happened was because he wanted to see the Champion’s skills up close.

Reopening his eyes, “There was a few things I learned from that fight. 1. You are an extremely skilled fighter 2. Your movements are so fluid and graceful I was amazed….still am 3. You are extremely intelligent and a skilled strategist and 4. Once I was able to get a good look at you… You took by breath away… you’re gorgeous and I find you extremely attractive. You also impressed me just now… with how fast you deciphered my writing. With every new thing I learn about you, the more attractive you become to me… So that’s pretty much the other part… basically I find you attractive and want to get to know you better.”

The Prince remained silent for a few ticks. “I see…that does explain a few things.” He looks back down at the papers for a few Doboshes thinking. Shiro’s heart races as he watches Lotor reread them. He even picks up a few more and reads them too. He glances at the Paladin then walks closer to him stopping next to the bed. “Do you mind if I sit here.” He gestures to the bed.

Shiro’s eyes widen a bit but he shakes his head “No, I don’t mind.” The Prince nods “Thanks.” He then sits down on to the side of the bed facing the Paladin and then goes back to reading. At this point Shiro has no Idea what is going on but he decides not to question it. He also can’t believe that Prince Lotor is Sitting on His bed right now!

Looking back at the Paladin, “Are there any of these, that you like more then the others?” Shiro just blinks at him for a few ticks before he finely speaks. “Um…I guess these here…” He straightens out a few more that were laying on the desk and then hands them to the Prince. He nods then begins to read them.

Not being able to take the uncertainty any more “Um…Prince Lotor…what… is it that you are doing…and why?” Lotor looks up seeing a vary confused look on the Paladin’s face.

He raises his eyebrow, “Obviously I’m reading what you have… I told you I would see if I could help you and I intend to try to do just that. As for the why…I don’t know… partly because I want to see what you would come up with… and partly because… I don’t find you unattractive.” He gives Shiro a small smile before going back to reading. The Paladin watches him with wide Eyes and thinks ‘Did he just say that he thinks I am Attractive too?’

After Lotor is done reading he picks out 10 papers and hands them to a wide eyed Shiro. “I would look over these again and see if you can’t come up with something that you fully like. Maybe try combining somethings and getting rid of others.” The Princes smirks at him and then reaches forward to run his fingers through the white part of the Paladin’s hair. “I would not give up just yet.” Lotor then stands and walks towards the door.

Shiro watches him leave, but before the Prince can open the door, “Lotor wait.” He freezes, unsure of how to feel about being addressed so casually, but he turns to face the Paladin anyway. Shiro stands and closes much of the distance between them. He looks slightly up in to the Prince’s eyes. Then deciding to throw caution to the wind he slips his arms under Lotor’s and wraps them around him gently hugging him, “Thank you.” He closes his eyes and rests the side of his face against the Prince’s chest.

Now its Lotor’s turn to be shocked and confused. For one thing he is not used to any one showing this much affection for him. For another he is not use to someone touching him so gently. After a few more ticks, he is able to process things a bit. Lotor tries to copy the Paladin’s actions by lightly but a little awkwardly wrapping his arms around him in return. “Your welcome.”

The Prince loosens his grip after a few more ticks and Shiro does the same even though he does not really want to. He takes a couple steps back to allow him room to open the door. The Paladin smiles at him and Lotor gives him a small smile in return. He reaches out, running his fingers through the white part of Shiro’s hair again, then turns and leaves.

The Paladin stares at the door for a few Doboshes, wondering if that really just happened… Shiro then shakes his head and goes back to his desk with new motivation to figure out something to do for Prince Lotor for Valentine’s Day.

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