#singing lance

New Fanfiction: Happy Little Working Song

Summary:

Lance admittedly doesn’t sing in public, but the solo bird that’s joined him on the tree branch as he picks apples for Voltron’s food supplies isn’t really an audience and it’s kind of fun to sing to someone. But then that bird is joined by more birds. And then squirrels. And now there's an opossum and an ocelot and wolves and foxes and animals as far as he can see are coming to listen to the impromptu concert and if Lance didn’t know any better he’d almost say they understood him…

Hey all! I just posted a new story for Klance month, wasn’t supposed to be a multi chapter but here we are lol. Go check it out!

Here you go, I hope you enjoy it! <3 

It didn’t happen often but when it did, the paladins could only feel like they had failed the entire universe. Every failure created a sense of hopelessness in their hearts. They walked through the now abandoned Galra prison, carefully stepping over the destroyed corpses of the prisoners. Somehow the Galra were able to figure out that Voltron would be targeting this prison and instead of trying to fight, they decided to leave and cut their losses. Literally, by the looks of it.

“We’ll need to cover more ground,” Shiro decided. “Pidge, I want you to see what you can pull from the Warden’s system,”

“Got it,” she said, heading up the stairs to the overview offices.

“Keith and Hunk, go left and take blocks A and B, Lance, we’ll go right and take C and D,” he said gesturing to the off-shooting hallways. They nodded and went forward, hoping that they would be able to leave sooner rather than later. Shiro walked beside Lance quietly watching out for any potential danger but it seemed like any enemies had fled leaving the building completely empty. As they approached the stairwell leading down to the C-Block, Shiro gestured for Lance to go down.

“Because it’s closer,” Shiro teased when Lance looked at him questioningly. Lance allowed himself to smirk slightly and he quickly went down the stairs.

“Ugh,” He gagged when he reached the bottom of the stairs. He covered his mouth as he looked at the blood that was covering the floor. He felt absolutely horrified at the amount of malice that these aliens were shown. He cautiously crept forward with his rifle drawn in front of him. He cringed at the way his boots stuck to the floor and came off with a ‘shlick’ each time. He let the light from his wrist armour shine into the darkened cells as he passed them trying to ignore the way his stomach clenched in pity for the people they couldn’t save.

He whipped around when he heard a faint scuffing and sniffing sound coming from the last cell. He brought his bayard up to his eye to line up in case there were hostiles still aboard. The cell door creaked as he swung it open and he almost fell back at the sudden loud wailing that broke out when he entered. He lowered his bayard immediately at the sight of a small figure struggling to push themselves back into the farthest corner of the room, away from Lance. Lance’s heart clenched in sympathy at the sight of the blooded child that couldn’t keep his eyes off of Lance as he bawled and tried to curl up into himself. He looked to be from the planet Puig from the markings on his face and the small horns that were peeking out from his forehead.

“Please don’t hurt me,” the child whispered almost inaudibly but not to Lance. He instantly went down on one knee and laid his bayard on the floor.

“Hey, buddy,” Lance said quietly. For the first time, the child looked at Lance’s face and his eyes widened. “I’m here to rescue you,”

As soon as the words came out of the words came out of his mouth, the boy leapt up with a loud sob and ran into Lance’s arms. Lance brought his arms around him and held his head to his shoulder as he trembled in Lance’s arms. In one of his hands, he picked up his bayard and carefully lifted the Puigan into his arms and backed out of the cell. He ran out of the block and towards the meeting point as quickly as he could, not wanting the boy to be exposed to this place any more than he already had been.

“I’ve got a survivor here, it looks like he’s from Puig,” Lance said into the coms. There were various exclaims of surprise from the rest of the paladins. “What’s your name buddy?” Lance asked quietly.

“Argu,” he sniffled. Lance swayed slightly trying to calm the child. He glanced around when he started hearing footsteps approach from all sides. Argu started sobbing in a panic and wrapped his arms around Lance’s neck. He pushed himself closer to the paladin’s chest, trying to hide from potential enemies. Lance raised his bayard in front of them and scanned the area around them. Shiro raised his arms when he stepped out of the hall and cautiously approached when Lance let his rifle fall to his side.

“So this is our new passenger huh?” Shiro smiled gently at Argu, who was still whimpering softly into Lance’s collar.

“Yeah, his name is Argu,” Lance said hoisting him up a bit to rest more comfortably in his arms. Before they could say anything else, the other paladins came rushing out, Hunk and Keith from the hallway and Pidge punding down the stairs. They all looked at the shaken toddler in Lance’s arms and looked to Shiro.

“Were heading out guys, straight to the Castle from here,” he said gesturing to the exit of the compound. They nodded their heads and headed out, surrounding Lance and Argu like a protective pride of lions. Lance tilted Argu’s head away from the view of the other prisoners. He knew that his innocence was already close to destroyed but if he could spare him just a little, it would be worth it.

“Coran, we have a Puigan child coming on board, he’ll have to be looked over,” Shiro’s voice echoed over the coms.

“Oh dear, I’ll be waiting in the med bay when you come on board,” he replied shortly.

They climbed into their lions and took off towards the Castle being sure to still look out for any lurking Galra. Lance looked down at Argu who was whining quietly and trembling in the crook of Lance’s arm.

“Hey Argu, it’s okay buddy,” Lance tried to comfort him. “You’ll never see that place ever again, we’re going to take you back to Puig and your family,” he rocked him gently against his chest and frowned when his condition didn’t change. He tried to tell him about Voltron and their adventures, or about Earth and how he got to space but nothing seemed to work. Looking at Argu’s terrified face reminded him of comforting his little sisters back home and he remembered that singing to them always helped them calm down. He felt a brief bout of homesickness but pushed it down. Right now someone needed him. He trusted the flying to Blue and wrapped his arms around Argu to cradle him warmly.

“I remember tears streaming down your face when I said I’ll never let you go when all those shadows almost killed your light,” he sang quietly. He heard Argu’s breath hitch slightly at the new tone.

“I remember you said don’t leave me here alone, but all that’s dead and gone and passed tonight,” he could hear Argu still sniffing slightly but he could see his eyes start to open up to look at him.

“Just close your eyes, the sun is going down. You’ll be alright, no one can hurt you now. Come morning light, you and I’ll be safe and sound,” he wiped the tears that were falling down his face and propped him up against his shoulder. Argu looked at him in wonder as he continued to sing to him. The choked crying died after a few lines and Lance rocked him gently to the tune of the song. As he let out hums he could see Argu’s eyes slipping shut as the last few tears rolled down his cheeks. He looked at him fondly and dabbed at his cheeks to get rid of the tear tracks. Looking forward he noticed that they were almost ready to fly into the hanger and land. He got control of Blue again and gently landed her.

“We’re at the Castle Argu,” he said quietly and huffed in amusement when the child didn’t rouse in the slightest. He only picked him up and trudged out of Blue ready to take him to Coran to be checked out before they decide when to take him back to Puig. He stepped down the ramp and stopped when he noticed the rest of the team waiting for him with small smiles.

“Hey, guys… what’s goin on?” He asked hesitantly. He walked past them and they followed slightly behind him.

“So, I was thinking that we could have a Voltron band,” Pidge started. Lance looked back at her in confusion and quirked a brow which she ignored.

“Keith would be bass guitar, Shiro lead guitar, Hunk on the drums and I would be on the keyboard,” she said flippantly pressing a hand to her chest.

“Oh yeah?” Lance said with a smirk, deciding to humour her, “and where would I be?” He asked.

“Lead singer obviously,” she said smugly. He felt his entire face go red and turned so he could walk backwards. This way he could see the smiles on each paladin’s face.

“You heard me?” Lance squeaked. They laughed at the way his blush covered his entire face.

“Yeah, that sort of happens when you have your coms on,” Keith chuckled. Lance groaned dramatically and turned his back to them instead.

“If it’s any consolation, you’re a great singer,” Shiro said earnestly. Lance ducked his head down, embarrassment tingling in his gut.

“Thanks, Shiro,” he mumbled quietly. They walked into the med bay where Coran was waiting patiently. Lance gazed at the now peaceful Argu and gently laid him down on the table.

“Let’s get you fixed up buddy,”

In his little shack, Keith could only pick up two radio signals: the Garrison comms and this dumbass radio station that played the same gosh darn songs 24/7.  Therefore, Keith knew it, and he knew it by heart. 

Lance: *is singing*

Keith: (out of nowhere) woah lance you can sing

Lance: *jumps like 7 ft high* AHHHHHHHH! Keith DONT SNEAK UP ON PEOPLE LIKE THAT

Keith: ... I've been standing here for five minutes

this is a continuation of Sick but it can be read as a stand alone too. Its also way too cheesy so be aware. 

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Lance is bed ridden recovering from a cold when the paladins are scheduled to land on a peaceful planet to restock for their journeys.

The planet is one of the most recent additions to the Voltron Alliance and it was Lance’s favorite because of its two orange suns, pink sand beaches and crystalline blue waters, but also because of its rich musical culture.

The first time they went there, after driving the Galra away, there were people dancing and playing music on the streets and the pure joy on Lance’s face as he laughed and danced with the planet’s natives had kept Keith awake for almost a fortnight.

The instruments they played looked nothing like the ones on Earth, they were more similar to trumpets than guitars but they had six strings and sounded just like them and Lance had been fascinated by them.

And Keith had been fascinated by him.

Pidge had mention to him that Lance and Hunk used to play the guitar back in the Garrison and that she loved listening to them play.

“Only time I actually wanted to be around Lance back then, he has a beautiful voice” She told him.

It had been months since the last time they’d been to that planet and Pidge mention the jamming sessions and Keith had been obsessed with hearing them play ever since, so when Hunk mentions Lance was pretty bumped about having to stay in the castle Keith takes it as a chance to suggest they buy one of those weird guitar sounding trumpets for him.

Hunk is one hundred percent on board with the idea and the three of them convince Shiro to use some of their funds to buy the instruments, it actually doesn’t take much to convince him and they end up buying two instruments, one for Lance and one for Hunk.

When they get back to the castle they find Lance and Allura in the common room, Lance sitting in the couch in his altean bath robe that still no one knows where he got from, and Allura sitting on the floor between Lance’s legs, the later combing Allura’s long silver hair as they chat.

Pidge bursts into the room excitedly and takes Lance’s gift off of Keith hands as he stands back trying to control his stupid feelings because he had no idea having his hair comb by Lance was something he wanted.

They smile at them as they come in and Lance looks up curiously as Pidge walks up to him with the poorly wrapped gift.

“We got something for the sick puppy!” She tells him, and even though he scoffs at the nickname his eyes sparkle as he takes the gift.

Allura stands and walks over to Shiro and they all watch as Lance unwraps the instrument. When he sees it, he gasps and looks at it from every angle before looking at them and blinking a few times,

“Guys…”

“Oh my god, we actually left him speechless” Shiro jokes and Hunk walks over to him and sits beside him showing him they got one for him too.

“Look, we can jam just like we did back home!” He tells him excitedly and Lance smiles at him, looking nostalgic for a second before blinking rapidly again as if to shake the feeling and beams at the group.

“Thank you Hunk, thanks everyone.”  He murmurs.

“Actually it was Keith’s idea”  Hunk tells him and before Keith can look away, think about how Hunk shouldn’t have said that or even blush, Lance looks at him surprised and grins so brightly Keith can´t do anything other than stand there and look at him.

“Thank you, buddy” he tells him softly and Keith smiles back at him and uses every ounce of him strength not to melt on the spot.

“Okay, okay enough with the thank yous, play something!” Pidge tells them excitedly and jumps on the couch opposite them with a little bounce.

“Wait! I’ll go look for Coran, he’ll want to hear this!” Allura says and hurries to find him.

While Allura is gone, Shiro and Keith take a sit beside Pidge and watch silently as Hunk and Lance get familiar with the instruments trying to find something resembling a solmization.

Keith knows he’s staring a bit to intently but he can’t help himself, Lance is looking down between the strings of his instrument and Hunk’s as they talk among themselves, his brows are furrowed in concentration, his hair is a mess for being in bed for so long and his cheeks and nose are still a little red from his fever making his freckles pop up and he looks so beautiful it’s breathtaking.

Allura and Coran comeback after a while and get comfortable in the couch too, Coran already tearing up a little at just the sound of them practicing.

A couple a minutes later Lance looks up at them, “Any requests?”

“Dude, are you kidding? You know what I want” Pidge immediately answers.

Lance chuckles and looks at Hunk who laughs and nods at them, fingers ready to start playing at Lance’s signal. Keith is so close to the edge of the couch he’s practically sitting on air and as he watches Lance take a deep breath he realizes he’d been holding his and exhales as the same time Lance does.

Finally, his long fingers start moving with purpose, strumming a rhythm and after a few notes Hunk joins him plucking.

Pidge slaps his leg a few times animatedly and whispers to him, “I fucking love this song”, and looking at Lance play Keith thinks he loves it too even though he has never heard the melody before.

The beat is animated and nice and they repeat the same notes a few times looking at each other to coordinate until they both smile and then, finally, Lance starts singing.

Keith had imagined numerous times what Lance’s singing voice would sound like, what song would he sing, how would his face look like when he did it, but nothing had prepared him to what it was actually like, his voice was husky and confident and it was so much better than he had ever imagined.

But not even in his wildest dreams did he consider the fact that Lance would sing in spanish, as he was doing right now.

He also had no idea that wanting Lance to speak to him in spanish was a thing he wanted too, and he begrudgingly added combing his hair and speaking in spanish to the list of things that he wanted Lance to do to him.

Hoy voy  Hoy voy a pasarla bien  Me voy a amplificar me voy a desvanecer  Nada me detiene  Nada que me pueda parar  Soy una frecuencia  Con un millon de megaheartz

Even though he´d never learn the language and didn’t understand what Lance was singing, the words sounded beautiful and he sang to them spiritedly, making different expressions that Keith supposed fit the lyrics, one of his feet bouncing with the rhythm and swaying lightly to the sides, spending a few seconds looking at each of them and then at his trumpguitar lingering between Hunk and Pidge longer than the others.

Hey  Hope  Vamos a confeccionar  La telaraña de nuestra realidad 

The strumming was always the same but Hunk’s plucking changed accompanying Lance’s singing perfectly, making the song so much better as he skillfully moved his fingers.

Beside him, Pidge was mouthing the song along with Lance, and Keith wondered if she knew spanish too or just the lyrics of this song. Her eyes shone with happiness as she looked at her friends and Keith couldn’t help but smile too.

Hundirse en la arena  Bajo la risa del mar  Volverse Sonambulo  Y no repetirse jamas

He casts a glance at the rest of the small public wondering what their expressions were. Coran’s eyes were shining with unshed tears, one hand covering his mouth and the other intertwined with Allura’s who had her head on Coran’s shoulder looking at Lance and Hunk with a tender smile on her lips. Shiro was grinning, nodding his head and tapping his knee with the rhythm.

The song slowed down and Hunk keeps playing while Lance starts tapping his thigh as percussion while he keeps singing now in a softer, slower pace and Keith is not sure how he’s even alive right now but then Lance looks at him and he’s dead, he’s sure, he just died.

Un arbol de look cerebral  Soñaba  Me enseñaba a respirar una gamma de felicidad  No tengas miedo de volar  Nada te va a lastimar  Planeador del alma

Lance is looking at him while he plays now, reaching an instrumental part of the song and he’s smiling at him and Keith want to smile back but all he manages to do is close his mouth which he didn’t even know was open.

Lance raises an eyebrow at him and his smile turns into a smirk, pleased that Keith seems to be impressed by his singing, not knowing Keith is more than impressed, he’s completely head over heels in love and mesmerised by him, he has been for a while now.

The eye contact lasts barely seconds before Lance goes back to looking at Hunk as the pace of the song picks up again and then he’s singing wholeheartedly what he assumes is the chorus of the song and Keith can’t fucking breathe.

Hoy voy  Hoy voy a crucificar  Todas las mentiras que flotan en alta mar  Traigo estrella en el hombro y relampagos salen de mi  Y las hormigas  Corren  Aterradas  Ja ja ja

Every time he thinks Lance can’t be any more beautiful he does shit like this, it´s infuriating.

The way he, Hunk and Pidge are looking at each other kind of makes him feel like him and the rest are intruding in something personal, a memory of them bonding back at the garrison, but Hunk and Lance make sure to include everyone as they smile and look at them and he can tell Pidge’s repetitive slaps on his thigh are her own way of including him in the moment.

But then, as the song is coming to an end Hunk and Lance give all their attention to Pigde, Lance nodding his head and Hunk mouthing her name and smiling.

Pidge laughs and shakes her head and as the last chorus rolls up Pidge stars singing along with Lance. Everyone is pleased and surprised and Lance’s smile is so big it’s actually making it hard for him to sing.

Un arbol de look cerebral  Soñaba  Me enseñaba a respirar una gamma de felicidad  No tengas miedo de volar  Nada te va a lastimar  Planeador del alma

Hunk lets out a soft ‘yeah’ and a blinding smile before he goes back to his plucking, looking at his little instrument in concentration as Lance sings the last verses of the song.

Eyes closed and brow furrowed as he strums and sings the last and loudest part of the song, his voice getting higher and higher, it’s not a perfect pitch but it’s beautiful all the same and it makes Keith’s heart ache.

No los dejen entrar  No los dejen destruir  No los dejen dominar

No los dejes entrar  No los dejes destruir  No los dejes dominar

The song ends and everyone starts applauding and complimenting the duo. Lance and Hunk laugh and blush at the praising, but the moment is gone when Lance’s laugh turns into a coughing fit and he announces he’s going back to bed.

He smiles and messes up Pidge’s hair in his way out and Keith’s relieved to watch him go, he knows Lance still needs rest to fully recover from his cold but honestly Keith needs time to recover from whatever the hell that was too.

He takes a deep breath and looks around the room, Coran is fully crying now and he’s hugging Hunk who is laughing surprised that Coran actually managed to lift him of the ground.

Shiro is looking around the room too and when they make eye contact he smiles widely and winks at him making Keith scoff and look away. Shiro knew exactly how he felt about Lance and took every opportunity he had to hassle him about it, but luckily never in front of the others.

Allura is looking at Hunk and Coran, she’s also smiling but it’s doesn’t quite reach her eyes, she looks nostalgic and Keith wants to reach for her but Shiro beats him to it as he intertwines their fingers together and Allura grins at him assuring him she’s fine.

Pidge is actually looking at him when he checks on her,

“Nice singing” He tells her and she smirks and thanks him.

“You know spanish too?”

“Not really,” Pidge says, “I just know the songs they played back at the garrison, learned their meaning just in case Lance was singing something weird, you never know with him”

Keith nods absently thinking about what others songs would Lance sing, if they I’d get to listen to the rest of them, if maybe they could do this every once in a while and if they could teach the rest of them how to play, though Lance should definitely be the only one singing.

He should talk to him about it, he thinks. So he goes back to the kitchen and grabs a glass of whatever is they drink to hydrate to give Lance and ask him if he could translate the song for him.

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1° Últimos Dias by Zoe is the song Lance is singing! 

2° im sorry these always end so bad, i never know how to finish them...

3° im not sorry i wrote yet another draft about keith pining and lance singing, i needed to get this out of my head so i can focus on the mermaid au