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Staying Close

Pairing: Zarkon/Kolivan Rating: T Content Warnings: N/A Word Count: 1449 Summary:  Zarkon and Kolivan are on vacation in the mountains, and the climate is not agreeing with either of them. For different reasons.

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Excerpt:

“Your Highness! Could you slow down, please?”

At the sound of Kolivan’s voice, Zarkon’s ears twitched, and he looked over his shoulder as his bodyguard came over the crest of the hill. They looked rather frazzled, fur standing on end and fluffed up in anxiety.

“You should be staying close ,” Kolivan reminded him sternly, frowning as they stopped at his side. “I can’t protect you if you’re running off on me!”

*rubs hands together* A part of the Blade!Shiro series. 

In the beginning of the Great War, they met almost daily,Zarkon drawing Kolivan into the astral plane. They sat in the transparentfield, ruffling Black’s fur and talking about the horrors they both witnessed,Zarkon as the Black Paladin, Kolivan as the leader of the Blade of Marmora.

They embraced and vented. They sought solace in each other’spresence during a time of absolute despair. Horror and destruction sweptthrough the galaxies Voltron once protected, and both were at a loss of how tostop it.

Eventually, Zarkon lacked the strength to call for Kolivan.Later, he lacked the will.

Ten thousand years passed, and Kolivan thought he wouldnever see the astral plane again – until one night, he opened his eyes to seethe transparent purple landscape. Shiro had been talking, sitting at hisconsole and muttering something about Keith and a trip to the space port and atail piercing. So Kolivan had been tempted to think the cub had brought him heresubconsciously, but then he heard the thundering footsteps behind him and thegravelly voice that had once been smooth and warm.

“He’s been here, in this realm,” Zarkon said. “I have felthis presence with my lion.”

There have bean a few mentions here and there in some of the memes I’ve answered, but here, let me give you some more:

Kolivan never expected to court or be courted by anyone even close to the royal line. So every time Zarkon showed him even the slightest bit of fond attention, he clammed up and tripped over his words.Zarkon was originally drawn by Kolivan’s striking features, but became really determined to court him after watching him lead a strategic fleet and also catching sight of him in hand-to-hand spars in the training fields.

Once they’re together, Kolivan is incredibly physically affectionate. He believes he’ll never quite have the way with words that Zarkon does, but he makes up for it with forehead touches, nuzzling and not-so-accidental brushes.

Zarkon dotes on Kolivan, and it’s never to make a show of the difference in their upbringing, but because he wants Kolivan to know nothing is too good for him. He’s even more insistent on it when he starts leaving the planet with the rest of the Voltron Paladins. Kolivan receives souvenirs and exotic food every time Zarkon returns.

Zarkon is not above sneaking away from the throne to spend time with Kolivan, making the other advisors in the court fret and fuss. Kolivan also fusses “You should not be here” when he sneaks into Kolivan’s military quarters. But never gets much further than that. Kolivan doesn’t really want to argue.

prompt from @revasnaslan

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