Just to help clear things up -

This is a modern AU where the paladins have kids.

Shiro's kids - Kogyo and Blaise (Blitz)

Matt (Pidge's brother) 's kids - Ryan and Autumn

Lance and Keith's kid - Charlotte (Charlie)

Allura's kid - Alisdair (Ali)

Enjoy!


Daddy™ (Ryan) Has entered the chatroom.

Daddy™ (Ryan) / 12:34 pm / :

Hey losers guess whos coming back from college for the first time in forever?

Baby Blue (Charlie) / 12:34 pm / :

foR THE FIRST TIME IN FOREVERRR

Daddy™(Ryan) / 12:34 pm / :

sTOP

Spasticspark24 (Blitz) / 12:35 pm / :

I thought you were too stupid for college

Daddy™ (Ryan) / 12:35 pm / :

Stop harassing me I'm being attacked

Baby Blue (Charlie) / 12:35 pm / :

Whos comin back tho is it Kogyo?

Spasticspark24 (Blitz) / 12:35 pm / :

I told u guys last night he was comin back? So it can't be him

Daddy™ (Ryan) / 12:35 pm / :

Yeah but liek guys I got a phone call this morning and apparently Autumn has decided to come back for summer break

Spasticspark24 (Blitz) / 12:36 pm / :

What?

Baby Blue (Charlie) / 12:36 pm / :

Holy shit he returns

Prince Ali (Alisdair) Has entered the chatroom.

Prince Ali (Alisdair) / 12:36 pm / :

whats going on ?

Baby Blue (Charlie) / 12:36 pm / :

Apparently Autumn's coming back from college !

Prince Ali (Alisdair) / 12:36 pm / :

for good?!

Baby Blue (Charlie) / 12:36 pm / :

NO no just for the summer

Spasticspark24 (Blitz) / 12:37 pm / :

Still though, holy shit

Prince Ali (Alisdair) / 12:37 pm / :

holy shit indeed

Spasticspark24 (Blitz) / 12:37 pm / :

Whens he gonna be back?

Daddy™ (Ryan) / 12:38 pm / :

Around tomorrow night

Baby Blue (Charlie) / 12:38 pm / :

? Why did he call so last minute?

Daddy™ (Ryan) / 12:38 pm / :

Only god knows, babe

Baby Blue (Charlie) / 12:38 pm / :

Wtf

Daddy™ (Ryan) / 12:39 pm / :

I gtg, mom's dragging me left and right trying to clean the house up. Aunt Pidge is coming too, apparently. Everyone's excited.

Baby Blue (Charlie) / 12:39 pm / :

Pfft.

Spasticspark24 (Blitz) / 12:39 pm / :

Well, with luck my dad will let me drag my brother and I over to your place too. We'll come save you Ryan

Baby Blue (Charlie) / 12:39 pm / :

NO DONT BRING KOGYO OVER ARE YOU FUCKING INSANE?

Spasticspark24 (Blitz) / 12:39 pm / :

Woah holy shit calm down? What's the big deal?

Prince Ali (Alisdair) / 12:41 pm / :

bringing kogyo is a bad idea. autumn isn't a very social person, blitz, you know this. he'll be tired, stressed, and seeing kogyo will make it so much worse. just give him time - him and kogyo will work things out together, alright?

Baby Blue (Charlie) / 12:41 pm / :

PLus they'll mcfucking kill each other.

Spasticspark24 (Blitz) / 12:42 pm / :

I don't really understand but whatever? Idk I'll drop by then later.

Baby Blue (Charlie) / 12:41 pm / :

Ryan try to get out of cleaning so I can see youuuuu

Daddy™ (Ryan) / 12:42 pm / :

I can't babe just come over

Baby Blue (Charlie) / 12:42 pm / :

Meehrhjhjkhdfs lfskjdfhlsdj hI dont want to clean tho

Daddy™ (Ryan) / 12:42 pm / :

That's your only option love

Spasticspark24 (Blitz) / 12:42 pm / :

Wait would Ryan actually make you clean?

Baby Blue (Charlie) / 12:43 pm / :

No his mom will

Daddy™ (Ryan) / 12:43 pm / :

Shes not wrong

Baby Blue (Charlie) / 12:43 pm / :

Hnnnnggg I'll be over in a minute

Daddy™ (Ryan) / 12:43 pm / :

Can't wait

Daddy™ (Ryan) has left the chatroom.

Ryan slipped his phone into his back pocket quickly, picking back up the broom he squeezed in the palm of his hand. Looking up at the door, he half expected Charlie to come bursting through any second screaming his name. He wouldn't be surprised - in fact, to him it would be kind of cute. But as his attention focused towards the door, his mother came up and smacked him with another broom she had. Ryan winced.

"If you have time to lean, you have time to clean! Stop daydreaming and get to work!" She smiled playfully as Ryan rolled his eyes.

"Daaaadd, Mom is being mean." Ryan playfully whined, with a sly smirk.

"Emma, be nice to our son." Matt barely muttered as he looked up from his laptop, taking a sip of coffee. In one swoop, Emma took the coffee cup and held it in the air. Matt's head whirled around to look up at his wife, who was smirking triumphantly.

"Honey, I need you to clean the kitchen, ok love?" She asked with a voice like silk. Her persuasive voice made it hard to disagree with her, and with her grip on his coffee cup, Matt felt he had no choice but to listen to her. Grumpily, he shut off his laptop and lazily reached for his cup, but she held it back from him. She looked up at him with the sweetest sparkle in her eyes, and with a soft purr whispered "Pleeeeaaaseee?"

"Finnneeee." Matt huffed, giving up. He chuckled lightly, a wide smile on his face as Emma returned his coffee cup. Giving him a quick kiss, she began to move out of the kitchen, but not without stealing the computer from the table. "I'm kidnapping this!" She called as she began to head up the stairs. Ryan smirked as he pulled out his phone, about to check where Charlie was, but not before he heard his mother shout, "Ryan ! Finish the bathroom!"

He flinched, being busted, and began to shuffle sourly back to his cleaning room. The front door, however, suddenly swung open, and stepping inside was Charlie. She wore her traditional white and blue T-shirt and wrinkled capri jeans, with her dark brown hair twirled up into a messy bun. Her skin was tan, but not as much as her father, Lance's was. She stepped in and took off her tennis shoes, saying hi to Matt before her blue-grey eyes began to search for Ryan.

"He's cleaning the bathroom, if you're wondering." Matt looked up from a plate he had grabbed, and began to finish filling up the sink which he had started. Charlie nodded gratefully and began to move around the dining room table, pulling up her jeans a little more.

"Hey, Ryan, I'm here." Charlie called as she stepped into the doorway of the bathroom. Ryan glanced over, tugging his shirt back down to make it more comfortable. Bending over wrinkled one's shirt up and he didn't like that. "Hey, Charlie. What's up?" He asked with a smirk as he continued to scrub the bathtub. Charlie pulled herself onto the counter of the sink with a small "Hmnph" , and crossed her legs. She watched him blissfully, while his grumpy look remained absolute.

"So… Autumn's coming back." Charlie said, to try and bring up a conversation. Ryan looked at her before pointing to the cleaning supplies.

"Clean the sink while you talk. And yeah, he is…" He breathed.

Charlie rolled her eyes but slipped off, grabbing the spare pair of gloves and began to spray the bleach on the porcelain countertop. Quickly, she grabbed the scrub brush and dug it into the counter, continuing to move in a sawlike motion to try and scrub it clean.

"The last time he was here he left on a bad note." Charlie pressed again, making Ryan shudder. Though Charlie wasn't sure if that was because of the water getting into his glove or not.

"Yeah. He was really hurt, by Kogyo, our parents, etc. He just wanted to leave. But to be gone for this long…? Doesn't it seem a bit much?" He muttered unhappily. "I love my brother, but he's been gone for a long time. Too long. Without hardly any calls, no holiday trips, nothing. I was really worried about him, Charlie. He could have gotten seriously hurt up there. You know how he is."

"Yes, but that's what makes it so great that he's back for the summer. He's going to see you again. He's going to see me, He's going to see Ali, He's gonna see Blitz, and he's going to see Kogyo. And yeah, it will hurt to see him again. But the two can work it out, like they should have a long time ago. A VERY long time ago." Charlie laughed softly at the end of her sentence, a warm smile on her face. "And yes, it will hurt to see him. But we have healed, and I'm sure so has he. Accept him with open arms. That's the wonderful thing about having a sibling - you guys can always make up."

"Says the only child of our gang." He joked and glanced over his shoulder at her. Charlie rolled her eyes in response, again, for the third time.

"I know, I know. My dads' didn't really want a second child - they were happy with just me."

"Who made that decision, Lance, or Keith?"

"I'm pretty sure Keith did, he was probably tired of having a screaming daughter run around the house speaking in spanish." She laughed. "And mainly in swear words at that. Lance thought that was the funniest thing to teach me that."

Ryan chuckled at the thought. "I remember when we were kids. Shiro took all of us swimming, and Aunt Pidge came along too, just to help keep an eye on us. You pushed me into the pool and Shiro had to dive in to save me. You claimed "the wind did it". He snickered brightly, rinsing out the bathtub, making sure the sides were squeaky clean as they had been. Charlie snickered.

"I mean it was! The wind pushed you in, it wasn't me, what are you talking about?" She joked with a teasing sly smirk.

"Oh, Charlie! You're here!" Emma poked her head into the bathroom. Her bandana was on tight, and a warm welcoming smile beamed on her face.

"Hello, Mrs. Holt. Yeah, I decided to drop by. I wanted to hang out with Ryan, but it seems he's busy right now. " Charlie brushed back her bangs from her face.

"He should be cleaning the bathroom, not you, sweetie. Come with me, you can help clean the living room." Emma reached out her hand for Charlie to take, but she shook her head.

"If it's alright, Mrs. Holt, I'd prefer to stay in here to help Ryan out." She smiled sweetly.

"Ohh, I see." Emma winked at the girl, before moving away from the door. "Just make sure to close the bathroom door and use protection!" She called.

Charlie's face turned beat red.

"MOM!" Ryan shouted, his face bright red as well. The two young adults were honestly the kinkiest and most graphic couple out of their group, being the two to say the most sexual jokes and innuendos and such. Normally, hearing that wouldn't fluster them, but this was coming from Ryan's MOTHER. It was really embarrassing.

"Your mother doesn't really think we're, like… sex-crazed, does she?" Charlie blinked rapidly, the red color in her cheeks brightly plastered on her face.

"No, I think she was just teasing us." He nervously chuckled, face still bright red.

Charlier still wasn't sure, but put her nervousness back towards cleaning. She scraped at the countertop quickly, cleaning it up before moving onto working underneath the sink. Pulling out everything, and organising it, she snickered when she emptied it out.

"You just love cleaning, don't you?" She laughed at Ryan, who looked up from cleaning the toilet. He had taken care of the bathtub and now had to progress to more within the room. He frowned.

"I actually can't wait to stop just so I can destroy Autumn when he gets here." He chuckled with a wide smirk. Charlie smiled at him sweetly, taking in his features as she normally did. His crooked smile matched well with his beautiful green eyes, and sloppy brown hair. He was slouching right beside her, and his pale skin matched well with her dark tan. Everytime he said her name, or flashed a smile, or said any stupid thing ever, made Charlie fall for him again and again. She let out a sigh and pulled him close by his shirt, her lips brushing against his in a cute and sweet simple kiss.

"You really are adorable, you know that?" She beamed at him when she pulled away to look at him. Their eyes locked as he kissed her forehead in return.

"Yeah, I know." He snickered simply.

Charlie giggled.

"Cmon, we need to finish so we can actually do something today." She smiled as she got back to work.

09:37 pm.

That's what the clock on the oven said.

"I should probably call my dads. Lance is probably losing his shit right now, haha." Charlie pulled out her phone as she laid on the couch. Ryan was flipping through the channels on TV, laying across her with his head on her tummy softly. He looked tired. Charlie proceeded to play with his hair while she used her other hand to press the call button on her phone, and patiently placed the phone by her ears to listen to it ring. She took a baited breath and waited to hear her father's voice.

"Hello?"

"Hey, papa." Charlie said with a soft and gentle sigh.

"CHARLOTTE!" The scream was loud enough to make her yank the phone away from her ear, and for Ryan to hear. "WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN?! WHERE ARE YOU NOW?!"

"Papa, calm down!" Charlie wrinkled her nose as Lance continued to shout into the phone.

"DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT TIME IT IS?!"

"Uhm… 9:30?"

"THEN WHY THE HELL ARE YOU NOT HOME?! TRAFFIC COULD-" Lance was halted when someone else entered the room. After a moment, there was bickering, and a defeated "Talk to your daughter." as the phone was shoved at Keith.

"Hey, Charlie. Where are you?"

"I'm at Ryan's. Dad's losing his mind because it's 9:30 and I'm not back yet."

"...Your 21, you can do whatever you want, even if that means staying over there."

"I know, he's just worrying. "

"He'll always worry, even when you're 40 and have your own kids. I'll talk to him, don't worry. Are you gonna stay over there?"

"I don't know yet." Charlie let out a sigh and ran her fingers through her hair. "Debating on it. I might, just to keep Ryan company."

"Alright, well, whatever you go with, just let us know. "

"Thanks, dad." Charlie yawned. "I'm gonna go. I'll text you what I decide."

"Ok, kiddo. Have fun."

"Yep."

She pulled her phone away and pressed the end call button, letting out a defeated sigh. Ryan looked up, chin resting on her stomach as she looked down and played with his hair. He hummed softly as she brushed her thumb against his cheek and smiled at him.

"Are you going to stay the night?"

"I'm not quite sure, actually. I don't want to move, I know that much."

"I don't either." He chuckled plainly. He could lay like this forever with her, honestly.

As they relaxed a little more, it wasn't long till the two began to drift asleep. But with every moment that Charlie's eyes flickered open a little more, and time shifted slowly, she began to fall deeper and deeper into sleep. Eventually, she nodded off, falling asleep quickly.

The clock shifted to 1:24 am when there was a knock at the door.

Ryan flinched, jumping up from Charlie, startled. He was a light sleeper, and when hearing the door, Charlie simply rolled over after Ryan had got up. He rubbed his eyes tiredly and headed towards the door. There was another knock. Who the hell could it be this early!? It was 1 am on a saturday morning.

Ryan frowned, unlocking the door and twisting the knob open, and stared wide eyed as to who was at the door.

"..Autumn?!"