Welcome to Siren's Song. Many thanks as usual to my cheerleaders, editors, proofers and the ones that yell at me to "get a move on and finish the story dang it!", CMS, BlueLionSTL, Wade Wells, and Xia Cheyenne.

As usual I make no claims to Voltron or any other WEP characters. A section of Homer's The Odyssey was also borrowed and depicted.

Enjoy Chapter 1

Mertz

Siren's Song:

Allura runs her hand along Keith's abdominals, relishing the rigid firmness of the muscles that are jumping beneath her fingers. She nuzzles her cheek against his upper chest as the sound of his voice fills the air, "Are you still listening Allura?"

Tilting her head up, Allura looks into the face of her best friend, lover and husband and smiles at him, "Of course I'm listening…but I'm also enjoying touching you."

Keith lightly shakes his head at her while smiling, "Well, stop it or we won't be reading for much longer…"

Her smile becomes more seductive, "I don't have a problem with that…"

He chuckles at her, "Minx…" then turns his eyes back to the book to begin reading aloud again.

Allura sighs and closes her eyes as his warm voice fills her mind.

'So far so good,' said she, when I had ended my story, 'and now pay
attention to what I am about to tell you- heaven itself, indeed, will
recall it to your recollection. First you will come to the Sirens
who enchant all who come near them. If anyone unwarily draws in too
close and hears the singing of the Sirens, his wife and children will
never welcome him home again, for they sit in a green field and warble
him to death with the sweetness of their song. There is a great heap
of dead men's bones lying all around, with the flesh still rotting
off them. Therefore pass these Sirens by, and stop your men's ears
with wax that none of them may hear; but if you like you can listen
yourself, for you may get the men to bind you as you stand upright
on a cross-piece half way up the mast, and they must lash the rope's
ends to the mast itself, that you may have the pleasure of listening.
If you beg and pray the men to unloose you, then they must bind you
faster.

Allura sits upright, "Wait, the Sirens' song lured sailors to their deaths?"

Keith smiles at his wife of a month. He has been reading Greek myths and lately, Homer's Odyssey to Allura in the evenings. She is fascinated by the tales and constantly asks him questions, "It wasn't the song that they sang so much as the sound of their voices. Many men drowned, jumping off of their ships to be near them or directing their ships toward them and crashing on the rocks."

He watches as she twists her bottom lip with her fingers while deep in thought. She finally raises her eyes to him again, "So were they beautiful as well?"

Keith laughs, "No, actually they were uglier than sin, but men couldn't resist the sound of their voices."

Allura shakes her head, "I find that one hard to believe…"

Keith puts the book aside and pulls her into his arms, his tone becomes very warm and seductive, "Oh I believe it…all you have to do is whisper to me the right way Allura and I can't resist you."

A seductive smile crosses Allura's lips as Keith flips them over on the mattress to show her.

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Allura yawns and stretches as she awakens the next morning to find her already dressed husband lying beside her, leaning on his elbow as he watches her sleep. Keith smiles and leans down to kiss her lips, "Good morning…"

Allura wraps her arms around Keith and tries to pull him down on top of her. He chuckles as he pulls back, "Sorry love…we don't have time this morning. Practice is in a half hour and you need to eat and dress quick."

Groaning loudly she complains, "Then why didn't you wake me earlier?"

Keith's smile becomes warmer, "Because I love watching you sleep and the way you stretch when you first wake up."

Allura turns her nude body toward Keith and rubs against him, "Sure practice can't be later today?" as she nibbles on his lips.

Eyes darkening with desire, Keith fastens his lips onto Allura's and soon sweeps his tongue into her mouth. A soft moan escapes Allura as Keith releases her lips to kiss his way down her body. As he fastens onto her nipple, she arches her back to push more of it into his mouth while his hand massages the other breast.

Soon, Keith continues his way down her body and begins kissing and teasing her folds with his tongue. Allura writhes underneath him, twisting her body on the sheets as Keith's tongue darts in and out of her body. When the pleasure becomes unbearable and she climaxes, Allura throws back her head and cries out Keith's name.

Keith smiles as he rises above her once more. He kisses Allura lightly then whispers, "Now you only have time to dress…"

He jumps up off of the bed and laughs as he ducks the pillow Allura threw at him. He smiles wickedly at her, "See you in the control room in fifteen minutes." then quickly leaves the room.

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Allura quickly walks into the control room twenty minutes later to find Keith standing amongst the other Voltron Force members, an impatient look on all of their faces. Keith arches a brow at her, "Problems being on time?"

Allura smiles serenely at him, "Only when my husband distracts me from rising on time…"

As Lance, Hunk and Pidge chuckle, Keith tilts his head to the side a bit, "I'll have to have a word with the man…"

Allura purrs at him, "I'm sure he will be "up" and about later."

As Lance's laughter turns to choking and Keith shakes his head at Allura before saying, "Alright, enough…let's get moving."

The other three run to their tubes quickly, Allura pauses next to Keith to lean against him and kiss his lips softly, "Sorry Captain…"

Keith's eyes are dancing with laughter as he kisses her, "You will pay for that later Majesty…"

Allura's eyes become seductive as she stares up at him, "You better keep your word Commander…"

Keith laughs at her and swats her in the butt, "Get moving Allura."

A smile covers Allura's face as she turns away to run for her tube, closely followed by Keith.

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Following Keith's directions, Allura turns Blue lion toward the rising sun and the targets set up for practice. These are new targets created last week by Hunk and Pidge. Not only would they move to avoid shots fired upon them, they would return fire, forcing the pilots to think faster and simulating an actual fire fight.

"Alright Allura, come in at 10 o'clock and open fire."

"Yes Captain…" Allura directs Blue at the angle Keith requested and fires proton missiles at the targets. She swears under her breath as they move to avoid her shot and then swiftly fire back at her. She spins in the air to avoid being hit and flies back into formation with the others.

Keith's voice comes across the comm. irritated, "Allura, you have to adjust your targeting in anticipation of their movements…we've been over this."

Allura sighs as she listens to Keith's instructions for the third time. Of all the members of the force, Allura has been having the most trouble with the targets. She doesn't understand why, in a fight she doesn't have problems hitting her targets, but these new targets built by Hunk and Pidge have just been killing her.

Keith finishes up by saying, "Now try again…"

Lance's voice interrupts the rest of Keith's words, "Take it easy Keith…"

Keith growls at Lance, "Stay out of it Lieutenant, she has to be able to hit them."

They listen as Lance grumbles under his breath but the only word they manage to make out is "asshole…"

A small smile crosses Allura's face as Keith's irate tone comes across, "Want to repeat that one Lieutenant?"

"Not at all, Commander…"

Keith shakes his head before directing his next comments back to Allura, "Alright Allura, try it again and remember what I told you."

Allura sighs deeply then heads back toward the targets. She adjusts her targeting and yells, "Proton missiles!" then fires. As one target blows up, Allura smiles until the other two return fire. Allura tries to flip Blue to avoid the missiles, but doesn't react in time.

As Blue lion is hit by the missiles and plummets to the ground, the last thing she hears is Keith's voice yelling her name.

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Allura slowly awakens to a pounding in her head and the sounds of machines beeping around her. She slowly forces her eyes open but is having trouble focusing on the people around her. She closes her eyes again as she hears a voice she knows, "She is coming around…"

Reaching up, she tries to touch her head only to have her hand taken and pulled away. She moans quietly before trying to open her eyes again and mumbling, "Lance…"

When she can finally focus her eyes she sees him smiling at her, but it isn't the face she remembers. Lance has a wide scar running down the length of his face on the left side and a patch covering the eye. With his long hair pulled back in a pony tail, he reminds her of the pictures of pirates Keith had once shown her in one of his books.

Confused, she glances down and notices him sitting in an electric wheel chair. Her eyes rise quickly back to his face, "Lance?"

He squeezes the hand he is holding, "I'm here my Queen. You are alright. Your crash in Blue lion has given you a concussion, but you will recover." A look of sadness enters his eyes, "However, King Michael didn't make it."

Not understanding, Allura tries to sit up only to have a nurse on her other side push her back down in the bed by the shoulders, "My Queen, you must not get up yet. Please rest."

She pushes the nurse away from her and turns back to Lance, "Who is Michael?" before he can answer her, she adds, "Why are you in a wheel chair? Where is Keith?"

Lance's jaw drops for a moment. He quickly closes his mouth again before answering her, "Michael is or was your husband Allura. He died this morning when he crashed Black lion in the attack by Lotor." He watches her closely as confusion fills her eyes before adding, "I was left paralyzed years ago after a crash in Red lion. Keith isn't on Arus anymore Allura, he hasn't been for quite some time."

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Allura pulls away from the hands that try to grab her and stop her. After Lance's comments in MedTech she had gotten out of the bed, thrown on a bathrobe and marched out of the room amidst the yelling of Lance, Dr. Gorma and several nurses.

She enters castle control with Lance wheeling fast beside her. She stops when she finds Hunk, Pidge and someone she doesn't know up by the command module. Looking down she finds Lance beside her, grabbing her hand once more. She interrupts him before he has a chance to speak, "I don't understand any of this Lance."

Lance squeezes her hand, "Please my Queen, go back to MedTech."

Allura stands in the middle of castle control, her fingers pushing on the growing pain in her temple. She looks back up to the men standing before the console, "I don't understand, where is Coran?"

Lance shifts his wheel chair closer to Allura, "Don't you remember my Queen? Within days of marrying King Michael and becoming Queen you had him retired." He watches Allura closely as the confusion continues to plague her eyes, "He lived out his retirement in one of the local villages before dying last year."

Before she can form her next question she hears a small squeal and feels her legs being tackled. Her eyes drift down to a little girl, three or four years old by Allura's guess. Aware of the deep breaths inhaled by the men in the room, Allura bends down to pull the hands from around her legs and lowers herself to the little girl's level. She smiles at her, "Hello honey…" but is cut off by the maid who has run into the room.

The maid stops horrified, her hand covering her mouth briefly before gasping, "Oh my God, I am so sorry your Majesty. She ran down the hall and got away from me, please don't fire me."

Allura looks up confused, "Fire you for what?"

Wringing her hands the maid blathers on, "I know you have strict orders about how she is to be taken care of and not allowed to leave the nursery. But it is so nice outside today that I was taking her for a walk in the gardens. If you will please forgive me, it will never happen again."

Tentatively stepping forward the maid makes to grab the little girl, but Allura puts up her hand to stop her as the child says, "Mommy" and wraps her small arms around Allura's neck.

Eyes wide with shock, Allura looks over at Lance. He studies her closely before saying, "Allura that is your daughter, Princess Anna."

Allura's eyes go back to the child as she pulls her away from her. Dressed in a pink dress, she has curly blond hair and large dark brown eyes that look out of a cherubic face with full pink lips. Allura reaches out to tenderly touch her face, her voice is full of wonder, "I have a daughter?"

Lance signals to the maid to take the child. As the maid picks up the little girl, Allura begins to object only to have Lance once again grab her hand, "My Queen, obviously you are suffering some kind of amnesia from the accident. I suggest you return to MedTech so Dr. Gorma can look you over."

Pulling her hand away from Lance, Allura stands back up to eye what is left of the Voltron Force. Hunk and Pidge watch her closely, almost as if they are waiting for some kind of explosion from her. Her eyes drift to the man she doesn't know. Lieutenant Anthony Johnson stands behind Hunk and Pidge, his eyes gazing at her with uncertainty.

Turning back to Lance, she inquires, "You said Keith wasn't here. Where is he? Why would he leave?"

Lance runs his hand through his hair agitated, pulling some of it out of the pony tail, "Allura, Keith hasn't been here for the last five years. He was transferred back to Earth after some kind of argument with you and King Michael."

Allura pushes her fingers into her eyes as her head throbs. She manages to demand, "Get him back here Lance. We need him."

Lance signals to Hunk before answering her, "I'll call Garrison and see if I can locate him. Please Majesty, let Hunk guide you back to MedTech."

Nodding, Allura takes Hunk's arm and allows him to lead her out of the room. Pidge walks up to Lance, "What the hell is going on Lance? It is one thing not to remember, but she doesn't even act like Queen Allura. On any normal day that maid would have been fired on the spot as Allura yelled at someone to take Anna back to the nursery."

Lance pinches his lower lip in thought before shifting his gaze to Pidge, "I know…something weird is going on. In the meantime though, I better follow orders and locate Keith."

Pidge shudders, "All hell is going to break loose again…"

Grimacing, Lance nods, "I know. It isn't like Keith left here on good terms with Allura."

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Two days later Lance sits in his wheelchair on the landing pad waiting for the transport to finish its landing procedures and the door to open. As it slowly lowers to the ground, Lance can feel tension fill him. He hasn't seen or spoken to Keith in years. After his call to Garrison, he had been assured by Admiral Graham's staff that Keith would be on the first transport out, but hadn't spoken to him personally before he left.

Keith's parting words to him five years ago still fills his ears, "Be careful Lance, one day she will fuck you over the same way she did me…the bitch." While Allura hadn't fucked Lance over, life was never dull and Allura was always the same, a very demanding, dominate woman who would think nothing of putting you in your place if you were unfortunate enough to earn her displeasure. As far as Keith's pet name for her, most of the staff at one point or another had referred to Allura as a bitch, although never within her hearing.

The door finishes lowering and Lance watches as Commander Keith Kogane slowly walks down the ramp with his bag in one hand, a grim, determined look in his eyes. He stops in front of Lance and lets his bag drop onto the ground next to Lance's chair. His darks eyes run up and down Lance, taking in his appearance before he finally speaks, "You know…you still look like shit Lieutenant."

A wry smile crosses Lance's face, it would be alright. He finally returns the compliment, "Are you always this much of an asshole? It's amazing you ever managed to convince a woman to marry you." Lance looks behind Keith then back at him, "Speaking of which, where is your wife? I would have thought she would come with you."

A dark look crosses Keith's face, "Leaving me…and leave it at that Lieutenant."

Lance winces before looking at Keith apologetically, "Sorry."

Keith waves it off, "Don't worry about it, I never should have married her to begin with. I figured that one out within months of marrying her." He looks up at the castle for a moment before looking back down on Lance, "So do you want to tell me why, after five years, the bitch demanded that I return? Last time I spoke to her she had said she never wanted to see or hear from me ever again."

Lance grimaces, "Something weird is going on Keith. Two days ago she woke up after crashing Blue lion and it was like a totally different person inhabits her body. She doesn't remember Michael, Anna or the last five years or more. But it is more than that, her habits and personality is totally different."

A look of puzzlement crosses Keith's face, "Different how?"

Lance takes a deep breath and releases it, "It would be easier to show you than to explain it. Let's just say your nickname of "the bitch", doesn't quite fit anymore."

Before Keith can form another question, Lance turns his chair and leads the way into the castle. Keith picks up his bag and quickly follows him.