Me: I really suck at this, I keep getting into new things and it's honestly not good for me, but when I get the chance I will be updating my other stories, I just go through these periods of obsession where it's hard for me to think of anything else, and write now it's with Voltron. This story I'm writing is going to a Klance fic, but it will go slow, so they wont happen till closer to the end since Lance doesn't know his feelings for Keith till someone is about to take the guy away from him.

Summary: When a mysterious girl shows up after Shiro's disappearance, everyone becomes suspicious of her, but as time goes on a certain red paladin seems to be growing closer to the stranger and the blue paladin is unhappy and confused.

Disclaimer: I don't own Voltron, but If I did, it would be a rollercoaster of emotions.

Out of Line

Chapter 1: Introduction

Today was an unusual day, but what had made this day different was the fact that it was the first time they didn't have Shiro to guide them, and from what they had learned, Shiro had wanted Keith to become the leader of the paladins if anything were to happen to him. Lance couldn't believe what he was hearing, he had thought that Shiro would have placed a much calmer individual under the reigns of the black lion, but instead he picked Keith. Keith was a hot head and was sometimes unstable and Lance just didn't quite understand the potential that Shiro had seen in the red paladin. Yet, here they were with Keith becoming their new leader.

"I don't get it." Lance stated, with this being the fourteen time he had mentioned it that day.

"We get it Lance, I don't understand why you're so hung up on this," A smaller teen spoke up as she pushed up her glasses. "Shiro had chosen Keith personally, you have to let it go."

"Pidge, this is Keith we are talking about," Lance exclaimed. "He's not leader material, he would much rather shoot first and ask questions later."

"Give him a break, the guy isn't having the best of times right now," A taller individual had said as he walked into the room from the corridor. "He just found out he was part Galra, and now he's being forced into a leadership position."

Lance bit his tongue before even trying to defend his actions. He had been like this since Shiro's disappearance, everyone has been acting strange since it happened. Pidge would constantly be working trying to figure out if Shiro was still out there somewhere, Hunk was constantly worrying about everyone and was doing his best to make subsistence for everyone, Allura and Coran were both discussing the matter at hand and trying to find a temporary replacement for the red paladin so that Keith can take Shiro's place, and as for Keith, he's probably been doing the worse out of everyone. Keith had barely slept for the past few days and had even refused to eat. No one has really seen or heard from Keith much except for when they had to pull together as a team to help out anyone who needed it. Lance admitted that he was being a bit harsh on Keith, but for some reason he couldn't stop himself from insulting his leadership, and his new acquired role as the black paladin. Everyone even started to think that Lance must really dislike Keith for him to act this way, but that wasn't the case at all. Lance never hated Keith, and probably never would; he was a rival to him, and a person he truly respected. Shiro was a hero that Lance had practically worshiped even before they had gone on this crazy journey, and the fact that his hero chose Keith, his known rival, kind of killed his ego a bit. The team was strained as of right now, and everyone was growing distant from each other with each having a different motive. Pidge wanted to find her family, Hunk wanted to go back home as did Lance if he were to be honest, and as for Keith, he didn't know what to do. Keith was orphaned at a young age so he never really knew what it was like to really live in a family environment until he became a paladin and had shared all these different adventures with the paladins, but now he had nothing he would be able to do. He didn't have a place to call home, and now with the knowledge that he's part Galran, it makes it all the harder for him to move on from what they've known for the past few months. The team was in a rut, and it needed to be fixed, or the paladins wouldn't be able to move forward.

Meanwhile, on a galran ship, a young girl whom had the looks of an altean was being summoned to the main chambers. Her blue eyes glaring at the two galra soldier's who were dragging her to the chamber where their lord was waiting. Her hands were cuffed together and she had no means of escaping the chains and locks that bound her to the two soldiers. She sighed softly as they reached their destination.

"Lucy, it's so nice to see you," A male with long white hair looked down at her as he smiled showing off his pointed teeth. "What do we owe this honor?"

"You bastard, you know why I'm here, now where is my father!" She yelled with her blonde hair swinging behind her with each movement.

"Now that's not my name." He smirked.

"Prince Lotor, where is my father." She sighed as she said his name with venom.

"Your father is fine, he survived when that bomb had gone off, "He answered with a hint of boredom in his tone. "I'm a bit bored with him though, so maybe I should just kill him."

Lucy's eyes widened as she started to struggle against her restraints. Each movement she made, the chains clanked together sounding out her frustrations.

"DON'T TOUCH HIM!" She screamed as she started to pull her hands away from each other in an attempt to break the chains that bound her.

"Don't be so rash, he won't die on one condition that is," Lotor smiled. "You must go to the paladin's and become one of them, but report back to me with information on every single one of them."

"Why me, wouldn't you rather someone else." Lucy replied as she stopped her struggling.

"The only issue is that, you look like someone they could trust, after all they would never trust a galran," Lotor spoke. "Your part Altean, so you can fit in perfectly with them."

"If I refuse."

"Then you will lose your father by my soldier's blade." He laughed as she let out a defeated sigh.

"I'll do it, just please don't hurt my father."

"Good girl."

Within the following days the paladins of Voltron had continued with team exercise's and with Allura's help, they started a circle to discuss their problems, so that they can release all of there pent up frustration. Pidge had started, telling them about her family and how she loves everyone but knows that we are slowly falling apart without Shiro around. She had not been wrong, Shiro was what kept them focused and under control, but now Keith had to do the same, but his heart wasn't fully in it. Hunk went next, he spoke about how he missed his family on earth and how he wants them to feel like a family again. Allura is proud that everyone was now speaking their minds, but she didn't want to push it to far just yet, so she had told everyone to take a break and they would return after they had a quick lunch. Lance was kind of grateful for that, because now he could calm his mind before he could say something he knew he'd regret.

Suddenly, the alarms started to ring out within the castle, notifying them that they had an intruder. Normally under these types of circumstances, they'd be ready to go without a moments delay, but they were still working through some issues within the team. Allura was the first to spot the intruder, whom by the person's figure, she could immediately tell that the person was a female. She wore a mask that hid her face, but when Allura had gone up to deal the first blow, the intruder held there arms up, not prepared for the contact. Allura's eyes had widened as she hit the girl to the floor, not being able to stop in time.

"Why did you shield yourself," Allura was curious, she needed answers. "You're the one who entered the castle, why aren't you attacking us?"

"I'm sorry." Was all the girl said as she removed her helmet, revealing her markings underneath her eyes, and her pointed ears, that gave away that she was in fact of altean heritage.

"That's impossible, there should be no altean's left," Allura spoke not believing her eyes for a tic. "Hagar had been altean, but I thought she had been the only one left."

"I've been in hiding for a long time, but I heard that the paladins of Voltron had been chosen and it had given me hope," She explained. "I didn't mean to come in such a manor, I promise I mean you no harm."

Allura had begun to drop her guard slightly, until Keith had run into the room and held the girl to the ground. Allura couldn't believe her eyes, she had not expected to see another altean, but she couldn't blame Keith much for jumping on the girl since she had come in to there castle unannounced. She looked around as all of the paladins had begun to arrive with banyard's in hand.

"Keith, please get off the poor girl," Allura told him despite her better judgment. "She means us no harm; it was a misunderstanding."

"Then why did she come in with a mask on?" He had questioned as the girl struggled underneath his grip.

"I promise I won't hurt you, so please get off of me." The girl told them as Lance intervened.

"Keith, how could you treat a beautiful girl like that?" Lance scolded him as he knocked Keith off of her and helped the girl stand up.

"I'm really not that pretty, but thank you for the flattery." The girl spoke as Lance smiled with a blush on his face from how adorable the altean girl was.

"Lance, we can't just trust every pretty girl within a 10-mile radius of you." Keith sighed as Lance glared at the boy.

"I don't expect any of you to trust me right away, I had been sent here to take over as one of your paladins until the black lion's paladin is found, my name's, Lucy." The blonde said as she gave them a polite smile.

"Nobody is taking Shiro's place." Keith yelled as he stormed away from the rest of the paladins.

"Don't pay him no mind, he's been a bit stressed since the loss of, Shiro." Allura explained as Lucy nodded in understanding.

Lucy didn't like playing the part of a polite and sweet girl, but Lotor had requested her to play off as such in order to gain their trust. She hated it but she couldn't defy orders, because if she did, then Lotor would kill her father. The paladins that Lotor had told her about did not seem as bad as he had made them out to be. They were all rather nice, but she didn't quite understand Keith, he was a hot head, much like herself if provoked, but he seemed to be pained. She had become good at reading people even if not knowing them for long, and she could tell that he needed someone to take away the pain. Lance was cheery and constantly flirting with Allura which Lucy picked him out as the flirt of the group since he would occasionally call her 'beautiful', and other such compliments. Hunk was more of a kinder soul, whom seemed to see the best in people, and she had hit it off with the boy immediately, and even shared a couple of altean jokes with him that she had remembered from childhood. As for Pidge, she was quite unique, and probably one the smartest person she had met in her lifetime. Pidge had recounted how she had saved the castle ship from taking off, by herself, so that the galra wouldn't win. It was a fantastic story and Lucy was very impressed with the tactics that she had used. Coran was an eccentric gentleman, and he was rather humorous, which she was incredibly happy about. Allura was sweet and had asked her about her childhood, which she had told the truth about; she was sure that she should be honest about her home life, but she just left out the detail about being half galran.

"You truly are an altean, this is wonderful." Allura smiled, she was unbelievably happy to find another altean.

"Yes, it was nice to get to know each and every one of you." Lucy replied and at her statement, Allura's eyes had widened as if remembering something important.

"We must get back to begin the team bonding exercises, someone please contact Keith, and let him know to meet us in the training room." Allura spoke as she gestured for the paladins to follow her as Lance decided to take the dive and contact Keith through the intercom to let him know that they were continuing the training.

Once they had arrived, Allura told Lucy to join in the exercises, since she would be the temporary paladin. Allura had yet to decide what lion she would get since it would be either Lance's blue lion, or Keith's red lion. Allura was leaning toward blue at the moment for her calm nature. Keith walked into the room, not looking to enthusiastic about the newcomer being apart of the paladins, as he decided to take his seat next to Lance.

"Ok, we left off with Lance, I believe," Allura recalled as she gestured to Lance. "Lance, would you like to tell us your feelings about the situation we are in."

Lance had said that he had been ready for this, to talk to everyone in a calm manor, but for once, he had not been the cool and collected Lance that everyone knew and loved. He was honestly angry, and he didn't know why. He understood that Keith was leader, but was that the reason why he was angry. He believed so, but then why couldn't he bring himself to speak about it now that the person he had addressed was now present in the room.

"Can Lucy go; I don't think I'm ready just yet." Lance asked Allura with pleading eyes.

Allura at first didn't want to say yes, but the look on Lance's face had said it all as she gestured for Lucy to say something. Lucy was taken off guard, and Keith was staring at her with such an intensity that if looks could kill, she'd be dead in the chair she was currently sitting in.

"Why are you staring at me?" She had questioned, she didn't even realize she had said it out loud until it was to late. She didn't think she could keep up the charade of being this super polite girl that Lotor had wanted from her.

"You're suppose to talk, so I'm listening." Keith said with a bit of hostility present in his voice.

"That's not it, I don't understand why you hate me so much," She was starting to grow impatient, and her voice started to sky rocket in volume. "I did nothing to you, I just arrived, and your acting like a total prick."

Allura was shocked as were the rest of the paladins since from when she had walked through the door, she had not used any language, or so much as yelled at anyone. It was shocking to hear that tone of voice in the sweet girl that they thought they got to know before the exercise.

"Maybe, because I don't know you, you can't expect me to be all happy go lucky like everybody else." Keith yelled back, he was not giving in to the new girl.

"How could you, since you stormed off before giving me a fucking chance." She yelled back as Allura had fainted from the language she had used. At this point Pidge had a bucket of popcorn ready to watch the flames go back and forth.

"Maybe I don't want to fucking give you a chance, your trying to replace Shiro in the team." Keith snapped back as she walked closer, poking at his chest as she told him off.

"First off: I'm not replacing Shiro, nor did I ever think I could replace him, Secondly, I was sent here to help out until you can find your precious leader so I don't want to hear any complaints, and lastly I don't give a flying crap what you say about me joining the team since it's happening whether you like it or not." Lucy has had enough. She understood that he was acting this way because of Shiro's disappearance, but that didn't give him the right to act the way he did toward her.

"Do you have anything else to say, princess." Keith scoffed.

"No, I'm done." She said as Allura awoke from unconsciousness.

"Well, that was something, I believe you will fit the red lion after all," Allura spoke as she looked between the two of them. "This exercise helped a little bit with the tension, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to send you and Keith out on a special mission so that you guys can bond and fix what ever this is."

"I have to go out with the hot head, what a wonderful day for me." Lucy sighed as Allura gave her a smile.

"You, kind of have to listen to me since you faked your personality," Allura said. "I don't know why you did it, but I don't care as long as you and Keith get along."

"Yes, mam." She saluted her as she walked out of the room to prepare for the special mission.

Keith had watched her as she left the training area, he knew it wasn't her fault and that he had to adjust and be nicer to the girl, but he found it hard to be anything right now. He's had a lot on his mind and it's been hard for him to cope. Lance saw Keith's expression as it turned from regret to sadness, and to anger. He was filled up with emotions and he couldn't control them fairly well. Lance for once felt bad for Keith, and he couldn't believe it for a second. When ever he was with Pidge and Hunk, he constantly picked on Keith's leadership abilities, but when they were just by themselves, he saw Keith in his most vulnerable states. Pidge, Hunk, Allura, and Coran had left when Lucy left the room, and it left him with Keith who was experiencing different emotions as of right now.

"Keith, buddy, you ok?" Lance questioned him as Keith looked up at him, all the lingering emotions he kept hidden had disappeared from his facial features.

"I'm fine, Lance."

"You could have fooled me." Lance murmured as Keith exited the room. He had to fix this, they all had to fix this. Keith needed to open up to somebody, and if it wasn't Lance then he didn't know who.

End of Chapter 1

Me: This is a lot longer then most of my this story, you will be frustrated, because where the hell is my klance, but this story is more then just klance. It has developing characters that go through different emotions and topics that I want to cover here. There will be action, romance and there will be one-character death so you have been warned, as for what character, I won't be telling you but this character may or may not be important to you, hell you might even dislike the character, but don't stop reading, trust me on this. Lance will deny his feelings every which way, and it isn't until some romance arises between Lucy and Keith that Lance realizes that those feelings for Keith aren't something you can just push aside. He will struggle for a while as he tries to understand them, but then he started to hate Lucy and he feels sick to himself that he can hate someone so much, and of course he will have his insecurities about himself. As for Keith, he will be Keith and as of right now he's dealing with a bit of depression. He lost a lot, and he can't bring himself to move on from it which causes him to snap and lose it at everyone around him, but Lucy started to help him through this as opens up about herself, and becomes his confidant and friend. She helps him calm down and he's able to apologize to everyone because of it. Keith had Shiro to talk to most of the time about things, and now that he's missing, Keith needed someone to talk to which had become Lucy since she is as much of a hot-head as Keith can be sometimes. She understands him because of there similar personalities and there dynamic is going to be interesting to explore, this story will be one of first klance fics, and you will not be seeing another authors note from me, until the last chapter. This fic was one of first that I plan to release in one-shot. I wrote all the chapters in a span of a month, and so I released all of them at once to prevent anyone from waiting for me. I'm awful at this, so bare with me. I've been obsessed with Voltron, lately and I kind of ship every character with Keith which is kind of funny. Honestly I ship all the ships, I have three more klance fics to write, but if anyone wants me to write a different ship, then just tell me, and I'll do my best. Keith and Lance have a dynamic that I'm trying my best to get it at it's best. So see you on the last chapter, my little tsum-tsums (and yes I tried to come up with a fan name for my author name and it's not the best, so if anyone has better names, I'm all ears. Enjoy!