This is a post-season six one-shot about Pidge. It is somewhat relevant to a fic I might do soon, which will be called "Aliens Are Coming."

Also, this is unbeta-ed. Just proofread by me, myself, and I.

Disclaimer: sadly, I do not own Voltron.

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"Hey, guys? Can I ask you something?" Pidge asked one day out of the blue.

Matt slid down from behind Black's broken wing to join the others on the ground. "Sure, what do you need sis?"

"I was wondering if you could, um... maybestartcallingmekatie?"

Everyone was silent for a moment until Lance said, "Uh, could you say that a little slower?"

She took a deep breath. "I was wondering if... if you could maybe call me Katie? If you don't mind, that is..."

Once again it was silent. Pidge looked down at her feet, wringing her hands nervously. Then, she felt a hand on her shoulder, soft and gentle. She felt herself being pulled into a hug by Allura. "Of course, P-Katie. We don't mind at all."

And with that the newly renamed Katie felt herself being squished as everyone else joined the hug and voiced there support.

"Guys, I can't breath!"

She felt Hunk's rumbling laughter behind her. "That's what group hugs are, Katie - oh man that is gonna take some getting used to - they squeeze all the sad stuff out."

"Hunk, don't ever say that again."

"But Shirooooo, it was a good analogy!"

"Actually, one time when I was a boy-"

"That's nice, Coran. Um... I think we should let my sister go now. I think she's turning blue."

Everyone quickly let go, except for Hunk, who was still squeezing Katie, who was actually turning blue. Krolia and Allura tried to pry him off, but when that didn't work, Comet - Keith's space wolf - teleported on top of his head, which resulting in Hunk letting go of Katie with and screech while she lay on the ground gasping for breath.

Once she could finally breathe, Shiro asked, "Is there a reason why you want us to call you Katie? You don't have to tell us if you don't want to."

Katie looked at Allura, then down at the ground. "Well..."

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"Pidge, can you help me with this?"

"Sure, no problem Princess."

As she moved to help Allura, she heard Lotor laughing behind her. She turned to glare at him.

"What're you laughing at?"

"Pidge is such an odd name. It does match you quite well, though."

"What?"

"I mean, your a pidgey little thing." He walked up and poked her in the cheeks. She scowled and smacked his hands away before she ran out of the hangar. Pidge could hear Allura behind her telling Lotor not to make fun of her friends ever again or he'd end up with a broken nose.

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"Katie, I meant what I said."

"Really?"

"I've never been prouder to call someone a friend, and I will fo anything to protect them."

She looked around at her friends, all of whom were ready to offer their support. Her eyes started watering.

"Thank you."

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Over the four months that it took to reach earth, the members of the traveling lion caravan slowly got used to calling her Katie. And as her hair started to get longer, Hunk offered his headband for her to tie her hair up. Sometimes, Lance would braid and style her hair for fun. He taught the others how to do every kind of braid he knew. And whenever one of them was having nightmares, Katie, Allura, and Romelle were more than willing to let them stress-braid their hair. Katie no longer wore her glasses, as she had left them on some planet somewhere when she and Lance had put Romelle's hair in pigtails after all three had had nightmares about their siblings. This ragtag group of people and aliens weren't perfect, but they were all she had. And at the end of the day...

They were family.

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