This is my first Voltron fic :0

First chapter will be vague and short, but more detail will arrive!

To those waiting for the rewrites of "Sanity My Ass, Kaou-kun" and "Two Colours Entwined," (originals written on the account Knife Shoes, link to account is in my bio if u want) do not worry! I'm working on them :3

Also, the title is Tears as in a tear/rip in clothing, not as in crying tears.

Okay, to the story!

There was a disturbance in the silence; one he just couldn't quite place. The silence grew louder and louder, until finally it came.

A scream in the dark, tearing across the black.

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"Lance, w...up!"

Beady, dark blue eyes jolted open, and the lanky-yet surprisingly toned-body of Lance McClain whipped upright in a seated position. His chest rapidly rose and fell, in an almost convulsive pattern. He could feel the sticky mess of sweat matting his hair and clothes to his body. He could feel himself shaking through the pressure of hands gripping his shoulders.

"Lance, snap out of it, what the hell is wrong with you!?"

Deep sea blue orbs scrolled over to lock with stormy grey eyes. The face associsted with those eyes melded into shape and registered in Lance's mind.

"K... eith...?" he choked out.

"Yeah, man..." Keith Kogane offered an unnaturally sympathetic look. "Were you havin' a nightmare or something? We could hear you screaming from the bridge..."

"Um..." Lance muttered. Was he? All he could remember was darkness and pain. Unending, ceaseless agony. But even the memory of that was fuzzy.

"Lance?"

Lance just shook his head. "I don't know..." he responded quietly, "I don't..." the Blue Paladin sighed. "Never mind, 's not like it matters to you anyway." He swung his legs to the side and stood up, shaking the numbness of his sleeping legs off. "Let's go get breakfast."

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Lance's stomach had little food in ingesting food, but rather expelling previously digested food. He ate slowly, the acids and degraded sustenances swirling and crying to be regurgitated.

"Lance, man, you're so slow this morning." Lance looked up at Tsuyoshi Garett, nicknamed "Hunk," as he spoke. "You okay?

"Mmn, yeah," the Blue Paladin answered, "just fine."

"Your screams tell a different story." Lance's attention then went to Pidge Gunderson. "We could h–"

"Hear me from the bridge, I know," Lance snapped, "stop telling me things I already know."

"Sorry..." Pidge muttered. She* stood up, taking her plate. "I'm going to the bridge with Coran and Allura to see where we're headed next." After bringing her plate to the kitchen to be cleaned, she left for the bridge.

"I'm gonna go back to bed..." Lance muttered. He stood up, adding, "I feel like I only slept five minutes..." he deprted the dining room, the eyes of the Yellow, Red, and Black Paladins watching him suspiciously.

*Pidge is canonically a girl, but this is revealed pretty soon in the show so I don'tneven know why I'm talking about that.. :0

I like the headcanon that a lot of people have, stating that Pidge Gunderson is non-binary (genderless, demi-gender...), but I kind of also like the idea of Pidge not really caring about what pronouns she is called. So I'll just be using her canon pronouns for now, though I might switch it up in some fics.

ADDITIONAL NOTE: I'm using the last names/full names of the characters from the 1984 cartoon Voltron: Defenders of the Universe, due to the fact that characters such as Lance, Keith and Hunk haven't had their last/full names revealed in Voltron: Legendary Defender (yet?).