Hi are you still taking requests? Can you do a fic where Keith is going to different planets a lot and the princess thinking he has a girlfriend so she asks the group if he has a girlfriend or ever had one?

"Is Keith in here?"

Lance, Hunk, and PIdge looked up to see Allura peering into the room from around the door frame.

Pidge shot the two boys a questioning look before answering, "Uh… no."

With a sigh Allura slipped into the room and sat down on a nearby box.

"Thank goodness. I really don't want to speak with him right now."

Her tone was irritable.

All three paladins raised an eyebrow at once another, but none of them spoke. They had learned from experience that if the princess ever got really frustrated with one of them she did one of two things. She either internalized it and made passive aggressive remarks until she cooled off OR she'd get away and vent to someone, usually Coran or the mice, about it.

Knowing this, the three sat in silence quietly waiting for the princess to-

"I just can not believe him"

Ah there it was.

"What'd Keith pull this time?" Lance asked.

Hunk and Pidge eyed each other, in mutual acknowledgement of their friends jealousy.

"It's infuriating!" The princess gestured angrily and stomped a foot. "I don't know what I could have done to deserve such… such… such treatment."

Lance frowned. Allura getting frustrated with Keith's more stubborn tendencies was nothing new. But he'd never seen her seem so personally indignant. Whatever it was Keith had done, it had to have been bad.

Allura fumbled with something at her side and threw it, actually threw it, at their feet.

"Just look at this!" she gestured at the small chain on the floor. "Can you believe he gave me a barbacle!"

All three glanced down and stared at the item there. No one said anything as Allura stood there, her arms crossed in righteous fury.

"He just waltzed right up to me and handed it over! Didn't even bother to explain himself. Just asked me what I thought. Just… Just… ARGH!"

Lance picked up the little chain and glanced at Hunk desperately biting his lower lip. The yellow paladin held up his hands and shook his head.

Looked over to PIdge Lance found her packing up her stuff as quickly as possible Clearly intending to get far far away.

He sighed. Once again he was left to fix things and pick up the pieces.

Clearing his throat, Lance asked, "Uh…. princess? What exactly is a barbacle?"

She scoffed. "Like you don't know."

Lance shrugged. "Amuse me."

Rolling her eyes the princess explained.

"It's supposed to be a way of making one's grievances known to a person, especially someone in a higher position, without causing a scene or giving away one's identity. Each of the symbols on the trinket represent a different grievance." She glared at her feet clearly upset. "You're supposed to give it to people you dislike. Anonymously…. But I guess Keith missed out on that part."

"So… that's what you think?"

"Of course! What else COULD it be?!"

"A charm bracelet."

Allura stopped and looked at Lance.

"A… a what?"

"A charm bracelet." Pidge explained. "It's a common piece of jewelry on earth. The charms are supposed to represent hobbies and stuff. People give them as gifts sometimes."

Allura stared at her blankly.

"Uh what she's trying to say…" Lance hesitated before finishing. "Is that Keith was probably trying to give you a present. Not a barnacle, or whatever."

He handed the bracelet back to the princess who just cupped it in her hands and stared at it.

"It's kinda shotty though." Pidge said, happy to no longer be staring down an angry Allura. "Where do you think he got it? The mall?"

"I don't think so." Hunk added thoughtfully. "He said he never wanted to go back there after what happened last time."

"Yeah being chased by a mad mall cop will do that to you." Pidge thought for a moment. "You don't think he made it himself do you?"

"I don't see how else he could've gotten one."

Smirking like a gremlin, Pidge couldn't help but tease. "Maybe he made it for his girlfriend."

Allura looked up, "Girlfriend?!"\

"He's sitting in a tree." She sing-songed. "K-I-S-S-I-N-G"

"No one is sitting in a tree on MY watch!" Lance huffed. "Right Allura?"

He paused awaiting a response only to be answered by the sound of the closing door.

Shiro sat flipping through different updates of progress in the coalition's efforts. Things were going well at the moment. Hopefully they'd soon have enough force to go on the offensive. He was so absorbed in his task that the sound of Allura rushing onto the bridge made him jump.

"Is everything alright princess?"

Allura stopped in the middle of frantically looking around the room and fixated her eyes on Shiro.

"Yes-I mean… no. Not r-really. I mean… Where's Keith?"

"Keith?" Shiro looked at her worriedly. "He just left with the blades."

"He's gone?!"

"Yes. Is there something wrong?"

"I forgot… to tell him something."

"Is it important? We could open a channel and-"

"No." Allura cut him off abruptly. "I-I mean… it's not urgent."

It took a few minutes for Allura to properly ensure Shiro that it was nothing important. Once she'd managed to accomplish that she hurried out of the room. Leaving Shiro wondering both what she had been on about as well as what she'd been clutching in her hand.

Keith had come and gone from the castle since then. But every time it would always be when Allura was out or otherwise preoccupied. It hadn't exactly taken a lot to make Allra greatly concerned.

She'd managed to corner Kolivan and ask him about Keith's progress and when he might be at the castle again. But the old galra had simply shrugged and responded that the boy had been traveling all over. 'Following leads' had been the excuse but Kolivan had his doubts.

The princess's suspicious were aroused.

If Keith wasn't flying around the universe for the blade, then why was he? He couldn't have been looking for information on Lotor given he was now with the coalition. And an information he had gathered for the blade he'd have had to report to Kolivan.

Then her imagination started up.

The next time any of the paladins saw Allura, she was bursting through the door in the common room and asking

"Has Keith ever… had a girlfriend?"