Hello, I know everyone pretty much hates notes that take away from the actual story but real quick:

This scene takes place shortly after the Paladins shuffle lions the first time but if (and hopefully I do) continue this story it will probably jump a bit in between chapters and not stay completely within the current show's path.

Also, open to feedback. I'll try to update another few chapters real soon if anyone's interested or I just find myself really wanting to to help explain a bit more of what's going on because "Lance" in this story obviously has a bit more history with the blue lion and such then the actual Lance does.


Lance was tired of keeping secrets. Now he had so many that even if he'd wanted to come clean he wasn't sure where to start. The others would probably just think he was joking anyway, he didn't mean to go so far with the whole 'don't mind me, I'm just a harmless fool' act but it had saved his ass so many times that he really couldn't help it anymore. But he wasn't sure how much longer he could take it.

He double-checked Blue's hanger for any sign of Allura before he dared to sneak in.

Really it shouldn't be a surprise by now. Voltron has always been made up of creatures from different species, not that the others would know that, but still, one of them really should have questioned it long before they found out Keith was only partially human.

He could do this.

He needed to do this. Lance tried to convince himself.

How hard could it be? Just walk up to the others during breakfast and casually mention that you may or may not be the descendent of a previous paladin, watch the team erupt into chaos, accuse you of not trusting them, walk away and go cry on some space-rock until they all calm down enough to stop pointing fingers at you and making accusations. Easy.

Also not going to happen. He assured himself again.

That ship had long sailed.

Lance sighed and dragged his feet over to where Blue sat waiting for him.

"Hey girl." He greeted his old friend.

Blue chuffed a greeting back from where she lay but turned her head away from him stubbornly.

"Come on girl, can't we just talk for a bit?" He asked.

"I know…I know that you're Allura's lioness now and all but you've been in my life forever, this doesn't really change that does it?" He asked her and did his best to catch the attention of her glow-y eyes.

"Please Tzannuka?" He begged in a quite voice, hopeful that the seldom used nickname was enough to sway her.

Of course it was.

Blue's eyes shifted to his and visibly softened at the care he used when speaking such an ancient title to the even more ancient creature.

He felt her quintessence, cool and fluid and familiar in ways Red would never feel to him as it surrounded him.

"Blue." His mind reached out to her in relief.

"My little one, you never will leave me will you? No matter how I push you away?" Blue asked him, already knowing his answer.

"So long as a Paladin's blood runs through my veins, Paladin or not, I will always remain here, for you and all others who may have need of me and my kin." Lance echoed the words of his ancestors as he placed a hand on the snout of the blue wonder before him.

"Very well." The lioness relented finally.

"But-"

"But your Paladin comes first." Lance mentally cut her off.

"I know." He told her.

"I've always known that."

The lioness responded by letting the sadness she felt for knowing one so young had only known such burdens in his short life and for those too who had come before him and died without having had the chance for something outside of these chains to her and her comrades seep into the flow of their connection.

"It's alright Blue." He spoke out loud to her.

"It's best this way. We both know how this will all really end."

Lance's whispers felt dwarfed by the massive hanger the two heavy hearts couldn't bring themselves to believe they really found themselves in suddenly.