Sleepy Mornings

Part I: Keith

Keith slowly awoke to find himself sandwiched between two warm bodies. He opened his eyes to see Lance burrowed beneath the blankets, comfortably tucked against his chest, and snoring quietly, which meant that it was Pidge's smaller form curled up against his back while she pressed sleepy kisses to his neck.

"You're home," Keith whispered, trying not to wake up Lance.

"We got in late. You didn't even stir when we came in," Pidge responded, just as quietly. "You didn't spend all day in the training room again, did you?"

Keith picked that particular moment to gently kiss the top of Lance's head, which made Pidge sigh in disapproval.

Whenever one (or both) of them was sent away on a mission, even a simple one, Keith would try and distract himself from his endless list of worries by fighting drones in the training room. It wouldn't have been a problem if he remembered to take breaks, but more often he'd spend hours fighting robot after robot, until he'd collapse on the ground and the program shut itself down. It'd been so bad for a while that they had to make it so Keith couldn't even access the training room without someone else being there to let him in.

"Shiro was with me," he said after a minute.

She carefully placed one hand on his hip, using her thumb to caress the bit of bare skin between the bottom of his shirt and the top of his pants. Her eyes slid shut as she started to relax again. "Okay," she breathed. "That's okay then."

Lance moaned into Keith's chest. "Too loud. Too early."

"Sorry," Keith responded, with Pidge only a second behind him. He placed another kiss to Lance's head with a happy sigh. "We'll be quiet. I think Pidge is falling asleep anyway."

Lance yawned and happily snuggled closer to his boyfriend. "Mmkay. Love you both."

Pidge's reply was an indistinct mumble as she drifted off and Keith couldn't help but smile.

There he was, snug and warm between the two people he'd fallen in love with in the middle of a war in space, and he was lucky enough that they felt the same for him and each other. He'd never dared to think he'd find such happiness. He'd never dared to think he'd find a family to call his own.

But there they were.

Keith closed his eyes and easily slipped off to sleep with a smile on his face.