LES: The things I do for my fans… There is a Shallura lemon in this chapter, so I made a quick run to YouTube to see if I could find any inspiration for alien sex scenes. Unfortunately, about 99 percent of it was from horror movies, thus Shiro's multiple references to said horror movies within this chapter. But, hey, if you'd seen these horror movies and found yourself about to have sex with an alien, you'd probably be worried about her going all preying mantis on you too. There is a Klance romance scene, but no lemon. Sorry.

Chapter 2: The Aftermath

(Klance Time)

In the aftermath of "the game", all Keith wanted to do was run away to his room and hide forever. Not only had he been forced to come out as homosexual to the other Paladins, but he had been forced admit that he'd once had a crush on Shiro and his current crush on Lance.

Well, to be honest, the second thing was far more embarrassing then the first. As Shiro had pointed out, none of the other Paladins seemed to have any sort of issue with Keith's sexuality. And that was true. For the most part all of the Paladins were from a more tolerate generation that were a million miles away from that day long ago when Shiro had confronted a church full of homophobes about whether or not homosexuality was a sin.

On that day, when Shiro, Shiro's friend, and Keith left the church, Shiro and his friend held hands for as long as they were in view of the church and then started laughing.

"I think we really pissed them off." Shiro's friend laughed.

"Thanks for helping us out." Shiro had laughed.

"Hey, no problem at all. They're the ones living in the past."

Keith, however, was still sort of in shock. After all, he'd only learned a few days ago that Shiro actually was attracted to men and hadn't thought that he knew anyone who felt the same way. And not only that… he'd known almost as long as he had known Shiro that he is an atheist, but he'd never seen Shiro, or anyone really, lash out against the beliefs of the church.

As they walked back to Shiro's car, Shiro noticed that Keith seemed to be staring at the ground a lot. "Hey, kid, you all right?" Shiro asked. "I'm probably never going to be allowed back, but I don't mind bringing you back every Sunday if you want."

"No, that's all right." Keith said. "I don't think that I want to go to a church that thinks I'm going to hell because..." The words caught in Keith's throat. He was still not used to voicing his desires. In fact, only Shiro and Shiro's friend knew.

"You like guys?" Shiro finished for him. "Listen, it might seem hard right now. You might feel like a minority now. But being true to yourself is something that no one can ever take away from you."

"But..." Keith began. "You can be normal, Shiro. You're attracted to girls too. I'm not."

Shiro sighed. "I suppose you've got me there. But having a relationship with a girl and having a relationship with a guy is really not all that different. I still love them just the same when I'm in a relationship with someone, whether they are male or female. You've never seen me in a relationship with a man, but I don't hide it when I am."

"Shiro..." Shiro's friend said, placing a hand on Shiro's shoulder. Shiro trailed off and allowed his friend to take over. He knelt down in front of Keith and said, "Unlike Shiro, I'm not bisexual. I am one hundred percent gay. And I understand that starting to admit that to yourself and others can be one of the most terrifying things that you can go through… especially here in ultra-conservative Texas. But don't let anyone tell you that something is wrong with you. There is nothing wrong with you. Just like there's nothing wrong with falling in love."

"He's right." Shiro interjected. "Love. That's the most important thing. It doesn't matter if you're attracted to men, women, non-binary people, or anything in between. What's important is that you're happy, Keith. And the best way to be happy is to be true to yourself. So, tell me..." Shiro grinned at Keith. "Are there any hot guys in your class that you're interested in?"

"Shiro!" Keith gasped, a little shocked. He was still not quite used to Shiro's brotherly prodding.

"What? It's a legitimate question." Shiro said.

Keith looked down at his feet and blushed. "There's no one in particular that I'm interested in right now. But there are some pretty… hot guys."

Shiro nodded in understanding. "Got it. Take your time, Keith. Just take your time."

"You're just trying to avoid giving him 'the Talk'." Shiro's friend pointed out with a small laugh, and Shiro blushed.

"The Talk?" Keith asked, confused.

But the only way that Shiro would respond as he unlocked his car for everyone to get in was "Just take your time, Keith. There's no rush."

It had been about another year and a half before Shiro had been forced to give Keith the dreaded "Talk", a memory that was embarrassing for everyone involved. Mainly because it involved one of the things that caused Shiro to drink during their drinking game… when Shiro had accidentally walked in on Keith with his boyfriend.

Keith could still remember Shiro's tomato-red face, and his own burning blush, as the he'd been given the safe sex talk from his sort-of brother.

Keith tried to make his way back to his room as quickly and quietly as possible. Which, unfortunately, was not that quiet. He stumbled every once in a while as he rushed down the hallway. But Keith almost had to curse God when he almost ran into the one person that he wanted to avoid: Lance.

"Oh, hey, Keith. How is Shiro doing?" Lance asked.

"Shiro? Oh, he'll be fine. I've seen him way more drunk then this." Keith answered, hoping to step around Lance, but the boy was standing deliberately right in the middle of the hallway, leaving no obvious way for Keith to step around him.

"You know, before tonight, I had no idea that you were so close to Shiro back in the day." Lance commented.

"Not very many people knew." Keith admitted. "The Garrison knew, because my address matched his. But we didn't want it to be known because… well… I didn't want people to think that I'd gotten into the Garrison solely because of nepotism."

Keith tried to move past Lance, but he was once again blocked by the Blue Paladin. "So… were the rumors true? Did Shiro really have a different lover every weekend?"

"No." Keith said firmly. "How could you say that about Shiro? You know him now! He's good-looking, and loves people, but he was never a promiscuous slut. He really did care about his girlfriends and boyfriends." Keith sighed. "The only truth to that is that he rarely had trouble finding a lover. If one of his relationships ended, pretty much everyone in the Garrison who was interested in men would hope that he would choose them next." Even back then, Keith had noticed a LOT of newer relationships would suddenly end within the ranks of the Garrison when one of Shiro's relationships ended. "I think that the longest time that he went without a lover was the couple of months when he was interested in Matt. But, no, he definitely didn't have a new lover every weekend. But he did have several committed relationships."

"Hey, man, I'm sorry. I didn't mean it as disrespectful." Lance said hurriedly, holding up his hands to placate the Red Paladin. Once again, Keith glared at him and tried to move past, only for the Blue Paladin to block him again. "Are you trying to avoid me?" Lance asked.

"Honestly? Yes." Keith said.

"Why?"

"Why?" Keith repeated. "You dare ask me 'why'? How about the fact that I was humiliated by being forced to reveal that I've thought about you as more then just a team mate or a friend?! Fuck!" Keith swore, but Lance stood his ground.

"Interesting idea." Lance said, to the confusion of Keith. "I accept."

"What are you talking about?" Keith asked.

In response, Lance held up his shot glass, still with one more drink of Altean liquor at the bottom. "I know I just went, but if you'll let me go one more time. Never have I ever had romantic and sexual feelings for Keith." And Lance took his drink.

Now Keith could only stare. "Lance…?"

"Look, this makes me feel a little weird, okay." Lance admitted with a blush. "Sure, I'm bisexual, but I've never had the courage to approach a boy that I was interested in. So this is a first for me."

"Shiro once told me that there are few things that are more difficult the first time around, but that being true to yourself is worth any price."

"More fortune-cookie wisdom from Space Dad." Lance said with a soft smile. "So… what do you say, Keith? Are you willing? I might be scared, but I am..." And Lance was cut off when Keith stepped closer to him, and pulled him into a kiss. The first kiss was little more than a brief touch of lips, but the second time was more passionate then the first.

When they pulled apart, Keith had a small smile on his face. "You know something else Shiro once told me?"

"What?" Lance asked.

"Just take your time. There is no rush." Keith said. "If your nervous it's not like we have to jump straight into having sex."

"But…" Lance spoke up. "I wouldn't mind reaching second or third base, if you know what I mean?"

To be honest, Keith didn't know what Lance meant. And the look that he gave Lance made that totally clear.

Lance sighed. "Geez. Okay. You teach me about how to have homosexual sex, and I'll train you into a pop culture wiz. Because let me tell you, I can't date someone who doesn't even know what the different bases mean."

"Oh… um… deal? I guess?" Keith said uncertainly.

"Okay. Great. I'll meet you in your room in an hour for a practical demonstration of the different bases." Lance said. "Who knows… in a few weeks, you might be spouting memes!" Lance kissed Keith again before turning to walk away.

Keith stood frozen in the hallway, both nervous and feeling exhilarated. What in God's name have I gotten myself into? He wondered to himself. After nearly a minute of being paralyzed in the hallway, Keith finally unfroze. A small smile formed on his lips and he began to walk down the hallway towards his room. He still occasionally almost tripped over his own feet, but there was a definite spring to his step now.

(Shallura Time)

Altean liquor was weird.

Shiro was now officially sure that there was no way their alcohol was natural. He never started slurring his words. He felt clear-headed for the most part. And now several hours later, even his motor skills were returning to him. Altean liquor didn't even give him the courtesy of making him pass out.

If he had been forced to drink that much, the very least the liquor could have done for him was allow him to pass out and sleep without dreams. But, no… no such luck.

Although… it's not like his dreams tonight were like the normal ones that often kept him up almost all night. Instead of nightmares, these dreams were… more pleasant.

The revelation that Princess Allura felt a physical attraction to him weighed down on him like an oppressive fog. It almost felt unreal. Once upon a time, he probably would have been as self-assured as Lance was. Before the Kerberos mission, Shiro knew that he was a good-looking man, and he felt no shame in showing off. Nor had he ever felt so nervous about approaching someone that he knew had a physical attraction to him.

He'd even studied and learned Capoeira, a beautiful, but still powerful, Brazilian form of martial arts. ("Why not a Japanese martial art?" "No one expects a Japanese man to learn a Brazilian martial art.") Well… for his instructors it was simply a way to stay in shape. For his classmates, it was a way to show off to both men and women. One of his (shirtless) performances was usually enough to draw men and women towards him like flies.

But those times were long gone.

Shiro was a long way away from the brash and confident young man showing off to his classmates to gain attention. Perhaps he was more ripped now then he ever was at the Garrison, but in Shiro's own eyes everything else had gone down-hill in Galra captivity.

His skin was a patchwork of scars. The remains of his right arm looked even worse then the rest of his body. Years of the stress of being a leader and the chronic insomnia had left dark circles under his eyes that were now a permanent fixture to his appearance, along with the worry lines on his face. And then there was his hair. The hair that had turned white from his time as a Galra prisoner had never recovered it's normal black color. And the stress of leading Voltron hadn't helped. There were now slight wisps of gray in his hair that was not there before. Graying before he was thirty… and all because of stress.

And Allura?

Shiro honestly felt like he could call her the most beautiful woman he'd ever seen and he'd still be selling her short. He'd lost track of the number of times he'd simply stared at her, entranced.

She was an alien, absolutely beautiful and totally mysterious. He did often wonder, despite himself, if humans and Alteans were physically compatible. He'd been with men and women, so there wasn't a lot that could surprise him or turn him off… or perhaps her human appearance was only skin deep and they could not be compatible? Sure both she and Coran had said that it was not totally uncommon for Alteans to 'mate' with other species, but that was no guarantee that it could work between an Altean and human.

What if it turns out they were compatible, but Alteans mated in a way that he'd never seen or couldn't imagine? Or what if mating with her ended up like that one movie franchise he'd watched as a pre-teen in Japan? What was it called? Species? That sounds right… The half-alien women in those movies looked human enough but when they mated with men… well… let's just say those men didn't survive the encounter.

Shiro groaned. Okay, maybe thinking about a movie where aliens literally kill the male after having sex with them is not the best thing to think about when a beautiful alien just might be interested in you.

Okay, Shiro, calm down. You're just freaking yourself out. Shiro thought to himself. He knew Allura better than that. Even if there was some unusual things about having sex with an Altean, Shiro could be at least ninety-nine percent sure that those unusual things did not involve death. There is almost no reason for me to be freaking out like a virgin.

But as much as Shiro hated to admit it, it was kind of was like being a virgin again. Of course he had been nervous the first time he'd had sex. And all the same nervousness had returned the first time that he'd slept with a man. Back at the Garrison, Shiro had jokingly called it losing his virginity twice. And now here he was, perhaps standing on the verge of losing his species virginity.

Or, perhaps it was possible that Princess Allura was mentally more affected by the liquor then the humans. Sure she had admitted that she'd thought about having sex with him, but that didn't automatically translate to her actually wanting to hop in the sack with him. Or she could have felt that way about him years ago when he was younger and better-looking then he was now. She had grabbed his ass as she helped to steady him and given him what he interpreted as 'bedroom eyes', but that could have just been the alcohol.

As Shiro often did when he couldn't sleep, he wondered the Castle halls at random. After all these years, he felt like he knew the castle fairly well, but there still were times when he surprised himself. Tonight, he found himself in one of the many lounges that were on the same floor as the bridge. With a touch of a holographic button, the entire outer wall became transparent allowing Shiro to watch as planets and stars drifted past.

Shiro walked into the room, pulled one of the chairs around so that it faced the transparent outer wall and sat down to watch as the castle passed close enough to a star to pick up some speed before heading off into interstellar space on route to their next destination a star system over.

Why not wormhole? A couple of months ago, Coran grew concerned about the Princess using too much of her energy to wormhole them from one end of the galaxy to the other every couple of days. So he'd put his foot down and now they traveled the normal way unless it was an emergency or the destination was too far away to travel too in a timely manner.

Shiro was not an expert by any means, but he could see the sun they were pulling orbital energy from was a yellow sun, much like Earth's own sun. The sight wasn't quite enough to make him homesick. Shiro had long given up the hope that he would ever be able to live on Earth in peace. Just like the last time he set foot on Earth, it was far more likely that he would be hidden away in a government lab then allowed to see his mother again.

Fuck. His mother probably still thought that he had died on Kerberos. But… perhaps one day Keith could visit her and tell her the truth about her son. Keith had all ready been living off the grid before going into space, so his absence had probably gone completely unnoticed, nor would anyone make a big fuss about him suddenly showing up. Shiro didn't know if Keith ever wanted to return to Earth or if he wanted to continue searching for his Galra family, but he knew that Keith would do him this favor if he asked.

Shiro shivered and he stood up to search the room for some sort of blanket when he realized that he was no longer alone in the room. Princess Allura stood in the doorway, dressed in a full-length, but thin, nightgown. Shiro had to focus to keep his eyes from drifting down to the swell of her breasts under the thin fabric.

Fuck, she's beautiful. Shiro thought to himself before he cleared his throat. "Forgive me, Princess, I didn't know that you'd come in. Did you need something?"

Instead of answering Shiro's question right away, Allura stepped inside the room and closed the door behind her. And, once again, she was giving him a look that screamed of bedroom eyes. "Takashi." She said.

Shiro stared.

"That's your name, correct? Your true name?" Allura asked, as she moved closer to him.

"How did you know…?" Shiro asked.

Allura smiled. "Keith."

Shiro sighed. "Of course. The little traitor..."

"What's the matter? Should he have not told me?"

"No, it's fine, Princess. I just don't think that the name fits me that well anymore." Shiro admitted.

"What does it mean? It's not the same language that you and the other Paladins speak."

"No. It's in my native language." Shiro sighed. "Takashi… it means praiseworthy."

"You believe yourself to be unworthy of praise?" Allura asked.

"Princess… I… well… look at me." Shiro spread his arms out. "I'm trying so hard, but I'm still falling apart. I feel like I'm barely managing to hold myself together. Maybe back on Earth I might have been worthy of being called praiseworthy, but I'm not the same person anymore."

"None of us are the same person anymore." Allura said, moving closer to Shiro. She lifted her hands and pressed her palms to his cheeks. "I am looking at you, and you are worthy of praise, Takashi."

Shiro sighed, how could Allura see anything within him more then a broken man?

After several moments, Allura sighed. "I'm afraid I've done this wrong."

Shiro met her eyes, now curious. "What do you mean, Princess?"

"On Altea, doing this to someone..." Her thumbs briefly caressed his cheeks. "Is a sign of deep affection. But I suppose the humans express affection differently?"

Shiro's first instinct was to pull away from her, but hearing an affirmation that she did feel affection for him over-rode his caution. "Why me?" He asked.

"Because you are strong, and brave, and kind." Allura replied. "Because you make me smile after a hard mission. Because seeing you smile, even just a little, can brighten my whole quintant. Because every time we face off against the Galra I'm sick inside thinking that something might happen to you."

Shiro almost wept right there in her arms, but he forced the tears down. He gave her a small smile, and then raised his hands to press them to her cheeks as she had done to him. Allura's beautiful eyes brightened and her smile widened. "Humans do show their affection differently from this." Shiro said.

"Really? Show me how." Allura asked.

"Then with your permission, Princess..." Shiro leaned down slightly and pressed his lips gently to hers. He did not press any further then that, especially if she didn't know what kissing was. But Allura responded positively to the contact, pressing closer to him.

When Shiro pulled away from her, Allura's eyes were still closed blissfully. She sighed. "That was… pleasant." Then she opened her eyes and met his eyes. "And you don't have to call me Princess all the time, especially when we're like this."

Shiro laughed a little. "Of course, Prin… Allura."

Allura grinned up at him, took his hands into her own and became to pull him along. "Come with me, Takashi."

"Where are we going?" Shiro asked, but he felt like he all ready knew the answer.

She opened the door and began to lead him down the hallway. "To my room, of course. I know that yours is closer, but it's also closer to the other Paladins. I don't want us to be disturbed."

Shiro had to agree with her. The other Paladins would probably figure out really quickly if Shiro and Allura had sex, but that didn't mean that Shiro wanted them to actually hear anything. "But what about Coran?" He asked, knowing that the retainer's room was near Allura's.

"Coran probably expects us to act on our feelings sooner rather then later." Allura said. "Don't worry, Shiro. I can practically hear your heart racing."

Shiro took a couple of deep breathes to calm down as Allura lead him along the corridors until they reached a room that Shiro knew about but had never set foot in: Allura's private quarters.

Once they were inside, Allura didn't give Shiro even one moment to look around. She was on him once again, her hands pressed to his cheeks to show affection in the way of her people, but now her lips were pressed against his.

He couldn't hold back anymore. All of the reservations he felt about having sex with an alien drifted away on a wave of needing to be touched and loved. It had been a long time… far, far too long since he had felt such raw desire. In stages, he deepened the kiss, wordlessly instructing Allura on human kissing.

"Shiro… Takashi..." Allura whispered against his mouth when they pulled apart briefly to gasp for air. "Mate with me, please."

"Fuck, Allura… yes." Shiro responded, grabbing her hips to press her flush against his body. She could certainly feel his growing erection through their clothes, because she started to grind against him, sending shocks of pleasure up his spine.

She pulled away from him, and Shiro let out an involuntary whine of disappointment at the lost contact. But she just smiled at him before pulling her nightgown off with a single motion. Shiro stared. She was just as beautiful as he had ever imagined her. Basically human, but with swirls of pink across her skin. Sometimes in the past, Shiro would notice the markings on her face glowing slightly when she was happy or excited. But it had always been subtle before, so subtle that it was only noticeable in the dark. Now her markings, all of the markings and not just the ones on her face, were glowing like stars in the darkness. Perhaps glowing so brightly they could even be seen during the day.

She pulled him across the room towards her bed. Shiro quickly pulled off his night shirt before he could even think about being embarrassed about his scars. He pushed down his shorts and boxers and was about to kick the fabric away when Allura suddenly gasped.

Shiro looked up at her and found her… staring right at his cock. The only thing that he could read on her face was shock, and he couldn't tell if it was good shock or bad shock. "Allura, what's the matter?" Shiro asked. Perhaps Altean males didn't have dicks?

Allura stared at him for a few more seconds before she met Shiro's eyes again. "Are you… exceptional among humans?" She asked.

Shiro stared at her, confused. "What?"

"I meant… the size of your… reproductive organ? Are you exceptional for humans?" She asked, a slight blush coloring her face.

Shiro glanced down at himself in confusion. He only had the men he'd been with to compare, but he'd never considered himself to be exceptional, size-wise. "No… I think I'm about normal." Shiro commented. "Why? Is something wrong?"

"I… might have to shape-shift just a little." Allura said.

"Really?" Shiro asked, a little shocked. "So typically Altean males are..."

"Well… I suppose typically they are a little longer, but thinner." Allura said.

"Oh… will that be a problem?" Shiro asked.

"No. I should be able to adjust just fine." Allura said, sitting down on the bed and motioning for Shiro to move closer. As Shiro moved closer, he had a better look at Allura's nude body. Besides the pink markings on her skin, she seemed to be entirely human. Her breasts were a little on the small side, as they would be if she were a human woman with an active lifestyle. But that didn't bother Shiro at all. He'd always been more attracted to fit women so breast side didn't really bother him. Her public area also appeared to be entirely hairless, although Shiro could not say if that was natural or if she groomed herself that way. All in all, it seemed that Allura was more shocked at his appearance then he was by hers.

When Shiro crawled onto the bed, Allura scooted closer to him. She met his mouth, eagerly. It seemed that even though they did not kiss in her culture, she was more then willing to participate in a kiss with him.

When she pulled away from the kiss, he found her once again staring down at his cock. After a second, Shiro realized that she was studying him to shape-shift to accommodate their having sex.

But Shiro had a better idea. "Here, Allura..." Shiro gently took hold of her and shifted their positions until he was laying on his back with Allura on top.

Allura looked down at him in confusion. So Shiro subtly adjusted her until she was hovering above his hips. "Oh." Allura said. "Are you sure you're okay with me being on top?" She asked.

"Of course." Shiro assured her. "This way you can go as slow as you need to and to adjust to me." He leaned up slightly on his elbow and pressed his left hand to her cheek in the Altean show of affection. "Take your time, Allura."

"I will, Takashi. I will. But first, will you… touch me?" She asked.

"Of course, Allura. Where?" Shiro asked.

Allura grinned at him. "The markings on my body. They are Altean erogenous zones. I have one that is harder to see then the others." She took his hand and pressed it down between her thighs, guiding his fingers to the correct spot.

Oh… like a clit. Shiro realized. However, it was not a clit like a human woman. There was nothing to indicate to him that his fingers had found a spot that was much more sensitive then the surrounding skin. The area that Allura guiding him to felt just the same as the rest of her skin, but he certainly knew it was a spot to remember when she pressed his fingers down on the correct spot. She let out a loud, drawn-out moan, her head thrown back in pleasure, and all the markings on her body flashed a little brighter.

While his hand was between her legs, he took the time to find the opening of her sex. And, to Shiro's shock, it was just as Allura had told him. The opening of her sex was much smaller than a human woman's. He could fit one of his fingers inside her, but no more.

"Holy shit." Shiro hissed. "How are you able to have children?" He asked before he could swallow the question.

"Our shape-shifting." Allura answered breathlessly. "When a child is born we… ahhh… create an opening in our lower abdomen through which the child is retrieved..."

Once again, Shiro's mind was filled with all sort of images from old horror movies. The chest-burster from Alien and the birth of the alien's child in Species. "Fuck." He was kind of sorry that he'd asked.

"That's what I'm trying to do, Takashi." Allura whispered, misunderstanding his exclamation. "Now please..."

"Of course." But then Shiro realized. "Do we need protection? Because I left my condoms… well… on Earth."

"Oh, do you mean contraception against becoming pregnant?" Allura asked. "We are fine. I've had a medical procedure, and cannot become pregnant until it is reversed."

And with that, there was no more distractions. Shiro put his full effort into giving Allura a hand job. At least it could take his mind off an Altean infant bursting out of its mother's stomach like the ugly half-human monster from Alien: Resurrection. And what a distraction it was. She let out soft moans as she gyrated against his hand.

She was glorious. Beautiful. After a couple of minutes, she reached down and stilled Shiro's hand against her. Their eyes met and locked, and she smiled at him. She shifted her body so that he was poised at her sex.

She lowered her body onto his much more slowly then usual, but it was necessary to give her body the time to shape-shift herself so that she could take him in. Shiro pressed his head back against the mattress, groaning loudly and forcing his mind to think of other things to stop himself from thrusting into her body before she was ready.

After several long minutes, Allura was fully seated on Shiro's lap. Shiro opened his eyes to gaze up at the wondrous goddess above him. She let her head fall back, her silvery hair cascading down her back and let out another soft moan. "Allura..." Shiro whispered.

Allura gazed down at him, all of her markings were aglow like stars in the darkness now. "Takashi… oh, Takashi… I've waited so long for this… for you."

And she began to move, rocking her hips against him. "Oh, fuck… Allura…" Shiro groaned, digging his hands into her sides to guide her movements against him.

As they moved together, Shiro became vaguely aware that Allura's markings would dim and brighten as they moved against each other: dim when she pulled away from him, and brighten when she pressed close again. When she sped up her movements against him, the flashing of her markings also sped up.

He couldn't resist anymore. He pushed himself up on his hands so that he was pressed totally flush against her body, and set about kissing every inch of her skin that he could reach. "Takashi… oh, Gods, you feel so good..." Allura moaned

It might not be a good idea, but Shiro had been loving Allura from afar for such a long time that at first he didn't see anything wrong with being truthful. "Allura… I love you." And just then he realized that saying that might not go over too well. "I… I mean..." He tried to pull away from Allura, but she tightened her arms around him.

"Takashi, how long have we known one another?" She asked, holding him close and continuing her movements against his hips. "I love you too."

Allura gasped with shock and happiness when Shiro suddenly thrust up against her, and flipped them over so that now she was the one laying back against the mattress. Now that Shiro was in charge, he picked up the pace until Allura could do little except cry out in pleasure and cling to his shoulders.

It did not take much longer for Allura to cry out from the overwhelming pleasure of her orgasm, and Shiro followed along shortly after. Shiro fell down against her, panting heavily and relishing in the feeling of her running her hand over his sweat-dampened body as if she were trying to memorize every contour of his body.

Once he caught his breath a little, he lifted himself slightly off Allura's body and rolled next to her so that he wouldn't pass out on her. It probably wouldn't bother her at all, but it was an old habit.

Allura scooted closer to him, pressing her body up against his side and wrapping her arms around him. "That was wonderful. You are wonderful." She whispered, smiling up at him.

He returned her smile. "I'm still not entirely sure if this is a dream or not." He said.

"If it is a dream, I'm having the same one." Allura said. "Will you stay with me tonight?"

Shiro nodded tiredly. "Of course. And all the coming nights… if you still want me in your bed, that is..."

Allura laughed quietly. "I suppose I could make room for you in my bed. It's going to be a large change in my life… but I believe I can manage."

"That's good to hear." Shiro replied, leaning down to press a soft kiss to her lips again, and she returned the gesture. "Sleep well, my Star Princess."

"And you, my Paladin." Allura responded as they drifted off to sleep in each other's arms.

LES: There might be a third chapter, but it certainly won't be a long as this one...