(Memory)
Hunk and Lance were walking through the castle's halls.
"Hey, guys." They looked around to see who said it. No one was around. "Up here." They looked up to see Pidge sitting on a ledge.
"What are you doing?" Lance asked.
"Exploring the castle. There are a lot of Passages way. You can get around without being seen."
"Now why would you want to do that?"
"Incase we need alternative rotes around the castle. It has been proven we need it. Might be faster." She smirked. "Want to help me see if I'm right? Want to race me to the training room?"
"What do we get out of it?" He smiled up at her.
"No, Lance." Hunk said under his breath.
"I beat you to the training room. You do my chores for a week."
"What, no kiss?" She rolled her eyes.
"You win, I do your chores for a week."
"Please don't." Hunk said.
"You know that dose sound good." Lance giving a smug look.
"No." Hunk let out a whine. Pidge got to her feet and opened up a map on her mini computer.
"Ready, get set...GO!" She spun around and ran into the passage behind her. Lance took to a full force sprint down the hall towards the training hall. Hunk sign as he slowly jog down the hall following Lance. Lance near missed the door to the training room when he slid past it. He burst through the doors to find an out of breath Pidge standing next to a confused Keith.
"You cheated!" Lance yelled pointing at her.
"How?" She raised her hands.
"That was a hologram of you in the hall way." He said. "You were here the whole time."
"Before you came in here." Keith pointed behind him. "She came out of that vent."
"You're working with her!" Keith looked a Pidge.
"You made a bet with him didn't you?" He asked her. She shook her head yes. "On what?" He smirked.
"He has to do my chores for a week." Hunk came into the room.
"Who won?" He asked breathlessly. Keith pointed at Pidge. "Ah, man! Why do you do this to me?"
"What are you getting mad at me for?" Lance said. "I'm the one whose doing her chores."
"I'm just that nice of a friend I'm going to help you." Hunk said.
"You think she cheated?" Keith said. "You pick where we go next."
"What are you going to bet?"
"My chores for a week."
"Lance, no." Hunk said.
"The control room." Lance said ignoring Hunk.
"Deal." Keith said. "Ready, set...GO!" They scatted leaving Hunk to groan to himself. He slowly turned to the door to followed his friend.
Lance crashed into the control room. He sees Keith and Pidge standing next to Shiro, who looked a little amused.
"You are not real!" He yelled at he stomped over to them. He grabbed Pidge by the shoulders. She cleared her throat and looked to the right. Lance followed her stare to Shiro. He was giving him a disappointed look. Lance gave him a sheepish smile before he let go of her. Hunk finally made it to the control room.
"Did you lose again?" He asked.
"Why did you ask it like that?"
"Yes!" Keith and Pidge said at the same time. Lance turned back to Keith and Pidge.
"So, what you like him better or something?" He asked Pidge.
"Keith and I do share a more profound bond. You know the arms." She turned to Keith. "I wasn't gonna mention it." Lance then turns to Shiro.
"You're going to let them get away with this."
"I'm sorry, Lance." He said. "You made a bet and you lost. You'll have to pay up."
"Have fun cleaning the toilets." Keith said. Lance's jaw dropped in disbelief.
"Pays to be Voltron's most adorable Paladin." Hunk said. Lance glared at Pidge.
"Leader's pet." She stuck her tongue out at him.
(Present)
Lance walked into red's hanger. He made it over to one of the chairs in the hanger. He fell into it. He found his knees came to his chest. The last person sat in it, most likely Pidge, had been really short. He slouched in the chair and spread out his long legs. He started up at red.
"Why are you cutting us off?" He said to the lion. "Things are getting crazy out here. Maybe you guys know what's going on. It would be really nice to know." He sat staring up at the red lion. His eyes became heavy like the have been lately. He closed them. He felt cold hand touch his arm. He jumped and looked to his arm. Pidge was kneeling besides his chair.
"I'm sorry." She said. "I didn't mean to scare you."
"What are you doing here? You should be resting"
"I just wanted to see you." She said timidly.
"Are you alright?"
"I'm fine." She moved closer to him. "I wanted to properly thank you for yesterday." She moved her fingers along his arm. She leaned forward and closing the gap between them. Her lip came in contact with his. His stared at her with surprise before he pulled her away.
"What are you doing?" He asked.
"Thanking you." She said with a shy smile. "I thought this is how you wanted to be thanked." She leaned in again to kiss him but harder. She climbed into his lap.
'This is a dream." Lance thought to himself. 'I fell asleep.' She moved to his neck. As soon a he felt her teeth on his neck. "NOPE! Not a dream!" He yelled. He picked her up as he stood up. He placed her on her feet and held her by the shoulders.
"Aw, you've been having dreams about me?" She said pawing at his shirt.
"You are freaking me out." He said. "Your brother or anyone could have walked in at anytime." She pulled at hem of his shirt. Icy fingers brush against his skin.
"Let's go to your room." Took Lance a couple ticks to recover before he grabbed a hold of her wrists.
"I understand the last couple of weeks have been hard on you. Recovering, the lions cutting us off and Keith going off the deep end. But this is not going to make things better."
"I've noticed the way you've been looking at me." She pulled herself closer to him. "I've liked you for a really long time. I would not mind."
"You are in a very vulnerable place right now. I am not about to take advantage of you."
"You're not taking advantage of me." She said standing up on her tip toes. "I'm right here, throwing myself at you. Like all those other girls."
"I never took advantage of them. I want to go slow with you. Like snail pace slow. Like cuddle on the sofa slow. Why are you so cold?!"
"Then warm me up." She broke her wrist free and grabbed him by the neck to bring his lip into hers. The force of her body colliding with him caused him to stumble back into the desk. She seemed to have gotten stronger. He grabbed a hold of her arms and pulled her away again.
"Stop th-" He froze when he was looking into yellow eyes. "What happened to your eyes?"
"What about them?"
"They're yellow." She looked away.
"Shit!" She thought for a while and looked back at him. "You weren't suppose see that yet." She grabbed him around the throat. His air way was suddenly blocked. "I wanted you to take care of your leader. Now I'm going to have to kill you and hide till I'm at full power." He dropped to his knees while his vision blurred. "Then this ship will-" The pressure on his throat was gone and his vision came back. Pidge was on the ground and Keith stood over her with a tool in his hands.
"Pidg-" Lance tried to talk.
"I saw her eyes." Keith said. He throw the tool on the table. "You are lucky I was fallowing her." He kneeled down and gathered her up. "Help me before she wakes up." Lance got to his feet and grabbed a hold of her legs. They took her to the holding cells. On their way there they ran into Hunk.
"What happened?" Hunk asked looking concerned for the state Pidge was in.
"Get everyone to the control room." Keith said. "We'll tell you there." Hunk rushed to find the others. They made it to the holding cells. They dropped her in one of the white rooms. Keith was closing the cell when Matt walked in.
"What is going on?" He sees his sister laying on the floor of the cell. "What have you done to her?" He went over the controls when Lance stopped him.
"No." He said hoarsely. Matt noticed the marks on his throat.
"Did she do that?" Matt said to him. "What did you do to her?"
"She attacked Lance." Keith said.
"She would not attack unless she had to." Matt said to Keith before he turned back to Lance. "What were you trying to do to her?" Lance noticed Pidge moving in the cell.
"Look." Lance pointed to the cell. Matt turned and watched his sister sit up then gasped when she saw her yellow eyes. "She's possessed." She looked around the room before landing on the three. A sinister smile crossed her face.
"Katie?" Matt said.
"She has not been in control for a while." She said.
Lance, Keith and Matt walked into the control where the rest team was. Coran had video feed from the holding cells. Pidge sat in the middle of the room looking at the camera. A twisted smirk on her face.
"What is that?" Hunk asked looking between them and the screen. "That looks like Pidge but..."
"It's a virus." Allura said. "We have seen this before. The Galra use to infected their own soldiers with it. It was usually the ones who would be easily captured."
"Why would they do that?" Lance asked.
"They would be brought on a ship. After a quintent they would escape, kill the crew and destroy the ship." Allura looked up at the screen. "Luckily, we have the cure." She turned back the them.
"That was ten thousand years ago." Hunk said. "How do we know it will still work. The Galra could have improved this virus."
"Seems to me they did not improve it." Keith said. "Pidge was infected two weeks ago. This thing took control couple days ago. I heard it say it was not at full power. Why was it not at full power two weeks ago?"
"Pidge is not weak minded." Lance said. "It seems the Galra infected the weak minded. She was able to keep it from taking over." He suddenly thought of something. "Shit, the dreams."
"What about them?" Keith said.
"She would at the end of my dreams would tell me something was coming."
"I had that dream too." Hunk said. "The first night she was out of the pod."
"Same here." Allura said.
"She told she forgave me." Keith said. "For whatever I have to do."
"She used our connection to contact us." Hunk said.
"It sounds more like her subconscious." Allura said. "She didn't seem to be aware that something was wrong."
"She warned you." Matt said. "And none of you did anything."
"She had gotten badly hurt." Allura said. "She was on our minds."
"And you." Matt turned to Lance. "You had more then one dream about my sister. Why didn't you say anything?"
"I was there when she got hurt." Lance said. "I was guilty for it. I thought it was my guilt."
"Matt," Allura said. "Pidge is still in there. We will get her back. You, Hunk and Coran will stay here and work on the cure. Keith, Lance and I will go back down there and talk to it."
