The Lost Siren's Song

by A.I. Kaede

On a dare, Keith enters a section of the town lake's dead zone. Who would have guessed a Siren was trapped in those waters? And a cute one at that. (Cover art by A.R. Easterling, cowriter is Lillithrose)

10. Chapter 10

It is earlier than he realized when Lance finds himself awake again. He stretches before slipping away from Keith. Picking up his shirt, Lance turns it inside out then is determined to get dressed. Finally, he does it. Celebrating a little, he steps into the hall. While not sure what he was going to do, Lance found himself wanting to look at more of the things in the home. Like the pictures on the wall and the weird box that was bright yesterday and all the kitchen stuff. He stops and touches one item after the other, just looking them over and trying to learn what they might be.

Shiro slips away from Matt and goes to make coffee. "Oh, good morning Lance," he says when he runs into Lance exploring the kitchen.

Lance slams down whatever the thing he was looking at, not sure if he was suppose to be out here and getting into things. He doesn't say anything at first then nervously smiles. "G-good morning Shiro." Looking back to the thing he'd just been studying, Lance picks it up and starts to put it away before mumbling, "sorry I was just trying to see what things are I swear."

"You're not making a giant mess so it's okay. Would you like help reading the labels?" Shiro offered as he opened a cabinet to grab the coffee ingredients.

Lance looks to the ground. "I can't read at all so...I mean...I was more just...looking I guess?" He watches Shiro with curious eyes. "You and the orange haired humans drink that a lot." Trying to spy without being intrusive, Lance seems surprised when he sees the drink starts as water and some sand.

Shiro smiles, he likes curious Lance. "This is called coffee, it helps us wake up in the morning and stay awake through the day. Would you like to try? It's a bit hot."

Lance nods, despite not really needing to be awake, he is curious what the other humans like about it so much. He tilts his head looking at the pot with a squinted eye. "But how did the water make the sand liquid?" His question seems logical enough, to him anyway. "It smells nice at least."

"It wasn't sand, it's called powder. It dis... umm... It's similar to how ice turns into water. The powder mixes with water to make coffee," Shiro tries to explain. He knows the explanation isn't the best but he doesn't know how to explain dissolving properly.

"Like seafoam if you take it underwater." Lance somehow understands. He takes the cup Shiro hands him and the warmth feels nice on his hands. "It's like holding a sun warmed rock." He laughs a bit then takes a deep breath. Lance just holds the mug for a bit while looking around at other things in the kitchen. He feels like he could talk all day, just asking about all the different things. Careful not to drop the cup, Lance points to the dishes and wine rack. "That kind of stuff falls underwater sometimes." He says then takes a sip of the black coffee before grimacing and sitting it down. "No. No that's not good."

"Those are called dishes," Shiro points to them,"You eat food off of them and the wine rack holds long glass bottles." Shiro turns to Lance and chuckles, finding the former siren's reaction funny. "I like my coffee bitter. Some people add cream and sugar into their coffee to make it sweeter."

"I like sweeter things but that is not sweet." He looks back to the cup and just shakes his head before running his hands along the handle of the refrigerator. Opening it, he looks inside, slightly amazed at the temperature difference and the light inside this chest. Curious what the other handle has, sort of expecting that one to be warmer, Lance closes the other door and opens the freezer before shivering and closing it again. "Humans have so much...stuff." Lance says while turning back to the coffee to see Shiro has handed him creamer and sugar. While Lance didn't know which was which, he was interested to know how these two...things could make the drink taste different.

"Those are really sweet on their own," Shiro says as he makes Lance his own small cup of coffee. "Go ahead and add it to the coffee, make sure to try it before adding more." He slides the smaller cup towards Lance.

He adds "only a little" to the cup which...isn't that little. Once the coffee is a light brown color, he tries it again and seems much happier. Lance smiles up to Shiro. "You would probably have been a protector in our colonies." He states almost out of nowhere as he sips on his coffee. "Most protectors didn't like me." He laughs then tilts his head. "Sirens have bad tempers and protectors often had to intervene when I'd get in a fight." Looking back down, Lance smiles fondly. "But the protectors were always the best of us. They cared for everyone and had more patience than the rest of us combined." Though he might be making a round about way of it, Lance is obviously trying to compliment Shiro.

Shiro feels happy. Lance reminds him of Keith when they first started to get to know each other. "Do you think I would be one of the best? I did manage to befriend Keith after all." He takes another sip of his coffee. He almost chuckles remembering how much of a troublemaker Keith was. Well... He is still a troublemaker but in a different way.

"Mmhmm." Lance nods and smiles. "Thank you." He shakes his head, realizing he hadn't explained his thoughts. "Before he met you, Keith was an orphan, right? But I think you really helped him." Lance's smile is quieter than usual. "So, thank you."

"You don't need to thank me. We actually met on really rough terms. He had pointed a small kitchen knife at me when I went to go say hi." Shiro chuckles, remembering a younger Keith glaring at him while holding one of the smaller kitchen knives. "He has changed a lot since then."

Lance laughs a bit, imagining it. "Because of his protector." He looks back to Shiro and smiles again, a little more openly this time. "Like I said, protectors are the best - of, well probably the best humans too." Taking a drink of his coffee, Lance rubs an eye and stretches before bending down to rub his legs. Whether he wanted to admit it or not, his legs were tired from the walk yesterday, but in a way that almost felt good?

Shiro really appreciates the indirect compliments Lance is giving him. He gets a bit worried when Lance rubs his legs. "Are they sore?" he asks.

"Um..." Lance feels bad complaining since he was with Keith the whole time but... "A bit." He shakes his head. "Feels almost like...after I'd swam against a current or something. So..it is a good ache I guess." He drinks more of his coffee then opens his mouth to speak when the taller of the orange hairs come in. Matt literally says nothing. He hardly even looks awake as he grabs a mug and makes his drink. Seeing the typically louder human like this, Lance can't hide his look of confusion and concern. Keith had told him to try being nice but...was this one ok? Maybe he was sick?

"Perhaps stretching will help. It feels really good when you have sore muscles," Shiro says while Lance drinks. He then turns to Matt and says,"Morning Matt."

Matt takes a drink of his coffee and leans against Shiro. "Ugh. You woke me up. I could smell the coffee." His voice is sleepy. "Did I hear you talking about stretching?" He yawns and has another drink, eyes still barely open as he leans his head on Shiro's shoulder.

Lance watches him and isn't sure he's ever seen a creature act like this. "Why not keep sleeping if you're still tired" He asks innocently then shakes his head. "I've seen humans do that for decades. Why not just sleep when you're tired?"

"I like fishboyfriend's logic. Let's take it up with bossman." Matt points toward Lance, face still buried sleepily in Shiro's shoulder.

Shiro sighs. "You know we can't do that," he mumbles to Matt. He turns back towards Lance and says,"Humans have jobs that require us to show up at a certain time. Humans have deemed it lazy to stay asleep for too long."

Matt takes another drink of his coffee then sighs. "Yeah yeah." He yawns one more time then rubs his eyes. "So you guys bonding or were you - you got fishboyfriend drinking coffee?" Matt's laughs.

"My name is lance." He says in a growl before taking a breath to calm himself. "But plenty of sleep is healthy." His voice is a little whiny as he says this but then he takes a sip of this drink and changes tones. "Is there any job I could do for Keith? Or for you guys?"

Shiro hums in thought. "There really isn't much that needs to get done. Just spend your time with Keith and have fun."

Lance smiles and nods. "I was already going to do that. I just wanted to let him sleep." He finishes the drink then, seeing the other mugs in the sink, he puts his there before starting to walk away.

"Hey lance!" Matt calls, making lance quickly turn to face him. "When you go to leave, say bye or something. Humans like closure."

"But...this room is open?" Lance shrugs. "Bye or something." Then he starts back toward the bedroom, getting mildly distracted by paintings on the hallway walls

Keith slowly wakes up. Not feeling his boyfriend next to him, we sleepily calls out," Lance?" He hits up with half lidded eyes and he looms around the room.

Lance's hearing wasn't as good as it use to be, but he was acutely attuned to the sound of Keith's voice. He hurries as best he can into the room and quickly lays his head down on the still half asleep man's lap. "Good morning Keith." He smiles up at him.

Keith smiles down at Lance. "Morning," he says sleepily.

Lance reaches up to rub Keith's cheek then spins around so he can kiss him. "Did you sleep well?" He says as he nuzzles his check against the one not covered by his hand.

"Yeah," Keith hums as he nuzzles back.

Lance seems pleased by this so he nuzzles again before humming into Keith's ear. "What does my Keith want to do today?" He asks quietly as he starts to kiss Keith's neck. Apparently this is becoming as regular as nuzzling.

"We could watch a movie," Keith suggested. His neck tingled slightly with every kiss. "We can watch it on the TV, the black box in the living room."

"Oh I'd like to see a movie!" Lance says with a smile. "I've never seen moving pictures." He speaks between kisses as he cuddles their bodies together and runs his fingers over Keith's revealed skin. "On the black box? Does it work like your little message box?"

"Yeah. They are similar, you just can't touch the screen of the black box." Keith hums at the feeling of Lance's fingers gliding across his skin.

"And it's much bigger." Lance says playfully before looking up to Keith and smiling. "Human skin is so soft. And yours feel so warm. I am jealous." Lance laughs a bit. "I'm always cold now." He giggles a bit. "Well, when I'm not like this with you." Going quiet for a second, Lance almost whispers his question. "Are you happier that I'm human?"

Keith cups Lance's face so that they were eye to eye. "I'm just happy to be able to spend time with you. I didn't mind staying in the bathroom with you but it's nice being able to do so many things together." He lays his forehead against Lance's. "If there was a way to become a merperson, I would gladly join you in the water."

"But humans have so much...stuff and you have friends." Lance somehow manages to feel guilty. He didn't really understand the feeling. None of this had been his decision and yet, he couldn't hide how guilty he felt. "You have a protector who cares about you and - and I just have me. I don't want you to leave them all. Not just for me." He pouts despite cuddling into Keith's hands.

"Do you mean Shiro?" Keith chuckles softly. "Humans don't always stay close to their friends and I could never leave you alone." Keith brushes his nose against Lance's. "Plus, they could always just visit the beach."

"Mmhmm." Lance nods then grins when Keith nuzzles his nose with his. "I told him today while having coffee that he is like the merfolk's protectors. He smiled about it." Lance kisses Keith and hums when the odd electric feeling shoots through his body. "You wouldn't get lonely without them? I mean...if you want to see them you walk outside or use your message box. I don't think those work underwater."

"But I would have you," Keith says softly. Thinking about leaving Shiro does hurt his heart a little. He would definitely miss his friends, but they don't need him like Lance does. Everything would be fine without him here.

Lance sees the look on Keith's face and even though it pains him to say it, Lance swallows hard then asks. "Would you rather me stay human?" He tries not to show how hard that would be for him. "We can just...stop trying to find a way to change me back. And I can...stay with you and your friends." He hopes sincerely that his smile doesn't look too forced when he meets Keith's eyes.

Keith sighs softly and lightly bumps Lance's head with his. "I would prefer which ever makes you happiest. It doesn't have to be all about what I want. It's your body."

"What makes me happiest is seeing you happy." Lance says then sighs. "It just feels strange to be human. Like...I can feel this body...aging? Or something? And I miss the sounds of the water and the trill of fish." He hadn't meant to ramble and he looks a bit guilty when he looks back up. "But I would never forgive myself if you were sad because of me."

"It won't be because of you," Keith mumbles and gives Lance an eskimo kiss. "What form you want to have is all up to you. I'll be happy either way."

Lance's chest feels tight. He gives Keith th nose rub back then nuzzles his cheek and hums. "I just love you." He says sweetly. "Maybe we can just...watch a movie and figure it out along the way?"

"Yeah. We'll do that." He nuzzles Lance back. "Ready to head to the living room?"

"Yeah. I want to see how the black box makes moving pictures." He says happily before kissing Keith's neck again and humming.

Keith smiles and leads Lance to the living room. Keith grabs the remote before sitting down on the same love seat as yesterday. "Is there anything you want to see? We have princess movies, mermaid, fighting, and funny movies."

"Humans have movies about merfolk?" Lance seems surprised but can't hide his wonder. "I thought humans were scared of us? Or is that just sirens..." He trails off then cuddles close to Keith. "I want to watch anything." He giggles.

"It's about a mermaid princess who saves a prince from drowning and falls in love," Keith explains. "It's one of the movies that sets what kids think merpeople are like."

Lance smiles and laughs a bit. "You can be my prince. I certainly fell in love with you." He nods. "I want to see what humans think we are like." And with that Lance moves in to nuzzle Keith again.

Keith nuzzles back and fiddles with the remote until the movie starts playing. He wonders just how different real merpeople are from what society thinks they are like.

Lance watches the screen with wide eyes. He can't help but jump up and move closer, as though he might be able to figure out how the black box works. He wants to touch it but he remembers Keith said not to so he begrudgingly walks back next to Keith. When he sees the merperson, his eyes look over to Keith confused. "Why does she look like that?" He asks as if Keith would know what he means.

Assuming Lance was asking about the mermaids not having scales and ears like Lance did, he says,"It's what they thought a mermaid would look like. Half human half fish."

"But she has the...human girl chest." Lance says. "I mean, of course the lack of proper ears is odd. And here eyes are human. They would explode down there, right? She's at the bottom of the ocean after all." He laughs a bit and shrugs. "And what a boring tail. Though more fitting for the female she is."

Keith raised an eyebrow after the first thing Lance said. Human girl chest? Do real merpeople not have them? Well... It does make sense since fish don't need milk. "Are all mermaids flat chested with boring tails?" he asks as he lays his head against Lance's.

"Yes." He says plainly then points to his hips. "They have extra fins here, just little ones. And they usually have more noticeable gills." Lance runs a hand down his legs as if missing his tail but shakes his head. "And they tend to be smaller. Aren't human females usually smaller too?"

"Usually, yes." He tries to picture a mermaid according to Lance's description.

Seeing King Titan, Lance actually laughs and shakes his head. "Humans really didn't know much when they made this huh?" He laughs again, rather boisterously actually. "Like they would let a merman with a weapon to be on any sort of thrown."

"The weapon in his hand is called a trident. He got it from his father, the god of the sea, Poseidon. Who is normally on the throne?"

"Females, of course. And more than one at a time." He sighs then cuddles into Keith. "One mind cannot make a group decision. And a weapon should never be displayed as a sign of power." He looks over to Keith. "At least that's how the merfolk see it." He goes a bit quiet. "Its why sirens are never part of the counsel. We are weapons in a way. So… It's counterintuitive." His words are a bit more quiet. When he sees the sisters, Lance points. "They would all be where… King Titan is. Maybe add one or two others." He clings close to Keith, hoping his human won't try to make him look back up. Even with how ridiculous it all is, Lance can't help but miss home.

Keith hugs Lance and pets his head. Maybe it wasn't a good idea to watch a movie about mermaids. "Humans prefer a man in power. They used to think women were meant to do nothing but house work and look pretty." He nuzzles into Lance's hair.

"Pffft. That's silly." Lance says with a sad laugh. "Without women the men can't survive. How would there be children? And why do the women have to look pretty? Shouldn't the men be trying to look better. We do less after all." He nuzzles into Keith's hand in his hair. Still angled toward the tv, Lance doesn't even realize his eyes have started to water.

"Do you want to stop watching?" Keith asks softly. He slides the hand down to cup Lance's cheek. "We don't have to finish the movie."

Lance shakes his head and smiles. "But I want to see her fall in love." He laughs but it kind of breaks in his chest. Cuddling into Keith, he tries to calm down. "When fish sing it sounds nothing like that." He tries to be silly again but the words just sound sad. With a sigh he finally admits, "I miss the ocean." The words are so quiet that he doesn't even know if Keith will hear them.

Keith turns so he is facing Lance more. He tries to comfort Lance with cuddles and nuzzles. He doesn't know what it's like to miss a place. "Your singing is way better."

He smiles a bit and nods. "Yes it is." He agrees before looking up at Keith. His eyes are still shiny with nearly falling tears but seeing Keith seems to calm him. Nuzzling his cheek as he does, Lance kisses his neck and sighs. "I am more glad than you know to have met you." Keith doesn't know what to say in response so he just kisses near Lance's ear. Lance's hair tickles his face a little. It's unbelievably soft.

Lance hums then kisses Keith's neck before turning back to watch more of the movie. The more he watches prince Eric, the more Lance hugs Keith. Near the middle of the movie, Lance is nearly wrapped all the way around Keith and has started to react more out of worry and excitement to the movie than whether it is accurate. When kiss the girl comes on, Lance laughs and kisses up and down Keith's neck before looking around to verify the are alone and biting it once. He then giggles before cuddling back down.

Keith is more entertained by Lance than the movie. He gets a little engrossed into the movie before Lance bites him. He lets out a surprised gasp mixed with a moan. His face heats up and tries to get into the movie again.

Lance laughs a bit, liking that reaction more than he liked the movie. He trailed his fingers up Keith's neck with a hum. He kisses the soft spot just under Keith's ear then hums. "Those sounds always make my stomach do a flip." He whispers the words into Keith's ear, not trying to actually be sensual so much as thinking that might be something to say in private.

Keith shivers. "Your sounds are so much better," he says and nuzzles Lance. "So much more intoxicating."

Lance shakes his head. "Not true." He trails his fingers up Keith's chest, never tiring of the feeling. Especially as Keith's heart rate climbs with the quiet words echoing in his ear. "I have never heard anything more magical than your gasps." His words are oddly musical as he speaks.

Keith blushes more. "That's only because you can't hear your own voice."

Lance shakes his head then lightly bites Keith's earlobe. "I think I just like your voice better." He glances around again before putting his hand under Keith's shirt so he can feel the skin there. Nuzzling as he does, Lance hums then kisses Keith's neck again.

Keith groans softly at being bit again. "That's just your opinion." He places a hand on Lance's thigh and rubs in a circular motion.

"Isn't that all that matters?" Lance says, his heart starting to race when Keith touches his thigh. Silly human bodies are so sensitive. "I like your voice, no, love your voice. Any of it. It makes me happy." Without realizing it, Lance scoots himself closer to Keith's hand, infatuated with the gentle circles.

"Even if I make silly noises?" Keith laughs. Since Lance scooted closer, Keith's hand got closer to Lance's crotch. Keith continues to rub in circles, most are small but he would do a bigger one every now and then.

"Even silly noises." Lance agrees quietly ad he felt his stomach bubbling excitedly. He had relaxed his he'd onto the back of the loveseat without even realizing it. The circles on his already sensitive legs moving steadily upwards were making his head foggy. Not thinking about it, Lance bites his lower lip as his stomach grows hot and electric. "I think your hands are..." He shakes his head, trying to clear away the fog. "Magic or something."

"Do you want me to stop?" He doesn't go up any further, loving this reaction.

Lance pouts and whines a little before shaking his head. "Please no." His voice is a quiet and desperate whine. Opening his eyes a little, Lance gives Keith a look that is the strangest mix of pouty and horny.

Keith smirks. "You look amazing," he whispers as he slowly moves his hand up again until he reaches the most sensitive part of the leg, the inner side where the leg connects to the rest of the body.

Lance's eyes roll back before his eyelids flutter shut and he feels his breaths grow shallow. He had wanted to argue, to say Keith looked better...but his mind was just a cloudy blur of unbridled want. How in the he'll do humans function being this sensitive?! "Keith..." His all Lance is able to breathlessly force out despite the whirlwind of things he wants to say.

"Hmm?" Keith hums. He teases Lance by making sure that one of his fingers rubs right next to where Lance's balls would be. Lance tenses up a bit, feeling the electricity shoot through his body stronger. He gasps, not sure how to even speak right anymore. His hand reaches out for Keith's hair and he grips it then, a bit tighter than usual, trying to pull Keith into a kiss. His dick was already getting hard and he hasn't even been trying to...do...anything with Keith...not really anyway.

Keith stops just to lower Lance's leg clothing to his knees. "Do you want me to continue?" Keith asks as he lightly trails a fingertip up Lance's dick.

Lance gasps again at the touch. So goddamn sensitive. He doesn't mean to moan but it comes out in a strange whining sound anyway. "Please?" He whines before weakly pulling Keith in, asking for a kiss without words. Already, Lance's toes are curled under his feet, in love with this feeling.

Keith leans in and kisses Lance as he wraps his hand around Lance's dick and pumps slowly.

Lance hungrily accepts the kiss but his jaw falls open when Keith starts to pump him. He grabs Keith's neck and scratches at it a bit, head cloudy as he releases another whining moan. "Keith...mmm."

Meanwhile, Matt had walked toward the bedroom door, coffee mug in hand then abruptly stopped and grumbles before dragging his feet back to the desk. "Man. I wanted more coffee."

Shiro is sitting in bed, reading. He looks up and asks,"Then go get more. It's not like yours take that long to make."

"You know..." Matt laughs a bit. "I would but the living room is...well, occupied? So I can wait."

Shiro puts his book down. "What?" Just then, he hears what Matt is talking about. "Oh..."

"Must be something about Mondays and getting bored in the living room." Matt says teasingly before taking a seat next to Shiro and giving him a quick peck on the cheek. "I don't even remember what we were watching last Monday." He laughs again.

Shiro rolls his eyes. "We were watching one of the space movies."

Matt smiles over to Shiro and wiggled an eyebrow at him. "We should watch it again."

Shiro shoots Matt a glare before quickly stuffing his nose back in his book.

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Keith hums and kisses to Lance's ear, biting his earlobe. He pumps Lance with long slow strokes. "Ah-hmm..mmm." Lance can't make any of his semicoherent thought into even partially coherent sounds. Running solely on instinct. His hand trails down Keith's chest blindly. He wants to hear Keith's sounds too but his mind is so foggy that he's not sure how to get his hand working right. When a louder than he means to groan, Lance rubs his plan over Keith's bulge before he feels his head start to so in from longing. "Faster." He whines.

Keith groans. "Do you want to do it together?" he asks softly, his other hand already starting to take off his clothes.

"Please." Lance pats before impatiently thrusting his hand down Keith's hardly down pants and starts pumping. He doesn't give Keith any warm up, he doesn't have it in himself to tease right now. He craves the deep, guttural moans Keith releases. "So good." Lance says in a breathless moan.

Keith moans as he moves so that he is sitting on Lance's lap. He pumps Lace faster. "Lance," he groans.

When Keith gets on his lap, lance feels his chest tighten and his stomach burn. He pumps Keith fast and hard as he arches his back and grinds into Keith, solely going on what felt right."This...feeling...its so..." He gasps for air, entirely too overwhelmed to finish his thought.

Keith grinds Lance back, loving the feeling of their dicks being together. He pumps Lance faster and asks softly," Are you close?"

Lance hopes a whine and slight nod will be sufficient before he is able to whimper out, "are you?" As he manages to squeak that out, Lance whines and gasps as he feels himself getting dangerously close.

"Close," Keith says between moans. He wasn't as close as Lance but he is close. He continues to pump Lance, wanting to milk him again.

Lance feels a bubbling of broken moans exit his mouth as he gets closer. Just before he climaxes, Lance pulls Keith down to kiss him. It's a sloppy passionate kiss that mutes a quiet shout as he cums, but he doesn't stop working Keith despite really wanting to just collapse. He decides, instead, to bite Keith as he works him.

Keith moans into the kiss. Pleasure from the bites goes straight to his dick. His moans become short but more frequent as he feels himself about to burst. He pulls away to breath but instead of going back to kiss again, he buries his face in Lance's neck as he cums.

Lance kisses Keith's neck as he feels him release then finally relaxes back onto the couch, tiredly pulling his hand to his mouth to clean up again. He keeps his eyes open, admiring Keith's orgasmic face and shivers.

Keith rolls off of Lance and looks at his hand. It's covered in Lance's cum but he just couldn't bring himself to even try licking it. He feels a bit disappointed in himself. "Do you want to go back to the room?" Keith asks softly.

"My legs feel weak." Lance laughs. "I don't think I can walk yet." He says with a slight pink color to his cheeks. "Your hands are too good." He looks back at the black box and laughs. "I didn't see how it ended." He chuckles when he realizes the movie is back at the menu.

Keith looks at the screen, having forgotten for a moment that they were watching a movie. "Do you want me to tell you how it ends or watch it again later?"

"Tell me. I like your voice better than hers anyway." Lance cuddles in and kisses Keith's neck then pulls up his leggings, feeling a bit cold. "How are you not always cold?" Lance grabs a blanket and starts to cover himself up. As he does, the door to Matt's room bursts open.

"I'm not looking!" He shouts. "Just need coffee. You two keep doing your thing." He uses his hand to blindly walk down the hall.

"Matt!" Shiro yells from the bedroom. "Get back here!" Keith looks over at Matt like he is insane. "You can get coffee later!"

Lance jumps and, since humans are supposed to have leg clothes, quickly covers Keith and cuddles into him.

"Do you want me to die? My heart will stop! I need it!" Matt says dramatically.

"No you don't!" Shiro yelled. "Sorry Keith, Lance!"

"Well..." Keith trails off, trying to change topic. "The octopus turns herself into a pretty woman and uses Ariel's voice to sing for the prince. He almost marries the octopus but Ariel gets her voice back. The octopus gets angry so they kill her and they live happily ever after," Keith sums up the end of the movie the best he can. He doesn't use a lot of the details.

"Did they eat the octopus?" Lance asks. As he runs his hands up Keith's legs and back. "It would be a waste otherwise." He tilts his head. "And how rude to steal her voice."

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Matt slinks back down the hall, full mug in hand then closes the door. "I should just get one of those baby coffee pots for in here." He says as he exhaled.

"You could have also just waited or not announced your presence," Shiro sighed.

"Wouldn't it have been creepier to not announce myself? Like that feels very creeperish to me." Matt takes a drink of his coffee and sighs. "Whatever. Worth it."

Shiro sighs and goes back to reading. He is almost done with the book.

Matt guzzles half of his coffee before slipping onto Shiro's lap like a cat and smiling up at him. "Yoga later? We can invite fish- Lance and Keith."

Shiro lifts his book up to look down at Matt. "Sure. You going to plan the poses before hand?"

"Nah. I'll just play one of the videos on netflix or something." He nuzzles into Shiro, really sticking to the "kitty persona". Shiro chuckles and plays along. He starts petting and scratching Matt's head. Matt hums then stretches out. Apparently he is bored since he was determined to "not work" on his day off. "Nyaa~." He says before pawing at Shiro's bangs.

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"They did not eat her," Keith says, trying to imagine someone eating purple and black octopus tentacles.

"But an octopus of that size would have been so many meals! And octopus is so good!" Lance seems offended then sighs before hugging Keith close. "I like how it ended with us much better." He purrs.

Keith purrs. "I like our story better too." He nuzzles into Lance.

"Did you want to get cleaned up?" Lance asks, face buried in Keith's hair. "Humans like being clean right?" He says in a silly tone. "I could help!" It sounds like an innocent enough request. Likely because he doesn't see nudity as inherently sexual.

Keith chuckles. "Sure." He kisses Lance's forehead and asks,"Can you walk? I can carry you to the room."

Lance blushes a little. "I could probably walk." He looks back to Keith. "But I might like it if you carry me."

Keith smiles and stands up. He gathers their clothes and hands them to Lance before picking up his boyfriend bridal style. "This okay?"

Lance looks disgustingly pleased. He kisses Keith's neck then wraps his arms around his neck. "If it's comfortable to you it's wonderful." His voice is sing songy.

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Shiro laughs and tries to keep Matt away from his hair. "No, my hair is not a toy."

"But it's so fluffy nya!" Matt goes for it again, trying to get Shiro to put down the book.

"It's not fluffy," Shiro argues. He tries to push Matt away but it's hard with one hand. Only until Matt starts being able to maneuver around his hand does Shiro put his book down to use both hands.

"Fl-uff-yyyy~" he goes after it again before nuzzling into his chest. "Play with meeeee." He says teasingly.

"Aren't we already playing," Shiro laughs as he scratches Matt's head again.

"Now that you put the book down yeah." Matt kitty says with his "paws" next to his jawline. "I didn't have you take the day off to spend it studying." He stretches again, sprawling across Shiro with a smile.

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Keith smiles and walks to his room. He sets Lance on the bed so he could gather new clothes for them to put on afterwards. "Do you want to pick your clothes?"

Lance shakes his head and smiles. "Pick for me." He laughs then spins circles to make his nest. "So can I help you?" He asks once bundled into the blankets.

"Yeah but I'll show you first okay?" Keith places clothes on the edge of the bed. He then picks up Lance again and carries him to the bathroom.

Lance hums happily and kisses up and down Keith's neck before he nuzzles in. He waits for Keith to prep the water and stubbornly starts to undress himself. He is determined to figure this out.

Keith throws off the rest of his clothes before stepping into the water. It's nice and warm. He gathers his shampoo and conditioner into the closes corner of the shower to that it would be easy for Lance. "I'll wash your hair, then you can wash mine," Keith says as he watches Lance undress.

When lance gets into the water he looks momentarily surprised. "Is this water from a hot spring? I didn't know there were hot springs around here. Or is there fire...?" He stops rambling and steps next to Keith with a smile. "I like that."

"There is a boiler that heats up the water." Keith isn't sure how to explain boil so he leaves it at that. He combs his hands through Lance's hair as it starts to get soaked. "I'm going to put shampoo in your hair and spread it," Keith says as he grabs the shampoo bottle. He shows Lance the bottle and squirts a little bit into his hand. He leads Lance out of the water and messages the shampoo into Lance's hair.

Lance listens curiously then hums, clearly enjoying the feeling of Keith's hands in his hair. "That smells nice." He says, referring to the shampoo.

"I think you'll like the conditioner more." Keith gently pulls Lance back into the water. He makes sure that no shampoo runs into Lance's eyes as he washes it away. Once it's gone, he gently pushes Lance out of the water and repeats the process with the conditioner.

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"But I like to read," Shiro pouts. "Plus, you were busy doing your tinkering." He gestures towards the desk and all the junk on top of it.

"Well I stopped." He says playfully. "Should I try to cook lunch?" He asks with a laugh.

"If you really want to. We don't have too much ingredients though," Shiro says.

"You'd trust me in the kitchen?!" Matt exclaims before jolting up and bounding toward the door. "Chemistry time!"

Shiro sighs. Not fully trusting Matt, he gets up and follows his boyfriend to the kitchen.

By the time shiro has reached the kitchen, Matt was leaning on the counter and laughing. "You really think I was gonna cook?!" He point to the kettle on the stove. "Ramen. I'm making ramen."

Shiro sighs in relief. "I can't assume anything with you. You are the type of person who could even mess up making ramen." It's not like he is all that better though.

"I have messed up ramen!" He laughs for a minute. "Remember finals week at the garrison and I forgot to put freaking water in it?!" Matt cuddles up to Shiro. "Do you think Lance will be able to do yoga?" He asks suddenly thoughtful.

"Probably not? I can't even do yoga properly."

"I know." Matt whines a little. "We have got to loose. You up a bit first." He raises an eyebrow. "I bet it'd help." He darts to the pantry before Shiro could react and starts to pull out bowls of ramen.

"Chicken? Beef? Or...you got a Kimchi one? Or did I grab that?" Matt holds up one bowl in each hand then grabs the third in his teeth, tilting his head playfully as he hops up to Shiro.

"You grabbed it," Shiro laughs. He helps Matt put the bowls on the counter. "How do you not remember that but you can remember all your tech stuff?"

"Well you see, it's like my desk," Matt starts as he peels open the kimchi ramen, "It has lots of room for tools and parts and stuff, but only maybe two things off coffee." He smiles over at Shiro then sticks his tongue out. "There's only so much room for non important stuff."

Shiro sighs and shakes his head.

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Lance is so clearly in heaven that he is practically mush in Keith's fingers. "This feels like a gentle waterfall but...it's warm and you are with me." Once his hair is rinsed, lance leans forward and kisses Keith again, pulling back far enough to look Keith over with a slight blush on his cheeks. "You are so beautiful in the water."

Keith blushes at the comment. "I think you're just biased," he mumbles and hands Lance the shampoo bottle. "You only need a little bit." Keith holds out on hand palm up and draws a circle on it with his finger. "About this much."

"So what if I am?" Lance smiles then traces the circle on Keith's palm with a warm smile. "I can still think it." He carefully pouts some of the shampoo into one of his hands and starts to massage Keith's scalp. He can't help but laugh a little at the feeling of the bubbles on his fingers. "I love everything about this."

Keith closes his eyes and purrs. He loves the feeling on Lance's fingers in his hair. "It is really nice," he says softly.

As he rinsed the shampoo from Keith's hair, Lance leans in and kisses Keith with a pleased hum. "You want conditioner too right?"

Keith hums back and nods. He already misses Lance messaging his head. "After conditioner, we soup our bodies," he informs.

"I like your body." Lance says with a laugh as he starts to work the conditioner in. "Do I get to massage it like this?"

"Soap doesn't require a lot but if you want to massage it in, you can," Keith shrugs.

Lance nods and rubs the soap in before gently running his hands in circles, massaging Keith's skin as he leans in to kiss his neck over and over. "I just want to touch you." He says quietly.

"So much skinship," Keith teases. "Does my skin feel amazing or it is just because it's me?" He already knows the answer but it's nice to hear it.

"Is that a problem?" Lance kisses again, the other side of Keith's neck this time. "How about...your skin feels amazing because it's yours." He grins then spoons him in a warm hug, touching Keith's chest with crossed hands before resting his head on Keith's shoulder. "You smell nice." He hums.

Keith hums back and nuzzles into Lance's neck. "You do too but It's my turn to soap you down." He waits for Lance to release him before quickly soaping Lance's body. Keith is assuming that Lance wants to hug again as soon as possible, plus he can always massage Lance later.

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"Don't you sigh at me!" Matt pokes Shiro with his finger playfully. "At least I remember your birthday!" He says with a teasing smile and raised eyebrow.

"I only forgot that one time!" Shiro argues, throwing his hands up into the air.

"That's one more time than me!" Matt teases, poking Matt's chest again. "I even remember when it's your real birthday." He gives a bit smile. "I'll owe you an entire cheesecake if you can tell me our anniversary without looking at the calendar."

Shiro glares at Matt and answers,"April 15th."

"Yes! Even if when I first asked you out, you thought it was like...a belated April fool's joke. Rude by the way. So, turtle cheesecake?" Matt fist pumps and dances a little in place then grabs a magnet off the fridge. "Or chocolate strawberry?" He slides next to Shiro and kisses his cheek. "I just wanted an excuse to buy cheesecake. You had to have known that. "
"You and your cheese cake. I don't mind the turtle one and in my defense, you play april fool jokes through the entire month of April."

"But I would never joke about true love!" Matt touches his chest dramatically and takes a knee as he continues. "It's the one pure left left on this foul planet and I wish only to share it with you and you alone! I will spend my mornings thinking I'm dreaming and my dreams wishing I was awake with you!" He grabs Shiro's hand and playfully kisses it. "And turtle cheesecake is my second love. How did you know!?"

Shiro rolls his eyes despite the growing blush on his face. "Because you always get it when we go there."

"Don't act like you don't miss my humor when I'm gone." Matt stands up and puffs himself up to "look like" Shiro then playfully mocks his voice with his eyes closed as if to prove a point. "I'm too stoic for romance even though I'm a huge ball of mush when my boyfriend is romantic." He peeks over to Shiro before realizing the kettle was now whistling - and likely had been for a while - he was too busy being silly. "Crap! The ramen water!"

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Lance watches Keith with calm eyes. He is so stupidly in love with this human that it almost hurts. Touching his chest, Lance scrunches his eyebrows together, thinking harder about whether that was normal or not that's normal than he realizes.

Once Keith is done and the soap is all washed away, he goes to hug Lance but notices his expression. "Does something hurt? Is the water too hot for you?"

"Is it normal for your heart to hurt because you love someone so much?" Lance questions, still so focused he's missing the look on Keith's face. "Maybe it's just a human thing?"

Keith relaxes. "If you've never felt it before then yeah, it's probably a human thing." He smiles gently as he rubs his thumb across Lance's cheek.

Lance grabs Keith's hand and puts it on his chest then steps in close. "I always feel so much better when you're touching me." He laughs a bit. "It's like...my heart stops hurting because it knows you are here." Lance nuzzles Keith's cheek with his then puts his hand over Keith's heart.

Keith's heart is also beating fast. He doesn't know what to say but he really wants to hug Lance.

Lance can feel Keith's' heart racing and he smiles before pulling him in close. "I love you so much it hurts." He kisses Keith's ear while repeating a few more times; interrupted only by more kisses, "I love you, I love you," Singing it a little more every time he says it.

Keith feels his face heat up and his heart beat faster. "I love you too," he whispers as he hides his flushed face in Lances shoulder. "We should probably get dry." He loves hearing Lance express his love for him but he also can't take it. It feels like he will dye from his heart beating too fast.

"Hmm yeah, humans need to be dry sometimes or they get all wrinkly right?" Lance waits for Keith to turn off the water, only barely letting go of Keith as he does. When Keith grabs a towel, Lance does the same. "So, what is something else you enjoy doing? I want to learn as much about you and your friends as I can." His smile is so vibrant that his honesty can be seen as much as heard.

Keith smiles and nuzzles his nose against Lance's cheek. "I have a small collection of knives," Keith blurts out, getting a little excited at the thought of showing it off. He quickly drys himself before putting the towel back on the towel rack.

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"You can't even boil water properly," Shiro laughs. He knows it's his fault in a way since he is here distracting Matt. Matt isn't good at multitasking, at all.

"Oh shut it." Matt says playfully as he pours water into the bowls before covering the lids with spoons. "Flirting with you is way more fun than watching water boil." He gives Shiro the side eye before putting the water back down and stepping in front of Shiro with his arms crossed.

"At least the water didn't boil over this time," Shiro smiles.

"No, the water didn't boil over," Matt smirks then continues, "but my heart did! With overflowing love for you!"

"Vomit." Pidge interrupts, claiming one of the bowls of ramen for themselves with one hand while still doing calculations with the other. "Thanks for the food though."

"Pidge, you're going to spill. You have to use both hands," Shiro said, having instantly gone to dad mode.

"Sure thing dad." Pidge says, though doesn't carry the bowl any different. In no time, they are back in their room. Matt slides back into Shiro's view. "So...plans after yoga?" He says deviously.

"Do you have plans?" Shiro asks with a raised eyebrow, knowing Matt is scheming something.

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Seeing Keith get excited makes Lance smile so he dries himself off, not quite as quickly as Keith since he's still not as coordinated with this new skeletal system as he'd like to be, but he tries to follow as quick as he can. "Do you just collect them or are they for hunting and such?" Lance thinks back to his collection in his cave. "If I can ever get back down there, I have an opal dagger I should give you."

"There isn't really anything I can hunt here so I just collect them. Sometimes I carry one around in case I need to fight off someone." Keith grabs his towel again and drys Lance's hair for him, despite not having properly dried his own. "And an opal dagger sounds like it looks really cool."

"I never had much use for knives." Lance says then smiles when Keith dries his hair. "Well, besides using one to cut my hair every once in a while." He grins when Keith says he'd likely enjoy the dagger Lance had. "It's amazing. So many colors and it catches the sunlight so well." Lance takes the towel from his head and playfully dries Keith's before leaning in with the towel still on Keith's head to kiss him. "Well, lead the way love."

Keith blushes and holds onto Lance's wrist as he leads back to the bed. He moves the clothes he had gotten out for Lance so it was in a pile of its own.

Lance stares at the pile of clothes as if it was some evil creature but doesn't ask for help. He picks up the boxers and glances to see how Keith puts them on before making the same motions. Thankfully, these pants don't have buttons so it's easier to get on, but he ignores the shirt for the time being before laying back down on the bed to watch Keith. "Shirts are still weird." He says plainly.

Keith finishes putting his shirt on before joining Lance in bed. "You don't technically have to wear a shirt," Keith says as he cuddles into Lance. "Males chest aren't considered something that needs to be hidden."

"Then why hide yours?" Lance teases. "Yours is nicer than mine anyway." He adds before pulling Keith on top of him with a smile. "I thought you were showing me daggers," he runs his fingers along Keith's neck and smiles, "Not that I mind. This is rather enjoyable on its own."

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"Why do I have to have something planned?" He says innocently before putting his arms behind his back. "I just thought we could go on a walk or something." His phone buzzes then so he checks it before shouting, "Screw you pidgeon!" Even though he says this, Matt blushes even if it is just a little.

Shiro notices and gets incredibly curious. Matt never blushes. The only other time was when he confessed to Shiro. He tries to peak at Matt's phone.

Matt quickly puts his phone away and playfully glares at Shiro. "Never the technology. That's mine. Dangerous things happen when my technology is played with." He grabs his ramen and starts to eat. "But really...just the two of us, somewhere later?" He asks once his mouth is empty.

"Yeah. It would be nice to be actually alone." He leans his head on Matt's shoulder as he starts to eat.

Matt nuzzles then takes another bite before offering a bit of his kimchi bowl to Shiro. "It's only a tiny bit spicy I swear." He lies while turning the bowl so the 'very hot' logo isn't facing Shiro.

Shiro glares at Matt. He knows that Matt is lying since he was the one who bought them but he decided to humor him. He eats the bite and is instantly fanning his mouth.

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"It's not hard to reach them from here." Balancing himself on one hand and his knees, Keith reaches for the drawer of the side table and grabs one.

Lance puts both hands on Keith's legs when he reaches over. He watches Keith, doing a good job of keeping himself calm despite seeing a blade, and smiles when he sees the adorable look of excitement on Keith's face.

"This is my favorite. I always grab this one when I want to go out late at night." He looks over the blade one more time before looking at Lance. "I could show you a trick," he says as his eyes shine more.

Lance reaches up and runs his fingers along Keith's cheek. "I'd love to see it." He laughs a bit as he rubs gentle circles on Keith's cheek. "You don't get to show off often do you?"

"All of my friends have already seen it and it's not like I'll go around showing to random people." Keith moves off Lance so that the former siren can sit up. Once Lance is comfortable, Keith starts doing some flip tricks.

Lance smiles warmly and watches Keith. His nerves get a bit...jolty when the dagger flies but it is rather fascinating to watch. He rolls onto his side and his smile grows. "You can do such interesting things." Lance says with a giggle. "I never thought to try tricks with my dagger. I just liked to look at it."

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Matt nearly spits out his food when Shiro actually tries the food. He instantly grabs a cup of milk, all while laughing, and hands it to Shiro. "Oh my god I can't believe you! You know my 'not spicy' is so not yours." Taking Shiro's bowl to replace it with milk, Matt sighs and laughs. "This is comedy gold though."

Shiro quickly gulps down the milk. Once his tongue no longer feels like it's on fire, he lowers the cup and gasps for air. "At least I can humor you every now and then," Shiro says before sticking his tongue out to air it.

Matt kisses Shiro's cheek playfully. "True. So, better or worse than the 'radish' you thought you were cleverly stealing from my thai food?" He asks before laughing again.

"Better cause I actually knew what I was getting myself into," Shiro glares at Matt and retrades the milk for his food.

"Hey! That was all you!" Matt bumps Shiro and tries to hide the fact that his nerves are boiling over, maybe worse than the kettle a bit ago, by eating more of the ramen. "You know I order my food extra spicy. So why would it have been a radish?"

"It looked like a radish! It was a new place so I didn't know," Shiro defended himself.

Matt rubs his shoulder into Shiro with a smile. "It's ok. It will forever be my favorite thai food memory with you." With his food now finished, Matt realizes the boys hadn't come out of the room yet. "Should I let them know there's hot water for ramen or...leave them?"

"We should tell them. You know Keith forgets to eat sometimes." He sets his empty bowl down and starts to get off the bed.

"Want me to risk it?" Matt asks teasingly. "I'd hate for you to see unsavory things happening to your baby bro." He snatches up the bowl and kisses Shiro's nose. "I've got this. Finish your book."

Shiro smiles with his eyes closed. "Thank you." As Matt leaves, he picks up his book. Just two more chapters left.

Matt secretly watches Shiro from the doorway for a second then clears his throat before walking away. Shaking out his hands before grumpily texting Pidge,
/HE WAS RIGHT THERE! HE TRIED TO LOOK AT MY PHONE DAMNIT./

/Haha oops/

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"Shiro always stopped me from doing tricks when I got my first one. He was scared I would accidentally cut off a toe." Keith reaches back into the drawer and pulls out a different dagger. This one is slightly bigger and the blade is practically a rainbow. "I have a few that are really nice to look at."

"A protector's job is other's safety." Lance nuzzles Keith. "But I can see you never cut off a toe." He watches as Keith pulls out the other dagger and is eyes go wide. "It's beautiful." His hands reach out before he realizes it then pulls back. "Can I?" He ask, not realizing he's giving Keith puppy eyes.

Keith blushes slightly and almost chuckles. Lance is unbelievable cute. "Go ahead." He holds out the dagger for Lance, sharp side facing Keith.

Lance takes the weapon with careful hands. He runs his fingers along the flat end of the blade, turning it a bit to enjoy how the blade changes. "My opal one has a lot of colors like this. But it's nowhere near as smooth." He says before handing the blade back with a smile. "Thank you."

Keith's smiles gets a little bigger. It's still weird hearing Lance say 'thank you' alot. "These types are really popular since most people want it just for the looks." He puts the dagger back and pulls out a butterfly knife of the same rainbow like color.

"Do these have different purposes?" He asks as he sits up closer to Keith. Resting his head on Keith's shoulder and releasing a quiet sigh, Lance grins. He doesn't want to admit he just likes hearing Keith talk.

"Not really but there is a lot cooler tricks I can do with these," he says before doing some.

Lance watches him with mesmerized eyes before laughing a bit. "If I tried that, I would lose...something for sure. " He looks at his hands. "You are far more coordinated than I am. Well, than I am know." Looking back to Keith, Lance grins. "I'm lucky to have such an amazing human."

"There people who are way better at this than I am. Some people can do one in each hand at the same time!" He stops twirling the knife and holds it out for Lance. "The tricks make sure you never touch the sharp side."

"But the other people aren't my Keith." He smiles then looks surprised when Keith hands him this one. Looking it over, Lance looks it over and nearly considers trying to toss it up when the door squeaks open.

"Just me!" Matt clears his throat, hoping he doesn't sound too nervous. Fuck. Why is he getting nervous now? Shaking his head, he finishes. "I boiled water and got ramen all set for you guys. Don't forget to eat ok?"

Keith looks at the door when it opens. Keith nods and says," Thanks. We'll eat in a bit." He waits for Matt to leave before turning back to Lance. "Do you want me to teach you a simple trick first or go eat?"

"But- but what if I ruin it or mess up or something?" He looks excited at the aspect but is also a bit worried to mess up something of Keith's. "I mean, I can barely get dressed on my own you know?" Despite arguing, Lance still holds the blade.

"This one will just be a simple flip." He positions the blade correctly in Lance's hand and moves the other parts to show Lance how it will move. "Like that."

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/i'm getting fucking nervous. wth./
Matt says this then peeks back in the room. "Still reading?" He asks.

/You said the same thing right before you confessed to Shiro. You'll be fine./

Shiro doesn't look up from his book but answers,"Just a few more pages." Matt grins at him and watches him with a cute smile from the doorway.

/yeah but what if he realizes what a geek I am and what a sassy sibling he'd get and is just like "you know...no"/

/If he didn't like it, he would have broken up with you already/

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Lance is listening. He really was. But somehow every word was forgotten as he got distracted by the feeling of Keith's hands and how his eyes look when he's excited. Once he realizes Keith is looking for him to move, Lance grins bashfully. "Can you show me again and I will try harder to pay attention."

Keith shakes his head in disbelief but smiles at Lance. "You're just gonna flip it open," he says as he shows Lance how the other parts will move.

Lance smiles and nods, he repeats back what Keith told him then gives it a go. He seems nervous but does it. At that, he turns to Keith with a huge smile. "Did you see it? I did it!" He giggles a bit.

Keith smiles. "Then you can close it again." Keith flicks his wrist, showing Lance.

Lance does it then laughs excitedly before doing both things again and laughing. "I love how it catches the light when you do that." Lance says before carefully handing it back. "Should we go eat?"

"Yeah, should I carry you again?" Keith smirks.

Lance blushes a little and smiles but shakes his head. "I can walk. I don't want to make you carry me." He crawls up to Keith, adorably facing him on all fours before kissing his neck and nuzzling his cheek. "But if you wanted to carry me that's fine."

Keith nuzzles back and scoops up Lance in his arms. He places the butterfly knife on top of the night stand and carries Lance to the living room.

Lance wraps his arms around Keith and playfully nuzzles him all the way out. He kisses Keith's neck a few times and laughs.

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Matt takes a deep breath, finally moving away from the doorway to go turn on the tv and find a yoga video. Seeing the last thing played, he can't help but laugh out loud as he goes through the list.

/yoga in a bit. I'm gonna get fishboy and Keith in on it too. And shiro duh. Wanna join? You could probably get fishboy to tell you stuff about siren life. Shiro said he was chatty earlier./

/I'LL JOIN/ Pidge hates yoga but getting info is always worth it.

Matt grins and nods before scooting back to rest his head against the couch while sitting on the floor. He closes his eyes, calming himself a bit before everyone else joins.

Pidge practically runs into the living room and takes their usual seat. Shiro has what looks like about 10 pages left.

When Pidge joins, Matt looks over and can't hide the nervous look in his eyes. "Tell me this isn't stupid. I know we just went through this a couple days ago but, its not stupid right? It won't be too much?" He covers his face with both hands, running them down his face with a groan.

"Matt... You'll be fine. It can't go worse than the last time you were like this," Pidge says with a straight face, as if tired of Matt fretting over all this.

"I dunno. Maybe we will find a centaur this time." He tries to lighten up and it gets worlds easier when Keith and Lance walk in. "Look it's prince Eric! Make way, make way." He hops up before darting back into the kitchen, sure that the hot water won't be hot anymore. "We're doing yoga once Shiro is done with his book." He says as if giving Keith no choice.

Keith looks at Matt really confused. "What?" Did Matt just call him Prince Eric? He must have heard wrong. "But we came down for food." He sets Lance down on the loveseat before going to to the kitchen.

"What, what? I mean I only told you guys about it like ten minutes ago." Matt fumbles the knob of the stove, trying to turn it on for Keith. Anything to distract himself at this point. He hopes Keith doesn't notice the fumble. He's not usually that bad in the kitchen anyway.

Keith is too busy trying to pick a ramen flavor that he thinks Lance would like best to notice.

Matt exhaled when he can tell Keith hasn't seen him mess up. "Give him oriental." Matt says before pointing to the bowl. "It's basically just salty and he liked the chips right?" Keith nods and grabs the bowl. He grabs the chicken one for himself.

Matt goes to grab the oven mitt (he'd forgotten to move the handle on the kettle and it's now crazy hot) and in the process manages to knock over their metal container of mixing spoons and spatulas. Instead of letting them just fall, he tries to catch them, which only results in a bigger mess and Matt holding the one spatula he manages to catch. "Are you serious right now?" He asks himself before shaking his head.

Shiro puts down his now finished book and heads to the kitchen. Just before he enters he hears clanging and things falling. "Everything okay in here?" He asks as he enters.

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Lance looks over at pidge, seeing them using their message box, and is still curious how that little box does things. He doesn't say anything really, just watches Pidge with big, curious eyes.

Pidge can feel eyes on them so they look up and meet Lance's. "You can come look, just don't ask too much," they say before going back to what they were doing.

Lance excitedly bounds over next to pidge, watching them fidget with the message box. He has about 100 question s he wants to ask, but Pidge said not to ask questions. He puts the tips of his fingers in his mouth to keep himself quiet while watching. Just as with everyone else, he's not so good about personal space. Pidge didn't mind the closeness, everyone does that when they watch them. Especially Hunk and Matt.

Lance sees them do something especially colorful and finally points at it. "What's that?" He asks then shakes his head. "Sorry. Didn't mean to." Then he just eyes the screen some more.

"It's code," Pidge answers. "Sometimes it's colorful." They never said to not ask any questions, just not too many.

When pidge answers, Lance takes that as the signal that felt was ok to ask questions now. "Code. I've only heard Morse code. Is that a different kind of message? Can it talk to people too?" He asks excitedly.

"This is to talk to the device. To tell it what to do," Pidge answers, keeping their vocab to something Lance would understand.

Lance kinks his head. "Why do you want to talk to the message box? Does it talk back?" He is intensely engaged with the stuff moving on the screen despite having no idea what any of it is.

"This one does not but if I tell it to be able to play videos, it will. It follow commands silently." Pidge cracks their neck without looking away from the screen.

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"I was just trying to make sure you had a grand entrance is all!" Matt laughs then adds water to both Keith and Lance's ramen then puts the spoons over the kids before bending down to start picking up the fallen dishes. "Good book?"

"Yeah. It was written very well." Shiro walks over and helps pick everything up along with Keith.

"You guys! I can do this. I'm the one that knocked it over!" Matt tries to wave them both away. "You go wrangle Lance, Prince Eric." Matt playfully pushes Keith away.

"Why are you calling me that?!"

Matt grins then grabs a fork out of the drawer. "Maybe you should give your princess a dinglehopper?" He grins the shrugs a shoulder toward the tv. "I picked out a yoga video and saw the last thing watched. It's too good." Matt pours all the spilled dishes into the sink and sighs. "Day off. I'm not cleaning these." Then he bumps Shiro's hip. "Pokemon go after yoga? My army isn't complete yet."

"Damn it Matt," Keith facepalms. He brings the food to the living room and places both bowls on the table. Shiro chuckles before turning to look at Matt.

"Sure. Who else do you need?"

Matt grins and laughs a bit. "Who else do I need?" Matt pulls out his phone and laughs. "Have I never actually showed you my "army" on my secondary account?" Matt can hear Pidge groaning from here but he just smiles bigger.

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"And you get it to do that by hitting the squiggles?" Lance watches with wide eyes. "That's super cool!"

"Yup!" Pidge exclaims. It's kinda fun having someone who understands nothing watch them.

Lance sees Keith come up and scoots closer to where he is while still trying to watch pidge. "I like you small orange hair." He says before cuddling Keith and taking a deep breath of the food.

"My name is Pidge." They adjust their glasses as they look at Lance then quickly goes back to their coding.

"You have the salty one," Keith informs Lance.

"Pidge," Lance repeats then nods. "I like that name!" He smiles brilliantly then grabs the bowl and tries to take a bite. " Hot!" He almost spits out the food.

Keith takes the bowl from Lance. "It's still hot, you have to wait." He should have warned Lance beforehand.

Lance nods then cuddles into Keith before saying, "like you." Sure, he means temperature and doesn't realize that's a super cheesy pick up type line but still…

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"No. When did you make a second account?" Shiro is only even more confused when Pidge reacts.

"So remember two weeks ago when you and Keith were swimming and I wandered around the beach ' like an idiot's as I recall some little bird saying." He glares over to pidge then turns his phone toward shiro. "MAGIKARP ARMY!" he laughs some more then waves his hand.

"Are you really going to catch only magikarp?" Shiro asks. He can't believe how crazy Matt is. That's a lie. He has always known.

"Only MAGIKARP!" He bounces next to Shiro to show off his catches already. "These little bastards I only have like...74 so far apparently. It's gonna be great!

"Only 74." That's totally not a lot for one pokemon. "Are you going you evolve any of them?"
Keith blushes. He can't tell if Lance just let that slip or if he somehow learned it. His face is so red right now.

Matt laughs. "No I want to power them all up. Splash and flop my enemies to death." He starts laughing harder just picturing it. "Maybe after my bank is full I will start evolving them all then have a gyarados army next!"

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Lance sees Keith blush so he grins and nuzzles into him, only bing interrupted by Matt poking the back of Keith's head. "Eaaaaat so we can do yogaaaa."

Shiro shakes his head and follows Matt back to the living room. "It's still hot," Keith says as he swats Matt's hand away.

"Then blow on it!" Matt whines. "You're all so boring today." He is jittery. More so than he realizes as his fusses with the controller, getting the video started up so he can pause just past 'the opening bullshit' as he calls it.

Lance can't help but be mesmerized by the moving pictures - no no, movie - again. Its so bright and colorful that he finds his eyes just instantly glued to the screen. He finally picks up the bowl and watches Keith roll his eyes and blow on the food. Skipping the eye roll - as he wasn't sure how to do it - Lance blows on his food too. Not wanting to upset the tall orange hair - why do they keep calling him mat? Isn't that a small floor blanket?

Keith starts to eat but his first few bites are agonisingly slow just to piss Matt off. Matt actually looks like he might cry watching Keith but he doesn't dare let shiro see that. He knows pidge can...but pidge already knows how crazy his nerves are right now.

Lance isn't sure why Keith is eating so slow. But once the food is cooled enough, lance finds it easier to swallow the food basically whole. It's such a pain to get on the fork and it's not like the noodles are big. However, Lance is fully baffled by Matt's reaction to it. The taller red hair watches Lance scarf down the food and laughs a bit before putting a hand on Keith's knee and wiggling an eyebrow at him. "Lucky guy." He says before bursting out laughing.

Keith narrows his eyes at Matt, not sure what that reaction was for. Only Pidge can even fathom what is running through their brother's head. After the first few slow bites, Keith eats at his normal pace which is somewhat fast compared to an average person. Once done, he takes both his and Lance plate to the kitchen. He comes back and cuddles with Lance again.

Lance wraps himself around Keith, jumping a little when Matt hopped up and tugged at Keith. "I said yoga not cuddles. You have all day for that."

Lance kinks his head a little. "What's yoga? Is it important?"

"It's stretching in weird poses." He nuzzles more into Lance then looks at Matt. "Why don't you show us the pose then we'll do it. The room doesn't have enough room for all five of us to do yoga at the same time."

Feeling determined, Matt shoves the couch to the far side of the room and puts the coffee table on top of it to make way more room. "Plenty of room." He says in a huff before sitting down and starting to do a relaxing pose. "I haven't done this video before." He shrugs then makes grabby hands at Shiro. "Well let me massage your back a bit, see if we can't get you loosened up a bit first."

Lance grins. He likes massaging Keith too. Quickly, he starts to rub Keith's shoulders. "Is it good for you then?"

Shiro hums softly. "I'm not sure this will help." He loves the message though.
Keith sighs but melts at Lance's touch. "Yeah, yoga is good for you."

After a bit of massage, Matt starts the video, way too lost in his own head to keep massaging. He knows the pose names so he hits them pretty quick before peeking back. "Well come on guys! You too Lance, give it a try!"

Lance doesn't want to stop touching Keith however, but, it felt nice to be included. Even if whatever Matt was doing looks impossible to him.

"Can't you pause the video? Not all of us know the poses by heart," Pidge complains. Shiro is trying but he can't quite reach the floor, Keith on the other hand is getting them perfectly. He goes slow since he already knows Lance would look at him if he can't follow the girl on the tv.

"Where's the fun in that?" Matt Laughs wholeheartedly then watches as Lance furrows his eyebrows, seriously trying to figure out how this works. His body didn't feel like it could move like that. Not realizing he's talking out loud, "if I were a siren this would be easy. What's wrong with my human form. It should do that too. Ugh." He tries and fails again before sitting on the ground in a huff.

"Do you want me to hold you?" Keith asks as he stands up straight again.

"It's okay Lance, I can't do this either," Shiro said, looking back at Lance while still trying to get the pose right.

"It's just so annoying to be so...so..." Lance bites his tongue. You're in a room full of humans, he reminds himself, slow down. Be nice. "I can't do it." He just pouts.

Matt huffs and pauses the video before standing up and grabbing Lance. He'd helped others figure this shit out. Can't be too hard to teach a siren too. He moves Lance's limbs, not giving him the chance to argue. "You're too tense. Lighten up. No one is going to - well i'll laugh if you fall or something but I laugh at everyone. Just relax and try not to think so hard."

Lance tries to do as Matt says and eventually, with orange hair's help, he is in one of the poses and feeling oddly proud. However...it kind of hurts. Surely the discomfort shows on his face.

"You don't have to hold the pose if it hurts," Keith says. Shiro sighs and gives up. He isn't flexible enough.

"It feels odd." Lance tries to untangle himself and topples over before grumpily crossing his arms. "Yoga is stupid."

Matt laughs and pats Lance's back. "If you practice I bet you'd be better than this guy." He says before walking up to Shiro and messing up his hair. "Pokemon go time? I wanna catch those magikarp." He thinks his voice cracks. But hopefully he was just imagining it.

Pidge snickers, obviously having noticed. "It's better than me trying yoga," Shiro says and gets up. He also noticed the voice crack but thinks nothing of it.

"What do you want to do?" Keith says, leaning his head on Lance's shoulder.

Lance shrugs and seems to instantly calm down When Keith's head hits his shoulder. "Anything you'd like." He says with a smile before cuddling close to Keith.

Matt glares at Pidge then points at Shiro. "Then get your shoes i'll be right out. Just gotta grab-a thing." He smacks himself in the forehead before darting off then quickly returning. "Let's go build my floppy fish army!"

Pidge rolls their eyes. Shiro pats Pidge's head on his way to the doorway. He slips on his shoes and waits for Matt. "You guys could hang out at the beach," Shiro suggested. Keith looks to Lance to see if he wants to go.

Lance looks both happy and nervous thinking about that but finally nods. "Let's do that!" He smiles then looks over to pidge. "Are you coming or does code not work there?" He asks, honestly just enjoying having more people to talk with.

"I'll come but are you willing to answer some of my question?" Pidge asks.

Lance thinks about it for a second then nods. He still looks a bit nervous about it but, it's not like he feels the need to hide from them anymore.

Matt takes a deep breath as he puts his shoes on, suddenly a bit quieter than he means to be. "I was thinking of going to the park up the way?" He laughs. "The one we got stuck at during that bad storm?" god.. nervous he shakes his hands out before opening the door. Once Shiro is out, Matt looks back at pidge before mouthing "kill me please."

"Sure, we can go there," Shiro says. "Should we set up a meeting point?" One is probably not needed but just in case something happens. Shiro always likes being prepared.

"The merry go round. But we won't need it." Matt says before grabbing his phone to start to watch for...magikarp...obviously. "It's been a while since just the two of us went on a walk." He says before shoving the phone in his pocket and laughing almost awkwardly.

"It has been a while," Shiro smiles. "See you guys later."