I make no claims to Voltron or any WEP characters used within this story.

Many thanks again to BlueLionSTL and Wade Wells for their thoughts and inputs for this story. Sorry Blue…I just couldn't have a robeast step on Beth like you requested… LOL!

Enjoy the final chapter.

Until next time...

Mertz

Over the next month, everyone notices the changes in Keith and Allura, as the smiles and laughter seem to follow them wherever they go. More than once, they have been caught kissing rather intensely in spots that are normally not well travelled causing a lot of teasing by members of the force.

Keith is smiling at Allura as they hold hands walking together to a meeting in Coran's office, "Come on Allura…even as a little girl you never danced along the hallways?"

Allura smiles up at her husband, "No, decorum dictated that a proper princess would never be caught dancing, running or jump roping down the hallways of the castle. If Nanny would have caught me…"

Keith stops them, "How about a queen?" smiling mischievously at her. Allura raises an eyebrow at him as Keith takes Allura in his arms and begins waltzing them down the hallway making her laugh.

Coran steps out of his office and gapes at the sight in front of him as Keith twirls Allura around along the hallway. As they get closer to him he puffs up, "Really, your Majesties!"

Keith glances at Coran as he spins Allura and stops in front of him, dipping Allura back and kissing her on the lips before pulling her back up flushed as they face a scarlet Coran. He raises an eyebrow at Coran as Allura tries to wipe the smile off her face, "Something wrong Coran?"

Coran sputters out, "It just isn't done…"

Keith smiles at him, "Apparently it is…" as Coran sputters some more Keith laughs at him, pulls Allura back into his arms and spins her around some more as Lance and Michael step out of castle control and spot them.

Michael stares open mouthed as the Commander of the Voltron Force and King of Arus continues to waltz with his wife in the hallway as Coran covers his mouth to stop his sputtering. Lance however starts laughing. Michael turns his gaze to Lance, "Has Keith always been like that?"

Lance wipes the tears from his eyes as he looks away from his best friends, "No, I've never seen Keith act like that…"

Michael turns his gaze back as Keith once again dips a laughing Allura, "Then why?"

Lance pats Michael on the arm before turning around to walk away, "Love…love makes a man do some very funny things. I should know."

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The following morning, Keith looks over at Lance during breakfast, "Is everything ready for today Lance?"

Lance looks up from his breakfast and nods, "As requested."

Allura looks away from her plate to Keith, "I still don't know why Adrienne and I can't just ride with you in Black to the festival."

Keith leans over and kisses her on the lips, "Because I need to make sure security is in place before I allow my wife and child anywhere near that festival." When Allura opens her mouth to argue some more he reaches out to touch her cheek, "Humor me will you please Allura?"

Allura gazes into Keith's eyes as he smiles at her and finally acquiesces, "Fine, I ride with Coran and Christine in the carriage."

Christine smiles at the couple as Keith kisses Allura once more before looking over at Lance who winks at her. Lance looks up at the clock then interrupts the lovebirds, "Keith, we better get a move on…"

Keith sighs as he stands, "Let's go." He leans down kissing Allura on the lips once more, "See you in about an hour." then strides out of the room with the rest of the force.

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Allura sighs as she watches the countryside go by as the carriage rumbles along the road to the village that is hosting a festival in honor of the Voltron Force. She had to argue with Keith for quite a while before he agreed to allow her to bring Adrienne along. Allura looks across the carriage as Adrienne gurgles at Christine making Christine laugh at her.

As they enter the village, Allura smiles and waves at the villagers as they pass through. Curious she looks at Coran, "Coran, why aren't we stopping?"

Coran smiles at her, "His Majesty requested we meet him at a specific location. The carriage will drop us off there." Allura nods then goes back to waving at her people.

When the carriage pulls to a stop and Allura exits it, assisted by Coran, she looks at the building they are standing in front of confused. She looks back at Coran, "What are we doing at the church?"

Christine exits the carriage and hands her the baby, "This my dear is your wedding day…"

Allura's eyes widen in shock, "My wedding day?"

Christine takes her arm and guides a thoroughly confused Allura into the building then into an antechamber where Nanny is standing waiting for her. Hanging along a wall is the most beautiful dress Allura has ever seen. She steps forward and touches the gown then turns back to the women, "What's going on?"

Christine smiles at her, "Keith wanted it to be a surprise for you. He wanted to have the ceremony re-preformed and leave both of you with happier memories Allura."

Nanny wipes tears from her eyes as Allura once again turns back to the dress as tears begin to fall down her cheeks. She turns back to Christine and hugs her pulling back when Adrienne fusses at them. Christine takes Adrienne from her, "This little girl will go to her daddy for now so you can get ready."

Christine smiles at Allura as Nanny walks over to her to help her dress and leaves the room. She walks down the hall with Adrienne and knocks on another door, entering when bidden. Keith and Lance look up as she walks in the door and hands the baby to Keith. Christine smiles at him, "Yes she was surprised and extremely happy."

Keith smiles and then turns away from Christine, bouncing Adrienne making her giggle. Christine smiles as Lance pulls her into his arms hugging her. She nuzzles her face into his chest and sighs before looking back up at him, "Too bad Sven and Romelle couldn't come."

Lance leans down and kisses her, "Well, can't blame them when the doctor recommended they don't travel until Romelle is past the first trimester. Sven is a nervous wreck." Christine smiles at him again and then pulls away, "I better go help Nanny…see you in a bit." then turns and walks out of the room.

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Keith stands at the front of the church, watching as Coran leads Allura to him. She looks beautiful in an ivory embroidered sleeveless dress. The bodice fits her form perfectly pushing her breasts up slightly before flowing into ripples to the ground. The top of her hair is pulled back in a bun with a tiara resting in front with the rest of her hair flowing down her back in waves. He looks on astounded by the radiance on her face as she walks to him as her sapphire eyes meet his.

Allura keeps her eyes on Keith's face as she walks to him, overwhelmed by the look of love in his eyes and the smile on his face as he takes in her appearance before his eyes meet hers. Allura stops in front of Keith and smiles at him as he studies her face before returning his gaze to hers. He takes her hand, "You are beyond beautiful my love." and turns to walk her to the priest performing the ceremony.

Allura continues to stare into Keith's eyes during the ceremony as Keith promptly repeats his vows to love, honor and cherish her throughout the rest of their days. She finally looks down as Keith places the most beautiful ring she has ever seen on her finger as a symbol of his love. It is gold, with intricate designs in the metal with a diamond in the middle, glistening. Tears fill Allura's eyes as she looks back up at Keith as he smiles at her and lifts her hand kissing it.

As the priest finishes the ceremony Keith turns back to Allura as he is asked to kiss his bride. Keith smiles at Allura, wrapping his arms around her and kisses her tenderly to the applause of the force, Coran, Nanny and Christine. As his lips part from hers he whispers, "I love you…"

Tears of happiness fill Allura's eyes as she wraps her arms around Keith, hugging him to her and pushes her face into his neck and whispers back, "I love you too…" Keith tightens his arms and kisses her neck before they part and walk toward their friends exchanging hugs while being congratulated.

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After the ceremony, the group exits the church and walks around the festival admiring the side shows and taking in the fares of the various vendors. Keith walks around the festival with his arm around Allura while carrying Adrienne.

Beth stands behind one of the booths watching Keith as he lowers his smiling face toward Allura and kisses her on the lips tenderly before turning to greet one of the villagers. She continues to watch and then starts when she hears a voice behind her, "You wouldn't be thinking of causing a scene would you?"

Beth turns around to find Michael studying her closely. She steps back from him, "No I wasn't…"

Michael narrows his eyes at her, "Now considering what I heard about your last trip to the castle, why don't I believe you?"

Beth shakes her head at him then turns back to study Keith and Allura once more. She speaks quietly, "He loves her, doesn't he?"

Michael takes a step closer to Beth so he can smell her and traces a finger down along her arm causing her to gasp and turn back toward him, Why has this woman captivated me since I first met her? He smiles at her, "Yes he does…does that bother you?"

Beth gets lost in his green eyes as his fingers trace back up her arm causing her to shiver, "No…not anymore…"

Michael arches a brow at her and smiles sardonically, "Why not anymore?"

Beth turns away from him again and breathes deeply as her gaze once again falls on the couple, "Because I can see he is happy." She stops breathing as she feels Michael lean against her, his chest to her back as he breathes into her ear, "And what would make you happy darlin?"

Beth forces herself to start breathing again as every nerve in her body hums when Michael moves his fingers along her arm once more. She turns her head to find Michael's lips close to her own. She takes another deep breath and licks her lip nervously causing Michael to groan and dip his head toward her, closing the gap between them and kissing her soundly. Beth whimpers as she feels his arms encircle her waist, Kisses from Keith never felt like this...

Keith smiles at a remark Allura made then looks up and is startled by the view in front of him. He clears his throat causing Allura to look up at him, "What's wrong Keith?"

Keith points to Michael kissing Beth. Allura looks over and her eyes widen in shock as she turns back to Keith, "Is that Beth with Michael?"

Keith smiles down at her, "I guess it is…"

Allura smiles as she watches Beth turn into Michael's arms and continue kissing him, "You might have to lift your ban on her ability to enter the castle Keith." She turns to see Keith gazing into her eyes, "It wouldn't bother you Allura, if Beth was in the castle?"

Allura shakes her head at him, "No, I know you love me… Besides I don't think it would be you Beth would be interested in seeing at the castle." as she lifts an eyebrow at him.

Keith starts laughing and looks back over to see Michael hugging Beth. Their gazes meet and Keith nods and waves at Michael before wrapping his arm back around Allura and guiding her away.

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An hour later, Keith begins guiding Allura back toward the carriage; Adrienne asleep in Allura's arms. He smiles down on his wife and daughter as another villager stops them to congratulate them on their marriage and to take a look at the sleeping princess.

Keith smiles his thanks and is about to continue walking when he notices a shadow crossing the sun. He looks up and instantly his body goes into alert as he swears. Allura looks up at him as he grabs his comm unit from his belt, "Get moving to the lions everybody! Lotor has decided to pay us a visit."

He takes Adrienne from Allura and begins running for Black lion with Allura right behind him. They climb into the lion and Allura pulls out the spare seat and straps herself in. Keith opens a compartment and pulls out a baby harness. He hands it to Allura, "I had hoped to never need this. Strap it on quick!" Allura gets the harness in place then Keith hands her Adrienne. Allura straps Adrienne to her chest and watches Keith as he climbs into the pilot seat, "Hang on tight Allura…" as he puts the key into the lion and Black stands up roaring.

Allura wraps her arms tightly around Adrienne as Keith takes off into the air and begins combat with the fighter ships that have come out of Lotor's command ship. Soon all five lions are engaged in combat as Lance can be heard swearing over the comm unit, "Damn Lotor! He has one hell of a sense of timing."

Keith looks into the video unit and can see Christine's frightened face in behind Lance. He glances at Allura then turns back to the unit as he grimaces, "I don't think it was a lucky accident Lance… I am willing to bet he knew we would all be down there."

Lance looks back at him wide eyed, "You better be extra careful Keith…"

Keith nods, "Same to you buddy…"

Keith swears as a coffin leaves the command ship, "Get ready everyone… They just released a robeast."

The robeast leaves the coffin and grows in size until it is as tall as Voltron. Lasers shoot out of its eyes at the lions causing Keith to pull away, "Evasive maneuvers!"

All five lions separate and begin attacking the robeast with Pidge digging Green's teeth into the beast's arm as Hunk fires several proton missiles at its head. Keith swears as he again evades the lasers and fires missiles at the robeast, "I think we need to form Voltron and take care of this thing!"

He begins flying up in formation then screams as a laser hits Black. Allura looks on in terror as Keith shakes from the electricity she can see going through his body. Confused she looks around and sees an aura around her and Adrienne protecting them from the blast. Allura screams Keith's name as his body goes limp and he releases the controls.

Black starts to head toward the ground with Lance yelling, "Pull up Keith! For God's sake pull up!" as Allura quickly undoes the straps and with Adrienne still strapped to her chest, grasps the controls and pulls Black up out of its dive just before it would hit the ground. She sits in Keith's lap and continues to work the controls pulling Black up into the sky again, "Lance! Keith is unconscious!"

She fires several missiles at the robeast before flying upward again, "Let's form Voltron quick!"

As she goes through the sequence of forming Voltron she looks behind her to see Keith's eyes are closed. She leans back and is relieved to hear his breathing. She can see Lance's face on the video comm as he nods at her, "You are in charge Allura, call out the commands!"

She moves Voltron to evade several missile shots and yells, "Lion head attack!" She presses the necessary buttons and grasps Adrienne close to her as she watches the lion heads race toward the robeast and then go through it.

As they return she calls out, "Form blazing sword!" and watches the sword form between Green and Red lions. She runs Voltron at the robeast and cuts it in half. She flies away from the robeast as it explodes and heads toward Lotor's command ship firing several missiles at it.

She can hear Lance as the missiles hit and Lotor turns his ship back toward space, "Let him go Allura! How's Keith?"

Allura looks back and is frightened to see Keith is still unconscious, "Keith is still out Lance!" and hits the buttons to disengage Voltron. She flies Black back to the front of the castle and lays it down as personnel from MedTech race toward the lion.

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Allura paces the waiting room of MedTech, waiting for Dr. Gorma to come out and tell her how Keith is doing. Lance sits next to Christine comforting her. The whole experience had been a frightening one for her and she still was upset. Allura looks up as Hunk entertains Adrienne getting her to giggle. She wrings her hands together and continues pacing.

Michael watches her and can't help asking, "I don't understand Allura. How is it that Keith was affected by that laser but you weren't? If it was electricity then you and Adrienne should have been affected as well."

Allura stops and looks at the group in front of her, "I don't understand it myself Michael. All I know is there was this light around us protecting Adrienne and I from the blast."

Suddenly the room brightens as King Alfor's ghost appears in the room, "My daughter…it was I that protected you." He steps toward Allura and touches her forehead causing many images to go through her mind, "Protect your family my daughter." and disappears.

Michael sits with his mouth wide open as Lance raises an eyebrow at her, "Might have been nice of him to protect Keith as well…" Allura walks over to Lance and Christine and sits down stunned.

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A short time later, Dr. Gorma walks into the waiting room. Allura stands up to face him, "Majesty, the king will be fine. The electricity has thankfully not left any permanent damage. He has finally come to and is asking for you."

Relief fills Allura and she walks into Keith's room to see him lying in the bed as if asleep. He opens his eyes as she sits on the bed next to him and leans down to kiss him, "How do you feel?"

Keith clears his throat as he reaches up with his hand to caress her cheek, "Tired…but fine." He studies her eyes, "Why didn't the blast affect you?"

Allura smiles at him, "My father protected Adrienne and I."

Keith closes his eyes and breathes out a sigh, "Remind me to go down to your father's tomb and thank him."

Allura continues to smile at him and moves her hand to caress his cheek, "He didn't want his grandchildren harmed."

Keith nods then stops and looks back up at Allura wide eyed, "Children?"

Allura sits up and takes Keith's hand putting it on her stomach, "He showed me…"

Keith smiles happily as he sits up in bed and hugs Allura to him. Allura rests her face in Keith's neck and sighs as she thinks, If the vision my father showed me was correct, life is going to get really interesting… as she remembers the image of a pair of identical blond headed little boys with their father's dark eyes running down the halls of the castle following their ebony haired, sapphire eyed sister as she dances ahead of them.

Author Notes:

I feel I had better explain myself a bit on this story so you understand what my thought processes were as I was writing it. The idea of this story came to me when I asked myself, "What would you do if the man you loved was in love with someone else?" Next came, "What would Allura do in desperation if she was going to be forced to marry someone else and had to spend the rest of her life watching Keith happily married to another woman that he loved." The answer came to me; she would want to spend at least one night in his arms… But since he didn't love her and would naturally not agree to it, she had to drug him. The only problem with the whole thing is one, she didn't count on becoming pregnant and two, she felt guilty as hell, which affected her work and relationships with everyone else on the force resulting in her suspension before it became known she was pregnant.

Next question I had thrown at me by the lovely people who helped me proof the story was, "Why would Keith forgive Allura so quickly?" My answer there, if he didn't the depression could become so bad that she would kill herself. In reality Keith didn't hate Allura for what happened, he was angry as hell and felt betrayed by her, but couldn't stand by and let her die. So being the man Keith is, he forgave her. He was also horrified to discover how much heartache and pain he had inflicted on Allura without ever realizing it. In a million years Keith would never do anything that would deliberately hurt Allura. If he had been aware of her feelings I don't imagine he would have ever asked Beth out. I was also trying to show Keith as being protective of Allura even before the baby with the thought that even though he wouldn't allow himself the idea that he could ever be with Princess Allura that maybe some part, way down inside of him that he didn't acknowledge, already loved her but because Coran had made it clear that Allura was off-limits he never allowed the idea to surface.

Now that I've given you a view into my convoluted and weird mind…I hope you enjoyed the story.

Mertz