The Dreams of Love and Loss.

Princess Allura purred as he ran his hands along her lean torso. Her lover had expert hands too, that knew where to touch her and how to elicit the most pleasurable sensations. Soon she would return the favour, but not before he'd teased the first of hopefully many climaxes from her. Allura felt the edge coming and sighed, and then she woke up. Sitting up in confusion she glanced around her room. Keith wasn't there. He wasn't on Arus at the moment. If she recalled, his last message said he was near Tallus VIII and the smuggling rings there. Narrowing her eyes, she threw the covers back and got out of bed. Quickly changing into sweats, she stormed out of her room and down to the gym. Keith needed to return home and soon, she thought as she kicked the exercise bag hard. Dreaming of him wasn't helping her frustrations.

Princess Larmina awoke with a start. Who was he? The boy looked sort of like Keith, but he definitely felt more like Lance. She didn't recall a name uttered during the dream, not that it mattered. Was she becoming like her aunt; obsessed with an Earthling male? Figures, she snorted as she flopped down and tried to go back to sleep. After a few restless moments, she managed to fall back to sleep, and immediately went back to where she left off in the dream. The boy was running. Fast…faster than a human should be able to run and he was running straight for her. Why? She could take care of herself. The boy ran past her and grabbed another boy around the waist to shove him out of danger. Larmina took one look at the other boy and realised that he was of great importance. Far more important than her, not that she actually cared. The battle they were fighting soon wound down and Larmina joined the two boys. The first one hugged her and just before she could kiss his cheek, she awoke a second time. Fearing that she'd return to the kiss, Larmina got out of bed and wandered down to the gym. Her aunt was there and the exercise bag was taking a beating.

"Keith again, huh?" she asked as she stretched on the mat.

"Yes. You?" Allura growled.

"Some boy I've never even met," the younger princess admitted. Larmina went on to describe the two from her dreams and the one that she almost kissed. Allura groaned in sympathy for her niece. "Wanna take it out on the practice dummies? Together?" Larmina suggested. Allura let a small smirk curl her lips as she joined the girl on the mat.

"Sim, start Drule invasion," Allura commanded.

"Let's get them!" Larmina grinned as the holo program came to life. The two women made short work of the holograms.

A month later, Larmina's heart nearly stopped when she entered her class. The boys from her dream had been chosen to train with her. And the paler one was cute. Destined or not, these two would have to earn her respect first. Daniel would have to work extra hard to earn her heart, as he had in her dream.

He handed her the voltcom and told her to protect it. Then he ordered her to run for safety. He'd hold them off with the guns. The Drules could never get their hands on the technology contained in the voltcoms. She nodded and raced away, knowing that she'd never see him again. His mission was a suicide one…there were too many of them. She got to their ship and made a decision. She'd fly to his rescue. She took off and headed back towards where she'd raced from. She found him, alone atop a hill and the guns were empty and useless at his feet. Coolly, he looked upon the horde he'd managed to hold at bay before turning to walk away. The commander ordered him dead and his men complied. She screamed when she saw him fall from the countless lethal shots fired into his back

Romelle was gasping for air and there was a figure looming over her, trying to calm her. Slowly her senses returned to her and she realised several things. She was on Pollux in her quarters, and the shadowy figure above her was Sven, trying to ease her distress. He was alive, which brought a choking sob out of her as she threw her arms around his neck. "The suicide mission…all the way to completion this time," she managed to get out, when he'd asked what she'd dreamed.

"Hey, I promised on our wedding that I wouldn't do anything crazy," he gently assured her. "You wouldn't let me get away with it anyway." That earned him a solid punch to his shoulder.

"That doesn't stop me from dreaming it," she muttered darkly.

Sven leaned down and pressed his lips to her brow. "That place has a lot to answer for," he murmured into her sweat soaked hair.

Commander Lance McClain pretty much had unfettered access to the entire complex at the GA flight academy. That meant he could sit with whoever he damn well pleased for breakfast. He found Hunk and guessed that Pidge was probably nearby. Pidge let his tray hit the table just as Lance took his seat across from Hunk. They all had the look of sleep deprivation about them. Hunk started by saying that he'd dreamed of his beloved Yellow being ripped apart by the dark powers of Haggar. Pidge cocked an eyebrow and said that in his dream it was the Omega comet that was tearing Green to shreds. Lance admitted that his had been about Red, being dissected and essentially killed by Wade. All three of them missed their lions and the intimate connections they had to the machines.

The space mouse looked up in confusion as Keith stormed past in the ship and tossed his bedding into the laundry. The mechanical mouse noted that his master was freshly showered and in a dark mood. An image of Princess Allura was conjured up in the micro processors of the little mouse's brain and it shrugged. The mouse waited until the engines fired up and they were in flight before making its way over to the spot that it inhabited when they were under way. Curling up on the consol, the mouse waited. Keith would start muttering soon enough about what plagued his sleep. The mouse was proven right when he started complaining that he needed to consider a conjugal visit to Arus. Dreaming of his royal lover was a sad substitute for actually being with her. The mouse watched as his human considered laying in a course for Arus, before changing and heading towards an Alliance outpost instead. Oh well, at least it would get the chance to rummage through Alliance systems and see if it could locate where Black was imprisoned.