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I don't own Voltron. (I wish I did though!)

Allura was manning the bridge, checking everything was okay. A distress signal from a nearby planet flashed up on her screen. She ordered all the paladins up and told them where they were going- a tiny, nearly uninhabited planet called Draak.

The castle flew down to the distress signal, except no one was there.

"Princess, are the scanners working properly?" Coran asked.

"I'm sure of it." The princess replied. "Paladins, go out in your lions and see if you can find anything."

"On it, Princess." said Hunk and they all came out of the loading bay.

They were all wary of their surroundings and kept an eye out on each other. They searched for at least an hour but couldn't find anything or anyone, it was just an endless desert. When they were about to give up, a purple smog started appearing spontaneously, and then they all blacked out.

~~~~Time Lapse~~~~

Hunk woke up first, followed by the Alteans, Shiro, Keith, Pidge and finally Lance. They all struggled against invisible bindings wrapped around them and around their mouths as well. Lance was in incredible pain from the bindings being impossible tight on all his bruises and cuts. There was no one else besides them in the vermillion and grey room.

The Paladins and Alteans, except for Lance, continued to struggle against their prisons. As Pidge was trying to find a way out, she found a tiny clip buried in the invisible ropes and undid it. Her ropes fell off and she fell to the ground.

"Ouch," she exclaimed, "okay everyone, about 5 centimetres below your hands, there's a small clip. You can undo it and the ropes come off."

Everyone started trying to find the release clip while Pidge kept a look out. There was only one problem, Lance was in too much pain trying to move to actually reach the clip. One by one, everyone else was able to get out, but Lance was still struggling, tears leaking from his eyes.

"Come on Lance, everyone else has managed it. Hurry the fuck up!" Pidge called exasperated, not looking over at him.

It was then enemies burst through the door.

"Hurry up Lance!" Pidge called again.

The rest of the team were forced to slowly take out the enemies while the blue paladin was still stuck. Eventually, Coran came around and undid Lance's clip for him because the enemies were becoming too numerous to manage.

"Go, go, go!" Allura called and they all ran out the door. There was only one way to go so they kept running, galra were shooting at them as they dashed away until they finally found the lions and castle. While fending off the galra, they were finally able to get out alive. The lions quickly flew into the castle and Allura created the wormhole so they all left the dangerous territory.

All the paladins joined Coran and Allura at the bridge for a debrief. The debrief was pretty normal until Pidge pointed out, "Lance, what took you so long? You have to be better. You realise we could've died!"

Lance collapsed inside. He should've done better. They nearly died because of him. He quickly fled the room.

He had to cut.

He had to cut.

He had to cut.

He had to cut.

He knew there were blades Shiro and Keith missed in their search, like under his chest of drawers. He locked his door, pulled that blade out and slit his wrists over and over. There was blood absolutely everywhere.

Useless

Idiot

Burden

Worthless

Stupid

Weak

Pathetic

Slow

He didn't realise that Keith had managed to open the door.

"Stop." He ordered.

Lance whipped around, automatically attempting to hide his wrists. Keith could still see the blood gliding down and dropping onto the floor.

"Fuck off." Lance replied.

"No. You're going to show me your arms. I'm going to bandage you up. Then we're going to talk about this. Understood?" Keith said, dead serious.

"Piss off and get the hell out of my room."

Lance was ready to punch Keith to get him out but that would reveal his wrists even more, so instead he just glared.

Seeing the look that Lance was sending him, knowing that he was going to go into fight or flight mode and probably end up hitting him, Keith quickly manoeuvred the blue paladin onto his knees with his wrists in his hands. This way meant Lance would have a harder time trying to flee or fight. The red paladin was nearly standing over the other. "Are you going to do what I say now?" He asked dangerously.

There was nothing the blue paladin could do to get out of this, he knew that. Keith was completely in charge. So Lance looked down at the floor and nodded.

"Definitely?"

Another nod.

Keith let go of the blue paladin's wrists but was still wary that he would bolt or hit him. When he didn't, he let out a sigh of relief.

"Ok, good. Now, arms out in front of you so I can see how bad the damage is."

Lance held out his arms, wrists facing upwards with blood dripping down the sides, knowing it would be useless to fight. The red paladin knelt down in front of him and inspected the offered arms. They were kind of deep but not life threatening, they would still need to be disinfected, bandaged and check regularly though.

Each of the bathrooms had a first aid kit in them, so Keith went to go get Lance's, being ready to go stop him if he tried to leave. When he came back into the main room with the first aid kit, he was pleasantly surprised to see the blue paladin still kneeling in the same place as he left him with arms out.

The red paladin very quickly and efficiently bandaged his crush up. He then surprised himself when he leaned forward to kiss the top of Lance's head. Quickly, so the blue paladin wouldn't be able to see the blush that erupted over his face, he turned Lance around to sit in his lap, not unlike how he held him when he went through that panic attack.

Lance once again curled up into him and rested his head on Keith's chest. He was warm and comfortable and after everything that just happened, he wanted this more than anything right now.

Keith gently tapped the bandages, "I'm guessing this was after that… comment Pidge said."

A quick nod.

"You know she isn't right? She didn't mean to hurt you either."

No response.

"No one ever meant to hurt you. Yes, we did, we made stupid rash decisions about what we said without properly thinking about it."

A quiet whisper. "You've hurt me before." Lance was finally able to say something.

Keith responded, speaking the complete truth, "I know, believe me, I know. I'll try my best to make sure no one hurts you again. I promise I'll never hurt you again."