"These sugary balls of fluff are the most divine things I've ever tasted!" Allura squealed as she happily munched on the candy.

"Really?" Keith asked as he roasted his candy over the fire. "You've had the best chefs in Altea cook for you your entire life and then you got to have Hunk's cooking. But these marshmallows are the best things you've ever had?"

"Yes." Allura says proudly. "I'll have to bring as many bags as possible back to Altea with us."

"Mommy I wanna try." A little toddler sitting in Allura's lap asked, her tiny hands reaching up and grabbing, helping to signal that she wanted a sweet.

"Of course you can my little juniberry." Allura says and reaches into the bag and hands a marshmallow to her daughter. "Now don't eat too many of them. Having too many sweets isn't good for you."

"Says the woman who already went through an entire bag of-OW!" Keith yelped as he got hit in the head with a box of graham crackers.

Their daughter laughed and pointed at her father as he rubbed his head. The Altean royal family was having a vacation at Keith's old shack in the desert on Earth and he made a campfire outside for them to enjoy and teach his wife and daughter how to make s'mores.

"Should we be concerned that she enjoys seeing you attack me?" Keith asks.

"I don't think so." Allura says as she strokes one of her daughter's pig tails as she happily munches on a marshmallow. "She knows that I meant it out of love."

She reached out and held her husband's hand.

"Yeah, sure you did." Keith says and smirks.

She leaned over and kissed his cheek. He smiled and turned to her and placed a kiss on her lips instead. They continued to kiss for a few ticks until they heard their daughter speak.

"Fire!" She shouted and pointed.

"Yes my little juniberry. Your father set up this fire to keep us warm and to cook those tasty swamp candies!" Allura cooed.

"Allura just because they're called "marsh"mallows doesn't mean that they grow in a marsh." Keith explains.

"Daddy has fire!" She shouted again.

Keith frowned then looked at the marshmallow he was roasting then saw it was on fire.

"Oh crap!" He exclaimed and blew it out.

He looked at his wife and gave her a sheepish smile as he held his black marshmallow.

"Yep. Completely charred. Just how my little princess likes 'em." Keith chuckled and booped her nose.

"No that looks yucky!" Keira laughs. "But daddy likes them right?"

"Yep. Daddy loves them." Keith sighs and looks at the ruined candy.

"Darling you aren't really going to eat that are you?" Allura asks.

"Do it!" Keira cheers.

"You know I can't say no to my girls." Keith says and opens his mouth and Allura winces as she watches him take the marshmallow into his mouth.

He bit into it and chewed. Then swallowed.

"It doesn't taste bad?" Allura asks.

"Not really." Keith says. "I've tasted worse. After my dad died I was living alone until child services found me. I lived off of rats that snuck into my shack that I killed with my mom's knife."

"You ate rats?" Allura asks.

"Yep." Keith says. "They don't taste too bad if you roast 'em right."

He turned around and glared at the mice that were trying to sneak into the chocolate bag. They squeaked in fear and ran over to Allura and Keira and hid in their blanket. He smirked then took another marshmallow out of the bag and tossed it to Kosmo who caught it in his mouth and chewed it happily.

"Daddy will you teach me how to kill rats?" Keira asks.

"Sure princess." Keith says and grabs one of the mice and pulls out his knife.

"Keith!" Allura exclaims.

"I'm just kidding!" Keith says and looks at Plachu. "Unless you keep crawling into my mouth while I'm sleeping." He growls.

Plachu growls back at him and the two of them have a growling contest while Keira laughed at them.

"Does daddy hate the mice because he had to eat rats?" Keira asks.

"Maybe. But I think the more likely reason is that he doesn't like how they crawl into his mouth to keep him from snoring so loudly while we're trying to sleep. " Allura tells her daughter.

"Oh. That makes sense." Keira says.

Suddenly Kosmo stood up and started barking at the tree that was in the backyard. Keith let Plachu go and had his knife ready in case someone dangerous had come that would threaten his family. But he only saw fireflies in the trees.

"Are they what you're barking at buddy?" Keith asks.

Kosmo turned and gave him a look that said yes. Keith let out a sigh of relief and sheathed his knife behind him.

"Daddy look at how pretty they are!" Keira exclaimed and stood in her mother's lap to point at them.

"Yeah, they are beautiful aren't they?" Keith says and looks down at his wife and daughter fondly.

Kosmo ran over to the tree and tried to catch them in his mouth.

"No Kosmo don't eat them!" Keira exclaimed and ran over to the wolf, the mice scampering along in the sand with her.

"I'm normally not very fond of bugs you know." Allura says. "But the way those insects light up is beautiful."

"They light up to find love." Keith explains.

"Then perhaps that's why I glow whenever you're around me." Allura suggests.

"Maybe so." Keith says and kneels down next to her. "That would explain how my life got so much brighter when you came into it."

Allura laughed and cupped his face, bringing him into a deep kiss.

"Mommy, Daddy, look I caught one!" Keira exclaimed happily, holding a bug in her closed fists.

"That's wonderful darling!" Allura calls to her.

Keira opened her hands and the bug flew out and landed on her nose and lit up. She squealed in laughter and Keith took his wife's hand and they went to join her under the tree catching fireflies like Keith and his dad used to do when he was a kid. But now he was doing that with a family of his own, and he and Allura agreed that when they were together with their daughter, they were the happiest they had ever been.