Voltron Next Generation

Chapter Seven

"Rand's Revenge"

Rated PG13

By: Cindra

Notes: I put colons between conversations noting silent thought between two characters.

' Is what I call the Heartlink or private communication between two characters usually a couple. Or rarely parent to sibling. (This is usually the way that soul mates talk to each other when they don't want anyone to know what they are saying.)

( )Twin link can't be heard by anyone but the other twin…or only if someone is extremely strong in his or her mental abilities.

** or italics That represents thoughts of the characters.

(Months later)

Andromeda and Jenna were sparing in the castle gym. Andy was easily defeating her opponent. She was back in top form, dressed in her banned outfit, and loving every second of it.

The twins were in their baby carriers watching the two of them spar.

"Dromi! I surrender you win!" Jenna gasped, pleading for mercy, and Andy ended the match.

"I was just getting warmed up." Andy wasn't even sweating.

"I bow to the master." Jenna collapsed on the mat.

Andy helped her back up to her feet and sighed, "You, sweetie, have much to learn and you were supposed to protect me?" She arched a brow at her cousin.

Jenna rolled her eyes at her cousin, and then looked over at the twins. "Look at Jessie and Jazz." Jenna giggled, the twins were kicking their tiny feet and waving their pudgy little arms.

"Mommy's angel's like watching me fight, don't you." She smiled down at her babies.

Jenna saw Eric standing in the doorway and chose to make a hasty retreat. "Hi, Eric! I was just leaving."

"What's with her?" Eric frowned at Andy, who had her eyes on the babies. *Not again! * He didn't want them in here when she was working out.

The girls, having heard their father's voice, reached out for him.

"What are our babies doing in here again?" Eric glared at his wife.

"They go wherever I go." She reminded him.

"Except in here," Eric growled.

"Darling? Shall we spar over this problem? Winner gets his or her way." She dropped her jacket to the floor revealing her banned leotard.

"Have mercy." Eric whistled under his breath when he saw that she was wearing the patches.

"You like." She purred.

"You're playing dirty, but two can play at that game." He stripped off his sweatshirt.

Andy merely smiled at him and stretched out on the mat like a contented cat. "I'm back in top form again. Jenna fled after experiencing my warm up exercises."

"I know. I was watching from the control room. That doesn't change anything, Andromeda. They don't belong in here."

"One they hate being away from me, two they dislike taking their bottle, and three I do what I please." She used that to catch him off guard and pounced on him.

Eric found himself pinned to the mat by his wife. "Now that you've got me, what are you gonna do to me." He growled, his mouth was just inches away from hers.

Andy smiled down at him, her hair forming a satin curtain around them. "Why punish you of course." She bent to kiss him, only to be interrupted by one of the babies' cries. 'Duty calls' Andy sighed and sprang to her feet.

'Explain to me why we had the twins...' Eric groaned in frustration, getting up from the mat to go tend to the girls.

"What's wrong, sweetheart?" Andy cooed at Jessica, who continued to wail at the top of her lungs.

"Does she need a new diaper?" Eric winced when Jessie kept screaming.

"She's hungry." Andy slipped the strap of her leotard down over her shoulder and let Jessie have her lunch.

"There are perks to having kids." Eric watched, as Jessie fed off Andy.

"For whom?" Andy glared at him.

"Well, you get to bond with the girls and I get to...well, let's just say that I enjoy the view immensely." Eric winked at her.

'I hope that you memorize it, because the couch is where you're going to be sleeping at night.'Andy growled.

'But Andy! It's been months!'Eric cried in her head like a kid that had just lost his favorite toy.

'Don't pout, Eric, it's not going to get you anywhere.'

Kari briefed Jace on the plan one last time. "You're the decoy, while we get Andromeda and the twins." She frowned when Jace shot down that part of the plan.

"I have another idea." He snarled. "Let me take care of disposing of the Captain."

"Decoy, Jace." Kari snapped. "Not assassin."

"Of course, mother. I wouldn't dream of harming Andy or the twins. I just want a shot at her husband."

"You're hopeless." Kari slapped him. "Now pay attention! You are barely a teenager, therefore you are a decoy and nothing more!"

"With Andy and her twins in our hands, Jenna will have no choice but to come back home." Rand grinned. "Not that we would ever give Keith back his daughter and granddaughters, but then I love to torment Keith."

Eric dove into the cool waters of their waterfall, while Andy sunned herself in her bikini with the twins sleeping in their carriers beside her.

"Don't you wanna join me for a swim? The water feels great." Eric tried to lure her to him.

Andy didn't move from her spot. "That's nice."

Eric snuck over to where she was lying on the blanket.

'Don't even think about it!' She warned him.

'Too late.' He growled, as he pulled her into the water to join him.

"You jerk!" She sputtered when she came up to the surface.

"I need you to listen to me, Andy." Eric growled against her mouth.

'You don't want to talk!' Andy pulled away from him and swam back to shore.

'Andromeda! I'd like to continue where we left off before Jessica started screaming this morning at the castle.' Eric growled in frustration.

'Can't you understand how I feel, Eric? I went through childbirth! I'm not overeager to start the process all over again!' She took the girls back inside their home.

'Get back here, Andy!' Eric made it to their little strip of beach before someone hit him and he was knocked out cold.

Jace paced Eric and Andy's bedroom carpet, until he heard Andromeda heading towards her room. *It's about time!* He snarled to himself.

"Your Daddy is such a jerk!" She told the babies, setting their carriers down on the bed.

Jace stood silently by the window.

"You be good while Mommy takes a shower." Andy cooed down at her angels, spotting Jace out of the corner of her eye. "Bad move, junior!" She threw her dagger at him, which was easily caught before it reached its target.

"Temper, temper, we wouldn't want anything to happen to those innocent babies now would we, princess?" Rand scolded her.

"Stay away from my babies!"

Rand merely smiled down at sleeping Jessica; her sister however was awake and not pleased to awaken to see a stranger staring down at her. "What's wrong, little one? Did we wake you?" He carefully picked her up.

"Put her down, Rand!" Andy snarled.

"Face it, your highness, you're ours. Now would you like to change before we go or go dressed as you are?" Rand waved the dagger near Jazz's face.

"I'd rather you didn't change." Jace was enjoying his view.

"The view is nice isn't it, son." Rand chuckled.

Andy felt a cold chill of fear run down her spine, but continued to glare at Rand.

"My husband will be here any second now, so I suggest that you leave."

Rand laughed evilly, giving her the good news. "Eric is dead. Shaitan killed him, after you refused to play with him in the water."

Andy felt something inside her die; "I don't believe you!" She screamed and ran over to the window to see Eric's lifeless form lying on the sand. "No! Eric!" She fell to her knees in agony, tears streamed down her cheeks.

"Yes, Princess, he's dead. Now shall we go?" Rand picked her up from the floor.

"What do you want from me, Rand? You've done what you intended to do now leave!" She sobbed.

"Why I've only begun, this is only the beginning." Rand ran a finger down her cheek.

"Never, Rand!" She spat in his face and dug her nails into his arm.

"I don't think that you have much of a choice. You are in somewhat of a bind." He showed her that Jace was holding Jazz.

"What do you want me to do?" She glared at him.

"Destroy Voltron." Rand set her down onto her feet.

"Never!"

"Then one of the twins will die!" Rand snarled.

"No!" She screamed in terror for her babies, "All right you win. I'll do it, just don't harm my babies!"

"I thought that you would see it my way. Now get dressed. We have work to do." Rand growled.

"Fine!" She snapped at Rand then turned to glare at Jace. "Leave and put down Jasmine before I tear you apart!"

"Yes, Jacen, go tell your mother that plan A has been completed." Rand barked at his son.

"But, father!" Jace protested slamming his fist into the wall.

"Now, Jacen Michael!" Rand roared and Jace vanished.

(At the castle)

Nate and Ariel were bringing their son into the world.

"Push, Ariel!" Nate coached.

Ariel gritted her teeth and snarled at Nate. "I am pushing, so shut up!"

"I can see the head, Ariel! Just one more big push and you'll be a Mommy!" Ash grinned at her.

"Okay." She whimpered, pushing with all the energy that she had left, and was rewarded with the sound of her baby's first cry.

"Your son is perfect." Ashley handed Ariel her baby, as soon as he was cleaned off, and checked over to make sure that he was in perfect health.

"He's so tiny." She smiled down at her son.

"He's perfect." Nate kissed Ariel.

"Well? Have you thought of a name for him yet?" Ashley smiled.

"Yes, his name is Hunter Scott." She smiled at Nate.

"I can't wait to tell Eric and Andy that we're parents!" Nate ran to tell the others the news.

Andromeda stealthily made her way in and out of each lion, except for the ones closest to the castle. She carefully removed their energy crystals (their souls) and set them all to self-destruct. "I'm sorry, grandfather. I hope that you can forgive me." She cried when the three lions exploded in their lairs.

"You've done an excellent job, Princess. How does it feel to destroy something that you held sacred?" Shaitan growled in her ear.

"I hate you!" She glared at Shaitan, who then grabbed her by her hair, and kissed her forcibly on the mouth. "Don't you ever do that again!"

"I intend to do much more than that." Shaitan kissed her again.

"Enough, Shaitan, she deserves a reward, not a punishment." Kari pulled him away from Andy. "Would you like to see your babies?"

"Where are my babies, Kari?" Andy snapped, then sighed in relief when Rand carried out the twins. "Jessica! Jasmine!" Andy ran to her babies and took them from Rand. "Are you okay? Did they hurt you?" She buried her face against theirs.

"Isn't this touching?" Kari placed a red velvet collar around her throat, "Now to make sure that you remain obedient."

"This reminds me of something vaguely familiar." Andy glared at Kari.

"Yes, and do you remember what this does?" Rand smiled, as he fingered the device in his hand.

"Yes, there's no need to demonstrate."

"Catch, Shaitan. Keep an eye on our special guest and her babies." Rand tossed the controls to Shaitan.

"After you, your highness," Shaitan growled.

"Drop-dead, Shaitan!" She stalked past him onto the ship.

Darian, sensing that something was wrong, went to go look for Eric and Andromeda. He appeared by the waterfall where he found Eric's lifeless body lying there on the sand.

"Eric!" Darian knelt beside him, relieved to find that he still had a strong pulse.:Eric! What happened? Where are Andy and the twins?!: Darian shook him awake.

"Huh?" Eric groaned, wincing when he tried to move his head. It hurt to focus his eyes. "Darian…there are three of you." He groaned, as he tried to get his eyes so they would focus again.

"Who hit you?" Darian helped him to his feet.

"I don't know." He groaned in pain. "Where's Andromeda?"

"You don't know where she is?!"

"No, Darian. We had a fight and she stalked off into the house." Eric winced. "Why?"

"We called and called your house, after the lions exploded in their lairs. When no one answered we got worried and I was sent to come and check on you guys." Darian explained.

"Run that by me again?" Eric stared at him in disbelief. "Did you just say the lions exploded?"

Darian nodded, as they walked into the house. "Amazingly, Black Lion and Blue Lion were spared."

Eric took off running, checking every room in his home, only to find nothing except for the imprint of a fist in their bedroom wall and a destroyed nursery.

"Andy where are you!?" Eric fell to his knees in the room that they used as an office and tactical room, which was empty except for a lone child's star on the carpet. "What are you trying to tell me?" He flipped the star in his palm, and then glanced over at the computer screen.

"What are you staring at?" Darian frowned at him.

"She left us a message! She thinks I'm dead! They have the twins, but who are they, dammit!" Eric ran the computer through its security mode. "Come on! Come on! Show me what happened to Andy and our babies!"

"Calm down, Eric!" Darian snarled at him.

"It's Jace and Rand and they held my babies!" Eric roared in fury. "Shaitan and Kari were here as well! No wonder she did all of this! They had the twins! She had no choice! They want Jenna! I'd bet my life on it!" Eric ran from the room.

(On Planet Triton)

Andromeda paced her massive suite in her slippered feet. She hated that she'd been dressed in a filmy red harem outfit. The thing was almost transparent in places, it barely had a bottom to it, and it also barely covered her breasts. They had braided her hair genie style into a high ponytail at the top of her head. She hated the outfit, but she hated her gilded cage even more and went to explore her new prison.

*This is so humiliating! The only thing that he forgot was a leash to go with this bloody collar!* She clawed at the collar around her throat, but it was fitted to her like a second layer of skin.

The women in the Harem turned to stare at her when she entered the main room.

"Will you please quit staring at me?" She snarled at them.

"You are different from the others." One of the women smirked at her.

"I am a princess, not a slave girl!" Andy hissed at the woman and the witch laughed at her in amusement.

"You are nothing, but the master's new toy." She laughed at her. "I run the harem and you will learn to obey me."

"Obey you? Don't make me laugh!" Andy narrowed her eyes at her. "Lady, the Master has fallen at my mercy more than once. So I suggest that you back off!"

"She tells wonderful tales, doesn't she, girls." The head harlot laughed at her threat.

"Allow me to demonstrate. See that vanity?" She pointed to a beautifully hand crafted vanity, then sliced it in half with a single chop of her hand, and finished it off with a lightning swift kick. "Any questions?"

"You have the power to leave, so why are you still here?"

"The master has my babies!" Andy continued to take out her frustrations on the furniture.

"So you are the mother of the two babies." She frowned at her.

"Yes." Andy continued to explore her prison until she heard someone crying.

"I must get away from here." The girl sobbed.

"Are you okay?" Andy asked and knelt next to her.

The girl looked up at her with big teary doe eyes.

"I hate it here! I want to go home!" She sobbed even harder.

"How old are you?" Andy asked.

"I just turned fourteen, before my planet was attacked. Jacen is so cruel to me, because I won't give in to him." Fawn whimpered.

* I'll kill him! * Andy snarled to herself. "What's your name?"

"Fawn." She murmured.

"I'm Andromeda and I'll get you back home." Andy told the girl, just before Shaitan entered the room.

"So how do you like your new home?" He looked down at her.

"I've been in better places." She lifted her chin defiantly.

"I will arrange for better accommodations, as soon as you finally submit to me." Shaitan pulled her into his arms.

"I'd rather kiss slime than you, Shaitan!" She snarled at him.

"You will obey me, Andromeda, even if I have to use the collar to do it." He grabbed hold of a fistful of her hair and kissed her brutally on the mouth.

"Never, Shaitan!" She bit down hard on his lip to make him break off the kiss.

"You will, Andromeda, but now I have come to take you to the twins. They seem to be missing their momma." He dragged her with him out of the room.

(Arus)

Keith and Allura were staring at Eric in disbelief, as he explained the current situation to him.

"Andy blew up the lions, because they have the twins, and that isn't the worst part she thinks that Shaitan killed me."

"This is the note that she left under the blueprints! It's a farewell note! She isn't coming back!" Allura felt like panicking.

"Yes she is, Mom. Jenna will do as they say and go there alone and unarmed, while I haunt them into making a mistake. This is a perfect plan, because they already think that I'm dead and won't even suspect a trick." Eric wasn't about to think that she wasn't coming back to him.

"I agree with, Eric. My father isn't going to give up Andy or the twins. Now if Eric comes along and they think that he's dead, we can easily trick them into releasing them." Jenna agreed with Eric's plan.

"No way! He's so steamed at you that he'll hurt you." Matt growled in protest.

"I know the risks, Matt." She snapped at him. "And don't even think that you're going along either. I have to do this, so we can get Dromi and the girls back home where they belong."

"I won't let you do this, Jenn. He'll punish you brutally for leaving home." Matt tried to get her to change her mind.

"I'll be okay, Matt." Jenna smiled at him.

"I hate this! I want to go with you!" Matt snarled in frustration.

"I know that, Matt, but I'll be back. You just have to trust me." She tried not to let her fear show in her eyes.

"Don't worry, Matt. I'll make sure that she comes back to you in one piece." Eric reassured him.

(Planet Triton)

Andromeda now had her own wing of the harem where she and the twins had complete privacy, but she was helpless as long as she still had that bloody collar around her throat. So, she decided to meditate and clear her mind of all her troubles.

"Eric, where are you? I need you so much!" She sobbed, as grief overcame her once more. *Oh God! Why did you have to leave me! *

"Why are you crying?" Fawn asked her in a timid tone of voice.

"I recently lost my husband." She wiped the tears from her eyes.

"Oh...I'm...sorry." Fawn whispered.

"That's okay, Fawn. You didn't know. Are the twins okay?" Andy managed a weak smile.

"They're little angels."

"Don't worry, Fawn. We're going to get out of here." Andy promised her.

"I don't wish for you to get into trouble." She shook her head.

"Fawn, trouble has been my middle name since I could crawl." Andy grinned.

"You seemed to be special somehow?" Fawn frowned at her.

"I had very special parents. They were the original members of the Voltron Force and their names are Keith and Allura." She burst into tears again.

"You're crying again, surely they will come and rescue you." She frowned at her.

"No. I betrayed my family and destroyed Voltron, so I can never go home again." She whispered.

"Then we are both lost." Fawn sighed in defeat.

"I have yet to lose a fight and I don't plan on starting now." Andy muttered.

Shaitan made the situation clear to his nephew. "Princess Fawn is to be left alone. She's going to be tending to the twins."

"I want Andromeda to be my slave."

"Listen closely, Jacen Michael! Andromeda isn't to be touched!" He threw Jace against the wall.

"Says who, Uncle?!" Jace spat at him.

"Says me, nephew! Touch her and feel pain for the rest of your life!" Shaitan roared at him.

"This bites!" Jace snarled at him.

"Foolish, boy! You couldn't handle a woman, let alone a girl, if your life depended on it. I can and will be the one to break her spirit." Shaitan laughed at him.

Eric landed his small cloaked ship near the palace.

Jenna had just landed and was on her way inside.

Eric decided to let the haunting begin.

Jenna carefully entered the palace, but found no welcoming committee. "So far so good," Jenna continued further into her former home.

"Hello Jenna, welcome home." Rand was standing directly behind her.

Jenna turned on her heel and glared at her father. "Did you think that I would allow you to keep Andy and her twins?"

"Actually, I was counting on your loyalty for your friends to be your undoing, consider yourself grounded." He shot her with a tranq dart.

"No fair..." Jenna collapsed in her father's arms.

Shaitan had an extravagant candlelight dinner for two prepared in Andromeda's room. She'd been dressed in a gold slave outfit with shimmering veils hanging down around her face from the braids in her hair. She felt like she'd been prepared to be the master's latest meal, for they had artfully applied exotic looking make-up to her face.

Shaitan walked into the room. "You are the most beautiful creature that I have ever laid eyes on." He cradled her hand in his own and brought it up to his lips to place a kiss in the center of her palm.

Andy tried to give into the urge to pull her hand away. "This was a thoughtful idea, Shaitan." She smiled up at him.

"I'm glad that you approve. You see how nice and calm I can be when you act like a proper lady." Shaitan pulled her down with him onto the pillows pilled on the floor.

"This is a side of you that I've never seen before." Andy tried to remain calm, as Shaitan began running his hand up her thigh.

"Do you like me when I'm like this?" He brought his face within inches from hers and his mouth was brushing against her own.

"The change is for the better." She squeaked when he pressed her down into the pillows.

Eric watched from the window, barely keeping from crashing through the it, and tearing her out of Shaitan's arms, but he saw that she had the collar around her throat and remained where he was.

"You are so delicate; it's amazing considering who you are." Shaitan growled against her neck and began exploring her neck and face with kisses.

Eric went to look into another window and saw a beautiful young girl staring curiously at him with his girls in her arms.

"Who are you?" She whispered.

"My name is, Eric. I'm Andromeda's husband." He whispered.

"The princess will be happy to know that you're alive." Fawn smiled at him.

"No. You mustn't tell her just yet. I'm gonna haunt the palace for a while." He whispered. "Would you please do me a major favor and let me hold my babies?"

She handed him the twins, who gurgled happily up at their Daddy.

"I love you two so much. Daddy has to save Mommy, but I'll be back soon." He kissed them both, handing them back to Fawn before he vanished from the room.

The twins started wailing for their father, causing Andy to run and see what was wrong with the babies.

She silently praised them for their timing.*That was almost too close!*

"Next time I will have them taken out of your suite!" Shaitan roared in frustration, as he stalked out of the room.

"Fawn, what's wrong with the girls?" She winced, as glass shattered in the hallway. She was barely dressed, so she pulled on a gold robe. "Not that I'm complaining mind you. Those angels saved me from a very awkward position."

"They must want their momma." Fawn handed them to her.

Andy rubbed her nose against their faces smelling Eric's aftershave that had rubbed off on their cheek when he was holding them. "I'm losing it! I swear that I just smelled Eric's aftershave!" She burst into tears.

"Take them away! I feel like I'm going to be sick!" She raced to the bathroom, after giving Fawn the twins, and lost what she little she had eaten for dinner.

"I'm sorry, Eric." She sobbed, walking into the shower, so the hot sting of the water could burn away Shaitan's touch on her skin. She didn't notice the silhouette of a familiar male standing outside the frosted glass door.

Eric watched in agony as the scalding hot water pelted her skin and she tried to scrub her skin raw. He was so close, yet he couldn't take her in his arms and hold her.

The heat was finally beginning to take its toll on her, she began to feel light-headed, and collapsed in the shower. The last thing that she saw before blacking out was Eric standing outside the shower.

"Andy!" Eric opened the door to get her out of the shower. He carefully cradled her in his arms and silently entered the bedroom of her suite.

Fawn was instantly at his side, "Is the princess ill?" She felt Andy's face she was burning up.

"Get me some towels and soak them in some cool water." Eric set her down on the feather bed. "I'll get you out of this, even if I have to kill them all to do it." He kissed her forehead, as he fingered the velvet band around her neck. "But first I have to terrorize the controls away from Shaitan."

"Here are the towels." Fawn eyed her new friend worriedly.

"Will anyone know that I'm in here with her?" He asked, as he wrapped Andy's body in the cool towels.

"No, because this apartment is a great distance away from the main harem." Fawn replied softly. "She never has any visitors except for Shaitan and he won't be returning this evening."

"I think I'll stay with her for a while then. You seem awfully young to be in Rand's harem?" Eric commented and she blushed.

"My name is Fawn and I was taken from my family on my fourteenth birthday. They attacked my planet and killed my parents the reining King and Queen. I was then taken here and given to Jace as a birthday present." She whimpered.

"Andy made a deal with Shaitan to keep you under her protective wing didn't she?" Eric frowned at her, as the missing pieces to the puzzle finally fell into place.

"Yes, but this is the first time that he has tried to physically attack her. He seems to have strong feelings for the princess." Fawn whispered.

"Listen, Fawn, I want you to stay with the twins at all times. You're coming home with us, as soon as I figure out how to free Jenna and my wife."

Fawn nodded and then left him to tend to his wife.

"You are my life." He whispered against her lips. "Rest now, my love, I will hold you as long as I can." She curled into his body and fell into a much needed deep sleep.

On Arus a funeral was being held for a fallen Prince and it was being televised LIVE throughout three galaxies. All the family members were present, as were the two Voltrons and their team members, as Eric's casket was carried from the cathedral. There wasn't a dry eye on the planet when friends spoke of their friend Captain Eric Anthony Lawson and his tragic death.

"You see, Andromeda. Your husband is truly dead." Rand growled at her from his seat next to Kari.

Jenna was chained to his throne and was sitting at his feet.

"Eric!" Andy screamed, as she was forced to watch the funeral from her place at Shaitan's feet." No!"

*It was too real to have been a dream! Was he a ghost like grandpa? Can you feel the touch of a ghost!?* She recalled what had happened the night before.

"Yes." Shaitan growled down at her. "Now you are truly alone."

"I hate all of you!" She screamed and ran from the room in tears.

"You are a monster!" Jenna screamed at her father.

"Watch it, Jenna." Rand pulled on her chain.

A faint hologram of Eric complete with smoke effects appeared in the center of the throne room. He did indeed look as if he was a ghost. "Rand! Shaitan!" He bellowed angrily.

Shaitan stared at him. "You're dead!"

"You murdered me, Shaitan!" He roared.

Jace ran from the room in terror.

"I don't believe in ghosts!" Rand snarled.

"When I'm done all of you will be afraid of your own shadows!" Eric's roar echoed around the room.

"What do you want?!" Kari hissed at him.

"Revenge!" He snarled and vanished to hunt down Shaitan who had fled for his life.

Andy began throwing things at the wall in anger.

"No! I felt you holding me! I won't let you be dead!" She screamed in emotional agony. She eyed the dagger that she had placed on the vanity in front of her.

"Why did you leave me? I can't raise the twins alone and I can't bear the fate of being Shaitan's bed partner either, but I don't have a choice as long as this thing is still around my neck!" She picked up the dagger and pointed it towards her chest.

"No! Princess, you mustn't do this!" Fawn ran over to her and took the dagger away from her.

"Why shouldn't I, Fawn!? He's dead and I can't survive without him! It's like I'm dead inside! I can't even look at the girls without losing it!" She screamed at her.

"He lives in you." Fawn felt the guilt overcoming her when Andy began crying even harder.

'Are you gonna let them win and see you cry or are you gonna be strong and fight!' A familiar voice growled in her head

"Even in death he haunts my mind!" She wailed.

Shaitan paced his quarters, as a voice continued to taunt him.

"She belongs to me, Shaitan." The voice growled.

"Leave me alone! She is mine, Eric! There is nothing that you can do to stop me!"

"She'll always be thinking of me." The voice echoed around him.

"I will make her forget!" Shaitan snarled.

"She had my twins! I will be with her forever in them!" Eric played his final card and Shaitan stalked from the room without the device for her collar. "Thank you." The ghost picked up the control device and crushed it in his fist, "Now to go get everyone and go home."

Shaitan stalked into Andromeda's rooms and threw her onto the bed. "You will be mine!" He snarled down at her, as his hands ripped at her clothing.

"Get your hands-off of me!" She tried to break free of him.

Shaitan in a full-blown temper easily overpowered her and responded to her cry of protest with a brutally hard kiss to her mouth.

"Shut up or I'll activate the collar!" He snarled at her, as he tore the clothes off her body, and pressed her back down against the feather bed.

"Let me up!" She clawed her nails across his face.

"Behave!" He punched her in the face.

The blow to her face dazed Andy, but Eric was now in the room and tearing Shaitan off her.

"I am going to kill you!" Eric snarled throwing Shaitan into a wall.

"You're dead!" Shaitan shouted at him, but Eric was too busy punching his face in.

"Surprise! The rumors were highly exaggerated!" He threw him into the door. "I don't like people mauling my wife or kidnapping my kids!"

"We saw the funeral!" Shaitan spat blood from his mouth.

"They made a mistake and so did you when you tried to rape my wife!" He roared, throwing Shaitan through the window of her room where he lay lifeless among the shattered remains of the window.

"Eric?" Andy sobbed, as she clutched the sheet in front of her.

"I'm sorry, Andy." He drew her into his arms.

"You're alive." She whimpered, reaching up to feel his face to make sure that he was there.

"You're alive!" She threw her arms around him and kissed him.

'Yes, love, I'm alive.' He kissed her back. "Now, shall we get you into something a little more comfortable?" Eric reached down and removed the collar from around her throat.

"Do you see anything besides slave outfits in this room?" She frowned at him.

"Try this on." He threw some clothes at her. "Fawn and the twins are safe and in my shuttle. All that's left to do is find Jenna and trash this palace."

"What lovely ideas you have, handsome." She put on her cyber suit. "Did you bring any of my toys?" She purred out the question to him.

"Your wish is my command." He set her arsenal down onto the bed, and then pulled her to him for another kiss. 'Gods, I missed you!'

'You have no idea how happy I am to see you!' Andy arched a brow at Eric, after she glanced out the window at Shaitan's body. "Did you kill him?"

"Hopefully," Eric put the collar on Shaitan. "Drat it lives!" He snarled.

"What about the harem?" She frowned at her prison.

"It's empty. I haunted them into fleeing for their lives." He winked at her.

"Naughty!" She winked at him.

"No, but I plan to be later tonight." He growled in her ear.

"I'm counting the minutes until then," She relished feeling being held in his arms again.

Jenna clawed at her collar, as she glared up at her father.

"Does the kitten want a walk?" He smirked at her.

"Father! Andromeda is free!" Jace ran into the throne room shouting at the top of his lungs.

Rand hit a few buttons on his throne and watched Shaitan's harem explode on the screen.

"Impossible!"

"What's the matter, father? Are you afraid of Andromeda?" Jenna taunted him from her cage.

"Quiet, brat!" Jace snarled at his twin.

"I would flee the universe if I were you, because these claws are going to cut you to ribbons!" She snarled at him.

"I don't think so." He sneered. "I don't see anyone trying to free you."

"I'm shocked, Rand, caging your only true asset and letting the fool remain free." Andy threw a Sia at Rand's throne that landed between his legs. "I missed." She gasped, her eyes widened with surprise. "I never miss! Let's try that again."

"Never leave your back unguarded." Kari took away her Sia.

"Who says that I did?" Andy nailed Kari in the face with her elbow. "Darling, I'm lonely come play with me."

"But you were having so much fun." Eric appeared next to Jenna's cage. "I believe this ought to do the trick." A little laser sliced the chain at her neck and the collar fell to the floor of the cage.

"What took you so long?" Jenna fingered the raw mark around her neck and took some weapons from Eric.

"I was pounding some sense into Shaitan." Eric threw a flash ball onto the floor. :Shield your eyes!:He sent to Jen and Andy and the room was lit up in bright blinding light.

"We shall meet again." They all did their vanishing act.

"Let's go home." Jenna grinned at them.

"I can't go home, not after what I did." Andy shook her head in frustration. "There's no way that I can face my parents again!"

"They all understand, Andy. No one blames you for anything. Rand was holding the twin's hostage and you had no choice." Eric growled softly.

"I could have handled Rand. It was seeing your lifeless body lying by the water that destroyed me." She still wasn't ready to go home.

"Do you have any idea what destroying those Lion's did to me…not to mention seeing you dead!?"

"Yell at me, Andy! Scream at me if you want to, get everything out of your system." Eric pulled her into his arms and held her.

Andy beat at his chest with her fists. "You left me alone, Eric! I was dying inside! After they forced me to watch your funeral! I almost killed myself, so I could be with you! How could you do that to me!?" She screamed in fury, tears were streaming down her cheeks.

"I went out of my mind when I smelled your aftershave on Jessica and Jasmine! I fainted in the shower and you took care of me and then held me in your arms!" She continued to rant at him. "How could you let Shaitan attack me like that!?"

"Do you think that I liked seeing you in his arms, wearing next to nothing?! I couldn't do anything, because you had that collar around your neck and he would have killed you!" He growled hoarsely.

"I had to do that to protect the twins and Fawn. I can hardly bear it that he almost raped me!" She buried her face against his chest.

"When we found you and the twins missing, then read the message on our computer's screen, your mom went crazy with worry and your dad didn't care about anything or anyone but you. " Eric growled into her hair.

"I can't bear to see the shame in their eyes." She sniffled, looking up into golden eyes that were filled with so much love for her.

"The lions can be rebuilt, angel, but you can't, once you die that's it. You mean the world to them. Voltron is just a machine and you are a part of them." He carried her out of the palace.

"I'll go back home, but I doubt that I can ever face my father again without feeling this overwhelming guilt inside." She fell asleep in his arms.

(Arus hours later)

Keith and Allura paced the castle's sunroom awaiting any news from Eric or Jenna.

"She has to know that she's more valuable than those lions are to me." Keith raked his fingers through his hair in frustration.

"She knows how much that part of your life meant to you and she feels like she betrayed any trust that you had in her." Allura sighed.

"I thought that everyone was gonna kill us after the funeral. I hope that this has been worth all the pain and emotional torment on everyone." Keith turned when he heard the sound of a baby's cry coming from the doorway.

"Look, Keith! They're back!" Allura beamed up at her husband.

"Welcome home!" Keith ran to greet them, only to find Eric and Jenna each holding a baby, but Andy was nowhere to be found.

There was also a beautiful teenage girl hiding timidly behind Jenna.

"Where is my shadow!? Keith demanded an answer.

"She wouldn't come to the castle, Dad." Eric growled softly. "She can't face you after what she did to the Lions."

"She's more important to me than any of the Lions and we've already started rebuilding them!" Keith snarled.

"She needs time with you, Dad." Eric explained to them how she wasn't going to return home.

"Go to her, honey." Ally cuddled one of the girls in her arms.

"Eric!" A group of their family was glaring daggers at him. "We would like to have a word with you!"

"Tell her that I'll be home with the twins in a little while. That's if our family doesn't kill me for what I put all of them through." Eric reluctantly headed for the doorway. "No violence please! I'm holding my baby in my arms." Eric pleaded for mercy.

Tony plucked his niece out of Eric's arms. "Let's go, you big chicken. We only want to talk to you." He growled.

'HELP!' Eric sent to his wife, as he was dragged off by the rest of the family.

"Aunt Allura, I would like you to meet Fawn." Jenna smiled at the timid girl. "Fawn, this is my Aunt, Queen Allura."

"Hello, Fawn." Allura smiled at the frightened girl. : She looks scared out of her mind! What happened to her, Jenna?: Allura looked at her niece for an answer.

"Hello, your highness." She whimpered.

:Rand attacked her planet, killed her parents, and took her back home as a birthday present for Jace!: Jenna snapped, she was still furious that her father had done this to the poor girl. :She has no one, Aunt Allura.:

"It's okay, Fawn. You're safe here." Allura handed Jenna the baby and walked over to give Fawn a hug. "You're part of this family now."

Fawn looked up at her with her huge brown eyes and smiled. "I would like that very much. The princess already feels like a big sister to me and I would like to be a part of a family again, but will the King agree with your decision?"

"Uncle Keith? He will welcome you with open arms." Jenna grinned.

"He'll just smile and say that there's always room for another daughter in our family." Allura smiled. "Now let me show you around your new home."

Andy meditated near her waterfall and tried to concentrate on clearing her mind. She had even activated the dome around her sanctuary so she would feel safe.

"You didn't come to the castle, so I came to see you." Keith growled softly.

"I couldn't face you after what I did." She whispered. : Please don't hate me, Daddy.:

"Who are you?" Keith sat down beside her.

"Princess Andromeda Marie Edwards Lawson." She whimpered. : I'm sorry, Daddy.:

"What does that make you?" He continued.

"Your child," She sighed in defeat.

"That's right, Andromeda, and I would kill anyone that tried to take you away from me. I care about you more than all the Voltrons in the universe. I would die a little each time if anything were to happen to you or any of your brothers and sisters." He growled hoarsely tears were shining in his eyes.

"Oh Daddy, I didn't want to do what I did, but they gave me no choice!" She flung herself into his arms and burst into tears.

"I know, Andy. I'm so sorry that all of this happened to you." He rocked her in his arms.

"They threw me into a harem, Daddy! Some of the girls there were only babies! One of them was barely fourteen and terrified out of her mind! So I made a deal with Shaitan to keep her safe!" She sobbed. "It was so awful, Daddy! I had to deal with Shaitan, Eric's death, and I could never go home again!"

"You can always come home, Andromeda. I will never judge you or turn you away." He hugged her to him. "I love you too much to ever think of doing something like that."

"I love you so much, Daddy!" Andy hugged him back.

"You never have to be ashamed of coming back home. You will always be welcome and loved." He lifted her chin up, so she was looking at him.

"I didn't destroy the lions completely. I saved their energy crystals and put them in a safe place." She explained to him.

He smiled and told her the good news. "They are being rebuilt as we speak. They were going to be overhauled anyway and now for the best part Ariel had a baby boy and they named him Hunter Scott."

"That's wonderful, Daddy!" She smiled at him, but her smiled soon turned in to a frown. :This is never going to happen to me again.: She made a promise to herself.

:What are you up to, Andromeda?: Keith frowned at her.

:A change that will rock the galaxy and send scum like Shaitan crawling under the nearest rock!: Andy snarled.

"Andromeda Marie, for once in your life you are going to listen and do exactly what I tell you. You are not going to take on the universe, but you are going to focus on your family and that is final!" Keith growled. :I want to share my grandbabies with my daughter!:

"I promise that I'll try and not bite off more than I can chew and I will spend every waking moment spending time with my whole family." She smiled at him.

"That's all that I ask, angel." Keith placed a kiss on her forehead. "Now, I'm going to spoil the girls while you and Eric spend some quality time alone with each other."

"Thanks, Daddy. Oh and one more thing, the next time that you throw Eric a funeral make sure that he's dead." She frowned at him.

"Sorry that we had to put you through that, but we had to for the plan to work." Keith grinned sheepishly. "The good part about this whole mess is that everyone is back home, at least for a little while anyway."

"Then I should go say hello to all of them. I need to check on Fawn and make sure that she's adjusting to everything that's going on around her." Andy went to follow him.

"I thought there was someone else with Eric and Jenna." Keith frowned. "Is she the girl that you took under your protective wing?"

"Rand killed her parents and gave her to Jace as a present. She has no one anymore, Daddy. And she's the gentlest person that I've ever met." Andy explained the situation to him.

"I should have killed that bastard when I had the chance!" Keith snarled. "Don't worry, Andy. Allura and I will take her in as one of our own. She will never have to endure anything like that again." Keith promised.

"I still need to make sure that she's okay."

"What you need to do is spend some time with Eric. The two of you almost lost each other and you need this time alone. I'm sure that your mother has already gotten her settled at the castle." Keith ordered her sternly.

"Ok, Daddy." She sighed. "Tell him to be here in one hour."

Keith nodded and then vanished.

"Now to plan the seduction of my husband," She grinned.

(One hour later)

Eric returned home to find that all the lights were off and the whole place was lit by candlelight. Romantic music filled the air from one of Andy's antique toys that she had saved from a junk store on Earth. He could hear her musical voice as she sang with the music. She had moved a table, filled with Exotic foods, to the center of the living room, and pilled pillows all around it on the floor.

"Andromeda," He called softly.

"Hello." She purred, appearing in front of him in a shimmering gold harem outfit. The sight of her almost sent him to his knees.

"Excuse me, fair maiden, have we met before?" He growled hoarsely.

"Perhaps, my lord, in one of your wildest fantasies," She smiled up at him holding out a robe for him to wear.

"For me?" Eric acted shocked. "Isn't this rather forward, after all I am a married man."

"I'll make it worth your while." She slinked up against him.

"Do you really think that my wife isn't going to find out about this?" He groaned, as she continued to undress him.

"Who do you think sent me?" She whispered into his ear as she finished putting the robe on him.

Eric was finding it difficult to keep his emotions in check and almost lost it when she raked her nails down his back. "Come here." He growled, but she slid from his grasp.

"You must be starving, please sit." She motioned to the pillows.

"I'm famished lets start with dessert." He pulled her down with him onto the pillows and kissed her.

"First we feast." She gasped, trying to regain her control, as he placed kisses down the column of her throat.

"I am feasting." He growled against her skin then trailed his way back up to her mouth and claimed it with his own once more.

"Darling, would you hurt my feelings by ruining my little surprise." She gasped as he explored her skin.

"But I love your surprise." He growled between kisses. "And I intend to devour every glorious inch."

"Don't you want to try any of the food?"

"No. I don't think that I'll ever taste anything as good as you ever again."

'I love you so much, even if you are spoiling my romantic evening.' She sighed and gave in completely.

'Who needs seduction when all I have to do is look at you and I'm on fire. I love so much, wife.'

(Hours later)

"Dromi?"

"Hmmm."

"I'm famished."

"I wonder why?"

"Brat."

"Serves you right."

"Andromeda, let me up."

"Why? I'm comfortable.

"Andy, I'm starving!"

"So was I when you attacked me."

"Andromeda!"

"Well, when you...um...had me instead of dinner." She blushed.

"Well, now, I'm hungry for food!"

"I'm not."

"Andy? What are you doing?" He frowned.

"Feasting."

"Have mercy on me!"

"No."

"Wanton wench."

"Had a good teacher."

"Did you miss me?"

"Terribly."

"Did you feel anything when you were with Shaitan?"

"What?!"

"Well?!"

"Eric, you are in no position to ask stupid questions!" She glared at him.

"Did you?"

"No! How could you even think that I could feel anything for him?"

"I didn't. I'm so hungry that I've sunk to using dirty tricks."

"You poor baby! Come on, Captain. I'll feed you."

"Finally, she listens to reason!"

"Um...darling?"

"What?" He frowned.

"Bella ate our dinner." She whimpered.

"What?!"

"All we have left are strawberries and cream."

"Open your mouth, love."

"Why?"

"Now take a bite." He growled placing a berry between her teeth and then took the other half of the berry in his teeth sharing it with her. "Now this is what eating is all about." He growled as they continued to feed each other.

(Back at the castle)

Everyone was cooing over the babies and newborn baby Hunter.

"They are so tiny." Cassie cuddled Jessie.

"They look like Dromi, except that they have Eric's eyes." Lance had Jasmine in his arms and was tickling her tiny foot.

Nate held Hunter in his arms while he fed him his bottle. "I'm just happy that this whole mess is over with. The only good thing to come out of this was our newest member of the family." He smiled over at Fawn, who was surrounded by various members of the family.

"She's amazing isn't she and so good with all the little ones." Chris smiled.

"Where are Eric and Andy anyway?" Alex frowned.

"Getting reacquainted." Keith walked over to them with Lilly in his arms.

"Where's Dromi?" Lilly frowned.

"She's with Eric." Cass explained.

"She no wants to be with the babies?"

"No, Lilly. She and Eric need some time alone." Keith tried to explain it to her, as he sat down in one of the overstuffed chairs in the sunroom.

"I call her." Lilly wriggled out of his arms and raced out of the room.

"Lilly, go play blocks with Shawn." Darian stood in her path.

"No! I wanna call Dromi!" Lilly pouted up at him.

"I'll go with you, Lilly." Shawn helped her get away from his father.

"No! Lillian, you get back here right now, young lady!" Allura shouted after her.

Andy and Eric lay sated in each other's arms when the tele-monitor began beeping.

"Eric, go see who's calling."

"No, let it beep."

"Eric, let me up."

"No, ignore the monitor."

"Eric, move."

"No! Let them get the idea!"

"Eric! It may be about the twins!"

"Very well." He grumbled.

Andy put on a silk robe and stumbled over to the monitor.

"Hi, Dromi!" Lilly beamed at her.

"Lilly? Is everything okay?" Andy yawned.

"You didn't come to see me." Lilly pouted.

"I was tired, Lilly, but we'll talk tomorrow okay?"

"Hello, squirt." Eric was now standing behind Andy.

"Oh, everyone's mad at you." Lilly and Shawn reported together.

"What did I do now?" Eric frowned.

"You played dead and they didn't like you for it." Shawn frowned.

"I had to do that to save Dromi and the twins." Eric explained.

"Aunt Myr was really mad." Lilly frowned.

"Myria?"

"Uh-huh, she tried to hurt Uncle Dare." Lilly chattered.

"Well, everything is fine now and we will see you in the morning." Andy sighed.

"Night, Dromi!" Lilly smiled.

"Night, Lilly. Night, Shawn." Andy ended the call.

"So that's why you called me for help when I was talking to Daddy." Andy frowned at Eric.

"Let's just say that I will never do anything like that again." Eric scooped her back up into his arms and carried her to their room.

Next chapter eight

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