Love in an Odd Place
Chapter 3
A walk in the rain
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Disclaimer: I do not own anything. Sorry to break it to ya!
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Last night had been very eventful for the team as they walked down the sidewalk from the restaurant Pidge started the subject on what to do tonight.
Keith finally spoke up after many suggestions in his usual masked tone. "Well you can do whatever you wish to do, but I think I'll just take it slow tonight." Last night after dropping Lance and Kelsey off, Keith walked Allura to her room. There he had spent a majority of the night trying to convince her to sleep. He then stayed another couple of hours to make sure she was sound asleep. Before he had left though he had switched her communicator on so he could make sure that during the night she was okay. Keith finally got some rest after Lance had come back to the room, drunk, but it didn't last long because Keith awoke to the sound of Allura's screams. After getting in her room he found out that Allura was having a nightmare about the club.
"I know why don't we all stay in tonight and watch a movie." Pidge said as he looked over at Allura and knew she was still a little shaken from last night.
"Can you please not yell like that?" Lance said as he grabbed his head. He was still having trouble with his hangover and knew that Pidge was purposely making a lot of noise. "I guess I'll stay also. Kelsey has to work the night sift and my head kills."
"Well than it's settled!" Hunk said before he dashed into a 24-hour market. Moments later he came out with a large bad of popcorn. He just smiled as the rest of the force started to laugh. It made them glad to see Allura slowly return to her old self as she stood there laughing to the point it hurt.
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The force had decided to watch the movie in Allura's room because hers was the biggest. Everyone was piled on Allura's bed except Keith who was sitting in a chair close to the window. Allura was between hunk and Lance with Pidge at the foot of the bed. They had asked Keith many times to join that but he wouldn't cave.
Lance suddenly got and idea and reached for Allura's hand. "Oh shit Allura!" lance exclaimed as he inspected it. "Keith come look at this! It looks really bad!"
"Hey let me see! What's wrong with my hand?" Allura yelled as she tried to escape Lance's death grip.
Keith was out of his seat and next to the bed before Allura had even finished her yell. "Let me see that!"
As soon as Keith got close enough and took hold of Allura's hand, Lance put the rest of his plan into action. Lance grabbed Keith's arm and pulled with all his strength. Caught of balance, Keith let out a yelp and fell onto the bed.
Keith ended up between Lance and Allura, and after many attempts to escape he decided to give in. the bed was big but everyone was crushed onto it. Allura was sitting on top of himself and Hunk, which made some more room. Being this close to her was reminding him of dancing the night before, sending chills down his spine. "There I'm with you guys! Are you happy?" Keith said with his hands in the air.
"Yes!" the chorus rang out. Hunk even threw some popcorn. Soon enough popcorn was flying everywhere. After about an hour or so of talking, teasing, popcorn slinging, and even a little of movie watching they had all one by one fallen asleep.
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Keith woke up and noticed that Allura had moved. He soon found her curled up in a corner by a lamp reading a book. "What are you reading?" Keith said as he slowly squatted down beside her.
Allura looked up from the book to look into Keith's big brown eyes. "It's like one really long poem." Allura said as she offered Keith the book.
Keith studied it and then allowed a smile to creep across his lips as he handed it back to her. "That's Romeo and Juliet. It's a play by William Shakespeare. It was written a long time ago. You'll love it!"
"YOU know it?"
"Yes of coarse." Keith was silent for a while as he noticed a sound outside. "Is it raining?" he then got up before she could answer and walked over to the window. Keith soon turned around only to see Allura heading for the door. 'What now?' Keith thought and quickly took after the princess. Once outside Keith noticed that she was at the elevators. Luckily though he slipped in right before that doors closed. "What the hell are you doing?" Keith tried to yell as he regained his breath.
"I thought you'd follow me." Allura said in triumph. "I just want to go outside."
This rather shocked him. "What? Princess, it's raining!"
"Yea, I know. It'd be a little hard to play in the rain if it wasn't, wouldn't it?" at this the blue eyed princess just laughed. As the doors opened Allura grabbed Keith's hand and led him out into the dark, hard, rain. She then let go as she stretched her arms out. She threw her head back and arched her back as she let the cold rain pellets hit her body in a rhythmic motion. Trails of water were traveling down her neck over her collar bon and down her chest. She was truly shocked and was enjoying every moment of it. Allura then spun around feeling Keith's watchful gaze. It took her by surprise though when she felt him take her hands in his.
Keith was amazed at how she could look like a goddess even now. Her hair and dress were both plastered to her body, but to him she was gorgeous. Keith let go of her other hand and wrapped his hand around her waist. Every so often he would throw the princess out only to spin her back into his body. As time went by the rain started to come down harder. The curtain of rain was slowly engulfing both of their souls. As Allura was spinning back into Keith, she slipped and fell into Keith's body. He put his hands on her arms and straitened her, but he didn't let go. They stood there face to face close enough to touch noses. No words were shared as the two looked deep into each other's eyes. Keith watched the drops rolling down her face following every curve. One drop rested on the end of her nose until the wait of the others got to be too much and after much resistance the drop finally fell to the ground. As it fell Keith could see his own fears being acted out inside of it. The princess was always holding so much and would keep adding more. Keith feared that one if those times, like the raindrop, she would fall to the ground. She had expresses to him on many occasions how it was hard sometimes because everyone was relying on her and also expecting so much from her. Keith figured that, that had a lot to do with her break down at the club last night. All Keith could do was hope that when she did fall that he'd be there to catch her.
When Allura gasped Keith realized that he was still holding her. They both had a shocked look on their faces as they slowly resumed dancing. They did this for about an hour each on enjoying the presence of the rain and each other. Keith could faintly hear Allura's intoxicating laughter, but when he threw her body out again she did not return. The rain was too hard now for him to see anything. Her laughter stopped and her hand slipped from his. Alarm began to run through his body. "Allura!" he yelled right before he was grabbed form behind. He then felt to coldness of the cuffs on his wrists. When he yelled for the princess again it was met by her ear- shattering scream. Soon though Keith's world went black as he was struck form behind. His body sank to the ground and before he totally blacked out he saw that Allura's own body was lying limp on the ground next to him.
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Allura was lying on the floor when she finally woke up. She tried to rise up, but quickly decided against it as the back of her head rang out in pain. She laid there for a couple of minutes trying to regain her composure until she tried to sit up again. This time was easier although she still felt the pain. Allura tried to remember what had happened. She could remember dancing in the rain and how Keith made her body shiver when she would spin into his body and the look in his eyes. She had never seen them like that. She hoped that the love she saw in them wasn't just a figment of her imagination. Allura could remember the rain beating against her body, especially since her dress was still soaked. Allura's gaze then drifted to her hand as a memory of some one restraining her swept over her mind. Allura was shocked to find cuffs on her wrists. She then slowly stood up and looked all around her. In the corner the princess saw a crumpled body in red. Allura shrieked and ran over to the body.
"Keith!" Allura yelled as she pulled him onto his back. With light soothing touches, Allura touched Keith's face as she softly called him back to consciousness. Tears started to drip down her cheeks as she remembered looking into his eyes as the rain was pouring around them. "Oh what have I done?"
"Princess, are you okay?" a familiar voice said.
"Keith?" Allura looked down to see Keith staring at her. "Oh thank goodness your okay!" she then cupped his face with her cuffed hands and pressed her forehead to his.
"I see you two have finally woken." A voice said from behind.
Turning around Allura met Lotor's gaze. "I thought it would be you!" Keith said venomous as he tried to sit up.
Allura turned around and was shocked to see blood where Keith's head had been. "Keith you're bleeding!" she then looked at the back of Keith's head and sure enough there was blood coming from a gash. "Lotor this is all you fault! You'd better get him some help now!" Allura yelled at the blue man. Once he had left Allura once again turned to the wounded man. Her mind went back to the hotel room and how she had tricked Keith into going outside with her. "Oh Keith. I'm so sorry." She started to sob as she laid his head in her lap. "I'm not, and I sure hope tat your not also." Keith grabbed her hands in his and began to stroke them with his thumbs. "I'm going to be fine. Anyways being with you in the rain like that is worth it."
After a couple of minutes Lotor came back into the room. With him were a couple of guards and a man in ragged clothes. With a wave of Lotor's hand the guards came over and grabbed a kicking Allura and exited.
"Get to work! He better not die! He will be crucial for our victory!" Lotor said to the man as he turned and left. Once out side he locked the door and then turned his attention to a very upset princess.
"What are you up to Lotor!" Allura screamed.
Lotor just looked at her and laughed. "You'll know soon enough. Now if you will just follow me. We have a long ride home."
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"So you're a doctor?" Keith said to the man examining his wound.
The man stopped and walked around in front of him. "I used to be. Now I'm just a slave." He looked to be in his late 50s and very worn "You look like you'll live. It looks as if it only broke the skin. So I guess you're free to go." The doctor stopped and started to laugh. This confused Keith. "I used to love to say that, but no ones really free to go here are they?"
Keith could only nod at this. Soon after the guards came back into the room. Two grabbed Keith and two more grabbed the other man. After exiting the door they split directions. Keith was lead down a long hall to a door. One of the guards keyed in a code and the doors swished open effortlessly. With only one dim light in the room it was pretty dark. Once inside Keith saw Allura's body curled up into a ball against the wall.
Allura heard someone entering the room. She started to wipe the tears from her eyes as she slowly turned around. "Keith! It's you!" she then stood up and started walking towards him, but had to stop. She was shackled by her left ankle to the wall. So she just decided to stand and watch as the shackled Keith to the wall also. Once the guards left Allura walked over to him. "Are you okay?"
"Yea I'm fine." Keith asked as he started to sit down. "The doctor said that it just broke the skin."
Allura sat down beside him and rubbed her ankle. "That's good."
"Does your ankle hurt?" Keith said with a concerned look.
"Just a little."
"So I get the idea that were on a ship." Keith tried to change the subject.
"Yea and it's headed for planet Doom!"
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Hunk woke up later that night. With a yawn hunk stretched out to the limits as if he was trying to touch the sky. As he looked around the room he realized that two members of the force were missing. "Lance, Pidge! Wake up!"
"What is it?" Pidge said with a yawn.
"Do you know where Keith and the princess are?" he asked.
"No maybe we should go look for them." Lance said as he headed out the door.
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They had looked for the longest time, but saw no sign of the two. Lance was even calling Keith's communicator, but no one was answering.
"Guys I hate to say anything, but I'm starting to get a little worried." Pidge said once they were in the lobby.
"Maybe we should go look at Galaxy Garrison and on the way there we'll look in at the diners." Hunk suggested.
Lance thought for a while, but couldn't think of a better idea. "I guess your right, but I have a bed feeling." As they were walking out the door Lance decided to try Keith's communicator again. "Hey you guys, did you hear that?" Lance stopped as he heard something beeping.
"It's coming from over here!" hunk picked up a little white box with Arus' coat of arms on it. "Oh no!" Hunk showed it to the others.
"That's Keith's!" Pidge exclaimed.
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Disclaimer: I do not own anything. Sorry to break it to ya!
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Last night had been very eventful for the team as they walked down the sidewalk from the restaurant Pidge started the subject on what to do tonight.
Keith finally spoke up after many suggestions in his usual masked tone. "Well you can do whatever you wish to do, but I think I'll just take it slow tonight." Last night after dropping Lance and Kelsey off, Keith walked Allura to her room. There he had spent a majority of the night trying to convince her to sleep. He then stayed another couple of hours to make sure she was sound asleep. Before he had left though he had switched her communicator on so he could make sure that during the night she was okay. Keith finally got some rest after Lance had come back to the room, drunk, but it didn't last long because Keith awoke to the sound of Allura's screams. After getting in her room he found out that Allura was having a nightmare about the club.
"I know why don't we all stay in tonight and watch a movie." Pidge said as he looked over at Allura and knew she was still a little shaken from last night.
"Can you please not yell like that?" Lance said as he grabbed his head. He was still having trouble with his hangover and knew that Pidge was purposely making a lot of noise. "I guess I'll stay also. Kelsey has to work the night sift and my head kills."
"Well than it's settled!" Hunk said before he dashed into a 24-hour market. Moments later he came out with a large bad of popcorn. He just smiled as the rest of the force started to laugh. It made them glad to see Allura slowly return to her old self as she stood there laughing to the point it hurt.
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The force had decided to watch the movie in Allura's room because hers was the biggest. Everyone was piled on Allura's bed except Keith who was sitting in a chair close to the window. Allura was between hunk and Lance with Pidge at the foot of the bed. They had asked Keith many times to join that but he wouldn't cave.
Lance suddenly got and idea and reached for Allura's hand. "Oh shit Allura!" lance exclaimed as he inspected it. "Keith come look at this! It looks really bad!"
"Hey let me see! What's wrong with my hand?" Allura yelled as she tried to escape Lance's death grip.
Keith was out of his seat and next to the bed before Allura had even finished her yell. "Let me see that!"
As soon as Keith got close enough and took hold of Allura's hand, Lance put the rest of his plan into action. Lance grabbed Keith's arm and pulled with all his strength. Caught of balance, Keith let out a yelp and fell onto the bed.
Keith ended up between Lance and Allura, and after many attempts to escape he decided to give in. the bed was big but everyone was crushed onto it. Allura was sitting on top of himself and Hunk, which made some more room. Being this close to her was reminding him of dancing the night before, sending chills down his spine. "There I'm with you guys! Are you happy?" Keith said with his hands in the air.
"Yes!" the chorus rang out. Hunk even threw some popcorn. Soon enough popcorn was flying everywhere. After about an hour or so of talking, teasing, popcorn slinging, and even a little of movie watching they had all one by one fallen asleep.
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Keith woke up and noticed that Allura had moved. He soon found her curled up in a corner by a lamp reading a book. "What are you reading?" Keith said as he slowly squatted down beside her.
Allura looked up from the book to look into Keith's big brown eyes. "It's like one really long poem." Allura said as she offered Keith the book.
Keith studied it and then allowed a smile to creep across his lips as he handed it back to her. "That's Romeo and Juliet. It's a play by William Shakespeare. It was written a long time ago. You'll love it!"
"YOU know it?"
"Yes of coarse." Keith was silent for a while as he noticed a sound outside. "Is it raining?" he then got up before she could answer and walked over to the window. Keith soon turned around only to see Allura heading for the door. 'What now?' Keith thought and quickly took after the princess. Once outside Keith noticed that she was at the elevators. Luckily though he slipped in right before that doors closed. "What the hell are you doing?" Keith tried to yell as he regained his breath.
"I thought you'd follow me." Allura said in triumph. "I just want to go outside."
This rather shocked him. "What? Princess, it's raining!"
"Yea, I know. It'd be a little hard to play in the rain if it wasn't, wouldn't it?" at this the blue eyed princess just laughed. As the doors opened Allura grabbed Keith's hand and led him out into the dark, hard, rain. She then let go as she stretched her arms out. She threw her head back and arched her back as she let the cold rain pellets hit her body in a rhythmic motion. Trails of water were traveling down her neck over her collar bon and down her chest. She was truly shocked and was enjoying every moment of it. Allura then spun around feeling Keith's watchful gaze. It took her by surprise though when she felt him take her hands in his.
Keith was amazed at how she could look like a goddess even now. Her hair and dress were both plastered to her body, but to him she was gorgeous. Keith let go of her other hand and wrapped his hand around her waist. Every so often he would throw the princess out only to spin her back into his body. As time went by the rain started to come down harder. The curtain of rain was slowly engulfing both of their souls. As Allura was spinning back into Keith, she slipped and fell into Keith's body. He put his hands on her arms and straitened her, but he didn't let go. They stood there face to face close enough to touch noses. No words were shared as the two looked deep into each other's eyes. Keith watched the drops rolling down her face following every curve. One drop rested on the end of her nose until the wait of the others got to be too much and after much resistance the drop finally fell to the ground. As it fell Keith could see his own fears being acted out inside of it. The princess was always holding so much and would keep adding more. Keith feared that one if those times, like the raindrop, she would fall to the ground. She had expresses to him on many occasions how it was hard sometimes because everyone was relying on her and also expecting so much from her. Keith figured that, that had a lot to do with her break down at the club last night. All Keith could do was hope that when she did fall that he'd be there to catch her.
When Allura gasped Keith realized that he was still holding her. They both had a shocked look on their faces as they slowly resumed dancing. They did this for about an hour each on enjoying the presence of the rain and each other. Keith could faintly hear Allura's intoxicating laughter, but when he threw her body out again she did not return. The rain was too hard now for him to see anything. Her laughter stopped and her hand slipped from his. Alarm began to run through his body. "Allura!" he yelled right before he was grabbed form behind. He then felt to coldness of the cuffs on his wrists. When he yelled for the princess again it was met by her ear- shattering scream. Soon though Keith's world went black as he was struck form behind. His body sank to the ground and before he totally blacked out he saw that Allura's own body was lying limp on the ground next to him.
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Allura was lying on the floor when she finally woke up. She tried to rise up, but quickly decided against it as the back of her head rang out in pain. She laid there for a couple of minutes trying to regain her composure until she tried to sit up again. This time was easier although she still felt the pain. Allura tried to remember what had happened. She could remember dancing in the rain and how Keith made her body shiver when she would spin into his body and the look in his eyes. She had never seen them like that. She hoped that the love she saw in them wasn't just a figment of her imagination. Allura could remember the rain beating against her body, especially since her dress was still soaked. Allura's gaze then drifted to her hand as a memory of some one restraining her swept over her mind. Allura was shocked to find cuffs on her wrists. She then slowly stood up and looked all around her. In the corner the princess saw a crumpled body in red. Allura shrieked and ran over to the body.
"Keith!" Allura yelled as she pulled him onto his back. With light soothing touches, Allura touched Keith's face as she softly called him back to consciousness. Tears started to drip down her cheeks as she remembered looking into his eyes as the rain was pouring around them. "Oh what have I done?"
"Princess, are you okay?" a familiar voice said.
"Keith?" Allura looked down to see Keith staring at her. "Oh thank goodness your okay!" she then cupped his face with her cuffed hands and pressed her forehead to his.
"I see you two have finally woken." A voice said from behind.
Turning around Allura met Lotor's gaze. "I thought it would be you!" Keith said venomous as he tried to sit up.
Allura turned around and was shocked to see blood where Keith's head had been. "Keith you're bleeding!" she then looked at the back of Keith's head and sure enough there was blood coming from a gash. "Lotor this is all you fault! You'd better get him some help now!" Allura yelled at the blue man. Once he had left Allura once again turned to the wounded man. Her mind went back to the hotel room and how she had tricked Keith into going outside with her. "Oh Keith. I'm so sorry." She started to sob as she laid his head in her lap. "I'm not, and I sure hope tat your not also." Keith grabbed her hands in his and began to stroke them with his thumbs. "I'm going to be fine. Anyways being with you in the rain like that is worth it."
After a couple of minutes Lotor came back into the room. With him were a couple of guards and a man in ragged clothes. With a wave of Lotor's hand the guards came over and grabbed a kicking Allura and exited.
"Get to work! He better not die! He will be crucial for our victory!" Lotor said to the man as he turned and left. Once out side he locked the door and then turned his attention to a very upset princess.
"What are you up to Lotor!" Allura screamed.
Lotor just looked at her and laughed. "You'll know soon enough. Now if you will just follow me. We have a long ride home."
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"So you're a doctor?" Keith said to the man examining his wound.
The man stopped and walked around in front of him. "I used to be. Now I'm just a slave." He looked to be in his late 50s and very worn "You look like you'll live. It looks as if it only broke the skin. So I guess you're free to go." The doctor stopped and started to laugh. This confused Keith. "I used to love to say that, but no ones really free to go here are they?"
Keith could only nod at this. Soon after the guards came back into the room. Two grabbed Keith and two more grabbed the other man. After exiting the door they split directions. Keith was lead down a long hall to a door. One of the guards keyed in a code and the doors swished open effortlessly. With only one dim light in the room it was pretty dark. Once inside Keith saw Allura's body curled up into a ball against the wall.
Allura heard someone entering the room. She started to wipe the tears from her eyes as she slowly turned around. "Keith! It's you!" she then stood up and started walking towards him, but had to stop. She was shackled by her left ankle to the wall. So she just decided to stand and watch as the shackled Keith to the wall also. Once the guards left Allura walked over to him. "Are you okay?"
"Yea I'm fine." Keith asked as he started to sit down. "The doctor said that it just broke the skin."
Allura sat down beside him and rubbed her ankle. "That's good."
"Does your ankle hurt?" Keith said with a concerned look.
"Just a little."
"So I get the idea that were on a ship." Keith tried to change the subject.
"Yea and it's headed for planet Doom!"
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Hunk woke up later that night. With a yawn hunk stretched out to the limits as if he was trying to touch the sky. As he looked around the room he realized that two members of the force were missing. "Lance, Pidge! Wake up!"
"What is it?" Pidge said with a yawn.
"Do you know where Keith and the princess are?" he asked.
"No maybe we should go look for them." Lance said as he headed out the door.
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They had looked for the longest time, but saw no sign of the two. Lance was even calling Keith's communicator, but no one was answering.
"Guys I hate to say anything, but I'm starting to get a little worried." Pidge said once they were in the lobby.
"Maybe we should go look at Galaxy Garrison and on the way there we'll look in at the diners." Hunk suggested.
Lance thought for a while, but couldn't think of a better idea. "I guess your right, but I have a bed feeling." As they were walking out the door Lance decided to try Keith's communicator again. "Hey you guys, did you hear that?" Lance stopped as he heard something beeping.
"It's coming from over here!" hunk picked up a little white box with Arus' coat of arms on it. "Oh no!" Hunk showed it to the others.
"That's Keith's!" Pidge exclaimed.