Keith woke up, feeling very tired. Usually, he was never this tired in the mornings but today was different and he felt it. He lazily got out of bed where he was greeted by Shiro who was the only one in the team who could wake up at such a time as it was now 7:20 in the morning and Shiro had probably been awake since around 7:00.

" Morning Keith, how was your sleep? " Shiro asked from behind the kitchen counter. Keith felt really tired and his throat had started to hurt but that wasn't enough to let himself tell Shiro that. " I'm fine through my sleep could have been better..." Keith said with an awfully playful grimace. As Shiro was now looking at Keith, he noticed that Keith had grimaced and with that, he looked concerned...

" Keith are you sure it was only a lack of sleep or are you feeling fine? " Shiro asked with concerned eyebrows. " I'm fine Shiro you really don't have to worry, it's just a lack of sleep like I said so please stop worrying!" And with that Keith went out of the kitchen with a glass of juice and a sandwich looking thing that Coran or Hunk probably had made, even so, it tasted wonderful just like it should be.

When Keith had gotten his armor on, he left to the training deck to train with the others. He had always liked to do the training with the other paladins Lance, Pidge, Hunk, and Shiro. Then there was Allura and Coran who always would observe their training which was one thing Keith didn't always feel so comfortable with, but he always went with it. This morning when he entered he was greeted by everyone, but Shiro was looking at him with his dad face and he looked concerned.

" Shiro, I said I was fine now can you please let it go...!" Keith said in an angry whisper voice, so the others would know what's going on. " Keith, the way you acted this morning was just very off to me, but as long as you're fine then I'm fine with it too," Shiro said. "Well that's good," Keith thought to himself.

" Listen up everyone, today we are doing a teamwork exercise and I want all of you to do your best, even if you didn't sleep well or you don't feel like it." As Shiro was talking he was looking at Keith the whole time as if he was talking specifically to him. It made Keith feel uncomfortable and he had to break eye contact with Shiro after just a few seconds.

The training started off with the castle robots, fighting them as usual and then Allura would send in the drones, so today's training was like usual. The only thing Keith felt was off was himself... He couldn't really point out what exactly was feeling off but he could tell he had a sore throat and a headache.

After training, Keith went to his room to take a nap but he didn't tell the others, because he thought they would think something is wrong with him. Keith thought to himself as he was walking to his room why he was so tired when this never had happened before. Keith reached his room way to fast but he was glad that he could now take a nap, and if the others needed him he could just get up.

" Hey, where did Mullet go? " Lance asked as he walked into the lounge where the rest of the paladins were sitting and resting. " Haven't seen him since training actually..." Shiro said with a concerned voice. As Shiro was thinking about it, Keith has been weird the whole morning, and today's training he was the one who couldn't properly focus. " Allura can you tell Keith to get here?" Shiro asked Allura as he was sitting down next to Pidge, on the sofa. " Sure thing Shiro, I need to go to the control room anyway so I will do that on my way!" Allura said happily as she went off towards the control room. " Keith, Shiro needs you in the lounge right now, so whatever you're doing has to wait for later" Allura said over the intercom.

Keith woke up from his nap and directly felt his sore throat and headache had gotten worse. That didn't stop him from getting to the lounge where Shiro apparently needed him. Keith got up from his bed and felt the floor starting to spin, so he sat down on the bed again, grabbing the water glass next to his bed. He felt a little bit better when he something to drink but he still felt weird. Keith who wasn't the kind of person that would admit he was sick, just brushed it off and started walking to the lounge.

When he got to the lounge, Shiro looked at him and saw that something was off with Keith. With that Shiro got up from the sofa, picked up Keith like he was a baby and sat him down on the sofa in between Pidge and Lance, who by the way we're looking at Shiro like he had gone crazy. " What the fuck Shiro!" Keith was mad that Shiro just had done that in front of the others and Keith knew exactly what Shiro was going to say at this moment but he didn't want to hear it, so he just ran out of the lounge with no warning and started running to the lions. " Guys, the reason I wanted Keith here is not so I could do that. Please understand that I know something you don't and I just wanted him to confess it in front of everyone..." Shiro said, looking down at his feet. " What do you know about Mullet that we don't...?" Lance said, looking very skeptical. He knew Keith had secrets but not that kind of secret that only Shiro would know, kind of secrets. " I think Keith is sick, but he is hiding it from everyone and it really concerns me, thinking what he's gonna do when it's too late to ask for help..." Shiro said. Everyone was now looking as skeptical as Lance had been a few moments ago. " Poor Keith but what are we going to do?" Hunk asked everyone. As far as Hunk knew it, Keith wouldn't be that easy of a target to confess. " All we can do is find him for now, so everyone has to look for him, got it?" Everyone nodded and went searching for the stubborn red paladin.

Keith was walking in the direction to Reds hangar when he heard the others. He was sure Shiro had told the others what he suspected and now everyone was chasing him down to see so he really was fine. " Why do I have to be a target...!" Keith thought to himself. He sprinted the rest of the way to Reds hangar and when he got there, he was so out of breath he hardly could breathe. " Red, let me inside will you? The others are after me and I don't want to deal with them right now, so please let me in..." Keith was breathing hard as he asked Red to open up, but as Red knew that Keith wasn't feeling okay, she wouldn't let him in. " Hey Red, can I please come in. I really don't want to deal with the others right now and I trust that you can keep me safe from their presence." Keith said a bit rougher, but still having a pleading sound in his voice. Red considered the facts and let Keith come in. When Keith entered he sat down on the chair and dozed off to sleep.

" Where could that stupid Mullet head have gone too!" Lance thought to himself as he was frantically looking for Keith in the thousands of rooms the castle had. Then Lance stopped as he remembered something. " Ugh, how can I have not thought of that!" Lance called on the others over the intercom, to come to Red's hangar as he quickly went there himself. A few minutes later, everyone had gathered in front of the Red lion, and everyone knew why Keith had gone here and not to his room. " So Red, we know that Keith is in there, we also know he isn't feeling well so can you let us take care of him?" Hunk said with an angel voice. Red purred but didn't open up as she promised Keith that she wouldn't do that. " Hey Red, our teammate is sick and needs our help. Can you now let us TAKE CARE OF HIM!" The last words, Lance said very clear and loud but Red still wouldn't open up. " Come on Red, we have to at least check so he is ok..." Pidge was now pleading the lion to open up, but Red had other plans. " Red if you don't open up now and let us take care of Keith he might die!" Lance was screaming at the lion, which he knew wouldn't help but he just couldn't stand this anymore.

Just as they were all arguing with each other when Allura came into the hangar to see what all the commotion was about. " Paladins please stop this arguing. What are you even arguing about?" Allura asked as they looked at her with teary eyes. Allura who had never seen such an act before from the paladins got quite shocked as she now knew this was where she had to step in and do something. " First of all, tell me what has happened and why you are standing in front of the Red lion," Allura said calmly after she had calmed down herself from their shocked facial expressions. " Keith is maybe sick, and he is in the Red lion who won't let us help him!" Pidge said as she was now almost crying of horror. " Well good for you, I can help you out with this one," Allura said as she walked over to the Red lion and pressed her hands on its front leg. The rest of the paladins were very confused about what was happening when they finally noticed that Allura was communicating with Red, to let the paladins in and check on him.

A few moments later Red opened her robotic jaw and Shiro who was the closest to the lion, sprinted in without a warning or anything. The others of course followed but not as fast as Shiro had and when they reached the piloting area they were all shocked. " Keith! What happened to you!?" Shiro was hovering over an unconscious red paladin and stressing a lot about what he had to do. " Can someone go get Coran!?" Shiro said, sounding very worried. " I'm on it!" Lance said as he was standing the closest to the exit of the lion. Lance had probably never sprinted this fast before but once he got out of the lion he practically attacked Coran with words and it made Coran very confused. " Lance my boy, I can not understand what you are saying so please slow it down!" Coran said with a worried voice, and his hand was on Lance's shoulders. " Keith is unconscious in the piloting area in the Red lion!" Lance was so stressed, he was using such a high pitched voice it was almost impossible for Coran, to understand him. But thankfully he did and he ran off to get something to carry the red paladin on, to the infirmary.

Coran came back rolling a stretcher and walked really fast, that he almost tripped on the wheels of the stretcher. When he reached the Red lion he left the stretcher outside and ran to check on the Red paladin. " Guys move a bit you, I have to check so he is breathing correctly!" Coran said shoving everyone out of the way, as he bent down to feel the red paladins pulse. "Thank goodness, he is breathing..." Coran thought to himself as he told Shiro to lift Keith out of the red lion and on to the stretcher that was outside. A few moments later Coran had strapped Keith on the stretcher and they were now making their way to the infirmary to see what was wrong with Keith. Once in the infirmary, Keith was placed on one of the beds where Coran hooked him up to a heart monitor and gave him an IV in his hand. " It seems he has an infection that is located in his throat and to the looks of it that's what made him pass out," Coran said as he was using all sorts of scanners on Keith. " I knew he was sick, and I warned him about this even!" Shiro said, looking at Keith from the chair he was sitting on next to the bed. " All of you should go to sleep and I promise you I will keep you updated about Keith when you need it," Coran told all the paladins, as he was practically shoving them out of the room. Shiro somehow didn't move an inch so Coran finally gave up on trying to get him out, as it seemed he didn't want to. " He will be asleep for at least a varga so I would recommend you to sleep as well, Shiro," Coran said as he was looking at Shiro. " Fine, but anything that happens you tell me first before you tell the others ok?" And with that Shiro walked out of the infirmary and to his bed, where he drifted off to sleep and unpleasant nightmares.

One Varga or so later Keith had woke up from his unconsciousness, as he noticed he wasn't in Red anymore he freaked out a bit. " Why am I in the infirmary and a better question is, why am I hooked up to this?" Keith thought to himself as he horrifyingly looked up to see the heart monitor and the IV in his hand. He hated hospitals back on earth so being in space with 10,000-year-old equipment felt even more terrifying for him. He sat up, pulled out the IV and the heart monitor clip on his finger, then he got out of bed and rushed to his room. Once in his room he went to his bed and fell asleep, and he didn't even think of locking the door.

" KEITH IS GONE!?" Coran was the first one to react, but Shiro knew this would happen but he sprinted to the infirmary just to double-check. Keith wasn't there, just as he expected so Shiro ran to the Red lion to see if he was in there again wich to Shiro's surprise, Keith wasn't there. Then he ran to the Keiths room where Coran was already standing, ready to open the door and burst in. " Coran, wait!" Coran looked up and saw the black paladin move closer to him, quietly but swiftly. " Let me go in first..." Shiro said, opening the door as quiet as possible. Once he got into the red paladin's room he noticed he was asleep, safe and sound. " What are you going to do Shiro?" Coran whispered from outside the room. Shit... Shiro hadn't gotten that far in his plan... His plan was to lift Keith back to the infirmary, but now when he thought about it, it would work because he would wake up. " Just let me fix it, but stand there if I would need your help," Shiro whispered to Coran, under his breath.

Because Shiro didn't have time to think through a plan, he did what he thought would be the smartest thing to do in the situation he was in. As he approached Keith he gently lifted him up into his arms and carried him back to the infirmary." A few meters left to the infirmary door." Shiro thought, but just as he thought this Keith had started to move around in his arms, almost making Shiro drop him. " LET GO!" Keith was screaming lots of stuff and he was trying to get Shiro to let go of him. Shiro, on the other hand, didn't do that, he only ran into the infirmary and place down Keith into the bed. Keith was wiggling so, much Shiro had to pin Keith down onto the bed as he noticed Coran was holding something in his hand. A sedative... " Hold his arm still for me Shiro!" Coran told him as he took Keith's arm tightly and help it as still as possible.

" Let go of me!" Keith was screaming even more, as he felt the needle pierce through his skin. Once it was done Keith started to feel tired and not long after that he fell asleep. " Maybe I should have planned this a bit more efficiently..." Shiro said, looking at a peacefully sleeping Keith. "It's not your fault Shiro, remember that," Coran said and placed down the empty syringe on the desk next to him. Shiro was sure that Keith would do this again so thought the safest thing would be to restrain Keith so that when he wakes up he doesn't run off again. " Hey Coran, I'm sure Keith is going to run off again as soon as he wakes up again, so can we restrain him?" Coran looked at Shiro with big eyes, maybe because he never expected someone so close to Keith say that. " Ehh... Sure thing Shiro, but are you really sure about this?" Coran said as he walked off to get the restraints. Shiro was super sure about it and if Coran would not do it then he would have to do it himself. Coran came back to Keith with not only the restraints but also a new IV drip and the heart monitor clip. Coran clipped the heart monitor clip to Keith's finger and put in the IV on his hand. " There that should do it..." Coran said, looking at Keith where he was sleeping. " Hey Shiro, you have to rest now, I will take care of Keith until he wakes up ok." Shiro thought that sounded good, so he went out of the infirmary and went to bed, knowing Keith would be safe from now on.

A few doboshes later Keith woke up again, and of course, he was in the infirmary just like last time he woke up. " Why do I always have to wake up here!" Keith thought to himself as he looked around the room to see if anybody was around. As he was looking around he noticed Coran sleeping on a chair a few meters away and he also noticed, that he had a new IV drip as well as a heart monitor on his finger. Then he noticed the restraints holding his arms and legs in place. He felt awful for causing trouble but was the restraints really necessary?

" Hey Coran, why did you restrain me to the bed! It's not like I'm going to leave a second time!" Keith shouted to Coran as he jolted up from the chair and ran over to Keith's bed. " Sorry Keith, but Shiro told me it was a good thing to put on you after the way you were acting. He also told me not to take them off before HE gives me permission..." Coran said, trying not to look at Keith who was very furious at this moment. " Get Shiro here right this minute or I swear I will get out of this bed somehow...!" Keith said with his voice under his breath. Coran ran off to get Shiro which took a longer time than he expected but that was probably because Coran was telling him what happened. A few moments later Shiro walked through the door with a face of " Why did you do that? " face. " Shiro, even if I was sick and fainted that doesn't change the fact that you ordered Coran to restrain me to the bed..." Keith said angrily. He was so pissed at Shiro right now he didn't even care to listen what he had to say. " Keith, all of us were worried okay so don't ever try to hide the fact that you are sick again because you needed help and then it became too late," Shiro said. " And I ordered Coran to restrain you to the bed because you were wiggling too much when he was going to give you the sedative..." Shiro added. Keith was shocked to hear this and then got more pissed at the situation. " I have to let the others know that you are awake and feeling fine, now stay here," Shiro told Keith as Keith couldn't move so much as an inch he just gave Shiro a dead blank stare when he walked out of the infirmary. He could not let the others see him like this...

2 doboshes later Shiro came back, but he didn't come alone. Shiro had everyone with him and as soon as they were all in front of his bed, Lance was the first one to speak. " Keith you can't possibly know how much you got us worried!" Well, Keith didn't really care about what they had to say to him at that moment. All he wanted was for them not to see that he was restrained to the bed like some kind of toy prisoner.

" Guys I know you all care for me and such, and I'm sorry if I got you all worried but I'm fine now ok. And if you don't, believe me, I don't give a shit." Keith said and looked down at the blanket, as he didn't want the others to suspect him. Hunk went over to hug him but as Keith was restrained to the bed he couldn't hug back and he was worried they would suspect something, but Hunk just gave him a quick hug and then they all left. After a few doboshes Lance came back, leaving Keith confused. " Hey man, I was just wondering why your hug with Hunk was so off..." Lance asked. " Really Lance, you came back here to ask that kind of question?!" Keith told Lance to go, but he wouldn't. Then Lance dragged off his blanket, without a warning and leaving him speechless. " Lance, please can you not tell the others it's actually really embarrassing..." Keith pleaded to Lance not to tell the others but he was already out the door. " Great..." Keith thought.

Keith was the center attention when Lance came back with everyone so they could see it for themselves. " Lance you asshole, I told you not to tell anybody but now I'm guessing everyone wants to know how I ended up like this?" Keith asked everyone and all the paladins nodded, Lance seeming very interested which Keith thought was unusual due to the fact that they actually hated each other. " Well yeah, you can ask Shiro about it, because it was his idea and he isn't letting me go," Keith said, glaring at Shiro. Everyone heads turned to Shiro and he just gave out a loud sigh. " Keith woke up and he pulled out his IV and heart monitor, then he left to his room and fell asleep. Then he had a fit when I was trying to carry him back to the infirmary, so I felt the smarted thing was to sedate him and restrain him so he could escape again when he woke up." Shiro said having all eyes back on Keith just like he was some kind of toy prisoner. " Can you just go guys, I don't like this situation and I think Coran had to do something later to me and I don't want you guys to be a part of that..." Keith said looking at everyone in the eyes. When later they had said their goodbyes and Keith was finally free from being the center attention. " As soon as Shiro lets me free from these restraints, I will go to Cuban boy and kick his ass..." Keith thought happily to himself as Shiro came in and walked to Keith's bed. " Keith I will set you free from the restraints now, but you have to stay here until Coran has checked you out properly ok," Shiro said with dad's voice. As soon as he knew Shiro or Coran were not in the room anymore he would escape.

Coran came by to tell Keith what kinds of tests he would do on Keith before he was cleared out of the infirmary, but of course, Coran mentioned the word "injection" and that triggered Keith because he didn't like needles at all. The IV that Coran was taking out of his hand was a small needle, and that was enough for him to feel disgusted so having a bigger needle in his arm didn't feel so pleasant. Coran let Keith go to the bathroom to wash up, and then they went to the kitchen where Hunk was standing cooking something. " Hey, Keith... How are you feeling?" Hunk asked. Keith had a sore throat but otherwise, he was actually feeling decent. " I'm fine Hunk, I only have a sore throat but that's probably because of the infection..." Keith answered Hunk. "It's great that you are feeling ok again, and by the way, there is some kind of ice cream in the fridge if you are feeling like it." Hunk said gently to Keith. Keith opened the fridge and took out some kind of ice cream which by the way tasted wonderful and felt really nice for his sore throat. " Come on now Keith, let's go do the thing we had to do," Coran told Keith giving him a wink, as he started walking back to the infirmary with Keith in his heels. " Um, actually Coran I just have to run to the bathroom quickly but I will meet you in the infirmary on 5 doboshes," Keith said as he quickly ran off to his room and leaving Coran with no time to say anything. As soon as Keith got to his room he locked the door and went to the bathroom. He didn't want to have an injection even if he had to, but he needed more time to think about it because he wasn't sure what he was doing. Keith stayed in the bathroom for a few more doboshes until he heard someone knock. He knew it could be either Coran or Shiro but he went to unlock the door so they wouldn't suspect anything from him. " Keith you have been in your room for about half a varga. Are you ok?" It was Coran who asked and he was probably suspecting something but Keith just pretended that he didn't know what Coran was talking about. " I'm fine Coran, I just need some time to walk around alone if that's fine..." Keith said to Coran. It was obviously a lie but he really hated needles and was not planning on getting an injection quite yet. " Yes, of course, Keith my boy, that is fine but I would like you to be in the infirmary in at least a varga or so," Coran told Keith. Keith went out of his room and went outside to a place where only he and Shiro knew where it was in the castle.

" You told him to meet you in a varga and he still hasn't shown up?" Shiro said. He knew Keith hated hospitals and needles but when it came to his health he should've known Keith wouldn't show up. " Coran, stay in the infirmary. I will bring Keith there somehow even if I have to ask the other for help to track him down... Again..." Shiro said. Coran nodded and because Shiro already knew that Keith wasn't going to help out on this one he was going to ask for backup. Shiro entered the lounge area a few ticks later and to his surprise, they already knew what had happened, thanks to Coran. " Ok everyone, let the search begin... Again..." Shiro said sarcastically and everyone went off to different directions. Shiro checked Keith's room and the lions and found nothing. Pidge checked the kitchen and the dining hall and found absolutely nothing. Hunk went to check the control room, the bridge, and the tv room but only found the mice snoozing on the couch. Lance checked everyone's bedrooms, the bathrooms and even the bottom floor of the castle but found nothing as well. After many hours of searching, they gathered in the lounge and were all very tired. " Did anyone check outside?!" Shiro suddenly asked the other paladins. Everyone shook their heads and in response to that Shiro bolted off with everyone else confused but they ran after him as well. When Shiro got outside he went straight to where he thought Keith was. When Shiro reached the bush he immediately saw Keith who had seen him as well as the other paladins too. Keith didn't want to deal with this right now so he quickly got up and out from the bush and started running inside the castle again. " After him!" Lance started running after Keith but lost him after he had rounded a corner inside the castle. " How are we supposed to catch him if he doesn't want to be caught?" Hunk asked with a worried voice. Hunk knew that Keith was scared of needles ever since that time at the garrison when they had to have an injection and Keith had run off to somewhere and yeah pretty much the same thing was happening again.

A varga later and the paladins still hadn't figured out how they would catch Keith or where he was. Just as they were discussing, Allura entered the lounge looking proud. " I know where he is and if you're smart you corner him and knock him out so he can't escape again." She said with a grin, as she also held up a sedative. Everyone were shocked that Allura had this kind of mastermind plan but it was his own fault for being so stubborn, so here were the consequences. They all went after Allura down to the basement and stopped outside a room where none of the paladins had been before. " He is in there to the right." She told everyone the plan which was as simple as going in there and give him the sedative, but two people had to stand outside in case he escapes. Hunk and Shiro would stand outside and guard and Lance got to hold the sedative. They quietly went inside the room where Keith had noticed he had been found. " Guys I'm warning you, don't come any closer!" Keith was terrified when Lance, who was holding the syringe in his hand and Pidge was walking towards him, cornering him. Keith made a run for it but as Lance was expecting this he brought the needle towards Keith's arm and pushed in the sedative.

" I hate you guys so fucking much..." Keith said, dropping to his knees and falling asleep slowly. " Guys it's done now, he is fast asleep so Hunk can you carry him to the infirmary?" Pidge asked sticking out her head from the room. Hunk went into the room and picked up his unconscious teammate from the floor. They went up to the infirmary and Hunk placed Keith on the bed he was on just this morning. " Now who wants the honors of restraining him?" Coran asked the paladins.

Doboshes went by and finally, Keith was regaining consciousness. He opened his eyes who were met by all the paladins, the princess, and Coran who were all standing on the edge of the bed waiting for him to say something probably. " First of all why am I restrained again?! And second of all FUCK YOU GUYS! That's what came out of Keith's mouth and nobody was surprised. " Keith, you have to get it done and as punishment for being such a baby, we all decided that we would sedate you, restrain you and have everyone see you take this stupid injection you're so scared about," Shiro said. " Why was that necessary though, you could have just done it some other way than through sedating me..." Keith said grumpily. He really hated this situation and especially because now everyone had to see him get the injection which was just torture but he just had to deal with it. " I have another question for everyone..." Keith looked up at everyone and asked, " Who of you restrained me? " Lance quickly looked away even though Keith already guess it was Lance who got to do the honors... " You tightened it too hard around my wrists dumbass..." Keith said to Lance who stared at him like he was totally crazy. " You are aware that I am not stupid and I know that trick from anywhere. Keith, I will not loosen the restrains just because I know you will escape then." Lance said and with that said Keith just groaned. " Now Keith, if it really is that hard for you with this why not just look away until I'm done," Coran said.

Keith looked away and felt a slight sting in his arm and then it was done. He felt really embarrassed when everyone was looking at him like that but now it was done and he never had to deal with this again. Shiro let Keith go from the restraints and because Keith was kind of pissed at everyone he just said thank you and left the infirmary. " Hopefully we can earn his trust again..." Shiro said with a worried voice. Lance who loved teasing Keith had picked up an empty syringe and hid it behind his back as he backed out of the infirmary. He got Pidge to come with him and together they pranked Keith, where they got him good. " Hello Keith, we are here to give you a sedative to help you sleep tonight," Lance said as Pidge was laughing behind him. " Um, Lance... I don't need a sedative and especially not from you or Pidge so you can leave now." Keith said as he was now standing up and ready to make a run for it when he noticed Pidge was blocking the door. " Oh, you are not going anywhere Keith, because you are now our patient..." Lance said as he was walking closer to Keith with the injection ready in hand. " Oh no..." Keith thought.

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