This is the most awkward thing I've ever written. Luckily, none of you know me in real life. Hopefully.
I shall take this to my grave.
"Matt? Are you alright?" Commander Shirogane asked, inching forward to put a hand on the said man's shoulder.
A strange voice came from Uncle Matt's throat, creeping out from behind his hand.
Commander Shirogane's nose wrinkled, and he began to look concerned. "Matt…?"
Before he could say anything else, Uncle Matt tossed back his head and a strange, gurgling noise burst from his throat.
It took Laura a moment to identify this noise as laughter. She had only done it herself twice before - in her entire life - and hadn't known what it was called until Shon did it. He had been perplexed to her curiousness on the situation, but quickly explained it with glee, laughing the whole way through to illustrate his point.
Uncle Matt's laughter sounded different from Shon's - more outright, more loud, and his facial expression was a sideways smirk.
Laura almost covered her ears when she heard the loud vibrations coming from her Uncle's ears, but everyone else in the room seemed more restrained, not even flinching.
"Matt, what is it?" Shiro asked, tentatively reaching out a hand.
"Oh my Quiznak!" Matt giggled, shaking.
"Um…" Veronica shared a glance with the other bridge workers, all of them froze until Matt waved them off.
"May…may I - giggle - have a word with the - a snort - Commander?"
The bridge workers filed out, exchanging looks with Commander Shirogane.
When Laura stood to hurriedly leave, Matt motioned for her to stay.
"So…" Commander Shirogane began after the door closed behind the last person. "…what's up?"
"First of all, Laura, after I'm done talking to my father, you are going to be in big trouble for running away." Matt scolded, frowning at his niece, though there was a slight humorous look in his eye.
Every half minute or so, he hiccuped, humor still painted on his face.
Commander Shirogane looked a bit confused by Matt's words, but he didn't comment.
"Alright. This is going to be the most awkward thing I've every done. Even more awkward then anything any of the people I know have done. Except for maaaaaaaybe the Voltron Show."
Commander Shirogane groaned, loud and hard for at least sixty seconds, in which Matt hiccuped twice, and had to stop himself from laughing three times.
"Alright. What's this awkward thing?" Commander Shirogane asked, his face betraying the fact that he was suspecting what it was.
"Here it is." Matt took a long, deep breath, before spiting it out. "Laura, Shiro. Shiro, Laura."
"…"
"…"
"…"
"That was 'awkward'?" Laura sniffed, while Commander Shirogane buried his face in his hands.
"Matt… you can't be telling me…"
"Told you this was awkward."
"What? What's going on?" Laura blinked, curious.
"Maybe…" Commander Shirogane sighed through his nose, staring at her, his face expressionless. "Laura, come with me."
Before she could react, he wisked her away, leading her through the throngs of people.
Before she knew it, he had left all those people behind and was bringing her to a deserted room marked Planetarium.
"Okay, this is weird." Laura mumbled, glancing over at Commander Shirogane as he sat down, still looking a bit…strange, from a lack of a better word.
Commander Shirogane patted the ground next to him, sighing gently as Laura obeyed, still puzzled as she blinked at the commander.
What in the world had he and Uncle Matt been talking about?
"Listen." Commander Shirogane sighed, closing his eyes. "Do you know your last name? Anything about your parents?"
"No…" Was she finally going to get answers?
"Laura Kelly Shirogane." Commander Shirogane blurted out, squeezing his eyes shut. "That's your name. Laura Kelly Shirogane."
Laura took a moment to process that information, before her eyes widened. "You're my-?"