A/N: Takes place soon after the beginning of season seven.

"Guys, wake up!"

Pidge squawked and sat bolt upright. She squinted blearily across Green's cluttered hold. The only living things in the room besides her was her puffballs staring at her and, last time she checked, they couldn't talk.

"Aw, Hunk, what is it?" Lance's sleepy voice asked, reminding Pidge of the intercoms in each lion.

"Keith didn't wake us up," Hunk answered, also over the intercom.

There was a brief silence, then Allura spoke up. "So, you chose to?"

"Keith always wakes us up, two vargas ago!"

That caught Pidge's attention. She turned her eyes to her makeshift clock, and saw it was roughly eight in the morning.

"Maybe he's letting us sleep in?" Lance said, voice muffled like he had his face in his pillow.

"He wouldn't," Shiro said.

Groans of agreement sounded over the comms. Pidge slid out of bed and ran to the cockpit. Green rumbled to her, sounding unconcerned, as Pidge climbed into her seat.

On the console, views of Yellow and Red's cockpits. Hunk, with Kaltenecker's head hanging over one shoulder and the mice on the other, was wide-eyed. Lance stumbled for his seat, with Shiro worriedly eyeing him as he bumped through the cockpit to sit. After a moment, Blue's cockpit joined, where Coran and Romelle stood behind Allura. Black's didn't appear, but the Black Lion was still flying steadily ahead of the group.

"The lions aren't acting like anything is wrong," Pidge reported. "And Black is right there."

"Keith?" Shiro said. He leaned closer to the console and frowned. "Huh. No response. Pidge, can you open a link to Black's cockpit?"

"You don't think anything happened, do you?" Pidge asked, worried.

"I doubt it. Maybe he did just sleep in."

"Him and Krolia?" Lance asked drily. "Those two take too much pleasure in waking us up to sleep in."

The team mumbled in agreement at that. For all they knew, this was another training situation to see how the team would respond to being cut off from Keith.

Pidge started to type, when a view of inside Black opened up without her doing anything. Pidge frowned. Keith and Krolia were out of sight, and the angle of the camera was wrong.

"What is it coming from?" Shiro asked, having noticed the angle as well.

A furry face popped into view, startling the paladins before they recognized it to be Keith's space wolf.

"Hey, where's Keith?" Pidge tried asking the wolf.

"Pidge, you do realize that he can't talk, right?" Lance teased.

The wolf sniffed the camera, then lifted a paw and smacked it. The view spun wildly, then jarred to a stop. The view was then upside-down and rocked slowly.

"I think it's Keith's helmet," Allura realized.

"That's how he can tell us!" Hunk exclaimed. "If he can carry the helmet to wherever Keith is, we can see what is wrong!"

Before anyone could try to get the wolf to understand what they wanted, the wolf sniffed around the camera, then moved out of sight. After a moment, the camera was suddenly lifted and moved forward.

"Ugh, I can't look," Hunk moaned as the camera swung back and forth with the wolf's steps.

After a few ticks, the view swung wildly, then settled down to give an aerial perspective. The team blinked as the view became clear.

Keith was curled up against Krolia's chest. His arms were wrapped around her middle, and his face was tucked into her shoulder.

But that wasn't what had them staring.

Everyone knew that Keith kolaed. While he hadn't done it since returning to be the black paladin, Lance held photo proof. Thanks to Regris, the team knew that it was just a Galra thing that they did for comfort.

But that didn't mean that seeing Keith get kolaed back was any less surprising.

Krolia had her eyes closed and appeared more relaxed than the team thought possible for the edgy Galra. She had her body spooned around Keith's, with their legs twined together. Her face was turned downward into Keith hair.

Unsurprisingly, it was Lance who broke the silence with his dying-engine squeal sound. Half the team automatically shushed him.

"Just look at them!" Lance went on anyway. There was the unmistakable click of a camera.

"You're going to wake them up!" Hunk said nervously.

"We've been yelling at them for the last five doboshes," Allura pointed out.

"Yeah, if anything was going to wake them up-" Pidge stopped as Krolia's eyes suddenly opened.

"Oh, quiz-" was all Pidge heard from Lance before she slapped off the audio.

Pidge held her breath as Krolia blinked, even though she knew it didn't matter.

Krolia blinked a couple times before her she gave what appeared to be a massive sigh, fluttering Keith's hair with her breath. She shifted a bit and raised a hand to Keith's face. She gently brushed his hair aside and her mouth moved silently.

Keith's face clenched and he squirmed closer to Krolia, before she nudged him away. She reached down to tip Keith's head up. Keith slowly opened his eyes with a heavy frown.

Krolia appeared to chuckle as she loosened herself and sat up on her elbow. Keith shook his head and blinked hard a couple times before turning his sleepy face up.

In an instant, Keith's expression turned to alarm. Krolia quickly looked up, and Pidge realized they were staring right at the camera.

Krolia's arm flashed up. The view swung, then went black.

Pidge stared at the black screen, then slowly turned on the com to the Red Lion.

"Tell me that you were recording that," Pidge said.

Lance smirked. "Sending it now."