(A/N I do not own Voltron legendary defender or the Percy Jackson universe or any of the characters. I do not claim to.

This chapter is told from Noah's, Lance's, Pidge's and Sofia's perspective, because I suck at third person. It starts with Sofia and a perspective change is indicated by this ~~~ and the persons name. Noah's perspective is a flashback.

Keith is a son of hades as is his sister. This is the only way they are related. Season 7 hasn't happened because I don't like talking about it but the castle of lions isn't destroyed, it is still a thing. Keith is still half galra. Don't ask me how it works.

Sofia thinks of Keith and Nico as her full blooded brothers, they are not. Sofia's mother owned a morgue. Her name is Anaya. She died in the second giant war. This is 21 years after. Sofia was mostly raised by Chiron.

This chapter is mostly dialogue, I'm sorry if Keith is out of character, this is my first time writing him.)

FINALLY KLANCE. AFTER TWO CHAPTERS WE FINALLY GET SOME KLANCE. This chapter was so fun to write. I hope you think it's fun to read.

Chapter 3: Death is a small step away.

~~~Sofia~~~

I am really not in the mood for this. I'm a ghost. Again, one of my many ability as a daughter of hades. I can temporarily sit on the thin fucking line between life and death. So fucking thin, the first time this happened was when Noah broke up with me. He was being charmspeaked by Kaia Bridlington, daughter of Aphrodite. I hate that bitch. Like with a fucking passion. I freaked, turned into a shadow. I call it shadow being, creative I know. All I can do is feel love, be more human (cliche I know). I need to find Keith, I look around the empty hallway and try and remember which way he went. I head off in the direction he went in. I become more solid, at least I cast a shadow now albeit a small one, I can feel my chest tightening. Fuck, this can't happen; not now. I feel my head hurting, as I fall backwards onto Lance.

~~~Noah~~~

She's killing herself, sparring relentlessly, eating barely anything, staying up all night. It breaks my heart to see her, she used to be beautiful. Now she's regal, her cheeks are hollowed out and her eyes look like a hole in a marsh, swallowing anything. Her face is in a permanent look of surprise, if I ever see Keith again I swear to the gods I'm gonna slap him. The only time she seems her old self was with me. So I was with her often, for several hours a day. I needed to, otherwise she'd lose herself.

Apollo said she was suffering from depression and he couldn't do anything but she needed to be with people she knew well. Hazel visited once, it was to try and convince her to eat, sleep. It worked, temporarily. The Aphrodite kid, Kaia was a bitch and told me to let her go and turn my attention to better things. Of course she can charmspeak, i ended up breaking up with her like an absolute she got better, she got a sparkle back in her eyes although it was a sad one, she regained her posture, she ate, slept and trained. Apollo credited it to me being by her side all the time. I abandoned her, I felt terrible but charmspeak is a hell of a convincer. I ended up dating Kaia for two days before I broke free of the charmspeak. Chiron made Kaia stop and put her in stable duty for a month for: "endangering another camper for your own selfish desires." The same day I felt we needed to talk and we did. I felt like a dick for leaving her. She told me that I did her a favour, that when I left she felt she needed to look in the mirror. She saw herself, she told me she saw Keith.

I asked her dad and then the next day I proposed to her. After all she's been through she deserved at least something good. So did I the universe said and she accepted. I swear she wasn't going to accept it. But she did and that was probably the best day in my entire life. I wake up 2 months later, she's gone...

Without anything; a note, a message she didn't even take anything with her.

~~~Sofia~~~

"Sofia, Sofia!" Someone's shaking my shoulders, I ignore them obviously. I feel like I've just been through Tartarus, not like I would know what that's like I'm just sleepy. Someone's hand comes in front of my face.

"She's alive," They say, "Keith stop panicking, she's breathing. I have a few questions."

"Am I a fucking encyclopaedia now?"

"No, shut up. They're about Piper."

"Piper McLean?" I can feel the person whose lap my head is in nodding, "How the fuck did you find out about her?"

"She," they point at me, "told me."

"No way she fucking did."

"Yeah she fucking did."

"So," I hear a deep breath, "what are they?"

"What happened to her?"

"Well, first I'd have to explain what happened to her boyfriend."

"Ok, what happened to Jason?"

"You know his name?"

"She told me."

"Heh, she never told anything to Kanary and that involves her dad."

"Kanary?"

"A daughter of Apollo. Basically Apollo got punished for the giant war for some reason. He got turned into a mortal by his dad, he had to recover 5 oracles blah blah blah. The third oracle, he took Jason and Piper with him. Well they insisted on going, Jason fought off Caligula whilst Meg, Piper and Apollo escaped on tempest, a horse. He died fighting. How? No one ever told me they always ended up tearing up. Sofia knows, she just likes knowing something I don't. Piper was devastated she ended up traveling the entire US to try and find and help anyone that was affected by any of the wars. She took Sofia as her first project, her mom died during the second giant war and monsters were going crazy. She ended up being Sofia's mom. Then when she was five Piper died, she was trying to save some demigods I think, and there were a few monsters. They all wanted a shot at one of the seven. She ended up pushing Noah and Kaia out of the way of a monster. They didn't even find a body. Noah and Kaia ran and got to camp a few weeks later, told Chiron what happened and then Sofia wouldn't eat, sleep and just kept training. I don't know exactly I wasn't there. But we've both had hard lives. But hers is absolute shit. At least my mom's alive and I'm with the person I love- I mean like a brother not actually romantically. Shit I can't talk today."

I lazily open one eye to see Lance put his hand on Keith's shoulder. Then open his arms for a hug, Keith obliged. DUUUDDDE NO ONE TOLD ME KEITH HAD A BOYFRIEND? They're so cute together! I smile, I mean they've barely been out here 3 years. It took me at least 6 to get Keith to hug me; and I'm his bloody sister!

"Keith..." I whisper

"Sofia! You're awake." Keith hastily pulls out of the hug.

I laugh, "don't let me stop you, just get a room."

"WHA- NO EWW NO. LANCE? NO NO NO NO NO NO."

"ME AND MULLET HERE. NUHUH IM NOT BI- GAY. I'M AS STRAIGHT AS A RULER. NOPE NOPE. AND EVEN IF I WAS GAY I'D HAVE FUCKING STANDARDS."

Keith stands up, says "She's back to her normal self,"and runs off. I sit up and stare Lance straight in the eye.

"Some rulers are bendy." I whisper in his ear, "Ok, Keith's gone so I guess you're giving me the grand tour! It'll be good to know my brother's future husband."

"HEY!" He pushes my shoulder playfully, "But seriously though I don't like Keith."

"I know... you looooovvee him."

"I'm not gonna argue cause I see this is going nowhere."

"Because you looovvvee him."

"Ok, but embarrassing stories about him. I need some."

"Awwww to tell at future family get togethers?" I laugh as he gives me a deadpan look, "Hmm? The Tyson story is a bit long, how about... Den eímai omofylófilos night?"

"Hm?"

"It's Greek. Not telling you what it means. But basically me and Keith would have a night where it's kinda like a spa night. We'd tie our hair up and put face masks on then when they'd come off we'd do makeup like Kaia does."

"OH MY GOD? Keith does that willingly? No way."

"His idea."

"NO FUCKING WAY!"

I look at him, his eyes specially, "Anyway in the kitchen you said you were unsure about your sexuality. Believe someone who's been told this many times, Keith can make that happen. I've been told he makes guys gay. Like that meme press a button, a face pops up 'oh I'm gay now' I'm told that face is Keith's."

"Can you stop trying to set me up with your brother."

"I'm just leading you down the path you keep looking at with literal love hearts in your eyes."

"Wha-Look, yes I'm questioning. But it isn't because of Keith. Why would I like his stupid mullet and his stupid cropped jacket and stupid eyes."

I look at him confused. Umm is he listening to himself. He goes on about how he 'hates' Keith.

"Listen to yourself!" I scream in exasperation after an hour of him convincing himself he doesn't love Keith out loud, "You've ranted about him for an hour. A whole fucking hour! Taking about Keith! It looks like these feelings have been there for a long time."

"Well..." he mumbles something after.

"Excuse me? At the ripe age of 23 I cannot hear the bullshit you are spewing."

"I mighta had a crush on him at the garrison. Oh my god. I said that out loud."

"Ha! Knew it motherfucker! Or should I say brotherfucker.

"First of all, fuck you and your stupid puns. Second of all I just admitted my deepest darkest secret. And this is your response?"

"Could be worse. Is your family homophobic?"

"Wha- no my auntie's a lesbian."

"Ok, my brother grew up in nazi Italy, he liked a guy who is oblivious, then found out his sister died whilst on a quest with said guy, then got corrupted by a ghost who was telling him to kill said guy, then he literally went against the lord of the dead to help said guy, then said guy got a girlfriend, then fucking appeared from nowhere with no memory after being missing, then leaves on another quest with another half-sister. Then he gets outed to one of said guy's best friends. What I'm saying is at least the guy you like likes guys, and you didn't grow up in a place where gay people got put in fucking concentration camps."

"Wow," He says, "how old is Keith?"

"21, but Nico the guy I was talking about is biologically 36 but he was born 108 years ago."

"Hmm. So your weird fantasy of me and Keith being together isn't so weird."

"Honey you don't know the start of it."

He laughs, "Thank you, you've really made me feel better."

"Of course it's what any future sister in law would do."

"Ok you can stop now."

"Pidge I thought we were actually gonna do research not- Oh hey Lance, Sofia? Was it?" The boy with a yellow headband on says.

"Oh hey hunk, Pidge." Lance nods in acknowledgment to the small person who looks like an owl who understood my reference before.

"Hi, I'm Pidge. What happened in avengers 4?"

"I think you'll just have to watch it." I taunt.

"Nooooo! Which fan theory was right?" She screamed, I laughed, avengers 4 was amazing, I can't even describe it.

"I've changed my mind, she is no longer cool."

"Pidge haven't you got cooler things to do, like actual research." Hunk says annoyed.

"Oh yeah, did you find any hidden powers they might have?" Lance asks, "she turned into a ghost before."

"Well we might have, if we actually were researching and not tidying Pidge's room." Hunk states, then Pidge pushes him.

"We'd better go find coran and the princess." Pidge says.

"And Keith." Lance adds staring at me, "Someone scared him off."

"Pffff, nah. The truth scared him."

"How many times do I have to tell you-"

"What did you say before these two came along?" I retort back, he told me he had a crush on Keith at the garrison and I see no reason for that crush to go away.

"What did he say?" Pidge asks bouncing on her feet.

"That's not my secret to tell," I say looking at Lance, "But imma tell it anyway. Lance ha- oh hey Keith!"

~~~Lance~~~

Keith came around the corner looked at us 4 and then looked at lance's red face.

"Keith, thank you. She was about to spill my deepest darkest secret." I breathe.

"And you actually told it her?" He says unimpressed, "Don't let me stop you what is it?"

"Sofia, don't you fucking dare."

"Oh I fucking dare," she says loudly then adds in a whisper, "play along."

"What is it?" Pidge asks.

"He thinks Keith is cool." She says.

"Is that it?" Keith asks, "I would have thought Lance would have had some darker secrets."

"Oh he does. I just need him to tell me them."

"Which isn't happening!" I say in mock embarrassment, "how could you?" She walks over to Pidge and hunk probably to tell them. Well it's no point arguing with her, I have three sisters and a niece I know when a fight is lost. I walk over to Keith to try and postpone when they tell him, I really can't deal with this.

"That hurt you know? That if you were gay you'd have standards," Keith says, "Can't explain what I was expecting, you're Lance I'm Keith. We're kinda like rivals, you know neck n neck." I freeze, that is exactly what I said to him, 4 years ago when we rescued shiro.

"I seem to be disappointing everyone, good to know I'm still up to Keith's standards."

"More like down to my standards. Every time I think we could be friends the universe says no. Like that time when we first took Sendak down. You can't even remember what happened after." I do and I remember it. That what's made me question my sexuality even more. Like you are now on a team to defend the universe with your first male crush, then you now live with him, then you save him and your other teammates, YOU FREAKING HOLD HIS HAND, TELL HIM WE'RE A GOOD TEAM, FALL INTO HIS ARMS AND HE CRADLES YOU. I mean that's bound to make a guy question. So I figured it would be easier to forget rather than confront whatever feelings that you have for each other. Maybe if allura wasn't, well allura I'd be hopelessly in love right now. This freaking gets me shook, now I'm realising I might like Keith when his sister is here, and she freaking knows I had a crush on him!

"Yep, the universe hates friendship."

~~~Pidge~~~

I like this girl, she makes marvel and meme references and she knows something about Lance. I know Lance has darker secrets than that. He talks aloud, I know he installed cameras around the castle and he monitors them. I know because he asked me to help him. What are they hiding?

"Hey let's play I spy!" She says, "I spy with my little eye... something beginning with 'S'" S? There is literally nothing in here beginning with S. Except for Sofia.

"Is it sofia?" Hunk asks

"Nope." She says.

"I give up then, there is literally nothing in here that begins with S. Right Pidge?"

"Yes, I can't see anything beginning with S."

She smiles and points at Keith and Lance, "Sexual tension."

I stare at her whilst hunk and I were laughing, I always thought there was something between Lance and Keith, "That wasn't Lance's secret, was it?"

"Ok but you've got to promise not to tell. Lance had a crush on Keith at the garrison and probably does now."

"Oh that was obvious, the question is: does Keith feel the same?" Hunk says.

"Wait you knew? Why didn't you tell me? How didn't I figure it out myself."

"You said so on your blog, you have a better relationship with technology than with other people." Hunk says.

"Same, but about Keith? I think he might? I'm not sure. But when I thought they were dating I told them to get a room he ran off." She says.

"You did WHAT? YOU'RE A LEGEND! OH MY GOD. THATS BEAUTIFUL." I laugh until my stomach hurts, tears end up streams down my face.

"I'm literally a myth, but I say we help these poor losers." She smirks with a raised eyebrow.

"Mmm, playing Cupid?" I ask

"That guy's a jerk but ok," She says,

"First we need to work on Keith, lance will probably start flirting and repulse Keith but I feel Lance just needs a push."

"What makes you think that." Hunk asks.

"It's a secret," She winks at us, "So how do we make Keith like Lance?"

"We make the things he doesn't like about Lance, seemingly disappear. So... we emphasise the good things." I say.

Sofia looks at me, her eyes are wild and her hair is sticking up and she's wearing a hospital gown. She looks as if she did this all the time. Her eyes turn sad.

"There's someone here." She says slowly, "don't move." She steps around me and kicks the air her leg hits something. And the cloaking device falls off.