(The usual, y'know. I'm sorry I have been going through a really tough time. Something happened with my family, I don't want to talk about it. But I've healed, gotten stronger and I'm no longer scared of no future for me. Plus please read this comic on instagram, strawberries klance. My life is falling apart and this is some glue. It's really good. It has come to my attention that I'm not consistent with timelines, look I really don't give one.
All lyric credit go to their talented owners.i.e not me... •_•
Sorry it's really late (not that I have an uploading schedule) but I wrote out this chapter, deleted that and wrote it out again then deleted it, accidentally this time. So I'm sorry.)
Chapter 5: Songs in my head.
~~~Sofia~~~
"Come on bauna, your leg comes up like this," The woman with every colour in her eyes tucked her right leg into her stomach, so she was stood leaning on her left leg, "and kick. As hard as you can." The wooden plank flew across the training arena. I watched with eyes wide. I try and copy her but my leg makes contact with it and a jolt runs up my-
I scream in pain, my leg made contact with solid metal and a jolt of pain runs up my leg. I try and drag it away but it's stuck there, by some sort of... tractor beam is the only thing I can think of.
The woman picks me up, "Sofia, how bad does it hurt?"
"It doesn't hurt at all! I'm brave like you Pipes!"
"Of course you are," she shakes her head laughing and boops my nose? "Maybe even braver."
"No, no one's as brave as you!" I give her a big grin.
"Do you wanna watch a movie tonight? I hear hercules is on during campfire."
"YES!"
"Sofia? SOFIA!" Keith is yelling, Pidge is tugging me. I stare at the thing, it seems to be a generator.
"Pidge, Keith, This is a generator, there has to be an off switch. Find it." I try and say but my mouth is stuck, they seem to get the message though. Pidge runs to it, I hear Keith whisper something in my ear.
"Keef!" Noah shouts across the crowd, is it weird that he's using my nickname for Keith, is it weird that I don't mind?
"Sof, he is good at this, right?" I nod, it's karaoke night at campfire. I remember back to Den eímai omofylófilos night. The image of Keith in a camp t-shirt and pyjama bottoms, his hair in a ponytail that I spent literal hours on to make sure he doesn't look like a pineapple, singing andante, andante by ABBA flashes across my mind. I nod, Noah's eyes light up.
"What. is. it?" Keith's eyes light up dangerously. I almost laugh at Noah's face.
"Keeeefff, I need someone to do a duet with me and Noah's too chicken." I moan and drape myself across his shoulders, he doesn't shrug me off this time.
"HEY!"
"Fine. What song is it?" Keith mumbles. I think, a duet that he would do with me...
"I was thinking, you know that fallout boy song Leo's always singing? I do the first verse and you do the second one. And we both do the chorus. Yeah?"
He looks at me, "To be honest I was expecting a song like that The Beatles one, Maxwell's silver hammer?" Hahahahaha, that was one time, Keith.
"Ok, lets do it!" I say over-enthusiastically.
"Y'know you didn't have to ask me to do this I was gonna do it anyway." I freeze and stare at him.
I find the words coming out of my mouth, "What song?" Keith never does any camp bonding exercises. I think... I think I finally cracked him 6 loooong years but I think he's finally got used to me hugging him all the time and taking part in activities, I smile.
"Umm," he scratches the back of his head, "that one by Halsey, the um, the one about colours?"
"GO ON THEN!" I shove him on the makeshift stage, I get out my phone -just a regular iPhone 5s, but Leo modified it so it doesn't give off a signal to monsters- I'm greeted with the book cover from Simon vs the Homo sapiens agenda, love that book and plug it in. Scrolling through my playlist I find Colors and hit play.
"Your little brother never tells you but he loves you so," Keith's voice is hoarse but soft, sweet like 5 years ago, it's nice, "you said your mother only smiled on her tv show." Pidge is running around the generator trying to turn it off, Keith keeps singing.
"You're only happy when your sorry head is filled with dough," Lance joins Keith, I can't move my head to see them, "I'll hope you make it to the day your 28 years old."
"You're dipping like a saturated sunrise," both voices in harmony, warms my heart, "You're spilling like an overflowing sink, You're ripped at every edge but you're a masterpiece and now i'm tearing through the pages and the ink, Everything is blue, His pills, his hands, his jeans and now i'm covered in the colours pull apart at the seams. And it's blue. And it's blue. Everything is grey, his hair, his smoke, his dreams, and now he's so devoid of colour, he don't know what it means. And he's blue, and he's blue. You were a vision in the morning when the light came through, I know I've only felt religion when I've lied with you. You said you'll never be forgiven till your boys are too, and I'm still waking every morning but it's not with you
You're dripping like a saturated sunrise, you're spilling like an overflowing sink. You're ripped at every edge but you're a masterpiece and now I'm tearing through the pages and the ink.
Everything is blue, his pills, his hands, his jeans and now I'm covered in the colours, pull apart at the seams, and it's blue and it's blue. Everything is grey, his hair, his smoke, his dreams and now he's so devoid of colour he don't know what it means, and he's blue and he's blue"
"You were red, and you liked me because I was blue," Lance is singing that bit by himself, "But you touched me, and suddenly I was a lilac sky
Then you decided purple just wasn't for you."
"Everything is blue," they're both singing again, "His pills, his hands, his jeans and now I'm covered in the colors pull apart at the seams and it's blue, and it's blue. Everything is grey, his hair, his smoke, his dreams
And now he's so devoid of colour, he don't know what it means and he's blue, and he's blue."
I'm released and my entire body feels as if it's had a heavy weight on it all year, and then it's been lifted, I feel like I'm levitating. I turn around to see Lance's arm, Keith, Lance. He has his arm around Keith... need I say more. My head feels dizzy, a memory that isn't mine flashes through my head.
"Well, we were thinking, do you remember that human you captured, like... 15 deca-phoebs ago? Why don't we train them to fight, and then send them to go undercover, and bring Voltron down from the inside." I'm leant against a wall on an unfamiliar bridge to a ship, then again all bridges are unfamiliar as the alien that looked like a strange pink lizard except her face was humanoid and the tail was on her head talked to a woman in a cloak, hood over her head. These people are obviously part of the galra empire, noting how I didn't say galra, Keith's galra, Krolia's galra. Do not let a minority or in this case most, give you a chance to be racist. It's not fair, you're all in the same boat. (A/N *cough*Muslims/brown people *cough*)
"Hmm, Ezor has a good idea but I don't think even they are that stupid to fall for it twice." The woman in the cloak drones.
"Please, they were stupid enough to fall for Kuron, and Lotor." A furby? A furby thing confirms.
"Axca, what do you think?" The pink lizard turns around to me.
I'm released and I run over to Pidge and scoop her up in a big hug.
"Look, I'm sorry but I assumed you were a girl, but I should have asked you so I'm asking you now? What's your gender?"
"Female, it's fine."
"Thank you for getting me out of there."
"No problem, how did you sense that by the way? Is it another demigod power?"
"Well kinda, basically we all have adhd, Y'know battle reflexes and I saw something flashing it wasn't a lot but I saw it." Pidge goes over to Hunk rambling about how it could have got there. So I decide to check on klance? I mentally shake my head, shipping my brother? Whole new level of weird. Anyway they were talking together in hushed voices, it was obviously something important.
"Well, that was..." Keith starts.
"Let's not talk about that." Lance interrupts. Keith looks at him with a lost look. Lance looks like he's done something wrong.
"About what?" Keith smiles, that little half troublemaker smirk. Lance laughs, and I can practically see the love hearts in his eyes, so what if it's just the light reflecting on to his eye. I grab Keith's hand and drag him to the side, he doesn't look me in the eye. I stand there arms crossed and raise my eyebrow.
"What?" He growls at me looking at me, I love the fact that I'm still taller than him, that way I can keep the nickname: bauna which is dwarf in Hindi. I do realise that may be slightly offensive but I was obsessed with Snow White and the seven dwarves when Pipes- she started calling me that.
"What?" I say in a sarcastic mimicking voice, "Don't you what me, what happened back there?"
"Well you must have found some sort of generator-"
"Really bauna? I sigh, he knows what I mean, I switch to Ancient Greek, "I honestly thought you'd be more understanding and helpful." He looks confused, running the Greek through his head.
"Honestly though. What?" He mumbles.
"The duet," I say slowly, watching as a pink hue goes across his cheeks, "Y'know the one me and Noah are gonna sing at your wedding?" He looks confused.
"Sofia I didn't even know you were getting married before a few hours ago. How was I supposed to know you chose that song?" I give him a deadpan look. He really needs to brush up on his Ancient Greek. I shake my head.
"Do you like Lance?" I ask him.
"There's no use in lying to you is there."
"Nope! I've known you since you were 7 years old, I can read you like a book."
"We have dyslexia."
"Shut up, it's an expression. Wait that means-"
Allura, Coran and shit-o all come running in, they stop, look at all of us and they look at all of us for a long time. I know awkward silences, heck, I practically invented them, but this one is by far the most awkward. Not even that one where I stumbled on Noah and Kaia having a make out session. Probably the worst thing I've ever seen, but it gave me motivation. To get my life back on track, because if he left me, I must've become hopeless, so I wanted to prove him wrong. To show him, I can live. Partly to rub it in his face, but the food at camp was getting a lot more interesting as well. Plus I was pretty buff, and I disarmed Chiron at one point.
"Hey, Keith why don't we have a Den eímai omofylófilos night?"
"What?"
"Den eímai omofylófilos night."
"Yeah, uh, no"
"Come on it'll be fun! Lance thinks so!" I kinda shout that bit. Lance turns around at his name, his eyes flare when he sees who I'm talking to.
"Lance! Whatever Sofia asks you, DONT SAY YES." He screams at him.
"Hey Lance!" I shout, covering Keith's hand with my mouth, "Remember I was telling you about Den eímai omofylófilos night?"
"Vaguely." He smirks, sauntering over with a draco malfoy type walk.
"Me and Keith are gonna do that and then he mentioned you're into that sorta stuff. Wanna join us? Pidge, Hunk, Allura, Shit-o, Coran you can join as well."
"What is Den e- what you said- what is that?" Hunk stutters out.
"Basically a sleepover. We play truth or dare, never have I ever, 2 truths one lie. That sorta stuff.
"Sounds good for team bonding." Shit-o says. The rest of the team (except from Keith) groan.
Pidge gasps, "DO YOU KNOW WHAT WE HAVE TO DO? MONSTERS AND MANA!" She squeals out hitting Hunk's arm.
"Yeah, Pike should make another appearance." Lance said.
"That would be most pleasurable." Allura smiles.
"Keith, we should do it now! I'm guessing monsters and mana is like dnd? Yeah? Me and Keith have this thing where we design each other's characters. You guys already have characters so you could just use them." I splutter really quickly, I talk really fast, it's the adhd.
"Yeah come on!" Coran cheers. I look at Keith, scowling as ever, me and Lance's puppy eyes later he sighs.
"Fine I'll do it." Keith admits.
"Ok Keith I'm designing your character, and you're designing mine." I say sat down taking the thing in my hand. I tap the princess option, he's gonna kill me. I kinda create a Keith princess, wearing what a Greek princess would, but a dark red colour. His hair is longer and in a braid with gold bands surrounding it. It looks ok, i choose a few good traits and ask him what weapon he wants, a dagger, naturally.
We change over.
"I'm not gonna say anything." Keith says blatantly.
"Sorry, I thought it looked cool." I apologise, he actually made me look cool, an assassin turned good. Black clothes and my hair is in big curls and I have a black piece of cloth over my mouth. I look like a female Bucky Barnes, just minus the arm. I look over at Keith, his face full of disgust, horror and the fact that he brought this upon himself. I shrug, laughing.
I sit next to Keith and snuggle into his side, I'm a very touchy person. Big family and um, I like spending as much time as I can with people before they- aren't there.
~~le time skip~~
"How did you do that?" Pidge asks puzzled.
"She's an assassin," Coran informs us, "she has the power for a one hit kill on anything if she can roll the dice high enough."
"Which I did!" I scream, "Wait, why are we arguing? We're on the same team. The damn thing is dead."
"Ok apparently that dragon was guarding a princess, a pretty little princess," Lance smirks, "I roll to seduce her."
"NO!" Me and Keith shout at the same time, knowing what's going on. That pretty little princess is Keith's character. This is gonna be hilarious.
"Whoops." Lance drops the 2p-sided-die, 14.
"Pike seduces the princess who turns out to be... Keith." Coran laughs.
"BLAME SOFIA FOR THIS!" He screams over everyone's -except from Lance's- laughter.
"What?" Lance looks at me, the look in his eyes makes me literally die with laughter.
Keith's face in his hands, he looks up at Lance, "I'm a pretty little princess."
