Chapter 7 : Bonding Time Turned Nightmare
Waking up the next morning was easier said than done. Lance was already up and had gotten dressed but he was sitting down on bed, his back up against the side. He starts to draw weird symbols on her forehead, Shiro had filled him in on the whole incident that had happened the night before. "Aria, wake up."
"I don't wanna…" She mumbles turning away from Lance. "It's warm.."
"I know you don't want to but you have to." Lance replies. After a few more minutes of her laying there Lance says to her, "If you don't get up I'm gonna dump water on you."
Aria's body still doesn't budge. She continues to sleep and sleep. So Lance being Lance goes to the kitchen where everyone was and grabs a cup, filling it with water. "What's the cup of water for?"
"Oh, just my untimely death." Lance to Shiro who asked the question and walks out of the room. Everyone had given him a weird look but they dismiss it.
The next thing they hear is Lance screaming and weird growling noise. Getting up from their chairs they walk out into the hallway they see Aria standing there steam coming off her. She was looking really angry. Keith instantly walked over to her and started to nuzzle his face against hers, the anger in her eyes starts to dim.
"Hey Allura what are they doing?" Hunk and Pidge ask in unison, sparking everyone's curiosity.
Glancing up from her book she looks at the scene unfolding in front of her and she then answers them, "Well for Galran's they can get very attached to a person, their mate per say. Every Galran can calm down their mate by doing so."
She gestures to Keith who continues to nuzzle his face against Arias' in a calming motion. They couldn't help but look at the two in awe. The emotional look got replaced one that was more powerful than anger, lust. Waiting until they left the room she pulled his face away and placed a kiss to his lips, passion filling the two of them as he kisses back.
He gently presses her up against the wall as the kisses get more rough and heated. Something took over and he was picking her up and carrying her to their room, laying small kisses on her neck. The door opens and he lays her gently on the bed. His eyes were glowing a small yellowish, he felt his teeth becoming longer and sharper. He starts to kiss her neck and her cheek bone. A soft moan escaped her lips when he starts to suck on the sweet spot.
The Galran side of Keith starts to go crazy. He moves away from her neck and hungrily kisses her lips. He pulls away and then throws off his shirt, then goes back to planting kisses and feeling her up. Trying to get her in the mood. Before anything can go any further she quickly stops him saying, "Keith...I-I really want to do this but...the baby…"
Keith, after hearing these words, was able to pull himself back and stop kissing her. He pulls away and gets off the bed, walking over to place on the floor where his shirt lied. He slips it on and then walks back over to her and helps her sit up, her stomach had made getting up off her back hard. She gets off the bed and he gently places a kiss to her forehead before he walks out of their room. Not long after she walk out and heads to Pidges' workroom, finding Lance, Hunk, and Pidge there.
Walking inside she asks, "Hey guys, I was wondering if you wanted to hang out or something? I've noticed I've been hanging out with Keith a lot more than I have you."
"Sounds like it could be fun. What do you have in mind?" Pidge asks her as she puts down whatever she was working on and gets up from her chair.
"Well we could play video games or maybe watch a movie and have everyone join." Aria replies throwing out ideas.
Lance's eyes light up and he says, "We can redo movie night!"
Hunk and Pidge nod while Aria says, "Okay, you and Pidge get everything set up while Hunk and I make popcorn."
Everyone agrees and then part their separate ways. Hunk and Aria head to the kitchen and start to make the popcorn while Lance and Pidge set everything up in Lance's room. After Pidge and Lance get everything set up they head out on a scavenger hunt and find the other Paladins and the Alteans telling them of movie night. Hunk and Aria finish making the popcorn and put them in their respected bowls. Carrying the bowls of popcorn in their arms they head to Lance's room.
Once there they hand out the popcorn and everyone takes their respected seats. Aria and Keith were cuddled up together, Lance was on the other side of Aria, Shiro sat beside Lance, Allura sat next to Shiro and Coran sat next to Allura, and Pidge and Hunk we're together. This was the normal seating arrangement for movie night and for dinner as well.
Pidge starts the movie and Aria cuddles closer to Keith resting her hands on her stomach. Her baby starts to move around a lot, almost as if it was warning her. Halfway through the movie the baby lands a huge kick to rib cage causing her to let out a muffled groan of pain. She was doing everything not to yell out, she didn't want to ruin the movie for everyone.
The baby starts to kick the same spot over and over again, it seemed as if it was trying to gain her attention. Finally not being able to hide the pain anymore, it starts to show on her face. Keith had felt something was wrong but he quickly dismissed it, not knowing what it meant or why he'd feel it. He notices her face and he whispers in her ear, "Are you alright? Is it the baby?"
"Yeah, just kicking." She breathes out, one of her hands never left her side.
The kicking finally subsided and they get to the end of the movie. She gets off Lance's bed, with Keith's help, and then heads out into the hallway. Before she walks down it she says, "I'm gonna go for a walk."
"Here let me come with you." Pidge says jumping up from her spot near Hunk.
Pidge meets her in the hallway and the two start to walk. The two continue to walk in silence until Pidge asks, "Are you okay? I saw that you were in pain halfway through the movie."
"I'm okay, Pidge. Thank you. The baby was just kicking a little harder than it normal does." She replies doing her best to assure her friend that everything was fine. But little did they know everything wouldn't be fine.
"What does it feel like?" Pidge asks curiously, her eyes shone with wonder of the new information.
Before she could even react, Aria grabbed her hand and placed it gently on her rib cage. A few moments later Pidge feels knocking underneath her hand. Her eyes widen in shock and she asks, "Is this what you feel all the time….I mean when it's moving around in your stomach?"
"Well...no...it's just kicking right now but it usually doesn't hurt when it moving around in there." Pidge removes her hand and lets it drop to the side.
Pidges' face soon lights up and she asks, "So what do you think you're having?"
"Honestly I don't know. But as long as it's healthy I don't care what I have." Aria replies with a pained smile, the baby began to kick other places.
They turn around and head back to where the others were, talking about random things. Suddenly the castle moves throwing them to the side. Pidge looks to Aria, "Go I'll be fine."
Pidge nods before she takes off running down the hallway. Aria places a hand on her stomach and says to the baby that lies inside, "Baby please quit kicking the crap out of mommy."
She pushes herself off the side of the wall and continues to walk down the hall, repeating "I can do this." over and over again in her head. The pain subsides a little and she makes it to the bridge, the first thing she sees is a fight breaking out between Lotor and her friends.
His lieutenants had already knocked Allura, Coran, and Hunk out. They had Lance, Keith and Shiro at gunpoint. Lotor was about to have them pull the trigger but Aria had stepped out into the bridge causing his attention to turn to her. "There you are beloved."
"Come now, I don't want to have to take one of your friends lives." Lotor says to her as she swings his giant blade around.
"I'll go with you on two conditions." She replies as she walks over to him.
He rolls his eyes before speaking, "Fine what are they?"
"One, you don't hurt them after we leave and Two, I get to say goodbye to them." She replies doing her best to keep a straight face. She didn't want him to see that she was afraid.
"Make it quick." He gestures to his lieutenants and they let them go. Shiro, Lance, and Keith run over to her and she envelopes Keith into a hug just letting her tears fall.
Keith whispers in her ear, "I'm gonna find you I promise! I'm not going to rest until you two are back here safe and away from that lunatic."
He gently places a kiss to her forehead and tries to hold back his tears. She then moves on to Lance, he had tears already falling down his cheeks. "Por favor, no te vayas con él!"
"Tengo que ir. Lo siento…" She says to him sobbing.
"No, puedes quedarte aquí con nosotros. Te va a lastimar de nuevo." Lance says a little angrily, grabbing on to her shoulders.
"Si me quedo, ¡te lastimará! ¡Estoy haciendo esto por ti! ¡Para todos ustedes! Estoy cumpliendo con mi deber como Avatar." She yells back at him, tears streaming down her face. "Lance, just let me go."
She gives him a quick hug and then moves on to Shiro. He wraps his arm around her and then whispers into her ear, "Be careful. Stay safe. We're gonna come and get you."
They pull away and she nods. She walks over to where Lotor is standing and he snakes his arm around her and leads her to the docking bay. She couldn't help but let the tears fall down her face. He takes her to his ship and then detaches it from the castle of lions. It's starts to get smaller and smaller as they get further away from her friends and family. It finally disappears and all sense of hope disappears along with it.
Lotor puts the ship on auto pilot and then gets up from the chair. He walks over to her and then places a hand on her stomach. The baby starts to squirm around, not in the usual way it does with Keith but this kind of squirming seemed one of disgust and discomfort. She's never felt the baby do this. He then pulls away from her and goes back to piloting the ship. Once he gets to his bigger ship he takes her to the room he has her in before and locks her inside.
She wasn't going to be getting out for a while.
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