And here is Chapter seven. Chapter eight will be up on Wednesday. If not, it will be Tuesday or Thursday. I just remembered I have something going on that day. I'll try to get it Tuesday if I can't get it uploaded Wednesday.

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Sprinting as fast as they could into the mountains, Keith and Allura ran for their lives. What was going to happen to them if Lotor found them? What if he never did?

Even after their recent arguments, Keith and Allura held hands as they ran through the forest, mostly for protection though. Keith did not want to lose the Princess.

"Keith!" Allura gasped, dragging behind him. "Keith, please stop for just a moment!"

Hearing the princess' cries, Keith came to a halt. "What is it, Princess?"

"I just need a break," Allura panted, "just for a moment."

Keith glanced behind her. They had been running for at least twenty minutes which meant they still had forty minutes to go before Lotor came after them. Keith didn't trust him and he had his suspicions that he would be in hot pursue of them before the time he had said he would come after them.

"We get one minutes Princess," Keith said. "We can't wait any longer than that."

Allura nodded still breathing hard.

The minute seemed like the fastest piece of time Allura had ever been through. It was as if time itself was against them, which in reality, it was considering they only had forty minutes until Lotor came after them.

"Ready?" Keith asked her.

Allura nodded her head even though she knew she could use at least thirty more seconds. The two of them then shot forward still holding hands.

Allura found herself wondering how far they were going. They couldn't run forever. They would need to eat and rest. The next thought that invaded her mind was that Lotor had both Pidge and Hunk. Whether he had captured Lance and Coran was a mystery. Maybe they could help Keith and her from getting caught. Maybe.

When Keith was sure the forty minutes had passed he did his best to find a hiding place. When the two of them came across a small pond, he searched desperately for some kind of cave.

"Help me look!" he exclaimed to Allura who stood watching him do so. Allura glanced up at the sky expecting to see Lotor's ship hovering above them. She jolted forward and began to search.

After about five minutes of looking she said, "I don't think there's anything here."

"But there has to be. We need to find a hiding place near water! It's the only way," Keith exclaimed.

Then suddenly something caught his eyes. Beyond Allura stood a small place where a small group of trees came together closely. If the two of them could fit into the space they might be able to use that as a hiding place.

"Over here!" Keith sprinted to the small opening in the trees.

Allura glanced up at the sky once more before she followed him over to them.

"It's not a cave but it'll hide us," Keith said. "It may even be more unlikely that Lotor will look in here."

"What if it rains?" Allura asked.

"Then we'll just have to grin and bear it," Keith said.

"What if it gets really cold?" Allura asked.

Keith sighed. "Then we-"

"What if-"

"No more 'what ifs'" Keith shouted.

"What if I don't want to go in there with you? Or even be here alone with you?" Allura yelled.

Keith refrained from showing the emotion she had just caused to run through him. And he thought he had broken her heart. Well she was pretty good at doing that to him to. Of course, that was his fault but that was beside the point. All he knew was they needed to hide.

"We can discuss this later!" Keith cried. "Right now we need to hide!"

Allura knew very well that the two of them needed to hide right away so she submitted and crawled into the small group of trees. Before following her in, Keith snatched some broken branches off the ground and did his best to conceal the entrance so that they could get in and out, yet a person wouldn't be able to see inside when passing by.

When he had settled down beside her, he could see that tears were well on their way to flow down Allura's face.

He had no idea what to do. Should he talk to her? Stay on his side and keep quiet?

"Keith." She spoke first giving him leeway. "I, I'm really sorry when I said I didn't want to be here with you."

Keith shrugged. "No big deal. I deserve it."

"Yeah, you do," Allura said drawing circles in the sand. "You really do."

Keith glanced up at her. "Well not that much."

Allura met his eyes. "I have a great idea. If you don't want to deserve my distain, don't tell me that you love me and then take it back afterwards."

Keith gulped. He really didn't want to get into that subject. Yet, he was still furious with himself. How could he do this to her? When he told her he loved her, all he cared about was giving her the world and that was what he wanted to do now.

A mixture of different feelings was welling up inside him. He wanted to take back his take back and at the same time he wanted to remain just friends for honorable purposes but he was beginning to wander what the honorable thing to do was.

"Allura," Keith said. "I…I'm so confused."

"Me to," Allura said.

"I'm sorry, I mean Princess," Keith said.

"It's ok," Allura said. She knew she would probably be spending lots of time with him now that they were hiding in a small crowded little space alone together. Fighting was not an option.

"You hungry?" Keith asked.

"Not really," Allura answered. Even though the two had gone for a full out sprint for the past hour, neither of them felt any hunger pains, mostly because both were too caught up in their emotions to feel them.

"I hope Pidge and Hunk are ok," Allura said.

"I'm sure they are," Keith said reassuringly, though he had a hard time believing Lotor would keep them in his custody without doing something cruel. "What we need to worry about right now is not getting caught," Keith said.

"We have to do something," Allura said.

"I know, but what exactly would we do?"

"We have to somehow get to the Loins and figure out how Lotor got them in his control."

Keith nodded. "But how Allura."

"I don't know. We've never been this lost before. Have we?"

At that moment the two of them heard the sound of space crafts flying overhead.

Allura jolted into Keith's lap out of fear holding onto him as tight as she could. Keith didn't fight her off. All he ever wanted to do was hold her. And if holding her meant this then he was willing to do it. As the sound of the ship faded away, Allura glanced up into Keith's eyes, hers growing wide as the two of them gazed at each other. Before either of them could say anything else, their lips met.

Lance and Coran hid on the opposite side of the castle that the Loins and Hagar were on. They had been planning on how they would free Pidge and Hunk and then get to the Loins. But to get to the Loins and fight off Lotor's huge fleet of Drule ships with them, they'd first need to get them back into their control.

"This is insane, Lance!" Coran whispered loudly. "We can't take her on by ourselves."

"I really don't like that witch," Lance said leaning back on the walls of the castle. "What are we going to do?"

Coran led out a groan, "There are no words to say how much I hate this!"

Lance tip-toed over to the corner of the castle and peeked around it. "I have an idea."

Coran jumped forward. "You do?"

"Yup," Lance said smirking. "But I'm going to need you as a distraction."

"What?" Coran exclaimed. "You can't be serious!"

"You wa'na get out of this situation or not?"

"Yes but…me, as a distraction?"

Lance nodded. "It's you're call."