A/N: hey guys I'm back! I'm sorry for the delay but I've been busy and actually forgot I had this chapter done a while ago. But no matter it's here! I hope all of you are enjoying this story and please review of what you guys think. Unfortunately there were no reviewers for the last chapter so I'll go ahead and get this chapter started. Hope you enjoy!

I own nothing of Voltron the Legendary Defender

Shiro sat at the end of the couch thinking...thinking of how he hasn't noticed that Keith has been pushing himself so much. He knew Keith longer than the others, so he should've been able to figure this out. Keith has been pushing himself like this for...about a week probably.

That's when it hit him...their last huge mission was a week. Besides the occasional planet visits, they really haven't been ambushed surprisingly. He remembered during their last mission, Keith and Pidge got separated from the group for a bit.

Right when they were a few distance away, but they were able to see each other, they were ambushed by the Galra. All of them couldn't get together due to the ships, and Keith and Pidge only had each other to work with.

*flashback 1 week ago*

Pidge and Keith were flying their lions after they were separated. Neither of them had anything to say. Occasionally, Pidge would say she could pick up their radar or some intelligent thing that Keith didn't understand, but that was it. Keith was too focused on either finding the group or finding the Galra ships.

It was a few minutes before Pidge announced that she saw them up ahead. Keith looked up to see the black, blue, and yellow up ahead. Suddenly, Shiro's face pops up on both of their screens.

"Are you two ok?"

"If you don't count Pidge going on about her nerd stuff the whole time, then yes," Keith responded.

"Hey!" Pidge's voice came in.

Shiro chuckles slightly. "Well get over here so we can-."

Shiro was suddenly cut off by an explosion. This caught the red and green paladin off guard and they flinched from the sudden noise. Then they looked up to see Galra ships surrounding their teammates, and many surround them.

"Where did they come from?!" Pidge exclaims.

"I don't know, but come on! We need to get to the others!" Keith yells at her.

Pidge nodded before the two started and trying to get to the others. Unfortunately, they were ridiculously surrounded by Galra ships. There was absolutely no way they can get to their fellow teammates without at least taking a few of them out...and they both knew it.

"You ready to take some out?" Keith asked Pidge through his lion.

"Yea...let's go!" Pidge announced.

And with that the two of them started going towards them. However, they both soon realized they were completely overwhelmed. They knew that, without the others, and Voltorn, they wouldn't be able to defeat them. Suddenly, Keith had an idea and began to get a good distance away from the green lion.

"Keith, what are you doing?!" Pidge exclaims.

"I'm gonna see if I can make some kind of path! Be on the look out!"

"Wait...Keith!"

But he was already gone, trying to take out as many ships as possible. As soon as he went a distance away from Pidge, she was suddenly overwhelmed. There was no way for her to get out without fighting. She did...knowing it was her only option, but the Galra ships just started shooting their lasers. She tried dodging, but she was hit multiple times.

She grunted as her lion started to flip and roll across space, and that is whenever Keith noticed.

"Pidge!"

He looked at his potential way out, before deciding to abandon it and go after the green lion. The laser hits the green lion again, and that made him go faster. He began trying to take out all of the ships that were near Pidge, as he was trying to get in contact with Pidge.

"Pidge...Pidge, are you ok?!"

On the other line, he heard her grunt and giving out screams of surprise, but she answered.

"I'm ok...but green's taking a lot of damage! I don't know how much left she's got," she grunts when the lion was hit again.

'Dang it!' he thought. 'Come on Keith, move!'

He began trying to move, trying to dodge as many ships as he could...but he too was overwhelmed.

"Come on!" Keith shouted. "Move you idiot!"

He was referring to himself and Red knew it.

Suddenly, he saw the other lions zoom passed him and worked on taking out the ships. After a few moments of shock, Keith went in to help. Soon enough, the Galra decided to retreat. Once they were gone, everyone surrounded the green lion.

"Pidge, are you ok?" Shiro asked.

A few moments of tense silence passed.

"I'm ok," she grunts. "But Green isn't."

"Alright...let's get back to the ship."

"I gotcha, Pidge," Hunk stated as he got his lion to grab Pidge's and lifted her up.

Keith clenched his eyes shut as he slammed his fists near the controls.

"Dang it!" he shouts, but luckily no one noticed.

When he noticed everyone heading back, he followed. Soon, everyone was back in the hanger, and everyone got everyone got out of their lions easily...well everyone except Pidge. It took a few moments for her to exit her lion, and everyone looked at her in concern.

"Pidge, are you seriously ok?" Shiro asked again.

"I told you, I'm ok...just a little roughed up from the fight," she said as she cracked her back.

Shiro stared at her before nodding. "Ok...if you're sure."

She nods before looking around Shiro to see Keith leaning against a wall and looking in the other direction.

"Keith..." Pidge says walking towards him.

At that moment, Keith just glanced at Pidge before walking away from her. He just couldn't face her...especially since he believed he was the one to almost got Pidge hurt.

A few minutes later, he ran into Shiro...and he looked somewhat concerned.

"Hey are you ok? Pidge wanted to see what was wrong, but you walked off without saying anything. What's wrong?"

Keith didn't want him to worry about him, so he shook his head.

"It's nothing. I'm just a bit tired," and then he walked off without letting Shiro have a chance to answer.

He walked...thinking of how he could've helped Pidge but decided to leave her to find a way out. He clenched his fist as he got angry with himself.

'I promise...I'll make myself stronger so this won't happen again!' he thought determinedly to himself.

*end of flashback*

Thinking back on it, Shiro should've seen that Keith was pushing himself so no one else gets hurt...even though Pidge wasn't. He just decided to brush it off the next day...wasn't the best decision. Now he was lying here sick with a fever. Shiro looked over at his feverish comrade. His skin still looked pale still with the red blush on his cheek.

He felt his forehead, and noticed he still had a high fever. He took the rag off of Keith's forehead and put it back under cool water from a nearby bowl. After he wrings it out, he puts it back on Keith's forehead.

Keith's eyes tightened up, and Shiro sighs. He absolutely hated seeing his teammates suffer...especially Keith. They've been through so much...even after he returned to him after the year he was gone. Which made him wonder what exactly Keith has done the year he was missing...besides getting a sense that led to the blue lion. He didn't want to know.

He just wished he wasn't so blind to see that Keith had pushed himself to the point where he fainted in the training room. He thought he should've been there to stop Keith from pushing himself too hard. Perhaps if he did that, Keith wouldn't be lying here sick.

He was just happy that Pidge was at the right place at the right time. He couldn't imagine what could've happened to him if she didn't find him. Would he be worse? Shiro shakes his head...he didn't want to think about that. What's done is done. All Shiro was focused on at the moment, is for Keith to feel better.

As Shiro was lost in thought, he heard a weak but familiar voice coming from the right of him.

"Shi...ro?"

A/N: so what did you guys think? Do you think the flashback was a good reason why Keith decided to push himself? Please leave me your opinion! Until next time bye!:)