Keith shot the other paladins a look putting a finger to his lips and rolling his eyes. Glancing around the living room of his house that he shared with his boyfriend, Lance, he saw friendly faces, their family. Hunk a plate of cookies in hand, Coran holding a bottle of nunvil he had brought with him. Allura with the mice on her shoulder, all of them wearing little Santa hats Hunk had made them. Pidge holding a cat that she had adopted for the couple, much to Keith's surprise, and his brother, Shiro, cup of coffee in hand. He had just arrived and was exhausted from a briefing with the Atlas crew. His attempts to suppress his laughter from the hilarity of Keith's face were failing and he let out a snort, looking apologetic when he got the stink eye from his brother. Keith spun around at the sound of keys outside the door, and the doorknob turning. They all crouched down ready to scream 'SURPRISE!' When the door didn't open. They heard another noise, and a thud on the door, then some aggressive twisting of the doorknob. Keith grabbed his blade and the rest produced their bayards, Coran hiding behind Allura. Keith wondered if the surprise he had put together for Lance to make him feel better about not being able to see his family on Christmas would be a bust because someone decided to break in on Christmas Eve. He hoped not, he had too much planned. The couple had already tried to fly their space family out to their home, but most of them were busy. When Keith alerted them of Lance's sadness though, they were able to pull a few strings and get out to their home in Minnesota just in time. Keith slowly stalked towards the door blade at the ready, his family tentatively watching behind him.
Lance groaned. Of course he had the wrong key with him. Of course he picked up the key for their room on the Atlas instead of their house key. With another groan he realized he would probably have to force the door open, as Keith had texted him saying that he was out getting something, though he hadn't specified what. Lance could not believe this was happening. On Christmas Eve too! He looked at the sleds by the door and did a double take. When did those get there? As far as he knew, they had only had one, a black one with red and blue hearts on it that he had presented to Keith on their anniversary. There was a pile of 6 sleds by the door. Suddenly he stopped. There was only one group of six people that he knew of. They were probably freaking out especially Keith. He was going to have some fun with this. He slowly made his way to the back of the house.
Keith opened the door looking around. No one was at the door. The rest of the group began to panic wondering what had happened, and if it was Lance, what happened to him. Keith had known Lance long enough to know exactly where he was. He lifted a finger to his lips and walked to the back door putting up 3 fingers, mouthing:
'One'
'Two'
'Three'.
On three Lance burst into the house through the back door and picked up Keith bridal style. The black paladin spluttered.
"Lance what on Earth..." but before he could finish he was being shoved out the back door onto a black sled, Lance quickly sitting down on the sled behind him. He pushed off of the hill and Keith, who had still not comprehended what was happening, stood up. "Lance what are we dooooAAHHHH!" He fell on top of Lance knocking them both off of the sled and making it stop and flip on top of them. He pushed off of the sled and saw Lance laughing his face off. Both of them were covered in snow and Keith was freezing. The team had come out to observe the spectacle and all of them were cracking up. Keith just rolled his eyes and reached into his pocket, producing a small black box out of his pocket. 'Now's as good a time as ever' he thought to himself. And with a deep breath, he began to speak.
"Lance, we've been together as a couple for 6 years now, 8 if you count all of our time before that. I love seeing you when you're happy, and every time we went on a mission and I thought it was the end, I would picture your smile and everything felt like it would be okay, and I was okay with the worst happening. I want to see that smile every day for the rest of my life because, without it, I can't go on. Your face is the only one I want to see grow old and wrinkled. I want to have a life with you. You were in Red for a reason. You are the most important person to me in the entire universe, and without you always being there for me, I might not be here today. Lance, will you make me the happiest Galra-Human alive and marry me?"
Tears were streaming down both of their faces and Lance gave him a watery smile, and reached into his pocket, producing another black box. "We're like rivals. Ya know, Lance and Keith neck and neck. You beat me again Mullet. Guess I gotta say yes and accept defeat." Keith let out a laugh and Lance enveloped him in a warm hug. "Besides Mullet, this is one battle I don't mind losing."