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Shiro couldn't believe what had happened. He didn't want to. Keith. He had only been 18. Barely an adult. Too young. And now he was gone. Forever.
Sitting alone in his quarters, the black paladin allowed tears to flow freely, silent sobs shaking his muscle-bound form violently. He'd promised to look after him. And he'd failed. Shiro remembered the last time he had talked with Keith face to face; when Keith had left the team. The younger man had chosen his own path. Shiro'd said some harsh things. Keith'd been tired of waiting around, doing shows. And there had been no stopping him.
"I should have stopped him," Shiro whimpered under his breath. He remembered hearing Keith's last thoughts over the comms. He wasn't sure if his surrogate brother had been aware that he'd still been connected, or that he'd been muttering under his breath about his friends and teammates up until the end. But what got Shiro was how scared the kid's voice had sounded when he uttered his last words.
"I'm sorry I let you down guys." Shiro swallowed the lump his throat. But Keith hadn't let anyone down; He'd fought well and hard, and paid the ultimate sacrifice for millions of people he'd never met.
"I shouldn't have abandoned you." Abandoned them? If anything, Shiro felt they'd abandoned him. Shiro felt the panic attack rising in his chest, tightening and making it hard to breath. They had made Keith feel like an outsider, when he'd been trying to be a voice of reason.
"My time's up." Shiro wished it hadn't been. He wished it could have been him instead. He wished he could have told his brother how much he mattered to him. But Keith was gone. And no amount of tears could bring him back.
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