A/N: I am Sorry about not updating all of the summer. I was on complete writer's block. I was also never home half the time to write a chapter. But I am back in College so updates will not be frequent. I hope you guys like this chapter! Please comment and Review!

Episode: "The Hunted" (Not really mentioned. This just happens during and after the episode)

A knock comes at the door when Linna quickly lifts her head in fear. She lays her upon the door as she listens to Allura's voice come through.

"Linna? Are you alright?" Allura wonders to her as Pidge stands beside her with antsy feet. "We haven't seen you in a couple of days."

Linna glances down towards the trash can filled with vomit as her clothes reeked of disgust. She sees the stains of the vomit on herself as well as the floor. She stares into the mirror across her door while she sees a completely different person.

"Linna..." Pidge lowers herself to the opening in the doors crack between the floor and wood. "I know you are right there. I just want you to know that we are here for you."

"Keith wants us to go out and find Lotor." Allura states but at the mention of his name Linna's heart skips a beat as her body collapses farther into the ground of fear. Allura places her head on the doors frame before releasing a sigh of wonder. "Come on Pidge."

"But Allura... We can't just leave her!" Pidge begins to whine towards Allura since they haven't seen or heard from Linna in two or three days now.

"Pidge..."

Allura stops her from speaking. She places a hand on Pidge's shoulder to make her turn in the direction of the hanger as they head towards the lions for the trip to track Lotor's ship.

Linna feels her body going numb with fear. She knows that Lotor will be coming for her. She knows that this will be a trap. She realizes that this is a way for him to trap her for Zarkon. Her heart beats quicker and quicker as she closes her eyes to the memories of him.

Few years ago:

"This is your prisoner." Hagar points over towards Linna on the far end of the cell.

Lotor smirks at her as Hagar begins to explain to him why Linna has been placed in this prison. He stares at her with greed in his eyes. Hagar continues to inform him before waving him off. She walks away from the cage as Lotor orders the guards to open her cage.

"Open the cage!" He orders them.

Linna watches the cage door open for him while he stands patiently before her with his hands hiding behind his back. Linna stays back when the door stops at the end allowing Lotor to enter her cage of protection.

"So your name is Linna." He starts out very kind and gentle towards her which makes her tilt her head at the politeness towards her.

"Yes."

"I see that you are Altean." He notices her markings on her cheeks as she looks closer towards him.

"You are half Altean." Linna spots the markings hiding under his skin.

Lotor stares at her with shock because no one can tell that he is half Altean. He lowers down towards the ground as he glances towards Linna. Lotor wonders why she really is here. He knows that Hagar said somethings but he thinks there is another reason.

"Why are you here?" Lotor wonders to her while placing his hand upon her cheek like he is trying to comfort her.

Linna backs away from his touch like an instinct. She stares at him with fear in her eyes when everything comes back to her. She has been beaten and bruised while she has been here. She has not done anything wrong. The Galra just do not like her.

"I am here because of my knowledge." Linna whispers to him as he tilts his head towards her with something in his eyes.

"What kind of knowledge do you have?" Lotor wonders to her as she sees the greed in his eyes again like before.

"You should already know that." Linna answers him when her lips seal up because she is not going to allow him to know anything more.

"I can tell that you know a lot more than you are informing these individuals. Don't worry. You can tell me everything." Lotor smirks at her as Linna stays quiet and still in her corner. "Are you going to tell me?"

Linna shakes her head towards him when she catches the glimpse of anger growing in his eyes. She knows this anger very well. She feels his fingers wrap around her neck as his grip gets tighter and tighter causing her breathing to stop for a few seconds. He drops her towards the ground, allowing Linna to gather air back into her lungs.

"Now, what knowledge do you know?" Lotor asks her again with a sweet caring tone to his voice.

Linna slowly raises her head to face him as her hands protect her throat for another violent act against her. She doesn't say anything towards him which causes him to growl in anger. Linna quickly spots his leg swing back and forward into her chest, flinging her into the cages wall directing behind her.

"AH!" Linna screams in pain as her back stings in agony.

Linna commences to cough up blood when Lotor walks over towards her. He lowers his hands to grip her long hair on her head. She feels every sting of hair pulling against her skin on her forehead as Lotor brings her to face him.

"I am going to get you to tell me everything." He chuckles at the thought of all of the torture that he is going to have to do to her. "This is going to be fun."

"I will never tell you anything." Linna whispers to him as Lotor slams her head against the cages bars.

Linna feels the blast to the head while her vision starts to go under. She tries to force herself to stay awake but the impact causes to much damage that her body needs to rest for a little while. She watches her world start to vanish as Lotor orders the guards to send her to the special room. Linna takes a deep breath before her eyes no longer open up and her body travels to complete darkness.

Linna's Room:

Linna wakes up to sweat drenching down her body. She feels the tears crawling down her eyes when she hears the lions approaching the ship. Linna lowers her head towards the door as she listens to the footsteps approaching her door. Linna smirks at the sound because it is someone that hasn't been to her door yet.

"Linna..." His voice is lower and shallow through the door. "I know that everyone has come and asked if you are okay but I know that you are not going to reply or open this door." The person places his fist on the door before him as continues to speak with her. "We ran into Lotor again. We just got back after he almost killed us. Allura has really gotten better with Blue now that she linked with her." Linna listens to him slide down the down with his back as his butt sits on the floor. "Everyone is worried about you including the lions. They all want to know that you are okay."

Linna tilts her head to the door as she takes a large deep breath before conjuring up the words to speak to this person. "Thank you..."

"Linna..." The person lifts himself up in shock that she replied to him of all people. "Is there anything that I can do for you?"

Linna smirks at his suggestion. "If I open this door, you must not look at anything in here. You must not judge me for what has happened." Linna feels the tears traveling down her cheeks as she speaks. "I was waiting to hear from you because I wanted to see if you had remembered my question."

"I remember it. What would Shiro do if I was the one missing?" Keith replies to her on the other side of the door.

"Did you find your answer?" Linna shivers through her tears as she remembers that Shiro is still alive.

"I did. Thank you." Keith answers her. "Now can you please open the door?"

"Don't thank me yet." Linna informs him as she slowly reaches her hand up towards the doors lock.

She slowly crawls away from the door as Keith opens it up with shock on his face. He glances over at Linna when he sees what she is talking about. He lowers his guard towards her when he realizes that Lotor has done something that no one will probability never know about.

"What do you need me to do?" Keith wonders to her as she lowers her head with shame and humiliation.

"I need a bath." Linna whispers to him as he nods his head towards her.

He walks over towards her while he slowly and gently places her arms around his body. She lowers her head as Keith guides her to the bathroom in her room. He has to help her undress but he covers her with a towel to make sure to keep it private for her. Linna stares blankly at the tub of water when Keith slowly slips her in with the towel still wrapped around her. He glances over to the room as he smells the vomit that covers the room.

"I am going to clean the room okay?" Keith wonders to her as Linna stares at the water with no expression at all.

Tears stain her face as he notices the dark circles under her eyes. Keith lowers her hands down to place one on her back and the other on the side of the tube. Linna slowly tilts her head to face Keith before he begins to speak with her.

"I am really quick going to get someone. It is not Allura or Pidge okay." Keith informs her because she would not even speak to them when they came to her door for the pass three days.

Linna nods her head in agreement as Keith closes the bathroom door for her. He does not shut her door all the way so he can get in when he comes back. Keith runs to someone else's room that he knows will do great with this. Keith stands before the door as he takes a deep breath and knocks on it.

The door opens up to the one dork that he hates to talk with but Keith knows that he is the last chance that he has. Keith stares face to face with Lance in front of him with his robe already on and getting ready for bed.

"What do you want Mullet?" Lance speaks with annoyance towards Keith.

"I need you." Keith states to him as he grabs Lance by the hand and darts towards Linna's room.

"Why do you need me? It smells disgusting down here." Lance begins to announce to the world. "Why are you taking me down a stinking hallway..." Lance stops talking when he sees that Linna's door is slightly opened. "Wait!"

"Lance!" Keith raises his voice towards his friend. "She needs our help right now. She doesn't want Allura or Pidge to know."

"Wait! Then why are you talking to me?" Lance wonders to Keith for clarification.

"You are the only one that I know that can do this." Keith informs him as Keith drags Lance into Linna's disgusting room.

"It reeks!" Lance yells aloud.

"Lance!" Keith growls at him before opening the bathroom door to Linna still sitting in the tub where he left her. "She hasn't moved."

Lance glares at Keith while heading into the bathroom to speak with Linna. Lance tilts his head towards her as he sits on his knees before her in the bath tub. Lance reaches out his hand and pulls her hair back a little bit to see the red stains on her cheeks and the dark circles under her eyes.

"Linna..." Lance whispers with fear in his voice. "What do you want to do?"

Linna slowly lifts her head to see that Lance has appeared before her. She shakes her head with tears falling down her face again. Lance takes a deep breath as he smiles towards her.

"Lance..." Keith whispers towards him when Keith heads towards the door with all of the garbage in his hand. "I am going to clean this room. You need to take care of her please."

Lance nods his head towards Keith as Lance grabs a cup from the sink and begins to wet Linna's hair. Lance stares at her white hair that flows down her back behind him. He notices the towel wrapped around her body which he knows that Keith put it on her to give her privacy.

"Lance..." Linna whispers to him as he places the soapy wash cloth on her back to scrub her body.

"Yeah Linna?" Lance wonders to her because she hasn't spoken the whole time that he has been here.

"You like Keith don't you?" Linna states to him as his cheeks glow red with embarrassment.

"What are you talking about?" Lance chuckles at her trying to avoid the question. "I don't like Mullet. He is so stupid."

"Lance..." Linna lowers her head to her chest as Lance spots a mark on her back. "I want to tell you a story. It is a story about two people who cared for each other so much but never had the courage to inform the other about their feelings."

"Why are you tell me this?" Lance asks her as he observes her mark closer.

"Because you want to know where I got that mark." Linna answers him as Lance backs up away from the mark.

"You don't have to tell anything." Lance stutters to her with shame in his voice. "That is your story to hold on to."

"I want to tell it to you." Linna whispers to him as he wraps her hand around her shoulder to touch the corner of her mark.

"It was some time ago. I was with someone that I care for deeply. We were both in the Galra prison together and Lotor..." Linna stops at the mention of his name. Lance wants her not push herself but Linna continues to speak to him as she knows that Keith is listening on the other side of the door. "Lotor was in charge of both of us. Now the feelings I am talking about between us is not love like a romantic partner. Its is something else. Anyway, I worked with them on a project that Lotor wanted us to build. He wanted something that could track the lions so Zarkon would allow him back in the Galra Empire. I was not going to allow it. This kid was amazing though, he was smart and intelligent just like Pidge. He was so young as well. I think he told me that he was about 12 years old." Linna smirks at the thought as Pidge reminds her for him.

"I remember the last day I saw him," Linna starts to feel the tears falling down her cheeks again. "Lotor wanted the machine done. I had built it so that when Lotor started it, my friend and I could have time to escape from the prison. Lotor started it but the machine didn't do what I wanted it too. It did exactly what Lotor wanted it to do. It started to find the lions and before I could stop it. My friend charged Lotor in front of me. He beat him until Lotor grabbed him off of him. I tried to stop him but the guards had already appeared and grabbed me. Lotor held him in his clutches as I screamed at him. I just wanted him to be okay and not die. I was able to get out of the guards' grips which gave me a chance to smash the machine before Lotor found the first lion. I turned quickly back to see Lotor furious. My friend was still in the clutches of Lotor's hand. I ordered Lotor to not hurt him."

Linna looks towards Lance with tears falling faster down her eyes. "My friend whispered two words to me. He whispered two words that I didn't want to hear from him until I found his mother and father. I wanted to find his family for him. I wanted him to have a home and life outside of that prison. Do you know what two words he whispered to me?"

"Did he whisper Thank you?" Lance whispers to Linna as she nods her head to him.

"He told me Thank you before Lotor throw him into the machine before it exploded on us." Linna glances over to see that Lance now realizes the marking is of a terrible burn where fragments entered her skin. "I somehow made it. But my friend was unable too."

"Linna..."

"Why did he whisper thank you to me Lance? I don't understand. He... He died for no reason. I should have been the one that died. I wasn't even able to tell him that I found his family. I wasn't able to tell him that he was like a little brother to me. I didn't get to say anything to him before it was too late to save him!" Linna grabs a hold of Lance's shoulders with tears still falling down her face. "Promise me that you will tell him! You are going to make sure that he doesn't die without you tell him that you love him! Do not ever do what I did! You have to make sure that you tell him before it is too late and you can never go back! Promise me Lance!"

"Linna..." Lance pauses for a moment as he thinks about what Linna is telling him. He understands why she is telling him but he, himself, doesn't know his true feelings towards anyone. "I promise." Lance finally speaks to her as she wraps her arms around Lance with tears falling down her eyes. "I will make sure that the person I care for knows my feelings."

"Thank you..." Linna whispers in his ears as Lance feels her whole body weight fall on him for some reason.

He pulls her to face him to notice that she fell unconscious in his arms. She was holding all of her energy to make sure that he heard her story. She wanted to make sure that he knew. Lance holds her in his arms as he finishes off her bath and grabs a clean, dry towel from under the sink. Lance slowly opens the door to Keith outside standing in front of a clean room. Lance looks at Keith trying to hide the red glow from his cheeks. He feels his heart skip a beat for a second.

"Um..." Keith starts to speak when he notices that Linna is unconscious in Lance's arms. "Do you need help?"

Lance shakes his head to get back to Earth before speaking to Keith. "Yeah. She was trying to use as little strength as possible but sleep got the best of her."

"I can see that." Keith chuckles at the smirk on Lance's face.

Keith lowers to help pick her up from the ground where Lance has laid her to get her somehow to the bed. Keith grabs under her armpits as Lance wraps around her legs. They count to three before lifting her up from the ground and walking over towards the bed. Lance and Keith set her down very down slowly before taking a deep breath and looking at her then at each other.

"So..." Lance rubs the back of his neck in embarrassment. "Do you need me for anything else?"

"No. Thank you though. I knew that you were the right person for the job." Keith replies to Lance as he tries to avoid contact with Lance.

"Why did you pick me?" Lance wonders to Keith at the statement that Keith just said. "You say that I was the right person but why?"

"You have sisters so I just thought that maybe you had to help your sisters once." Keith answers with a stutter of embarrassment for every word that he speaks with.

"Oh..." Lance states as he looks down at Linna sleeping so calmly. "Are you going to wait until she wakes up?"

Keith stares at her before glancing over towards Lance while answering him. "Yeah... I don't want her to be alone after waking up. I want her to realize that we are here for her."

"I thought that you were suspicious of her?" Lance wonders to Keith with a smirk towards him.

"I was..." Keith pulls up one of the chairs that he brought into the room. I was really suspicious of her. She just popped into our lives at random and somehow Allura and Coran knew her."

"So what changed your mind?" Lance asks Keith while pulling up the second chair that Keith brought into the room.

"This..." Keith states to Lance as he holds up the cube that Ryner gave to Shiro to give to Linna on their mission to Olkarion.

Lance stares at the green cube that doesn't move or glow in Keith's hand. "How did that change your mind?"

"Watch..." Keith tells Lance as he places his hand on the cube before him.

An Olkari appears before them with a smile on his face. It doesn't look like any of the Olkari they saw on their last mission. It looks like a very young Olkari. He looks like a child almost. He soon begins to start to talk to them.

"Hey Linna. It's Abe." The Olkari whispers and smiles as he waves to the room and the boys before him but Keith and Lance can see the prison background. "I hope this cube gets to you. I will send it home for you because I know that my mom will give it to you for me. Anyway, I need you to listen to me and please don't start crying. If my mom is giving this to you, then I know that I am dead. I know that you were going to try and get the both of us out of this prison but I am sorry. I don't want you to have to stay here anymore. I want you to be free to save my family and the people trapped here in this ship. I know that you are going to be so mad at me when you figure out that I made the machine work. I know that you are trying to find the lions as well so I thought that this was the time that you would be able to find them."

Abe smiles at the screen before looking at them again with tears forming in his eyes. "I know that I am going to die tomorrow. I know that I am being stupid and that you will be so sad about my death. That is why I am recording this. I want you to know why tomorrow, my last two words to you will be Thank you. I am going to say Thank you because you have changed my life. You made sure that I was never hurt or beaten. You made sure that I knew my family was safe, sound, and protected from the Galra. I knew that you would always be there for me no matter what. I want you to know that you are everything to me just like my family. You are a part of it and that is why I want you to here those last two words from me in person and not just on this screen. So Thank you Linna. Thank you for always being a part of my family. I love you Linna and I hope you can get everyone to safety tomorrow for me. I want everyone to be safe and off of this prison ship."

Abe smiles towards the screen as the tears continue to fall down his face. He slowly looks over in the distance as Lance and Keith spot Linna covered in bruises and markings. She sleeps with tears marking her cheeks as Abe walks over and places a kiss on her forehead before the camera turns off to darkness.

Lance looks over to Keith and Keith glances over to Lance. They both now understand somewhat of what Linna has been through. They know that she never tells a lie even when she doesn't tell everything. She is human just like them and has been beaten and bruised many more times than them. Lance turns his head to Linna sleeping on the bed. Tears still falling down her face. Keith lowers his to the chair as he places the cube on the desk.

"So Abe was the boy she was talking about..." Lance whispers to Keith because he knows that Keith was listening to the story in the bathroom.

"I didn't believe her until I found the cube. Shiro had left it in here so she has not seen it yet." Keith answers Lance.

"So she has no idea that he had planned it." Lance states with tears appearing in his own eyes.

He slowly gets up from the chair where he is sitting in. He moves passed Keith as he lowers his head towards Linna's forehead. Keith watches as Lance does the same act as Abe did on the screen. He places his lips on her forehead and gives her a kiss as her tears disappear for a moment to allow her to sleep in peace for the night. Keith gets up from his chair as he places his hand on Lance's shoulder. They don't speak or move. They watch as Linna sleeps calming for once since Abe has passed away.