A/N: This chapter will shine a light on a small bit Shiro's and Keith past dealing with Keith's abilities.
*Contains mentions of suicidal thoughts, depression, self harm and suicide attempts.
*Contains hints of Shiro/Allura

Shiro remained seated on the cool floor of The Red Lion's cock pit. Just inches before him, laid Keith curled up on the cot in the back of Red. Every once in awhile, Keith would whimper in his sleep. Shiro knew that The Red Lion was shielding his younger brother from all the emotions, all of the pain from everything outside of her, but sadly his nightmares continued to haunt him, still bringing him pain. Shiro's eyes would drift down to his hands that laid numb in his lap then drift back up to Keith's sleeping form.

"Shiro" called Allura over the coms and Red let out a low growl, warning the princess to not disturb her cub. Shiro smiled at that, he was glad that The Red Lion had Keith's back and his best interest at heart.

"May I have a word with you, it's regarding Keith'' came Allura's voice over the coms. Shiro glanced over at Keith and waited a moment before gently reaching out to brush some of his bangs out of his face.

"I'll be right back'' whispered Shiro as he then stood up and began to exit The Red Lion.

"Keep him safe" Shiro then whispered to Red as he went to meet with Allura.

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Allura and Shiro sat in the lounge, sitting in silence for a few seconds before she began to speak to him about Keith.

"How is he?" asked Allura as she turned to face him.

Shiro sighed before he gave her an answer. "He's asleep right now thanks to The Red Lion, she is helping block out everything around him from hurting him." Allura nodded her head in understanding.

"I asked Coran to look into this, and we have discovered something. It is a rare condition that some Galra have, the sense to feel others emotions, they can even use this ability to do a number of other things. From what we have discovered is that those who have this rare ability can become druids such as the ones we have seen.
Since Keith is a hybrid, his abilities are maxed it would seem. The others plus Coran are trying to find something to assist him with this. I do apologize for not taking notice of this before, he must have felt so much pain and felt so alone as well" said Allura who then reached out and took Shiro's hand into hers.

He sent her a smile but he couldn't find his normal joy out of their hand holding. Shiro just felt so hollowed out at the time. The only feels that he could bring up to the surface was sadness and guilt, overwhelming amounts of guilt. He was blaming himself for not taking notice of this, of his little brother.

Shiro slowly made his exit of the lounge and headed right back towards the hanger to the red lion, to his brother.
When he got there he wasn't surprised to see the particular barrier up, shielding everyone out. As he approach the red lion, she allowed the barrier to come down and let him enter her.

Keith was exactly where he had left him just moments ago and he resumed his spot on the cool floor, sitting before his sleeping brother.

His mind wasn't silent as memories and thoughts of the past came back to him like a punch to the stomach, knocking out all the air inside him.

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Shiro slowly entered the torn down home that his friend Keith was living in with his yet again new foster family.

Keith had sent him a text message saying he was feeling terrible.
That wasn't unusual for Keith to feel bad though and Shiro knew this, for he had discovered that Keith had empathetic powers and it killed him to see the young boy in some much pain. Keith was always in a lot of pain because of others, from the pain of being unwanted and abandon by his parents. To the harsh words and hits tossed his way from adults who were supposed to look after him, to kids around his own age picking on him. When Shiro first met Keith, he had a black eye, a broke wrist and multiple cuts and bruises from his latest foster home. It took awhile for Keith to fully open up to him but Shiro guessed by Keith having this ability, that he could feel that he could trust Shiro even when so many others have crushed it. It didn't take long before these two were really close. Shiro from time one was always there for Keith, no matter what.

The unusual part of the text was the last part that thanked Shiro for everything.
Something in the pit of Shiro's stomach told him that something was wrong, something was terribly wrong.

Shiro searched the house to find nothing. Keith wasn't there and that scared him dearly. Keith's noise cancelling headphones, that at times helped kept out the noise from all the screaming his foster parents did but sadly they could never shut of the pain he felt, he could never find away to shut out all of the emotional cloud surrounded around him everyday for every second.

Fear began to trickle up the back of Shiro's throat. He began to pace around the room when suddenly, his eyes fell upon Keith's notebook.
At times Keith would write out words phrases or even draw pictures of some of the emotions that where hitting him. Shiro grabbed the book and saw a pen sticking out of it, right where Keith had left it. He flipped to the page and glanced down at the scribbled words that in some parts were too hard to make out, they were scribbled down in a hurry with pain lanced through his writing. His eyes then came upon a small drawing in the corner of the page.

It was a hill, but as Shiro looked closer, he could tell that it was a cliff and Shiro knew exactly where this spot was at. He had taken Keith there before in the late of the night when things sometimes got too much, whether it was the emotional pain he felt or something to deal with his foster parents. This cliff stop was off in the distance, had a cool breeze to it and had an wide, open view of the sky. Both he and Keith loved looking at the stars and would get lost in hours just starring at them as everything else faded away.

Shiro wasted no time to get to that cliff and when he got there his heart stopped beating. Keith was standing on the edge and he looked like he was preparing to jump.

Without much thought in the matter, Shiro screamed out to him and bolted right for him.

"KEITH!!!" screamed Shiro as he ran.

Keith quickly turned around to face him. His face was tear stained, his eyes puffy and red. Keith took the smallest step closer towards the edge of the cliff as Shiro grew closer towards him.

"No don't!! Please! Please Shiro don't!!" Keith cried out and before he could take that last step, sending himself over the edge Shiro grabbed him. As he held Keith tightly to his chest, he could feel the boy trembling in his arms. Keith began to scream out in pain, cry so many tears that showed how badly his heart was aching. He kicked, hit and tried to squirm his way out of Shiro's grasp but it was a losing battle.

"No!!! Stop!! I need to!! I-I....it's too much!!! Please I c-can't!!!! It hurts!!!" cried out Keith as Shiro began to try and calm him down.

"Shhh, it's okay. I know, but I'm here" hushed Shiro as he gripped tighter onto him as Keith fought more to get free.

"Ahhh! It's not okay! Ahh! Please.... Please I n-need it...need it to st-stop!!! It hurts!! Shiro!!!!" screamed Keith as more tears fell from his bright violet eyes. Shiro pressed his face in the crock of Keith's neck, he closed his eyes became he was becoming too emotional about this and he knew that he had to calm down for he couldn't bare to have Keith hurt anymore so.

"Let! Me! Go! Ahhh!!! Stop it!!!! It Hurts!!! Why?!?! Ahhhh! I want it over with!!! Please!!! Please Shiro....save me!! Ahh! NO!!! Help Me!!!!" Keith cried and Shiro knew that hearing Keith's broken voice, his pleads for him to kill him hurt Shiro deeply inside which could only add to Keith's pain, not help him.

Shiro could feel the heat coming off of Keith. He was so overwhelmed, in so much pain that he was now running a fever and by the feel of it, it was high. He couldn't tell if Keith was now trembling from all the pain or now the fever he now had, but he sadly figured that it was a combination of both of these things.

Eventually after so much of Keith fighting Shiro's grip, him crying and screaming out of pain with a high fever, Keith soon enough succumbed. Leaving him weak and trapped in a restless sleep.

That was the very first time Shiro had actually saw Keith truly break down from his abilities. And whenever things reached this sort of level, he would refer to them as an episode because these times were always far worst than any other times.

It was also the first time he attempted to end his life and sadly it wasn't the last time either.

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"-kasi?" said a small voice, breaking Shiro out of his mind. Shiro looked up at his brother and sent a reassuring smile to him.

"I'm here" he whispered and brushed some of Keith's bangs off his sweaty, pale forehand. He watched as a small smile brushed a crossed Keith's lips before his eyes lipped shut.

"I'm here... I'm always gonna be here" whispered Shiro, his words falling silent to the sleeping boy before him.