Pidge's POV

I'm not going to cry. I'm done with all this crying, I'm stronger than this.

"Pidge I don't understand?" Allura said.

"Forget it." I mumbled. I was furious, I can't believe they done that because of some stupid ball.

I stormed away. As soon as I entered my room I got out of the dress. Unzipping it from the back and I watched it fall to the floor being kicked to the corner soon after. Grabbing a black sports bra and a green sweat pants and quickly putting them on. If I was going to be mad, I might as well use it on something. I decided to go bare foot, I don't know why it just felt right.

Once I left my room I saw Allura and the others around the corner where I left them before.

"Where are you going?" Allura asked concerned.

I wasn't really in the mood to talk. For all I know once I opened my mouth I would say something I'd regret the day after. "To train." It was simple and I couldn't really screw that up, so to train is what I said.

I made it to the training deck, bayard already in hand. I took my glasses off knowing that once I started I wouldn't be able to take them off later when things got serious. It would only be a distraction anyway once they fogged up. I couldn't stand when they did that.

"Start Level 1." I said.

"Level 01 begin."
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Third POV

The paladins shared a few confused glances.

"She's going to go train?" The yellow paladin said.

"But that's not what she does when she's mad. She would go in her laptop." The princess stated.

"Oh my gosh she's turning into Keith!" Lance yelled causing Keith to rolled his eyes.

"Well. Should we watch?" Shiro asked.

"Why?" Keith questioned.

"It will be better for her if we are by her side." He answered. There's really no point in arguing with Shiro, the group would just soon follow him anyway.

They made their way to the training deck not knowing about the surprise they would see as soon as they walked through the door.

"Level 50 complete. Level 51 begin?"

"Level 51 begin." Pidge huffed, she was out of breath fast. The ball tired her out a bit. She was so tired out that she was trembling, stumbling she made her way to a surface on her right side as she placed a hand on the wall trying to keep balance. You could tell she was going to collapse any minute now.

The paladins wanted to help her, but knowing the state she was in she'd only push herself more. So they just watched, if she was to collapse they would simply bring her to the medical bay.

Drones started swarming left and right. Pidge had forgotten about the simulator for a second.

"Shit." She cursed, not noticing the group. If she did she would've never said that. Normally she would've pushed herself off the wall, but after learning her new ability she simply raised her bayard. Soon after it formed into the hand gun allowing her to attack the drones without them getting to close to her. She would then again use her blade, but for now she needed to catch her breath.

"When did she learn that?" His voice was shocked, impressed even. Keith was just so stunned that Pidge was able to form a handgun that he forgot about her condition.

"Yesterday actually. I just didn't know she was so fluent with it." Shiro was amazed himself as well, even though he had already seen Pidge use it the other day.

"We hadn't gotten the time to really talk about it." Allura said. She was surprised too, but not as much as the others. She was more ecstatic because there was another piece of Altean technology still here.

"I guess were done here then." Keith shrugged before walking off. Soon after the others followed.

"I'll just stay here." Lance said. He could watch Pidge for hours. He waved off to the group before the door shut behind them.

He looked back at Pidge. There she was fighting off the drones even though she was on the verge of collapsing probably from either the lack of food or sleep. Though it was very likely it seemed as if she would not let that happen. He only chuckled, noticing how stubborn she is. He didn't realize it till now, but Pidge was everything he needed. Someone who is confident and intelligent, at the same time keep him in check and still manage to joke around. He sighed admitting defeat. What did he lose? Well he managed to fall head over heals for Pidge. That was battle she didn't even know she won. Yet.
Because Lance will make it up to her. Whatever she was upset about. He took one more glance at Pidge before leaving. She had already switched from her gun to the blade and was doing well. Maybe she wouldn't pass out, Lance thought as soon as he left the room.

All that came to Pidge's mind was the trouble she was definitely in. This whole time she didn't even notice the rest of the Paladins that were in the room doing her training. Not a single sound was heard from them, at least not from where she was standing. She was already tired and wanted to sit for and rest, she wanted to be lazy and eat stolen chips from Hunk while playing video games. But she knew if she took a break she would do something that would be very regrettable, since her anger hasn't cooled down one bit, much to her surprise. Her options were limited, avoiding attacks as she pondered on what to do. Soon after she grew tired once again, but this time she couldn't snap out of it. She could feel herself falling to the floor.

"Quiznack" she cursed before her body met the cold surface of the ground.

Meanwhile Lance had made his way to the kitchen where he found one of the other paladins.

"Hey Hunk." He waved to him.

"Oh Lance, how is Pidge?"

"She seems fine. If she was going to stop she'll probably do it in an hour or less."

"Good. She shouldn't overwork herself."

"Well I'm turning in for the night." Lance started headed his way out the kitchen. "You coming?" He questioned Hunk.

"Just preparing the breakfast for tomorrow." He stated. Then Lance left the kitchen.
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Time skip to the morning
Third POV

Pidge was still laying on the ground since yesterday. It wasn't until now that she woke up, fluttering her eyes awake. She examined her surrounding then quickly she came to her knees.

"How the Quiznack did I get here?" Pidge wondered. She decided that maybe someone had put her here after the ball. She pushed herself off the floor, but once she did she had a sudden urge to throw up. She raced to the closet bathroom she knew and did it there.

"Am I sick or something?" Her stomach growled as she said the last words.

"It feels like I haven't eaten in days. Maybe that's why." She grabbed her stomach, walking towards the sink to rinse off her face.
"Maybe I'll ask Hunk." Soon after she made her way to the kitchen hoping to find her friend there, but instead she met someone else.

"Mornin' Pidge!" The cheerful blue paladin said. She only waved her hand that wasn't on her stomach towards him. Lance was shocked to see that Pidge was kinda of talking to him again.

"Where's Hunk?" She let out.

"Sleeping still. Seems you and me woke up early today."

"Oh."

"Why is something wrong?"

"Yeah I just threw up and I'm starving."

"Your sick! Why didn't you say so in he first place?!" He grabbed her arm leading her to her room.

"You need to rest, that means no training either." He told her. While he was exiting the room Pidge stopped him.

"Wait! Um I have a question." She was standing behind him now.
"Do you know what happened last night?" She admitted. Lance's face was frozen.

"You don't remember?" He asked.

"Well I remember there was a ball, but I don't really know about the rest." She was staring at her feet, fidgeting with her fingers.

"So you don't remember what happened during the ball?"

"No." She paused for a second. "Did I get drunk?"

"Your underage." Lance started laughing.

"So were you when you got drunk that one time at that party in the Garrison." She was smirking, he stopped laughing now.

"Fine. I don't talk about you getting drunk and you don't talk about me getting drunk. Deal?" He held his hand out.

"I can't make promises." She just shrugged her shoulders continuing to laugh. He shot a glare at her.
"Well that explains me throwing up then and randomly waking up in the training deck." She made her way back to her bed, sitting on the edge of it.

"Guess it does." He was walking away as well.

"And Lance." He turned around. "Thank you." She gave him a soft smile before the door closed in front of him.

As cheesy as it sounds Lance felt warm and tingly inside, like that smile made his whole day. He had this goofy smile on and to be honest he was kind of swaying back and forth, as if he wasn't in his own state of mind.
He even entered the kitchen resting his elbow on the table to keep his head up, not noticing that the rest of the group was there.

"And what's wrong with him?" Keith asked Hunk. He only shrugged his shoulders mentioning the fact that he wasn't here earlier.

"Lance, are you alright?" Shiro asked concerned. His Space Dad instincts kicked in.

"Pidge." Is all he answered. Of course they all looked confused, for Pidge was just mad and yelling at him the other day and now he looks lovestruck as if something happened between them.

"You know she hates you right?" Keith said as if Lance had forgotten about what happened the night before.

"Drunk." Lance was clearly not thinking.

"Drunk in love." Hunk cooed.

"Yeah I guess you could say that." At that moment Lance fell to the floor.

"She broke him." Keith was surprise, happy actually. They all made their way to the mess on the floor called Lance.

"Guess we should wake up Pidge while Lance is dead on the floor." Hunk said.

"No, we can't!" Lance jumped up blocking the doorway.

"Why not?"

"She's sick."

"How?" Shiro asked.

"She said she was throwing up earlier this morning. Plus she doesn't remember anything from last night, so she thought she got drunk."

"But she's underage." Shiro said in a stern and worried tone.

"Yeah I know that's what I said too. But you never know what could go on in her mind."

"So she doesn't hate you anymore?" Keith stepped up.

"At the moment. No."

"Odd." Keith just shrugged it off. There's no point of trying to figure that out if she's sick. He wouldn't want to bother her anyway.

The paladins plus Coran went off to do their own separate things. Keith went to train as he always does. Allura and Shiro went over plans of invasion or attack, Hunk was testing out a new recipe to try and recreate Earth pancakes with the food goo, while Coran was tweaking with anything he could find, broken or not.

Lance, well Lance was in his room, he'd be ashamed to say it out loud but he was actually thinking of Pidge. What they would do together after they made it back to Earth, if they ever did. If not, what they would do in space. Then he started thinking of personal stuff. How'd her hair would look when it's long and her name. Her name! Then it dinged. Lance didn't know Pidge's real name, I mean she did say that Pidge was a nickname Matt gave her. Holt was her real last name, but what was her first? He was thinking, thinking of all the possibilities that her name could be. It was then he set out a goal.

"I'm gonna find out Pidge's real name."

A/N:
Shorter than usual. Again. But we got that Plance action instead of a lot of angst in this chapter. Because I felt like it was getting a little depressing, but everything that was happening with Pidge is going to stay. So that's that. Bye~