Staying in 1st person is too confusing for me lmao, I'm used to 3rd person rping so Imma do 3rd person for a while :'3

Anyways, enjoy this trash because I'm sleep deprived~

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Ever since Shiro disappeared after that fight with Zarkon the team has started to get more stressed. They take out their stress on Lance. Like, they aren't the same people anymore. And it started with some simple insults.

Lance was in the training room, he had been training more often since Shiros disappearance.

Keith isn't acting himself, he's been trying to get involved more often, hanging out with Allura and Coran. Helping Pidge with her tech. Cooking with Hunk.

But...he was getting more aggressive towards Lance. Pushing him away from everyone else.

He was doing all the things Lance used to do. And Lance...was doing all the things Keith used to do..train, isolate himself.

But Lance he still acted himself. Well...he tried.

once Lance had finished training he was sweating. passed level 123.

It was strange. Lance...training. It's basically all he ever did. Seeming all everyone ever do is take out their anger and stress on him. Like he's a stress ball. Like. He's. Nothing.

Lance just tended to ignore it..trained even more than he normaly did.

He eventually had loads of cuts, bruises and scars on himself. But the team didn't care nor notice so why should he?

- - - - -Timeskip to when Shiro gets back - - - - -

When Shiro got back, e v e r y t h i n g changed.

They didn't yell at me as much.

They noticed when I didn't eat, making sure I did.

Trained with me.

Included me and my ideas.

But I realized something.

They weren't.

He was.

He noticed how alone I was.

How neglected I was.

How they didn't care for me whilst he was gone.

He found out about the scars.

He helped him get past all of it.

But....

He wasn't him.

I found this out when he told me how he felt.

When he told me the truth.

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"H-hey Lance..?" Shiro asked nervously, scratching the back of his neck.

"Yeah, Shiro?" Lance said turning his head to face him.

"I-I need to tell you something.." Lance looked a bit taken aback by Shiros expression

"W-what is it? Did-did I do something wrong again? Shiro I'm s-"

Shiro cut Lance off with a kiss. A strong, passionate kiss.

Lance practically melted into the kiss, loving the feeling of Shiros warm lips on his.

Shiro soon pulled back and looked at the floor "L-Lance...this is serious, I-I'm not me. Well of-course I'm me, but I'm not him. I couldn't keep it a secret anymore, I couldn't keep lying to you.." he choked out a sob at the end, ready for Lance to tell everyone and get him kicked off the castle.

Lance just let out a sad chuckle. "I-I know...I've known for a while Kuron."

"Wh- h-how? And how do you know my name?!" Shiro- well- Kuron asked, now extremely worried.

"Ever since you came back...you were nice to me. You stopped everyone from neglecting me, got me involved, made me feel like part of the team again....I guess...I was just needy. Missing the feeling of being wanted.." Lance chuckled looking away from him

"I just wanted to be selfish for once..To do something...for me."

Kuron just stared in disbelief as he looked at Lance "Ohmygod- Lance I-I'm sorry! Now I've gotten you dragged into this mess!" Kuron cried out as he bit his human thumb, drawing some blood.

"H-hey, it's okay! it's...okay...I guess.." Lance said as he took Kurons thumb away from their mouth, moving himself onto Kurons lap as he hugged him.

"S-so...I guess this is goodbye seeming you're going to tell Allura then I'll either be kicked off the ship or killed...haha" Kuron said sadly, earning a small smack on the back of his head from Lance

"H-hey! I'm not going to tell Allura! Did you not pay attention to anything I just said? I love you Kuron. I knew Shiro never loved me anyways, nor Keith, flirting with Allura was to get my mind away from my gay thoughts. And now...now they can go fuck themselves.." Lance pulled away slightly looking at Kuron

"If-if you just..let me love you, maybe we can both be happy..? For the time we have of-course, Shiros bound to come back." he smiled weakly at Kuron as he smiled back.

"O-of-course Lance, as long as you let me love you back" tears were threatening to spill both of their eyes as they held out their pinkie fingers.

"Promise." they both said on union as they wrapped their pinkie fingers around eachother. They then stuck their thumbs out and kissed them. (A/N what I did with my sister when we were serious about promises úwù)

They kissed eachother before bursting out laughing for no reason, falling into the floor of Lances room.

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Kuron ran all over the castle looking for Lance, he had accidentally lashed out at him after getting aggravated by Allura and the others.

"Lance? Lance?! Where are you?!" he asked in a worried tone he didn't exactally use around the other paladins.

"I-in-in he-er-re" came a small squeak from a closed off room.

He walked into the room, to be greeted by a shaking Lance in the corner of it with the lights switched off.

"L-Lance I'm so sorry! I-I didn't mean to yell! A-Allura and the others were pressuring me about the mission and-" Lance cut him off with a hug

"I-it's okay Kuron, I-I kno-w you didn't mean to...the mission comes before all...right?" Lance said, tears still rolling down his cheeks.

"N-no! Lance- you should be my top priority! Not some dumb mission! God sake, I should've yelled at them! Not you! God...I'm a terrible boyfriend.." Kuron said as tears rolled down his cheeks, he was supposed to be a strong warrior, but- he was too soft, he kept crying when it came to Lance.

"n-no! Kuron, You're not a terrible boyfriend! I couldn't ask for a better one, you make me feel wanted in this shitty place!" Lance yelled at him at he lightly hit Kurons back.

"O-okay, Okay!" Kuron said with a slight smile as he held Lance closer.

They didn't care if anyone saw them, the others knew about their relationship. They wanted to make it last. To not care about being caught if they did something naughty. Wich they did, and no. No one has walked in on them doing it. only Pidge who listens for blackmail.

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Coran, Allura, Keith, Pidge and Hunk were in the control room discussing mission-y stuff when a pod landed in the castle.

By the time they realized the figure in the pod had already made it to the control room, and he was f u m i n g.

"H-hey how did you- Shiro?" Keith said as he looked at the figure. They had long white and black hair with some grey strands, scar on the nose, grey eyes, slight beard, robot arm, this was Shiro.

"B-but what happened to your hair? "

"How'd it grow so fast? "

"And you- have a beard..? "

"What's with the rags? "

They all stopped asking questions when Lance and Kuron walked in hand in hand. "Gooooood morni-" Lance stopped himself when he saw Shiro.

The real Shiro.

Shiro glared at the two of them. He'd been seeing what Kuron has been seeing and hearing for a while, and was beyond pissed at Lance.

"YOU!" Shiro yelled as he pointed at Kuron, the rest of the paladins standing in shock

"HOW DARE YOU COME HERE, STEAL MY TEAM, THEN THINK ITS OKAY FOR YOU TO DATE THEM!" he growled

he then pointed at Lance "AND YOU! HOW FUCKING DARE YOU KNOW ABOUT HIM BEING A CLONE AND JUST KEEP IT TO YOURSELF! HOW SELFISH ARE YOU?! YOU COULD'VE KILLED THE ENTIRE TEAM!" He yelled at Lance.

Kuron would've lashed out a Shiro, full on k i l l , but Lance was holding him back.

"I know what I did was selfish. Believe me I KNOW! But- I just wanted to be selfish this ONE TIME! Whilst you were gone, I was going mad! They all pinned it on me! Made me feel like you're the reason you might be dead!" Lance held in his sobs as he continued to yell at them

"Keith basically did everything I used to do! REPLACING me! Hunk and Pidge blatantly IGNORED me! Like I didn't exist! And Allura and Coran just shut me off! WHAT DID I DO WRONG?! I TRAINED, I WORKED HARDER, I SHUT UP,BUT- But.. it still wasn't enough for you guys to be proud of me.."

"Then...when Kuron came, you guys stopped ignoring me, only because he brought me into the conversations, listened to my ideas, he...he loved me, like none of you guys could, he was proud of me, he made sure I knew by telling me after every mission, even if I did a little slip up, he'd tell me 'it will be okay, we still did it, you did a good job, I'm PROUD of you Lance.' If I could just hear those words come out of any of your mouths that would make me happy.." Lance sniffed as he clung onto Kuron.

Lance then looked at Kuron as they nodded at eachother, tears clouding both their visions. "We've known this day would come, and-we've been prepared..." Kuron formed the black bayard and Lance formed his, both of them were formed into some sort of gun, linda indicating what they were going to do.

They looked at eachother before excusing themselves from the room, leaving everyone else in shock.

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They sat in the observatory, their favorite place to go to "I-I love you Kuron, I-if we don't meet in our next life the-n I just hope you know I really do, and I will never take back any of the time I spent with you, wether it was arguing, you being hit on by some hot alien to the time we just spent sat here, doing nothing. Just enjoying each others silence," Lance chuckled/sobbed.

"Y-yeah...I'm gonna miss you, McClain. I'm glad I told you everything. And I will never forget you. You made my short life worth living." he said with a sad, but meaningful chuckle, wiping the tears off of both their faces.

Lance nodded as he bit his bottom lip, hard. But not hard enough to draw blood.

Kuron held his gun up to Lances head, and Lances held his up to Kurons.

"No backing out," they bother said in union before they started counting.

"3..

2..

1..

I love you Lance/Kuron."

BANG

BANG

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They heard as 2 gun shots went off through the castle.

The stars didn't shine as bright that night/day.

The paladins were quieter.

And Haggar smiled.

The paladins didn't know it,

but she had officially broken them.

Who knew one clone, could do so much?

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BONUS!!

Haggar: *Looks ya the hundreds of clones of Shiro she spent her life making.*

Haggar:......

Haggar: Well, shit.