((Last chapter of this AU!))

Lance wakes up confused, everything around him seems to be some kind of shade of white, but it's not just white walls like the containment room. He felt warm, and... happy? His heart was fluttering naturally, and he tried to regain focus so he can try to figure out why. He tried turning his head, but he felt something soft brush against his chin, and he realized the arms wrapped around him, forcing him into cuddles.

He shifted and tried looking down to see who had put forced cuddles upon him, but his eyes flashed to a mate mark imprinted into the skin of a pale neck, slightly covered by raven colored hair. He only knew one person with those specific aspects, and he almost pushed the omega away from him, but his body refused to move.

He felt a wave of happiness wash through him, and Keith shifted from his sleeping position, pulling Lance closer to him and cuddling up to him. It was cute, if Lance was going to be honest, and he enjoyed having Keith this close to him. He wrapped his arms around the other in response and kissed his head (unintentionally, but he never realized it he did it).

Keith moved again and Lance could hear him yawn before he moved his head to level with the other male. Lance could see the lazy smile planted across his face and his sleepily half opened eyes. Keith leaned in for a soft kiss, and Lance accepted, pulling Keith a little closer. When Keith pulled away, Lance felt himself yawn and could hear Keith laugh.

"Dumbass, you passed it on" Lance muttered and pushed Keith's face away, who only laughed more. It was heartwarming and Lance couldn't help but laugh with him. Their moment stayed uninterrupted as they softly laughed together, adding to their list of memories they'll look back on (their aftermath bath together also being one). When their laughter died down it went silent, and they went back to laying down together in silence, just the both of them not falling asleep this time.

They eventually had to get up though, and the first thing they did was head to the kitchen to get something to eat, then they planned to just go to one of their rooms and cuddle for more hours to come. When they made it to the kitchen though, they found Hunk about to walk out with a plate of cookies and he almost dropped them when he saw them.

"Oh god you scared me" Hunk said quickly, and Lance instantly took interest into the baked goods, as well as Alpha. "Are those for me?" Lance asked, but Hunk just shook he head and smile. "They're for Pidge this time, sorry Lance, Pidge needs their comfort food" Hunk said, and Lance's face fell.

"You can get something else Lance" Keith said, patting Lance on the back as his way of comfort. Hunk barely noticed Keith the first time, but he didn't seem to react when he realized he was there. Though, Hunk did stare a Keith for a hot minute, before looking over to Lance. He pointed to his neck and Lance felt his face flush, and he cupped his hand over Keith's neck quickly. Keith was surprised at the action but knew why Lance did it, probably feeling the embarrassment pull through their bond.

Hunk didn't point it out again though, knowing Lance would prefer to just leave it alone for now. He just lightly smiled at the two and said a quick 'see you later', before he walked out. The atmosphere changed when he left, and Keith proceeded to go find food once Lance released his hand from his neck. Keith found some left over space goo and he looked at Lance to see what he thought about it. Lance just shrugged and Keith put some in a bowl for Lance and then some for himself.

He gave it to Lance and the alpha gladly took it. Lance leaned against the island and ate his food, Keith doing the same, and they ate in silence together. Lance discarded his food for a second when he looked over at the omega, staring at him for a few minutes before Keith caught his eye. Keith smiled at him and Lance couldn't help but steal a quick kiss. It only lasted a few seconds, but Keith pulled him into another one right after, this one being longer.

Lance placed his bowl out of the way and let himself move closer to Keith. The omega almost dropped his food when he moved his back to the island, quickly placing it down elsewhere to get rid of it. He jumped up to sit on the counter and pulled Lance closer by wrapping his arms around his neck. Lance let his hands rest on Keith's hips, and enjoyed the kiss. Nothing got too intimate, as the kiss stayed soft and sweet, and that's seemed to be what Lance wanted right now. Just sweet things, and Keith wanted the same exact thing.

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A few hours later, Keith and Lance somehow ended up in the training deck, completely discarding their plans on going to their rooms to cuddle. They didn't have a running simulator to actually train, they were just sitting in the middle of the room facing each other. Lance wanted to see if they could pull at each other's mental strings, or somehow try to tell each other to do 'something cool', as he put it.

Keith tried to focus on the emotions through the bond as a guide to looking for Lance's mental strings. The colors he saw were faded and not as bold as he thought they'd be, but that seemed to be reasonable as their bond was only just new. He tried pulling at the yellow string of light, and he could feel Lance sending positive energy right back. He got distracted by the colors for a while, trying to learn what each one meant. He pulled at the red one, and he didn't get one sent back admittedly after that time. But when Lance sent it back, he realized why there was pause, he accidently pulled at a very intimate filled one. It took him by surprise when he felt it back, almost seeing an image pop into his mind of what exactly the intimate thing would be, but the image was blurred, and he was kind of glad that it was.

Once Keith got back on track, he mentally followed the colorful strings of light unto an endless walk. He finally got to a grey string, but it was just one. He tugged at it and he heard a very loud gasp. His eyes snapped open, and he saw Lance sitting there, his hand ghosting over his shoulder.

"I just felt your hand graze my shoulder" He said, excitement in his voice, "Ok my turn now" he said after, before closing his eyes. Keith stayed sitting, knowing closing his eyes would be a little useless since Lance was just trying to pull at his mental string, but if Lance challenged him to an affection war, he was going to get a lot of his purple string pulled.

He felt a hand punch his shoulder and he purposely said a quick 'ow' and Lance's eyes snapped open. "You punched me in the shoulder dipshit" Keith said, rubbing his shoulder even though the pain faded quickly. "Sorry, that was the first thing that came to mind when I pulled at the string, I didn't mean it" Lance said, placing his hand over Keith's. "It's fine" Keith muttered and interlaced their fingers before pulling both of their hand to rest in front of them.

The moment was ruined though when Keith suddenly felt something that was missing slowly fading back. He panicked and released Lance's hand, standing up quickly, but Lance grabbed his wrist before he could move. "What's wrong" He asked, and Keith could feel the concern wash over him. "My omega, I can feel him coming back, I don't want him to hurt you" Keith said, put Lance just tugged at his arm to make him sit down again.

"It'll be ok, I'll try to reason with him if he does, if not, we can head right back to the infirmary" Lance said, smoothly rubbing Keith's arm, calming his nerves slightly. Keith nodded and let himself sit there, resisting the urge to get up and leave. Omega faded in more and more, and before he knew it, he heard a yawn from the back of his mind, indicating that Omega was officially here.

'What the fuck happened' was what he said first, and Keith couldn't really answer back to him. His mood wasn't as anger filled as when he woke up last time, he seemed much calmer and more collected (which was saying something). Omega wasn't snapping at Lance, which was sign that he might not attack him. Keith felt him knock in his head mentally and he spoke again, 'Keith tell Lance to hug us, I want a hug'.

The words surprised the raven haired to say the least, but Keith gave Lance a smile to tell him it was ok. "He wants you to hug me" Keith said, and Lance just smiled. "Gladly" He said in response, and pulled Keith closer, wrapping his arms around him. The omega sighed happily and did the same, pulling Lance closer and resting his head on the boy's shoulder.

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A few days passed, and Keith and Lance ended up visiting Pidge and sorting things out with their Beta. And Pidge ended up being the second person to find out about Keith and Lance's mating bond. Then Allura was next, finding out because of the mice that were in the room with Pidge when Keith and Lance were there (which Keith was absolutely not for it when Allura confronted them and told them it was the mice that told her). Coran found out after that when he asked for Keith's assistants with going over some plans. Shiro was last, mostly because he just never noticed it at first, but he found out in the most inconvenient way. Walking in on a makeout session between the two mated boys, that was, in his defense, in the hallway.

Overall, everyone found out eventually, and everything settled nicely. And now being mated, Keith could freely fuck the living shit out of Lance, and Lance can occasionally do the same to Keith.

Moral of the story; their relationship is really cute and Keith's the more dominate one in bed.

-The End-