Warning there will be angst. Grab your tissues now.

Enjoy! ~ Gene
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Red sneakers pounded against the concrete as the owner ran towads the high school, rain started to fall. Black bandana discarded in his bag and his hood up, Keith burst through the school doors and headed to the front office. He was in the middle of giving a half-assed excuse when another boy, tanner and taller than Keith, walked in soaked.

"S-sorry I'm late, there was a bank robbery on 5th and I got held up in the crowd." Lance said to the secretary. Keith stood stunned as his violet eyes looked at Lance. Was he really in the crowd outside the bank? Did he recognize Keith?
The mullet boy shook his head when Lance turned and smiled at him on his way out. Keith smiled shyly back before turning back towards the lady at the front desk and went along with Lance's excuse, the lady believing it since Keith lived near the said bank.

He grabbed the note and let out a deep breath as his mind went to the stars, thinking about the possibilities. He saved those people back there.
A smirk grew on his face as he reached class, handing his note to the teacher before making his way to his seat, stepping over Nyma's foot. Keith sat down with a single thought in his mind. He knew exactly what he would do with his new found power.

"No way!"
"Did you see his face?"
"Show the video again!"
Loud voices sounded through the lunch room as a bigger than normal crowd of people surrounded Lance. Keith glanced his indigo gaze over curiously before sitting down at the table next to Lance's with Pidge and Hunk.

"Ok ok here." Lance said smiling excitedly as he pressed play. A familiar chorus of gasps Keith's ears as he glanced over once more, his eyes widening at what he saw through a gap in the group of people. On Lance's laptop was a video of him. Keith from this morning. It showed him knocking the door down and crawling up the wall, then the view shook; as if the holder was running; before it settled and the face of the guy in the gray suit showed up.

"What happened I there?" Lance's recorded voice rang through as the view stayed on the bank worker. The clearly shaken man explained in a stuttering detail about what happened and the view moved to show police handcuffing the guys Keith took down. The video soon ended and the talking began.

"Who was that guy?" Someone asked. Lance shrugged, an excited smile still on his face. "I'm not sure, he was like a Spider-Man." He said using animated hand gestures.
Keith's ears perked up at the sound of that. Spider-Man hm? It sounded nice. As people asked Lance more questions Keith found himself asking a question before he could stop himself.

"What did you think of him?" Keith's violet eyes widened slightly at the words left his mouth. Lance turned to look over at Keith's table and smiled brightly, his ocean blue eyes swimming with excitement.
"I think he's amazing. I really want to meet him." He said keeping it short and simple.
Keith nodded and smiled slightly back before turning back to his lunch, hoping to god his pale cheeks weren't flushed red; but judging by Pidge's smug look, Keith could tell his cheeks were on fire.

(AN- so above is what we written before my dad passed. This is where I'll continue to write and I'll try to make it long considering I took a looonnngggg break. Also I haven't slept in 2 days so im?running on zero energy so LET'S DO THIS)

"Ok first who are you and what have you done to our stuttering, unable to talk to his crush Keith?" Hunk asked leaning over the table to look over Keith's face carefully. The said boy rolled his eyes and shoved Hunk lightly back in his seat.

"Its still me it's just.... I feel like things are changing today." Keith said smiling, not knowing the dark meaning behind his words.

Keith Kogane had one simple job to do that day. Go to school then come home to help his brother out cleaning out the basement.
You might say that it would be a simple task to follow. Well trying being a newly found superhero.

Keith screamed in excitement as he swung from chain to chain in the abandoned storage unit once again, this time Keith wanted to try crazier tricks. He twisted and maneuvered his body through the air as a smile never left his face.

Keith was sweating by the time he decided to stop. He took a cool, deep breath as he grabbed his jacket and headed to a nearby cafe, a small smile on his face.
As he walked up to the cafe he ran straight into someone, almost knocking each other down.

"Sorry."

Both voices spoke at the same time before being followed by soft chuckling.
"It was mg fault I should apologize." Keith said as his indigo eyes met with ocean blues. Lance shook his head with a kind smile on his tan face. "Sorry Red, but I bumped into you."
Keith's cheeks burned red slightly nd he smiled. "How about this. I'll accept your apology if you'll join me for hot chocolate." Keith said to which the Cuban happily agreed to.

He couldn't believe he actually said more than word to Lance. The pair had found a table to themselves and gotten settled before their drinks had arrived.
"So you actually saw that spider guy?" Keith asked raising an eyebrow. Lance took a small drink as he nodded.
"Yeah. It was so awesome. From what I could see from the streets the dude was badass. He knocked those robbers out and served them their asses on a silver plate..." Lance continued to ramble as Keith smiled softly.
"You seem really interested in him." Keith pointed out trying to be casual. He felt his heart beating faster than normal and his palms sweat as he fiddled around with his cup. (Flushed Keith)

"Who wouldn't be! I mean I would love to meet him and see who's behind the mask." Lance said smiling widely.

"The man behind the mask is a true hero."

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An hour later Lance had left and Keith had made it back home. Opening the door he dropped his school back off and stretched

He froze as he heard someone clear their throat. Looking over he saw his brother looking at him disappointedly.

"You're late." Shiro said in his dad voice as he stood up, crossing his arms over his chest. Keith sighed and walked over to past him towards the fridge, grabbing a bottle of juice before leaning back against the fridge, facing Shiro as he took a drink of the juice.

Shiro sighed and leaned against the table as he kept his dark gaze on the teen in front of him.
"Keith, you need to work on time management. You said you would help clean the basement tonight and I waited for hours after your school let out, waiting for you. Keith i-"

"Shiro, I'm sorry ok? I lost track of time I'll be carefully next time." Keith said shrugging it off as he searched for food. Shiro sighed and walked over to the other boy, stopping him in his search for food.
"Sorry isn't going to cut it. Something happened to you, you've changed. You need to stop being reckless and start taking responsibility for your actions and the promises. I know I'm only your step brother but it's my responsibility to make sure you don't get in trouble." Shiro said as he watched Keith's pale face fall into an expression of anger and sadness.

"No one asked you to teach me these things. No one asked you to take care of me." Keith said as he backed away from Shiro, crossing his arms in front of his chest.
The older male clenched his fists and sighed as he looked towards Keith, trying to find the right words to say with out setting Keith off.

"I'm your brother, I'm supposed to help you learn stuff to get through life." Shiro calmly explained to try and ease the irritated boy.

"Step brother. That's what you are and what you'll always be. Nothing more." Keith said out of anger and irritarion. The young male regretted it as soon as it left his mouth once he saw the expression on Shiro's face. The caring gaze turned to stone as Shiro stood straight, fists clenched.
"Wait Shiro I-"
"Stop.. You've made your point clear." Shiro cut Keith off as he headed out, grabbing his coat as he left the house, the door closing behind him with a bang.

Flinching from the sound Keith stared down at the floor as he thought about what just happened. Shiro had always been touchy about their parents and shiro prided himself in being a fatherly figure to Keith.

Keith sighed and ran out of the house and after shiro when he heard a gunshot and screams. Instincts kicking in he ran towards where the shot came from, running into a guy with lion print tattoo on his wrist.

Ignoring the guy he ran towards the crowd and pushed through only to stop dead in his tracks. Feeling the life drain from him Keith ran forward and grabbed Shiro's hand tightly as tears filled his eyes. Someone had called the ambulance but Keith didn't pay attention to them at the moment.

"Shiro.. god please be alright..." Keith mumbled. He felt movement and kept his indigo eyes on his stepbrother.
"Keith... I'm sorry." Shiro said as he looked up at the crying Korean boy. The said boy shook his head as he looked down at him.
"No it was my fault... I'm sorry I'm so sorry." Keith said as he closed his eyes, holding on to Shiro's hand tightly. Keith cried for a while before he heard a whisper of his name as the hand he held went limp.

Keith's eyes snapped open and looked down with blurry vision at the now lifeless Shiro.
"N-no... no Shiro please.." Keith started to cry, balling Shiro's shirt into fists as he rested his head against his chest.

"You're all I have left..." Keith mumbled as he cried, the crowd around him watching sadly s the ambulance soon showed up.

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So so sorry this chapter is so late and it's really bad I tried to do the best I could and I wanted to try and make it long for you.

Also thanks so much for 6.46k reads as of today it means so much. Also thank you for all the comments, I try to respond to most of the comments cause I want to interact with you guys as much as possible.

If you have any ideas for this then please, PLEASE leave a comment about the idea, it will help me get updates out faster because I do get writers block.

I love you all and thank you so much.

See ya soon!
- Gene

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