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Mistimed Charges

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Keith & the Blade of Marmora

Keith gets buried in a collapsing building. The Blades do not handle this well, emotionally.

A curse echoed down the hallway as he stumbled, another rumble shaking the base and ratcheting up his worry that he would not get out in time. The detonations were going off before they had been timed to and his ship was further away than he was comfortable with. It had been necessary to stash it so far away, but he was regretting it in the moment. The base was going to come down around his ears.

He grit his teeth and powered on, muscles burning and breath rasping, trying to get as close to the edge as he was able. Hopefully less would fall on him and he would be easier to find if anyone came looking. If not, maybe he could free himself and return to the Blades without assistance.

The structure began shaking around him even as he approached an exit, the set charges catching up with him quickly. He was not going to make it out. Even as he stayed on track, he reached up to tap the communicator built into his mask despite the mission having meant to be radio silent. They should be able to triangulate his position from the frequency and, even if the Blade could not, Pidge would be on hand and able to accomplish the feat.

“Keith? Status?”

“About to be buried!”

He watched as the exit collapsed and the roof began following until his head was hit by a piece of debris. That was the last he knew other than the fact that there had been shouting in his ear the last few seconds.

-

“Keith! Respond!”

Thace frowned as he fingered his own blade. “Those charges should have been fine. We all use them and the timer has never failed before.” He snapped his gaze to Ulaz, who had finally given up trying to get through to the kit. “We’ll need to lead an investigation into that. Kolivan, permission to retrieve the kit?”

“Granted.”

The information was passed over quickly and he was soon on his way with Antok and Regris in tow as backup. He fidgeted impatiently with his knife as they approached the area Keith’s signal put him. He hoped Ulaz was not harrying Kolivan too much in his worry.

-

“What was the damage?” Antok asked quietly as they stood by the healing pod they had been able to steal from the Empire recently. With this having happened, they were all relieved that they had gone through the trouble. Antok had been tasked with navigating the ship and, as such, knew little about the kit’s condition other than that he had been bleeding and Thace, who had picked up some medical knowledge from Ulaz, was extremely concerned.

Instead of answering verbally, Kolivan brought up the information Ulaz had sent him and passed the data pad over to him. He did not need to see it again. His guilt was hitting him hard enough. As it was, Keith would have to spend, mostly likely, more than a movement in the pod. Numerous broken bones were the least of his injuries and he had been close to dying before they had been able to get him back to their base.

“Ulaz and Thace are going to want to stay with him.”

“Already cleared.”

Antok sighed, handing the data pad back to the leader of the Blades. “I want to stay with the kit.”

“Everyone does.”

The Pride’s Nest

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Keith & the Blade of Marmora

The main four Blades deal with the aftermath of Mistimed Charges.

Also on AO3.

It was a new experience for Keith, someone actually being there to catch him when he came out of the healing pod. Normally he would try to take a step and fall to the floor due to unsteady legs. Previously, he had come out of the pod only to end up in someone’s arms as soon as he felt unsteady was foreign enough that he struggled to focus through the almost dizzy feeling that always accompanied his time in a healing pod.

“Careful, kitling,” was rumbled in his ear and hair as the Galra holding him rubbed his face along the side of his own. By the sheer breadth of the chest he was held against, he believed that it was Antok that had caught him. That was only confirmed as his vision cleared. The nuzzling against his face and hair only allowed him to make out the rough ridge of scar tissue that was present along his jaw and the silky hair that had fallen over his shoulder after he had removed his hood and mask, but they were familiar features.

“‘Tok?” he croaked in question.

The larger Galra purred to reassure the kit. “Yes, Keith.”

Before the former paladin had to prompt him, he was handed a hydration pack and assisted in drinking it so that he could get his throat in working order. His own, much softer, purr echoed around the room at the care that was shown to him.

After a few moments, he could feel his eyes getting heavy with sleep since his body was weak and he felt safe. With one small realization, that was derailed.

“‘Laz and Thace?”

Antok turned slowly so that his head would not spin. “They were waiting for you, we’ve just been sleeping in shifts.” He affectionately rubbed his cheek against the kit’s hair. “They have been very worried, kitling. Would you like for me to wake them so that you can return to their room?”

“Mmm, yeah. Nest’ll be comfier and better cuddles.”

The large Blade complied with a light grin. They were never going to let him watch for the kit again with the way he had scent marked him. At the same time, he was the only kit on their base and the heart of it as well. Everyone was going to be scent marking him for the foreseeable future.

-

Ulaz had flopped down in the middle of their nest as soon as they returned to their room with their now healed kit. Keith had quickly followed and was comfortable curled up with him, head tucked under his chin. His mate was rubbing his face all over his hair and holding him as close as possible. Soon enough, he was going to join them and proceed with his own scent marking. Hopefully Keith would be asleep by that time as he still looked absolutely exhausted.

“Thace?” his mate questioned softly. “Are you going to join us in the nest?”

He slowly settled down on Keith’s other side and gathered both his kit and his mate as close as they would comfortably fit. His eyes slid closed as he buried his nose in soft black hair and inhaled deeply. They had almost lost him, but he had pulled through. He needed to remember the positives. Keith was well, the healing pod had done its job, Kolivan had taken them all off of the mission roster for a while, and he had them there with him. They were protected.

Ulaz reached over and cupped his cheek, running his thumb affectionately across his cheekbone with a soft smile. “We’re here, Thace. We’re healthy. We aren’t leaving you.” A devious smile slid across his features. “And now you can finally make him sit down and actually listen to your history and societal lessons.”

-

Days later, Ulaz approached Thace quietly, wrapping arms around his waist and setting chin to shoulder.

“How do you feel about expanding our small pride?”

Thace’s ear cocked toward him questioningly, the majority of his attention still on the report in front of him. “Well, I know you are not carrying and I am well aware that I am not either, so how are you expecting to expand?”

“Antok asked if he and Kolivan may be a good match for joining ours. They are tired of it just being the two of them. “It also made a pride much less stable - someone was almost always gone for some reason or another, leaving the remaining member without someone to go to. Kolivan was always aware of how he assigned the members of a pride and always made sure to check on the remaining one if he sent one of a pair off, but rarely did he show such care between him and his mate.

Thace hummed in thought. “I am comfortable with that. We get along well already and they like Keith as well. Have you asked him?”

He laughed brightly. “I asked him first and do you want to know what I found out?”

Thace’s ears flicked toward him in interest as he turned to look more fully at Ulaz. “What did he surprise you with?”

“He thought we already were,” Ulaz rumbled, laugh purring from him. “That we were just staying apart for his ‘delicate human sensibilities’.”

-

Kolivan entered the room that he and Antok now shared with more Galra. He was still adjusting to the change, but he did have to agree that it was welcome to not return to an empty nest. There was also more heat to go around this way, which facilitated a comfortable nest and better rest. Ulaz and Thace were curled up together on one side of the kit and his own mate had his tail firmly wrapped around Keith’s ankle as the kit sprawled in the middle of the nest.

“Com’on, ‘Van,” a sleepy voice prompted as he stood there taking the sight in. “Lend some heat.”

Of course it was Keith that had awoken when he entered. Rarely did he sleep through even the smallest of disturbances. Before he could whine, he slid down into the space between Antok and the kit that Keith had widened for him. After he settled, their youngest member squirmed until he was sprawled across Kolivan’s chest, which brought Thace and Ulaz closer to keep in contact with their kit. Soon enough, he was lulled into sleep by the heat being generated from those around him.

Klance/Laith Soulmates

He couldn’t do this right now he just couldn’t. He heard Lance calling him back. He didn’t look back he wasn’t ready yet he’d told Blue -no Lance- that. He continued to walk away he didn’t know to where he just needed to leave. The tingling sensation on his wrist just wouldn’t disappear he knew Lance was writing to him trying to understand, talk it out still be friends but more, soulmates were meant to be romantic, -though rarely they would be platonic- he knew Lance would want more eventually, but he can’t well not yet.

He looked at where his walking had brought him The Blade of Marmora, the Martial art school run by the Marmora family, his family. He took out his key and opened the door he closed it without looking back by reflex. He unlatched the door labeled staff room, the soft scent of lavender mixed with lemon that most people thought it odd or weird smell on the other hand he adored it.

He walked past his Ojichan’s -or Kolivan as him and Acxa had started to calling him by his first name- desk a picture of himself with Acxa next to him their one of their mother’s hand on each of their shoulders his uncles Thace and Ulaz standing next to mom and Regris in between them Kolivan and Hal-aneoji -Antok- had arms around each other shoulders. All of them smiling a rare sight.

He sat down and finally looked down at his arm the words made him frown slightly ‘why did you leave?’ Lance’s writing was messy and Keith could feel the pain and hurt radiating off of it. ‘I told you I wasn’t ready yet’ he new Lance would almost immediately write back ‘but why?’ 

Why? A simple question with a very complicated answer. Keith was scared that’s why, he didn’t want Lance to leave mom had left and chosen to take Acxa with her -Keith knew that was what his dad told him a it was a lie but, still- then dad left for a bar and only came back when the someone lit the house on fire came in when everyone told him not to and threw Keith out. Then the foster parents left, or just weren’t there for him, and then the Shiroganes came Mrs. Shirogane died Shiro and him got separated in the system -they meet back up a few years back when Keith moved into town-. And then Keith found out the entire time he was in the system Kolivan and Antok were trying to get custody for him. Unable to because they weren’t citizens of The United States Of America.

During the time when he lived with the Shiroganes he found out and was so confused as to why? -why did it take so long to find out? why couldn’t they just have picked him up or something? Why not mom where was her and Acxa in all of this?- After Mrs. Shiroganes death, the Marmora family got custody, he moved to Korea and they became his family. They moved to Texas started a martial art school, Ulaz got a job as a doctor, Antok and Kolivan as security guards, Thace as a cafe worker, along with Regris who meet his soulmate Ilun.

Through it all there was a constant his soulmate nicknamed  ‘Blue’ or ‘Sharpshooter’ who he always told everything, the one person he new he could trust, the eye of the hurricane, the silence in the screams.

He thought Lance knew that so when he came and he figured it out Keith ran, he left his soulmate the person who has always there for him person he would talk to when he felt insignificant, he left like everyone did to him.

Now he sat there Lance waiting for an answer so enthusiastic about meeting his one true love, his other half and he just straight up left.

‘Cause I was scared. Scared you would leave, and then I left you, I’m sorry.’ He didn’t say sorry often the red ink was there for a moment before he realized what lance would ask or think about doing. He knew Lance was probably just gonna ask to meet up. Keith heard the door open. Immediately recognizing the voices Lance’s and Acxa’s. Of course his twin sister betrayed him. He walked out of the staff room.

“Hi Sharpshooter.”

Acxa just smirked and walked out.

“Hi Samurai, do you wanna talk? Or something?”

“Sure”.

Got all Japanese and Korean words from google translate so please correct me if wrong.

Hal-Abeoji is Korean for Grandpa 

Ojichan is Japanese for Grandfather

Edit: I actually forgot to add a title I was laughing after I added one.