Title: Together, Til The End Of The LineFandom: VoltronPairing: Keith/ShiroRating: Teen & Up

Title: Together, Til The End Of The LineFandom: VoltronPairing: Keith/ShiroRating: Teen & Up AudiencesWords: 2436Chapters: 1/1Additional Tags:  Self-Sacrifice, Established Relationship, Not S4 Compliant, No bad ending, Alternate Reality, reality rift, Angst with a Happy Ending, Suicidal Thoughts, only a very brief mention  Fic Summary: Keith hadn’t expected Shiro to dive in after him. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. He was supposed to do this alone. He should have known better when Takashi Shirogane was involved. My gift for @arfaise  for the @vldexchange​ Sheith Birthday Exchange! It turned out a bit more heartwrenching than I expected but I hope you like it!When the readings started to go wrong, Keith knew he was in trouble. It didn’t take someone with Pidge or Hunk’s calculation abilities to figure out what was going to happen. The rift between the worlds was going to collapse far more violently than they’d predicted. And if someone didn’t stay until the end… Until it closed… They wouldn’t be able to guarantee it wouldn’t drag the surrounding galaxy in with it. Someone had to stay and hold the beam, to keep containing the rift from right inside its edge, to keep pumping altered quintessence at the edge of the rift, destabilizing and collapsing it. He only hoped his efforts would be enough. Black’s beam attempting the same thing from the outside of the rift had stopped being effective some time ago. That was when the readings had gone wrong. Keith hadn’t expected Shiro to dive in after him. It wasn’t supposed to be that way. What— what was he doing!?“Shiro— Shiro, what are you doing!?” Keith tried to not let the panic seep into his voice, watching the monitors, watching the output of the readings. “You’re supposed to stay up there and use the—” “Keith, I know you saw it,” Shiro cut him off, tone serious. He navigated Black to the side of Keith’s ship, turning on the beam mounted to her back. “You and I both saw it, you know what’s going to happen. We both knew it the second the readings started deviating from the simulation predictions.” Keith gritted his teeth, hands clenching on the controls. “…I know. That’s why you should be up there. Not down here. You need to be up there, where you’ll be safe.” “It’s why I have to be down here, Keith,” Shiro answered softly. “Your ship’s beam isn’t big enough to hold this alone. You can’t do this alone.”Keith hesitated before letting out a soft sigh, about to respond when Shiro added, “—But Black can.” “Wh— what?” Keith’s head snapped up, staring at the screen. “What are you talking about, Shiro?” “You should get out of here. …While you still can. Black can— I can hold this by myself. You don’t need to be here. You can get out,” Shiro urged, voice taking on a more desperate tone even as the Lion rumbled with the effort of staying in one place against the fierce and constantly-shifting gravity. Keith frowned, glaring down Shiro’s face on his monitor. “I’m not leaving here without you, Shiro.” “Keith, that’s an order. You need t—” “Mark me down as insubordinate, then!” Keith snapped before sighing. “It doesn’t exactly matter now, does it? I’m not leaving you alone. Not here. Not now. Not ever again. We’re in this together, Shiro.” “Keith…” Keith could hear Shiro’s voice crack, desperate as he watched the hole get smaller, the quintessence beams collapsing the rift in on itself. “Please… Get out… Have a good life…” “I’ve had a good life, Shiro,” Keith was thankful his voice didn’t shake as much as his hands were. “It just… it hasn’t been a long one. But… I’ve had you. And that makes it good enough for me.” “Keith…” Shiro was crying now. Keith could hear it in his voice even without looking at the screen. “You know I never… I never thought I’d find anybody… Dad never stopped talking about how Mom just… left. And I think… it kinda popped the whole fairytale disney true love bubble for me pretty early on…” Keith laughed, the sound dry and slightly bitter on his tongue. Keith hesitated and from the silence he could tell he had Shiro’s attention, that Shiro was giving him the floor to say what he needs to. Keith pressed onward, “But then… but then you happened. You with your big dreams and your high expectations of me and your contagious fucking smile. …And you saw me. Out of everyone at the Garrison, you looked at me and… and you saw me. And you made me believe in— in myself. I didn’t even know that was possible.” The tears on Keith’s face didn’t stop, but neither did the words on his lips. “I was in love with you before I even realized it. I didn’t know you could fall that hard, that fast. It was… It was Disney. It was… real.” Continue reading on AO3!Commission info here! [Currently Closed] | Consider buying me a ko-fi? -- source link

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