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Keith had been with the blades for a couple of days now. They treated him well, despite not being able to communicate with them well. The only really annoying part of this baby thing, besides the diapers and being a baby, is the fact that they don’t know his name. Kolivan and Antok decided that they can no longer keep calling him Kit, Keith had no problem with the name though. It was close enough to his name so he wasn’t complaining, though they seemed dead set on giving him one.
He was glaring up at them from his spot in the nest, a section in the middle with a few fuzzy red blankets and a pillow that was ridiculously soft. Arm’s crossed over his chest in petulance.
“We really can’t keep calling you kit little one.” Antok tried to placate the current toddler.
“Yorak also holds great meaning for us,” Kolivan explained.
Keith angrily thought that one of them should just change their name to it then.
“It was my Ratik’s name,” Kolivan explained.
“And both Krolia, your Sara, and I had wanted to name on from either of our first litters after him,” Antok added.
Keith was confused at that. Sara? What did that mean? Why was that so important?
“Sawa?” Keith tried to say.
The two men looked shocked down at him. Antok quickly turned gleeful as he scooped Keith up.
“Yes! Sara! Your Sara is Krolia and she is my littler mate, which means I am your Ratith! And Kolivan is out Ratik which makes him your Takratik!”
Keith scrunched his face p in thought. So those things Antok said are obviously titles. The sound like…. Sara would mean mom, so littermate would be sibling and then Ratith would mean uncle! And then Ratick would mean Father and Takratik would mean Grandfather! They were his family! That’s what pack meant. Family.
Keith then had a huge grin on his face as all the dots made connection after connection. He soon let out a giggle of happiness at knowing he had a family once again.
“Yes, and we would be happy if you allowed us to call you that, at least until you are able to tell us your own name,” Kolivan told Keith.
Keith paused in thought. While it sounded pretty ridiculous to human standards, it must not be that bad for Galran. It actually sounds kinda tame considering the other Galran names he’s heard. Slowly he nods in approval. It will only be till they find out my actual name, which won’t take that long. Hopefully.
A few days passed and there was a hustle in the base’s hanger. An undercover blade had to be forcefully extracted once he was found out. Keith peeked over Kolivan’s back as the cruiser landed. It was all banged up and charred but clear of anything trailing it. Two blades disembarked one heavily leaning on the other with a limp. He was obviously the undercover agent. He still wore the imperial armor. He had this fur and his hair fluffed out on the side covering is ears. The other Galra still had his hood on but his tail swayed gently as they approached Kolivan and Antok. The two tilted there head in salute as the undercover blade flinched in pain. The tail one held the other as he stumbled.
“I am thankful for your safe extraction, but I think it best that you get to the medical wing now,” Kolivan said with a slight bow back.
The injured blade’s eyes blew wide as he locked eyes on Keith, “And perhaps you can then explain how you came by a kit.”
Kolivan let out a huff in response, “He is Krolia’s, and will be explained when you are well and back in our pack nest, Thace.”
“I look forward to that Kolivan.” Thace said with a cheeky grin.
A few days had gone by with just him and Krolia, but he learned a lot and grew to trust her. He found out that she was once on earth. Shiro was amused with all her question on what’s changed. So he filled her in on earth and she explained to him the Blade and the things they’ve done. Though he was still injured and the wound wasn’t doing much better. They kept it cleaned and bandaged. Though they knew that this wound was not getting better, the pain was only being prolonged
As they were sitting down for a meal of whatever poor creature Krolia managed to catch, static suddenly erupted in the cockpit with Pidge’s voice ringing through. Shiro jumped up, rushing to the console.
“Pidge! It’s so good to hear your voice!” Shiro sighed in relief.
“It’s good to hear yours too.” She said clearly this time.
“We are able to pick up the lions signal,” Allura came on the intercom next, “We will be at your location in less than a varga!”
“Good, cause I think I may need a healing pod.” He said as he looked back down at his bandages. He locked eyes with Krolia then too, “And I’m bringing a friend with me. You may not believe it, but she is on our side. She saved my life.” she smiled in acceptance at him at his words.
“We trust you, Shiro,” Allura commented, “We will see you both soon.”
“I do not trust this Galra!” Allura shouted as Shiro came out of the healing pod and into a meeting room with all the paladins, accept Keith. It worried him that Keith had yet to be found.
“But you trust me don’t you?” Shiro replied back. “At least that’s what you told me.” he glared back at her. “Krolia saved my life while I was on that planet. I am only here with you now because of her. She does not deserve to be locked up like some prisoner.”
For that is what had happened as soon as Shiro had passed out when he came down the ramp of the black lion. Krolia had apparently caught him as the others raced to him. Allura then attacked her while Coran and Pidge rushed him off to the healing pod. Allura took it upon herself to pass judgment on his friend and handcuffed her and put her in one of the prisons cells he didn’t even know they had.
“It is Galra. They will earn your trust and turn their back on you in an instant, it is what they do!”
“Not all of them” Shiro shouts back. Hunk, Pidge, and Lance all smartly stayed out of the argument for the time being. “How do you think I escaped? A Galran doctor, named Ulaz helped me!”
“You remember now?!” Pidge questioned excitedly.
Shiro turned to Pidge with a bit of sadness, “Only bits and pieces. I know a Galra by the name of Ulaz helped me escape and put coordinates into my metal arm. Perhaps you can find them for me?” the young girl smiled eagerly.
“I still do not trust this woman,” Allura commented.
“Well you better learn, cause without her we wouldn’t of even have the blue lion.”
“Wait, what?” Lance bugged out in surprise. “What do you mean by that?!”
“I mean, that she had been on earth before her undercover mission. She had found and protected the blue lion from getting into the empire’s hands. Without her intervention earth would have been invaded and another lion would have been in Galra hands, the hands of the empire, 19 years ago.” He turns to leave the silence that he created.