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A photo of David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor. He is staring into the camera with one eyebrow raised, and there is a galaxy visible behind him.



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    In which a half-Galra baby is found and Keith and Lance are, almost ironically, the two people most suited to deal with it.

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    12 Feb 2026

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    Pidge is still close —closer than is entirely comfortable if he has to be honest— giving him an evaluating glance. Lance doesn’t really know where to look, other than up her nose— but that grows old pretty fast. So he looks at himself in the reflection of her glasses. And squints.

    He touches his own face for the first time since waking up— and feels the roughness of his chin.

    “I have stubble,” he says, and the words are as alarmed as they can be even though they still sound slightly slurred, slightly off.

    Pidge blinks a couple of times at him, and finally retracts into a more comfortable distance.

    “Well, yeah,” she says. “You are like, what? 22? 23 in a couple of months?”

    “I’m feeling— I’m feeling a little queasy,” he says then, with bright spots of color dancing in front of his eyes as he thinks 22.

    Suddenly, a bucket gets shoved against his face. He takes hold of it with clammy fingers and he leans on his side so he can... use it. Thoroughly.

    “I’m having Garrison flashbacks,” he hears Pidge say.
     

    (Or: Lance is stung by an alien bug, loses his memories temporarily and makes assumptions about his and Keith's relationship. Also, Pidge cheats at Uno.)

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    11 Feb 2026

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    It's a difficult thing to go from secretly crushing on your school rival at a distance to sharing a tentative psychic connection with him, an audience of three other people, and an assorted collection of sentient machines.

    Harder still to watch that crush come to be something more.

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    11 Feb 2026

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    Keith gets bits by a love bug and falls for Lance. Allura gets bit and falls for Hunk. The only problem is that Keith already has a real, overwhelming crush on Lance, so he decides to only do what Allura does so he doesn't give himself away. A plan that rapidly falls apart.
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    Lance stared at him expectantly.
    Keith raised his brows at him. “And this… is why… we wear helmets! You reckless, stupid-stupidly hot, annoyingly charming—”
    “Watch out, guys,” Pidge cut in. “I think Keith’s gonna self-combust trying to compliment Lance and drag him at the same time.”
    Lance shoved Keith’s helmet into his chest. “Seriously? Acting like you’re dying, making me feel guilty about taking your helmet off, and you just didn’t wanna say anything nice to me? You’re a dick.”

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    10 Feb 2026

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    Keith gets hurt during a mission, and Lance is not sure how to handle that.

    Lance wakes up on the floor outside of the medical bay, jerking wildly, body a mess of aches and twinges.

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    09 Feb 2026