Heyo so I'm a heartless piece of Voltron Crap who loves angst way too much. Enjoy, and this goes out to @mattubular on Tumblr, who I shared this rad idea with and then got a sweet edit of Matt Holt in shades crying back. Enjoy, my dudes. And please review!

"Dad!"

She had ran into her father's arms, tears making her vision blur. He was back, a little worse for wear, but he was back. Him and Matt...

They'd finally found them. A tip from Thace's files led them to the rebellion, where they found someone who knew a someone...

But that didn't matter. They found them.

Samuel Holt was an old man. There was no dancing around that fact, and he had sustained some serious head trauma during his time in the mines. Matt had explained a cavern that they'd been working in had collapsed sometimes during their imprisonment.

Shiro blamed himself. Pidge could see it, but she hadn't had time to explain why he was being so ridiculous.

For now, she had time to finally hug her father. A man she hadn't seen in over two years. It sounded insignificant when she put it that way. He'd been on longer space missions. Before she was born Samuel Holt had been part of a mission that lasted 3 years.

But when every day was spent fighting aliens, liberating planets and generally risking your life, two years seems a lot longer.

"Hey, kiddo." He hugged her back. "That crazy man with the moustache scanned my head. I can't imagine why."

She blinked back her tears. "Dad, you were in an accident, remember?"

He paused. "That's right, the cave in." He chuckled. It was eerie, it wasn't the nervous laugh of an injured man. It was genuine laughter. "We got off work that day!"

He scratched his temple. "Is Katie going to come by?"

She stiffened.

"You were saying she was here."

"Dad, I'm Katie." She laughed, forcing herself. This was one of his jokes, about how she'd changed so much. She was 15, she cut her hair, she'd grown so much... the punchline would come soon...

"Matt, when is she coming? I miss her." He admitted, fidgeting with his hands. "She must've been so scared, when we were taken."

"I was." she murmured.

"I know you were scared, Matt. We all were. But Katie..." he smiled. "Katie is such a brave girl."

Pidge clenched her fists. "Dad, it's me, it's Katie. I cut my hair, but it's me! It's me, it's your girl!" she was pleading now, holding his hands.

"Matt, I bet Katie never stopped looking for us." He looked her straight in the eyes. They were blank.

He really couldn't recognize her.

"I never stopped, I never..." she was sobbing, she was crying into his lap. She wanted him to open his eyes, to see her. To be with him again, not what the accident had made him.

The door to the infirmary opened. Matt stood there, wearing some extra clothes that must've come from Lance, judging by the way they draped on him. He looked sadly at Pidge, kneeling beside her and wrapping her in his arms.

"He loves you." He told her, rubbing her back. "Every day, the memory of you is what kept him going. The thought of getting back to you, and mom..."

"I failed him, I failed mom..." she cried. "Mom doesn't know what happened, t-to any of us..."

Matt sat there for a while, as Sam stared blankly at his hands, unaware of the exchange happening by him.

Finally Matt looked up to his father. "Dad,"

He looked down. "Yes, Matt?"

"If Katie... were here, right now..." he glanced at her, wiping tears from her eyes. "What would you tell her?"

"She is here, isn't she?" He asked, confused.

"Yes, but you... you can't see her."

"Why not? I want to see her, Matt! I miss her! I want to see my daughter!" He was yelling now.

Pidge stood, taking her brother's hand for support. "I want you to see me too. Coran's going to try to help. To help you recover from the accident."

"Katie, we should go." Matt said quietly, pulling on her hand.

She nodded quietly, letting him lead her. Matt led her, the one who'd been on this ship for a year, instead of the other way around.

Her entire team was waiting for her. Shiro, tears at the corner of his eyes. Lance, hands in his pockets and staring at his shoes. Kieth, his lips in that straight line that meant he was suppressing tears. Coran, looking at her with his kind eyes. Allura, struggling so hard to stay standing tall, while tears snaked down her cheeks.

Hunk, holding out his arms for her.

She fell into them, letting out the sobs she'd harbored earlier. She felt others move around her, rubbing her back, murmuring under her sobs. She felt the cool metal of Shiro's arm resting on her shoulder.

"I'm so sorry, Pidge." She couldn't tell who said it, she wasn't focusing, she wasn't there. She was back home, a 13 year old girl, watching from the stairs as her mother stared in shock at the television. In that moment, Katie Holt had decided to get her father back. That there was no way she was losing him.

They were all speaking now. "I'm so sorry..."

He was still here. He remembered her, but he couldn't recognise her.

She hadn't gotten him back, after all.

"I want to see my daughter!" Another shout came from behind the doors.

In the battle against Zarkon, they'd lost again.