That night Keith slept more peacefully than he had in many quintants. He was finally home, with his family. And with...Allura. He was rather surprised by the pleasant dream he ended up having. He imagined he was back at his little house on Earth in the desert, working on his bike in the garage. He heard the door open and turned and expected to see his dad or some other relative he might have there but instead his eyes widened when he saw it was Allura.

"Keith, you've been fixing up that old bike for over an hour." She complains and pouts before coming over to him and placing her hands on his chest. "Won't you please come back to bed?"

"Bed?" A now very red faced Keith asked in a confused and flustered tone.

"Yes. I'm your girlfriend we share a bed Keith." She says before pecking his cheek.

"You're my girlfriend?" He asks and he feels his heart fill with warmth and his usual frown start to change into a smile. She laughs.

"Oh Keith have you forgotten?" She asks him and laughs. "Perhaps I should do something to remind you..." She suggests and pushes Keith back into his bike more and she presses her lips to his and they start making out.

Keith let himself melt into the kiss and he flipped her around and sat her on the seat of the bike, sliding his hands under the light pink nightshirt she was wearing, caressing her body as he devoured her mouth.

"Let's go for a ride baby." He says in a husky tone and winks at her before mounting his bike, her sitting behind him and holding his sides as he revs up the engine and then they take off out of the garage and into the desert.

He woke up and screamed. He looked around and saw that he was just in his room, and Allura wasn't there. He ran a shaky hand through his hair and tried to make sense of his strange dream.

"Why would I have a romantic dream about Allura?" He asks himself. "I was kissing her, we were in love, I wanted to be in love with her, I wanted to kiss her. Do I still want to now that I'm awake?" He asks and thinks about it.

His eyes widened when he realized, given the opportunity he would kiss her soft lips, caress her strong feminine figure, and worship her like the Goddess she was. Not only was she incredibly beautiful but she was so kind, caring, and a natural leader like Shiro. He wanted to be at her side as much as possible. He realized then that he was starting to fall for the princess, and he was terrified because he knew she could never love him back.

Allura tried not to roll her eyes as Lotor stood close to her by the castle controls. He was clearly trying to flirt with her and she was clearly not interested but this pompous, privileged prince just couldn't take a hint!

"Why princess I must say the stars before us are lovely wouldn't you think?" He asks.

"Yes Lotor they are rather splendid." She says flatly and Lotor frowns then smirks.

"But they don't shine nearly as bright as your eyes." He compliments and the mice face palm and Allura groans and rolls her eyes.

"Thank you Lotor but perhaps instead of flirting you should be focused on your current task of locating Galra fleets." She tells him and shoots him a steely glare. Lotor turns on his heel and leaves then he hears Keith walk up to the princess and turns to watch their interaction.

"Allura, here are the planets that that blades are going to help liberate." Keith says and hands her some papers.

"Oh Keith that's wonderful!" Allura says happily and smiles at him. "Thank you so much."

"You're welcome." He says then gently reaches out and holds one of her earrings in his fingers, prompting the girl to blush. "Did you get new earrings?" He asks.

"Oh yes I did." She tells him and laughs nervously. "They're an old pair of my mother's that I found in the castle. Do you like them?" She asks.

"They're beautiful." Keith says then blushes before adding. "But not nearly as beautiful as your eyes."

"Oh Keith..." Allura says softly and blushes, turning away from him so he can't see how flustered she is.

Steam was pouring out of Lotor's ears as he watched them. How come the princess was revolted by him complimenting her eyes but when Keith did she acted like a pining little girl with her first crush! Does Princess Allura have feelings for that half-blood peasant? His jealous thoughts were interrupted by Hunk.

"Hey everyone I made dumplings!" Hunk announces and the other paladin's faces, minus Shiro's light up and they all charge at Hunk.

Allura leaned over the control panel as everyone continued to eat and work and sighed dreamily. She couldn't stop thinking about her chat with Keith last night. Ever since the two of them had run off in that pod together she had developed a small crush on the Galran hybrid but last night was incredible! Back on Altea she had always had suitors either try to be overprotective because she was a princess or be too laid back and not help her out at all with any of her royal duties. She wanted someone who would still allow her to be independent and rule her people as she pleased, but also acknowledge that every now and then she needs a knight in shining armor to defend her when she can't do so herself. Keith proved to her last night that he was that knight or in this case, paladin that she was looking for.

She could see it now. The castle was under siege by the Galra. Allura imagined herself fighting valiantly in a corridor. She truly was a force to be reckoned with. No droid or general could match her prowess and strength. But what the princess didn't notice was the general who had been hiding, waiting for the precise moment to strike. Allura took down the last droid and smiled, satisfied with her work. Then the general jumped on top of her and held a laser gun to her neck.

"Alright princess, now come along quietly or else we'll kill you." He growls and pulls her up to stand.

There were other soldiers accompanying him. Allura wasn't sure how she'd be able to get herself out of this one. The realization quickly dawned on her that she'd have to sacrifice herself. She couldn't let them get information on Voltron.

"I will not come quietly, therefore you'll have to kill me." She says sternly.

"Get off of her!" A familiar angry voice yelled before the red paladin's blade pierced through a soldier's chest.

Every time Allura had imagined a scenario in which her knight in shining armor the figure had always been discernible. But now it was very clear that the man before her, fighting valiantly, was none other than Keith. He killed all of the soldiers and then pointed his blade at the soldier's neck.

"Put that thing away or I'll shoot her." The general growls.

"You'd be dead before your hand squeezes the trigger." Keith says and the general falters. Then Keith plunged his blade deep into his neck, killing the general. "No one messes with my princess." He says before disarming his bayard and letting the general fall to the floor.

Keith's hard gaze changed to one of concern and he carefully approached the princess.

"Are you okay?" He asks and she throws her arms around him and kisses him.

"Oh Keith! Thank goodness you came!" She exclaims and the background fades away and changes to a sparkly pink one.

"I'll always come for you princess. As long as I'm here I'll make sure no one ever hurts you." He says and her heart flutters as he holds her against his chest and she looks up at him dreamily. "Now let's get you back to the command center, you have coalition to lead." He says and her heart does a backflip.

"Yes and I must get to them immediately but kiss me first!" She begs and yanks on Keith's armor and smashes her lips to his.

"Allura, Allura." She heard a voice call to her in her dream.

"Oh Keith..." She sighs dreamily.

The voice calling her name kept repeating itself and she opened her eyes, expecting to see her brave paladin before her but instead she saw Coran.

"Allura?" He asks in a concerned tone and she quickly jumps up and tries to look as professional as possible while also doing her best to hide her embarrassment. She could feel her Altean markings becoming more pink than usual. "Allura...where you, dreaming about Keith?"

Lotor's head whipped around, a vein bulging from his head. Keith choked on one of the dumplings he was sharing with Lance and Lance had to hit him on the back so he would spit it out. It hit Pidge in the head.

"Ouch!" She yells. "Lance!"

"It's not my fault! Keith ate the dumpling!" Lance argues.

"Yeah but you hit me in the back!" Keith argues.

"That's only because you choked when you heard Allura was having a romantic dream about you!" Lance yells and Keith's face turned bright red and Lotor growled.

"Wait it was a romantic dream!" Hunk exclaimed. "Oh my gosh I knew it! Allura has a crush on Keith!" Hunk screamed.

"I do-" Allura quickly tried to lie to calm everyone down.

"Oh Allura that's wonderful. I'm so happy you've found love!" Coran exclaims.

"Wait a minute Keith do you like her back?" Matt asks from the other chair next to Pidge,

"What!" Keith exclaimed and shot an angry look at Matt. "W-why on Earth would you think that?"

" You were moaning Allura's name last night in your sleep." Matt said.

Everyone gasped and looked completely shocked. Allura's heart soared. Was Keith having a romantic dream about her as well? But if he was moaning her name in his sleep then did that mean his dream was more of a...oh my. She wasn't sure how to feel about that.

"What no I was not! I was not moaning her name! I just had a dream about her but it wasn't like that!" Keith quickly responds.

"Wait...what if Keith wasn't dreaming about Allura?" Lance asks and his face starts to pale and everyone starts to get shocked again. "And he was moaning her name because she was in there with him-"

"Lance are you seriously suggesting that Keith and I-" Allura angrily said before getting cut off by Pidge.

"Wait a minute is that why you and Keith were in his room while he was shirtless?!" Pidge exclaimed.

"What no that was not-" Keith tried to reassure her.

"Oh my stars they totally quiznacked!" Hunk exclaimed.

"Wait WHAT!" Coran explodes and looks at Keith menacingly, lightning flashing behind him to portray his anger.

"C-Coran..." Keith stammered and started to back away.

Coran's vision was red and in his mind he envisioned himself having his eyes target Keith like a ship about to shoot it's missiles at the target it locked on to.

"Coran what are you-" Shiro starts to say then Coran lifts his laser gun at points it at Keith.

"Sorry Keith. Until a few minutes ago you were a treasured friend. But now I'm going to have to kill you for your crimes." Coran says seriously.

"Whoa Coran don't you think you're being a little unreasonable!" Lance exclaims.

"Personally I think that's a perfectly logical action." Lotor says calmly.

"Of course you would." Shiro says in a deflated tone.

"Coran...put the gun down-" Keith says and starts to back away.

"You deflowered the princess!" Coran yells and shoots at him.

Keith jumps out of the way, just narrowly missing the shot and running out of the command center. Coran followed him. The two of them ran throughout the castle.

"I'll get you you horny orphan rat! I'm gonna shoot that ridiculous mullet right off your head!" Coran yells.

"Coran! Keith and I did not sleep together!" Allura yells at him as he ran down the hall.

"Stop lying to defend him!" Coran yells at her. "Now the Galra have truly taken everything from you! Your father, your people, and now your virginity!"

Allura groaned and face palmed.

"Ugh, men never listen." She complains.

"Now I've got you!" Coran says when Keith reaches a dead end in the hallway.

Shiro jumped on top of Coran but his Altean strength made it hard for the black paladin to hold him down.

"Team I need backup!" Shiro calls to them and they all run over to Shiro and jump on top of him and Coran.

Lance gets the gun out of Coran's hand. Keith panted and bent over, his hands on his knees. Allura came running up behind them and Lance looked over at her.

"Hey Allura help us-" Lance says then looks confused when Allura runs past him.

"Keith!" Allura exclaimed and ran over to him.

"Allura-" Keith said in a confused tone then gasped as she threw herself at him and hugged him.

"Oh Keith are you alright?" Allura asks sweetly.

"Allura..." Keith said in a softer tone and looked at her.

Suddenly everything faded away and he saw her with a pink sparkly background behind her.

"Did he hurt you?" Allura asks and brings her face a bit closer to his. "I'm so sorry if he did, Coran and my father were very close, he's always been very protective of me."

"I'm fine Allura." Keith says and blushes, holding her gently in his arms. Now both of them were blushing and looking endearingly at each other.

"Are you two sure you're not a thing?" Pidge asks and the two of them freak out and jump apart, facing away from each other.

"We're not!" They both shout at the same time.

"I'm not in love with Keith!" Allura declares. "I just had a dream that he happened to be in that's all."

"Y-yeah same here." Keith says. "I'm totally not infatuated with the princess."

"I sure hope not." Lotor says, leaning against the wall. "It would only lead to heartbreak. For both of you." He says and comes over to Allura.

"And why is that?" Keith asks, narrowing his eyes, looking angry.

"Because Allura and I are engaged." Lotor says and everyone gasps and Keith's eyes widen and his heart snaps in half. The sight brought tears to Allura's eyes.