Loving You to the Stars and Back // Keith x OC //

The Dream

86

~Athena~

"I found them," I spoke up as I locked on to Voltron's location. Romelle, who was peering over my shoulder, stood quite close. As much as I liked her as a friend, I was annoyed to how close she was. It was already bad enough that Romelle was getting too comfortable around Keith, or at least that was how I saw it. "It should only take us about less than an hour to get there if we get some sort of boost."

"Good," Keith replied as he sat in the pilot seat. "Krolia, get the thrusters ready. We're going to get out of this abyss' solar system."

"Got it," Krolia responded as she immediately got working on the setting the ship's boosters. Not a minute later, Krolia spoke up once more. "Ready."

"Okay everyone, hold on tight for a few seconds," Keith said, gripping the handles of ship's controls. Romelle and I hung to a nearby bar, gripping it tightly before Keith accelerated. As soon as he did, heavy force hit my body backward, causing me to hold on even tighter than before and feel the straight along my arm as I did.

Romelle let out a scream as she let go of the bar. Quickly, I reached out for her wrist before she could fly to the back of the room. Her feet were practically off the floor as Keith flew the ship forward. The added weight of holding on to Romelle increased the pain on the arm that was holding on. Just as I was feeling it, I could feel my fingers start to slip.

'I have to keep holding on,' I told myself in my mind. 'Keith said it would only take a few seconds.' But those few seconds felt close to a minute or so, making it even more difficult for me to hang on.

Just as I was about to let go, the ship slowed down. I looked up to see Keith pulling the levers back closer to his body. At the same time, Romelle's body hit the ground behind me, causing me to fall down with her.

"Ugh," I groaned as I felt the pain vibrate throughout my back.

"I'm so sorry, Athalia. You should have let go of me when we were still accelerating," Romelle said as she sat up from the ground holding her left arm.

I shook my head before sitting upright and looking back at her, "I'm pretty sure ramming your body to the back of the room is even more painful than hitting the ground when the ship isn't moving so fast."

Romelle graced me a warm smile, "Thank you." It was hard not to stay mad at her. Romelle was a kind person despite the cold stares I was getting from her at the very beginning. Of course, I couldn't blame her when she has been suspicious of Lotor this whole time prior to meeting. She thought I was really working with Lotor.

"Are you ladies okay?" Krolia's voice sounded, turning both of our attention to her. Romelle and I looked up to see Krolia standing as if that boost forward didn't affect her in any way.

We nodded our heads before Keith called out, "Sorry about that."

"It's okay!" Romelle cheerfully replied back and got back up to her feet so she could run to Keith's seat. Just when I had let my guard down and was nice to her, Romelle decided to go up to Keith. She was clearly going after him!

I looked at her back from afar, feeling jealousy boil up inside, only to hear a faint chuckle coming from Krolia. I looked back up to her to see a slight smirk on the Galra's face. I could already hear her voice mocking me as I sat here in resentment.

"Come on, Athalia, get up, " Krolia spoke as she extended her hand out to me. "I know that you're not the kind of girl to give up on what she wants." There was a cheeky grin on her face as she tried to lift my spirits.