song rec: anything by the wrecks tbh but specifically favorite liar or freaking out
favorite liar:
couldn’t listen all the way through | not my thing | it’s okay | kinda catchy | ok i really like this | downloading immediately | already in my library
freaking out:
couldn’t listen all the way through | not my thing | it’s okay | kinda catchy | ok i really like this | downloading immediately | already in my library
i went digging a little further and i really like james dean and out of style!
I absolutely adore the Griffin x Lance story you're doing, would it be too much to ask for another part?
Of course!
Angst galore in this one since we’re dealing with episode 9+.
Part Six | AO3 Link
For a few moments, everything seems fine.
Griffin drops Keith off with his Lion,and he has to admit that the lions are MAYBE a little bit cooler than the MFEs, and uses the Faunatonium to get to the cannon the MFEs are supposed to destroy. There’s been shooting coming from one of the other comms, but he hasn’t had an opportunity to see who it is and it’s not really surprising that a few Galra ships would find one of them. He has faith in the Paladins ability to handle it.
The Paladins are slowly checking in, telling everyone they’ve dropped their pilots off as well.
He doesn’t hear Lance. And he has two unworried seconds to think, Isn’t the Red Lion supposed to be the fastest?
Then he hears, Shiro, “Lance, where are you? Can you hear me?”
And then Lance says, “Veronica look out!” And there’s screaming across the comms before it cuts out completely.
One of the female Paladins shouts Lance’s name, high and worried, but there’s a numbness that settles over Griffin. There’s more screaming, the Paladins frantically trying to get a hold of Lance, but to Griffin their voices sound distant, like their under water.
Griffin doesn’t know how long that goes on, how long he’s carrying something cold and heavy in his stomach or how long he’s flying on autopilot because he can’t manage to clear his dead and stop thinking about what it means that Lance cut out like that.
But eventually he hears Lance’s voice cut through the fog in his head, “Red Lion, checking in!”
Griffin takes a deep breath, steadying himself and trying to clear the fear running through him.
Alright, he tells himself after a beat. Alright.
Anger is better than fear, he decides. Better to channel all that into destroying the MFEs Zaiforge cannon than to go totally useless with fear.
They don’t destroy the cannons, but the cannons doesn’t fire on Earth.
Voltron gets hit by all six cannons.
The Galra take the Paladins.
The Galra take Lance.
In the aftermath, Griffin doesn’t get the chance to shut down, not even for half a moment. The Garrison is shutting the shield down to power the Atlas. Griffin and his team have a mission and it’s one that they can not fail.
Not having time to shut down doesn’t mean that Griffin doesn’t think about it, though.
There’s a voice whispering in the back of his head, a mantra that continues regardless of whether Griffin is helping move supplies or helping personnel board or flying his MFE as the Garrison mounts it’s counterattack - Lance is gone again, Lance is gone again, Lance is gone again.
The Lions escape the Galra.
The Paladins don’t.
But knowing that Lance is alive is enough for the voice in the back of Griffin’s head to quiet a bit.
The Paladins escape.
The voice stops, starts again.
Now it reminds him constantly that Lance is safe for now, is here for now, but that the battle is not over and the Paladins are in an insurmountable amount of danger.
Griffin flies his MFE to the Atlas for a charge, knowing that Lance is here now but there’s no guarantee that he’ll be at the end of the battle.
The second he’s docked, he fires off the problems that have popped up as a result of the damage he’s taken. And then he leaves the mechanics to their work so that he won’t be in their way.
He wants to get back out there as soon as possible, wants to get back out there and do his best to make sure that the Paladins get to come home.
Voltron is pinned, the Atlas unable to get to Sendak.
The MFEs are charged and Griffin flies down to Earth to take out the cannons targeting the Paladins.
He’d be lying if he said he wasn’t thinking of Lance the entire time, thinking about what would happen to them if the earth-to-air cannons destroy one of the Lions.
Knowing that failure could lead to the death of his lover is a powerful motivator.
He knows that’s a little selfish, to be motivated by the death of one person rather than the possible destruction of Earth and all of it’s civilians, but Griffin can’t bring himself to care that much.
He’s always been a little selfish when it comes to making sure he gets what he wants.
They lose contact with the Lions after the shields they’ve been using against the cannons break.
Griffin tries not to think about what that means, focuses on destroying the rest of the MFEs targets.
Not thinking about it doesn’t mean that he doesn’t let out a sigh of relief when the Lions come back - starting with Red.
Sendak’s ship crashes.
Keith kills him.
Griffin gets a moment to think, Lance and I are both safe. We’re both here. We’re both alive. He doesn’t really get to feel the relief that should come with that statement before something else starts plummeting through the atmosphere, going directly for where the Lions landed.
Griffin isn’t around to see it, but he hears from the Atlas that it’s some kind of giant mech, something similar-ish to Voltron.
Griffin can’t help the way he laughs when he hears - angry and heartbroken and grief stricken. He knows what it is the be a soldier, but he can’t help wishing that all of this would stop.
The MFEs are sent back out to draw fire.
Griffin does it without a single heistation.
Anything to make sure Lance gets through this.
In the years that come after Griffin’s nightmares feature two things:
The Lions pushing the other mech into the sky, Griffin watching from the MFEs charging stations with a cold stone in his stomach, wondering how this will end and if this is the moment when he loses Lance for good.
And then the Lions plummeting back down to the ground, thinking that this is the moment when he loses Lance, thinking that this is the moment that something happens which Lance can’t come back from, thinking that after this there will be no Lance to wait for.
