#but fluffy loopy Keith is great!

[lordofthebigtimesupernatural]

I'm so in love with your Single Dad!Shiro AU I am beyond saving bless your soul thank you for this AU. I have a couple of suggestions 1) everyone has fallen down the stairs once in their lives. Imagine Shiro's reaction to Keith's first trip (you can choose whether it's on a scale of I, who only fell about 5 to the bottom, or my sister, who jumped from the top stair because she thought her fairy wings were real). Also please consider: Keith going to his first Teenage Party(TM) ((y'know)).

Hello! Aw thank you so much for such a sweet ask, you’re making me blush! This is so great. Both of your asks are terrific and great. We all have had our moments down the stairs, some better and some worse (but omg your poor sister!). I hope you like this and the second one was also great but I only had time to write out one oneshot :’(. I still hope you like it! But as for Keith’s first Teenage Party, here’s some HCs:

-Keith went to his first ever party when he was 15, and it was a homecoming celebration of all things.

-Honestly he didn’t even want to go but Lance, Hunk and even Pidge were excited about it bc they knew the guy hosting the party.

-Red wound up coming with Keith bc of all the noises and the crowds and just from the outside, Keith knew this night was going to be a disaster.

-He found a small dark corner where he huddled up with Red standing guard at his side, growling at anyone that tried to get near him.

-Eventually Keith couldn’t handle all of the noises or the strange people or the alcohol and Red is getting antsy too, trying to keep everyone away until finally the kid who threw the party notices and pulls Keith aside (after Red almost tries to bite him) upstairs in his parent’s bedroom where it is much quieter and there are no people

-Red relaxes and the kid allows Keith to call his dad and keeps him calm before Hunk, Lance and Pidge can reach them, and the kid seems to know all the tricks to help Keith calm down until his dad and friends can come get him.

-When Keith finally asks how the kid knows all that, he tells him that his younger brother and sister were both Autistic and Keith reminded him so much of them and who they could be.

But anyway, here is the actual one shot about Keith V. Stairs. Enjoy!

x.V.x

              Keithwas bored.

              And whenhe was bored, things never seemed to end smoothly. After all, Keith was anadventurous four-year-old. He did not always like to sit around and color.Especially when the washing machine andthe dryer were both being obnoxiously loud today. No, Keith was an adventureror an explorer, which meant that Keith could not just sit around all day.

              Especiallynot when daddy was too busy doing taxes. Whatever those were.

              AllKeith knew was that his daddy had lots of ‘mportant papers all over the kitchentable and he has his reading glasseson, which typically was a sign for Keith not to bother his daddy.

              To befair, Keith hadn’t bothered his daddy for a super, duper long time. Consideringthat his daddy had first started working when the big hand was on the 12 andthe little hand was on the ten, on the clock. Now the big hand was almost onthe 11 and the little hand was in between the ten and 11. That must have been such a long time. At least 11 whole numbers!

              “Daddy,is your taxes done? No more?” Keith sauntered up to the kitchen table where hisdaddy was sitting. He had to stand on his tip toes in order to just see overthe table. His fingers began tapping against the old wood out of habit andShiro looked over at his son. Taxes weren’t hard for Shiro but that didn’t meanthat they never took forever to getdone, and with Keith’s adoption completely finalized after so long he had a lotmore work this year than usual.

              Shirohad to give Keith credit. The toddler had lasted nearly an hour of silencebefore bothering him. That was quite impressive considering Keith hadn’t hadhis snuggle time yet today. Carefully, Shiro pulled Keith up on to his lip andrubbed his eyes tiredly. Keith looked all over at the scattered papers,frowning heavily at them before rubbing Shiro’s cheek.

              “Alldone.” Keith announced, causing Shiro to chuckle.

              “I’msorry baby, but no I’m not done with the taxes.” Shiro apologized when he sawKeith’s expression fall.  He hated notbeing able to spend time with Keith (once Keith actually started Kindergarten,who knew how much time he and Keith would have together?), but unfortunately,Shiro had been putting this off for far too long and they needed to get done.“These take a while and Daddy is only about halfway done.”

              “But,I’m hungry.” Keith stated as if that would suddenly make Shiro drop everythingand the taxes would magically be finished. Well, it did work for the latter ofthose two things. Shiro had gotten up and decided that they could both use asnack break and went into the kitchen to make Keith and him a bowl of mac ‘ncheese.

              “Alright.I’m hungry too. How about we get a snack?” Shiro smiled when Keith noddedquietly but the smile on his face melted Shiro’s heart. Stay this way forever.

x.V.x

              Keithsighed dramatically.

              Hewasn’t hungry anymore and his daddy had made sure to make him an extra big andextra delicious bowl of food. He’d even made his own food and sat with Keith onthe bar stools to eat. Unfortunately, after some time when both were finished,his daddy had let Keith go and told him that he needed to finish with thestupid taxes. He promised Keith that he was almost done, but to Keith, that wassooooo long ago.

              Keithwas having trouble keeping occupied while his daddy worked. He colored all thepages in his coloring book (neatly and inside the lines). He’d organized hiscollection of rubber dinosaurs. He’d tossed a ball along the wall until hisdaddy had suggested he go play outside.

              Whichwas why Keith was standing on the outside porch looking down the stairs. Hecould play on the swings? Or he could pick dandelions and make a hat? He couldsit in the grass? Though, none of that sounded fun to the toddler as he stared at the stairs and hand rail of theporch steps. Keith eyed the stairs, debating if he even wanted to go down themand into the yard or stay on the porch. Besidesit takes a while to get down and then back up all those stairs.

              Keithsighed when he looked to the handrail before frowning. He remembered Lance oncetelling him about getting down the stairs faster and with a “funner way” evenif “funner” wasn’t a real word. Lance had bragged at school about the band aidon his elbow from sliding down the handrail at his house. While Keith didn’tcare so much about the band aid or the story, he did remember Lance telling himthat it was much faster than just walking down the stairs.

              PlusLance had only gotten a teeny little cut and that must be because he was superclumsy. Keith was much safer so that must mean he wouldn’t get hurt like Lancedid, right? And it was faster and fun.

              Climbingup the bars on the porch proved to be difficult for Keith and he almost slippeda couple of times, but his determination and motivation won out until he waseventually sitting on top of the handrail. Keith eyes widened when he lookedout into their backyard; he’d rarely ever been this high up before unless hisdaddy was carrying him.

              Was this how daddy felt every day? This wasamazing.

              Keithhad hoped that one day he too could be this tall, so that he may also see whathis daddy sees. Because it was a lot better than barely being able to see overthe kitchen table.

              Keitheyed the downward ramp of the handrail, remembering Lance’s words in the backof his mind. Surely Lance couldn’t be a liar? If he said that this was aneasier way and a faster way to get down, then he must be on to something. Keithwiggled himself along the edge of the handrail before turning his body aroundto get a better grip and begin sliding down.

              However,Keith only managed to travel down about a foot before he suddenly felt himselftumbling off the edge of thehandrail. The ground suddenly was coming up to Keith faster than he everanticipated.

              Therewas a harsh crack and a hard impact when Keith hit the ground.

              Then hescreamed.

x.V.x

              Shirowas so tired.

              But hewas just about done. He had one last page to do and he could call it quits forthis year’s taxes. Luckily, Keith had been fairly quiet since going outside andhe hadn’t bothered Shiro anymore since lunch. Giving Shiro plenty of time tohurry and finish with the taxes.

              However,Shiro nearly jolted out of his chair and almost spilt his coffee all over thetable when he heard a sudden, loud and shrill scream coming from outside.

              Keith!

              Heartthumping in his chest, Shiro left his coffee on the counter and scrambled outthe backdoor where he could not find Keith. But he could hear him (It was hard to not hear the pained screams). Shiro froze,eyes darting around the backyard when he couldn’t spot Keith. He was prettyclose to snapping until he saw a dark blur on the ground beside the porch.

              Quickly,Shiro raced down the stairs where he was horrified to find Keith rolling on theground, clutching one of his arms. When Shiro knelt beside the screaming androlling toddler, it was then that he saw the absurd angle of which Keith’s armwas at and Shiro’s heart sunk. There wasno way that his arm wasn’t broken. It had to be.

              “Keith,Keith, baby what happened?” Shiro gently put his hands down on Keith to keepthe boy from rolling on his arm. Keith wiggled and squirmed and continued toscream as if he were dying. He tried to wiggle free of Shiro’s grip and despitethe tears on his face, and the spottiness of his cheeks and the pain in hisscreams, Shiro did not budge. He knew moving Keith’s arm right now would onlymake matters worse.

              “Hey,hey now, it’s okay sweetheart.” Shiro cooed softly, trying to gather Keith upinto his arms without jostling the broken arm. Keith continued to scream for afew more minutes (breaking Shiro’s heart repeatedly over again) before finallycalming down to loud, wet sobs. It was then that Keith seemed to notice Shirohad arrived.

              “D-Daddyhurts! M-Make stop!” Keith sobbed loudly, unable to curl into his dad due thepain in his arm and the fact that Shiro was holding him rather tightly. “P-Pleasedaddy! Hurts!”

              “I knowsweetheart. I know.” Shiro whispered softly, before standing up. A lump formedin his throat when he moved too quickly and Keith screamed again through histears. “I’m sorry. I’m so sorry. I’m going to help make it all better. I’msorry you’re hurting baby, I know.”

              “D-Daddy.”Keith moaned and hiccupped a sob. Shiro swallowed and ushered back the tearsthat were threatening to fall. In his mad scramble to get Keith help, he’dnearly forgotten to grab his phone or his keys in order to take Keith to thehospital nearby.

              “It’sokay sweetheart, you’re going to be okay.”

x.V.x

              “Whatdid we learn today?” Shiro found himself gently stroking back the hair offKeith’s pale face. The little boy looked at Shiro with glazed eyes and a loopygrin, from where he lay on the hospital bed.

              After anhour of excruciating pain, setting Keith’s arm and getting a cast on the boy,the doctor’s had confirmed that Keith had broken his arm in two differentplaces. He was finally all settled in a hospital bed, which was much too bigfor him, with child-friendly pain medications running through his veins. Shirofinally felt like he could take a breath again and even he had to admit that itwas a bit funny seeing Keith on pain medication for the first time.

              At least he isn’t screaming anymore.

              “Ilearned that daddy is super fast.�� Keith grinned wobbily and Shiro held back asnicker. “Daddy why is your hair white? Are you an alien?”

              Thistime Shiro did laugh, which caused Keith to frown. “No sweetheart, I’m not analien. I promise you.” Keith frowned and eyed Shiro as if he didn’t believe himbefore nodding stubbornly. Until his eyes suddenly widened and he gasped.

              “Daddy!Your arm is gone!” Keith cried out, looking far more devastated than he should be.“Where did you put it?”

              Shiro swallowedback his laughter before flexing the metal fingers of his prosthetic. “Daddy’s armis right here see. It’s just a little bit different.” Keith’s eyes were almostbugging out of his head as he stared at Shiro’s prosthetic as if he had neverseen it before. Shiro almost wanted to take out his phone and film the littleboy.

              “Youmeant a lot different.” Keith gaspedquietly. “That is so much cooler than my arm. Can I have it?”

              Shirobarked out a sudden laugh before ticking Keith’s cheek. Instantly, the toddlergiggled and squirmed away, careful of his cast. “No, I’m sorry sweetheart butyour two arms are just perfect just the way they are.” Shiro gently kissed bothof Keith’s hands, causing him to giggle, and had to maneuver around Keith’scast. “Except, now you gotta be careful with this arm now.”

              Keithfrowned tiredly. “How come?”

              “Well,you accidentally broke the bones and that means –”

              “They’rebroken?! Did you have to glue them back together?!” Keith cried out in completedespair and Shiro continuously had to remind himself of being an awful father if he laughed at Keith now.“Am I gonna lose my arm too?”

              “Nosweetheart. Your arm will be just fine.” Shiro gently ran his fingers throughKeith’s hair which calmed the boy down slowly. Keith leaned back against thepillow, eyes drooping before he let out a mighty yawn. “Your arm will getbetter, but let’s not try to slide down anymore handrails okay?”

              Keithyawned again and smiled. “’Kay daddy. But next time, can you not write yourname on my arm?”

              “Keiththat’s a cast. You’re supposed to do that.”

              “’S notmy name.”