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Hey, it's Pidge. Can't answer right now-- Rover quit it! --so leave a message and I'll get back to you when I can.
Rover, what did I say--?!?!

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[pidge_out]

Of course I was.

[She squeezes back briefly before pulling away just enough to flash an even brighter grin at him.]

But you should've seen your Pokémon. They were really trying to help you out.

[shiro2hero]

Were they really?

[He smiles at her. And then slowly turns his head to stare at his team. Who all duck down behind the porch again.]

[Except Kuro.]

[Who arches his neck over the rail to give Pidge a lick. Hope you like Aggron slobber, Pidgeon.]

[pidge_out]

[She looks so damn cheeky about this.] Emphasis on "trying."

[At least until Kuro goes and licks her, and really he gets more of her hair than her face. It makes that tangled mess look even crazier than usual while Pidge groans in complaint.] Aw-- Gross.

[shiro2hero]

[He can't help it. He just starts laughing. In the way that had been so rare back home. Like he's actually a young man and not the guy at the head of Voltron, the guy with the literal weight of the world hanging over him.]

[Kuro just looks pleased with himself.]

You're welcome, he says.

[pidge_out]

[She kind of wants to continue being annoyed with Kuro for that. But when Shiro just goes and starts laughing, the sound is so real and genuinely joyful that Pidge can't help it. She starts laughing, too.

It's just so good to see him like this.

Of course, revenge is still in order. So she starts trying to rub the saliva out of her hair and onto Shiro's shirt.]

[shiro2hero]

[Pidge starts laughing -- oh, man. That's good to hear. Good to hear any of them laugh. He almost wants to calm down and revel in it -- but -- but then she goes and smears Kuro slobber all over his shirt.]

[Which only makes him laugh harder.]

Good -- good luck! Do you know what Aggron eats? [He lifts his right hand, and, obediently, the big metal dinosaur gently clamps his jaw around it.]

I've been ... getting slobber all over me for years.