Voltron Legendary Defender (OC'S ONLY)

Zanna coughed, "Or so he says."

Alex shoots her a glance. "Uh huh. Anyways, thank you Gwen, for helping us."

Zanna nodded, "Yeah, we probably would have been wandering the stars with out you. And this idiot would be dead."

"Hey! I'm not that dumb! Besides, I've had worse!" He scoffs, shaking his head.

"And so have I!" she pointed to her prosthetic leg with her prosthetic arm.

He points to his eye, shaking his head, "We've been through hell, huh?" He chuckles wryly.

"We really have," Zanna laughs along with him. Her mind begins to wander, No stay focused.

He sighs before sitting in the pilots chair, running a hand through his already harassed hair.

Maybe it was a mixture of exhaustion and the Galra, or maybe it was from her quintessence flash. However Zanna couldn't stay focused her mind showed her images of the lab, the Galra, Haggar. She backed away from them her breathing quickening, "Nonono. Stay away. Stay away!"

"Hey, hey. Easy." Alex stands, walking to her side. He was familir with flashbacks, but he had learned how to deal with them.

She mistook Alex for a Galra. Zanna's arm prosthetic crackled with quintessence, "I said stay away!"

"Easy. Listen. It's me, it's Alex. Calm down." he kneels in front of her, gently raising his hands.

Zanna's vision flashed showing Alex for a split second before returning back to the Galra. Her arm relaxed and she curled into a ball. Tears were spilling down her face. She shakily said, "How? How do I know you aren't another one of her tricks?!"

"I'm not, I'm real, I promise. You're safe." He eases gently. "I'm right here." he says softly.

Zanna looked up at him. She looked him right in the eye and said, "Prove it."

"How do you want me to prove it?" he asks gently.

"T-tell me something she wouldn't know," Zanna said her vision beginning to clear. She still didn't trust it yet.

He looks down, "I had a sister, and a little brother. My brother was so full of himself I always swore he was going to get himself killed. My little sister… she didn't deserve to die. I lost my planet six years ago. Not to the galra but to their own people… I was the only one to survive." He whispers.

Zanna's vision cleared and she hugged Alex, "I'm so sorry. I-I didn't know."

He starts at the hug, but hugs her back, clearing his throat. "Not that it matters…" he mutters. "But we're a team now, gotta stick together, right?" he asks.

"Yeah," Zanna said, "We're a team."

He pulls away, giving her a slightly reassuring smile before clearing his throat. "You okay now?"

Zanna nods, "Yeah. I think the event from earlier triggered it."

He nods, "If you want, I had flashbacks after I escaped them. If you want help… controlling them, I'm more than glad to help."

Zanna looked down at the floor, "That would be great. Though I don't think they'll ever go away."

"They never do." He answers softly.

"Why don't they?" Zanna asked, "That doesn't seem right."

"Once something happens… if it's good enough, bad enough… it'll stay with you…" he says after a minute.

Zanna slumped over, "So everything's going to stick with me. I can't recall one good thing from my past, well except the five or six planets I helped free."

"Well, we'll make more good memories… Somehow."