A/N: After a battle that left Keith injured, he had no memory of being up in space and who Shiro, his brother, was. Somethings about Keith's past has to come to light for him to heal and be back to who he was.

*TW-Trigger Warning: contains panic attacks, nightmares, child abuse, rape and self harm*

Shiro gently carried his brother over to the pod and placed him inside. Fog began to fill the pod and an icy chill covered the glass of it.

Shiro placed his human hand upon the glass as he knew the conversation that was about to be had. He sighed and closed his eyes, this was something he wasn't looking forward to but knew it had to be addressed for Keith to get better and remember, they must first cover and face that his past really happened.

For no matter how hard you tried to hide the past, it still stayed with you in your present and followed you into your future.

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Shiro stood there for a few moments gathering his thoughts, he could feel everyone's eyes on him and all he could do was sigh for this wasn't something that he wanted to talk about with them especially without Keith's permission but Shiro knew in order for Keith to get better, the others had to know the truth.

He slowly turned to face the others who all had deep concern within their eyes. Shiro bit his bottom lip and glanced back over at his brother for one last time.

"Forgive me" whispered Shiro before he turned back to the others and motioned for them to all prepare themselves for what they were about to hear.

The first thing that Shiro told them was that Keith was his adopted brother, he had been in many foster homes and not all were good. Before Shiro could explain what foster homes and adoption was to Allura and Coran, Pidge spoke clearly to them so they would understand and not take too much time away from the truth that Shiro was sharing with them.

Shiro took them all to the night Keith came into his home, pale and weak. He had been left outside in a horrible storm for hours all because he broke a small glass cup of milk. He cleaned it right up but it just wasn't good enough for his foster father, so after he beat Keith up, he placed a chain around his ankle and tied him up to the tree in the backyard, not caring that Keith was just in a t-shirt and jean or the fact that there was a horrible storm coming their way.

Shiro then took them to a night that he would never forget. It had been a few weeks and Keith was staying with them. For this night, Shiro was awaken by screams coming from the room nexts to his to find Keith in the middle of a nightmare.

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"AHHHH!! NO!! AHHH STOP!!"

Shiro sat up quickly in his bed. He tossed the blankets off of himself and dashed out of his room to Keith's bedroom. He pushed the door open and could see Keith twisting and turning in the bed with tears streaming quickly down his pale skin.

Shiro rushed over to help Keith but that only made things worst. As soon as Shiro's hand touched Keith's shoulder, Keith sat up quickly, gasping for air. His eyes were blown wide with so much fear inside them. Keith quickly turned to face Shiro and shoved himself away from him as fast as he could.

"Hey, it's okay Keith" whispered Shiro as he took a step closer towards the scared boy. Keith flinched the second he moved, immediately going pale. Then he began to shake and Shiro could see more tears filling up his eyes.

"Keith-" began Shiro but Keith moved farther back and pulled his knees up to his chest.

"Please just leave" whispered Keith as he was fighting back the tears, but something inside Shiro just wouldn't let himself leave.

"I can't do that bud" said Shiro and he slowly sat down on the edge of the bed.

"I-I...please I can't take it. I can't take it. I can't take it anymore!" cried out Keith who hide his face in his knees as his whole body shook. Shiro was lost for words, he had no clue what Keith was talking about nor how he could help him out.

Shiro and Keith sat there in silence for a awhile before Shiro asked him a question.

"You wanna talk about it?'' asked Shiro, a part of him figured that Keith would just say no and that would be the end of it all, the night would continue on. They sat there for a few more seconds and Shiro believed that Keith wasn't going to answer him but then he saw Keith raise his head and lock eyes with him and nod his head 'yes'.

"The....T-The memories won't stop, won't leave and I....I can't take it anymore" said Keith as he wrapped his arms around himself and at that moment Shiro saw Keith's arms. Both arms from his wrist to almost his elbows were covered in scars, so many old and faded but some clearly new and fresh. It broke Shiro's heart to see Keith in so much pain, he was no slightly blaming himself, for it he had spoken up sooner to his parents then maybe Keith wouldn't be in all the pain he was in now.

"Keith, it's okay..." said Shiro but he was so wrong about that.

"I...I can still feel him. I-I....I can't escape it! He....I...I can't..." whispered Keith and Shiro's eyes widen at what Keith was implying. "He...he did more th-than hit m-me. He...t-touched me and I-I couldn't...I couldn't st-stop him. I....I...I can't..."

"Keith?" questioned Shiro as he saw Keith struggling to breathe before his eyes.

"I...I can't...I can't breathe" Keith stuttered out as he was entering a panic attack. Shiro without thinking everything through, just saw the fear in Keith's eyes and the helplessness written all upon his face,reached out and touched his shoulder.

The second Shiro touched Keith, Keith had started screaming and Shiro could hear his parents yelling downstairs as to what was happening.

Keith kept screaming and backed away from Shiro as fast as he could and his whole body began to shake. Shiro without knowing so had sent Keith back into his memories of the time he was raped. He began shaking his head, pleading that he stop, begging for help. His hands moved up to his hair and clutched it tightly as he screamed again. Shiro turned around to see his parents in the doorway and no one knew what to do.

The screams and pleads turned into cries as Keith curled himself up in as tiny as a ball as he could, crying heavily into his knees.

Shiro turned to his parents for they were whispering and he heard his mother ask his father,

"How do we help him?"

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Shiro glanced up after telling the other paladins the story and could see so many different emotions held within each of their eyes. The biggest emotions were sadness and anger. Sadness for how awful Keith's life has been and anger towards those who caused him so much pain.

"I....I think I now understand what I felt before, when I said his memories were broken and scattered and I think I know a way to help Keith out'' said Allura.

Shiro sighed in relief at the possible good news and turned back around to look at Keith in the pod while the others talked about their next steps in helping Keith out.