It'd been an... eventful two weeks. First they'd broken a bunch of ex-Cerberus scientists and their families out of the stalemate they'd been in with their former employers. Then Hackett had seen them flying around clearing Cerberus and Reaper hotspots, so tac teams could set up beachheads and recover research ( Read more... )

Jack had listened to radio exactly enough to realize he wasn't ever going to quite understand what had happened during the week he'd been ... preoccupied. It didn't matter, really: The island had come through it fine, and he was sure he'd someday get a chance to play the hero once again. That wasn't him being arrogant, though he was. That was a ( Read more... )

Kaidan'd been getting messages from Anderson for a while. The guy really wanted him running this new program and wasn't letting up about it - made Kaidan feel guilty for hanging around here, even if the program hadn't started yet. But today's? Today's message was different ( Read more... )

Looking for something different to do, Allie had made a few calls, picked up a cooler of drinks and headed towards the beach.

Yes it was dark. But at least no one would have to worry about sunscreen.

Kaidan received the call at the office.

Probably a good thing. He wasn't sure he would've made it to the office if he'd gotten it at home.

"All of our data points to the Normandy disappearing through the Omega-4 Relay," the very nice young Lieutenant on the other side of the line repeated. "I'm sorry, Major, that's all we've got.Kaidan pinched ( Read more... )

Since there was no need for a mid-summer welcome picnic, the administration had splashed out on this one: the tables (located under giant tents) were groaning with sidedishes from corn on the cob to potato chips to baked beans to several dodgy-looking jello salads and the grills were set up along the beach cooking chicken, hamburgers, hot dogs, ( Read more... )

Judging by the thunder rumbling in the distance they were going to get a storm at some point during the night. Allie was almost looking forward to it. Storms were much more enjoyable when you had a non-leaking roof over your head. But until the weather chased her inside, she was going to perch on her usual bench in the park and enjoy the evening

"... and you want six random portal hops?" Kaidan repeated.

His eyebrows had achieved an entirely new level of frowning. He stared at the door. Then he stared at the paperwork. The person on the other side - a woman, by the sounds of it - kept talking.

"Okay," he said slowly, "I... guess we can run some numbers..."

Beat.

"You're sure you don't ( Read more... )

Kaidan hadn't been doing much else besides paperwork for the past week, but he was finally making a dent in everything that had been left behind. Enough of a dent to have a clear view of the window, and definitely enough of a dent that angry customers had finally shown up ( Read more... )

Okay, Kaidan couldn't put off coming here any longer than he already had. Actually, as soon as he entered the office, it became patently obvious that maybe he'd already left it longer than he should have. There was paperwork piling up towards the ceiling - how'd that come in here anyway? - and for some reason entirely beyond his understanding there ( Read more... )