That Which Was Lost (3/?)
anonymous
June 24 2012, 02:37:28 UTC
"You never gave me a straight answer for why you did it."
The kid went still for a long moment, hands motionless at the controls. The uneven lighting in the bay cast dark shadows across her face as she bowed her head.
"The last shot was mine," she said, finally, quietly. "Shepard didn't want me to be the one who killed her."
Oh. Crap. That little detail hadn't been in the official report, or the unofficial one either. She knew from personal experience that losing your parents at such a young age could fuck you up pretty good for a few decades, but shooting, killing your own mother - it was the kind of thing that could scar you for life. A little bit of her anger towards the girl drained away.
A little bit.
"I didn't mean that," she replied awkwardly, feeling like the mother of all heels, but pressed on anyway. "I can understand saving her. She's your mother. But why keep it a secret?"
Liara shrugged, a subdued movement, and returned once to work once more.
"At first we thought we might be able to, I don't know, figure out exactly what had happened to her. How to help her break free permanently and stop it from happening to other people. But nobody believed us about the Reapers, even after they attacked the Citadel. An unimaginable invasion fleet waiting in dark space? Mind control? It all sounded so... fantastic." She shook her head slightly. "With Saren dead, the Council would have used her as a scapegoat. More than they did anyway. She would have been publically tried as traitor and imprisoned. Maybe even executed. And she still would have been under Reaper control throughout. I... I couldn't do that to her."
The kid finished the last of the diagnostics and looked back up at her.
"Everything's green," she said. Her voice held and odd mixture of satisfaction and concern. "Are you ready?"
"Well," Aethyta sighed and cracked her knuckles, "I guess I'd better be."
Re: That Which Was Lost (3/?)
anonymous
June 24 2012, 19:25:07 UTC
Oh God this is so good! I always thought it was a tragedy that a great character like Benezia died in ME1. I can hardly wait to see where you take this. Thanks so much for this!
The kid went still for a long moment, hands motionless at the controls. The uneven lighting in the bay cast dark shadows across her face as she bowed her head.
"The last shot was mine," she said, finally, quietly. "Shepard didn't want me to be the one who killed her."
Oh. Crap. That little detail hadn't been in the official report, or the unofficial one either. She knew from personal experience that losing your parents at such a young age could fuck you up pretty good for a few decades, but shooting, killing your own mother - it was the kind of thing that could scar you for life. A little bit of her anger towards the girl drained away.
A little bit.
"I didn't mean that," she replied awkwardly, feeling like the mother of all heels, but pressed on anyway. "I can understand saving her. She's your mother. But why keep it a secret?"
Liara shrugged, a subdued movement, and returned once to work once more.
"At first we thought we might be able to, I don't know, figure out exactly what had happened to her. How to help her break free permanently and stop it from happening to other people. But nobody believed us about the Reapers, even after they attacked the Citadel. An unimaginable invasion fleet waiting in dark space? Mind control? It all sounded so... fantastic." She shook her head slightly. "With Saren dead, the Council would have used her as a scapegoat. More than they did anyway. She would have been publically tried as traitor and imprisoned. Maybe even executed. And she still would have been under Reaper control throughout. I... I couldn't do that to her."
The kid finished the last of the diagnostics and looked back up at her.
"Everything's green," she said. Her voice held and odd mixture of satisfaction and concern. "Are you ready?"
"Well," Aethyta sighed and cracked her knuckles, "I guess I'd better be."
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Going to be keeping an eye on this one, anon. Hope to see more.
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