And some people wondered why Sparatus hated the Alliance. Hannah slammed two fists on the desk. “So they think there’s a fucking apocalypse coming and they hide the proof? What the fuck is wrong with them?” She held her head in her hands. Took a shuddering breath. “Thirty years in the galactic community and we’ve already fucked ourselves and everyone over.”
“Humanity is impossible to work with.” Sparatus sighed. “How can they expect us to take action if they won’t give us this proof? Do they really expect us to rally all the fleets just because they say so?”
“My people are arrogant.” Hannah snarled. “They think that if they say jump, you should ask how high. They think that they have more of a right to be a leader in a community they’ve barely been a part of for thirty years over species who have been in it for hundreds of them, and then they throw a tantrum about how nasty you are for rightfully pointing out they know jack shit. They’re fucking arrogant.” She forced herself to take a deep breath. “They’re going to ruin us all.” Her voice almost broke. “Spara.”
“I’m going to come over, alright?” said Spara.
“Don’t they need you?”
“This is humanity’s mess, frankly, not mine. And I’m more concerned that…” He paused. Took a deep breath. “Hannah, whether or not the Reapers are real, if things keep going down the path they’re going… we might not get to see each other for a long time. Maybe not even again. This is big, this is bad.”
“You think it might come to war?”
“It’s likely,” said Sparatus. “Very likely. If your damn Alliance doesn’t come up with the proof we need that Commander Shepard’s actions were to save more lives than were taken, if they don’t hand her over, if they continue to defend her and hide her from us - we will have absolutely no choice but to disown humanity, and treat them as a galactic threat. The only way the Alliance can salvage this is by either coming up with the evidence or by extraditing her, and I don’t think either’s going to happen any time soon. Udina’s been buying time, and we’ve secretly given the Alliance some shadow ops to investigate their claims and come up with the evidence, so at least they’re cooperating a little - I don’t want war, Hannah. Nobody wants war. Even if I didn’t have you, I don’t want war, I want to avoid it at all costs.”
“And if it does come to war…”
Sparatus looked at her sadly. He didn’t say anything.
“Humanity is impossible to work with.” Sparatus sighed. “How can they expect us to take action if they won’t give us this proof? Do they really expect us to rally all the fleets just because they say so?”
“My people are arrogant.” Hannah snarled. “They think that if they say jump, you should ask how high. They think that they have more of a right to be a leader in a community they’ve barely been a part of for thirty years over species who have been in it for hundreds of them, and then they throw a tantrum about how nasty you are for rightfully pointing out they know jack shit. They’re fucking arrogant.” She forced herself to take a deep breath. “They’re going to ruin us all.” Her voice almost broke. “Spara.”
“I’m going to come over, alright?” said Spara.
“Don’t they need you?”
“This is humanity’s mess, frankly, not mine. And I’m more concerned that…” He paused. Took a deep breath. “Hannah, whether or not the Reapers are real, if things keep going down the path they’re going… we might not get to see each other for a long time. Maybe not even again. This is big, this is bad.”
“You think it might come to war?”
“It’s likely,” said Sparatus. “Very likely. If your damn Alliance doesn’t come up with the proof we need that Commander Shepard’s actions were to save more lives than were taken, if they don’t hand her over, if they continue to defend her and hide her from us - we will have absolutely no choice but to disown humanity, and treat them as a galactic threat. The only way the Alliance can salvage this is by either coming up with the evidence or by extraditing her, and I don’t think either’s going to happen any time soon. Udina’s been buying time, and we’ve secretly given the Alliance some shadow ops to investigate their claims and come up with the evidence, so at least they’re cooperating a little - I don’t want war, Hannah. Nobody wants war. Even if I didn’t have you, I don’t want war, I want to avoid it at all costs.”
“And if it does come to war…”
Sparatus looked at her sadly. He didn’t say anything.
He didn’t need to.
“Come home,” she told him. “Please. I need you.”
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