Re: FILL: To Break A Hero (F!Shep/Kaidan) 1.1/?
anonymous
January 25 2014, 04:12:24 UTC
The Illusive Man watched the image of Shepard flicker and disappear, and he resisted the urge to throw his drink glass across the room. She’d refused to turn over the Collector Base to him. And Miranda Lawson had tendered her resignation. The entire Lazarus cell was gone - his investment was gone.
Shepard’s assault had put the Collectors - and by extension, the Reapers - on notice. Which meant that he had very little time left to plan. He was almost tempted to let it go. To write it off and move on.
Except that if Shepard wasn’t on his side, she was opposing him. He could predict what she would do - invoke her status as a Spectre to try and unify the Council races. Which lessened the chances that Cerberus would reap the spoils of the Reapers.
Which meant that he needed to take Shepard out of the game.
A straightforward attack wouldn’t do it. Shepard would be on guard for something like that now. Besides, after all the work he’d put into her, she was damn near indestructible these days. So he had to attack her from another angle. Find a weak point.
He pressed one of the buttons on his chair, and a minute later, one of his operatives entered. “Bring me Kaidan Alenko,” he directed. “Alive and in one piece.”
The operative nodded and walked out. The Illusive Man allowed himself a small moment of satisfaction. He’d already started using Reaper technology to make loyal Cerberus shock troops. It was time to see what it could do on an Alliance soldier like Alenko. He would relish the moment when Shepard figured out what he’d done, the horror she’d experience knowing that he controlled her lover.
Then he put the matter out of his mind. Alenko would be delivered soon enough, and he had other things to take care of.
Shepard’s assault had put the Collectors - and by extension, the Reapers - on notice. Which meant that he had very little time left to plan. He was almost tempted to let it go. To write it off and move on.
Except that if Shepard wasn’t on his side, she was opposing him. He could predict what she would do - invoke her status as a Spectre to try and unify the Council races. Which lessened the chances that Cerberus would reap the spoils of the Reapers.
Which meant that he needed to take Shepard out of the game.
A straightforward attack wouldn’t do it. Shepard would be on guard for something like that now. Besides, after all the work he’d put into her, she was damn near indestructible these days. So he had to attack her from another angle. Find a weak point.
He pressed one of the buttons on his chair, and a minute later, one of his operatives entered. “Bring me Kaidan Alenko,” he directed. “Alive and in one piece.”
The operative nodded and walked out. The Illusive Man allowed himself a small moment of satisfaction. He’d already started using Reaper technology to make loyal Cerberus shock troops. It was time to see what it could do on an Alliance soldier like Alenko. He would relish the moment when Shepard figured out what he’d done, the horror she’d experience knowing that he controlled her lover.
Then he put the matter out of his mind. Alenko would be delivered soon enough, and he had other things to take care of.
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