Kaidan shook his head, echoing wry smile still on his face. "Allie? Watch those big doors down there. Dean? You think you can convince the guys on the other side of the com-- walkie talkie that we're some of theirs, the evil Alliance types are dead and we want across?"

( Playing with walkie-talkies... )

The hangar doors had barely shut tight behind Shepard when the barrage of questions began. Vega stalked after him, barking one out after the other. "What the hell's going on? Where's Anderson? Where are we going ( Read more... )

The weather wasn't too bad in Vancouver this time of year. A lot of rain, sure, but also decent temperatures. Kaidan had been staying places too classified to mention for too long; the breeze alone had put him in a good mood. Though... that might've also been the part where resurfacing like this meant he had a one-shot chance to talk to some old ( Read more... )

Kaidan was starting to get his feet back under him. Didn't mean he was going to pass on an invitation to go drinking with Dean, though - but maybe he wasn't going to order any of the hard stuff this time.

Maybe. He was still making his mind up.

"I'll get the drinks," he said. "What do you want?"

[[ for dean. nfb due to distance. ]]

The fight had been grueling. Shepard could barely feel his arms, and he was bleeding from at least two separate wounds. Nothing fatal, though. He took a moment to catch his breath, then peered up over the edge of the crate he'd been using for cover. Were there any other Collectors inbound--?

But he caught no hostiles. Instead, the giant Collector ( Read more... )

Horizon's sun slipped low above its many prefab structures as dusk began to settle. Its rays were only partly blocked by the enormous defense towers that Kaidan had been sent here to set up; it was in that direction that he glanced, automatically, as he stepped out of the confines of his temporary home ( Read more... )

There'd been weird noises coming out of the woods this morning. Kaidan had cut short his morning jog because of it-- this wasn't just the loud drilling of machines, but it sounded like some kind of... monster, almost. A tiger? A lion? Something like that ( Read more... )

"Okay," Kaidan said. "So... Washington."

Yes, Kaidan. Washington.

"Is at least an hour's drive away from here," he continued. "Man. I knew vehicles in this day and age were slow, but I didn't know the problem was that mad. I mean, that's what... sixty kilometers? Come on ( Read more... )

Kaidan... wasn't really the kind of guy who felt completely comfortable chaperoning a high school dance. He did it, because he saw it as part of the job, but... that was about it.

So in order to steel himself for the night, he'd let Dean wheedle him into invited Dean over for a movie afternoon before the dance started. Some terrible sci-fi movie ( Read more... )

Kaidan had been a little skeptical the first time Dean had suggested a bar crawl.

He'd still been skeptical the second time around, but he'd been dealing with Weird Fandom Weekend hangover at the time, so you couldn't really fault him for caving.

Unfortunately, caving meant taking a seat in the Impala while Dean drove, which meant that right now ( Read more... )