Okay. Jack and Allie had been dropped off at their hotel. It was approaching dinner time. No more stalling ( Read more... )

The further they made it into the Eden Prime settlement, fighting Cerberus all the way, the less empty it became. And not in the good way. Bodies were everywhere out here, colonists with their snacks still on the table, the screen turned to a sports channel-- all dead. They were picking up the data they needed along the way; Shepard's knowledge of ( Read more... )

Eden Prime hadn't changed a bit. Even the air smelled like it had back then - vaguely fragrant, with only a hint of flame and smoke. Yeah. Like paradise in trouble ( Read more... )

Eden Prime ( Read more... )

Being back on the Normandy again... going through all this crazy shit... it felt right. Even if the whole rachni situation was messing with Kaidan, a little. His kneejerk doubts had faded some, but not completely. And so he sat, stretched out in a comfortable seat on the observation deck he now called home. Sipping his drink, staring at the stars ( Read more... )

It had been literally almost a year because transcribing from this canon is hell at least a day since they'd landed on Utukku; the ensuing jaunt through Rachni-infested caves had been... something. Kaidan had a lot of nostalgia for the old days on the Normandy, but Rachni? Fighting Rachni had not been something he'd missed. At all ( Read more... )

It'd been a long trip down. Utukku laid somewhere in the less-explored regions of the galaxy; a nowhere, a backwater, famous only because it had once been home to the rachni. Some place they never would've bothered going if Wrex hadn't asked them for help. If there hadn't been word and evidence that-- well.

( So now they were here, hitting atmosphere with the shuttle. )

( With a sigh, Kaidan leaned his arm against the window and pressed his face close to the glass. )

It hadn't been a great night for sleep, but drinks with Allie had at least helped Kaidan's brain calm down enough that he got a couple of hours of rack time. Then there had been breakfast. Briefings. Another conversation with Hackett. Finally, Kaidan had worked out what docking bay the Normandy was currently docked at ( Read more... )

Looking at the Council chamber, it was hard to imagine that it hadn't been more than a couple of years since Shepard and Saren fought in this very room. Hadn't... been more than a couple of years since Shepard had stood here, going through the exact same thing Kaidan was right now ( Read more... )