She has your eyes (10/?)
anonymous
October 19 2012, 12:19:40 UTC
"You dare!" Something undeniable painful bloomed across her chest, up her throat and into her jaw. Made it difficult to breathe her chest felt so tight.
"How dare you! How dare you...." A decade's worth of pain crashed down and out of her mouth, a decade's worth of suppression. "I loved Shepard. I loved your father. I loved her so much."
"I...I loved her so much." The anger had dissipated leaving only sorrow in it's place, making her weak. "Oh my little wing..."
It was always her daughter who reached out, Liara thought it was the traces of Shepard in her. It was certainly not cowardly Liara T'soni, still an asari maiden who hid from the world in dusty tombs and ancient artifacts.
Her daughter who was wise beyond her years, observant and graceful. Her daughter who was better than she was, better than she could have ever hoped.
"Your father's dead, she died before you were born."
Re: She has your eyes (10/?)
anonymous
October 20 2012, 01:28:02 UTC
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I'm glad Liara admitted it, though. How old is Hannah? I thought she was little (the asari equivalent of 7 or 8) but she said in the last bit she was in university? Or is she that much of a genius?
She has your eyes (11/?)
anonymous
November 2 2012, 01:30:34 UTC
"What do you mean? Dad's right there. Sure she's a bit slow but Dad's right there..."
"Your father saved the universe, the being that's been living with us isn't her. They say it's a replica, like an AI." Liara explained to her brilliant daughter. "It has her memories, but the essence that makes Shepard so amazing is gone. Her soul is gone."
"...But she's still Dad right?"
Liara never raised her daughter on the idea of the soul, she'd seen a dead woman come back, what expertise did she have in that matter?
"I don't know." Liara never wanted to have this conversation, ever. It wasn't her place to crush her daughter's dreams. "I don't know."
Hannah turned and fled not wanting to think about the implications of what the truth revealed. What can one say about this? She loved someone who was not her true father? But she raised her. Isn't that all that mattered?
Re: She has your eyes (11/?)
anonymous
November 6 2012, 09:26:40 UTC
I just started reading this half by accident and I absolutely love it. So heavy and painful and creepy, contracted against the filter we see through little Hanna's eyes as a child who just accepts the strangeness as how things are.
The bit with Javik was short but magnificently to the point- it just lays such a good line under the rest of the fic. Everyone shifting away, Garrus not really knowing WTF to do, Liara being a wreck who can't show that she's a wreck, the blind innocence of children....
Re: She has your eyes (13/?)
anonymous
November 10 2012, 03:22:12 UTC
That was intense, man.
And I've been braced for bad since I read the prompt- bring it on! This is good shit and watching Javik (who I've never really thought to much about) facing down his ancestral enemy wearing the face of his friend... good shit. I love reading this.
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"How dare you! How dare you...." A decade's worth of pain crashed down and out of her mouth, a decade's worth of suppression. "I loved Shepard. I loved your father. I loved her so much."
"I...I loved her so much." The anger had dissipated leaving only sorrow in it's place, making her weak. "Oh my little wing..."
It was always her daughter who reached out, Liara thought it was the traces of Shepard in her. It was certainly not cowardly Liara T'soni, still an asari maiden who hid from the world in dusty tombs and ancient artifacts.
Her daughter who was wise beyond her years, observant and graceful. Her daughter who was better than she was, better than she could have ever hoped.
"Your father's dead, she died before you were born."
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What happened next??!
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I'm glad Liara admitted it, though. How old is Hannah? I thought she was little (the asari equivalent of 7 or 8) but she said in the last bit she was in university? Or is she that much of a genius?
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"Your father saved the universe, the being that's been living with us isn't her. They say it's a replica, like an AI." Liara explained to her brilliant daughter. "It has her memories, but the essence that makes Shepard so amazing is gone. Her soul is gone."
"...But she's still Dad right?"
Liara never raised her daughter on the idea of the soul, she'd seen a dead woman come back, what expertise did she have in that matter?
"I don't know." Liara never wanted to have this conversation, ever. It wasn't her place to crush her daughter's dreams. "I don't know."
Hannah turned and fled not wanting to think about the implications of what the truth revealed. What can one say about this? She loved someone who was not her true father? But she raised her. Isn't that all that mattered?
Isn't it?
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The bit with Javik was short but magnificently to the point- it just lays such a good line under the rest of the fic. Everyone shifting away, Garrus not really knowing WTF to do, Liara being a wreck who can't show that she's a wreck, the blind innocence of children....
Good shit A!A. Looking forward to more.
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Mean!
a!a is so mean! To Hannah and to Javik and to Liara. Just because it's not Disney doesn't mean we can't hope for a good ending :-D
Though I love love love the fact that Javik kidnaps Hannah for biotic training :D. That's an adorable image.
Javik walks in, raids fridge, picks up Hannah by the back of her shirt, and pops into Liara's office just long enough to say:
"I'm taking the child, asari"
"Wh-"
*Hannah and Javik disappears and Liara fumes with that adorable angry look*
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And I've been braced for bad since I read the prompt- bring it on! This is good shit and watching Javik (who I've never really thought to much about) facing down his ancestral enemy wearing the face of his friend... good shit. I love reading this.
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