who ; Parker and the residents of the Shephut
what ; Parker's crew is gone, and staying alone in the empty apartment is not working out quite as well as she'd thought.
where ; Normandy Haus
when ; ...now? Now's good.
warning(s) ; Sad Parker. Which probably means Parker lashing out, at some point.
[She'd refused Shepard's offer to come stay at the
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However, he requires a great deal of tea to keep him functional. The good part is, he rarely needs to turn on any lights and disturb the other residents. Just taking off his glasses does well to light his way.
As it is now, there's two points of bright, LED glow bobbing down the hall.
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She freezes, still crouched on the carpet, thinking fast. She has no idea what those two points of light are in reality, but all she can think is ghost.
The lights don't appear to have noticed her, however. Maybe, if she's very quiet, they'll continue to not notice her and the ghost will float right over her, leaving her free to run to a more familiar (and hopefully non-haunted) location.
Carefully, Parker lowers herself flat and begins scooting towards the lights on her stomach in a soundless army crawl.
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Something is clearly underfoot, but he realizes it too late, and with an unceremonious grunt of protest, Skyfire topples in a mess of flailing limbs, face-first onto the floor.
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Ghosts float, everyone knows that, ghosts pass right through you, and ghosts definitely don't trip over people and fall half on top of them.
Parker shrieks in surprise as Skyfire topples over, kicking wildly in an attempt to untangle herself from him that really does more harm than good. In the darkness, she still hasn't recognized him.
"Get off! Go away, GO AWAY, you're not REAL!"
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He froze for a moment as he spotted Parker, hand moving for a weapon - and then he relaxed as he recognized her. He took a step toward her, voice low.
"Parker? What are you doing here?"
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She stepped forward, looking vaguely guilty. She really hadn't meant to wake anybody up.
"I..."
She hesitated, and then shrugged. It was hard to explain exactly why she was here, when she'd been so determined to stay back in her own apartment and wait for Hardison and Eliot to reappear. Finally, she went with the easiest truth she could think of.
"I couldn't sleep."
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"I think we still have some of that hot chocolate stuff in the kitchen if you feel like having some. Never understood the appeal myself, but the stuff also kills me if I drink it."
A poor joke, but Garrus found that poor jokes tended to break the ice.
"I can't sleep either and I could use the company, if you want to stick around."
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"Okay."
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"Parker?" His free hand hovered at his waist, the other poised to hurl his glass into the intruder's face if it turned out not to be the human burglar.
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For all the time she spent at the Normandy base, Parker hadn't actually interacted much with the Area 51 alien Mordin. She'd spent a few idle hours in the vents overlooking his lab, poking at her wearable and half-watching as he did experiments she couldn't understand, but actually talking to him? Well, that was something else.
"Yes?" she replied, eyeing the glass he had clutched in one hand nervously. She didn't think she'd stolen anything from Mordin's lab (that she hadn't put back afterwards), but then, maybe there was something she'd forgotten.
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"Humans require eight hours sleep a night." It's almost an aside, his way of asking why she isn't sleeping like everyone else (who isn't Garrus).
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"Welcome back, Miss Parker," Holographic interfaces are ubiquitous throughout all the bases. This might not be the one EDI is physically located in, but it's definitely the one she's watching most closely right now. After all, Shepard sleeps here.
"Are you finding everything you need?"
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"Yes," she murmurs half-coherently between bites. She hesitates, swallowing, and then amends her answer.
"...no."
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Her avatar's idle animation cycled twelve times in silence.
"I understand," Of course, she understood. She still kept all of Joker's porn on file too, like some kind of perverted memoriam, "If you would like to talk about it, I am..."
Not lonely. Not. Lonely. Don't say "lonely"
"...always here. I am excellent, at keeping secrets."
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It's said a little too quickly to be entirely believable. The last thing Parker plans to do is open up and start sharing her feelings, though. To anyone. She munches her cereal silently for a few minutes and then speaks again, more cautiously this time.
"Shepard said...she said you could watch for them. And let me know i-when they come back."
It's not quite a request. Hopefully, EDI will understand and she won't have to make it one.
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