RP: Shepard, Kaiden & Ashley

[keelah_selai]

Down the stairs to the lower deck. Around the base of the drive core to the maintenance shaft entrance. Up a ladder, and into the duct tunnel. Up a second ladder and turn to the left. Crawl for a sixth of the ship's body and another left turn. Up a short ladder, and out into the room housing the AI Core...

The AI Core was dark and silent, just like the Engineering deck. Tali had never spent much time here - both Legion and EDI frightened Tali a little. She'd been trying to make amends, for Shepard's sake, ever since her argument with Legion, but it was hard work, overcoming years of ingrained prejudice. There was something...off about the room, though. Tali couldn't quite put her finger on what was wrong or different. It must be the lack of noise, she thought, and moved quickly to the electrical panel on the doors.

Just a few moments, and the doors to the Medbay sparked and slid open with a metallic groan.

Comments

[cmdr_shepard]

Ashley ignored him. Shepard sat down hard on the bed that Tali had indicated. "Kaidan," he called and nodded his head back at the bed. It didn't occur to him to encourage Kaidan to claim his own bed. "Come on, Tali's right. And you," he said to Ashley,"should get some medigel on those wounds. Tearful reunions can happen when we aren't all about to fall over from fatigue or blood loss or both."

There was something going on here that they didn't totally understand. Kaidan was missing time, Tali couldn't remember the Reaper War, Ashley was dead, there was a fucking castle outside...

"Ashley," he asked suddenly, "Do you...know me? Do you know who I am?"

[kaidanmod]

"There's no one in the universe that doesn't know Commander John Shepard," Kaidan said with a breathless, still-shocky laugh. He obeyed because, well, because this was John giving him a command. Of course he obeyed. But it was so hard to let go of his friend and move to sit.

[keelah_selai]

Tali busied herself gather medical supplies - medi-gel, sanitized towelettes, antispectic spray, and other necessary supplies - before grabbing the armor clippers that Chakwas had kept on hand. She moved slowly and obvious towards Ashley, ready to help the human woman out of her decimated armor if she needed the help.

"I don't know - there was that guard on the Citadel who tried to arrest us..." Tali's tone was absent-minded.