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phantomsthought · 2 years ago

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A short imagine i had in mind

Main characters: Garrus Vakarian, Kaiden Alenko, Crow Shepard

Kaiden Alenko had just gotten out of the hospital, Commander Crow Shepard coming to see him on his hospital release. Kaiden and Crow had worked together on many occasions, and they had a very strong bond. Saving the galaxy once or twice with someone will definitely make you close to someone. They had also grieved Ashley’s death together, after Virmire.

Crow gently punched Kaidens shoulder, “Welcome back soldier.” He laughed lightly, shooing her hand away. Crow fixed their jacket that had “N7” on the right of the chest, and a long red stripe down the left arm. It mimicked the Normandy’s signature uniform.

There was a suffocating silence before Kaiden spoke up, “So, what happened at Horizon…” this was a conversation that was begging to be talked about, but both of them felt it was awkward or uncomfortable to bring it up.

Before Crow had ‘died,’ Kaiden and her were romantically involved with eachother. Both loved eachother to the ends of the universe. After she ‘died,’ Cerberus had claimed her body, and reconstructed the human specter. She was brought back to life, two years later. On a mission to collect intel on collectors and save a colony on horizon, Kaiden had seen Crow. They’d been separated for two years.

Kaiden had grieved her for the two years, he couldn’t seem to accept his commander, his lover, was just dead. It seemed he was right not to accept it, because there she was standing right in front of him. He yelled at her, after they hugged. He was upset, he blamed Crow for a moment, for dying. For not contacting him when she came back. It wasn’t her fault, and he knew that, but he was so upset, so shocked. He had broken up with her, leaving crow behind on horizon.

A few days after Kaiden had sent a message to Crow, realizing how ridiculous he sounded. He tried explaining himself, and after that they hadn’t spoken much. A year or so later, Crow Shepard and Kaiden met again when the reapers were starting to attack. His heart skipped a beat when he saw her. Her red hair was tied back into a ponytail, a few strands of hair falling over her forehead. Her Snow White eyes that, weren’t originally like that. When Cerberus reconstructed her, her eyes had changed from the dark green to a silver. She stood confidently, she walked as if nothing could stand in her way. Kaiden missed her.

Crow cleared her throat, “what about horizon?” Kaiden looked down at the floor as they walked to the elevator, “are we good?” Crow Shepards eyebrows furrowed in confusion, “yeah, we’re fine. I have your back, you have mine right?” She asked, leaning against the wall of the elevator as he punched in a location.

Kaiden shook his head “yes but- that’s not what I meant. You had my back in the field but you also genuinely talked to me. You listened, when I was heart broken, about brain camp, all of it. We were really close. Are we still, good?” Crow looked over at the second human specter, whose eyes were looking into hers, waiting for an answer. He looked nervous. Crow nodded, “we’re good, Alenko. I’ll always be here if you need me.” The tenseness in his shoulders eased as he heard commander Shepard confirm that they were still close.

“Good. I’m here for you too commander.” Kaiden stated with a nod. Their elevator stopped, and they walked out into the dock holding area. It was like a refugee camp at this point, so many people stuck there. Crow walked out of the elevator, heading down the stairs. Kaiden wanted to ask if she had lost feelings for him, romantically, but before he could ask he heard a voice call “Shepard!” It sounded like Garrus. And when the two turned around, bud guess was right. He looked at Crow, how she practically glowed when she saw the Turian.

“Garrus! I was just about to see if you were here.” Crow said, walking to the approaching Turian. Garrus glanced at Kaiden, looking at the jealousy in his eyes. He looked back at Shepard, putting a hand on her shoulder, “Aw, miss me?” He laughed. Crow nodded “of course, it’s boring without archangel.” She teased, and Garrus chuckled. “But I wanted advice, since Kaiden got released from the hospital and is now the second human specter, I wanted to have a celebration for him.” She spoke, motioning to Alenko.

Kaiden raised a brow “Celebration? Commander it’s not that big of a deal you don’t have to.” Crow waved away his words “But I want to. You could use some fun after being tucked away in a hospital for so long.” She looked back at Garrus, whose eyes were trained on her. “I think it’s a great idea Shepard. We can throw a party on the Normandy.” He offered, to which Crow excitedly agreed, turning to Kaiden, “You can finally see the upgrades our baby got.” Kaiden chuckled “Our baby?” He asked, teasing Crow. She’s always referred to the Normandy as her baby, she cared a lot about the ship. With good reason, it had a lot of good memories.

Garrus watched as Crow and Kaiden spoke, and he took this as an opportunity to move his arm around Shepards shoulders. She didn’t do anything but lean into the Turian slightly, as if this was natural. Garrus watched as Kaidens eyes flickered from his arm, to Crow, to Garrus, to Shepard again. The jealousy flared again. Garrus knew that Kaiden and Crow were partners before, he was who Crow went to to talk about their relationship the most. Garrus had always been there for Crow, since the first meeting.

“It’s settled then. I can go buy the stuff and you boys can head up to the Normandy.” Crow said, crossing her arms. Kaiden shook his head, “You’ll need some help with getting everything, I mean the parties you throw are always big. I can help.” Garrus stepped in as well, “how about Edi and Joker take Kaiden, and you and I could go get the supplies?” He suggested.

Crow paused, thinking the choices over. “I don’t mind seeing the ship later, I want to help you out first commander.” Kaiden assured her, and then looked at Garrus “Don’t you have a thing with Calibrating? I don’t want to keep you from that, it’s pretty important to you.” At this point, he was picking at Garrus a bit. They used to do this playfully, but it was more targeted this time. Garrus chuckled airily and held Crow tighter “I don’t mind putting some calibrations off to help my Shepard.”

Kaiden couldn’t tell if he mixed up commander and crows last name, or if it was on purpose. Crow rolled her eyes “okay girls you’re both pretty. Kaiden you can look for food you want around the citadel restaurants and get them and bring them to the Normandy. I’ll get the booze, Garrus-“ “you have a bad taste in booze. I’ll help.” Garrus playfully made fun of her, to which she scoffed “Y’know what maybe I’ll just take Kaiden instead.” Crow said playfully, pushing the Turian.

They all decided to wander around the citadel shops until they had what they needed, rendezvousing at the Normandy.

They set everything up, and sat in the crew deck drinking a little, playing games, catching up. Kaiden and Crow played card games with the crew, and he ended up losing, and Crow ended up winning almost all of the time. Kaiden noticed Garrus was always close to Shepard, sitting next to her, standing behind her when she was playing cards and he wasn’t. Kaiden started wondering if Crow had moved on, and it was to Vakarian.

Kaiden pulled Crow to the side at some point, “Can we go somewhere quiet for a bit? It’s a little loud.” He asked. Crow nodded immediately “are you having another one of your headaches?” She asked, putting a hand on the hand he had put on her arm to get her attention. He hesitated, but nodded. It made sense, he had headaches constantly because of his biotic implants. She grabbed two glasses of water, and slipped back over to Kaiden. “We can go over to observation, it’s quiet there.” She offered.

The two made it to the observation deck, the doors sliding closed behind them as they sat down in the middle of the floor. Crow had opened the shutters so they could look out at the stars, and placed the glasses of water between the two of them. It was quiet, but a comfortable quiet. Kaiden glanced over at Crow, the commander pulling her knees to her chest and looking outside. “I missed the Normandy.” Kaiden said, to which Crow hummed. “You can always be apart of the crew again, you know.”

Kaiden sighed, “yeah I thought about that. I want to go out and do stuff as a specter first. See what’s out there on my own. But, I’ll definitely come back for you. And the crew.” Crow nodded slightly, looking over at him “there will always be a room waiting for you Specter Kaiden Alenko.” She smiled softly and picked up her glass, motioning to his “drink it, it’ll help with the headache.” He did so, taking small sips of his water as Shepard and him caught up, having small chats.

He missed this. They used to do this on the first Normandy, he and Crow would sit in one of the quieter rooms and just talk. Not about anything particular, just whatever came to mind. It was refreshing. When it went silent, Kaiden tried to build up the courage to ask a question. After a moment he did. “So,, are you and Garrus a thing?” He asked. Crow glanced over, and sighed.

She turned to face him, putting her glass down. “What you did at Horizon, it hurt. You left me. You blamed me, for dying. Not contacting you while I was dead. What you said to me, I couldn’t help but feel bad about. Garrus, he’s been there for me the day I met him. He’s always come back to us. Even when it was hard. I went to find him on Omega, and he was the same. He was my rock when things got really hard. And when you abandoned me on horizon, he was there for me.”

Kaiden nodded slowly. “I’m sorry, Crow.” She shrugged, “it’s fine. It doesn’t bother me as much anymore.” They sat there for a while, before they returned to the party. Kaiden was jealous of Crow and Garrus, but he was happy for Crow. He knew he would never let her go though. Never again would he let go of Commander Crow Shepard.

He’d always love her. as long as she was happy he’d be okay. And if she was happy with Vakarian, who was he to try and fill a position that was already taken when he left on horizon.

Excuze how badly written this is it’s 1 am and I am writing about my comfort game

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