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Tiny Scene Tuesday (missed week, whoops!)

[11Jul2023]

That day's three little words: Gun, Upset, Speculate

[Create a short piece (art of fic) that encompasses those 3 words]

Thank you @mallaidhsomo for the prompt!

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"Priorities"

[[tw/cw: Violence]]

Their guns were trained on each other’s heads.

She’d been so eager to see him too.

See him okay; alive. To see his smile of recognition. Share an embrace if she was lucky.

Then they greeted each other with the end of each other’s barrels.

Hi honey, I’m home!—But make it the end of Humanity; the end of the whole galactic cycle. Make it “if everything goes south here, the Council falls and the final cry for unity across species, across planets will die out in an uncomfortable scream.”

Sprinkle in a history with Cerberus. Add a pinch of Udina.

That’s how you get guns in faces.

And that’s why it was a god damn miracle to see Kaidan on the Normandy again. Or the SR-2 for the first time.

“This is the Cargo Bay.”

“I know. Shepard, we’ve been here together. I stood over there, and you stood over there.”

“Right.”

Right. That’s right. Right before Mars. Before the thing that was EDI, before she was EDI, smashed his skull against steel with a sound that—

“Oh, fuck!”

EDI!

“Wha—?”

“Uuummm…. Uh, so,” Shepard was doing great, “There’s um, something you, um, I…”

She trailed off at the end of her sentence, leaving Kaidan alone in his head to speculate everything that could possibly be wrong within the space of the Big Bang until now.

Shepard continued in the worst way possible, “I don’t want you to be upset. So, I don’t exactly know how to tell you this.”

“Uhh…”

“EDI!” she called out, “Can you meet me in the Cargo?”

A mechanical voice rang through her omnitool, “Is there a reason you need me?”

Shepard rolled her eyes, “Guess Joker’s really rubbing off on you.”

“I do not recall Jeff rubbing me anywhere.”

They could hear his distressed cries in the radio background.

“Can you please just come down here?” Shepard’s voice was strained with more anxiety than impatience.

If robots breathed, there would have been a sigh, “Yes, Shepard.”

Kaidan had no idea what was going on.

“You remember that robot?” she asked, looking slightly unhinged.

“Robot?”

“Yeah! The um, uh… The uuuhhh,” she laughed nervously, “So we stood here. Because?”

“…Because?”

Damn, that bitch showed up so fast.

“You needed me, Shepard?”

Fear spread from Kaidan’s eyes to his eyebrows to his forehead all the way into his L2 implant, bathing him in a ready glow.

“This is fine!” Shepard shouted in panic.

“That’s—”

“It’s not!”

Kaidan kept looking between Shepard and the Cerberus assassin.

“I’m EDI.”

“So, um,” Shepard explained, “My ship is alive, and—and she took over the body of the robot who almost killed you. Right? But we’re, uh, we’re all cool now. So… And I really think you’ll get along! EDI, this is Kaidan. Kaidan, this is EDI.”

Joker’s voice came over the comms, “You forgot to tell him, didn’t you?”

“Yes, Joker. I forgot.”

His radioed laughter echoed through the cavernous, metallic Bay, “She forgot!”

Kaidan ignored them and shook EDI’s hand like a gentleman. Still trembling a bit, but also manically calm after his sudden flood of relief.

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