#imagine if you could like. dream about the sr1

[ficbrish]

WIP Wednesday

[02Nov2022]

This is from chapter 1 of my post-ME1/pre-SR1 attack WIP, “Victory Lap”

It takes place right after my stand-alone smut fic, “Breaking Regs”

1 (“Victorious”)

Everything went as well as it could have. The Reaper invasion was stopped; the day saved. And still, they were being held for an investigation.

“So, we stole one little ship, our ship!”

“Come on, Shepard. Give it a break,” Anderson admonished, “You know it’s only formality, and besides, you need some shore leave. You all do.”

“Ah, yes! Shore leave in a ruined city. What a dream!” she complained.

Anderson crossed his arms and rolled his eyes. Shepard repeated the same gestures right back at him. Anderson’s office was small and tight, off the corner of Udina’s. The walls pressed in on them.

“Leave is leave, Shepard.”

“Is it really leave if you’re stuck on the ship?”

“Ship?! Oh, no,” Anderson chuckled bitterly, “They’re not letting you back on the Normandy until the investigation is over.”

“WHAT?!”

“You and your crew will be given accommodations—”

“Accommodations? You mean they’d waste emergency housing resources on us? Shore leave in little cells when we have an entire ship?”

“I told you, it’s a formality.”

“Fuck the formalities! I’m a Spectre!”

“The Normandy is an Alliance ship, Shepard. Spectre or not.”

She huffed. It reminded Anderson of the way she was when she was younger. He hadn’t seen this attitude from her since—well, that was a long time ago.

Anderson tried to put it delicately, “It’s not just the ship, Shepard. Now I don’t think this, but people talk.”

She didn’t like his heavy pause, “What?”

“You’re the one who made the call.”

“Are you fucking serious?”

“I wish I wasn’t, but I wouldn’t joke about this,” he assured her, “There will be some who say you sacrificed Human lives for nefarious reasons. Alien lover and all that type of bullshit. It’s nonsense, but I want you to be prepared when you hear it.”

“Is that the real reason I’m being investigated?”

“No, we are being investigated for the Normandy, as I’ve been saying. But the real reason it’s being pushed into an actual hearing is…”

“Politics.”

“Yeah.”

She paused for a moment, giving Anderson the confidence that they would finally be able to move on. Then—  

“The Reapers are still out there!” she ranted, “They may be out there waiting in dark space for now, but I know they’re coming. Imagine what we just fought but in the thousands, Anderson!”

“I believe you, Shepard, I really do,” he said, “But they can wait a week or two to be vanquished.”

Shepard was having one of her… moments. Anderson knew she was not going to let this go. He rubbed his forehead and closed his eyes.

“Alenko!” he called out, “Stop listening behind that damn door and just come in.”

Kaidan sidled into the room, “I, uh… I wasn’t, um… Sorry, sir.” He saluted.

#shenko #wip wednesday #mass effect #mass effect 1 #BrishFics #david anderson #kaidan alenko #victory lap fic

[ayrennaranaaldmeri]

like WHY have Shepper tell Liara they are thinking about the team mate that died on Virmire if their dream wasn’t even FOCUSED on the teammate that died on Virmire. Imagine if Shep actually did dream about them instead of having to follow the same shitty slowmo dream that ends with the star kid on fire and pretending like background whispers suddenly make it make sense. bc it doesn’t.

#tbd #fae plays the me:le #look better dreams wasn't perfect but at least the 2nd dream actually involved seeing either ash or kaidan #so talking about them straight after fits a lot better. #ITS SO OUT OF PLACE #imagine if you could like. dream about the sr1 #like a dream about the sr1 where you talk to the one who died #like the flashbacks you get on the normandy crash site but with movement #imagine if this dream took place after the vs joins the squad so you could even talk to them about it. #me:le spoilers #these dreams are so stupid that it would literally make more sense for shepard to dream about conrad verner