Kaidan and Trick left Purgatory only slightly drunk. Which was an achievement since Jack kept buying them both drinks.
"I think Jack was trying to get us drunk," Kaidan said as they stepped onto the elevator.
"Yeah. It was fun though," Trick said.
"Yeah," Kaidan said leaning against the wall of the elevator. Trick leaned against him.
That's when the elevator jerked to a stop.
"What the hell?" Trick said straightening up, hand immediately going to where his pistol was hanging at his hip.
"Looks like we got onto an elevator scheduled for maintenance," Kaidan said reading the small vid-screen in the elevator.
"I repeat, what the hell."
"Maybe we should have noticed that when we got onto the elevator."
"I was too busy staring at your ass," Trick said sitting down on the floor.
"Did you like what you seen?" Kaidan asked sitting down beside him.
"So fucking much," Trick said laying down on his back, resting his head on Kaidan's thigh. "Can't wait to see it out of those pants later."
Kaidan chuckled as he leaned back against the wall of the elevator. He absentmindedly trailed his fingers along Trick's chest.
"How long do you think this maintenance will last?" Trick asked.
"Not long enough for what you're thinking of doing," Kaidan replied.
"Fine," Trick said crossing his arms over his chest.
Kaidan laughed.
"What's so funny?" Trick asked.
"The fact that the great Commander Shepard is pouting because I won't... do things in an elevator." Kaidan blushed slightly.
"Do things," Trick snickered. "What kind of things could we do in an elevator, Major Alenko?"
"We're going to sit here and talk, that's it."
"I love how good you are," Trick said with a laugh. "But okay. What do you want to talk about?"
"Jack said you helped her blow up a building," Kaidan said.
"Yeah. Cerberus took her when she was a kid. Performed these horrible experiments on her and other kids. The building was deserted, well, it was after we cleared out the mercs. I let her plant a bomb and we watched it blow from the shuttle. It helped her find some closure."
"She also said she tried to sleep with you."
"No, she offered to fuck me. I said no, then started triple locking my cabin door. I didn't see her taking rejection well and didn't want to wake up with a knife in my chest."
Kaidan chuckled. "I heard from Garrus that you got quite a few offers while you were stopping the Collectors."
"Didn't matter," Trick said with an awkward shrug. "They weren't you." Then he froze and his eyes widened.
"They weren't me?" Kaidan questioned. "Just how long have you had feelings for me, Commander?"
"Since you boarded the Normandy that first time. With your regulation bag, regulation uniform, serious look and that goddamn hair," Trick said rubbing a hand across his face. He didn't really like admitting that he has had feelings for Kaidan for so long.
"Really?" Kaidan asked.
"Yeah," Trick replied.
Kaidan leaned forward so he could look the younger man in the eyes.
"Since the vids of the Skyllian Blitz," Kaidan said.
"Huh?"
"That's when I first started having feelings for you. Even when you were bruised and bloody, you were still fighting. So stubborn."
"You win," Trick whispered leaning up so he could kiss Kaidan.
"Yeah, I got you," Kaidan whispered before their lips met.
That's when the elevator jerked to life.
"Thank god," Kaidan whispered.
"Yeah, much longer and I would have been very bad with you on a dirty elevator floor."