Riiight… so, a few night ago I got fed up with poking around for info on college educations and ended up grabbing a 100 themes list, and wrote drafts for the first five prompts that caught my attention. I won't be writing them in order, but rather jump around as I get ideas. I'm also dedicating this to the wonderful ladies and gentlemen of KAST and KAAS on Bioware Social.
There will be some mature themes in this, but I will warn beforehand of those, and even so, they won't be of the explicit kind.
Oh, and I own nothing, it's all Bioware's and I'm just mutilating their property for my own (and hopefully your) amusement.
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"Captain Anderson, Commander Shepard." Kaidan stood at attention as the two officers drew closer to his workstation down on the middle deck.
"I'm just showing the commander around Alenko, letting her meet the crew," Anderson explained and then gestured towards Kaidan. "This is our staff lieutenant Kaidan Alenko."
The bright smile and warm eyes of the Normandy's new XO instantly caught his attention, just like they had when she first had boarded the ship and been formally introduced to the crew. Kaidan couldn't fight down a smile of his own as he accepted her extended hand and shook it. "A pleasure to meet you, ma'am."
"The pleasure is all mine, lieutenant. I'm looking forward to working with you and the rest of the crew."
"Same, ma'am."
"So I have heard you're an L2, is that correct lieutenant?"
"Yeah, I'm an L2," he answered with a nod, for a moment fearing to see the usual odd look in her eyes that usually appeared once people he just met learned he was a biotic. But it didn't come. Instead she just smiled wider if possible, and nodded in understanding.
"I used to work with an L2 biotic before, she was quite the force to count on while on the battlefield."
"Alenko knows what he's doing, that's for sure," Anderson commented before turning towards Kaidan. "Lieutenant, go up and tell Joker to set course for the Arcturus Prime relay, we still have a mission to do. Come on commander, the med-bay is this way."
"Aye aye, sir."
"See you later lieutenant." She gave him a small wave and a lingering glance as she turned around to follow the captain.
It was nothing special.
But why did he feel so happy?