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On the list of all the crazy things Shepard had done in her life, what she was about to do was towards the top of it. But there was no other way. This had to end now, if there was any chance to save the quarian fleet. To bring the geth back from Reaper control. To broker peace between the two long-feuding sides.
Legion asked her if she required assistance, but she could handle this. She was only one who could. She was the one who had the fancy targeting laser, after all.
She was prepared to hop down to lower ground when she heard the top hatch of the geth ship opening and turned when she heard the footsteps behind her, seeing Garrus striding purposefully towards her.
She really hoped he wasn't going to do what she thought. Insist on staying with her when she (and likely he) knew there was nothing he could do. His armor-piercing rounds would be of no use here. But if he was, she'd fight on him it just as hard. Which they didn't have time for. The Reaper wouldn't stay down forever.
Shepard opened her mouth as Garrus reached her, intent on telling him to go back and get to safety, preparing for an argument she hoped wouldn't follow.
But words died in her throat when he tilted her face up with a cup of her cheek in his gloved hand and pressed his brow to hers.
"Give it hell, Jane," he murmured as he pulled away. And despite his best efforts to hide it, she caught the flicker of apprehension in his cobalt eyes as he turned to go back.
Her hand shot out to grab his forearm, preventing him from leaving just yet. Placing her hands on his neck, she pulled him down for a quick kiss, trying to convey some sense of reassurance that she would be alright, that she'd come back, not caring if Tali and Legion had a front row seat to this. "You know I will. Wouldn't pass up taking this kill shot."
Garrus's mandibles fluttered wider at that, shooting her the turian equivalent of a faint smile. "Just as long as you let me have the next one."
"Deal," she answered, along with her own press of the forehead to his.
Shepard then watched Garrus head back and re-enter the geth ship and Legion drive away until the rumblings of the Reaper in the distance brought her back to the task at hand. She dropped down to the area below her, targeting laser in hand and at the ready as the Reaper rose up, not willing to go down without a fight.
But she would give it all she had.
She would come back to him.
