A little piece of fanfic I wrote a while ago because I was annoyed i could't make a move on James in the game, I loved the chemestry he and Femshep seem to have. So why not bioware? :p
it's my firts piece of writing; tried to get the spelling and grammar mistakes out but I must 've left some in there as english is not my native language. I'd love to hear what you think.
Hit and Miss.
She took me over to the spectre shooting range ones. I don't think I was suppose to be there, but the C-Sec officer on duty didn't dare defy her by telling her i couldn't get in. Funny; she hated getting treated any differently because of who she was but she would take advantage of her notoriety if she wanned to all the same.
They had some of the finest weapons I ever saw down there, from the biggest krogan shotguns down to the most sofisticated salarian sniper rifles. You could test out any gun you wanned , just as long as the weapons wouldn't leave the hall.. Honestly, I felt like a kid in a candy store.
" Wow, she's gorgeous..' I said as I got my hands on a spectre issued Master X shotgun.
" Do you always refer to guns as she?" she asked.
' No, just the ones I'm in love with..".
She smiled while she traced her fingers along the whide array of weaponry in the locker.
' Well, let's take her out for a testrun then'.
Her hands settled on an assaultrifle and she took it out of the weapons locker. It looked to be some sort of prototype that I never saw before. Parts of it seemed Turian, but some other parts seemed of human manifacture to me. No doubt they experimented with integrated weaponry a lot down here; spectres only used the best there was.
I followed her down to the shooting hall, already thinking of which gun I was going to take out next.
" Let's see what we've got here". She sais as she aimed the rifle at the targets that where already in place, dummies roughly shaped like bodies. It took her mear seconds to get her bearing before she started shooting at the three targets closest to her. The rifle was powerfull enough to blast out dust particles as soon as it hit the targets. I counted the shots; 10,11,12... then she stopped and lowered the riffle back down. As the dust cleared I could see a clear patern focused arround the neck and head section of the targets. 9 of them had landed in that area, only 3 had missed.
' High precision, good penitration and avarage backfire. Range and ammo capacity could be improved though'. She said while examining the weapon more closely.
' You wan't to show me what that thing you're holding can do?'
' It's not about what this thing can do Lola, it's about what I can do with it'.
I slit the safety clip of of the gun and aimed it at the first of three targets in front of me. I fired one deafening shot before moving on to the next target. The gun had a mean kick to it, kind of like getting punched in the chest by a krogan, but nothing i couldn't handle. After the second and the third shot I returned the safety clip to it's original possition an swung the gun over my shoulder. The shots had all landed in the chest area of the targets, leaving holes behind bigger than my fists.
' so there's no strings you can pull so i could take her down to the Normandy with me?" I asked as i reloaded the gun.
' Well, even my influence is limited to some extend, but care to give me a try?'
she gestured me to give her the shotgun while putting the riffle down. I handed it to her
' I'd better warn you, she kicks like a son of a ….'.
before I could finish my sentence she'd already slit of the safety clip and fired her first shot, taking of the head of one of het targets complety. By the time she'd fired her third, two out of the three targets had been plowed down intirely.
' you're right, backfire's like a bitch but rudely effective'.
Just for a milisecond there , I actually considered dropping down to my knees right there and asking her to marry me.
' you know' she said while stretching out her shoulders, undoubtedly to work of some of the aggravation the gun had caused. " I think this gun is kind of like you, big and with a lot of power but with a mean kickback to whoever tries to wield it'.
' Is that a compliment Lola, or am I just imagining things?'
' Well, you'd better not get used to it cause as long as i'm training you I won't be cutting you any slack Vega.. I'm going to throw some curveballs at you, keep you on your toes'.
' What kind of curveballs?'
' For starters i'm getting you out of your comfort zone. Why don't you go back to the weapons locker and exchange your sweatheart over here for something a little more sofisticated'.
' But we've got a good thing going on here, why would you wanna mess that up?'
That got her smiling.
' While there's a war going on out there you shouldn't get to attached to anything Vega, or anyone'.
' I'd better stop hanging around with you this much then...'
that slipped out before I knew what I was saying. I nervously took the shotgun out of her hands and headed for the door before she could react.
Don't be stupid Vega! I thought while heading down the hallway toward the weapons locker.
Don't go arround betraying that you've got feelings for the commander, those kind of revalations will only get you into trouble. Can't believe those batarian bastards had actually been proven right after calling me a Shepard lover back on Omega. Back then, I'd shut them up purely out of respect for her, but this wasn't just about that anymore. If it hadn't been for Anderson getting me out of there, that respect alone would've probably gotten me killed. I figured anything more than that right now would only get me into more trouble than I could afford to get into, with her being my commanding officer and trainer and all Not to mentions having milions of lives depending on us back on earth...
Still, she manages to get to me. Keeos pushing my buttons to a point where my defences are starting to crack. I wonder if it's just in my head or if she's doing it on purpose. We've always had a sort of playfull way of interacting, some would even call it flirting Just last week she asked me straight to my face if I was trying to get anywhere with all those comments and I was quick to tell her I wasn't, but ever since then it seems like she's turned the comments up a nudge. Like she's trying to punish me for saying no while I wanned to say yes.
At the armory, I exchanged the shotgun for a salarian sniper rifle. Snipering had never been a big part of my repetoire, to mush focus involved and to much of a defencive method . I preffered to get up close and on the offence a lot more.
When I returned to the shooting range, Shepard had already replaced the targets and had moved them back to the far end of the hall.
' I want you to aim at the vulnerable parts in armour, around the shoulders. knees, neck and head.'.
I placed the sniperifle against my chest, looking through the scope while she watched me closely.
I aimed for the knees first, firing as precisely as I could. The shot was off to the right just a couple of inches. My second shot ended up a little to high to do any real damage to the shoulder if the target had been real. Luckily, the headshot seemed to get the mark. After I lowered the rifle back down, I found she was still watching me, long enough to start me getting a little nervous.
' You're not watching your breathing enough' she eventually said.
' Here, let me show you'.
She took the rifle out of my hand and reloaded. As she aimed losely she continued.
' Don't pull the trigger until you've breathed out about 90% of your air, it' s when you're most stable. Every millimeter you're off here will result in the shot being inches of'.
She breathed in audibly while I could see her muscles tightning. As she breathed out she put the scope up to her face and took the shot. It landed right between where the eyes should be.
' Best spot to hit cerebrus troops' She said. 'Even if it doesn't penitrate their armour it messes with their visors, turns them into sitting ducks'.
' So that's how you hit them through their riotshields... got to love how they never see that one coming'.
' Tell you what Vega, I'll cut you a deal. If you can land your shot in exactly the same spot as mine, I'll see what I can do about those armour upgrades you've been nagging me about'
' Sounds good, but what if I happen to miss?'
' If you miss I'm revoking your shore leave and you'll be scrubbing out the shuttlebay for the remainder of our stay here on the citadel'.
' Way to put the pressure on Lola, I've got a high stakes game planned for tonight'.
' Well, you'd better hit the right spot then...'
See, now I know she's messing with me.