Hey reader a bit disappointed with no reviews. But hey also wanted to know. Should I continue using a Unisex Shepard who isn't identified as a he or she or chose one? R&R though

I shake my head as you come to explain why when you were ten you wouldn't be here a lot more than you were there. You said brain camp. I thought prison, you told me you hated school and I thought you were lucky to have it.

"Aeon? Aeon?!" You say and I look up fazed out.

I smile and nod as my light brown hair clung to my face, it was to long and hot for this weather, you smile once again and pull out the pair of pliers from last year.

This was our tradition, this year was my eighth birthday, your tenth. You pull me out as I climb out, we run into town. I hadn't grown much from last year so I pull on the wellies and they squeak with pleasure as I run.

We head into the town, same as last year, milkshakes and football, a few hours in our tree. This time however instead of heading back to the camp we got to your house. Your dad and step mom are outside. Your stepmom is a shiny blonde with a stuck up pug nosed look on her face when you introduce us, and your father smelled of the alcohol I smell so often by the baterians.

I resist the urge to call you Shepard, I call you by your first name but barely. You claim I'm shy.

I claim I'm terrified!

We eat tea at your house, you say I'm pretty and tell your step mom you are walking me home. I agree with saying that it wouldn't be bad for you.

My last full day and god I am scared for you Shepard. You do nothing to stop that pain, you know you can't. I smile as I scamper once more under the fence. I say goodnight once more and hold my hand against yours before leaving.

Age twelve is what you were. I was ten now and yet still trapped in the slave camp. I made our promise to never tell anyone about it or bust me out of here. I saw them execute an old man because of him trying to leave.

I wasn't always patient from what I remember you saying and yet I was still waiting and more patient than you, damn you Shepard! Why did you have to make me wait this long? I hate it when you do this to me.

I hear movement and my head bolts up. I give a small whimper, I see a head stick up with that cocky grin that made me frustrated! I stomp my foot and you laugh.

"Hold on a sec Aeon." You say, I roll my eyes and cross my arms while raising an eyebrow.

My gaze widens when see someone behind you and I step back. I'm used to seeing people in crowds once a year on my birthday but this was something else.

"Aeon this is Kaidan, Kaidan this is Aeon. She doesn't talk much but when she does she sounds like the best thing in the world" You find the hole from last years town escape. I sneak under the fence and grab your hand once more. I run to the tree where we normally hide my clothes o find them missing.

I turn and glare at you when I see the bag.

"Taken care of, come on get dressed!" You toss me the bag while scurry up the tree.

When I come down I just see your friend looking at me and no sign of you. "Shepard went to get something from another tree, that's what he said at least"

I nod and your friend follows me as I figure out what tree you were grabbing your stuff from. I notice also that your friend is slightly cute- what!? The thought of that made me lightly blush as we reach it. You climb down with a small box and had it to me. I open it and see inside a small bow.

I smile at the carvings on it but you take it and burry it under the tree roots. "Come on otherwise we won't get today at all" You drag me once again to town with your friend and we all manage to smile.

I remember climbing into a photo booth and taking a picture of all of us. I have one shoved into my hand by you of us pulling funny faces. I smile and enjoy the afternoon with your friend Kaidan asking how we met before we go back home.

I look at it once more before I go to sleep in the hell camp.

I'm twelve today. Kaidan wasn't here this year. He was on earth with his parents and Brain Camp had been shut down. You never went into details but I guessed enough to know he was involved in the reason why it was shut down.

I hear whistling gong off and the smell of smoke and fire nearby. I hurry into the yard to see bombs flying everywhere. Heading to the fence I pull at the hole frantically trying to get out of the prison. I hurry into the forest but with so much smoke I can't see where I am going.

"Aeon!" I hear you call and I run to find you looking for me.

Was that a gun in your hand?

You grab me and run though the burning forest until we reach the shipyards. That was on fire as well. We then run to the lake we once swan in. You know I can't swim so you half waddle with me into the water and we stay in the cold so the fire can't get us. You hold me close and we see the once peaceful town burning.

They picked up survivors, in a total of twenty thousand people on that colony only three hundred survived! Three hundred! We were together but we got separated. Before we did, I gave you that picture and you said to use your last name so if we ever got separated we could yet find each other again.

There being a key word in that sentence.

Yet.