Bright Intermissions: A Collection of Snippets
Snippet 03: Elevator Blues
"Shepard, I really need to know."
"Know what, Kaiden?" Dark haired, blue eyed, pale skinned and rather irritated Shepard pressed the screen of the elevator to send them down, the brunette beside her fidgeted uncomfortably at her impartial tone.
"I just have... questions."
"Uh huh...?" A finger went back up to impatiently hurry the movement.
"About, you know, Cerberus."
"Oh here we go." Shepard tapped the auburn screen repetitively making it flicker irregularly.
"Shepard, listen —"
"Yupp. Yupp. Yupp." Taptaptaptaptap.
"Can you please stop that?" He grabbed her gloved wrist and held it in place. Shepard looked up at him vacantly, relaxing his expression. He sighed. She yanked her arm back. "I just don't know where you stand, where we -"
"Oh look, we're here!" And the commander dashed out of the elevator as fast as her heavy armored boots would allow.
"At least some things haven't changed." Kaiden Alenko sighed once more, shook his head in his palm, and followed quietly
A/N: Oh Lt and his 'Cerberus/do-you-still-love-me talk' -dramaticfingerquotes-
