Okay I screwed up. on the part of describing Kasumi, I'll be fixing it soon; as soon as I get internet again. :-p
But I'll tell you now so that you can get a picture of her PROPERLY.
The black shimmering scarf is NOT around her waist! It's around her neck. And I forgot to mention that her purple mark on her lip is still there. That was it. But it makes a HUGE difference.
Disclaimer: I don't' own the ppl, the game, or even Hollywood.
AN: Okay, at the very beginning you will read that Shepard, Kasumi and Jack are doing that leg thing girls common do with eachother, where you link arms and you step over eachothers legs while walking. You know what I mean? It's hard to explain. If you've seen Princess Diaries 2 then you know when Mia and her friend (haven't seen it in a while sorry about not knowing names.) are walking down the hall together, walking the way I described… THAT'S what they are doing.
Hope that made sense.
MassEffect
Shepard linked her arms with Kasumi and Jack. The three of them walking in step, putting their legs over each other. Tali was laughing beside them, unable to do it but still enjoying the scene.
"What are they doing?" Garrus asked his friend.
"Being girls." Joker explained and shrugged his shoulders.
Garrus chuckled, "Right." Garrus stared at the three girls backs, completely baffled by their behavior, especially Jack, was this really what girls acted like? Not the hardass girls he normally saw.
They were walking down the board walk, Joker, Shepard, and Garrus had caught up with the others and the group was now walking towards the theater.
As it came into veiw though Kasumi, Shepard, and Jack broke the link and went to their dates.
Shepard and Garrus – duh.
Tali and Kasumi – best friends without dates.
Jack and Hawthorne – last minute decision.
Miranda and Jacob – much to Jacobs pleasure and Miranda's "inconvience".
Gabby and Kenneth – Shepard owed Tali $100.
Kelly and Thane – Don't go there.
Chakwas and Joker – NOT together!
And everyone else was by themselves, Zaeed was coming up behind Kelly and Thane, followed by Grunt, Samara came up behind, Mordin in tow.
The group made their way to the theater, one date, or person, behind the other.
Shepard almost feared this now, getting ready was fun; she had got to hang out with her best friends while having wine. She looked behind her to all her said girls and smiled, they all looked fantastic. She absolutely adored Kasumi's dress, Jack was rocking her old red dress, and Tali looked stunning in her new head dess.
She was just afraid of the reporters that would be going crazy, not to mention all the paparazzi Shepard closed her eyes, allowing Garrus to guide her, Please oh please don't let anyone be stupid! she thought.
They came up to the red carpet and flashes of lights surrounded her and her team. She wondered silently if she should have warned them about that too, during the briefing.
"Shepard!"
"Shepard over here!" More flashes.
"Garrus Vakarian!" More shouts from reporters and paparazzi's to get their attention.
"Shepard is garrus your date?" One person made it through.
"Yes" She answered happily and confidently and kept walking with Garrus arm in arm.
"Jack!" Jack looked but didn't say anything, "Subject Zero!" the reporter tried again, Shepard cringed and whipped around to face Jack who looked at her stunned.
"What?" She asked nonchalantly, seemingly not caring about the old nickname.
Shepards eyes grew in size momentarily before she rose her eyebrows, shrugged and turned back around.
"Shepard, what do you expect of this film?" Another reporter asked only a couple steps before she was safe inside the building.
"No comment." Honestly she thought it would SUCK, but she couldn't say THAT…. They would be on her like a bunch of blood sucking leeches. Only they would be pride sucking leeches.
"No comment? Does that mean that you don-" The reporters voice was cut off as Shepard entered the building with her friends.
Shepard turned to face, all of her crewmembers and sighed dramtically, "Good work team! I'm proud of all of you." And to be honest she really was, no embarrassing comments, or crazy biotic or otherwise attacks or outbursts. "Sorry I didn't warn you about their "blinding attack" she laughed.
The rest of the crew laughed too, all of them seeming to enjoy the lighthearted joke about their new "enemy".
"Commander."
"Yes Kasumi?"
"What can we expect to come next?"
"A good question!" Shepard said in her Commander voice. "We have 10 minutes before we are brought in. Be ready to expect, boredom, nodding off, unbelievable urge to point and laugh at your "character", and incredible impulses to correct inaccurate missions or happenings. All these things will be most expected."
She held her hands behind her back again and started to pace slowly, "Other things may occure, be prepared for ANYTHING." She swiped her right hand from across the left side of her waist to the other. "I advise complete control. Do not laugh and do not 'aw' unless the audience does. It would cause some serious problems otherwise. Understood?" She looked over her team.
"Commander Shepard?" Somebody asked from behind her.
Shepard whirled around held her hands behind her back again, and cleared her throat, slightly embarrassed.
"Yes?" her voice cracked from the surprise, she growled when she heard snickering behind her.
"The movie is getting ready to begin, are you ready to take your seats?"
"Yes." Shepard nodded once.
"Very good, this way please." The young gentleman showed the team to their seats in the theater.
Garrus sat down next to Shepard and grinned. "Never seen you red before Shepard…"
"Oh shut up."
"Yes Ma'am." He chuckled, still going on the hard ass Commander image she had portrayed just moments ago.
"Shep!" Kasumi whispered turning in her seat to face the Commander who was in the row and seat behind her.
"Yah?" She leaned forward in her own seat so that she could hear her whisper.
"You want popcorn?" She offered the box of popcorn, an old, but still favorite movie snack.
"Do I ever!" Shepard smiled and grabbed a handful and popped two at a time into her mouth. "Thanks!" She leaned back in her seat as Kasumi turned back around to face the screen, talking and explaining to Tali the orgins and "awesome-ness" of the snack.
"Watch this." Shepard whispered to Garrus as she threw three pieces of popcorn in the air and caught them all in her mouth, only moving her head to make sure they made it.
"Impressive" Garrus complimented her skills.
"Thanks!" Shepard grinned and ate the remaining popcorn normally.
As the beginning credits started to roll the camera going over the Citadel going through the cities and parks and out; leading to space where it kept going further and further out, only stars and planets going by. Slowly, fading in and out, were the faces of her 'team' their names 'floating' by as their faces faded in and out. Shepard smothered her giggles successfully so nobody aside from her team could hear.
The actors/actresses looked nothing like her team… at all.
Garrus however could not hold in his laugh in as well when they got to "Shepard". "That looks NOTHING like you." He whispered after he controlled his laughter.
"I sure hope not." She took in the face of 'Shepard', instead of long brown, naturally curly, hair, she had short brown STRAIGHT hair. Her eyes were the same but her height was off, by a ton. She, the real Shepard, was 5' 4", short as hell; the actor Shepard had to be 6' something.
Shepard shook her head, in a amusment/'horror'. The movie began and it became even harder not to laugh at either 'herself' or 'Garrus'. Who the hell was Brandon Keener anyway? Didn't sound much like a turian name to begin with.
Shepard gave the movie one thing, the people were fast. They had just finished the Collector just two years ago, that's some fast casting, producing, and directing. Maybe too fast, she smothered another giggle, this was ridiculous.
Zaeed hadn't been very good with keeping quiet through the whole movie. Always making smart ass comments or barking at a lame line. "Sshh!" The crowd hushed for the 50th time.
Zaeed was about to shoot a comeback when Samara, of all people, punched him in the arm. "Silence." She hissed.
The biotic glowed blue for a moment before stopping and continuing her meditation instead of watching the vid.
Zaeed actually remained silent and instead ate more popcorn obnoxiously and watched the vid silently, for how long was anybody's guess.
"Holy shit man!" Joker, the real one, exclaimed when 'Joker' started to actually flirt with EDI. "What the shit is this?" He started to stand when Chakwas pulled him back into the seat while the audience hushed him.
"Joker. Be quiet." Chakwas advised, "it's just a vid."
"They don't think that." Joker huffed and crossed his arms.
Shepard felt very bad for her team but there wasn't much she could do.
And throughout the entire movie there were issuses such as that. Random and obnoxious barking from Zaeed, cursing and muttering under breaths from Joker, Garrus growling when his "loyalty mission", as Hollywood had called such missions, and they played it up by making him take the shot anyway, even though she was still standing in front of Sidonis; Shepard had barely been able to calm him down in time before he blew up and had his own freak out.
Jack had yelled and whooped whenever they had something to do with Cerberus getting killed, tortured or otherwise.
Kasumi got emotional when they showed the whole ordeal with the greybox; she kept it.
Tali started to cry tears of joy when the trial came up, and 'Kal Reeger' stood up for her.
Samara had left the theater when her own 'loyalty mission' came up, of course she knew how it ended and didn't want to relive it.
Miranda was pissed at the obvious image Cerberus was given, seen as the bad guys. And of course Jacob agreed with everything, the whole time his gaze lower than her eyes.
The whole team burst out laughing when 'Shepard' gave The Illusive man the bird after the Collector mission, getting yet another hush. "Well at least THAT is accurate." Shepard whispered.
Once the movie let out and everyone was milling around in the foyer, mostly all human food, since it was Earth; even though they knew aliens would be at the premiere.
The team laughed and joked about the movie quietly, some being pulled away at random times to talk to fans or for an interview, each time Shepard crossed her fingers.
"Did you see the costumes? Those collectors looked like asari dressed in a varren costumes!" Joker laughed.
"You would know wouldn't you?" Kelly asked.
"Oh…" Joker made a face but stayed quiet.
Shepard looked around, her arm around Garrrus' waist, his arm around her shoulders. She was just WAITING for some sort of reporter trap, or someone to do something REALLY stupid.
Speaking of stupid… Shepard thought,tuning out whatever other people were talking about for the moment. where the hell is Zaeed? She hadn't seen him in a while.
"Hey! It's not my fault. How was I supposed to know she was married. She said nothing of the sort!" Zaeed yelled. And the Devil speaks again. Shepard sighed.
Everyone turned to the commotion, and Shepard left Garrus' side.
"What the hell is going on here?" Shepard hissed as she neared the two security gaurds, a pissed off a husband, a half undressed wife, and a clearly restrained Zaeed.
"Your TEAM MEMBER came onto my wife!" The man pointed an accusing finger at the culprit.
"I bet he did." Shepard sighed. Pervert. "What's your name sir?"
"McKay, Rodney Mckay." The man crossed his arms.
"Okay Mr. McKay. I apologize for his behavior, I figured he would try some shit but I didn't think it would go as far as that. I assure you that he will be taken care of."
"And that's all we ask for." The wife said. She was a short brunette, she reminded Shepard of Kaiden's new wife, Sherry. The lady walked away, and McKay nodded his head at the security allowing the men to leave.
"Get." Shepard nodded to the group Normandy crewmembers, the man grunted and left.
"Man I married too soon…." He said once they had all left, leaving Shepard and McKay alone.
"Sir?"
"My wife died two years ago, she died from a plague that had come to Earth from another planet."
"I'm so sorry." Shepard sympathsized. "What was her name?"
"Jennifer. She was a doctor. We worked at the same station for awhile, I was the tech nerd she was the doctor. I frequently vistited her whether it was because of a sickness or because I was stupid and hurt myself. Or…." He chuckled, "Just so I could see her smile. She had such a beautiful smile."
Shepard smiled at him weakly, feeling his pain.
"Sorry, I just went into that story and you didn't even ask." McKay shook his head, running his fingers through his thinning hair.
"No, I don't mind. Though I do have a question."
"Yeah?"
"Why did you move on so fast? If you didn't even want to."
"She told me too. Jen told me, while she was on her death bed, that I needed to move on. That I couldn't obsess over finding a cure, or finding some way to go back in time. That I needed to find love again, to enjoy life; even without her. For once in my life I actually listened to her, and now I'm paying for it with a unfaithful wife who I don't even truly find anything interesting about her. I don't think I ever really loved her, she was just my first girlfriend after Jen so."
Shepard shook her head. "I'm sorry."
"Don't worry about it. And about your crew member…"
"He'll be taken care of." Shepard assured.
"Nah don't worry about it."McKay waved his hand in the air carelessly. "Sure I was pissed, but it's not like it was the first time. Thank you Commander Shepard." He held out his hand.
"Good luck McKay." She took his hand and shook it.
"My boss used to tell me that all the time." McKay gave a lopsided grin.
"His last name was Shepard too. Cornal John Shepard. However… he went M.I.A a few years back."
"Man bad couple years huh?" Shepard shook her head, he lost his CO and his wife… ouch.
"Lost my whole team and my wife, yeah. Terrible couple years. Anyway I'm done complaining. I'll see you around Shepard."
Shepard nodded her head as he departed.
"Things alright?" Garrus came up behind her.
"Hm, oh. Yeah, he's not as upset as he could have been." Shepard shrugged and linked arms with her date once again.
"Well that's good."
"Yep, so are you ready to go?"
"Definently." Garrus nodded and the two walked to where the rest of the team seemed to be getting restless.
"Can we go now?" Jack said as soon as Shepard and Garrus approached. "Just cause I look awesome in the dress doesn't mean that it's comfortable. And these men are starting to piss me off, same with the reporters." Jack crossed her slender, tattooed, arms across her chest.
"Yes. Let's move out team!" Shepard said as they exited the building and into the flashing streets.
MassEffect
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