The Renegade

by girlfromgraz

Some Mass Effect drabbles - and vignettes - concearning Commander Cirilla Shepard's difficulties in dealing with the events on Horizon. Because as a Hero of the Alliance, she's never before had to cope with love and rejection... Former Shenko.

3. What Came Back

What Came Back

"Shepard, you scare me."

She barks a laugh. It echoes from the walls of the battery room around them. His mandibles twitch in dismay at her reaction.

"Do I, Garrus?"

"You're not the Commander I worked with before," the Turian confesses. Because he once has had a good relationship with her did Tali and Joker talk him into confronting Shepard.

Shepard shrugs. "This me is who came back from the dead." Deformed shadows dance on her disfigured face. It hurts to see what she is doing to herself.

"No," he shakes his head. "Not from the dead, Shepard. From Horizon."