she's the girl

by shajs

She knew hundreds of ways to kill. That's all she has needed to know to live her life until somehow, on a suicide mission, against all the odds, she finally finds someone to trust. • Drabbles.

6. five

– 5 –

In the end, Shepard's arms were around her before she'd even managed to ask, as if the woman had known this moment was coming sooner or later. Maybe it'd been that obvious, maybe this whole thing was long overdue: her succumbing to her fucking feelings, Shepard holding her, stroking her back, whispering soft words she couldn't understand right into her ear.

She was crying like a god damn pussy, but for once, she didn't want to reel it in. She had tried, she really had, but what was she even fighting really?

This mission was supposed to be suicide, anyway. No reason to hold onto some misguided sort of dignity she'd clung to for the sake of self-defense.

Shepard kissed her like she knew what she was going through. She was holding her like she meant it. Knowing Shepard, Jack could hazard a guess she did – for better or for worse, the great Commander Shepard knew exactly what it was like, being who she was. Growing up alone. Having no one.

Learning everything the hard way.

Shepard kissed her, and Jack cried tears she should've shed years ago.