Chapter 15: Jack
"Blue has she come out yet?" Jack asked impatiently.
"No she hasn't." Liara sighed. "She won't even talk to me."
"She's taking it that hard huh?" Jack said aloud.
"Yeah." Liara exhaled. "Grunt had to carry her on the ship she…"
"That's it!" Jack growled, marching down the corridor.
"Wait, what are you doing?" Liara shouted, after her.
"I getting her to talk, if she likes it or not!" Jack yelled.
Liara run up to her. "That isn't a good idea."
"And letting her bitch and moan is?" Jack snapped.
"Don't say I didn't warn you." Liara whispered.
Jack stomped to Shepard's quarters, the door was locked and Shepard wouldn't answer Jack's calls. "Shepard open the damn door!" She yelled banging on the door.
"Go away Jack!" Shepard shouted back.
"It's been two days!" Jack shouted. "Look I'm sorry about Garrus but…"
"Go to hell!" Shepard shouted, interrupting the biotic.
"You're gonna open this door or I'll blast it open!" Jack barked.
Shepard didn't answer. "Fine you'd better move out of the way!" Jack yelled. Jack put her hand in front of the door; a biotic pulse rushed out of her body and sent the door flying into Shepard's room.
Jack looked across from her and noticed the door was lodged into the wall in front of her. "I didn't kill you did I?" Jack asked sheepishly.
"No and you're in here now, so what do you want?" Shepard growled, from behind Jack.
"Shep I know your taking Garrus's death hard but…"
"You're gonna tell me to get over it and endure these feelings I have?" Shepard interrupted.
"You ever lose anybody Jack?" She asked bitterly. "Can you even care about someone?"
"Fuck you!" Jack yelled. "You have no idea what I've been through!"
"I don't need to know much Jack!" Shepard snapped. "You've been a scared kid all your life and the only reason you follow me is, because you need someone to hold your hand!"
"So says the privileged spacer kid who's had everything given to her!" Jack replied angrily.
"I've struggled my entire life, so don't you ever talk down to me!" Jack yelled.
"And whose fault is that!" Shepard yelled back.
"When you escaped Cerberus you could has done anything, but what did you do Jack?"
Shepard walked closer to the biotic. "Have you ever been responsible for any one but yourself Jack?" She questioned coldly. Jack didn't answer. "I didn't think so."
"When I got most of my team killed on Torfan I felt it!" Shepard yelled.
"I know about Torfan Shep, what's your point!"
"Did you know I was sick about Torfan?" Shepard questioned.
"That I didn't sleep for days because of all the death I was a part of?" She continued. "And I didn't even get a war crimes tribunal."
Shepard walked past Jack and leaned against the wall. "They told me I did humanity a great service and sent me to do more missions that where just as bad or worse."
Jack laughed. "I've seen you kill Shep, you've got it as bad as I do!"
"You should know that it gets easier each time you do it." Shepard replied, a half grin on her face. "It just took awhile for it to get easy."
"Aren't you the one who told me…"
"A hole in the head solves everything." Shepard interrupted. "Yeah it does!" She shouted.
"It's just when friends get in the way of what you have to do…that's when it gets hard again." Shepard said. "That's what I learned on Torfan, fighting Saren and everything between."
"That's why you're taking Garrus's death so hard?" Jack asked.
"The last thing I did was give him orders!" Shepard yelled, tears streaming down her face.
"You know that old turian wouldn't have minded dying for you." Jack said, trying her best to console her.
Shepard smiled. "You really suck at the whole 'comforting' thing."
Jack laughed. "Yeah that's what you've got blue for."
"I still don't like the way this feels Jack." Shepard sighed.
"Annoying thoughts and emotions eating at your insides?" Jack asked.
"Yeah, it's a real pain!" Shepard grunted.
"Well snap out of that shit!" Jack shouted. "You took over an entire section of the galaxy and you've got those Citadel pussies scared!"
Shepard started laughing. "What the hell is so damn funny?" Jack yelled.
"Nothing." She answered. "Thanks for the talk."
Jack rolled her eyes. "You gonna be ok?"
Shepard nodded and for Jack that was good enough. Jack walked out of the room to be met with Liara waiting outside the door. "I take all the yelling and laughing means she's ok now?" She asked.
"Sure." Jack answered. "All she needed to do was get in touch with that inner psycho a little." Jack said, walking past the asari.
End.
AN/ All character death is final in my stories, so I'm sorry Garrus is dead. (I'm a little surprised no one freaked about Tali's death earlier in the story.)
If Jack was a little out of character sorry but I really wanted to use some one and it was not going to be Liara or Grunt.
The next few chapters are a big deal so please keep reading.