she is the stone thrown into your still pond

by Ms-Deunan

With Commander Shepard, things are just a little different. 100word drabble series, fem!Shepard, AU. NEWEST: Plunge; in which Thane romanticizes death.

11. Die - 5 things - massani

Prompt: die (She's a bit like van Winkle, playing catch up. 1 of 5 ways Shepard and Co. could have gotten Santiago for Massani)

Follows: suffocate

Note: * = sing-song'd as in: 'hip bone's connected to the, back bone' though how he would have heard a century's old (earthling's/)child's song is troubling

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"Any day now."

"Working on it."

"Maybe you should let the professional-"

"-Shut it."

While the structure around them screams the death throes of Massani's vengeance, they are jockeying at a locked door. Garrus hovers, watching as she fumbles through year-old security protocols. Her fleshy pink lips are unreadable, but her cursing filters into his headset.

He interrupts: "T-node's connected to the, H-node*."

"Vakarian!"

"I'd like to not die here."

"You won't."

Behind them Massani shoots a man running across an elevated bridge.

Shepard spins, gun first. "What was that?"

Garrus opens the door.

"Not a goddamn thing," Massani says.

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