I Should Go

by Nevery

Speeches, farewells, denials, howls of grief and of rage. Those that knew Shepard in life remember the Commander in death. Shepard's gender and any interpretations of romance are intentionally ambiguous and left up to you. Disclaimer: Reading these shorts whilst listening to "An End for Once and For All" carries with it a heavy risk of tears.

24. Twenty-Four: Donnelly&Daniels

Daniels, Gabriella

Donnelly, Kenneth

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Commander, I - hi. It's Gabby and Ken!

I was going to write thatI can introduce myself Gab!It doesn't even matter this is on a data pad!

Uhm, sorry about thatdid you just write "uhm"? Isn't that strictly a vocalisation?

Kenneth! Show some respect!

You're right. Sorry Commander. Me and Gab, we thought we might leave you some sort of message...

It just seemed right.

Yeah.

So we're on Earth now. Staying at Gab's parents - which is far bloody more terrifying than the Reapers!

Only because you have the emotional intelligence of a Gath, Ken.

Hey now! That's offensive! They're people too.

I - I meant - look can we just do this, now?

Yeah, sorry.

So we stuck around, helped the rebuild on Earth - as best we could. But we kind of drifted away. Not that we're keeping away - we saw Jamie Vega and Steve Cortez for poker just last week.

Jamie? Jamie Vega?

But we're sort of... just catching our breath now, right?

Those two bicker worse than we do - right!

Right. And we have you to thank for that, Shepard.

I guess that's what we're doing with this: thanking you.

For always being decent to us.

Saving us from the Collectors.

Giving us a second chance on the Normandy.

Giving us - well, giving Kenneth - some shoves towards each other.

And for kicking the Reapers in their Daddy-bags!

Kenneth!

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A/N: D&D. Didn't feel right writing them up separately. As should be evident by now, Gabby is in regular font and Ken's ramblings are in the italics. The slightly bad formatting at the top of the chapter is intentional. But then I would say that.

Thanks for the continuing good feedback everyone, I hope this one holds up too.

The new poll should be up shortly, but probably tomorrow. Wrote up Eve/Bakara and Traynor last night. It's taken me ages to work out what to do for Traynor, for whatever reason I find it hard to get inside her head. Expect Hackett, Bailey, Bakara and Sam in the next poll, unless I manage to write up Victus or someone else.

Hope all is well with you chaps.

Overlord Moo: That's an incredibly flattering conspiracy theory but not at all true, naturally. Maybe I should include a quick disclaimer next time?

Until then, please continue to enjoy, and let me know what you enjoy.

-Nevery.