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Chapter Seventeen
Disclaimer: Mass Effect belongs to Bioware and EA Games. This is a work of fanfiction, and I make no money from this fan work at all.
Warnings: adult language, sexual situations, slash, dub/non-con, threesomes, gender bending and mpreg. If I have missed something, please inform me and I will add it.
Characters/pairings: Colonist/War Hero paragade ManShep/Kaidan, ManShep/Garrus and a little ManShep/Zaeed.
Summary: Mindoir's strategy for survival was one that was not well-known to the greater galactic community. Derek Shepard carried this legacy with him, dormant, through the Skyllian Blitz and through the battle with Sovereign. However, after his death at the hands of the Collectors and revival due to the machinations of Cerberus, he must cope with his body no longer being his own.
~*~*~*~*~
In the five days after Benezia's death, Liara had retreated to her room, her Prothean artifacts and her thoughts, barely speaking to anyone.
Shepard had gotten worried. His usual counseling method was to give people a listening ear and a few leading sentences and allowed whomever to control the flow of conversation. It was simple observation; most people enjoyed talking about themselves, whether they were human or alien. He happened to enjoy listening and learning about his crew; if this gave him an opening to help them, it was no hardship.
Yet since Benezia's death, Liara had only given him a few terse words and a reassurance she would be fine. Under other circumstances he would take the words at face value. Liara, however, was a terrible liar. He decided to take measures.
That was how they had wound up in her small storage room/lab, sitting on the floor with two tumblers, an ice bucket and a precious bottle of Jack Daniels being passed between them. The first glass of Jack had gone down quickly after her first fit of coughing, followed by the second without a pause. This was followed by a third, and after that things got fuzzy.
Somehow Liara had wound up in his lap while she rattled off stories of her childhood, talking about her mother and lack of father, emotions flickering like a kaleidoscope across her agile blue face.
"I love you," she blurted out. She tried to kiss him after that but missed, both because she was drunk off her ass and because he was much more sober and able to dodge. She instead mouthed his shoulder. "I want you. Please?"
Shepard winced. "Liara, you're lonely." He pulled her off his now damp shirt. "And you're really, really drunk. This is," he stopped. The bottle was empty. "That was a big bottle."
"Humans find asari very attractive," Liara muttered, her hands wandering up his chest. "Most leap at the chance to be with one of us."
"Well, yes," he said, then shook his head. "I'm not most humans." Her eyes welled up with tears. "You're very pretty, Liara," he added, hastily. "I'm just... there's someone else, and..." He just didn't find asari attractive. He did tend to prefer human men, but he had hooked up women in the past. Yet, he found that asari were just off-putting, for some reason. They smelled odd. He could have looked at Liara nude and felt nothing. Add in her relative youth, and he wanted to feed her cookies and milk then tuck her into bed. "I love you like a sister."
Liara sniffled, burying her face back in his shoulder. "I wanted my first time to be special." She tried to nuzzle his neck, but Derek gently nudged her away.
There was something there he wasn't getting. "And it will be. You'll find the right person. Just give it time." As if he needed another reason to turn her down. She deserved someone whose experience wasn't just limited to weekend hook-ups and one-night stands.
"You feel nothing for me?" she sat up, heart in her eyes, cheeks flushed violet. "Nothing at all?"
"You're my friend, and part of my crew," Derek replied. Those were two things that meant the galaxy to him. "If I can help you with anything, you know I will."
Liara sat up, staggering out of his lap and stumbling away, falling to her knees "Go away, Commander." Her tears fell thick and fast as she hugged herself."Just... I'll be fine. But go away. I don't want to see you right now."
Derek's jaw went slack. He had never meant- "Liara, I'm sorry." He knelt beside her, one hand rubbing up and down her back. "Maybe if things were different... but they aren't."
She just cried all the harder.
~*~*~*~*~
"Shepard-Commander, Shadow Broker forces are en route," Legion announced as they landed, in Vasir's commandeered sky-car. "We have detected three transports unloading troops onto the rooftop landing pad."
"Shit," Derek muttered, while he heard Kaidan muffle his laughter. "Was there a tracking beacon in the car?"
"That's what you get for being cheap and not getting a taxi," the sentinel chirped, leaned over the shoulder of Derek's seat. His tone hardened. "But are they following us, or did they found out where Liara was there some other way?"
"That can wait," Derek said, and frowned, tapping his communicator. "EDI, can you trigger the building's security systems? Call for an evacuation? We need to get the civilians out of the cross fire."
"Doing so now," EDI's synthesized voice came over their com channel. "I would suggest that you hurry. Com chatter suggests that the off-loading troops may have military grade explosives."
Derek felt his heart beat in his ears. "Right." He floored the throttle. "Can you get hold of Liara? Try her old com channel frequency?"
"I cannot reach her on a secure channel. Contacting her on an unsecure one would give away her position," the AI replied.
"Dammit." Derek steered the sky-car down, dodging the blasts from the guards on the roof. Thankfully, he was spared any comments on his driving skills; geth felt no fear and Kaidan had experienced Derek's reckless style before, and had the sense to keep his mouth shut.
Derek reckoned he would reward the man when this was over. Somehow. Probably with sex. Or, perhaps, a full night's sleep.
"I have been able to locate three military grade detonation devices in the building. You will not have enough time to disarm them manually. However, with Legion's help, I can hack the signal coordinating the detonators. I need a signal boost from the Dracon Trade Center's security office, and the help of Legion's multiple programs to hack everything efficiently."
"Oh, is that all?" Derek asked, under his breath. "No pressure."
"You have four minutes. The security office is two floors down."
"Well, that makes everything better," Kaidan added, sounding nonplussed. Derek grunted, nodding to himself.
"Okay, people. Grapples. Legion, you and me, we're going to repel down the side of the building. I'm going to charge you through the building to the security office." He turned to Kaidan, stomach twisting at what he was about to ask, but he didn't hesitate. "It looks like they parked all their transports here. If they plan to get out again, this is it. Kaidan, can you bottle them up here?"
"No problem." Kaidan checked his assault rifle. "Let's cut a path to the side of the building."
Shots buffeted Vasir's sky-car as they opened the hatch, Kaidan putting up a barrier as they fought their way to the side of the building, tossing grapple lines they had found inside the car.
The stomach twisting refused to leave Derek as he covered Legion down the side of the building, forcing himself to trust that Kaidan would be fine. The man was a fine soldier, a powerful biotic. This wasn't Vimire. Instead, he focused on the feat ahead of him as he used a shockwave to break through the window.
Derek had been barely able to lift a pencil before Cerberus had revived him. Still, learning how to use his biotic skills had been almost a picnic in comparison to the other, less welcome physical changes. But he rarely used his charge as more than an attack. Hell, he'd never even tried moving someone else with him.
Then again, Legion wasn't exactly an organic, and Derek's armor made it through just fine.
He had been able to move through physical objects, and over chasms. What he didn't know was how far-
"EDI, can you give me a schematic of the building?" They took cover behind some desks as Derek reaved a group of mercs, one with a rocket launcher. "How far are we from the security office?"
The images of the building flashed across his visor. Two halls away, five mercs in between. He could hear the report of Legion's sniper rifle behind him as he doubled back. A timer wound down in the corner of his display; they had two a half minutes left.
"Hold on," Derek ordered, grabbing the geth platform, visualizing where he wanted to go in his mind's eye, and charged.
~*~*~*~*~
EDI had, considerately, added a timer to Kaidan's HUD as well.
It was easy to take out the remaining guards before using their own transports for cover. The environment made it easy; his back was covered and there were plenty of ledges to shove enemies off of. By the time the countdown had lowered to three minutes, he was standing by himself.
At two minutes, fifty seconds, he heard alarms going off throughout the building and saw civilian sky-cars lifting off from the lower floors. None of them looked to be hostiles.
At two minutes, thirty seconds, another surge of Shadow Broker forces erupted from the roof exit, four in all. He dived into cover, before hitting them first with an overload and then with another with a throw, tossing two off the building. They barely paid attention, scrambling for the transports.
Another surge of troops came out, but they were running. Kaidan snarled, hitting the two transports with an overload this time to disable their mass effect drives. They weren't going anywhere.
Vasir's sky-car had survived.
At a minute and thirty, Kaidan had lost his barrier and had to take cover, but his foes were in the same boat; all protections eroded.
One minute, and a singularity appeared over the side of the building, catching Kaidan and yanking him into the air... and over the side of the building. He struggled, danced in midair before it dropped him over the half-kilometer high side of the building.
He saw Liara's expression of shock as he dropped, and realized she had been the one to form the singularity that had pulled him from cover. She hadn't known he was there.
But then there were shots, and she was gone as he fell past the lip of the roof. He slapped his communicator, trying to call for help, steer himself. Even if Liara could snag him with her own biotics she might have been able to slow him down.
There wasn't time to swear. He tried to use his own biotics, lighten his mass, something-
The force that hit his ribs drove the air from his lungs, almost cracking his armor as he was flung against the ceramic sides of the building. His momentum was checked; and he looked down at the burnished gunmetal-gray of Shepard's armor.
"Gotcha," a voice hissed in his ear, before they slid down the side of the building once again. "Shit!"
Kaidan's mind registered that they were falling, before Shepard growled, wrapping his arms around Kaidan and there was a wretch, a snap and hiss and the sense that not all of his pieces were moving at the same speed and then-
~*~*~*~*~
"Never, ever do that again."
Shepard would have smiled at Kaidan's tone, shocked and quivery, but he was too busy vomiting up his lunch, his breakfast, and even the memory of that last bottle of Tupari all over the paved landing pad.
Could have been worse. He and Kaidan weren't spattered across the ground level of Illium like chunky salsa. He could have phased himself and Legion into a wall when he had done that first blind biotic jump; instead, he had just been left exhausted and shaky. EDI could not have informed him of Kaidan's accidental altercation with gravity, or given him the coordinates to make a second blind charge. He could have been too drained to make the third and final charge, or not managed to keep Kaidan within the mass effect field.
Best of all, the dry heaves were easing up. At least now he knew why he had never done a biotic charge while carrying another organic until now.
That lead to why Kaidan was kneeling beside him, his bottle of energy drink in one hand, rubbing Derek's back with the other. He had also been berating Derek from the moment they had touched down.
"Really, using the Conduit was bad enough," Kaidan nattered on. Derek thought he was covering his shock at being tossed off the roof with panicked ranting. "At least the Protheans knew what they were doing when it came to moving people with mass effect fields." Derek listened, but didn't much care. He was trying to spit out the last of the bile and halt his shaking hands. While Derek knew he was no Superman, he felt like he had been hit with Kryptonite.
"It worked, didn't it?" He did feel well enough to sit back, the pain in his head and belly easing up enough for him to talk. He wiped the sweat out of his eyes with trembling fingers as Kaidan offered him the bottle, took a swig, swished it about and spat it back out. "Because if it means we're alive, and no collateral damage? I'm all for it."
"It was a good call," Liara added. She had been reviewing Sekat's data before deactivating her omni-tool with a flick of her wrist. "And with this, we should be able to get the Shadow Broker's base within a few hours." She stood up from her perch on Vasir's sky car, not looking down at Shepard. Derek was okay with that, sitting back on his ass with his legs folded under him and sipping his energy drink while trying to slow his breathing. The shaking hadn't stopped yet.
Kaidan, on the other hand, wasn't about to let things go. "What? That's all you've got to say? You didn't check your targets, got me thrown off a building, and now you're ignoring Shepard while he's laid out on the ground because he used up his reserves? Reserves he burned up coming after you because you pissed off the Shadow Broker? I mean, Liara, it's been two years and all, but that's cold."
"They were getting away with Sekat's data," Liara snapped back. "I had no reason to think there was anyone up here, and I couldn't count on help. I had to make a call, and it was the right one."
"Right. What if it hadn't been me up here, and it was some random civilian you knocked off-"
"Shepard would have saved that person," Liara said, snidely. "Regardless of who it was."
"Enough."
Both turned to Shepard, who had finished off the energy drink and rolled to his knees. "We're all on the same side here." Kaidan offered Derek a hand; Derek took it, hauling himself to his feet. He kept his eyes closed as his head throbbed. "And we're going to be jumping several light years. We've got time to talk."
"Talk about what?" Her voice was taut, defensive.
"About our-"
"Our what?" her own voice rose. "Listen, Shepard, I'm glad you're here-"
"You sure have a funny way of showing it," Kaidan interrupted. "We just saved your ass and you're acting like we're some damn mercs you happened to hire. I thought we were friends."
"That's not fair." Derek opened his eyes to meet Liara's regretful ones. "You were dead, and I was alone."
"I came back. I invited you to join us again," Derek pointed out, still not sure where she was headed with this.
"Yes, you came back," she snarled, rolling her eyes. "And if I had joined you? I'm not interested in joining your drunken orgies on the Citadel!" She stopped, lips pinching together as Shepard drew back. "Look, Shepard, I'm an information broker. I learn things, I didn't mean..." She looked to the side. Both men were staring at her, aghast. "Look, for now, let's just focus on getting Feron back."
~*~*~*~*~
They had gotten onto Hagalaz easily, finding the Shadow Broker's incredible ship as it rode the sunset storm that continuously circled the planet. They had fought their way across the ship's surface, then through the interior, finding Feron alive.
That had shocked everyone, including Liara. Yet it had given them some hope that the Shadow Broker, despite his near omniscience, was fallible. If they were keeping Feron alive, it had to be as a taunt.
Kaidan followed Derek into the Shadow Broker's den, watching the other man's face flash and thunder with anger at what the Broker had caused. It was no surprise when Derek stopped, his Carnifex snapping out to aim at the monstrous horned shadow that lurked behind the mammoth desk. Kaidan fell into position at Derek's right, while Liara covered his left. He glanced about the room, noting the dozens of data-terminals, the drone of constant voices in the shadows. It seemed a fitting place for the galaxy's puppet master.
"Here for the drell?" the voice rolled off the Broker like an earthquake, resonate enough to be felt through his boots. "Wreckless, even for you Commander."
"Your attempt to bomb the Dracon Trade Center wasn't exactly subtle," Derek said, keeping his pistol trained on one of the Broker's eyes.
"Extreme, but necessary." The Broker sounded bored.
"No it wasn't!" Liara said, taking one step forward as she vibrated in anger. "Neither was caging Feron for two years!"
"Doctor T'Soni," the Broker acknowledged. "Tell me. Did you think if you saved the Commander, that he would come to you out of gratitude? Was the man you got back really worth the effort of saving him, costing you Feron?"
Kaidan's eyes flicked over to Liara, to see her cheeks flush blue and her eyes narrow.
"Someone was bound to come after you for working for the Collectors," Shepard said, keeping his poker face. Kaidan made a note to never bet with the Commander.
"It was a mutual beneficial partnership. They were interested in seeing how your gene mods worked, how changes to you could be passed down to your children. Speaking of which, did you ever decide on a name?"
"What." Kaidan looked over in time to see Derek's pistol rattle in his hands.
"I've been told that helps with mourning a miscarriage. Naming your lost offspring. Ashley is a unisex name, is it not?" Kaidan heard Liara make a squeak, a disbelieving sound in the back of her throat. He saw the blood drain from Derek's face.
Derek's nostril's flared. "You're going to have a hard time running a ship this size with no crew," he said, the muscles in his jaw tensed.
"They were replaceable," the Broker tossed out. "Your arrival was barely an interruption. Enough talk. My operations are too crucial to be compromised by a traitor."
"You're quite confident for someone with nowhere left to hide," Liara answered. She looked to be recovering, regaining her lost bravado.
"You travel with fascinating companions, Doctor," the Broker said. Kaidan couldn't tell if he was smirking or not. His face was so alien that he couldn't find anything to read. "Thank you for bringing me Staff Commander Alenko. A dissection of his brain, and why he was a successful L2 implant, should be worth quite a lot on the black market."
"You're not laying a hand on anyone!"
"It's pointless to challenge me, asari." The Broker wasn't even looking at her anymore, instead shifting his attention to Derek. "I know your every secret, while you fumble in the dark." Derek inhaled, sharply.
"Is that right?" Liara murmured. "You're a yahg. A pre-spaceflight species that was quarantined to their home world, for massacring the Council's first contact teams." She looked around. "This base is older than your planet's discovery. Which probably means you killed the original Shadow Broker sixty years ago, then took over. I'm guessing you were taken from your world by a trophy hunter who wanted a slave." Her lips curved into a cruel smile. "Or a pet. How'm I doing?"
There was nothing but silence as the Broker stood two his full two meters. Kaidan couldn't help himself as he stood back, stepping behind and around Shepard, casting about for cover. He remembered the thresher maws they had taken on had seemed that tall... and they had no mako to hop about in now.
Then the Broker roared, smashing his desk and flinging the chunks.
Kaidan didn't really see the desk hit him, but he felt it. The world went gray, all sounds came from a deep tunnel. He didn't know how long he was out before a surge of medi-gel and a shock from the medical VI got him aware enough for words to make sense.
"It's kinetically sensitive!" he heard Liara cry out as he got to his feet, seeing Derek crack his knuckles and charge the monster. There was a sharp snap of knuckles on flesh. Kaidan heard this as he staggered to his feet, saw the Broker reel from Shepard's blows. He activated his barrier and joined the rush-
In time for the Broker's shield to fling him to the side, on his back again, wind knocked from his lungs.
"Kaidan!" he heard, ears ringing, as Derek grabbed him, dragged him back to cover and used another dose of medi-gel. Sense leaked back through the world's throbbing.
More shots, more noise as Kaidan got back to himself. Shepard was moving to the side, blasting at the Broker with his Claymore, working at wearing down his shields. The separate energy shield on his arm kept the shots from being successful; Kaidan flung out one hand to reave the Broker, making him cry out in surprise. He paused, bringing up his fortification shield again.
"Shepard, quick, while he's vulnerable!" Liara called.
Derek got in, and used another biotic punch, throwing in the energy of his own barrier into the damage. The Broker staggered back, and bringing up his arm-shield to hold Shepard back as he ran, trying to stiff arm the behemoth.
Derek went flying.
"Gotcha!" Kaidan said, though it came out a bit muffled from underneath Shepard's weight. Liara kept shooting at the Broker as the two men got up, scurrying out of the way.
"Can you get him to bring up that shield again?" Liara shouted. Her grin was fierce and wild, looking up at the massive electrical feed that powered the data feeds and served as a light source. "I've got an idea!"
Derek looked at Kaidan, who nodded at him. Kaidan hefted his assault rifle. They ran in opposite directions. The Broker kept his gaze on Shepard while Kaidan worked from behind- hit him first with a cryo-blast and then with a reave.
Derek cackled; he then ran at the Broker, who had already dropped his shield in order to bash Shepard again-
When Derek ducked, rolling under the Broker's blow and popping up on the other side. Liara pulled-
Plasma poured from the light, slamming into the Broker and blowing him into oblivion.
Kaidan found himself catching Shepard again in the force of the explosion.
There was heavy breathing, almost louder than the continual hiss of the data feeds. "You can get off me now."
"You're comfy," Derek groaned, going limp for a moment before rolling off Kaidan. "If the whole 'biotic marine' thing doesn't work out for you, you could hire yourself out as a pillow."
"Tempting," Kaidan said, getting up and dusting himself off. "Very tempting. What should I charge you?" He laughed, helping Derek up, brushing their lips together in a sweet kiss.
That was when he saw Liara, staring at them.
~*~*~*~*~
Derek wasn't sure what to feel about Liara's choice to become the new Broker, but right now she was crying, futilely wiping at the tears with her gloved hands.
"It's over. After two years... It's finally over."
Derek pulled her to his chest, stroking her back. "Shh. It's all right, Liara. It's all right." He started patting himself down, somehow finding a handkerchief in his many pockets to wipe her face. His mother had taught him well, he thought with a bit of irony. He dabbed Liara's tears as she made a weak laugh.
"You... you never saw me as more than a child, did you?" she asked, words catching in her throat.
Derek paused, looking around. He was both grateful and a little bit off-balance with Kaidan gone. "I saw you as a little sister. There's a difference."
"What is that?"
"No matter how grown up a little sister gets, she will always be your little sister." He kissed her forehead. "I know you're an adult, Liara." Derek sighed, crossed his arms. "And I will always be here for you. But-"
Liara twisted her fingers together, eyes cast to the side. "Shepard- what the Broker said..."
Derek cleared his throat. "You did the right thing, Liara, bringing me back." He hoped so. He prayed so. He couldn't tell her otherwise. "And everyone has fantasies of saving the one they love, and getting to ride off into the sunset. I'm just sorry I disappointed you."
"I... No. It's all right." Her face closed down. "You never knew, or understood." She rubbed her forehead. "And I never explained."
"What am I not understanding?" Derek asked, frustrated, tired. "You've been different since I came back."
"I," and she smiled, a little weakly. "You're the exact same man I knew." She hugged him again, before wiping more tears off her face. "I spent two years mourning you and Feron." Her smile widened. "And now I've got you both back."
She turned back towards the console. "Now, let's see what we've got. No safeguards, or user restrictions. It's like he never anticipated anyone but himself being here." She turned back to Shepard, her smile broad and unabashed. "And it's all ours."
"What kind of information are we talking about?" his voice dropped, crossing his arms. "What does he have on me?"
Liara paused, her fingers dancing over the holo-keys. "I'm not sure. I'll need to go through his files. That might take awhile." She turned back to him. "Is this about what he said?" She turned hesitant. "You miscarried?"
"I was surprised you hadn't heard." Derek leaned against one of the pillars, crossing his arms and closing his eyes. "Did you know about my gene mods? I mean, even the STG had found out about it, apparently."
"Yes. It wasn't easy, but I did find out about the Mindoir mods. But... I hadn't realized they had... Shepard, I'm sorry." She walked up to him, gently touching his face. "I heard about your collapse on Horizon. Was that it?"
"Yes."
"But Kaidan wasn't on board- then who was-"
Derek pinched the skin between his brows. "Liara." He pressed his lips together. He didn't remember being this tired in a long, long time. "It's complicated." He felt like a coward, but he didn't want to tell her everything. And the idea of the Broker knowing, the Broker telling- "But... please. If you find out details, and," his voice cracked. "If he sold them..."
"I'll look into it." She put her hands on Derek's shoulders. "I'll have something for you, when you come back."
Derek opened his eyes, smiled at her and nodded. "I look forward to it."
"Come back soon. The door is always open." Her smile was more real this time.
"Don't be a stranger."
~*~*~*~*~*~
The shuttle ride back was quiet.
Derek's eyes were closed, and from the slack jaw and soft breathing, Kaidan thought he was deeply asleep. Not that he could blame the man; Kaidan was worn out himself. Life had a way of catching up with you, and Kaidan was loathe to wake him for conversation.
He blinked. His omni-tool was flashing, indicating a new message.
-Kaidan, I thought you might want to see some of this. I've deleted the video. Do what you can to get him to stop torturing himself.
Liara
He glanced down at Derek, who was steadily slumping towards him, sliding against the back wall of the shuttle. Kaidan held still as Derek's chin dropped onto his shoulder... and curiosity, and not a small bit of worry, made him open the file.
It was recent intel collected on Derek.
Shepard liked odd music, apparently. A recent playlist had an old twentieth century band called "Kansas," Frank Sinatra, and bluegrass. Very little from even this century.
Kaidan glanced down at Shepard. Well. No one was perfect.
Recent extranet searches:
Major headlines for the past two years. Councilor Anderson. Kaidan Alenko. Garrus Vakarian. Liara T'Soni. Quarians, Tali'Zorah nar Rayya. Urdnot Wrex. Derek Alexander Shepard. The Illusive Man. Ashley Williams.
Kaidan scanned the list; Shepard had been trying to catch up on the past two years and what had happened to his crew.
None of it seemed like torture, or even strange. Then he came to things like Jane Shepard, John and Hannah Shepard, a list of the casualties and survivors of the Mindoir massacre... The death of Commander Shepard. Okay, that might have been macabre.
Then he saw.
Human pregnancy, gestation at three weeks. Human pregnancy, gestation at four weeks. Human pregnancy, gestation at five weeks. Human pregnancy, gestation at six weeks. Early pregnancy symptoms. Ways to prevent miscarriage. Ways to prevent pregnancy.
The most recent search had been for pregnancy at five months.
Derek had also made a modest donation to an abuse survivor's support group on the Citadel. No indication that he had spoken with them in any way. Just given them ten thousand credits.
Kaidan closed his eyes. When Derek had not spoken of the miscarriage, or when Zaeed had taken advantage of him, Kaidan had thought he was fine. Well, maybe not fine, but had gotten past it. The man was strong. Hell, he had handled being dead better than...
He made a soft groan, remembering the sight of Derek on the med-bay bed, frozen in the midst of a flashback.
Kaidan had been an idiot.
But that didn't mean he had to continue to be one. He leaned over, pressed his cheek to Shepard's hair. Derek needed to talk this out, and Kaidan would be there when he was ready. Or, perhaps, a little earlier than that. This had festered long enough.
To be continued.
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