@ keelahsebye

[thearchangel]

[Nothing's ever simple, is it?]

[Surely, everyone thinks, shore leave is a good time. You're supposed to be relaxing, supposed to be recovering from the horrors of a war you're not sure you can even win. Maybe you have some drinks, unwind in other ways, see your sweetheart or have a hookup. Heck, most people probably just took the time to sleep in without an alarm blasting in their ear at 0500.]

[You were, most times not supposed to be shot at.]

[But, then again, this is Shepard and her crew. The phrase Not Supposed To stopped applying the second she brought a handful of aliens to help crew an Alliance vessel, and proceeded to save everyone in the galaxy from the start of the Reaper invasion. Then blew up the Collectors, then cured the genophage, and just went right on rewriting history wherever she went.]

[It was probably stupid to think she, and the people around her, would have a nice, normal shore leave.]

[To say nothing of her alien boyfriend, and alien girlfriend.]

[That's right - somehow, against the rest of the astronomical odds, and all the other miracles Shepard managed to pull off, she'd also managed to snag the affections of both one washed up turian vigilante turned Reaper Advisor, and one quarian mechanist turned Admiral of her own people. It had really taken a lot of conversations, a lot of negotiating, trust, and more than a few trips to the medbay to sort things out. But by the end of it, Shepard had two partners, and Garrus and Tali kept things between them as they were.]

[Which usually entailed a smart turian mouth held off by a quarian enhanced shotgun.]

[A shotgun Garrus was extremely glad to have at his side, and slightly ahead of him, while they blazed a trail through the Wards to try and reach their Shepard before she ended up going bungee jumping off the krogan monument, or something else equally absurd.]

Joker said she fell through a fish tank - he lost sight of her, but I've still got vitals.

[Thank everything for that nifty little visor and its constant readout of the Commander's life signs...]

Still can't raise her on comms?

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[keelahsebye]

No, there's nothing. [Not that Tali hasn't been savagely pinging the comms every three seconds, to the point where she's almost certain her fingers are sprained. But that's what in-suit stabilizers are for, right? For when you have an anxiety spiral because your girlfriend/commander/fearless leader has done something dumb and heroic during the specially designated no-dumb-and-heroic-acts time?

You know, the suit is almost definitely equipped with space-anti-anxiety meds too, otherwise Tali would definitely be charging through the streets with her shotgun and shrieking aloud for Shepard.

Dumb Shepard. Dumb, brave, fearless, hapless Commander with her ability to attract danger and adventure no matter where she goes.

Tali lets out a perturbed grumbling noise that her suit morphs into something that's mostly static, and cocks her shotgun a couple times, just for something to do. Normally when she's this anxious and stressed out she doesn't want to look at or talk to anyone, so it's strange that the one person she usually bickers with the most is also the only person who can keep her from totally panicking. It's hard to feel hopeless when you have Garrus "I was a vigilante on Omega and also got my face blown up" Vakarian on your side.]

Where did she find a fish tank on the Citadel?