@serabellyms + Spotify Wrapped Starter [Accepting] + Alisa #21- You're Gonna Go Far, Kid by The Offspring
See the lightning in your eyes, see them running for their lives. That had been the orders. That had been the desire out of the biotics wearing Cerberus colors. Blue eyes closed as a hand passed over his face. Project Phoenix... but that implied burning your birds, didn't it? Melting their wings. Kill them and let them rise. Fuck that.
You're gonna go far, kid. Yeah, he had hadn't he? Just not in the way the instructors of Project Phoenix meant. He had run. Run far away from Cerberus as soon as the Indoctrination shit started. The Alliance had not so much accepted him as... allowed his presence.
His shoulders stiffened a little as he heard a commotion nearby but it was just some young Marines celebrating some sport or another that he didn't keep up with.
The surgical site of the L5ns still hurt sometimes. But the scar was hidden by his hair, which had grown a bit longer during shore leave.
And then he glanced over and Shepard was like... there. Right there. Shit.
"Nice work you did. Um, have done. Commander," he said. Not even a little drunk. Damn biotic metabolism. But he finished the glass in his hand then stood up to his full six foot two height.
He offered a hand, his hair falling over his eyebrows. He needed to fix that. So many months trying to get on the Normandy. The pride of the fleet. The only ship with Commander Shepard at the helm. And Shepard was here. On the Citadel, it wasn't rare. Or a surprise. But...
