Favorite Interaction/Passage Meme
A passage from Faults and Fortitude my Saren/Garrus work.
Saren Arterius was not weak.
Then why was he crumbling? Like a meteor that would cause an ice age and the end of an era on some Spirits forsaken world, the weight of everything he’d been forced to endure fell from the atmosphere to crush him, all at once. Saren felt as though he could hardly breathe. This… this wasn’t him. He didn’t break. Ever. Not after he’d killed his own brother. Not while slogging through Spectre training. Not during his years rising through the ranks and watching his fellow Spectres succumb to some mission or another. Not even when he’d killed Nihlus in cold blood.
Saren Arterius did not break.
Then why did he want to? In the arms of some failed C-Sec cop, a scarred vigilante that ignored his existence and thought him a traitor. The turian who believed him no better than a coward. The only reason he was alive to feel this pain.
He couldn’t stand it any longer, he needed out. Saren tried to shove Garrus off, his hands knocking the other turian’s away as he pushed hard against his shoulders. But Garrus was too strong, his position too secure. With his armour, it didn’t matter that Saren kicked at his thighs and fought to remove the younger turian from his place above him. Garrus merely had to impose his armoured weight and Saren was trapped.
Without physical recourse, Saren growled: “Say it!” The anger returned in full force to cover the… the shame he felt. Anything to plaster over the cracks Saren knew had appeared all around him. “Tell me you don’t care!”
The last thing Saren expected to hear was a soft chuckle. He stopped thrashing.
“Is that what you think, Saren? That I don’t care?” Garrus asked him, his gaze softened and mandibles grew lax. “That I believe you and Sidonis are the same?”
Saren’s jaw clamped shut and he met Garrus’ eyes, daring him to look away.