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Post by Commander Shepard on Mar 16, 2015 18:57:28 GMT -5
Hannah awoke with a start, her chest heaving, feeling heavy and sick.
She looked around and tried to focus, medical equipment lined the walls. She started blinking and tried to stand up, but found herself attached to more tubes than she was ready to deal with.
A doctor rushed in "She's awake!"
"What in the hell is going on here!" She groaned as people rushed in. This wasn't the first time she'd awoken in a hospital room and she was sure it wouldn't be the last, but she didn't recognize the equipment, she didn't recognize the people, she didn't recognize anything.
"Mam, please you've been in a coma."
"Not the first time" she yelled and tried pulling out a tube before orderlies could hold her down "hey get the hell off of me! I want some answers!"
"All in due time, please calm down" the doctor looked human but his voice was something else.
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Commander Shepard
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Post by Commander Shepard on Apr 9, 2015 18:38:50 GMT -5
"What in the hell is going on! I'm not calming down unless you tell me where the hell I am!" The doctor nodded at man with large eyes who was holding what looked to be a large needle "Oh this is bullshit" she started kicking but found herself getting very tired very quickly and none of her struggling was doing much damage. The large eyed man inserted the needle in to her arm and she immediately felt groggy.
"When you awaken next I hope you have a better attitude."
"Doubtful" she mumbled as she felt back in to sleep, her last thoughts being that if she'd been in a coma why were they putting her back to sleep?
**HOURS LATER**
Coming to a second time, Hannah knew what she was in for, she had to play ball with whoever the hell these people were until her strength was back and if she didn't get any answers by then- Her eyes fluttered awake, the only person in the room was a tall woman humanoid, pointed ears, eyebrows arched and upswept, severely defined bone structure, muscular; she didn't look like a nurse, but the jumpsuit with the medical logo on it proved otherwise. "Nurse?" The woman turned around, face is blank, AI? Hologram?.
"Commander, you have awoken" no inflection in her voice, empty, emotionless.
"That I have" she struggled to sit up, it had seemed that during her sleep they'd strapped her to the bed. She jiggled that arm cuffs and looked up "Really?"
"We are taking the necessary precautions to ensure the safety of our employee's, I am afraid it is."
"Fine" she leaned her head back "what are you?"
"Excuse me?" nothing, still nothing.
"Your race, it's nothing I've ever seen, are you an AI?"
"I am a Vulcan" that's new.
"What's a Vulcan?" The nurse raised her eyebrow "I have no idea what a Vulcan is."
"I am a Vulcan" sarcasm? No, more matter of fact, a complete lack of emotion. Not like an Elcor, no, it's contained, not impossible.
"I guess that answers that" the doctor returned, he was very much human and something about that concerned her more than the humanoid with the pointy ears.
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Commander Shepard
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Post by Commander Shepard on Apr 10, 2015 18:42:23 GMT -5
"Ms. Shepard fantastic to see you awake and not trying to kill anyone."
"There's still plenty of time in the day," she pressed her lips in to a firm line "so are you gonna tell me how it is I ended up here?" She was a biotic, if need be she's electrocute the whole facility. The doctor pulled up a chair and nodded at the nurse, who promptly left.
"You died."
"I've done that before" Shepard deadpanned, the doctor simply laughed.
"Yes we know, but extenuating circumstances being what they were caused a little, umm temporal rift."
"I'm sorry?"
"Your death occurred at the exact moment the Synthesis completed, at the same time a temporal rift occurred in the area. Pulling you out of your timeline and in to ours." The doctor leaned back "It's all very fascinating if it wasn't absolutely frustrating."
"Are you telling me that-"
"You've hopped dimensions, you can never go home" he sighed "I'm sorry."
"I-" she blinked rapidly "How did you know about me and what happened-?"
"Your omni tool, it recorded everything. We were aware of your dimension about the same time you were being sworn in to the specters we've gotten, let's call them transmissions, little bits of information rolling through time. We'd been hearing rumblings in deep space, what you would call dark space, about a cosmic power that could destroy worlds. We feared it was the being you called reapers having skipped dimensions, but now know it's a single being, something called Galactus. Either way, he's generations away and you are here."
"Were is here exactly?"
"You're on an ship, between time. We're the guardians of the temporal prime directive, were here to make sure time travelers and inter dimensional beings are kept in check and sent back to where they came from. In certain cases, such as your own, there are special circumstances. You can not go back to where you came from as you are dead there and sending you back will alter the timeline in a way that could be catastrophic. Additionally it may affect a different timeline in which you destroyed the reapers and happen to be male."
"This is absolutely insane" she knew he wasn't lying "so I'm currently between time? How did you get a hold of me?"
"You appeared here on route to I imagine the earth of this dimension, which I hate to admit has been a blind spot for us" the doctor sighed "it's a mess."
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Post by Commander Shepard on Apr 15, 2015 12:10:49 GMT -5
"How so?"
"Well at the cost of giving you more information than I should, Earth of this universe is in constant flux, time simply doesn't work the same there as it does anywhere else" the doctor shook his head "damn place. France is in the 1880's, New York is in the 1980's, California is in 2015 and Great Briton is completely fucked. There are characters from books that shouldn't exist, in France Sherlock Holmes is a man, in New York he's a story, in London a woman just became QUEEN because they found King Arthurs sword in a cave it's just it's a mess." He stood up and started pacing "And I've got to send you there."
"You don't have to do shit" she looked down at her wrists "except maybe remove these cuff's, I'm starting to chaf." The Doctor laughed and walked began unstrapping her.
"I am sorry about having to do that by the way, I can't be too careful."
"All I wanted was answers doc and you weren't giving them" she rubbed her wrists and sat up "I'm a very agreeable person once you get to know me."
"I can tell, you uh- If I can be so bold, you don't seem terribly phased by all of this."
"You don't know as much about me as you think" she stretched her back, still too early to gauge their intentions, but he seems legit. She looked around "You don't seem much more advanced than we are."
"We've got teleporters, intertime space ships and food replicators."
"Nevermind" she laughed "may I stand up?"
"You might not want to, emergency medical gowns don't exactly cover everything" Hannah lifted the blanket and sighed "you guys didn't even leave the underwear on?"
"You showed up naked, a small ring and your omni tool were the only things that survived."
"A ring?" She looked down at her naked finger and suddenly felt more naked than not having pants, "where is it?" The doctor stood up and went over to a small box and opened it up handing the ring to her "Thank you this is-"
"From your husband."
"Yes, he- we" she slipped the ring on her finger and flashed back to the wedding. It was performed in secret before the final push on Earth- they were both wearing full armor- there were only two witnesses, James and Garrus, Anderson officiated. Kaidan had proposed the night of the party, as it was winding down he coyly asked her to come help him in the office. She was a little drunk and wasn't sure what in the hell he needed help with, so she played along thinking maybe he wanted to get kinky in the office. Instead he wrapped his arms around her waist and gave her the sweetest, most tender, drunkest kiss she'd ever been given; it took her breath away and she knew immediately something was off, something was different. He leaned back and fell to one knee and he said, she'll never forget it, he said- Hannah, I've been thinking about this moment since the day I met you; you're my lungs, you're my gut, you're my heart. I made so many mistakes with you, I should have been there with the collectors, I should have been there next to you and I can't do that again. I want to be there next to you for as long as were both still breathing. Hannah it would be my honor, if you'd marry me.
"Are you all right?" The doctor pulled her out of her mind.
"I'm- I'm never going to see home again" she laughed "I'll never see my husband, or my crew, or my friends, I'll never see the impact of my decision on the world. Did I make the right decision? Are they going to vilify or martyr me for it?" She leaned her head back and closed her eyes "And you have to send me back to an Earth I don't know, that's riddled with chaos, after I just got done saving one universe. Man I really hope you don't expect me to save this one too-" The doctor gave a soft chuckle.
"No, it's beyond saving."
"Let me stay here for a couple days, get my bearings on what this earth is about, please, I'm not ready for people."
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