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Commander Jane Shepard ([personal profile] earthborn) wrote in [community profile] thecapitol2014-04-22 11:16 am

On Any Other Day

Who| Shepard And Her Adoring Fans
What| The Customer Complaints Desk Is [OPEN]
Where| A lovely little park outside a lovely little café on a quiet day when the sun is shining, just after a certain network post
When| The morning after Shepard's Exposé goes live.
Warnings/Notes| Talk of murder, genocide, cussing, and political discourse. God help us all.

The sun is shining, the birds are singing, she's got a rail-thin barrista with a shock of violet-pink hair, and he keeps bringing her coffee from all the way across the street. On any other day, she'd call it perfect— he keeps sarcastically saluting her and she keeps sarcastically thanking him as 'private', and the coffee is damn good in addition to cheap and hand-delivered. On any other day.

But despite the shining weather and the convenient caffeine-drip, she's not set up here with the empty chair beside her own for the sake of simple joys.

Come at me, bro.
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[personal profile] justoutrunyou 2014-05-05 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Her eyes lit up with what was left of her childhood. A faint glimmer of unbridled joy at the simple happiness of being given something sweet for seemingly no effort. She smiled a crooked smile and nodded.

"Thank you Shepard." She stood up to follow the woman inside and then a funny thought crossed her mind. She stiffed her posture a little the way she'd seen people do in the video and saluted the woman.

"Ma'am." She added sheepishly.