Curious Jealousy- a F!Shenko Fic

Chapter Twenty: Coup Pt. One: Attack

The attack came with no warning. One minute it was quiet and peaceful (well, as quiet and peaceful as was normal, anyway), the next minute had her staggering on her feet. Explosions on some lower level shook the entire level she was on.

Warning klaxons sounded as the hospital went into lockdown and the staff began preparing for the new patients that were bound to arrive. There was no hesitation, no panic, just an increase in movement.

Non-critical patients were all moved together so that there was more space.

It was times like this that Adria hated her job. The problem was that, if a patient was too critical and unable to be worked on quickly, well, then she had to move on. She had to save as many lives as possible.

She hated life or death situations.

The pressure was horrible.

Life would find no complaints with her if there was a lot less death and a lot more life. No wars, no gangs, no battles….

Just romance and marriage and babies.

She paused with her hand on a tube of medi-gel. In the midst of all the chaos, she had forgotten to think of the well-being of someone.

It disgusted her that she hadn't thought to contact him earlier. This was his element- he'd know what all she should do.

She opened her omni-tool and keyed in his comm link code. "Kaidan?" she whispered, fear coursing through her. Static was her response. "Kaidan…oh god," she choked out.

Adria gathered all the medi-gel in front of her to her chest, trying to maintain some semblance of calm (it wouldn't do her or the patients any good if she was busy have a panic attack about a friend lost somewhere on the Citadel.

Still, she had faith.

Kaidan was a survivor. He didn't know that she knew about what happened at BAat, but she did. He survived. He served with Commander Shepard and survived (from everything she heard about the mission of them hunting the Geth and that rogue Spectre, it was a surprise anyone survived) and he survived the destruction of the Normandy and the abduction of Horizon.

He would be fine.

She just had to keep repeating that until she actually believed that.

"External comms are down," Kaidan muttered to himself as he made his way to the Councilors. Unfortunately, he was only half way to them. "No way to signal for help…limited internal comms.

"Only ship with enough processing power to come close to straightening them out isn't even here- probably half way across the galaxy saving someone else."

A traitorous part of him mind (that spoke too loud to be ignored) found that pretty convenient. She had stopped by the Citadel after every major mission save for her last one. She went straight into the next mission. Another part of him (just a tiny voice, really) wanted to think that it was because he had been released from the hospital and she didn't know where he was.

…because she thought he had been saying goodbye.

He had been pretty sure that he had been getting past her past associations with Cerberus, but, apparently, that was a lie. He had thought that talking to her in the hospital had been enough. Rubbing his forehead, he wished that things were black and white.

They used to be…back before he had met Shepard and they went on an impossible mission and found out that, according to a bunch of epically scary monsters, they were at the apex of their civilization and they were going to be brought to extinction.