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bakerstreet2012-09-02 10:57 pm
dreamlocket) wrote in bakerstreet2012-09-02 10:57 pm
The Relationship Meme
☁ THE RELATIONSHIP MEME
Dramatic or cracky, there are options for everyone who has a sudden itching to play out some ships.
↘ Post your character below, listing their name and series in the subject.
↘ Others respond after going to random.org and entering 1-16 for a scene, reply back and have some fun!
↘ Roll as many times as you like! Play out as many scenarios as you want! Just enjoy the fluffy or angsty goodness.
● 01 I HAVE A CONFESSION | There's someone you really like and it's finally time to tell them! It can be spur of the moment or elaborately planned out.
● 02 START OF SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL | You've just got together and everything is great! You can't stop thinking about each other or keep your hands off your significant other. You want to spend all the time you can together, doing whatever!
● 03 CAN'T GET IT UP | It happens to everyone, honest! For whatever reason, you just haven't been able to perform or maybe you're just not interested in sex. Is it because things are dull? Is it because you're not attracted to your partner? Or have you just been too busy or stressed out?
● 04 SAW YOU LAST NIGHT | You think you saw your partner in the arms of another - was it an honest mistake or is something honestly going on here?
● 05 FIRST TIME | It's the first kiss or the first time making love with your partner and you're so nervous and awkward, you're sure you'll mess it up! Maybe you do, but that's okay... they like you, right?
● 06 ANNIVERSARY | Two week, two month, two year, or whatever number you decide, that's how long you've been together with your partner and you want to do something special to celebrate it!
● 07 WANT YOU BACK | You broke up, but it was a mistake. You need to correct it ASAP... will your lover take you back though?
● 08 JUST MARRIED | Just married! Is it the wedding night? The honeymoon? You decide!
● 09 BAD ROMANCE | You're no good for each other and you know it! Unfortunately, your relationship is so sizzling, you can't break it off and you don't even want to.
● 10 FIGHT | You're both in one of those moods where you just want to sit around fighting over every little thing... bills or money, friends, your partner staying out too late, or whatever you can think of!
● 11 LET'S MAKE UP | Of course making up is the best part though! Whatever it was is totally forgotten now.
● 12 HONEY, I'M... | You've been feeling a little funny for a bit, so you take a pregnancy test and... oh no! Or is it 'oh great!'? Time to tell your partner either way...
● 13 ABOUT LAST NIGHT | Time to face that one night stand...
● 14 CHEATER | You're not being cheated on! You're the other person meddling with someone's lover! But for whatever reason, you just can't say no even if you know you should...
● 15 OBJECTIONS | You're facing a lot of objections to your relationship and it's starting to put a strain on it. Why don't you sit down and discuss it, see if you can work it out?
● 16 HAVE TO LET YOU GO | You have to break up with your partner... not because you want to! But because you need to protect them... can you do it successfully? Will they find out? You decide!
kaidan alenko | mass effect
10!
He may be stretching the definition of "a decent amount" tonight. He can function on three hours of sleep; surely that makes it close enough?
To his credit, he's at least being quiet about it to avoid waking the other man. He slipped out of bed about an hour earlier (for a tall guy with almost as much metal under his skin as the Normandy has in her hull, he can be remarkably stealthy when he needs to be) and is now seated at his desk, scrolling through mission reports and prioritizing tomorrow's workload. Finished with his current datapad, he reaches for the next - and knocks a stack of about a dozen more to the ground.
So much for being quiet.]
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Kaidan isn't the most prickly of people; he prides himself on being calm under fire, understanding, a sort of 'still waters run deep' type, if you will. Years of military temperance have only compounded on to his inner sort of zen, creating an infuriatingly passive 'I understand' type-of-attitude that came into play when it came to arguments.
They've discussed this at length before, and the fact that multiple discussions about caring for yourself first and foremost have gone unheeded compound with the fact it's disgustingly early to make for a rather grumpy, aggravated sort of zen. It's a type of zen, seriously.
He's careful enough to hold back his sigh, instead using the time to rub any remnants of sleep out of his eyes as he rises, taking care to make as slight a noise as possible. It's 3 am; the only acceptable sound is the ambient noise of fish who were slowly starving from negligence. ]
Can't sleep, huh?
[ it's a casual enough opening, although it's said with a tone that implies he already knows the answer, and the answer is not what he wants to hear ]
I know Hackett's got you under the gun, but whatever it is, I'm sure it can wait until morning.
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Sorry, I hadn't planned on waking you.
[Shepard at least has the grace to recognize that he's been caught red-handed and doesn't try to hide the datapad. He flashes Kaidan an apologetic smile – though the apology is purely for having disturbed his rest, not for being a workoholic.]
I can take it to the CIC if you want to get back to sleep.
[Why yes, he is trying to sidestep the question of whether or not this list of supplies needs to be read right this instant.
One of the traits he admires in Kaidan is the fact that the man doesn't let him get away with anything and everything without a word of objection. There aren't many people in the universe who'll give Commander Shepard an argument, and fewer still who'll hold their ground for more than a minute before caving under his monotone boy scout charms. It's nice to have an outside opinion he can trust. It's something he needs, he thinks.
But not at 3am.
At 3am, he needs about two hours alone with his files: enough time to clear his head and maybe stop dreaming about lost children and the voices of all those people he wasn't quick or prepared enough to save.]
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[ usually, he'd have something to say about seeing Shepard smile; something along the lines of 'you look good' or 'you should smile more often', but he recognizes the look of the dog who got caught with his face in the meow mix. An apologetic look would have gone a lot farther it it lead to a change in behavior, but it never did.
Maybe at the beginning of all of this— before Shepard looked overly weary and stretched, before they needed to be in three places at once, before every loss became a personal blow to Shepard— he would have let it slide with only the slightest bit of reprimanding. But it's hard to stay tolerant when lecture after lecture goes unheeded, especially when it feels as if Shepard can't see why the issue is of such concern.
No matter, it's cranky time in casa de Normandy, started by the perfect storm of concern, frustration, and general whiny anger. ]
You've already done everything you can— more than what we thought possible— but you're still human. This is going to sound crazy, but you need to sleep just as much as the rest of us.
[ he doesn't exactly frown back at Shepard, but the look on his face is stuck somewhere between exasperation and disbelief. Eye contact is maintained to drive home the fact that this is 'serious business', up until the point he looks away to scrounge for a shirt. Having a hissy fit while improperly clothed is so childish. ]
You can't pull double duty and just ignore the consequences.
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Still – Shepard's a negotiator and a peacemaker at heart. He keeps his tone light, but he's firm. He is not going back to bed yet no matter how many bushy-browed pouts the major directs at him.]
Think of it as some light bedtime reading. It'll only take me an hour.
[Or two, or three... anyone who's spent more than five minutes around him knows that the Commander is tenacious. Shepard has a habit of picking up other people's problems and refusing to put them down until they've been resolved.
He leans down and collects the pile of datapads he knocked over, setting them neatly on the far edge of the desk before addressing Kaidan again.]
I'm not going to pull an all-nighter and run off to fight any Reapers without you. Promise.
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It's like arguing with Patient Bear; there's is no satisfaction!!
He stays quiet for a moment, using the time to brush his hair out of his eyes and to think of an argument that sounds a little less childish than 'why don't you ever listen?' thinking... thinking... nothing really comes to mind. Bringing up any implication that Shepard isn't Superman gets him shut down faster than the ports of Madagascar in Pandemic. ]
If I may be completely honest, that really doesn't make me feel much better.
[ he's on to you, Shepard. An hour is Shepard Code for 'working until breakfast.' But if you can't beat 'em, join him. ]
But I'll stay up— keep you company; it's only an hour, and the company's nice.
Did a man in Brazil just sneeze? SHUT. DOWN. EVERYTHING.
He will, however, simply and calmly explain that he appreciates the input, but he's going to do entirely the opposite of what you just recommended, in a tone that will make you feel bad for ever asking him to do otherwise.
Shepard hesitates, not scooting aside to make a space at the desk for Kaidan just yet.]
You sure? There's no reason both of us have to go without sleep.
[Congratulations, Kaidan, you just got him to admit that staying up all night might not be the best course of action. (If he thought the man were the scheming type, he might accuse him of setting him up.) If there's one thing Shepard cares about above all else it's the wellbeing of his crew. Sleep deprivation alone is bad enough, but he's well aware that it's also exactly the sort of thing that's likely to trigger a migraine for the man in the near future.
He's trying very hard to weigh the benefits of sticking to his guns and preventing himself from being guilted back to bed in future versus handling a very miserable L2 biotic later in the day. It's not an easy choice.]
soon, Madagascar. SOON.
[ he says in a tone that implies that nothing in the world can change his mind now. Luckily for Shepard, entrapment requires more forethought than he can muster at 3 am. It's an offer of made from goodwill, although it'd be a lie to say there wasn't the slightest bit of selfishness involved.
'If you must stay up Shepard, then I'm going to accompany you for every awkward moment of it.' Something along those lines.
A few years back he might have been a little more complacent, a little more willing to accept the idea that Shepard knew himself best and that all he needed was a strong cup of coffee before he was good to go. But like the TI song feat. Justin Timberlake says, those days are dead and gone.
Sleep or no sleep, he's still going to be rather surly in the morning; at least this way, he'll have good reason. ]
Besides, I've been sitting on a few expense reports of my own. I should get those done before the Council has my head.