Normandy Crew Deck, Sunday

[not_a_whiner]

Being back on the Normandy again... going through all this crazy shit... it felt right. Even if the whole rachni situation was messing with Kaidan, a little. His kneejerk doubts had faded some, but not completely. And so he sat, stretched out in a comfortable seat on the observation deck he now called home. Sipping his drink, staring at the stars

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[allie_vamp]

Allie was making her usual let night circuit of the island when her phone rang. Which was a surprisingly rare enough occurrence that it actually startled her for half a second.

"Holy crap!" she said, once she'd answered it. "You live!"

[not_a_whiner]

"Yeah," Kaidan said. Had she worried about him that much? "The mission was a doozy, but I made it through in one piece." Beat. "Hey, Allie."

[allie_vamp]

She always worried. He was human and kind of breakable from Allie's point of view.

"One piece is good. But after over a year, I thought I'd get a little more then 'Hey Allie'," Allie teased. "Or is this another one of those times were time is moving at totally different speeds in different universes and we just talked yesterday?"

It's not like it hadn't happened before.

[not_a_whiner]

There was a looong silence on the other side of the line.

"Wait, a year?" Kaidan said. "It's been a week. It's-- okay, I'm going to need a moment to wrap my head around this one." Beat. "Again."

[bitten_notshy]

It had been a long time since Jack gave Kaidan a call --- longer than he wanted to admit, really. But the launch of his last school year had him in a nostalgic mood, and it felt like a good time to reconnect with old friends. So when his phone rang with Kaidan's number, it felt strangely predestined.

(Not, it should be pointed out, that Jack believed in destiny.)

"Is this Kaidan?" he said, sounding surprised and very, very pleased. "Hello there."

[not_a_whiner]

"Jack!" Kaidan said. Brightly. Maybe he even sounded a little relieved. "Uh. Sorry for the-- what has it been? A year? I keep getting screwed on the time end, I don't know what's going on."

[bitten_notshy]

"Will it sound terrible if I admit I don't know?" Jack said, with a soft laugh. "Too long, anyhow. I was worried your war had cut you off."

[not_a_whiner]

"No. I talked to Allie just now," Kaidan said wryly. "It's been a little over a week since I talked to anyone from Fandom for me. Just enough time to get settled in on the ship, get shot at a few times... the works."

He sounded wry.

"Did I miss anything important?"