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Repostan, since someone on now is partly responsible for this.
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Sacrifice
inspired by NuclearBuddha and Goat_Shepard.
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"It's ironic that it ends near where it began, isn't it?"
Tali looked up from where she sat, leaning against a wall in the council chambers. She nodded tiredly. She glanced up to see Garrus and Jack huddled on the opposite wall, the biotic tending to the turian's injuries.
They were all injured, to some degree or another. Shepard and Garrus worst of all, as they had been the ones to fight Harbinger's avatar. She could tell her friend would be lucky if they could use cybernetics to repair his left arm; not that it mattered.
They weren't getting out of here alive.
While the combined forces fought the reaper fleet, Shepard and his away team had stormed the Citadel to activate it's self destruction sequence. A sequence that would also end the Reapers - they were too tied to their technology after all. The Citadel had always been the key.
She was proud of her people, though. The quarians had worked around the clock for nearly a month with their newly freed fleet (Rannoch was being used to house their noncombatants, medical, and food production) to evacuate the Citadel. They had largely succeeded.
Then Harbinger and the Reapers arrived at the Citadel, intent on taking it. Harbinger had networked with the Citadel, and Shepard and his team had assaulted the Citadel to put a stop to it.
Tali was happy that most of the team would live. Everyone had a role, and had performed it admirably. Activating the necessary sequences, enabling communications, and disrupting the Reapers using the Citadel. All of the other teams had been confirmed to have gotten off the Citadel.
In the end, it came down to an assault on the main chambers to activate the self destruct. She would not leave her Captain. Garrus, Shepard's brother in arms, his rock, would not stay behind. Surprising everyone, Jack refused to leave the turian vigilante. It was a surprise, but Shepard had just laughed at the irony and welcomed her along.
And now it was over. They were cut off from everyone, the arms of the Citadel still sealed. There was no way out, even as the self destruct counted down. Still, they had won. She stood and limped to Shepard, hugging him tightly.
"I always new I'd go down fighting," he said with a sigh as he held her. "I am sorry I couldn't give you your happy ending though."
Tali shook her head. "I'm with you. That is all that matters."
"Love you Tali," Shepard said as he held her tighter. "I'm glad you're here with me." He glanced at Garrus. "You too, ugly. Couldn't have done it without you."
The turian laughed. "At least we go out with a bang." Jack nodded from her place at his side.
"Better this than all that **** we'd have to go through as 'heroes'," She said with a smirk.
"There is that," Tali agreed with a chuckle. The Citadel shuddered, once, then twice.
Shepard looked at all of them, before smiling. "At least it's done. We won, that's all that really matters." Everyone nodded as they waited for the countdown to finish.
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