Adventures in Breakfast

[renegadedriving]

Who: Jane Shepard, Garrus Vakarian, Campbell Saunders

What: Shepard and Cam's usual breakfast... with the twist provided by the appearance of Shepard's boyfriend from home.

When: Backdated to June 6th

Where: The communal kitchen, early morning

[Shepard's morning alarm goes off, as usual, and Monodramon comes barreling into her room, as usual. That is a scene, as this is the first time he's come into the room to find Shepard naked and cuddled up with her equally naked, equally groggy boyfriend.]

[After some shouting, some clothes-finding, some more shouting, an argument about digimon sharing couch space, an attempt to figure out what to do with Garrus' hair and a shared cup of coffee, Shepard and gang have made their way down to the communal kitchen. They aren't exactly late, in fact they're a few minutes early, but they do make quite a picture, especially with Monodramon pouting as loudly as he can without talking.]

Well. That was a hell of a morning.

Comments

[calibrates_big_guns]

Can't argue with that ... [He says, scratching the back of his head, plodding alongside Shepard. Patamon's sitting on his shoulder, half-asleep. Monodramon kept pushing him off the couch ...]

Still ... at least we can have a nice lazy day and enjoy it. No Collector Base to blow up.

[renegadedriving]

[Shepard grins.]

We've gotta take the guns apart again, see if you can figure 'em out better than I could. Of course, you probably will enjoy that.

[She opens the fridge once they're in the kitchen, examining the contents.]

Any human foods you wanted to try back home?

[calibrates_big_guns]

Well, calibrating guns is one of my specialties, I figure this works along the same basic principle. [He replies with a grin of his own.]

[He looks over her shoulder at all the food in the fridge, scratching his brown stubbly goatee, an arm around her waist.]

To be honest I never really thought too much about it. Always seemed like there were more important things than food. [He shrugs.] Surprise me.

[renegadedriving]

Hopefully you can calibrate them all the way to 'on'.

[Shepard turns to give Garrus a kiss on the cheek before returning to perusing the fridge.]

How about eggs and sausage?

[calibrates_big_guns]

Sure. [He remembers hearing this one marine go on and on about eggs. Time to see what all the fuss is about.]

As for the guns, I'm sure I can get them working ... with the right motivation. [He says with a ... suggestive grin, putting his other arm around her.]

[renegadedriving]

I'm saving the introduction to bacon for a special occasion. [Hey, eggs are hard to get in space.]

So we can do the calibrations after the... stress relief, this time? Score.

[Her tone is teasing, and she pulls him in for a kiss. No tiptoes for this soldier.]

[calibrates_big_guns]

[He'd say something about a reunion being big enough that he'll forget the calibrations, but screw it, he's just going to enjoy the moment.

[He'll happily lean down for that kiss he was fishing for, his arms wrapping a little tighter around Shepard. One of his hands begins to trail down her lower back ...]

[headup_stickontheice]

[A quiet knock on the wall, but see, that's more for posterity than anything, when you've been having breakfast together for a month and a half, it's just to announce that he's here, and Cam walks in, peers around the fridge's dooo ohhh, okay, then, well, he really can't help it, Cam chokes out a cough in an attempt not to make noise, and it just escalates from there.]

[renegadedriving]

[Well, that's startling. It shouldn't be, because Cam is on time and there's nothing unexpected about it, but, hey.]

[Shepard takes a step back, untangling herself from her boyfriend.]

Oh, uh. Hey Cam, good morning. Have you met Garrus yet?

[Good tactic, Shep, pretend nothing happened!]

[calibrates_big_guns]

[Garrus is a little surprised, but then when he opens his eyes and sees Cam, well, he understands. He coughs awkwardly, clearing his throat before attempting to nonchalantly lean on the fridge.


[... he waves, as an afterthought.]

We, uh, we talked when I first came here.

[headup_stickontheice]

[Well, there's enough awkward in this room to light an egg on fire. And that's just coming from Cam.

He nods, to Shepard, to Garrus, to the question? Maybe? And then moves is shoulders in something like a shrug and tries to smile. It looks almost pained, good job Cam.]

G-good morning, yeah. Talked, hi. Breakfast...?

[renegadedriving]

[Shepard holds out the carton of eggs like some kind of prize.]

Eggs and sausage okay?

[MAYBE IF SHE IGNORES THE AWKWARD HARD ENOUGH IT WILL DIE OF NEGLECT.]

[calibrates_big_guns]

[That only feeds it, Shepard.]

Eggs and sausage. Yeah. [Ahem] Good.

[headup_stickontheice]

There, any, uh, is there bacon?

[Small shuffle.]

[renegadedriving]

[Shepard peers into the fridge.]

Doesn't look like it.

[She hasn't gone on her massive shopping trip of bacon yet.]

[calibrates_big_guns]

[Meanwhile, Garrus is just off to the side. He's ah, he's going to let Shepard handle this one, because he honestly doesn't know how.]

[headup_stickontheice]

[A VERY NERVOUS LAUGH from dear Cam.]

That's fine. More to life. Or breakfast. [Stop.] I'll uh, help you-- ...pour drinks.

[The kid should never be allowed near food again, at least when preparing it.]