Strings of the Guitar,Notes from my Heart

When Shepard entered the Starboard Observation Deck,she knew what she was about to find.And she was right.Kaidan was sitting at the couch waiting for her.However,what took Shepard by suprise was the instrument Kaidan was presiously holding in his hands.

"A guitar?"Shepard said as she stepped in front of him,looking carefully the acoustic guitar Kaidan had in his legs.His hands playfully touched the strings,while a small grin appeared across the line of his face.

"Yep.It was a gift from my mother. It was my companion during BAaT.I remember sitting in the middle,all the other kids around me…"Kaidan said a bit melancholic.Shepard was sitting next to him and threw a quick glance over the window.

"Was Rahna among them?"she asked him softly.Knowing that this incident was a black page for Kaidan,she gulped after doing the question.Stupidstupidstupid…Kaidan looked at her,his brown eyes crashing into her green ones.

"Yes,she was and apparently she seemed impressed by my musician abilites.I can recall her face when I was playing.She had a rather…lustful expession."Kaidan said,a tone of weirdness attached on his voice.

"Heh…Cute!I mean the low-voiced,shy L2 biotic teen playing guitar to impress the girl he loves.I can say I like it.I didn't know that you can play the guitar.It's a talent I discovered just right now." Shepard said playfully.Kaidan grinned.

"Well,I want to rectify that for you.I mean if you want to listen me playing too."Kaidan told her shyly.It was obvious that Kaidan hid this talent for a long time,after being emotionally traumatized by Rahna and afraid Commander Shepard's reaction to it.But she could see the core of his thinking right now,at the moment being.
If these are our last days alive,then I would love to show you that Kaidan Alenko isn't just an L2 biotic and a soldier.I can be much more than that.For the one and only…For you…

"I would love to hear you playing.Have you got a song in mind?" Shepard asked him,placing her hand over his,the softly feeling of the wooden material preparing them for what is to come.No matter how advanced the human race became,some things like the power of emotions through music seemed universal and everlasting.

"Yes,I do."Kaidan replied to her question.Shepard took away her hands and sat silently.He took position and the first strings pulled over.He had a calm expression all over his face,his eyebrows relaxed and his eyes closed,fully concetrated to the warmth and emotion of the moment.A small smile played along his face,showing an unsaid affection,an unsend love letter to her…

Then the lyrics came in.He had a soothing warm voice when he spoke but hearing him singing sent Shepard spinning.Although she didn't know much about music,she could figure out the wrong tones in a song.And Kaidan had none.

If all the flowers faded away
And if all the storm clouds decided to stay
Then you would find me
Each hour the same
She is tomorrow
And I am today

While singing,Kaidan threw his eyes on her.His Commander,his heroine,his goddess. Her red hair furiously exceeding the lines of her face,green clean eyes bleesed him with their warmth.Her frencles showing a small child hiding within. Red lips like sweet cherries.Her skin tasting vanilla.She was pure harmony,pure perfection standing in front of him. A memory he wanted to keep forever in his heart.

Shepard gazed back.Inky black hair and a pair of brown chocolate eyes,tasteful,filled with affection.Lips kissable,enclosing a soothing voice.Masculine chin,his hands like angel wings,a steady chest. Her guardian,her rock,her anchor. She felt her heart light abandoning any other thought, cherishing this amazing moment of that wonderful man singing for her.

If right is leaving
I'd rather be wrong
She is sunlight
The sun is gone

Speaking of sun,Shepard looked at the window.The galaxy in full view.Million stars,million wishes and hopes.Among them was her star,wishing to be given more time to stay with him,to live him more,to love him even more. The Reapers were to blame for the lack of time,but she semmed determined to avenge them.

And if loving her
Is a heartache for me
And if holding her means
I have to bleed
Then I am the martyr
Love is to blame
She is the healing
And I the pain

Kaidan wondered.The pain he felt after the Normandy crashed.Losing his world right among his feet.Endless sleepless nights,litres of heavy alchohol and suiciadal thoughts were the elements that kept him semi-alive and semi-dead for two years.And then it hit him.On Horizon.Alive,by Cerberus.Pain came again.Crashed his world once again.

She lives in a daydream.
I don't belong.
She is the sunlight.
The sun is gone.

The lyrics seemed a bit out of sync,Shepard thought.He belongs in her daydreams,in her nightdreams,in everything she thinks,she does,in her every breath,every blink in her eyes.
His biotics flushed,as blue light emitted through his skin.Love and energy combined together in an awkard couple.A dim blue light becoming stronger and stronger in every passing minute,in every played string,in every spoken word.Bodies comming closer and closer.

If right is leaving
I'd rather be wrong
She is sunlight
The sun is gone

And then it came.Lips crashing together.A strange energy.A known taste.Kaidan let his guitar down.He embraced her,closely.Her hands came over his neck,encircling it.Tounges meseed together.Breathing fastening.Passion slowly overcoming.His biotics made the room sink in blue.

"I love you,Kaidan Alenko.More than anything."Shepard whispered in his ear.He felt his cheeks uplifted,as he smiled.

"I love you too,Angelynne Shepard.More than anyone."Kaidan replied back and repeated the song's last verse,this time a bit altered.

You are the sunlight.
My sun has come.