The Renegade Adored

Garrus: "Too early seen unknown, and known too late!" (Shakespeare)

"Garrus, I need you to do something really, really important."
"Oh, here it comes," Joker sneered.
Garrus looked over in confusion.
Hayden ignored Joker. "I need you to start a ColonyTown farm and be my friend, so I can improve my Nug breeding line."
Garrus stared blankly at her.
"Just do it," advised Joker. "You don't even have to play, they just need more people so their damn rabbit-pigs don't become inbred and die."
"There's more to it than that!" snapped Miranda. "We just take our Althing very seriously and refuse to let strangers in."
"So instead you're recruiting the entire ship and setting them up with farm gnomes and automated scripts so they don't have to actually play."
"I'm confused - what are you talking about?" asked Garrus.
"Here," Hayden leaned on him, pulled up his omni-tool and started installing one of those deceptively simple network games that were the plague of productivity across the galaxy. Miranda joined her, the two women completely oblivious to his presence as they set Garrus up with a little homestead in their ColonyTown of Normandy.
Kelly walked past, noticed the omni-tools, and rushed over as well. "I thought Garrus already had a farm!"
"Wait, wait," Crewman Goldstein ran up. "I have a bunch of gifts I need to get rid of."
"What?" Garrus was trying not to think about all the Human woman leaning over him. "Joker, what is going on?"
"The setup is all decorating and gift-giving and setting up the Nug farm, it gets very girly."
"Joker."
"Oh come on, Commander, you sat there for two hours decorating my little farmhouse before you even let me play."
"Two hours of this?" Garrus looked up. "I think I'm okay with that."
Joker glared at Garrus.
"You weren't complaining at the time."
"And then you got EDI to write the scripts for you! How is that not cheating?"
"Wait," Garrus asked, "how did you get Joker to hold his arm in one position for two hours?"
Kelly smiled. "Oh, I helped. I'm very supportive."
"That you are," Garrus observed. "And what is the point of this game?"
"You have a farm, and your town has to work together to grow enough food to survive. And you do that by raising Nugs, and your Nugs have to be happy otherwise they taste terrible and no one will want to eat them," Kelly explained.
"But if you have a really tasty Nugs, other towns will try to attack you," Jack grinned, "so someone also has to grow Womps to defend your town, and Bandits so you can do counterattacks!" Jack jumped over the table so she could see what Garrus' new farm looked like, pulled out her omni-tool.
"And Griffins," Joker added, "so you can get your Nugs to market."
"We also have Gnomes, because our ColonyTown is so rich," said Hayden. "Gnomes do the hard labor for you so you have time to do stuff like shopping for gifts."
"You need gifts to give to other citizens so everyone's happiness level stays really high," explained Goldstein.
"You should make him the Blacksmith, Shepard. Then I can get upgraded weapons and Zaeed can get new fishing poles," offered Jack.
"You play this game too?" Garrus asked.
"Yeah," Jack held out her omni-tool. "I'm the Bandit Leader! I've wiped out three towns already for attacking ColonyTown Normandy. They keep trying to outlaw me, but Jacob is really good at keeping me under wraps."
Garrus looked at Jacob.
"I'm the Sherriff," Jacob explained. "Part of my job is protecting the Bandit Leader from being arrested."
"If he's going to be the Blacksmith, then he has to grow Womps, too." Hayden changed some more options on Garrus' omni-tool.
"Here," Goldstein leaned over again. "Let me give him some more Gnomes."
"So, does everyone play this game?" asked Garrus.
"Mostly," Hayden admitted. "It got a lot easier when EDI unlocked the requirements for growing HQ Nugs."
"You got an AI to hack the game for you?"
"What? No, I set her up with an account so she could move in with Joker. She went a little crazy after that."
EDI popped up. "Improving the performance of the ColonyTown meant that everyone's experience in the game would be improved."
"Yeah," said Hayden absently. "That's why we can't let any strangers in."
Garrus considered. "So why doesn't EDI just play the game for everyone?"
"The game is designed to punish artificial behaviors. Gameplay requires a certain amount of genuine organic interaction in order for the player to succeed, recorded in the form of a hidden statistic known as 'truthiness' in the game code. If a player's 'truthiness' drops below a certain point but their happiness continues increasing, the game begins to penalize the player. Since 'truthiness' is a hidden stat, VIs can't react to it," EDI explained.
"But you know about it."
"I don't feel like working around it."
Hayden grinned. "If she breaks the 'truthiness' code, then Joker doesn't have to log in and take her avatar for long walks on the beach."
Joker rolled his eyes. "I would do it anyway, geez. Women."
"Wait, you get to go for long walks on the beach? Is the beach warm?"
"Yes," said Joker, "and more yes. Skinny dipping in Silver Pool only, please. Zaeed does his fishing everywhere else."
"By the way, Jeff, two of the Griffin eggs are due to hatch in five minutes."
"What? Already?" Joker pulled up his omni-tool and fired up ColonyTown.
EDI disappeared.
"What's EDI's job in ColonyTown?"
"She's the Village Sage."
"Does Dr. Chakwas play?"
"Of course, she's the doctor there too. She grows Pet Nugs and teaches them to do cool tricks."
"Okay, who doesn't play? Maybe that would be easier."
"Grunt doesn't play, he doesn't have the patience. Legion, technically, doesn't play either. He helps Jack with Bandit raids, though. Mostly just planning. And Mordin and Samara don't play, they claim they're too old."
Garrus looked around. Saw that no one thought it was at all odd for Hayden to be leaning on him, her arm possessively draped over his shoulder. Then again, he'd never noticed that Miranda and Jacob were a couple before. He looked up at Hayden, then at all the crewmembers bent over their omni-tools, whispering to each other. Enforced informality, as it were. He saw Jacob give Miranda a quick, surreptitious kiss on the cheek. Kenn and Gabby, heads together, serious in their little game and far too close to each other for this to be the first time they had done so. He looked up at Hayden, pulled her a little closer so he could see what she was doing on his omni-tool.
Hayden sat down in his lap, and he saw the little in-game gnomes running around, building an extension to a large pink and white building labeled 'Mayor's House.' In front of the house, the ColonyTown version of Hayden was holding hands with her little version of Garrus while they directed the gnomes. Little pink and red hearts were floating above their heads.
Garrus looked at her. Hayden continued directing the builders and didn't look at him.
"You need to stop doing that for about ten minutes," he whispered in her ear.
She looked at him, her face unreadable.
"Maybe more," he whispered, looked down at her curves rather pointedly. "But we need to go to your cabin right now...."
Hayden smiled, blushed a little. Sent a series of commands to execute on the game, and stood up. Garrus did the same, and they casually walked over to the elevator.
Joker snickered quietly, but didn't say anything.
Miranda and Jacob seemed oblivious, but he noticed they were a lot closer to the door of her room than they had been a few moments ago.
Hayden waited until the elevator doors were closed to throw her arms around Garrus with a laugh. Reached up, kissed his neck, fumbled with the fastenings on his armor.
With a low growl, he lifted her so that she could reach the back and wrap her legs around him. She kissed the skin at his neck, ground her body against his armor, dug her fingers into the sensitive skin at his shoulders after she opened the top section of his armor. "Stop that," he growled.
Hayden just laughed, rubbed her body against him. "Make me." Laughed again. "Serves you right for running around in armor all the time." She ran her hands over his exposed skin, making him hiss at the contact. Her hands were warm, soft, tantalizing. With an evil little smile, she shifted, slid a hand down the front of her own uniform. Moved her hips against his body with a sigh. Drew her hand out, wet and shining. Ran her hand over Garrus' face so he could smell her, feel the warm wetness for himself.
"You little..." The elevator finally arrived outside her cabin. "I can't believe you're already wet."
"Why are you so surprised? You're hard already, aren't you?" She ground herself against him again, trying to feel him through his armor. "Stop being so damn sexy, then."
He laughed, carried her over to the bed. She pulled his chestplate off, threw it to the side of the bed. Wriggled up, started pulling off the rest of his armor. He buried his face in the soft skin of her neck, rubbed his face in her sweat, her scent. Carefully pulled off her leggings. Grinned as she helped, moving her legs so he could strip her without dislodging her from her perch on his hip ridges. "Flexibility," he murmured with a laugh.
She laughed joyously, ran her hands down the muscles and plates of his arms. Smirked at him. "So are you going to try your reach, again?"
He smiled, pulled off her tunic and underclothes. Hayden lay down on her back on the bed, so he could see her face while he stood. She moved a little closer to the edge of the bed. Garrus stroked the underside of her legs with the back of his hands. "Your scars healed fast."
She grinned. "The look on Chakwas' face was the funniest thing I've ever seen. Still, I'll be more careful this time."
"Yeah, not all of us have the galaxy's most expensive cybernetic implants." Garrus chuckled. "She thought you were joking when you told her she should see the other guy." He looked at her position, considering.
Hayden smiled, spread her legs a little wider. "Does that help?"
"How far back can you bend your legs?" he asked.
"I could tuck them behind my ears if I had to," she said with a little laugh. She looked up at him. Her eyes darkened slightly as she considered the possiblities. "It would actually be easier if you were leaning on me, a little. Kind of holding them in place."
Garrus twitched slightly. "Yeah, that's what I was... yeah." He shook his head, slid his hands along the back of her legs, pushing her legs back and apart so that he could penetrate her without doing too much damage to the skin of her thighs. Half-standing, half-leaning over Hayden, Garrus entered her slowly and carefully.
Hayden whimpered in pleasure, and he could feel her muscles pulse over every ridge of his shaft. She slid her hands over his arms, placed her hands over his, used the leverage to work herself on him, pulling him deeper inside her. Moaning with each stroke. Her head thrown back on the bed, her hair a silvery-gold halo. A sweet, satisfied smile on her lips.
Garrus kept his hands on her legs, moved slowly, keeping himself in control. He moved his hands over her legs, caressing the smooth, soft skin; the muscles beneath. Watched her toss her head from side to side on the bed. Listened to her eager cries. He closed his eyes, leaned in closer and shifted his position slightly, still keeping his hands on her legs. He growled with pleasure as he sank deeper into Hayden and she convulsed around him, screaming. He held still while she screamed, her fingernails digging into the sensitive skin between the plates of his forearms as her hands clenched in blind reflex.
Hayden sank back, gasping. "Oh, dammit, Garrus, I'm sorry," she sighed and pulled her hands away, tucked them under the pillow. "I'll get that right next time."
He chuckled deep in his throat, half a laugh and and half a snarl of desire. "It was worth it." Took a deep breath, eyes closed, while her spasming muscles worked around his shaft, milking it. Garrus exhaled slowly. "Yeah, that was absolutely worth it." He stretched, still running his hands over her legs and keeping them in place. Looked up at the ceiling.
She laughed gently. "It's not working, is it?"
"Nope." He laughed, looked back down at her. "You don't mind, do you?"
Hayden laughed, a sound full of hunger and desire. "Let me move." Slid herself off his shaft, stiff and hard again from her orgasm, and arranged herself on her hands and knees. "For the record, Garrus, I'm not crazy enough to ever refuse this." Tossed him a quick glance over her shoulder. "So you can stop asking."
"Duly noted." He put his hands on her hips, pulled her back onto him. Groaned in pleasure. Murmured something about how amazing she was, forgetting where he was.
"I love it when you say things in Palaven," she gasped. Rocked back, taking him as deep as she could. Let herself be guided by his hands on her hips. Dug her fingers into the sheets, idly noted that her hands were leaving blue bloodstains. Soon enough, the building sensations from Garrus' motions had her writhing in ecstasy again. Hayden shrieked once, buried her head in the sheets, forced herself back on Garrus' shaft.
Garrus slammed into Hayden one last time, came inside her with a wild growl, their fluids mingling and leaking from inside her.
Shuddering, Hayden pulled away from him, with one small moan at the end. Garrus sat down on the bed next to her, ran a hand over her incredibly sexy body. She stretched out, arching into his caresses.
"So good," she whispered. Smiled at him. Hayden slid out of bed, walked to the bathroom. "I'll be right back."
Garrus looked ruefully down at his arms. "You never ripped Kaidan up like this."
He saw her back stiffen at the name, but her voice was light as she replied. "Hurting Kaidan just makes him cry. Hurting you makes you come even harder."
"Oh, so you're saying this is my fault. You humans are all - " His joke was cut off by a towel to the face. Garrus laughed, and stretched out on the bed, waiting for Hayden to finish her shower. He decided he would leave the subject for another day.