#xcom2 viper

As Jasmine slithered around the room, she slowly grow more an more worried, be it about Shepard’s safety or how she would survive without him on a ex-alien cargo ship now full of xenophobic soldiers.

As she slowly went insane with her pacing a soft knock was heard coming from the cold metallic door that shielded her from her would be coworkers and potentially enemy’s, she stared at it for a minute before hearing another soft knock, her battle tested mind start analyzing things as she slithered to the door.

The knocking sound was heard again when she was about half way to the door, the knock was rather light, which could mean two things, their a new recruit afraid of messing up or a female as most knock lighter then their male counterparts, unless angry, then they just scream or throw lighter punch’s in most situations that Jasmine been in.

“Whosse there?”, she hissed out as she slowly typed the code in for the door, yet waiting to click the little green check mark that would open the door.

“Rookie Angel “Jackrabbit”! Reporting for guard duty ma’am!”, she sounds young, less then 20 yet older then 15, must of been a special case for her to be recruited.

Jasmine stared at the little green symbol, thinking if she should just stay in her room until she starts to starve but sighs after a moment and presses it, the sliding door opening an revealing her new ‘Friend’ for the next few days.

They both stared at each other, a short girl only recently recruited staring up at the war veteran that was the viper commando, an the female viper whose fought so many battles she can’t even remember when they started fighting who looked down at the 4’9 trooper, she was shorter then the average advent troop, an she was rather thinner then her fellow soldiers.

“What do you need sssoldier”, her eyes look over Angel, seeing her rifle on her back, hoping she won’t have to use it.

She stares for a moment before blinking “oh Uhm just wanted to get familiar with you ma’am……. See what you where gonna do today so then I can plan a good route through the ship with the less amount of people in between so nothing bad can happen”, she gulps as she looks away from the imposing figure of the snake, seeing as she was taught at a young age to fear their deadly bind and poison spit, an now having to work with one isn’t helping her anxiety.

Jasmine just stares at her, thinking, yawning as she only woke up a bit ago, her tongue rolling out as she made a rather odd sound, easily noticing the twitching of Angels left hand.

“Give me your data pad, I will put in my sssschedule”, she held a hand out to Angel, her black finger nails filed down to a dull point so she didn’t stab her hands or other people on accident.

The young soldier reached into her back pocket an pulled out her data pad an handed it over, her hand entering the room an only now noticing how hot it was in there, she simply waited as she watched as the snake opened her data pad an put her daily schedule into the datapads calendar for the next few days.

“Done”, was all Jasmine said as she handed it over and slithered out of the room, Angel quickly following behind her.

Surprised, it took a bit of an effort and manages to keep up with with the large snake being but angel manages an marchs behind her.

“Where are we headed for first ma’am?”, her rifle is in her hands safely on as she followed the snake.

“Cafeteria, Heard there was going to be chicken sandwiches today, want to get there before the main part of the ship does”, She makes a soft affirmative sound and manages to keep up, no wonder they called her a jackrabbit, she’ll most definitely be a Ranger after her first kill.

After a bit, they both finally make it to the cafeteria and enter, only the night crew is up and about and eating, good, Jasmine immediately heads for the chicken and gets a plate, her bodyguard does the same.

Jasmine looks around and sees a couple early wakers finally come Inside meaning the main crowd will be here soon, she picks the farther table and sits, Angel siting across from her, checking her data pad.

For a good while it’s all nice an quiet as Jasmine eats her chicken, until a hand can be heard hitting the metal table beside her.

She looks to her left and sees a large male soldier, a scar over his left eye, a tattoo of an bird on his soldier, Falcon, one of the Avengers top snipers, “This is my seat snake bitch….”, he stabs a combat knife into her half eaten sandwich, “Leave”.

Angel watches rather scared as both veterans are in a glaring match, she watches Jasmine stare at her now ruined sandwich before seeing her hand ball up as she hisses angrily, and-.

As I sat in front of my laptop I heard something slithering behind me and soon felt the cold and scaly hands of Jasmine rest on my chest, “come to bed” she whispered into my ear.

As I leaned back I felt Jasmine chest and rested my head against it, “Mhm can’t. Gotta finish some work. Boss will kill me if I don’t” I yawned as I spoke and soon watched as two hands reach down to my hands and held onto them.

“It 12am, you need to your ssleep, and I needss my heat warmer, and if your bosss hasss a problem with it than he can ho fuck himssself” she whispered into my ear.

I stifled a laugh as I looked back to see her looking at me.

“Just give me a moment and it’ll be done” I smiled as I looked back down to my laptop after untangling my hands from Jasmine grasp.

She huffed as she watched me go back to working, but soon decide to take measures into her own hands as she seemed to think I really need to sleep.

As I began typing up the essay once again, I watched as Jasmine slithered up into my lap, and put herself in between me and the keyboard.

I raised an eyebrow as I looked at her, before watching her slowly wrap her tail around my chest.

As she leaned back against the table after wrapping herself around me, she looked right me as she closed the laptop and leaned forward and kiss me on the nose.

“Pleassse Ssshepard” she whispered as she stared at me and I looked back at her unmoving eyes, as I did my eyes were growing heavier and heavier by the moment so I relinquished and looked away.

“Ok”, I sighed and looked up to she her smiling as she flicked her tongue against my cheek.

She slowly slid off of my lap and I stood up and followed her into our bedroom and watched as she climbed up and patted down beside her.

As I climbed in and settled down, I soon felt her tail and hands wrap around me and almost immediately I felt her cold skin rub up against me.

“I really need to buy more blankets for you” I said while yawning, as I turned around to look at her.

“Mhm I think you’ll just have to make do for now”, she smiled as she kissed me.

“Good” was all I said as she moved closer to me an as she did I felt her tail wrap around me.

“So what did you think of John?” I asked as I looked at her, she sighed and stared at me.

As I looked at her, she placed a finger against her chin.

“He sssseemed off, paranoid maybe?” I sighed an nodded, as at the Memorial Day event, John had practically stayed as far as he could from any aliens, I could barely even get him to talk with Jasmine, the little bit he did was only because I had already told him a little bit about her.

“I don’t blame him really, he had been in that jungle for over a year after getting left being, I would be paranoid to if I had been in his shoes, but at least he’s trying to overcome his paranoia, by going to the event” I smiled as old memories of my squad slowly came to for front of my mind.

As the memories faded, I felt something squeezing my leg and looked to see Jasmine pressing her head into my chest, a soft snore coming from her.

As I walked out of the medbay, I looked down at my data pad an notice a message I had gotten and hour ago.

-Communication Opened-

Lt. Jasmine “Venom”:

“Shepard I know your still in the medbay, but when you get out wanna get lunch?”

Major Shepard “Guardian” Concord:

“Just got out of the medbay, still up for lunch?”

Lt. Jasmine “Venom”:

“Definitely, I’ll meet you there”

-Communication Cut-

After reading her message, I slipped my data pad into my pocket and soon began the short and boring walk to the cafeteria.

As I made it to the cafeteria, I could hear the sounds of soldiers talking and sighed before walking in.

Once I enter I stood and looked around, which allowed me to recognize a multitude of faces but none of them where Jasmine.

At this time of day the cafeteria was less crowded than usual.

Once I began walking to the chef, I could hear the muffled whispers of other people but ignored it while grabbing today’s food.

As I walked to find a seat, I looked down at my tray and saw the all to familiar mush and green beans, at least this time there was some ham with it.

Once I found a place to sit far from the other soldiers and looked up to see Jasmine making her way in and watched her move towards the chef.

As I watched I grabbed my metal fork and twirled it slowly in my hand and once she grabbed her food, which was just a large piece of ham, she soon looked around and once she saw me she made her way over.

As she drew closer I felt the sudden silence become noticeable and once eyeing up everyone else, I saw a few key people just staring at me or Jasmine.

Once she sat down, the chatter of the cafeteria soon picked back up, an I smiled as I looked to see Jasmine tongue quickly flick out at the piece ham.

“How hasss your injury been doing?” She asked as she looked up at me.

I blinked for a second before recovering and shrugging, “legs fine. Though I am on pain killers right now”.

She shook her head and grabbed a fork and knife and began cutting her ham into smaller pieces.

“Did the nurssse’s have to sssedate you like lassst time?”

As she spoke I could hear the smirk on her face as I had my attention on my food, “that was one time ok, an no they didn’t”.

I looked up to see half of her ham already gone, “hungry?”, was all I said as I cut my own piece of ham and stuck it into my mouth.

She looked up at me and looked back down at her food, “good ham” was all she said as she cut more of it.

Soon we both focused more on our food than talking and enter a pleasant silence and once finish I stood up and walked to the garbage chute and dumped my left over and put the trays with the rest.

When I turned around I looked to see two girls standing behind Jasmine and just by the look she had on her face, I could easily tell they weren’t having a nice conversation.

I sighed before walking back over to her an once I enter ear shot, I could easily hear what they were saying.

“You know he only wants you for your body right?” As one of girls spoke the other nodded and grinned before adding more, “And your not even the first girl he’s had and he’ll probably just dump you just like he has with other people”, Jasmine looked down at her food before getting up and walked past me with her plate, when one of girls went to follow I stepped in to her way and stopped her.

As I was about to speak, she cut me off with a hand gesture, “oh look who it is, the Xeno lover”, I could feel my blood boil at her words and I fought the urge to punch her.

As she went to say something else, I stepped forward and got in her face, “Rookie if you don’t shut the fuck up and take your fuck buddy here and leave right now, I will personally see to it that your thrown off this damn ship got it!?”

When I back up, I could see the gears in her minds turning trying to figure out if I was being serious or was making an idle threat.

But before she could consider it any longer, I turnd around and looked for Jasmine to only see her exiting the cafeteria.

I quickly followed after her an soon caught up with her and found her outside of her room, with her data of out and furiously clicking on the open button.

“Jasmine wait!”, I called out and watch her look back before quickly entering her room and closing the door.

Once I had reached the door, I knocked on it and waited and when no one answer backed I knocked again.

“Go away pleassse”, was all she said as I knocked again.

“Jas I just wanna talk, please just let me in”, I could hear her moving around from behind the door, before the door cracked opened.

Once it did I looked to see her looking through the crack of the doorway, “They sssaid you don’t care about me, that you’ll just throw me away after your done”

“Jasmine those girls are fucking stupid, I would never throw you away, you all I’ve got”

After a second of silence the door opened slightly more and as it did I walked inside to see her small room and saw her curling herself up into a tight space in the corner.

After closing the door behind me I locked it and walked towards Jasmine and once I was in front of her she looked up at me before quickly looking away.

I kneeled down I front of her before sitting beside her and running my hand across her back.

“Jasmine I would never think of you as a trophy, your some much more than that”, I spoke softly as I put both of my arms around her.

As we sat there I leaned closer to her and kissed her on the cheek and watched as she leaned her head into my chest.

“Why are you human like this? Why do they hate me? I haven’t done anything to them?”, I sighed at her question.

“Some people are just, I don’t know, some people just don’t know how to handle somebody different then them getting what they want”

As we laid there I felt her tail began to curl around my body and soon felt her lean heavily on to my chest.

“Shepard?”, I looked over at her to see her looking up at me.

“What do you think will happen when this war is over, you humans will have your planet back but what about me, what about the rest of the aliens if they survive this war?”

Masterlist

“Sshep wake up” Someone hissed into my ear which echoed throughout my mind an throughout the darkness of my tired mind, which soon began to fade as the sleek silhouette of jasmine entered my peripheral vision.

“What time is it?” Was all I asked as I rolled over onto my side trying to fall back into the warm sheets of my bed.

As I started to settle I felt a cold scaly hand gently grip my shoulder and felt it squeeze my shoulder in an effort to wake me.

“I’m cold” was as she said and when I looked over my shoulder I saw jasmine staring at me with this pleading look.

I rolled over to were I’d be facing her, and just stared at her before sighing and gently pulling her into a hug.

“Your always cold” was all I said as I felt her cold scales press against my body.

“I’m a Viper, of coursse I’m cold” I felt her tail slowly wrap around one of my legs so I rubbed my hand against it.

“I like this” was all I said as I felt sleep slowly pulling me back into its grasp.

“I like thiss too” was all she said too as she put her bony fingers on my chests and got as close as she could too my chest.

“Mhm, I need to get thicker blankets” was all I said as I tried to pull her in as close as I could.

“It can wait” she moved closer and pressed a kiss to my cheek.

As we laid there, in each other’s arms I heard my phone get a message, probably from my boss.

“I should probably get that. But..... it can wait” I sighed before leaning towards jasmine and kissing her on the top of her hood.

As I pulled back I looked down at her and saw her trying to cram her entire body as close to my body as possible.

“Mhm warmth” was she said as she leaned into my chest.

“So I guess I’m not going to-” and before I could even finish she shoke her head and gently wrapped her tail around both of my legs.

As I laided there for awhile I began to hear the soft sound of her breathing and smiled.

It’s be an hour. An hour since the gunfire stop, an hour since he side start bleeding, and hour since Max and Oliver got hurt, Mikey knows it’s been and hour as Anna won’t stop cursing and swearing explicits about it.

“God fucking damnit! Stupid fucking shit!”, Anna had Oliver on her shoulder, her machine gun loosely dangling from her carrier strap over her shoulder.

All the while Mikey has been quiet like always, easily carrying Max, only now for some reason did he realize, their leader was rather light.

“Mikey!”, Anna shouts to get his attention which he gives her, “We need to keep walking stop slacking behind”

He only now noticed that he was slowly down, the small bit of shrapnel still lodge in his side was starting to effect his speed, he pushed pat it and caught up, as he got closer to Anna she past him a battle stimulate, which he took and injected right above his wounded side.

“Last one too, that better last long enough for us to get to base, we’re at least and hour out so be ready for any traps”, she speeds up her jogging and Mikey does the same staying by her side, plasma pistol in off hand, his orange bandana wrapped loosely around his neck.

As Mikey lays on the ground dazed by the explosion his body shakes with pain, he feels something drip onto his hand as its pressed against his side, it hurts kind of an as he looks down, he sees why.

A chunk of shrapnel is lodge in his side, orange blood covers his hand an goes down his tail, his armor, which was lighter than most, still did its job and protected him from the majority of the shrapnel.

He slowly pushed himself up and looked for his friend and leader, but he's nowhere to be seen, the explosions seemed to have finally stopped, his side hopefully won.

He started hissing as he slithered low to the ground, following the smell of Max, soon he finds him.

Max is on the ground, either dead or unconscious, he lays there unmoving.

As he gets close, he reach’s out and grabs max’s neck, his scalie thumb and pointer finger on his neck and feels for a pulse.

He waits and waits and then……. A low thump is felt, his friend lives, he hissed lightly, and looks around seeing a nearby bush shake and quickly points his plasma pistol at the bushes waiting, it’s low humming slowly growing louder with each second, his body shielding max.

‘He is my friend! I won’t let him die, I’ve let to many die but not him!’

He stares at the bushes slowly part and and armored glove with a green bandana is held out.

He immediately lowers his pistol and sees a fellow soldier drag their injured friend through the bush.

“Max! Oliver is injured we need-“, the soldier stops and stares at mike and max, as mike simply holds him and checks for any wounds.

“God fucking damnit!”, the soldier growls as hr picks his friend up.

“Mikey! Grab max! We need to retreat back to base! The Boss is going fucking pissed”, as the human speaks Miley picks max up with little effort, having done so many times.

The soldier starts running with his friend on his back as mike follows swiftly behind him.

The sounds of explosions are everywhere, Mikey has been left with Max to tend to his wounds, "Mikey do you smell anything?".

And for the fifth time he shakes his head as he holds his plasma pistol in hand as the rest of their squad kills the approaching Advent, which was going either good or terribly, the sound of explosions could be the new advent grenadier that's being produce or their demolition expert having fun.

Hopefully the second one, he's grown quite attached to these pesky humans, their shouting and party was annoying at first, but after a week of being with them he's start celebrating after missions with them, drinking their terrible drinks an eating their somehow good food, he's starting to like them, especially Max.

Maxwell, their leader, he was the first friend he's ever had after he escaped Advent, he did shoot at him like the others did but he was the one who bridged the gap, and ever since then he's been by Max's side.

"Good, give me my rifle would ya? Feel useless without in my hands", Max reaches out to the old lever action rifle he's been using since he created this rag tag squad.

Mikey hands it to his leader immediately, seamlessly following his orders to a T, the man takes his rifle and checks it over for damage, an like usual he loads it an tries, but this times fails to stand being swiftly caught by Mikey, setting him down slowly he sighs, "damnit legs an arms busted, going to need t-".