Shepard and Darcy
That surprised her. It was mutual. They had both wanted her there. That got him an honest smile. She patted him lightly on the shoulder. She wasn't much of a hugger, sure she had hugged him once, but he'd come in when she'd needed somebody. And he'd come to her. She hadn't had to ask.
"Come on, we both know I was a class one ass, that I was goading you into saying or doing something, that was outside that stiff shell. But I want to say this, and when I do, if you want to we can move on." She paused for a moment, took a breath and then jumped in "I wasn't happy, I might have taken it out on you, a little. I didn't believe that the two of you could achieve happiness in that short amount of time, and that if you had that you were both more interested in impressing each other that neither one of you were letting your true selves just... breathe." Shepard turned her head just a little, to catch his eye, if he would have it. "But I was wrong. And I'm sorry. Those are two things that I don't readily admit often but, there you go. I really wish you would have stood up to me that day, when they all had vanished. I don't care how upset I was then, I would have seen past it. It was something happy to grasp on to." She sniffed sharply and felt a possible slip in composure so she faced forward. And forced it back. "But that's the past, and we can't change it. We live, we learn, we grow. That's how life works. But if she gets pregnant.... Tell me, don't wait until there's a right time for it, just do it. Because there's never a right time in this place. Er, on the station, not here. There's something always happening. And sometimes it just takes that little flicker of light in so much darkness to keep hope alive." Okay that had turned into more than she'd meant it, but there it was. She sniffed again sharply, and in spite of it being rude, she rubbed her nose. "Anyway, that's... if you have anything you want to say..." She'd listen.
But she looked back at Rawdon. He was easy to be raw with. To be herself. "We plotted against him. 'Oh Daddy' seemed safe." She nodded her chin toward the man in question. The prank hadn't lasted long, but he seemed to take it well. "But it wasn't just red coats, it was uniforms in general. I just teased you about a red coat, because that's what you would have worn. But he's...." undefinable. More than just the coat.