A/N: Hello and welcome to my first (Proper) Fanfiction, this story rang around in my head for a while until I decided 'fuck it I'll wright it down and post it' please do keep in mind this is my second time ever posting something so there will probably be something slightly buggy about it. Anyway 'I do not own Mass Effect' that honor goes to Bioware (unfortunately).

Note: this Chapter has been updated


The Citadel

Zaire Shepard

"Zaire you look absolutely amazing, I was afraid you would turn up in armour" exclaimed Liara as I turned around to see her, when I did however my breath caught in my throat.

Liara was dressed in a rather reviling dark blue dress. One which left the valley between her breasts exposed and arms bare, still my rather distracted mind said 'at least the dress reaches her ankles.' It also happened that the dress was the same colour as her skin and due to its rather close fit, it left little to the imagination.

Zaire slowly walked up to Liara and pulled her into a kiss. "Pour toutes les choses saintes Liara if this party wasn't full of dignitaries you wouldn't be able to stop me from ravishing you" whispered Shepard. Being as close to Liara as she was Shepard couldn't help but smile in satisfaction when a shiver went down Liara's back.

"Well …" Liara grinned mischievously, "we could leave a little early" she sighed "after all, you have just got back from a tiring mission and you really could use the rest".

"I couldn't agree more Doctor T'Soni" replied Shepard.

Several hours later

Liara giggled as she got out of the black skycar and Shepard couldn't help but laugh when she turned to the left instead of the right to go to their hotel.

"Liara, I think you're going the wrong way love" Shepard called out as she paid for the Taxi.

Liara spun around and started walking towards the hotel without a word and Zaïre giggled as she ran to catch up. It was rare to see her bondmate drunk and Shepard had already taken some videos to show her later when Liara was sober. As they got into the lift, Liara grinned and as soon as Zaire pressed the button for her room she was tackled to the wall. Shepard's laugh turned into a moan as Liara bit down onto her neck.

They managed to stumble out of the elevator and into their Hotel room before they started to lose their clothes and by the time they hit the bed they were both completely naked.

Liara pinned Zaïre to the bed and grinned "Commander?" Zaire frowned "Commander!"


Zaire Shepard opened her eyes and saw a reinforced window. She sighed, Samara was right, the biotic meditation technique was good to relax, though she had failed to mention how grumpy it made you when interrupted.

"What is it géôlier?" Shepard asked irritably.

Vega just grinned "Package for ya Lola" and held out a black and red metal box.

Shepard sighed before saying "put it on the coffee table Vega and I'll get to it in a minute.

Vega did as Shepard asked and dropped it onto the table, "are you going to open it?" He asked "cos I gotta admit I'm curious".

"What, you didn't scan it on the way in?" Shepard remarked.

"Well, yeah but that thing is simply to find any guns or bombs, it doesn't tell me what's actually inside it" Vega retorted.

Shepard grunted in reply before lowering herself back down to the floor, she really was starting to be fed up with this whole imprisonment deal, especially after 5 months of it, but at the end of the day she would prefer that the Batarian Hegemony wasn't at war with the Systems Alliance when the Reapers showed up.

Shepard stood up and stretched before she walked over to the box, James hovering over her shoulder like a child looking at a birthday gift that wasn't actually his.

Shepard pressed her index finger to the small pad on the bottom right, the box beeped once before the pad went green and the top split open.

The first thing Shepard noticed was the flowers, roses to be specific, which made her smile as she instantly recognised who the crate was obviously from.

Vega whistled "dam Lola!" He grinned "you got a secret admirer or somthin' don't you".

Shepards reply came in the form of grabbing the flowers and throwing them at him, saying "Vega be a Cher and get these some water, oh and here's a lovely vase to put them in" she said pulling out a rather beautiful glass vase out of the crate.

As Vega grumbled off to give the flowers some water, Shepard dug deeper into the package and pulled out a small velvet box inside was holding her old alliance dog tags, except this time there was something else attached to them. Shepard grinned happily at the red and blue infused crystal encapsulated with small strands of a silvery metal, Titanium most likely.

Shepard immediately put them it round her neck and reached for the last item in the crate, a large digital picture frame which had multiple pictures and videos of her and Liara in them.

Vega returned with the vase full of water and placed the flowers in them before saying "You know Lola if I didn't know better I'd say you were just using me for your 'enjoyment'" grinning at her.

"Sorry Vega I'm spoken for" Shepard replied and threw the picture frame at him, Vega caught it and looked down at it before frowning.

"Hey Lola, I swear I seen her before somewhere, what's her name?" James said. "Liara T'Soni" Shepard replied, still starting at the bottom of the create with a frown, standing up she turned to look at him.

James snapped his fingers, "That's where I've seen her before, she has an asari colleague called Treeya Nuwani" James face fell and finished quietly "we don't talk much after … Fehl Prime".

Shepard just grunted and held out a hand, Vega gave back the picture frame to her before asking quietly "what was it like, the Collector Homeworld, I mean?"

"Wasn't a planet Vega, It was a 4 Kilometre long space station, and quite frankly, it was morts, it felt dead inside." Was Shepard's reply.

Vega nodded once before turning to the door and leaving. Shepard sighed before walking into her bedroom, 'as far as prisons went the bed here wasn't too bad' she thought.

She placed the picture on her bedside table. Shepard undressed and got into bed, once she was comfortable she opened up her Omni-tool.

Technically speaking she wasn't supposed to have one, but the one she had was a subdermal model and was designed to fool scanners. Shepard opened a chat room and sent an invite, waiting, sure enough 2 minutes later she got a reply.


Z.S - I suppose that there is something hidden in the false bottom

L.T - of course, did you like my little gift?

Z.S - the addition to the dog tags or the flowers?

L.T - flowers wilt and die dear, but diamonds are forever

Z.S - you've been though my movie collection again haven't you!

L.T - I assure you, nothing of the sort has happened ;)

Z.S - when I get my hands on you Li I'm going to make sure you can't walk for days!

L.T - don't tempt me dear

Z.S - Li?

L.T - the Batarians went silent a week ago, and I sent probes to see why

Z.S - please don't tell me what I think it is

L.T - I'm sorry love, the probes counted over 1,000 Sovereign class Reaper vessels in orbit over Khar'shan

Z.S - then it's time to start moving

L.T - agreed, I notified Miranda and she is moving Cerberus assets into position

Z.S – good, what about Aria, is she holding up her part in the deal?

L.T – yes we have her full support and clear 'air' space to move through, and Wrex just gave me an update an hour ago, his troops are ready to move, all he needs is transport

Z.S - The Geth and Rachni?

L.T - ready to move on our signal

Z.S – then all is left is for me to get out of here before the Reapers target Earth

L.T – I have agents moving in now, they should be ready to move by earths next night cycle

Z.S – excellent ... btw? What was with the fancy vase you sent?

L.T – Cloaking device in the base of it

Z.S – best Petite Amie ever!

L.T – Wait until you see the dreadnoughts

Z.S – DREADNOUGHTS? What dreadnoughts?

L.T – good night love

Z.S – Liara?

Liara T'Soni has left the Chat

All conversations will be Deleted in 1 minute 22 seconds

Z.S – faucheurs de barrage de Dieu!


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