This a little introductional chapter.

First, I want to thank everyone who inspired me in some way to write this story/start writing at all:

Thanks to Bioware, for creating this universe.

Thanks to fahRENheit2006, QGA opened the world of fan fiction to me.

Thanks to fishbone76 from : You're a true artist!

Thanks to HugoCogs for creating a story that infected me with the Liara/Femshep pairing and for being the source of the Liara pet name I like the most (Bluebird will be used in my story, too)

Thanks to Desert Sunrise for a truly romantic story (waiting for more chapters!)

Thanks to Theodur, the Rhapsody-series is just great. Read it! Seriously!

Thanks to 1Syphira and Rae D. Magdon. What would a story be without smut? ;)

Thanks to quinnthelionheartedgirl, Lord of comms and many more... You are all awesome!

Special thanks to Melaradark. The Dark Energy series is just perfect, and the small encouragement on your profile made me start thinking about writing by myself. Thank you!

Last but not least, thanks to the poor guy who will be my beta reader someday. You have been warned! ;P

So, finally some place to tell you about my story:

First of all, almost every chapter will take place between missions. I don't like retelling; there will be original dialogue, but it will always come with something new. The storyline itself will begin on Aratoth and end on Thessia with the two love birds wedding night.

Regarding the main plot of ME3 I will, however, stay close to canon, with only minor adjustments (Spoiler: Allers will be not the one onboard the Normandy)made, as I see fit. But, as much as I will follow the original story, there will (and take this as a promise) NOT be a three-coloured ending or a star child.

The Normandy's retrofits work a little different in my story. Liara's office will be located in the starboard cargo hold, and she will live in the captains quarters, leaving the X.O.'s office as it was during ME2. If I include Javik (not entirely sure, yet, opinions on the topic would be great), he will be located in life-support. Starboard observation is gone, replaced by luxury diplomats quarters. Did anyone ever wondered where Primarch Victus was sleeping during his time on the Normandy? Well, here is the answer. The Normandy was retrofitted as the personal command vessel of an admiral, after all, so there should have been guest quarters.

The history of Liara and Jane will be a little different from canon, assuming LotSB was done very early in ME2, and they had time to fix their relationship. There will still be a little tension and insecurity in the beginning (Hey, it's been 6 months, dammit!^^), but I'm just too romantic to keep them apart for long.

Jane herself is a typical paragade Spacer/War Hero/Soldier, saved the Rachni, saved the Council, destroyed the Collector base, kind of girl; mostly true paragon with minor exceptions, like destroying the heretics and being renegade at the right places (hint: punching quarian admirals is fun!).

And yes, Jane Hannah Shepard is the ME3 default Femshep. If you don't like Freckle-Shep, well, thats your loss.

As you notice, I'm writing this introduction like I have a plan for the story. Well, I have, sort of, but being an inexperienced writer, I'm not able to start from the beginning and finish it to the end. Instead I will write a very mixed selection of chapters and scenes. It is very possible that I will post updates jumping back and forth in time. To avoid additional confusion, starting with the next update, I will name all chapters, so followers can spot the new chapters easily, even if I readjusted something. As soon as the number of chapters grows further, I will be able to fill in the blanks, transforming it from a collection of stories into one big story.

As I wrote in the description, I'm a non-native writer. Making things worse, until I started this story, I have not spoken or writen in English for 8 years. I read a lot, yes, but reading a foreign language is simple. Writing or even thinking in it...well, not so much, if everything you have is that that you remember from school...

As soon as I have a beta reader, I will post revised chapters, which will be marked as CHAPTERNAME (revised). Kind of obvious, I know.

Until this day has come I appologize for the inconvinience of a rather unpolished story, but I'm hoping, you're able to enjoy it anyway.

I'm looking forward to a long journey finishing this story, but I'm excited by the challenge.

If you particularly like or dislike something, PLEASE review. I have no experience, so you have tell me all; the good, the bad and the batarian.

A quick notification regarding format:

Normal text

"Speech"

Thoughts, flashbacks, speech in the meld

Dreams, memories in the meld

Place and time of action