Hi there! Welcome to my new FanFiction "Priority: Family". Hope you will enjoy it.
Going here with an alternate Destroy-Ending (EDI and Geth alive, for example). I'm going to tell the story of Jane Shepard and Liara T'Soni after the War and the ups and downs of marriage and parenthood.
For all those who are expecting a new Chapter of my Pokémon FanFic "I love you forever": Don't worry!
I'm writing on that one too but work cuts my time short, so please understand!And now, lets begin:

Ooops, almost forgot Disclaimer: This is Bioware's playground. I'm just playing in it. The picture is from the wonderful artist aimo on DeviantArt, a link will be posted at the bottom of the page.

EDIT: Special thanks to ReavansMask for helping me with the spelling errors! It feels good that this community is so helpful and nice! Keep it up, guys!

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Chapter 1: An End once and for all

"To all fleets: The Crucible is armed. Disengage and head to the rendezvous point. I repeat: Disengage and get the hell outta here."

A bright red light appeared at the Citadel, the arms spread wide open.

"No. That can't be," a young blue asari, on the verge of tears cried out, unable to believe what saw. "No! We can't leave! We have to go back! We can't leave her alone!"

"Liara!" Garrus tried to calm her down. "It's too late! We have to get out of here!"

"NO! I can't give her up! You can't do this to me Joker!" she cried. Said person, Jeff "Joker" Moreau flinched at these words. His Commander died once because of him. He didn't want to let it happen a second time.

"Normandy! What are you doing? Get the hell out!" Admiral Hackett's voice could be heard over comm.

"NO!" Liara cried, struggling against Garrus grip.

"Normandy! Move!"

Suddenly EDI's voice could be heard over the ship's speakers: "Power source of great magnitude detected from the Crucible. It is preparing to fire."

"Fuck!" Joker cursed. "Too late to get away from this. All stations: Prepare for impact!"

Liara could only watch in horror as nearly half of the Citadel crumbled down in a massive explosion. A bright wall of red light emerged from the Crucible and moved through the Sol System.

"Impact in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1..."

The whole ship shuddered from the impact and the ship engines fell silent. The red light gathered at the Crucible and a bright red beam of light was fired towards the Charon Relay.

"EDI? Status?" Joker shouted, shocked at what happened, but relieved that none of the critical systems seemed out-of-order.

"Engines and a majority of systems offline. Life support, Communications and shuttles still working." EDI replied.

Liara stopped struggling against Garrus' grip and slumped down on the floor. "No. No. not again. This can't be true. She promised to come back to me. She always comes back."

"Liara..." Joker tried to comfort her but he couldn't say anything. For once, he was at a loss for words.

"Liara." Now it was Garrus speaking. "Stay strong. We don't know anything yet. The Commander is strong. She will survive. She always does."

Liara only cried more. She couldn't stop the tears knowing that the love of her life was probably dead or gravely injured. The heavy silence was suddenly broken, as Admiral Hackett called them over the comm:

"Normandy! Come in Normandy!"

"Normandy here, Sir! What's the situation? Are the Reapers dead? Did we win?"

"Glad to hear from you Normandy. We're running scans right now but it seems that the Reapers are offline. We did it. We are victorious."

"Great to hear, Sir. But I have to make a request Sir. We need you to run scans for life signs on the Citadel. Commander Shepard is still there," Joker replied, looking over to Liara.

"Of course. To all fleets: Run immediate scans on the Citadel. Search for any small sign of life. Hackett out."

After he finished, Hackett cursed to himself. How come he didn't think of that sooner? How could he forget to look for the woman who was responsible for their victory? How could he forget the soldier that was ready to give her life for the future of the galaxy. How could he forget the one that was like a daughter to him? The daughter he never had?

"Sir! This is SSV Leipzig! We've got a life sign!"

"SSV Leipzig, repeat!" the Admiral shouted. Could it be?

"Sir! We've got a life sign on the Citadel near the Presidium. It is very weak but it's stable and it's a human life sign!"

"Affirmative SSV Leipzig. Life sign on the Citadel near the Presidium. Normandy, do you copy that?"

"Understood, Admiral! Sending out shuttles for Search & Rescue operation!" Joker replied with a salute. He again looked over to Liara. "Don't worry Liara. We will find her."

Darkness. It was all she could see. It was dark and the air was heavy. It was difficult to breathe. Commander Jane Shepard opened her eyes and tried to figure out where she was.

'What the hell happened? The Crucible... right. I activated it. But I'm not dead...' Her head felt heavy. She couldn't form a clear thought. She tried to move her limbs.

'Good...Everything alright...expect my left arm...It's definitely broken...'

Darkness was surrounding her mind and pulling her down. She tried to fight it but she was too weak to last long.

'Liara...I need to stay awake...I promised her...to come back...to give her a family...Liara...'

The last thing she could see before the darkness pulled her down into the abyss was Liara's smiling face as she promised her a future together.

'I don't know. Marriage, old age, and a lot of little blue children?'

"We have arrived at the LZ, Sir," shuttle pilot Steve Cortez reported as they landed on small free area in the Presidium.

"Go ahead! Find her! The life sign is still very weak and it's unstable now! So hurry!"

'By the Goddess, we need to find her! I can't lose her now that there is hope.' Liara's mind raced with fear and worry. She couldn't wait for the others and started running towards the source of the signal.

"Liara! Wait for us!" Cortez shouted, but she couldn't hear him. She was moving piles of debris away with her biotics and opened the door behind them with bare hands. When the door finally opened, Liara stopped with one foot inside the room behind.

'What is this? I'm sure I never heard of such a place on the Citadel before.'

When the rest of the team arrived, they too could only stare for a few seconds. They were standing in a vast circular room which was open to all sides, the air only held within through the environmental shields. If they weren't here for the Commander, Liara would admire the view of the stars outside. The room itself was in a very bad state. The shields were barely holding up and large piles of debris were everywhere.

"Move out! Turn every stone around twice if necessary! We need to find her!" Cortez ordered. The team moved away in different directions. Liara moved the debris away with her biotics or with her bare hands. 'Where is she? Oh Goddess, she needs to be alright! Please!'

"I found something!" one of the men yelled. "Running scans...wait a sec...Affirmative! It's Commander Shepard!"

Liara immediately ran towards him. She stopped in shock as she saw the woman she loved lying on a pile of rubble, an iron bar pinning her to the ground right through her left hip. She was trapped under some massive parts of the crumbled ceiling.

"Fuck!" the soldier yelled. "We need to move this rubble away to get her out of there!"

"I can do that, soldier." Liara said, preparing her biotics. She concentrated her full power on the debris that surrounded her loved one, carefully looking out not to hurt her further. When she finally let her biotics go, the world around her went dark for a moment and she was suddenly very exhausted. But the knowledge that her love was hurt right beside her gave Liara new strength. She needed her.

"Jane? Can you hear me? We got you. You will be alright, you hear me? You are going to come back to me, like you promised!" she cried, her tears running now freely.

"You have to be okay?" she cried as she stumbled down on the ground, the exhaustion finally gaining the upper hand. She could feel Garrus picking her up before her world went dark.

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Phew! Finally!
Chapter 1 of my new FanFiction "Priority: Family". Hard work like always but I hope it's good!
Friendly critics are welcome, so please review and tell me what you think about it!

Picture-URL: art/PSC-The-Shepard-Family-193724494

See ya!

Next: A promise fulfilled