Chapter 1: Prologue: Welcome to the Family
Rain pelted down on the human's back, soaking through the thick coat she had on. She briskly walked to the front door of the Turian house in front of her, the house that she would never return to. The clap of thunder overhead didn't faze the human, but caused her to quicken her pace.
The small whimper from the bundle in the human's arms caused her to look down. She felt great sadness to do this, but there was no other way.
She climbed the short flight of steps up to the front door of the Turian house, looked up at the door, then back down to the bundle in her arms, giving her only daughter one last kiss goodbye. She then gently put the bundle on the dry porch, looked up to the door and rung the chime to let them know that her daughter was there, and then ran away.
There was the sound of footsteps before the door opened. The Turian standing there looked around not finding anything and was about to close the door when there was a small whimper from below him. He looked down to find the human baby tightly wrapped up in blankets.
"Who is it?" came a voice from inside the house.
"It's a human baby." The male answered. There was some rustling and then footsteps as a female came to the door and looked down at the infant.
She knelt down and picked up the bundle, "Oh. You poor little thing, lets take you inside where it's warm."
"Serana what are you doing?" the male protested, a little surprised at what his mate was doing.
"I am bringing this unfortunate infant inside and taking care of it. It's obvious that its parents couldn't take care of it, or worse didn't want it. So," she looked down, taking a close look at the infant, she realised it was female, "she will be staying with us, and if you have a problem Jaxus, your sleeping on the couch."
She walked into the house going down the hall and turning into the small kitchen, gently placing the baby on the counter and slowly unwrapping her from the confines of the blankets. Jaxus walked in, a little nervous of the human, even though she was an infant, it had only been a few years since the end of the Relay 314 Incident, and he was still a little uncomfortable around humans.
"Now you are going to need a name little one." Serana commented, talking to the baby.
"Serana, I am going to stand by you in any decision you make as your mate, but are you sure you want to… adopt this human infant?" Jaxus asked a little cautiously, very aware of his mate's fiery temper.
Serana looked up to Jaxus with understanding in her eyes. "Jax', I understand why you are feeling nervous and uncomfortable, but I cannot sit around and let this poor, innocent baby girl to fend for herself. I am going to take care of her, even if it means adopting her. I know the ramifications of that and I am willing to deal with the consequences. And if, no, when I adopt her, I will love her like I love Ni', it doesn't matter that she is human."
"Well then. What do we call her?" Jaxus asked, feeling better seeing his mate so confident and dedicated to what she planned on doing.
Serana looked down at the baby. Bright forest green eyes looked back at her with a curious glint in them, the small tuft of platinum blond hair on her head catching the light coming from the kitchen light. "Tezra. Her name will be Tezra."
"Welcome to the family then, Tezra." Jaxus proclaimed, walking to the side of his mate and putting his arm around her waist and looking down at Tezra, his new, unique human daughter.
Well here you go, first chapter. I know its short but I promise the next chapters will be longer.
First person who guesses who Ni' is gets… nothing really, unless you want to have a little pride at guessing something, I don't really care.
And I would like to thank my close friend Renae-Carrows, who doesn't really know much of the Mass Effect universe but decided to beta this anyway. (She's a Harry Potter junkie)
So R&R and I would like to know what you think.