Hello people, TGJJ again, I'm going to be writing a lot more Mass Effect stories as I have decided I am still very much into the series. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this so read on.

Tali POV

Omni-tool messaging service. Conversation started.

Sylvia Shepard (Location: Normandy SR2- Commanders Quarters)

Tali'Zorah vas Normandy (Location: Normandy SR2- Battery Room)

S: Have you got a moment?

T: Yeah sure, I've just finished some of the tech stuff down here. Are you coming down here or should I come up?

S: Come up.

T: Why?

Conversation Ended.

Tali looked down at her tool with confusion for a moment at Shepard's vagueness, before dismissing it and heading to the lift. Perhaps she was going to find out why Shepard had been acting so strange recently. The young Quarian could have sworn that from the moment her old friend had picked her up from 'Freedoms Progress' she had been acting differently.

Which was weird since during their search for Saren she and the Commander had gotten along really well. Shepard would come and talk to her every day, and they would even watch movies and play 'Galaxy of Fantasy' together, much to the disapproval of Garrus, Wrex and any other people who knew about their childish 'days in'.

But now it was different, Shepard seemed to come up with silly excuses to leave whenever she came into contact with her. And whenever they spoke, which was now rarely, the humans red camouflage abilities would kick in and she would try and escape.

She didn't know what it was, but the Quarian was damn sure going to find out. Whatever the problem she was bound to stop it, it was even getting dangerous now. As Shepard was going out of her way to not take Tali groundside, which almost resulted in her and Grunt getting killed by mechs, which she could have easily taken care of with her hacking knowledge.

Unfortunately when she brought it up to Shepard the woman just turned red again before hastily apologising and leaving. She had the feeling some of the other crew members knew something but didn't bring the topic up. Mostly because the one in question was Jack, and frankly Tali was a little scared of her.

Nevertheless her words, despite Tali not understanding them, stuck with her. She remembered it was something about Shepard eating Tali's carpets, which was odd as the Normandy had no carpets, especially in her engine room where the Quarian stayed, as it would probably light fire. And even if it did Shepard could probably find better food than an inedible fabric.

The lifts doors finally pinged when the journey came to an end and Tali briefly marvelled at how slow they went, and how she should fit the lift with pulse drives to make them whizz up and down like they would in a Quarian ship.

She hesitated at the door for a moment before getting ready to push the green access panel to the Commanders room. Something just didn't feel right.

"Come in…" Tali heard her call from behind the door, an odd tone to her voice that she hadn't heard from her friend before. Still though, she went through, needing to know what was up with her recently and she wasn't going to leave until she found out.

That was however until she entered, greeted with a most unexpected sight.

"I should go…" Tali stammered out quickly before hastily running out of the room. Leaving Shepard sprawled out on her rose petal covered bed, wearing nothing but thin lace, and alone.

Shepard POV

She should have known this would never work from the start, Sylvia thought between tears. Tali had never once shown any interest in her, and Shepard doubted she had made things any better with her awkwardness around her.

Although she was too busy sobbing to focus much on things she was surprised Tali didn't see it coming. Especially after all her blushing like a schoolgirl and trying to avoid her, and Jacks derogatory comment, one she berated the tattooed woman for afterwards. At the very least the Quarian could have let her down softly, not that she would have accepted it.

Instead though Tali just left her here, without caring at all about the Commanders now shattered feelings. She may have been a war hero- no, legend, but it didn't mean she couldn't get sad at emotional problems. And the woman she was in love with running out like she had was the worst she could feel.

Even in her midst of tears Shepard recovered, sniffing as she wiped away the salty liquid. Regardless of what Tali had done Shepard was sure she could win her over. And if anyone knew Shepard, they knew she didn't give up.

Tali POV

'That must have been an accident, that's the only possible explanation.' Tali thought to herself as she scampered back down to her battery room.

There's no way Shepard meant to call her up to her room like that, especially considering what she was wearing. Maybe she was calling the wrong omni-tool? She probably meant to call up Jacob or Zaeed, or any other the other male human people she knew.

But how could she get mixed up? She'd seen Shepard tool, her name had its own picture attached to it so this sort of thing couldn't happen. Unless she had meant for Tali to go up, but it didn't make sense, they had been friends for ages, if you count her two dead years. Plus she was a woman, this sort of thing never happened. Did it?

After a few checks on the extranet, it became obvious… it did.

"EDI. What is Shepard currently doing?" Tali asked, knowing that if anyone could help her it was the ships VI.

"I don't know, Shepard earlier asked me turn her room into 'blank zone' so I couldn't see what was going to happen. If it's important she said beforehand that she didn't want anyone seeing this as she was, and I quote, 'going to finally get a piece of that hot Quarian ass.'" the VI chimed, confirming her earlier fears.

Tali sighed before it spoke up again, "There is a 99.809% chance that she meant you."

Hey people, I really enjoyed writing this, so I may add to it regularly with any luck, although as I've said in almost all my other stories this is just a secondary project unlike 'Those Snake Folk' so is less likely to be updated. Still though, I hope you liked it, then again, who doesn't like a fic with Tali in it?

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