Authors Notes: I looked over all my chapters and finally revised them all. Fixing some stupid mistakes and trying up some weird lose ends that kind of got left out there. I am surprised no one found these and was like… um… what was that? Again I know I haven't added another chapter in a while and yes it is because my classes in college were kicking my ass. Now life has decided to hit me upside the head and well… we will see when I can update and never fear I am not done at all! Here are the fixed and added chapters enjoy!
Stephanie Shepard smiled as she, Tali, and Liara walked around the Citadel shopping. The girls laughed as they talked about recent conquests. Tali not so much, she was in love with her friend, which whenever they docked always had plans and could never meet Tali's crew members. This made Shepard suspicious who was he? Was he quarian like her? Why was he somehow always busy? Liara on the other hand being young had been literally been fucking anything with legs all because she got over being shy and reclusive. Liara now seemed to be making up for lost wild years. Finally down to Shepard's issue she had just dumped her long term boyfriend Kaidan, the asshole, after he started calling her a cheater and how she betrayed him.
Shepard had no clue where he got that idea since she was extremely faithful. Shepard saw infidelity as your heart telling you that you didn't truly love your partner. Shepard assumed he was talking about the time Liara had made a pass at her while extremely drunk, and Shepard being a very good friend took her home ignoring the pass Liara sent her way. Shepard had heard enough when he didn't listen to her and she was fucking tired of his paranoid ass. Her boyfriend of three years, that was nothing more but a bitter memory that left a horrible bitter feeling in her gut when she thought of the time wasted.
Two weeks had passed since the messy break up. Ever since then Liara and Tali have been taking her out every day to new places hoping to meet a nice man. Shepard then had explained how exiting one relationship only to get into another right off the bat was a horrible idea and so they then started to take her to bars. Explaining if not a relationship why not just a fun night of mutual sex. Shepard then had to explain STD's which was rare now a days thanks to modern medical science but still existent and possible pregnancy thanks to getting off her birth control.
Shepard and Kaidan were hoping to start a family before their break up. Sadly a whole year was wasted of trying and sex becoming more of a chore then romance with no results. Liara and Tali didn't think about possible sexual issues, since Tali doesn't get out of her suit thanks to neural stimulation and Liara prefers mind melding over physical stimulation. Now that Shepard thinks of it maybe that's why Kaidan became paranoid. A whole year of tracking Shepard's fertility with no results, he probably thought she was still on birth control to continue infidelity. That or he wanted to blame her for something instead of accepting that maybe he was shooting blanks.
Finally we come full circle to why Shepard was shopping with Liara and Tali. They didn't want to leave her alone in her big empty house. So every day they drag her around the Citadel to go shopping or as it really was window shopping.
Suddenly a crowd to Shepard's left made a loud ruckus causing her to look over. It was a turian auction sadly they used to be a proud race. Until some bad blood was brought up between the krogans and the turians. The krogans had gained a cure for the genophage that was slowly killing off their race. Most of the other races saw it as just maintaining the population but really it was killing them off. More krogans died everyday then baby krogans were being born then some of the children died due to raids. Turians didn't agree that krogans deserved to be saved from eventual extinction. Humans having learned their lesson on causing the extinction of an entire species had banded with the krogans.
Causing another war with the turians, the council angered by the new war had stripped turians of being on the council and spectres. The turians ended up fighting a losing battle and to stop more death on their side they had bended to the wills of the humans and krogans. Sadly humans didn't learn their lesson on slavery and the turians outside of their galactic space paid the ultimate price with slavery. Only those still safe in their own galactic space, Apien Crest, were they still free. No one traveled there, just because turians where slaves in the rest of the galaxy didn't mean they were not a force to be reckoned with when provoked and cause another war. Many turians left Apien Crest to try and free others, it had results but others still got caught. Sometimes even Apien Crest's defenses didn't stop slavers from smuggling out more turians to sell off.
Shepard felt awkward at the thought of owning a turian. She didn't feel it was right since they were very intelligent and let's face it for centuries they were basically the galactic enforcers. She didn't understand how Citadel council could condone slavery but Shepard assumed it was possible punishment for the turians defying them. That or they just didn't want to start another war with the now expanding krogan race and human support. She was about to turn and continue on her way with Tali and Liara until she left a tug of her arm from Liara.
"Tali! We should get Shepard a turian that will help her with her recent dry spell." Liara smiled pulling Shepard closer to the gathering crowd. Tali came up behind them and nodded, "Good idea, come on Shepard you know you want to try one out." Shepard stuttered at her two friends trying to see where they thought owning an intelligent sentient being was a good thing. When they finally pushed their way to the front she spotted several turians. All of them looked intimidating, their plates shining like metal, all with different colors and colony markings. One was a bit different he didn't look defeated like the others, he stood up straighter, no odd piercings like on a few of them. Ice blue eyes, dark blue colony markings and gray silver plates.
One of her friends noticed her looking at him and announced they wanted to buy him. Shepard again was stuttering when Liara and Tali talked to a volus and credits were transferred. They pulled her over stating she would be the owner and the volus pulling out his Omni-tool started transferring the data of her new slave over to her. She kept quiet as he explained some of the features.
"Your omni-tool now contains (shlurp) all the paperwork needed for (shlurp) verification. Along with his voice control (shlurp) you can turn it on or off, though (shlurp) many keep them off. (Shlurp) Hope you're a strong one, he put up a (shlurp) struggle. All information needed to care for him (shlurp) has been provided along with his personal information. (Shlurp) Enjoy your new purchase earth clan." With that the little pudgy bastard pulled the chain around the turians neck, and handed it to her then walked away. Shit, she was now a proud owner of a slave. She turned and glared at her friends as they giggled at her.
"We need to get you a few new things for your new pet. He'll need more clothing, something better then what he has now. Food, I've heard they are carnivores so dextro-meat. Maybe a few... toys," at that Liara giggled before continuing "Also anything else we can think of that you might need." Shepard sighed not wanting to yell at her friends in front of the whole auction including… ah crap what was his name. She pulled out her omni-tool skimming over the many files given to her looking for his name. Finally she found it, Garrus, she shrugged her shoulders at the lack of a last name. She looked at him again he did look better up close, something about his eyes.
Shepard followed her friends, allowing them to lead the way to a weird shop she had never noticed before. Now she realized why, it was for owners of turians and not in the innocent ownership way. Collars, chains, plate softeners, she did not want to know what that was for, and other things scattered around the whole store including food in what looked to be more of a sex shop. Liara took one side, Tali taking the other, both ordering the things they thought she needed. Least Tali tackled the food issue since she was also dextro, Shepard was at a lost so she just browsed with her new … slave? Pet? Following behind her. He was led by the chain around his neck. She looked at him again and realized maybe something other than a chain would be better around his neck.
He was looking at the walls his eye wide. He couldn't be new to sex so it was more likely new exposure to cross species sex. That and he probably never expected to be sold off more than likely he was recently captured. He seemed too defiant to be in slavery long as if he could find a way to escape. He looked too proud to be owned by someone. He didn't need to worry though Shepard would never do something to him he didn't agree with.
Looking around she found a wall that held the items she wanted, collars and leashes. She realized now he wasn't so much a slave but more a pet. Looking over the collars she grew a little horrified that they were made to suppress, arouse or torture her new pet. She kept looking, finding one that didn't look to bad all. All it did was press into the soft hide of his neck, what that meant she had no clue. Why did pressing the back of the neck matter? She hoped he could deal with that better than a shock collar or spikes pressing into his neck. She grabbed it and grabbed one the leashes that at least looked like they were normal. She guessed she took a while lost in thought and horror because when she turned around Liara and Tali were looking at the items in her hands. Liara shook her head and Tali giggled. She went to purchase them so she could switch out the damn chain. The salesman pointed her to a dressing room that she could "control" him in and put the new items on.
As she walked in the dressing room she groaned, control my ass, Shepard thought. It had a restraint chair in it to hold down his limbs so he wouldn't fight when replacing the chain. She pushed him inside and he looked at the chair, a rumbling started coming from his chest.
"Look I don't like this any more than you, I didn't plan on ever owning a turian or a slave for that matter. My wonderful friends thought it will help me with my recent... that doesn't matter. Now I'm not going to sell you back because at least with me you won't be abused or used for… activities." She puffed at a piece of red hair that made it into the front of her face. "Now please stay still while I put on your new collar and leash so I can take off that horrible chain?"
He looked at her as if studying her before slowly lowering himself on one knee so he didn't have to sit in the chair and she could take off the chain. She smiled slightly knowing why he was on one knee, it was so he could get up quickly, should she do anything he didn't like. He was a fighter, only people in the military or anything considered fight for survival did things like this. If he was a civilian he would have sat in the chair hoping she didn't strap him down.
She took the collar out of its packaging before taking the chain off. Once the collar was on, she took the leash out of the packaging and hooking it onto the collar. She pulled the leash to make sure it was hooked on correctly, but stopping when he let out a shuddering growl. Crap, what did she do? Pull something? Ah fuck it, she'll figure it out once home and she can turn on his voice chip, it only stopped people from understanding him. He could still speak to other turians with growls, purrs, clicking, chirping and the use his sub harmonics. Also thankfully it allowed him to understand her and sadly everyone around him.
Finally done he stood up rotating his neck, probably trying to get used to the feeling before they walked out. On her way out of the store she dropped the chain on the counter and walked out being followed by her new shadow. Liara and Tali met her outside telling her everything they ordered should arrive at her home by the time she got there. Then giving her smiles and waved, as they went to whatever they had to go do. Shepard looked at… ah crap she really needed to remember his name. "Come on let me show you were I live. I guess it's where you live now too."