A/N: I was so sad at the ending of Mass Effect 3, I just had to write this one-shot. After all they went through in the four years that the crew of the Normandy knew each other, the ending made a little piece of me die inside. Through all my playthroughs, my Shepard never strayed from Liara. So this one-shot reflects how I think Liara felt a year after they crashed landed on that jungle planet and I also needed the ray of light at the end of the horizon!
It's been one solar year to the day since the final battle against the Reapers. One whole year we have been living on this planet, without communication from any outside source on other planets. By the Goddess... I was sure we would have never survived from the backlash caused when that mass relay exploded. Whatever she did, I know she defeated them.
Everyone survived the crash of the Normandy, everyone except EDI. But she died (I guess you can say an AI can die, right?) before the mass relay's core exploded. EDI just went out, like someone turning off the light to a room. Joker was heartbroken about it- I understand how he feels. Goddess... I don't know if she made it or not. Tali and Garrus tell me not to lose hope, that Eve is searching for us as we speak. Even Ashley and James would tell me that Commander Shepard will return, I think they thought my melancholy would effect my pregnancy. All of them still say she is coming for us, it's like the mantra of our little community now.
Little Benezia, she's three months old now and she already reminds me of Eve. Her brilliant green eyes, the same colour as Shepard's. They remind me of emeralds sparkling in the sunlight. As I document this I feel my heart clinch in despair, knowing that Benezia will never see her other parent. Dr. Chakwas thought this journal would help me get over my grief, huh... right now I hear her telling Benezia about the time they rescued me on Therum. She's not the only one who tells her stories about Eve, they all do. Of course not any of the ones that would scare her, like how Eve had survived the slaver attack on her home planet of Mindor or the time the first Normandy was shot from under us all and Shepard was dead for two years until Cerberus brought her back. They tell her the stories of the fun times we all had during the five years we have known each other. Benezia will not remember these stories now, but I know the others are trying to help me cope. The stories are just as much for me as they are for Benezia. Even Javik, the uptight Prothean that he is, will watch my child when the sight of her is too much to bear. Even at three months... she has Eve's smile.
Goddess... I wish that the damned communication array wasn't obliterated when we crashed. But I assume it isn't just our communications that were the only ones that were effected. The way that mass relay exploded... I assume all of the relays shared the same fate as well as our interstellar communication, like a domino effect.
Don't get me wrong, this place is beautiful. It reminds me of Sur'kesh, minus the Salarian STGs and Cereberus roaming around. But, I would give it all up just to hear a tiny shred of news from the outside planets. Just to know what has happened to the rest of the galactic populace. Just to know if she made it out alive...
Traynor is yelling something about an Alliance ship just touched down in the nearby clearing. I guess I was so wrapped up in this journal entry that I didn't hear anything. Wait... an Alliance vessel? That can only mean one thing... she came back for us.