Small Author's Note: It's been awhile since I wrote anything, so hope it doesn't suck too bad. My hopes are to make a story starting from the moment after the love scene, go through the suicide mission and into some post game stuff. The Shepard is the default. Shepard as I'm a fan of that look, with a Spacer War Hero back round, as I truly want a Shepard a cut above the rest. Again I will try not to make the story suck. Hope someone likes it as I'll try my best
Chapter 1:
She yawned and slowly started to open her eyes. At first she couldn't remember why she was on the floor of the engine room. As her thoughts started to come back to her, a smile found its way to her beautiful face. She looked down at the arm wrapped around her. She placed her hand on top of his, tracing a line up and down his hand.
"Awake already, I see," he said softly stroking her hip as he spoke.
"Mmm….how long was I asleep?" Miranda turned on her back so she could finally look at the man holding her in his arms, which made her smile widen upon seeing his face
"Not a long time: fifteen minutes, maybe," propping himself up on his elbow to be able to look down at the women… Odd time Shepard for someone to capture a piece of your heart, about to start a mission that you're almost likely to die on, and you're lying on the floor of the engine room with your XO and Cerberus officer in your arms. He couldn't help but let out a small laugh.
She looked right into his eyes trying to get a read on what he was thinking. "What's so funny?" He didn't need to say a thing as she could read his thoughts from his eyes and she found herself sharing in that laugh.
That may have been the first time I've heard Miranda laugh. Once the moment ended Shepard brought his lips down to meet Miranda's. She brought her hand up to the back of his head holding him tight to her lips; both could taste the desire for one another.
Finally when both needed to breathe again they forced their lips to part from one another and spent the next few moments staring into each others eyes….I wish we could stay like this longer but there's still a job to do. Shepard sighed as he forced himself to sit up. "As much as I would like to spend more time with you in my arms, there's the matter of rescuing the crew and stopping the collectors we need to take care of." He grabbed his clothes as he slowly tried to get up and force himself away from the beauty under him.
When he was finally able to pull away from her, he got up and started to dress. Miranda watched him as he did for a moment then followed his lead and put her own clothes on. Once they were both fully dressed, they stood in front of one another. Shepard grabbed her around the waist pulling her to him trying to steal one last kiss before going back to business.
The comm link kicked on just before their lips met. "Commander, the Illusive Man is waiting to speak to you."
Shepard shook his head and sighed, Miranda couldn't help but smile in annoyance at Joker's bad timing… Why does Joker always seem to do that to me? "Thank you, Joker. I'll be right there," Shepard finally said after a moment, then pulled Miranda closer to him. They both wrapped their arms around each other, "Seems duty calls."
Miranda leaned up to whisper in his ear, "Remember your promise!" For a moment they stood in each other's arms. Miranda put her ear to Shepard's chest to listen to his heart. He knew this was a side of Miranda no one had ever seen; a side she may have not even known she had. Finally he heard her sigh and she pulled away and then left the room heading for her office without saying another word.
Shepard watched her leave… I know there's a lot to her but watching her leave a room is an added bonus. Miranda's voice popped into his head then, "You ass!" He let out a laugh then headed up to his cabin to get his armor. He would meet with the Illusive Man and head through the Omega 4 Relay for maybe his last mission, ever.