Commander Shepard was in a particularly good mood today. He whistled an old drill cadence he remembered from his days as an Alliance soldier not so long ago, as he waited for the elevator to descend into the engineering deck. He had clocked in 12 hours of sleep, had a warm meal with plenty of fresh coffee in his stomach, and the love of a young quarian, whom he was on his way to see. The elevator came to halt and the doors parted into an eerily quiet corridor. The engineering deck had never been too busy, but since he had authorized a rotation for shore leave, most of the ship seemed dead. Grunt was somewhere in the lower wards of the Citadel getting into who knows what kind of trouble, and Zaeed had agreed to join Garrus, Jacob, and Joker for a few drinks at Flux.
Shepard took the left of either two doors on each side of the elevator that led into the engine room. The doors parted into the in-between corridor that led down to Jack's hidey hole, and Shepard could faintly hear a squeal or scream from the other side of the second set of doors that led into the engine room. He furrowed his brow at the mysterious noise and paused in front of the second door and listened more, hearing more shrieks with added moans and grunts. Shepard didn't believe in his own initial assumption of what he was hearing.
Who the hell would have…sex in the engine room. Shepard thought loudly to himself. But when he keyed the holo-console, his suspicions were most definitely given visual confirmation. There, splayed on the deck were engineers Daniels and Donnely, both engaged in some very rigorous body heat exchange. They were so caught up in each other that they didn't notice their commander was standing dropped-jaw in front of them. It was when Kenneth rolled his head to the side on the floor he caught a glimpse of Shepard and gasped. He sat up so suddenly he almost threw Gabby off of him. She snapped to face Shepard as well, and let out a slight scream. The two engineers scrambled to re-button their uniforms. Daniells cupped her exposed breasts until she could cover them with her uniform's crew shirt, while Donnely struggled to re-do his belt.
Shepard just stood there with his arms folded and eyes tightly shut, putting on a slight scoul at the unpleasant sight. Donnely stumbled over his words and fought to explain himself.
"Commander," he started with his Scottish brood, slightly out of breath. "I-we, um…I was just, uh….Gabby needed help with something so I was just-"
"Stow the explanation." Shepard interrupted, eyes still firmly sealed, frown growing deeper. Shepard exhaled loudly from his nose and regained his composure. "Where's Tali?" he asked calmly. Donnely looked to Daniells then back to the commander.
"She's, uh, talking with Mordin in the lab…sir." He said sheepishly.
Shepard just turned and left the two of them without another word. By the time he was back in the elevator, he could faintly hear Gabby scream "What the fuck!" aloud, before the doors closed again. The commander just shook his head and lightly chuckled to himself, boy did he have a story to tell.
