Author's note: Okay, I have changed my mind, so this will be turned into a proper story. It will be Aria/Tevos filling a prompt I recieved a long time ago. Because of this I will change this one a little bit.

Disclaimer: You know the drill.

Chapter 1 - Lucia

The queen of Omega as sitting on her ordinary couch feeling particularly bored. The fights no longer enthralled her; the dancers no longer enticed her. Even the prospect of killing someone did not seem appealing. You must be growing old, the matriarch thought to herself. Not even calling Tevos to tease the asari councilor had put Aria in a better mood.

"Aria!" One of her Batarian underlings called her name. It caused Aria to raise one eyebrow but not really expecting anything exciting.

"What is it?" She said, not moving a muscle from her usual position on her famous sofa.

The Batarian walked forward dragging a small human girl with him.

"This little human was found trying to get into Afterlife. When asked what she wanted, as she is clearly a child, she admitted to her planning to kill you."

Aria scoffed, hardly believing what she was hearing. The girl was a dainty thing, dirty, short and with a wild look in her eyes. When the Batarian pushed the girl forward she landed at the feet of Aria.

"You want to kill me, child?" Aria said, amused for the first time that night. She wondered silently how old the girl could be, guessing human ages were so hard. Maybe 10? Maybe 13? She was clearly a child.

"Yes," the girl said her voice dark and hostile but she offered no other information.

"Stand up," Aria ordered and chuckled when the girl didn't comply, "you want to kill your queen but cannot even stand up?"

The girl looked up, locked her angry black eyes into Aria's blue, amused ones. She stood up slowly, quivering slightly, she was clearly in some form of physical pain.

"Good girl," Aria said, "now, how did you plan to kill me?"

"With a gun," the girl replied.

Aria chuckled now, her whole being filled with delight. Oh, this was fun!

"Where is this gun of yours, child?" She asked and the girl lowered her head before answering. Aria took the moment of silence to study the girl. She was probably just some Omega orphan, she was wearing a dirty dress, no shoes, her hair long but untidy and dirty. She showed no sign of womanhood but her eyes held some form of maturity, which put her somewhere between twelve and thirteen in human years, Aria guessed.

"I don't have one," the girl eventually said and her face turned red; the girl was feeling stupid about her lack of weapon.

Aria rolled her eyes, feeling her amusement drain away almost as quickly as it had surfaced.

"Stupid girl," she said, "should I just throw you in an airlock and be done with you?" Aria asked the question expecting cries and protests but instead the girl nodded slowly.

"Yes please," the girl said and started turning towards the Batarian again, expecting him to take her to her death.

Aria leaned forward, of all the reactions a death sentence could conjure this was not one she had expected , especially not from a child.

"You have a death wish?" She asked but the girl didn't answer, just kept standing there, looking down on the floor. Behind her stood Aria's underlings, wondering if they should take the child to the nearest airlock or not.

"Leave us," Aria said and waved her hand towards them in a dismissive gesture. She wanted to talk alone with the girl, she was once again intrigued. But she did not need anyone seeing her talking with a child, especially not if she had to be…ugh, nice … in order to get some answers out of her.

When it was just the child and the queen of Omega left, Aria nodded towards the sofa but the girl shook her head and instead sat down on the floor. Pulled her knees up to her chin and put her arms around herself in a defensive manner.

"You dislike the couch," Aria said, "you know, many people would kill to get to sit here and there has definitely never been a child sitting on it."

"I'm not a child," the girl had found her voice again.

"Oh, you aren't?" Aria said in a mocking tone, "you could have fooled me."

"I'm twelve… I think." The child said but even if she had started talking again did not leave her uncomfortable spot on the floor.

"Why don't you want to sit on the couch?" Aria asked, her interest was back and she thought that she might as well have fun with the girl, even if she would eventually throw her out of an airlock. Child or not, nobody fucks with Aria.

"Because," the girl said, her voice ice-cold, "I am going to kill you." She looked up at Aria and her gaze was filled with so much hatred and anger that Aria could almost taste it on her tongue.

"Why do you hate me?" Aria said, "I have never met you."

The girl moved her eyes away from Aria's face and instead watched the dancer that was dancing on the right side of Aria.

"Why do you have your couch here?" The girl asked, her voice still filled with contempt, but apparently not ready to tell why she wanted Aria dead, "why do you want to see them dance all the time?"

Aria sighed, wondering how she was going to explain how nice it was to watch the dancers once you had gone through puberty.

"I think it is beautiful," the asari finally settled with and the girl nodded.

"I guess it is," she said begrudgingly and a little angrily.

"Why do you want to kill me?" Aria pressed again.

The girl moved her face one more time so that she was facing the ceiling, when she moved her gaze down again to face Aria her face was striped with tears.

"Because I promised," she said and swallowed, trying to hold back more tears, "I promised my sister. She heard you once, saw you on some screen. You said you were the queen of Omega, as the queen, you let bad things happen."

The self-appointed queen didn't know what to answer at first.

"What did I let happen?" She asked and the girl stood up, walked slowly towards the couch and then sat down on it. As she was walking, Aria couldn't help but notice how completely starved the girl looked, not to mention that she was limping really badly. The girl was in no shape to even walk, so how on Omega had she thought that she could successfully assassinate Aria?

"I'm only sitting down because I'm in pain," the girl said but Aria didn't answer, still waiting for an answer to her previous question.

"You let us get hurt," the girl said after a few minutes of silence, "you let bad men hurt little girls all over this damn station. And you let them hurt us in the worst of ways. You let them kill my sisters. So I have to kill you."

Aria nodded slowly. She knew that bad things happened on Omega, usually she didn't give a damn but with the girl in front of her, she almost wished she could do something about it. But only almost, this was still Omega, the haven of criminals and bad people; Aria could not control everything.

"Bad things happen to people everywhere, on or off Omega."

"They said they couldn't wait," the girl continued, ignoring Aria's words, "they said that when we were women they would send us here to dance for you. To make money for them."

Aria couldn't help but feel a wave of disgust flowing through her body. Had any of her current dancers a past like this, she wondered, reminding herself to check the dancers' backgrounds later.

"I would rather you throw me out of an airlock instead of making me go back to them." The girl said after they had both sat in silence for another few minutes.

"Tell me who they are," Aria said, "I will personally kill them."

The girl looked up, bewilderment in her eyes.

"Would you?" She asked, not believing her little human ears.

"Yes, I would," Aria said calmly, "I can't believe you haven't done it yourself since you seem so eager to kill."

"It's not that I don't want to," the girl replied, "but around them I freeze up, I get scared and weak. Killing you seemed easier."

Aria couldn't help but snort wondering if she had ever been described as "easy to kill" before.

"You won't get to kill me," the queen of Omega said and the girl nodded.

"I think I knew that all along," the girl answered, "I was hoping that I would get killed in the fight, so I would never again have to return to these men."

"Look at me," Aria said and didn't continue until the girl was looking her straight in the eye, "you will never need to see those men again. You have my word."

The girl looked confused and relieved in the same time. Aria was feeling confused as well, cursing the fucking maternal instincts that the girl had brought out in her. She could see that the kid was tired however.

"What are the names of the men?" Aria asked, "And where do they live? I'm going to make sure that they never hurt anyone ever again."

The girl muttered some names that didn't mean anything to Aria, but the location she was familiar with. It was far from Afterlife though, how the girl had managed go get all that way on her own was very impressive.

"Are you tired?" Aria asked and the girl nodded, clutching a hand to her abdomen, "are you hurt?"

The girl nodded again.

"It always hurts," she said, "but lately it has been getting worse."

Aria stood up and called for one of her more trusted batarians, Anto Korragan.

"Anto," she said, "help this girl to my quarters. I'm not planning to go there for the rest of the night so she can sleep on my bed. Send someone female or asari to watch over her, someone who knows children, then come back to here. We are going hunting."

The girl had listened and stood up, clutching her stomach and almost falling over.

"Find her a physician as well," Aria roared, "the girl is hurt."

Anto nodded quickly even though he was very confused and walked up to the shaking girl to give her a hand.

"Wait," Aria exclaimed as they started leaving her, "what is your name?"

The girl's eyes looked up to her, curious, questioning.

"My name is Lucia," she eventually said and then continued walking.

…

Several hours later a happy but tired Aria was returning to her quarters. She had found the child-abusers and taken much pleasure in killing them. Now she wanted to see Lucia again and tell her what the queen of Omega was capable off.

As soon as she reached the door of her quarters the asari immediately sensed something was wrong.

A human doctor was standing outside, clearly waiting for Aria and fidgeting nervously with the datapad she was holding.

"What's going on here?" Aria asked.

"Our young patient," the doctor said, not daring to meet Aria's eyes, "she had suffered severe trauma to her body. She… she was also experiencing internal bleeding. During the night she started bleeding out but by the time anyone noticed what was happening it was already too late. She died an about an hour ago."

"What?" Aria roared, in shock. She had known that the girl was in pain but hadn't suspected anything life-threatening. The queen of Omega had been looking forward to telling Lucia that her tormentors could never touch her again.

Aria pushed the doctor away and went into her room and walked up to the figure lying on her bed, feeling powerless for the first time in years. There was nothing she could do.

Lucia looked as if she was asleep, looking very peaceful as she was truly free of her oppressors now. They would never hurt her again.

Aria didn't know what to do with her raging emotions; she couldn't even understand why she was feeling so upset in the first place. She turned to her trusted Batarian who was standing next to her.

"Anto," she said, her own cold voice back, "clean up in here."

Then the queen of Omega left the room, went back to Afterlife and took her place on the infamous couch. The world didn't seem the same to her, but Aria found to her relief that she still enjoyed watching her dancers and when a fight broke out that she had to stop she almost felt the same again.

She was where she belonged, on Omega, in Afterlife, on her couch, her home, her throne.