Cally Starkiller and I were talking… again haha. Both of us pulled an idea from the one conversation. She got the idea for her new story, "Pervert" and I got this…. Hope you like it.

Disclaimer: don't own this game.

MassEffect

Shepard rummaged through her closet, looking desperately for any sign of something reasonable for the occassion.

"I have near all the finest clothes and I STILL can't find a nice outfit." Shepard complained to her fish who seemed to be watching and waiting for her to pick a freaking outfit. Shepard huffed and continued to look through the pile of clothes.

"Hey Shep." Shepards front foor hissed open and Kasumi smiled from the doorway. "Need help?"

"No." Shepard said stubbornly, though she knew she did. "Yes." She sighed. "I had that dress you got me for the undercover op… but… I've made that my work uniform…. And all the other dresses just… I hate 'em."

"I noticed." Kasumi said.

"I might have some stuff." Kasumi offered.

Shepard stood up straight and looked at her best friend. They hadn't known eachother very long but the two of them had a connection, Shepard enjoyed her company, and their friendship.

"Really, come on." Kasumi waved her friend to the elevator. Shepard followed her friend down to the Crew Quarters level and into Kasumi's room.

Kasumi walked straight to the bar and made two shaken drinks. She handed one to Shepard and then motioned her to follow her.

"Alright. Pick your choice." Kasumi flashed her a smile under her hood.

Shepard looked at the large selection of clothes and stared, mouth agape. "Holy clothes store, Kasumi."

Kasumi laughed, "Yep. Undercover ops provide plenty of shopping oppurtunities."

"I guess." Shepard shook her head and took a gulp of her drink.

Shepard looked in the closet and pulled a certain dark green dress out. It was a strapless dress that had a heart shaped neck. Shepard smiled and held it up to herself, the left side came down to the bottom but it cut up to her upper thigh on her right leg.

On the very top of the dress, following the design of the heart shape dip, there were sequences which went down and trailed to the waist line where it curved off and went to the left hip, ending there.

Shepard moved over to the mirror that was hanging on the closet door and stood in front of it. "It's beautiful… I'll wear this one! Please?"

Kasumi giggled. "You haven't even looked at the other ones yet."

"Don't need to! It's perfect."

"Alright. Go ahead." She smiled. "It's yours."

"I'll return it after tonight."

"Nah, keep it. It's yours, I'll NEVER wear that thing again." Kasumi sipped her drink.

"Thank you so much!" Shepard lowered the dress away from her and held it properly in front of her.

"Don't mention it." Kasumi waved her hand. "Now get. You don't have much time left before we have to go…. Unless…." Kasumi seemed to be deep in thought, holding her hand up to her chin. "You wanna get EACH OTHER ready!" Kasumi smiled broadly.

Shepard thought about it for a second, not remembering a time where she'd had a "girls night". Sure she's gotten dressed up before… but this was a little different. But different was her middle name.

Shepard shrugged and took another drink. "Sure why not."

If Kasumi was even a fraction more of a girly girl she would have been a second Kelly and Kelly would have squealed with joy. Shepard thanked God that Kasumi wasn't that small fraction of a Kelly.

"Awesome!" Kasumi gulped down the remaining bit of drink and Shepard did the same, not sure what was about to happen. "C'mon!" She giggled. "We'll go to your room." Kasumi grabbed her own dress, Shepard still holding hers, and headed for the elevator.

Shepard pressed the button to summon it and when it didn't ding open immediately Kasumi handed her her dress and ran back to the room and came back with two glasses and a bottle of wine. Kasumi smiled again at Shepard and waited with her as they waited for the elevator to come.

The door opened and the two girls got onto the elevator and headed to Shepards cabin.

Shepard was now sitting on her floor, Kasumi up on her bed as she did her hair. Both of them had their makeup on already, their dresses laying next to Kasumi on the bed.

"So you and Garrus..." Kasumi trailed off, testing the waters Shepard assumed.

"What about us?" Shepard asked, resisting the urge to look up at her friend, not wanting to ruin what she was doing.

"How are things going?"

Shepard smiled, it had been three months since the Collectors Base was destroyed, the same amount of time that she had basically told The Illusive Man to Eff off and gave him the bird, and those three months had completely consisted on rebuilding the ship, running tests on everything, looking for leads on the Reapers, and… easing some major tension.

Things were going great with Garrus. She wouldn't lie, she didn't have a "thing" for turians, but she felt some major feelings for Garrus. "Fantastic…. Lovely, wonderful… awesome… impressive."

Kasumi laughed. "Wow maybe I'll have to hook up with a turian." Shepard almost choked on her wine. "What?" Kasumi asked innocently.

"Nothing."

"No really, what?"

"It's just… well Garrus is different…" Shepard tried, sipping on her wine again.

"What?"

"Nothing." Shepard shook her head but winced when her movement pulled her hair. Ouch.

"No really, what?"

"You're pulling my hair." Shepard covered/complained.

"Well you shouldn't move so much." Kasumi said simply.

"What are you doing anyway?"

"Nothing."

"No really, what are you doing?"

"I'm putting curlers in your hair."

"Those haven't been used in ages. Where did you find rollers?"

"Well I have a knack for the 21st century stuff, and I'm a thief. Put it together." Kasumi laughed.

"Right, nice."

The two of them laughed together. Suddenly EDI's orb popped up. "Shepard, Joker wanted me to tell you that, 'You better get your cute little ass down here. I don't wanna be late.'".

"Thanks EDI."

"Logging you out."

"You know…" Kasumi started. "I bet he did that on purpose. He's trying to get you down there faster. We still got," Kasumi opened her omni tool, stopping her work on Shepards hair for the moment. "at least an hour before we have to leave. Hour and a half before it actually starts."

Kasumi shrugged and continued on Shepards hair. "Then we'll just piss 'im off. We'll wait up here until the last second before we head down."

Shepard sipped on her wine and Kasumi laughed. "Good plan." Shepard winced as a single hair got caught and pulled. "Ow, are you almost done?" She couldn't help but whine. Getting a concussion, getting shot, breaking an arm, toture… she could handle all those. Getting her hair done, not working for her.

"Yah, two more. Then you have to wait 20 minutes… then I have to put some bobby pins in… so 30 minutes. Then you can be done. I promise." Kasumi sipped on her own wine, Shepard heard the glass set back down on the nightstand.

Shepard was so not used to this. Her hair was always straight with a small flip at the end. She liked keeping it shoulder length so that it was easy to handle. She could through it up in a pony tail whenever but put it down if she was feeling pretty. Curling her hair… she had never done it before.

Shepard opened her mouth to reply when her door hissed open again, this time revealing Tali. "Oh… Shepard, I'm sorry I didn't…"

"Tali! Come in!" Shepard had to focus herself not to jump up or move to quickly. "What do you need?"

"Oh well… I was just wondering if you could help me with…a… well help me pick my hood(shawl?)" Tali asked shyly.

"Of course. What are your options?"

"It's out of these two…" Tali pulled out ans showed the two friends two beautiful shawls(hood).

"Oh Tali they are both beautiful!" Kasumi exclaimed. "Okay you're done Shep." Kasumi patted Shepards shoulder and crawled to the other end of the bed that was facing the doorway rather than her closet. Shepard stood up and walked over to where Tali stood.

"They really are absolutely beautiful. I can see why you can't decide." Shepard looked at the two options, one was a dark purple with gold embroidary, the design was all swirls that looked like bunches of flowers. The other one was black with silver stitching, it had "vines" all over it that branched into flower looking designs as well.

"I like the purple one." Kasumi and Shepard concluded at the same time.

"Wow, alright then. Purple it is." Tali laughed.

Shepard sipped on her wine. The three of them ended up on Shepards bed, all of them talking about this and that, while Kasumi and Shepard sipped on their wine.

"Sooo, how's Kal?" Shepard asked smiling like, sure was sure, an idiot. Tali was just as much of a sister as Kasumi was her best friend. Tali and Shepard of course had been together longer, so their bond and memories ran much longer and deeper.

Tali stammered for a moment, "I… well he's… well I mean… he's good." Shepard laughed.

"You know Tali… I think you should go visit him soon…" Shepard suggested mischeiviously.

Kasumi giggled and was about to say something when her door once again hissed open.

"Shepard!" Jack shouted but stopped suddenly when she saw the other two girls. "What the hell is this? A slumber party?"

"We're are getting ready…"

"Great, 'cus that's why I'm here." Jack crossed her arms and walked forward, stepping down the stairs quickly.

"Huh?" All three girls said in union, none of them expecting that Jack would want help getting dolled up.

"Oh shut up. I'm still a girl aren't I?" Jack snapped at the three gaping girls.

"Yes Jack you are." Shepard confirmed nodding her head. "What do you need?" None of them were dressed yet, Tali hadn't even put on her new shawl yet, and it looked like it was almost time to pull the rollers out. Meaning they were nearing time to go.

"I don't know what to wear."

"Whats wrong with what ya got on?" Kasumi asked, sincere.

"It's not… fancy enough." Jack said uncomfortably.

"Jack… don't take this the wrong way but since when do you care about being fancy?"

"Since tonight okay? Are you going to help me or not?" She was getting impatient now.

"Alright alright. I wasn't trying to be a pain…" Shepard defended, Jack quirked an eyebrow. "What were you thinking?" Shepard asked, referring to what Jack was looking for.

"A dress… that's IT… no makeup… no wig or some shit like that… just a simple dress."

"Alright. I can do that." Shepard stood and brought out a dress, one that she personally didn't like on herself, but one that Jack could pull off nicely. It was dark red and was very short, it came about three inches above her knee, so about mid thigh. It wasn't strapless like her own but instead had a tie that would go around her neck and hold it there. It was very low on the back, going all the way to her lower back.

Shepard pulled it out and showed it to Jack. "How's this?" The only reason Shepard didn't like it was because it wasn't her style, she didn't like the low back. It was a awesome dress, just not for her.

Kasumi gasped at the beautiful dress and Tali nodded her head, a silent way of agreeing with the choice.

"It'll do." Jack said, but from the way she took it from Shepard and the way she had looked at it the first time told Shepard she liked it.

"Do you have shoes for it?"

Jack seemed to think for a moment, "I am not wearing heels."

"Well I think the combat boots will look great." Kasumi spoke up, "It will show your style even in a dress. Not to mention the way it comes up to the middle of your calf gives you a bad ass/hot look. It'll totally work for you." She finished then looked to Shepard. "Okay, let's take them out." Indicating to the rollers.

"Okay." Shepard sat back down on the floor and Kasumi went to work on her hair once more.

"Okay yah, what the fuck are those?" Jack asked. Seemingly just noticing the funny looking hair do Shepard was sporting.

"Hair rollers, to curl her hair." Tali explained, she herself had asked the same question while they had been talking before Jack had come in.

"You know how?" Jack asked.

"I asked the same question just 10 minutes ago."

"Oh…"

Shepard chuckled as Jack took the rest of the wine and sat down and started to drink it out of the bottle. Jack and Tali got dressed half way through the roller take out, when Jack came out Kasumi stopped working on her hair, Shepard stopped talking to Tali and they all stared for a moment.

"Wow, Jack, you look GOOD." Kasumi complimented.

"You do look good Jack. That dress is flattering." Tali agreed.

"What they said combined." Shepard laughed. "The dress is perfect for you."

Maybe if Jack wasn't so tough she'd be blushing but it did bring a smile, and not one of her evil, I'm gonna kick your ass, smiles.

She did look really good too, it wasn't a big change, just simple change of clothing, but that's all she needed. Her make-up and shoes were exactly the same, but they made the dress work for her.

Kasumi was working on her hair again, Jack finishing off what was left of the wine, and Tali was talking with Shepard.

Kasumi went to the bathroom and got ready herself, touching up her hair and make-up as wel as changing into her dress.

"Holy… wow Kasumi. You look… great." Shepard looked her "sister" up and down. All of her girls looked fantastic. Kasumi had a dark purple dress on, it had spaghetti straps, it hugged her waist just as her regular suit did but it flowed out at the end of her waist; the hem stopped at the knees. Her hood was gone and she had a black shimmering scarf wrapped around her waist. Her short black hair was pulled back into a small bun held back by a matching purple, large, flower. She had black pumps on and dark makeup.

"Thanks Shep."

"Joker is growing impatient Shepard. We are only 20 minutes out." EDI popped up.

"Thank you EDI, and tell Joker to shove it."

"…. Logging you out."

"We're ready anyway." Tali added after the orb left.

And they were. All of them dressed and ready to go.

"Alright. Let's move out." Shepard said in her Commander voice.

"On your six." Kasumi saluted.

And the four girls left Shepards now messy room, clothes, wine glasses, wine bottles, rollers, and shoes littered the floor, and into the elevator.