Welcome to "Life after reapers 3..."
this is a 20 chapter story
no need to know the ones before, but it´s fun if you do
Liara and Jane thought about some changes in their life, concerning Liaras work and a little spice up of their sex life. For both they dare to ask only one person: Aria T´Loak, but Liara lost her head after one night in Arias arms.
Councillor Tevos lost her job and thought it was the Shadowbroker´s fault, so she want answers. What she got is not what she wanted, but she found comfort in Arias presence.
Can the Queen of Omega handle two so different Asari the same time or will her past hunt her to much?
And what did Shepard think about it.
okay If you start with this and wanna read the connected ones:
Life after Reaper 1 and 2
Aria, Omega and a problem 1 and 2
A young Asari´s problem
Chapter 1
Liara was standing in her living room in the house in that she lived with Jane and her daughter and looked outside. Some clouds hang in the sky and as the sun went down, they broke the light in myriad colors over the lake behind the house. She smiled to herself and glanced to the side, where Stiches, her little and now seven month old puppy, fought a rope. She repented not that she had allowed Jane to bring the little one in the house. The Golden Retriever was just too cute, even if he tended to chew on everything in the house. Liara had talked to Ashley about it, but this had calmed her that this behavior was normal for young dogs. Like small children, who took everything to test it in their mouth.
Dahlia loved the puppy and often they cuddled on the sofa next to Jane, both snuggled close together and slept. At the beginning Liara had been worried, but the dog was in dealing with her daughter now almost caring. Of course Liara had researched and read everything about the breed and what she could find out had only confirmed her in the decision.
But at that moment she thought not about that. She chewed on her lower lip and pondered over a problem rolled it back and forth, but it had already occupied her for days. She was as deep in thought that she did not notice Jane. Only when the strong arms of her bondmate embraced her, she was aware of their presence. Liara leaned her neck slightly and was not disappointed. Jane lowered her lips to the warm, velvet skin and lingered for a moment before she parted with a kiss.
"Well, what are you thinking?" Jane whispered. She put her hands on Liara's hips and dragged her close. Liara leaned against her wife, enjoying the warmth, her scent, and the tickle that triggered Janes now longer hairs on her skin. "Aria T'Loak" she replied truthfully and without thinking further about it.
Jane turned Liara around in her arms and looked at her skeptically. "Aria? Why? Were you raving again?," she laughed. Liara shook her head and gave her a very gentle kiss. She let her lips linger on those of Jane´s and smiled. "I adore only one woman in my life and that's you," she was delighted with the warm glow in Jane's green eyes before they parted and Liara starts to went in the room back and for.
"No, not in that way," she then added. "I know that you're not happy with some areas of my work..." Jane nodded and felt it was almost a huge understatement. The thought that Liara ordered a hit on someone, and then feed her daughter, send regularly shivers down her spine. "And the part of my network where most conflicts occur, are the Terminus systems," Liara added.
"Oh you want Aria to work with you?" Liara looked into her eyes and sighed. "I do not want to, but it will be the only way. She controlled that area anyway." The Asari sounded a little pained and Jane smirked. Liara had almost everything build up again from her old network, just not in the Terminus Systems. Aria had wasted not a moment, and filled the resulting vacuum with her own agents. It was even so that Liara had problems to get from there any information.
"We always come back to each other. It would make more sense to pool our resources," she continued. Jane could not hide the grin. "And besides, you have better control of her as well?" Liara smiled appreciatively. "As far as anyone can claim to have Aria T´Loak under control," she said and Jane's grin widened.
"Well, I wanted to ask you anyway if we do not want to visit Omega. Now that the repairs are completed. I call Aria and invite us, what do you mean?"
Liara was relieved that she did not have to worry about that. Aria always sparked a strange feeling in her stomach and over the years she was not able to bear this flatter of her youth. What Liara really annoyed because this weakened her position against the Queen of Omega. "And I ask Karin and Aethyta if they can take care of our little girl. Omega was, and probably still is, no place for a toddler ", she went to Jane, kissed her gently and then turned to her terminal to contact her father.
Now they sat the third night in a row in the Afterlife with Aria in the new VIP Lounge. Omega was still Omega, only the upper regions and the market looked better and the Afterlife shone after a grand re-opening brighter as never before. Arias lounge was now a little more centrally located, hovered over everything. Under her feet, through the glass flashed the bar and the dance floor and on both sides led down narrow, winding stairs.
Shepard found the innovations very successful. If one stood below and looked up, all you could see was a black soil in which the light of the dance floor reflected and a huge Omega symbol, which was placed under the glass ceiling. Even through the barriers there was no way to get a look insight. Aria the other hand could see everything. It was not only very exposed, they were surrounded by glowing protective barriers, which shone in all colors of the rainbow, but above all it was good to defend.
Jane snuggled deeper into the soft leather of the sofa and sighed blissfully. Liara had managed to sell Aria the cooperation so that the other Asari had to be affected by the power and influence she would get - in addition. Aria influential would emerge from the cooperation very much and Liara would be get rid off all that she was unwelcome in her work. In addition, she would jointly control the powers concentrated in the information market.
The two talked for quite a while now and Jane was watching her bondmate. On their arrival on Omega Liara had almost crawled out of embarrassment under Jane´s Hoodie. Now she did not even flush anymore. She had obviously found her inner balance again. Jane almost regretted that they would leave on the next morning, for the last two nights Liara had been extremely passionate and wild. As they now - for the third time - tried to discuss something that did not belong in public, Aria stood up. "I think we better move the whole thing to my apartment," she said. Shepard and Liara agreed to the proposal, curious to visit Arias new home.
On the flight Liara looked at everything curiously. She had never been to this part of Omega and even if she had known it, she would not have recognized it. There were still many ruins and construction sites, but the new style could almost compare to Illium. Aria was about to reconstruct Omega from the ground up. Liara had Jane provide her with a calculation of the expected profit and Jane had gone a bit dull.
´How did Aria got the necessary capital?´, she wondered. While most governments and private citizens were completely ruined, there were a number of financial winners. She tried not to think that this was not only true for Aria, even Liara had already confessed to her a while ago to have taken care of this in time. Now that they were secured after the war, she needed the credits. The build up of the network was incredibly expensive, the tags alone in her house had swallowed a small fortune. Nevertheless Liara tried to help wherever she could and promoted solely to Earth and Thessia, to three auxiliary projects so that residents would soon have a roof over their head again.
Once in the apartment Aria heard the admiring whistle and remembered that Shepard had indeed known her old one. "I like the innovations," said Jane then appreciatively. "Did you still have this roommate?" She winked and Aria nodded. "Yes, I have found her in the wreckage of my old apartment, she must sneak around here somewhere." The Queen of Omega looked around and finally found the cat. "Minou, look, we have visitor," Liara and Jane looked at each other, grinning, as Aria cooed to a small cat that loud purring rubbed her head in greeting to Aria's hand. She would never admit it, but she had actually been worried that when she went through her completely destroyed apartment, she had been relieved when she had heard the familiar meowing. She scratched the little cat behind the ear and immediately felt the purr. But when Aria looked up, she saw that the cheeks of the Broker had taken on a purplish color. Her eyes narrowed suspiciously. Shepard, who noticed this, also looked questioningly at Liara who coughed awkwardly.
Aria scratched the cat behind the ear once again, then stood up and walked with a smile to Liara. She lowered her eyelids and was not disappointed when Liara took a step back and inhaled just a little too fast. Aria suspected since their arrival that she exercised an attractive effect on Shepard's bondmate, but thought nothing further about it. Liara swallowed and the color depth down to a dark purple that spread to her neck and under the collar of her dress.
"Yes ... I remember, I wanted to tease you a little ... um ..? Just for fun ... " she bit her lower lip a little ashamed, not daring to look up, but glanced at Jane. Aria stood in front of her and Shepard crossed her arms as a clear sign that she would have to deal with that on own.
"For fun," repeated Aria and came closer. Very close, but not that Shepard had to be worried about Liara. She looked into these incredible blue eyes and saw the flash of mischief. Liara might certainly be embarrassed, but if, because it was only that she had been caught.
"But because you like her," Liara tried to wriggle out, "now you're glad about your gift?" She slipped a little down on the wall and looked up at Aria with a sweet smile. This was usually enough with Shepard, but Aria snorted in amusement. "That innocent playing does not work on me," she said, smiling. "But thanks for the little one," she turned back. "Let's stick to rum and wine," she said finally, and both nodded.
Aria watched fascinated the dynamic between the bondmates. At the wedding she had already noticed that Jane might beamed as the outwardly confident soldier and was seen by almost all the way - if she was not just regarded as a fucking saint - but this was certainly not for their family life. The handling of the two was the most clichéd sweet, but when Aria should bet she would tap that Liara wore the pants. The small Asari had changed a lot, she thought as she remembered their first meeting. For a brief moment, Aria had been thought of taken the risk to buy her from the dealer. She had to smile when she thought of herself as "sometimes quite decent."
As Liara teased Jane about something amused, she just shook her head, but then grinned Jane and Liara, who seemed to know the expression well, looked panic. "Jane ..." a desperate tone sounded in her voice and Aria smiled to herself.
"Aria, did you know ... actually," Jane thought Liara with one arm at bay, whose voice cracked slightly. "Jane Shepard, if you dare to finish that sentence ... then ... " she did not substantiate her threat, but whatever it was, it only heated the sparkle in Shepard's eyes. "That Liara had a terrible crush on you over years?"
Aria lowered her chin a little, smiled and looked under half-lowered lids to Liara, a gesture which she knew that presented her in a very sexy light. "So," she purred, letting her voice sound sensual. "Is that the reason why I am still so interesting for the broker?" She emphasized each word caressed with her lips the individual syllables and watched the two.
Liara's eyes widened as Arias smile only grew seductively and she could feel an intense heat spreading through her, accompanied by a disturbing sense of shame. ´That was so embarrassing, what Aria probably now thinking of her, why she had wanted to work together. How should she now occur to her as the cool, confident broker´? She looked cold at Jane and this time her bondmate could not even claim that she had drunk too much.
It was just too much for Liara and she stood up. "Where is ... your bathroom?" she asked hesitantly, wondering whether Arias amused glance intimated that she divined her thoughts. "Right next to the entrance," Liara nodded gratefully and then fled to the safe silence of the adjacent room.
She closed the door and locked it. Then she leaned with her back against the closed door and looked around. Aria had style, that Liara had to give her. Black, shiny tiles adorned the walls, but the bathroom did not look gloomy. It was lighted by a multitude of hidden lights and a warm glow stretched across the walls and mirror. In fact, the opposite wall consisted almost entirely of mirrors and she could contemplate herself; her cheeks purple, her eyes a little rushed and she shook her head over her reaction.
She was a joke for the Shadow Broker right now, but she did not care. She went to the sink - expensive stone, maybe from Thessia or Earth - and splashed water in her face. She held her head just under the cool stream, enjoyed the feeling that cleared her thoughts. Maybe it was not so bad when Aria thought she had a little upper hand over her.
´By the goddess,´ she thought, ´sometimes Jane is so impossible´. She turned off the water and took one of the towels from the small shelf next to the sink. She pressed her face into the expensive, soft fabric and sighed. Then she looked indecisive at the door, but she did not feel to go back. Aria was just too overwhelming and now after she knew it, Liara just wanted to disappear. She sat on the edge of the large, circular bathtub, that almost occupied the entire rear areas, and held the towel indecisive in her hand.
Liara bit her lower lip and looked at the towel. She shook her head as she discovered the Omega symbol on the purple and sighed as she ran her right hand over the fabric. She could not stay here forever, she would face the situation, take Jane and go. She had so far agreed with Aria over everything and if she was interested, she would have anyway have to come to their home on the colony.
Liara was dull as she thought over it, that Aria would visit them for several days. Perhaps, she could just stay with Aethyta.
"Liara T'Soni, you're not fifty anymore," she scolded herself and looked in the mirror. "You're an adult, you fought the Reaper, are the greatest information broker in the galaxy and you are a professor." The one had given to her for her outstanding work in research on the Prothean a month ago. "You're surely not afraid of Aria T'Loak!" She looked firmly, but then slipped her a tortured groan. But she was. Nevertheless, she let the towel fall into the laundry chute, took a deep breath and left the bathroom.
