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AN: this is my first fanfic so it would me much appreciated if any criticism remained constructive

Many thanks to theluckyshot for being willing to work with a newbie like me and it him you should thank for this chapter being grammatically acceptable

That's all i have to say hope you enjoy the story

(19 years later)

Commander Jack Shepard looked out of the view port of the Normandy SR1 looking at the monolith that was known as the citadel while he fingered his pendent, the strange good luck charm that he had held for as long as he could remember it was the only physical evidence that he had ever found of his "angel" as he thought of the person he could have sworn he had seen appear despite what all the therapists and psychiatrists had told him and no matter what anyone said Shepard knew he was truly saved by someone after Akuze.

X Flash Back X

Shepard lay in a pained heap at the bottom of the small canyon he had fallen into 'their everywhere' Shepard thought as he ground his teeth at the thought of the thrasher maws that seemed to sprout out of every inch of dirt of the hellish planet he was on.

'I'm just a regular marine how the hell did this happen to me,' thought Shepard as he took stock of his situation 'these walls are too steep to climb,' he tried to rise only to fall again with pain spearing through his leg.

"God damn," he screamed through clenched teeth as he rolled on the ground clutching his leg his mind racing 'it's probably broken,' his thoughts stopped cold as he heard a loud clicking sound meaning either he was sharing the canyon with the most obnoxious cricket in existence or a thrasher maw knew where he was.

Seeing as the first option was rather unlikely, Shepard began to curse excessively as he lurched to his feet dragging himself through the canyon not caring where he ended up as long as he got away from where he was.

His pitiful attempt at flight however was cut short as the unmistakable head of a thresher maw loomed over the canyon he was in and its mouth opened in preparation to spew the acid that would end Shepard's life like so many of his fellow Marines that were sent on this mission with him.

Shepard unarmed and injured had no way of doing anything to the thrasher maw other than giving it the one finger salute before it killed him and seeing as the creature wouldn't even understand the insult Shepard settled for looking it in the face and silently prayed to his angel as he called the possibly imaginary woman that he had seen as a child, that it would end quickly without the pain and agony that he imagined his death would entail.

But instead of acid pouring into the canyon ending his life the canyon filled with something else, a soft white light permeated the canyon emerging impossibly from his armor the light illuminated the entire canyon and the maw stopped as if enthralled by the light it gave a single click of its mandibles before sliding away from the canyon as if nothing was there.

Shepard stood in shock for a moment before he capitalized on this opportunity and began to limp slowly down the canyon all traces of doubt were washed from his mind SOMETHING had saved him from those batarians as a child SOMETHING had gotten him off Mindoir safely and to his aunts household on earth and whatever it was still was watching out for him.

X Flash Back End X

Shepard shook of his memories as Joker informed him that the ship was five minutes out of dock. His thoughts turned to the unpleasant events to come Shepard hated politicians, hated them with a vengeance and it turned out that Captain Anderson had planned for him and his ground team to go give a full debrief to ambassador Udina and the council. 'O joy,' thought Shepard as he radioed his team to meet him in the airlock, it was going to be a long day.

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Shepard sighed as he descended the steps from the council's platform trailed by Ashley and Kaiden they had completely disregarded everything Shepard and Captain Anderson had brought before them even allowing Saren to slander Anderson and Shepard during the meeting.

All and all it had been a complete disaster Saren still walked free and the attack on Eden Prime went unanswered for and in it the alliance had been liberally slandered. Shepard sighed as he stood and waited for the Ambassador and Anderson to join him, the Ambassador wasted no time condemning Anderson for the disastrous attempt to convict Saren only to be pointedly ignored by Anderson as he turned to Shepard and said "I know Saren if he is involved with the Geth all our colonies are at risk, we have to act now and stop him."

Udina who had stopped his ranting when he realized he was being ignored and upon hearing Anderson's statement he contributed something other than hot air although somewhat grudgingly. "As a spectre he is virtually untouchable," Udina said thoughtfully, "We have to expose him before we can act against him."

Shepard seeing that the ambassador had made a completely logical statement, much to his shock, began to think of avenues through which they could expose Saren. But before he could think of something concrete he heard Ashley chime in from behind him, "What about the c-sec officer, he seemed like he was onto something."

Shepard who himself didn't come up with any better alternatives for what course of action to take looked at captain Anderson and was about to ask if he had any means to locate the Turian, but before Shepard could ask his question Ambassador Udina stated, "I have a contact in C-sec his names Harkin you could go talk to him."

Captain Anderson made a face when the Ambassador mentioned Harkins name. "Harkin's an ass, I wouldn't waste my time on him if you have any alternatives," he said with contempt.

The Ambassador snapped at Anderson, "You won't have to; you're off the investigation, we can't have the council using your history against us."

Shepard hearing this turned his head to face the Ambassador so fast his neck cracked, "You can't just cut Captain Anderson out of the loop." He growled out.

The Ambassador on the other hand simply put his nose in the air and said, "We can't have the council or Saren have any advantage over us."

Shepard now clearly remembered why he hated politicians and was about ready to bite the man's head off.

Thankfully before anymore words could be exchanged captain Anderson himself stepped between the two men, "He's right Shepard go talk to Harkin and get whatever you can out of him."

Shepard was not at all happy with the captain being taken out of the investigation but seeing as Anderson himself had agreed to it there was nothing he could do.

Shepard turned away from the conversation to go find this Harkin guy and get this over with as fast as possible.

But as Shepard began to walk away he heard Captain Anderson call him, "Shepard," the captain said as he drew up beside the commander he continued. "Harkin's probably getting drunk down in choras den, and one other thing go pick up the Normandy's newest marine," said Anderson.

He tapped his Omni-tools display causing Shepard's to ping in response indicating that a file had been successfully received. However, before Shepard could look at it Anderson told him what it was, "That's the dossier for the new marine, she is down in the wards now getting her final med clearance she should be done in an hour that will give you time to get a hold of Harkin then pick her up for her next move she's supposed to wait for you in C-sec."

Shepard nodded affirmative to Anderson before turning and walking to the nearest transport station activating the cab sitting there and waving Ashley and Kaiden to get in before he climbed in himself. As he did the door closed with a hiss and the car took off with a soft lurch as it quietly speed them toward their destination in the wards. As it did that Shepard tapped on his Omni-tool commanding it to bring up the dossier that he had received from Anderson as it finally came up after some further coaxing by Shepard and as soon as it did Shepard's eyes widened at the information he was seeing.

"What's going on commander?" Asked Kaiden as he saw Shepard's reaction to what he was reading.

"Reading the new marines dossier," said Shepard

"Well don't keep us in suspense read it," prodded Ashley

Shepard began to read the information in front of him, "Lilith Reyes, no official record of birth assumed to be born and abandoned on earth, medical analysis places her at 28 years of age, signed on with the military as a way out of the slums, assaulted a superior officer and got busted down the ranks and ended up on a suicide mission on Torfan which ended with three fourths of the unit dead and it says that she killed every baterian in the base regardless of if they surrendered or not."

'what kind of mad woman did Anderson recruit, ' Shepard thought as he read into her service record most of which simply covered black ink leaving only the record of her training in the N7 program.

"Promoted to N7 status following the events on Torfan, excel in the use of sniper rifles and armed close quarter combat but shows below average skill in other combat areas."

'that's amazing,' thought Shepard after all the N7 programs idea of proficient with sniper rifles is be able to hit a two inch target from a mile away, not to mention reaching you sniping point completely undetected. Shepard could only imagine what she was capable of in close quarters combat if the N7 program stated that she excelled in it.

The reaction to Shepard's reading was immediate Kaiden began to mutter, "The Butcher of Torfan, They send the Bloody Butcher of Torfan to go with us on diplomatically important missions."

But all Kaiden's statement earned him was a raised eyebrow from Shepard and a smack on the back of the head from Ashley as she said, "You haven't even met the woman yet and your already complaining about her."

To which Kaiden attempted to respond, "You can't get a track record like that without being a bloody madman," said Kaiden before a glare from Shepard quieted him.

"We will all," Shepard said while maintaining his glare pining Kaiden to his seat "Reserve judgment of this woman until we know her at the very least." But even as he finished his statement he couldn't help but wonder if the woman was truly as blood thirsty as her dossier promised. Shepard sighed internally, he certainly hoped not; it was hard enough just to get people to get along on the Normandy without some basket case thrown into the mix.

=_= Scene Change =_=

Lilith POV

Lilith leveled her red eyed glare at the incessantly happy and cheery doctor that seemed completely immune to her glare, a glare that had made grown men piss themselves in fear before. However, the doctor had apparent immunity to it making Lilith glower more as she sat on top of a plain metal bed inside of Dr. Michel's office.

When Lilith realized that glaring at the doctor wouldn't get her out of this examination or the ridiculous medical gown she was wearing any faster she sighed and leaned back on the table while holding onto the edge and staring at the ceiling. As she continued to wait for the doctor to do whatever doctors do while they make their patient wait.

Lilith sat on the metal table absolutely bored; in all reality she didn't need a medical examination. The Estus constantly pouring into her body by the fire god Flin's mark given to her by the before mentioned gods wife kept Lilith's body it top condition at all times. Any small injuries would heal almost 4 times faster than a normal human would and even fatal injuries would recover given a few days. But of course Lilith couldn't exactly say that 'hey I'm undead you probably couldn't kill me no matter how you tried' yeah that wouldn't exactly go well. So she sat because even though Lilith The Chosen Undead didn't need a medical examination Lilith Reyes the human marine needed to sit though the doctors prodding.

Lilith glanced around taking in every feature of her surroundings a habit burnt into her by her long dangerous travels in Lodrin and reinforced by her time in the darkest slums of earth Lilith saw nothing that could be of immediate threat to her and also there wasn't anything she could use as an impromptu weapon in the unlikely event that she ended up in a fight.

The doctor's office was a simple room separated into two areas a waiting room and an area with several beds for treating patrons with a wall stretching half way across the room dividing it no doubt to give the patients in the beds a measure of privacy from people in the waiting area.

Lilith sat stony faced under the doctors watchful eye, but despite her calm if somewhat annoyed appearance in reality there where a multitude of emotions swimming within her gut, ranging from rising panic to flat out anger it had been a hard number of years waiting for Shepard to grow up to fulfill his role.

It was quite a transition after all moving from a place where souls made the world go round and all you have to do to get some is kill something then moving to a world where credits and favors were the currency of choice not to mention the years she had been down in the darkest slums of earth and that insane special forces or as the alliance called it N7 training, and subsequently her near damning stint in Torfan, her time in this universe had been far from easy or happy but you wouldn't hear Lilith complain she had learned quite a bit and was now more than ever able to survive in just about any situation she would be thrown into.

'But,' thought Lilith as she considered her colorful past in this universe, 'the question is and has always been if I can keep Shepard alive as well.'

Lilith sighed again as she continued to stare at the ceiling before she went ramrod stiff as she felt a hand on her body as she snapped her eyes down to look at the offending appendage a dozen memories flashed through her mind and none of them where good and many of them ended up with her covered in blood of someone or another.

Lilith however had nothing to worry about on this occasion though because the hand belonged to Dr. Michel who was doing nothing more than attaching some contraption to check her blood pressure also the doctor quickly apologized for startling her and the examination when on without much incident.

Lilith's mind continued to churn as she contemplated the best way for her to deal with Shepard, 'Well I have to stay close to him to protect him how would I do that.'

Lilith thought realizing that her nonexistent social skills would prove to be a problem and she would have to give Shepard another reason to take her along 'hmm, I could show him how competent of a solider I am.' She thought as she considered her options before an idea crossed her mind, 'Well Shepard isn't bad looking I could always…' as soon as this thought encroached on Lilith's mind her face became enveloped in an explosive blush, 'What the hell are you thinking brain!' Lilith screamed in her mind as she did the mental equivalent of smashing her head into a stone wall as she somehow kept her external features showing some level of sanity despite the turmoil her mind was experiencing.

In an attempt to distract herself Lilith looked over the ridiculous robe that the doctor had put her in, it was supposed to maintain her modesty while letting the doctor have access to everywhere she need to for the basic examination Lilith was currently suffering though, the result ended with Lilith looking like she had put on a bath robe made of paper and worse yet the doctor had required Lilith to remove her unmentionables for the examination for what reason Lilith dearly did not wish to know.

Lilith sighed and turned her mind to other things as she thought, 'I hope this gets wrapped up soon.'

Lilith's mind continued to drift as the doctor poked and prodded but she drifted back to reality as she heard the door to the doctor's office noisily open.

The Doctor frowned hearing the door as well and said, "That's strange I don't have another appointment today." Before saying somewhat worriedly, "Maybe it's someone with an emergency, I will go take a look could you please take the first aid kit out of the cabinet Miss Reyes," the doctor said while pointing at one of the lockers in her office that was clearly marked with a red cross.

Lilith obediently pulled out a box marked first aid from the cabinet/locker contraption and out of curiosity opened it to view its contents however she saw nothing but a couple medi-gel applicators, a few mysterious syringes, and a scalpel but before Lilith could notice anything else she heard the distinctive sound of firearms activating.

Lilith was immediately on guard instinctively taking stock of her person and the analysis was disheartening she was completely unarmed and unarmored though she was still far from harmless her odds of getting out of this situation cleanly were not good.

Lilith never one so sit idly while danger approaches looked around the room looking for something that could give her an edge. Taking stock of her surroundings Lilith found her eyes on the medical kit sitting in front of her and the unassuming scalpel within it.

Lilith snatched up the scalpel, a simple thing made out of some reinforced metal with a blade just over an inch long and a hilt three times larger, it was small and never meant to be a weapon but Lilith had survived with less and likely against more dangerous foes.

Lilith hauled herself off the medical bed she was occupying with her impromptu weapon in hand just in time to hear a gruff voice yell

"What did you tell him, what did you tell Vakarian."

And the doctors voice reply in a frightened tone, "Nothing, I didn't tell him anything"

Lilith began to pad bare foot along the wall separating the doctor's office into two portions but much to her distress and anger her foot collided with a waste bucket which caused it to rattle loudly and send a small spear of pain to race though her foot.

'Damn it,' silently cursed Lilith angry about both the pain and noise stopping in an attempt to not make anymore noise hoping the thugs were incompetent enough to not hear the racket.

Her hopes went unanswered as she heard one of the thugs say to the others

"What was that, I thought the doctor was supposed to be alone," before he yelled assumedly at the doctor. "Who's back there?"

To which the doctor replied hastily, "No one, just a patient," after which Lilith heard a voice say.

"Damn it Jake whoever is back there heard everything we got to take care of them."

To which another voice probably the aforementioned Jake responded "Shut up! I ain't killing a helpless woman alright, Sumo go get whoever is back there and bring them here."

As Lilith reached the corner standing to ambush this Sumo person she thought humorously, 'A punk with a sense of chivalry now I've heard everything.'

Lilith cleared her mind and coiled herself like a spring while the faint press of boots on metal steadily came closer.

Moments later one of the thugs came around the corner the man was fairly unremarkable the only discerning feature of the man was his prodigious gut presumably the reason he was referred to as sumo, the man came around the corner his eyes searching all the wrong places as he continued to walk toward where Lilith was but still not noticing her either because of Lilith's small stature or his incompetence she did not know.

Soon Sumo was standing within arms reach of her still searching. Lilith decided to cut his search short and stuck out with her impromptu weapon. She speared the scalpel though the unfortunate man's throat and pined his tongue to the roof of his mouth.

The fat mans brown eyes were wide with panic as they met her red eyed gaze it was at that moment that Lilith realized her mistake, if she had a proper knife it would have penetrated the man's brain killing him but her small scalpel only lodged in the man's mouth and though he wasn't going to be yelling for help he wasn't dying either.

'Time to improvise,' she thought.

She swept the feet from under the much larger man and pulled out her scalpel as she did, the man hit the ground forcefully hitting the ground with a load thud but the blood flooding his mouth stopping him from yelling out.

The man hit the ground letting out a wet gurgle of pain and not one to waste an opportunity Lilith was on him in moments taking her little scalpel and taking advantage of its sharp cutting edge she drew it across the man's throat cutting it open clipping one of the arteries causing blood to spurt out but Lilith was not satisfied she had tasted the man's soul and had spilled his blood the woman slashed her scalpel over man's throat over and over again until it resembled a well-used scratching post rather than any part of the human body.

When the man finally stopped moving underneath her Lilith felt the borderline euphoric feeling of souls entering her body, she felt her back arch and her mouth open of its own volition before she tore out the scalpel with a viscous smile.

'It's been far too long since I've killed something up close and personal Lilith thought,' before she turned her gaze to the now bloody scalpel in her hand and much to Lilith's delight she saw that it was undamaged and still sharp enough for her purposes.

Lilith gracefully got up from Sumo's corpse and began to stalk toward where the voices continued to come from eager for more blood.

She heard the cadaver's compatriots discussing what to do with the doctor, "We'll just kill her and leave the body Fist can cover us," said one of the thugs before he was quickly countered by the voice that was previously named as Jake.

"I already told you were not going to be killin a helpless lady, and before that where the hell is Sumo!"

Lilith almost jumped in surprise as the voice was accompanied by a man dressed identical to sumo came around the corner taking in the sight before him he noticed three things; the first was the large corpse which held a remarkable semblance to one of his compatriots lying on the ground that was covered in blood and still occasionally twitching, second was that there was a pretty red eyed woman who was wearing a smile that belonged to the devil himself standing not two steps from the bloody body, and lastly that the woman was holding a blood covered scalpel in her small hand, the only comment the still unnamed thug had was, "Oh shit!"

Lilith grit her teeth and growled a string of curses that would make Admiral Hacket blush as she dashed forward low to the ground scalpel held tightly in both hands.

He was far too slow to line up a shot on the woman.

As she reached him she rammed into the man making him double over and knocking his gun from his hands as she rammed the scalpel into his side, the small blade seeking his liver and finding it scoring a fatal blow on the organ.

The man was dead but he wouldn't realize it for another minute or two for now all he knew was that the short woman had just poured a barrel full of liquid pain into his gut.

As the man staggered but stayed on his feet Lilith continued to growl curses as she spun the still living man to face the other thugs. Lilith kicked the man in front of her looking over his shoulder to take in the doctor's office while keeping her body behind her newly recruited meat shield.

There were two thug's left one standing a few feet in front of her with his pistol in hand and the other holding Dr. Michel with two hands as she struggled. Lilith immediately prioritizing the armed man, she jabbed her scalpel into the man's back and pushing him forward toward the armed thug.

"Shit!" the man cursed as he tried to get a shot at the half dressed mad woman without shooting his comrade. In his panic he did not back away from the encroaching woman.

But any chance of this disappeared as she yanked the bloody scalpel from her meat shields liver and slashed the front of the armed thugs face who stopped for a second and reached up to touch his face wondering why he could no longer see anything he felt a torrent of blood welling up from where his eyes should be yelling, "Holy shit!" However, those where his last words as Lilith whipped the blade by him again this time leaving a bloody line on his throat.

Lilith dropped her meat shield leaving him in a curled up whimpering ball as he slowly bled out on the cold metal floor of the doctor's office. The woman turned her baneful red eyes onto the last thug who was standing behind Dr. Michel using her as a shield while pointing his gun with shaking hands at Lilith as he stuttered "St-St-STAY BACK!"

Lilith silently regarded him with her red eyes but stayed silent. The thug however was more than happy to make noise as he yelled, "What the hell are you!" His eyes continued to flash between the bloody corpses of his comrades and Lilith's red eyes.

His panic caused Lilith to raise an eyebrow as she stared at him before she said, "I'm the woman whose going to kill you what else do you need to know."

The man pointed his gun with a shaking hand at her and pulled the trigger the man however was shaking far too much to get any kind of an accurate shot. Lilith dashed forward as a shot flew over her shoulder and the man tried to turn the gun on the doctor but before he could Lilith was on him gripping his hand. The man's wide scared eyes meet Lilith's red eyes he opened his mouth to say something but as he did Lilith thrust her scalpel into the underside of the thug's wrist making the man to scream and drop his gun.

The thug released the doctor in favor of clutching his impaled wrist looking at Lilith with wide disbelieving eyes and opened his mouth but before he was able to say anything Lilith jammed her scalpel into the man's eye into his brain killing him instantly before wrenching the scalpel back out.

Lilith looked over her impromptu weapon what met her gaze was a dulled and slightly bent scalpel she was a little disheartened by the scalpels condition but she figured that there was nothing that she could do after all the scalpel though a cutting tool was not intended to be a weapon.

With all immediate threats dead Lilith looked over to the doctor who was sitting on the floor staring at the body of the thug that was lying next to her.

"Doctor?" Lilith tried to be sound calming as she talked to the doctor but Dr. Michel's eyes merely stayed wide and staring not truly comprehending what Lilith was saying, but before Lilith could try to get through to the doctor she heard a beep that signaled someone had activated the sequence to open the door her head immediately snapped to face the door

'Damn do they have back up?' Lilith questioned herself

Deciding not to leave anything to chance Lilith grabbed the unresponsive doctor by the neck of her shirt and dragged her to the side of the door where she simply continued to stare at the dead men littering the floor of her office. Lilith however had other things to be concerned about namely the fact that an unknown number of armed thugs where likely to be coming through the door. The question wasn't whether she could kill them but it was if she could kill them without a ticklish little question like 'why can you survive a bullet to the head' being asked. Lilith crouched like a coiled spring as the door opened and the first thing that came through was an armored arm wielding a pistol the site made Lilith curse. 'Damn it, they're wearing armor, well time to get creative' Lilith thought as she grabbed the arm sticking through the doorway and pulled it forward while sweeping her leg into his legs which caused what she could now see was an armored man who had a red strip down the arm of his armor onto his back in the door way and before anyone could so much as blink Lilith was astride him with the scalpel to his throat.

"Nobody move," said Lilith clear and calmly as she looked at the other men in the doorway a quick glance showed that there were a man a woman and a Turian standing surprised in the door, pointing various weapons in Lilith's direction but not firing yet, way before she turned her eyes to the man she had pinned under her. She blinked as she looked at him he looked strangely familiar she leaned closer to his face. He had a fairly handsome face but what stuck her the most was his piercing blue eyes which were wide with surprise Lilith felt that they could see her soul and shivered at the sight of those bright blue orbs but still unable to pin down where she had seen the man before Lilith leaned closer taking in his every feature she continued to think, 'Where have I seen you before?'

Lilith however was forced to stop her ponderings when the man said, "Um, hi."

Lilith looked him in the eye and finally noticed that she was basically nose to nose with the strangely familiar man, Lilith noticing her proximity to the man's face felt her humanity drum an merry beat something that Lilith was shocked and a little distressed about, Lilith however had another much more distressing thing that she had failed to note before now. She had in fact have seen the man before and knew exactly who he was and worst of all she knew what she was supposed to do because at that moment in time Lilith Reyes also known as and the chosen undead, slayer of the Gravelord, and Seath the scale less dragon, and the lord of cinder was sitting half naked on top of Commander Jack Shepard and holding a scalpel to his throat.

Lilith immediate recoiled pulling the knife away from Shepard's throat as fast as was humanly possible all the while Lilith was screaming bloody murder within her head, 'Oh god what the hell am I supposed to do'

Luckily while her mind ran around in circles chasing its own tail her mouth was making its own venture. "Hello," said Lilith in a remarkably calm voice that made Shepard and everyone else in the room blink most likely all wondering what kind of person this blood stained woman must be to seem so calm while she was in what could best be described as a Mexican standoff.

Shepard recovering somewhat from his surprise simply went along with the very strange direction the conversation was going in, "I don't want to be rude but do you mind getting off of me" now it was Shepard's turn to be stared at in silent disbelief.

His question however managed to bring Lilith's full attention again to Shepard only to be distracted by a very strange sensation that Lilith just noticed, her humanity was moving, 'What?' thought Lilith as she glanced down to see if she had been speared through or something when she wasn't looking but no her body looked completely intact but still her humanity moved, 'Where have I felt this before?' She thought but before she could ponder this further she was interrupted by Shepard clearing his throat.

Lilith blinked then realized exactly what position she was in, currently she was straddling Shepard's waist and to make matters worse the medical robe she was wearing despite its courageous effort simply wasn't meant to be worn while performing stressful physical activities and Lilith's movements while killing the men where proving too much for it and it was literally coming apart at the seams.

Lilith however had other concerns such as the fact the she was still sitting on top of Shepard in a very easy to misinterpret situation, Lilith realizing the position she was in immediately started to get up only to slip on the blood that was splattered around the floor and with a squeak most unbecoming of someone as feared as the slayer of gods and butcher of mortals Lilith went once again down on top of Shepard though this time in a much less dignified position. Lilith now found herself draped over Shepard's body and as Lilith took a moment to take stock of her body her eyes narrowed into red slits as she grit her teeth and growled out. "Shepard… where do you think your hand is"

Shepard with panic clear in his eyes glanced down, he had put his hand up in an attempt to soften the woman's fall but it now seems like this action would backfire against him because his hand was currently holding a soft mound that would surly spell his death as Lilith leaned herself off him and his hand and drew her arm back all Shepard could say in his defense was. "Please, don't kill me?"

X_X Scene change X_X

Shepard grumbled as he nursed his now red cheek as the cab made its way to the destination of Choras den all the while Lilith was looking at the floor wishing a black hole would open to swallow her, to make matters worse Ashley, as Lilith learned the female marines name was, was also sitting in the cab trying and failing to hide her amusement, and along the way they had picked up a Krogan with a rather impressive set of scars and a marine who had a stick up his ass, both of which had their own unique way of reacting to Shepard's still red cheek .

The Krogan whose name was Wrex merely thumped Shepard on the back and told him, "Good luck with that one, you'll need it".

The marine named Kaiden on the other hand seemed to be more worried about the fact that she had killed four men without much in the way of justification but had taken the fact the Shepard didn't have a second smile as good enough reason to assume she wasn't going to try to kill them all at the moment.

The result was a cab that was as silent as a tomb with the exception of occasional giggling from Ashley.

'The whole misunderstanding with the knife was bad enough but I had to go and slap him,' thought Lilith as she glanced shyly up at Shepard who was looked out the window and grumbled about how all the women he meets are crazy.

Lilith sighed and lost herself in her memories of other times to distract herself from the absolute silence that permeated the cab.

X Flashback X

Lilith dragged her sorry hide to the bonfire that lay at the center of the fire link shrine which was the impromptu home of any undead that had anything worth being called sanity in their heads. As she finally settled herself within the warm embrace of the bond fire she striped off her armor to examine it. Glancing at it she grimaced 'Andrei would cry if he saw this,' Lilith thought as she looked over the punctures, cuts, and scratches that her armor had accumulated during her latest stint in Lodrin. Lilith laid her armor down and stretched out on the soft grass gazing up at the sky.

Tomorrow Lilith would have to crawl through the horror of the undead and fight for her life and her souls but today right now she was safe she was warm and she was happy.

But soon Lilith's thought turned to a bitter betrayal and the curse that was undead consuming all that she had come to know and had come to love.

X Flash Back End X

As the cab landed in the grimy ally near choras den Lilith yanked herself out of her memories closed her eyes and cleared her mind as she climbed out of the cab

This wasn't the time for doubts; this was not the time for mercy, this was the time to kill.

Lilith opened her red eyes blazing with a dangerous fire. She would kill, kill, and kill again until her task was complete.

The mortals that dared stand against her charge knew nothing of the god killing calamity that was about to befall them.

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