Chapter 2

The detective was not what Felina expected. From what she had read about the woman she expected someone much less beautiful. Corvus' dark brown hair went down to her shoulders and her body was also quite striking to the maiden. Felina guessed the woman was at least six foot four and she towered over the smaller asari. The human's face carried much sadness. On her left cheek a large scar in the shape of an uppercase L was carved into her face and a second scar ran through her right eyebrow bisecting it as it traveled down to her neck. One last scar spread across the bridge of her nose diminishing her otherwise beautiful features. Marion's blue eyes seemed to pierce straight through Felina as she stared at her from within the doorframe. But possibly her most striking features were her muscles. Felina had never seen a stronger looking woman in all her years. Marion's arms were big and tight, her dark jeans wrapped tightly to her sculpted legs and muscular thighs. She was big, she was intimidating...she was exactly what Felina needed.

"My help? Listen Blue, I don't have time for this bullshit. Go bother someone else." Corvus said. Her voice had a rough edge to it.

"P-Please detective. I'm willing to pay you a lot of credits. Given your current standing with C-Sec I imagine the money would be welcome reward." Felina said in a meek voice. The rough tone of the human's voice intimidated the asari even more than her appearance.

Marion stepped out of the doorframe and moved in closer to the asari making Felina take three steps back. "Who the hell are you? And why do you know so much about me?"

"M-my n-name is Felina." the asari managed to stutter out.

"Alright Felina, you got ten seconds to explain how you know who I am, and why I shouldn't kick your blue ass for keeping me awake."

"I read about you."

Corvus cocked her head to the side. "Read about me?"

"Y-yes. On the extranet. Your...incident with that turian suspect six weeks ago. I figured you would be looking for employment. And I desperately need someone like you."

"Someone like me? And what exactly does that mean?" Corvus crossed her arms.

"You seem like you know how to keep someone safe ."

A flash of sadness invaded the human's eyes. "Well you're wrong. Go find someone else to bother." Corvus turned to go back inside but Felina grabbed her arm and pulled her back. "Get your hands off me!"

"Please. I don't have anywhere else to go. I'm begging you for your help."

Corvus stood in silence, her blue eyes staring into Felina's. The human sighed. "You have credits?"

"Yes, quite a lot."

Marion gestured inside the apartment. "Come in." Corvus ran her eyes up and down the asari as she stepped inside her home. Marion's eyes were glued to the asari's face however; or what little she could see of her face. "What's wrong with you?"

Felina spun around. "Hm?"

"Your face. Why is it bandaged up like that?"

"Oh! Well i'm afraid it's better than the alternative."

"What happened to you?" The detective asked.

"Quite a lot has happened to me. But i'm not hiring you to discuss my past. I'm hiring you to protect me."

Marion shrugged and unzipped her leather jacket to reach into the inner pocket and pull out her pack of smokes. She noticed the asari's eyes lock on to her partially exposed breasts. "Not interested blue."

"What?" Felina asked.

"I said i'm not interested so i'd appreciate it if you don't eye my tits."

Felina dipped her head in shame. "I apologize."

Marion lit the cigarette and gestured to the small table in her kitchen. "Take a seat. I guess you can start with why you need my protection."

Felina did as asked and sat in the uncomfortable steel chair in the woman's tiny kitchen. "Well...I've been pursued by a woman for the better part of 50 years. She intends to kill me. Recently she has gotten alarmingly close to her goal and I've come to the realization that i'm going to need help if I wish to survive."

Corvus narrowed her eyes as she took a drag from her smoke. "Who are you? Why would someone be trying to kill you for half a century?"

"I have very powerful parents."

"So why don't they protect you?"

Felina sighed. "I'm afraid that is not an option."

Marion groaned. "Explain." She said plainly.

"The woman who pursues me. She was sent by an asari Matriarch. Matriarch Aquila. She's my mother."

Corvus shook her head. "What? Why would your mother want to kill you?"

"It is a very long story detective. One I do not wish to recount at the moment."

Marion took a long drag from her smoke and carefully inspected the asari "So what is it you want me to do for you?"

"I'd like you to protect and escort me off this station while keeping my identity a secret from everyone you can. If my name pops up anywhere the Justicar will be on us before we could ever escape this station."

"What the hell is a Justicar?"

"She's like a... i'm not sure how I could describe her to you. She's a bit like a C-Sec officer but she operates under a very strict code. And she thinks because of that code I must die."

"If this Justicar is like a cop that means you're a criminal."

"I am not!" Felina said.

"So you're an innocent girl that has no idea why she's been pursued for 50 years. That makes perfect sense." Marion said as she blew smoke out her nose.

"The Justicar has her reasons. I don't wish her harm. She's a good woman. But she'll stop at nothing, and follow me anywhere." The bandaged asari said. "Well...almost anywhere."

Corvus' bisected eyebrow rose. "Almost anywhere?"

"A few years ago a girl in a similar situation as me told me of a place where this Justicar couldn't follow. A place where her code would not allow her to follow. And where I could live free from all this."

"And what is this place? And why are you not there now?"

"I don't know it's name. Only the navigational code for locating it. I memorized it long ago. I would have traveled there myself but it is far outside of asari space. And well traveling can be difficult for me. It's my hope that you can escort me to that location. And then we can part ways."

"I'm not seeing my motivation for helping you here. Goodnight asari, now get out my house."

"Your motivation is one million credits!" Felina shouted standing up from her seat and trying her best to put on an intimidating voice.

Corvus laughed. "A million credits! Ha! A little girl like you doesn't have that kinda money."

"When I left my mother I took a sizable chunk of her wealth with me. It has helped me immeasurably these past 50 years."

"Yeah well I've changed my mind I don't really give a shit about your credits. Or you. I think you're lying to me. None of this adds up. You survive for 50 years on your own and now you come to me of all people to protect you?"

"I've been trying for 50 years to get away on my own. I can't do it anymore. I came to you because I had a feeling you would want to get away just as bad as me. And because I think that turian deserved what you did to him."

"You think I want to get off the Citadel?"

Felina took a look around the detective's apartment. "Am I wrong?"

Marion chewed on her lower lip. "This place you want me to take you to. You can have a fresh start there?"

"Yes. So can you detective."

Corvus took another drag and sighed heavily. "Screw it. There's nothing left for me on this station. Hasn't been for a long time now. I'd rather die protecting some alien than by swallowing a bullet."

"You'll do it?"

Corvus nodded and mashed out her smoke on the overflowing ash tray. "I'll do it."

Valerk sat behind his desk staring at the same screen on his terminal that he had been for the past hour. The turian sighed. Worrying about Marion was stupid really. He knew the human wouldn't waste a second worrying about him but he had an attachment to the woman he didn't entirely understand. And ever since he overheard that the human was being terminated from the force he had been worried how Corvus would take the news. She hadn't exactly been stable since what happened to her family. But who the hell would be?

Out of the corner of his eyes he saw an asari make her way into the bullpen. She carried herself with remarkable grace and wore an impressive set of black armor. He cringed when he saw her approach Harkin's cubicle. The human had been milking his broken leg to agonizingly obnoxious levels. And by the looks of this asari she was someone of importance and definitely not someone he wanted talking to Harkin. He got of his chair and made his way towards them.

"I am looking for an asari."

"Yeah? Look in a mirror sweetheart. Does it look like I have time to deal with a missing person? Do me a favor and leave me alone." Harkin spat at the asari.

"Excuse me?"

"You heard me. So take that sweet blue ass of yours somewhere else."

A shallow biotic field manifested around the asari just as Valerk made his way between them. "I'm sorry mam. Please disregard anything this officer has said to you. I'd be happy to help you with any problem you might be having."

The field dissipated. "Is this the kind of treatment I can expect from the famous Citadel security force?"

"No. I'm sorry. Please follow me to my desk and we can work this out properly."The blue woman nodded and followed Valerk to his own cubicle. "Why don't you start with who you are."

"I am Raila. A servent of the Justicar code."

"Spirits. What brings a Justicar down here?"

"I pursue a fugative. She is perhaps the most dangerous person aboard this station."

"Do you know her name?"

"Felina. Felina T'Soni."

Notes- I'm Back! Sorry i've been gone for so long but finally my writing is back on track. So what did you think of that reveal? Benezia's involvement in Felina's life is really just one piece of the puzzle so I hope you'll stick with me through the twist and turns (And writing hiccups. Sorry but I've never done a story like this.) oh and in case you're wondering no this is not in any way an AU story. It exists in the same universe as my Jane Shepard and Miranda and Jack stories. Speaking of which "First Christmas" will be finished soon and "Shepard and Liara Versus the High School Reunion" will be up soon too! Thanks for reading. Please tell me what you thought in the reviews.