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Chapter 4: The Spirit Within

It was chaos. Bullets, some explosions, and curses were heard constantly. Luke was busy trying to hold off the presumed gang members. Lia was pinned on the floor, forced by Luke to stay out of the battle. She was saying something, but Luke couldn't hear her. Then he was able to hear her say something…

"I'm an engineer! Let me help you bosh'tet!" Lia said as she forced herself up and started moving her omni tool like a toy. 'Oh, Keelah, don't fail on me'

"Are you crazy? You're unarmed, get down!" Luke yelled at her as a bullet buzzed, close to her head, just beneath her visor. "Just overload their shields and I'll take care of the rest, but don't get up!" Luke said as he shot a human in the head, blowing his brains out. This earned another set of curses and more bullets from the criminals. 'I love this gun' he thought.

"This is how it's done, bitches!" Luke screamed as a battle cry as he killed another one of them, this time a Salarian, by shooting him in the eye, green blood spreading everywhere. Lia just gave him a puzzled look as she was fidgeting with her omni tool.

"Who do you want me to overload his shields!" Lia screamed as she continued watching him. 'He's so brave, so focused on what he does'

"The Turian in black and red armor, he's the leader" Luke answered, now very calm. Lia was shocked at how easy and tranquil he had become, like if this was life for him, yet he screamed and yelled when she got up and put herself in danger. This made Lia smile as she began to disable the Turian's shields.

"Excellent work Lia! Nice job!" Luke said as he shot the Turian leader, right in the head. "Bulls eye, asshole" Luke said as he aimed and killed another two, now the gang members were just two. The rest were dead or had deserted. Lia stared at Luke for a couple of seconds then went in shock as she saw blue energy destroying one of the criminals.

"You…You're a biotic?" Lia asked, shocked and confused. 'Oh Keelah, he's a biotic!' she thought.Luke just chuckled as he killed the last of the criminals with a badass head shot. He sighed, got up and gave Lia a hand for her to get up too.

"Yeah, I was in the Ascension Project, but that was years ago" Luke answered, chuckling, and, to some extent, bragging. "Well, I can tell you the whole story, but once we…" He trailed off as he saw a downed criminal get up and aim his sniper rifle at Lia. "Watch Out!" He yelled as he got in the way and was shot in the chest, which made him fall unconscious. Lia was shocked and enraged.

"Take this you bosh'tet!" She yelled as she took Luke's Phalanx pistol and wasted the whole clip on the human sniper, killing him instantly. She then rushed to Luke's side. "Luke! Luke! Don't leave me here, stay with me!" She yelled, but there was no response. She scanned him with her omni tool. She was a little relieved to see that he was still alive, but he was losing too much blood.

She then went on to carry him to the elevator, a little far, probably fifty yards. She was talking to him, trying to keep him alive, but no words served, he didn't respond. 'Please Luke; don't die on me, please, please…'

A loud sound, sort of like a hiss, which doors made, sounded as Luke tried to look for something familiar. He realized he was in a hospital, but didn't see anybody there. Then, as he opened his eyes, he saw a couple of figures. A doctor, as he was scanning him, a Turian, a Human, and a Quarian. He sighed out of pain and fell back asleep…

"Luke, hey you asshole, can you hear me?" He heard a gurgling voice say. He knew the voice. It was none other than Mindus. "Get up you lazy ass dramatic bastard, you are okay now" Mindus said as he chuckled. "I was just kidding bro, rest." The Turian said as he left the room.

"No hey… ah god damn it, asshole" Luke said as he chuckled, finding himself alone in the room. He then heard another hiss at the door. He looked, and saw Lia, wringing her hands and looking at him, then down to the floor, as if ashamed.

"Luke… how are you?" She finally asked after seconds of awkward silence. 'Why would he risk his life for a Quarian?' She thought as she looked at the floor once more. She feared that Luke would be mad at her.

"I'm good, just a little pain in my chest, but nothing more" he said as he smiled. Looking at her quizzically, he had to ask: "Why are you so nervous?"

Lia was taken off guard by the question, and she began to move her hands once more. "Erm, I'm sorry for being so useless and getting you shot in the process" she said, in a very sad, almost depressed tone. Luke was shocked.

"How can you say that! If it wasn't for you, we wouldn't be here; you really helped with the overload of their shields!" Luke said as he tried to get up from bed. "Don't you ever underestimate yourself Lia" He said as he accommodated himself in the bed and asked a nurse for a cigarette, which was duly rejected.

"Thank you for… saving my life, thank you" Lia said as she sat down in one of the chairs, wringing her hands. She was still very nervous.

Luke chuckled and looked at her happily: "You know you look very cute when you do that with your hands" Luke said as he smiled.

Lia blushed almost instantly. 'He truly knows how to make me blush' Lia thought as she stopped wringing her hands for her own good. She felt her face hot.

Luke could see this and stopped his teasing. "So Lia, what happened exactly? I don't remember anything other than a sniper aiming at you" he said, with a confused face.

"You saved her ass that's what you did" someone said as the door hissed. It was Bailey, who looked at Lia and nodded. Lia nodded back. "You saved her, but got a bullet in the chest and ended here. She carried you all the way to the station" Bailey said as he looked at Luke, who was amazed.

"Well, you are quite strong Miss Vael" Luke said. Lia blushed once again. Luke then asked the nurse: "Hey, when am I going to be able to get out of here?"

"In three days, Mr. de la Vega, well that's if you don't do anything stupid" she said with a smirk and left. Bailey then said goodbye and left, leaving only Lia and Luke.

"Hey Lia, would you bring me a cigarette, they are probably on my uniform over there in the chair" he said as he pointed to his uniform. Lia cocked her head to the side and laughed.

"Bosh'tet, you can't smoke when you are sick in the hospital" she said, laughing really hard. This made Luke chuckle and smile warmly.

"Hey, isn't that a word for 'assholes' in Khelish?" He asked, grinning. Lia was shocked. 'By the Ancestors! He knows about that'

"Yes, but I'm only kidding with you" she said, looking down to the floor.

"Ha! Don't worry, I have been called worse, but I know, I know you are only kidding" Luke said as he began to look at her intensely.

"Lia, you were not wounded in the firefight right?" He asked, with a worried/ashamed face. 'Why didn't I ask her earlier? I'm really a boshtuet or whatever that is.'

"Nothing, just scared… for y… for the firefight, it was really bad" she said as she stumbled over her words, making her blush. Luke looked at her confused, but just shrugged.

"Oh well, that's good, at least you were unharmed" he said. He was now deep in thought. 'Well, at least we got out of there, but now I have to clean that shit place before they get to her again, maybe…" He trailed off as Lia asked him a question.

"I saw you fighting so bravely, so professional, you are a very good at combat, why did you leave the Alliance Military?" she asked, with a happy tone.

"Some other time" Luke said. He then changed the subject, this time to something interesting, as he checked his omni tool. "Hey, do you wanna go with me to a party with my friend Mindus, we are celebrating my survival in five days, what do you say?" He asked as he laughed.

'Oh Keelah, is he asking me on a date? A human?' She thought, but then shrugged it off. "Sure" was all she could say. 'Nah, it's just a celebration'

"Excellent, I wanna drink myself to death after this." He said loudly. Lia just sighted.

"I'm not going to let you do that Luke" She said with a smirk. Luke just rolled his eyes.

"Just what I needed, a babysitter" he said loudly while grinning.

Luke then started watching Lia closely. 'Damn, she looks fine' he thought as she looked at her petite, almost goddess like form. He was amazed by how beautiful she looked. Lia then looked at him quizzically, confused. Luke turned and blushed. 'Damn it, now she's going to think I'm a pervert'

"Something wrong?" Lia asked as she looked at him.

"Not at all Lia" Luke said as he looked at her once again. 'Come on dumb ass, she's a Quarian, why the hell would you think she would date a human?' Luke sighted and rested his head onto the pillow, slowly drifting to the land of dreams.

'He saved me from a crazy Turian, got me a job, and saved me from certain death. He's so dashing, so… No! I can't think like that! I must focus, he's Human, I'm a Quarian, it will never work' Lia sighted as she looked at Luke, sound asleep.

She smiled and began to look into her omni tool, the video she recorded through her helmet of the firefight… Looking how Luke fought off the criminals and killed them one by one. 'He's so brave'

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