Disclaimer: I own neither Buffy nor Mass Effect (1 or 2). They belong to their rightful owners and creators.

Pairings: John Shepard/Liara T'Soni, Faith (Lehane) Shepard/Ashley Williams/Miranda Lawson

A/N: There are slight spoilers for Mass Effect 3 but whatever was shown at E3 will have my own twist on it.


Chapter 3

The Normandy was just entering the orbit of Tuchanka as Commander Faith Shepard headed down to the shuttle bay. Upon getting there, she found her brother former Commander John Shepard, his bond mate Dr. Liara T'Soni, Garrus Vakarian, Tali'Zorah vas Normandy, Legion, Lieutenant Ashley Williams and former Operative Miranda Lawson waiting for her there.

Faith smirked saying, "Well the gangs all here but you all realize I'm not taking all of you, right?"

John rolled his eyes, "Yes Fay, we're all aware of this now pick, who's going with you."

Faith studied all of her squad before saying, "Johnny and Tali hop in. It's time to go see Wrex and maybe even Grunt while we're there." The others save Liara, Miranda and Ash headed back to their stations on the ship. Liara pulled John over to her as both women pulled Faith off to the side.

Ash was the first to speak, "So skipper any reason why we," indicating to herself and Miranda, "are staying back?"

"Yep," Faith replied, "I need Johnny's diplomatic skills as well as his biotics. And I also need Tali's engineering expertise."

Miranda asked, "Is that right?"

"Okay fine, I also need John to keep me from shooting the Krogan idiots that try and go against Wrex about helping us."

Both women chuckle before Ash added, "That makes sense. Be careful Skipper." The Lieutenant bit her lip before pulling Faith into a hug. The Slayer blinked before hugging back.

As the two pulled apart, Miranda stepped forward and lightly kissed Faith's cheek before both women walked away. Faith stood stiff for a moment before muttering, "Women."

John, who had just finished saying goodbye to Liara, heard his sister's comment and had seen what had transpired between the three women. He laughed before commenting, "You love the attention. Don't complain." Both Shepards turned to Tali and could have sworn she actually rolled her eyes at them.


Miranda was sitting in at the table in the crew's quarters when Lieutenant Williams walked it. Those few who were in the quarters exited quickly thinking there were going to be tension between the two women over the Commander.

Ash sat opposite the former Cerberus operative as Miranda spoke, "EDI make sure no one can come in or over hear what's Lieutenant Williams and I are about to discuss."

The synthesized voice replied, "Of course Miss Lawson."

The two sat in silence for a couple of minutes before Miranda said, "I think you and I need to speak about the Commander."

Miranda watched as Ashley gave an almost Faith like smirk as the Alliance Soldier spoke, "You mean the obvious fact that the Skipper wants to have her cake and to eat it too?

"Eloquent and accurate, but my question is Lieutenant is if you are as attracted to the Commander as I think you are," Miranda tossed back.

Williams shifted before saying, "And you're not?"

"I never said that. The thing I wanted to discuss with you deals with what the two of us should do about it."

Ash looked at her in confusion, "What do you mean?"

Miranda sighed, "What I mean is. Are," the blue eyed woman looked uncertain, "you willing to share Faith because I'm not willing to back down from whatever it is I feel for her."

"Really?" Ash saw the slightly apprehensive look on the other woman's face before adding, "I would have to get to know you better if that's going to be the case." The Lieutenant couldn't help but laugh saying, "The Skipper isn't going to know what hit her." The two women took the time the ground team was on Tuchanka to get to know one another.


When the shuttle landed Faith, John, and Tali headed to Urdnot Wrex's throne. Both Faith and John got a warm welcome from Wrex as Tali hung back. It turned out Wrex was willing to help but first he needed Faith's help.

"Slayer," Wrex was the only one that called Faith this because he called her brother their surname and after he learned that the Alliance gave her that nickname he used it for addressing her, "I've been working with your Salarian Scientist and he found a fertile female on one of his own kinds world. He needs someone to go pick her up and I need a transport."

"So you and Mordin have been working together to deal with the genophage?" As Faith had asked this question Urdnot Grunt had been brought towards them by another Krogan.

Grunt first nodded to his clan leader before Wrex turned to Faith saying, "Slayer. The Professor had been working on his student's genophage cure, when he found the fertile female."

Wrex noticed that Grunt had something to add so he waved the young Krogan forward. Grunt spoke to Faith, "Battlemaster, Clan leader Wrex told me that I was to accompany you as the representative for the Krogan."

Faith nodded her understanding at Grunt's comment before turning to Wrex, "So big guy, am I getting that you want my help getting your female?"

"Yes Slayer."

"Cool, and in exchange I get one of my heavy hitters back. You sure you don't want to come along on this one, Wrex?"

The older Krogan laughed, "Outside of being there for the female, no Slayer I can't. I'm needed here to gather the Krogan race and get them ready for the battle against the Reapers. But don't worry I made sure the Krogan going with you was one you wouldn't shoot for opening his mouth."

Grunt and Faith shared a look before both laughed. John was the one to ask, "What are you two laughing at?"

Faith explained, "When I opened his tank Grunt attacked first and had me pinned to some cargo. He told me he was going to kill me. I tried the whole talking thing that you Johnny are good at but that didn't work so I pulled the trigger of the gun I had pointed at his gut."

Wrex chuckled as he turned to Grunt, "You survived an encounter with the Slayer and ended up as her ally why does that sound familiar?"

Johnny answered that, "Probably because that was you on Virmire." The five allies boarded the shuttle and headed to the Normandy. Once the Ground team was back plus the two Krogans, Faith headed to the Galaxy map to plot a course for the Salarian home world of Sur'Kesh.