This chapter and maybe two more will be based on the preparation for the wedding and the wedding itself. – But the fanfic doesn't end here, I will make chapters of their honeymoon. :)
Enjoy! – Sorry for any typos.
Chapter 6: Meet my family
Earth – 1 month later
"Ah, finally…" Shepard mumbled as she was now back in her home world, feeling the known breeze against her face, she smiled and closed her eyes like a little kid enjoying their favorite candy. She missed her home world, she missed the times her family came to vacations in Alaska(Iloveit), it was like being back home, even though she lived in the colonies, she always preferred earth, it seemed peaceful and if she stayed here nothing bad would happen to her.
Tevos stepped out of the shuttle and stood beside Shepard, as she admired the beauty of one of the places within Earth. Shepard had told her everything she needed to know about Alaska, then she spoke a little more about her parents, and also how many cousins/aunts/uncles she has, so if Tevos ever sees hyper children running around trying to destroy everything its totally normal.
The asari looked down at the human, seeing how peaceful her expression looked was totally warming up her heart. This month had lots of changes, Shepard seemed to be better with her walking, a lot better, she now uses a walking cane and not anymore her wheelchair, it seems one of her legs aren't as strong as the other one, so she now uses a walking cane to support her other leg while she walks around. "It's beautiful." Tevos broke the silence.
"Indeed it is." Shepard replayed as she slowly open her eyes and kept that small peaceful smile on her face. She gripped the handle of the walking cane before hit it slightly against the world and take a step forward, she was letting few people pass with their bags, Shepard only brought two, but Tevos brought four, probably because there had her wedding dress? Or something, Shepard didn't know nor did she question Tevos actions. "Shall we go?" Shepard looked at Tevos in her usual dress and Shepard could tell her belly had grown a little bit more during this month.
"Of course." Tevos smiled as she wrapped her arm slowly around Shepard's free one and began to walk side by side with the human woman. They were heading to the large house right in front of them, It was placed in the middle of the woods, white, with a countryside touch on it, since the walls seemed to be made of wood, in front of the house it had a large beautiful lake, and it would only take them ten minutes to go to the city, they were far enough to not have anybody bother them, but close enough to not be too far away from everything.
The very moment they stepped inside they were greeted with a big paper banner saying "WELCOME" on the wall, and then balloons everywhere, Shepard large family there, well dressed but not too formal, and of course the little annoying troublesome kids. "HEY WELCOME!" Everybody said out loud, as the little kids started clapping and making loud childish noises, while the adults simple clapped with a smile on their faces.
Shepard was kind of speechless, she didn't knew her mother would do this, she only thought she would be here with her mother and father, and then the rest of the family would slowly visit, but isn't this a warm welcome? "Hey guys…you didn't have to.." Shepard was speechless so she really didn't knew what to say at this moment.
Tevos was lost and speechless too, she kept her arm loosely around Shepard's. Humans were indeed an interesting race.
"Ah, Jane don't be shy and stop standing in the hall, come on in!" Her aunt Sophie said as she laughed and approached the couple, she threw her arms around Jane, despite the big different of their heights, the short older woman still managed to hug tightly her niece, which almost made Shepard gasp at the short woman's strength.
"Missed you too, Aunt Sophie." Shepard forced a smile as she tried to ignore the small pain in her ribs because of the hug. When Aunt Sophie turned around to face Tevos and was about to throw her arms around her, Shepard quickly spoke. "Less strength on the hugs…"
"Dearie, I know what to do and what not to do to a pregnant woman, now you shall relax and go talk with Uncle George, he misses you." Aunt Sophie told her, as Shepard looked at Tevos like asking her if she would be okay, and when the asari simple gave a smile and a nod, Shepard left, walking up to the rest of her family, so she could be their hug sack.
"Nice to meet you, Mrs. Sophie." Tevos now looked down at the human in front of her, with a small smile.
"Ah, please, call me Aunt Sophie, like Shepard. You will be family soon, dearie." The older woman smiled as she threw her arms around Tevos and gave her a hug, but a very soft one, and when she removed her arms, she made sure to pass her palms slowly over Tevos small bump, like she was caressing it. "How long?"
"Seven months." Tevos responded as she looked down at her belly.
"Seven months?! But it's so small! Dearie you need to eat more! Come on, I will feed you with my pasta." She grabbed the asari's wrist and began to tug her along.
"B-But…" Tevos didn't had time to explain the poor older human that asari's pregnancy took longer than humans, so its normal at seven months her belly didn't looked more than a five months human pregnancy.
It probably took Shepard over 15minutes to finally end up hugging everybody, and talk with everybody, now she was walking around the large house to try find Tevos, there were two living rooms, and still Shepard didn't found Tevos, when she decided to go to the kitchen, she noticed that her Aunt Sophie was "molesting" Tevos on forcing her to eat more pasta and chicken, and then there was three of her cousins, they were triples, all blonde, pale, blue eyes and they were five year old.
"I want to touch first!" William spoke up with his young boy voice.
"Nuh auh! You touched befole now it's me!" Courtney spoke; the girl had a problem with "r's".
While those two were arguing, the other triple which was a girl as well, was closer to Tevos, hugging her belly softly, she had her ear against Tevos belly, and her small palms over it. "SHHHH I want to listen to the baby!" Little Sarah told her siblings as she pressed her ear against Tevos belly again, like she was trying to listen the baby, obviously it wouldn't work, but the toddler wanted to try.
Tevos was simple sitting down on one of the chairs, watching the little girl against her belly, with a small smile on her face. She loved to see the young humans, and since this one had blonde hair, pale skin and blue eyes, it made her remember Shepard. Humans were indeed adorable as little, and they changed a lot during their aging process, Asaris did too, but not as much as a human, that's why it interested her so much.
Shepard stepped into the kitchen, and got closer to Tevos by the table. "They are molesting you already?"
"They are interesting…" Tevos replayed Shepard as she looked up at her with a small smile before look back down at the little girl.
"Janey! Thele you ale!" Courtney said excited as she ran up to Shepard and jumped towards her cousin, luckily for Jane, the little girl just threw herself at her good leg, and not to the other one, but still it hurt her a little bit.
"Hey there little one." Shepard smiled and looked down at Courtney as she ruffled the little girl's hair.
"Jane, Courtney's being mean and she doesn't let me touch the baby!" William complained as he went up to Jane, and began to tug on her sleeve, he was totally about to throw a tantrum. "I want to touch the baby! I want it! I want it!"
"Hey, hey, don't start crying." Jane was trying her best to stop the tantrum, but she had no clue how little kids worked out.
"BUT I WANT IT!" William shouted as he began to start crying, well not really, since no tears were coming, but he was being loud enough to hurt Shepard's ears.
Before the commander could say anything to stop the tantrum, Tevos stretched out her hand and placed her blue palm over the boy's little shoulder. "Hey, don't cry, you can touch now." Tevos smiled, and took William's small hand and finally placed it over her tummy. "You won't feel much though, the baby's still small."
William sniffed and looked at Tevos with his big blue eyes, before look down at Tevos belly and caresses it softly with his small palm. His sister, Sarah was right beside him with her palm on it as well, and then Courtney showed up quickly, getting in the middle of her siblings and placing her palm over Tevos belly too. Both triples seemed to finally relax, yet get slightly shy at the touch, of course they didn't felt anything, but they were still amazed at the idea a tiny person was growing inside her.
"So you didn't ate the baby?" Courtney asked.
"Of course not." Tevos laughed shaking her head slowly.
"So you won't eat us either?" William looked up at Tevos with a slight hope in his eyes.
"She is not going to eat anybody, guys." Shepard said as she stood behind the triples.
"But Lana says if we don't behave she will eat us like she ate her baby!" William pointed out.
This Lana person, was now stepping inside the kitchen, with a big belly, she was probably on her last month, and now it was just wait till it was time. "Oh yes I did, and you guys didn't behaved, or did you?"
"Courtney started! Eat her first!" William said as he stepped away from Tevos and grabbed his sister Courtney, putting her in front of him.
Shepard couldn't help but to chuckle as she looked at Lana, it was her other cousin, and she was the older sister of the triples. "You told them that?"
"Are you kidding me? Of course I did! You try to control three of them when they all want one thing but they don't know how to share. And trust me, after this one, I will try my best to get pregnant once he is five, and then I will say I will eat him too so he can behave." Lana explained with a simple shrug as she walked up to a table where it had small cubes of cake, and she picked up one to eat.
"That's not normal…" Shepard mumbled.
Lana turned around to look at Tevos. "Honey, after that one, try your best to get Jane back under the covers and make another one, trust me, the all eating baby thing works."
Shepard blushed slightly when Lana spoke about getting Jane under the covers and make another child.
Tevos chuckled softly and looked up at Lana. "I will do my best."
Lana walked up to Shepard and patted her shoulder. "And you better do your best too. Make some pretty babies out there."
Shepard frowned slightly, trying to ignore her shyness. "You do know the baby is asari, right?"
"Of course I know, that's why I'm telling you to make your best, so you won't mess up with pretty genes asaris have." Lana laughed before pick up another cube of cake and eat it, then she walked up to her little siblings patting their backs gently. "Now let's go, little ones or else I will eat you all."
The triples yelped as they began to run away from Lana, and the woman simple followed them.
Shepard was left behind with an awkward atmosphere, alone with Tevos, or at least she thought…
"Dearie! Come on, you need to meet Uncle George, that man had never seen an asari before, at least not in person, we should scare him!" Aunt Sophie chuckled as she approached Tevos reaching out for the asari hands to tug her along.
Shepard simple looked up at Tevos with an apologetic look, and Tevos smiled with a shrug.
Finally it was the end of the day, and all her family left back to their places, the only ones that stayed now was her, Tevos, her father and her mother. Shepard was sitting down on the couch, with her head tilted back, finally resting with her eyes closed and the walking cane on the ground over her feet. This was a tiring day for her, her and Tevos spent the morning travelling, then when they got here at lunch time and her family was basically harassing them the entire time, specially Tevos, she felt sorry for the asari when her aunt Sophie dragged her along to everywhere and feed her with almost everything she found on her way, still thinking that Tevos belly was too small.
"Honey, you there?" Hannah asked as she stepped in the living room, trying to find her daughter, and then she saw her on the couch, probably taking a nap.
Shepard sighed before open her eyes and then bring her head forward, before look up at her mother with a small smile. "Yeah, need something?"
"I'm going to show you and Tevos your guys bedroom."
"Huh, I know where my bedroom is, you meant a guest room for Tevos?" Shepard perked up an eyebrow, totally forgetting that her mother did not know about this fake bond.
"Oh honey, you two don't need to be shy around us. Already pregnant, and going to marry, do you really think I'm going to put Tevos in a guest room?" Hannah chuckled.
Shepard gulped and cleared her throat, glad that her mother just took her words like that. "Alright, if its okay with you." Shepard forced a smile before lean her body forward and pick up the walking cane from the ground, press it against the ground and bring herself up with a small exhausted groan.
"Come on, the sooner you see what we did to the guest room the sooner you will be able to sleep on Tevos lap." Hannah grinned at her daughter, and wiggled her eyebrows in a hilarious way.
"Mother!" Shepard blushed, but she couldn't help but to chuckle a bit when her mother moved her eyebrows like that. Oh she had missed her mother's silly ways.
Hannah laughed before walk back up to the kitchen, where Tevos was sitting down on a chair across John, the both of them were having a conversation. "Sorry to interrupt, but its time to show the ladies where they will sleep."
John looked up at his wife with a small smile. "Alright, you got rid of me for tonight, Tevos." John smirked.
"It was a lovely chat." Tevos smiled at John, before stand up from the chair and walk up to Hannah, and then she noticed Shepard behind her mother with a small blush over her cheeks, which made Tevos frown slightly not really understanding why Shepard's pale skin looked a bit pinkish now.
"Come on, ladies." Hannah patted Tevos shoulder and Jane's upperarm as she went upstairs, having the couple follow her behind.
Tevos knew that Shepard still had a big struggle with stairs, so she wrapped her arm around Shepard's and helped her up on going upstairs, Shepard simple smiled at her, even if she felt useless right now, she still liked Tevos help.
Whenever they arrived the guest room, Hannah open her arms. "Ta-dam!"
Shepard frowned slightly, this was not her room. "I thought we were going to be in my bedroom."
"Of course not, dear. Do you even remember the state you left your bedroom? Last time you were here, you were like, 15, right? I believe the all posters, pictures and weird stuff around explains what phase you went through that age." Hannah laughed.
Shepard blsuhed again, quickly clearling her throat. "Yeah, not a very good idea." She took another look around the bedroom, it was a large guest room that's for sure, there was a king sized bed, then furniture with a rustic touch, then a large window that had a beautiful towards the river, and it was more beautiful now since the sun was going down and it was bright orange now.
"Thought the same. Anyway, is it good enough for you girls?" Hannah asked, looking mostly at Tevos now, hoping the asari would feel comfortable.
"Its perfect." Tevos replayed, while Shepard simple nodded with a smile.
"Good, good! I will let you guys alone now and get all comfy." Hannah was about to leave till she remembered something. "Oh, Jane! Do you want me to bring you dinner?"
"No, mother. I still feel the spaghetti in my stomach."
"Alright, then good night, because I believe you are desiring to fall asleep." Hannah winked at Shepard before leave the guest room and close the door behind her.
Shepard simple shook her head with a smile before look at Tevos. "You don't want to eat anything?" She frowned know, finding it rather rude that her mother did not asked Tevos.
"Oh, don't worry about it. Your aunt spent the entire day feeding me, and I believe I tried things that I did not know that existed." Tevos chuckled a bit. Hannah had asked her what she wanted for dinner, but Tevos answered her the same thing she did now to Shepard.
"Oh, sorry about that. My aunt...well she's one of a kind, and since she doesn't know what asari pregnancy's really are, she thought you weren't feeding yourself that well." Shepard shrugged before walk up to the bed and when she was about to drop herself over the comfy bed, she noticed that their bags were already there, so she decided to just put on some pajamas. "I'm exhausted, so I will just put some pajamas and sleep. But don't make that stop you from exploring things around."
"Oh no, I'm exhausted too." Tevos said as she approached her bag that was on the other side of the bed, and got on her knees, before open it and look through some sleeping gown.
"Then we can watch some TV while we fall asleep." Shepard got on her knees as well as she found one pair of black boxer shorts, then a white tank-top, that would do, it was a warm day and she wasn't going to wear sweat pants and a hood.
"That would be lovely."
"I'll go change first, then the bathroom is all yours." Shepard got up with a bit of struggle but she did it, holding her clothes on her other hand she walked up to the bathroom so she could change.
Tevos simple stayed in the room, she knew Shepard would take a bit longer than usual to change, because raising her legs to remove the pants still hurt her a bit, so why not take this chance to just change and they would be done with it? Shrugging, she just began to remove her usual casual dress, and folded it, placing it back in her bag, removed her shoes, and then put on her night wine red gown.
After ten minutes Shepard finally stepped out of the bedroom, holding her clothes on her hand. "Bathroom is fre-" Before she finished her words, she took a look at Tevos that left her quickly speechless, there was Tevos with a sleeping gown, that stopped right in the middle of her thighs. The gown was not tight, but god damn, didn't she looked more beautiful than her usual tight dresses, she wears all the time, maybe its because she's showing more of her blue skin than usual, and Shepard found it extremely sexy.
"See something you like?" Tevos looked back at Shepard who was still stuck on her spot and looking up and down at Tevos like she was about to eat her. The asari was not dumb, so she knew what Shepard's action meant, that's why she was messing around with her now.
Shepard quickly cleared her throat and looked down. "Obviously you don't need the bathroom anymore." She mumbled under her breath before go back to her bag and just throw the clothes at it, not really bothering herself to fold it.
Tevos knew that Shepard was trying to put this subject apart, so she let it go, even tho it amused her how humans reacted about this. "You don't look so bad yourself." Tevos smirked at Shepard, as he looked up and down at the human, she looked sensual on her own way.
"Lets see if there's any movie playing." Shepard cleared her throat again and told her, as she finally sat down on the bed, getting her feet under the sheet, and then lean her back against the bedframe and pick up the remote, start zapping around, to try find the right channel, or a good movie.
Tevos kept her smirk before lay down on the bed, basically doing the same as Shepard, getting her feet under the sheets, and lean her back against the bedframe, as she looked at the TV, waiting for Shepard to stop at any channel.
"Look, a classic." Shepard stopped when she noticed the movie 'Titanic' playing.
"What is it about?" Tevos asked as she watched human people walking up to what seemed a large ship. It was odd the way those people dressed those days, but since Shepard said it was a classic, she figured the movie was about old ages or something.
"Oh its a no happy ending movie, but you still feel the need to watch it. I'm not going to spoil you the movie, but the main character is rich, and she falls in love for a so not rich young man." Shepard tried to explain a bit without spoiling anything, maybe Tevos would like the movie.
"I see." Tevos was sitll confused but she still watched.
"If you like romances you will like this one." Shepard told her with a small smile, before slowly lay her body down and get herself more comfortable on her pillow, she wasn't going to watch the entire movie, because she already knew how it was, but she would try her best to remain awake so if Tevos had any question she would answer.
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Tevos spent almost four hours watching the movie, it was long, but interesting, and in the end, she was just crying. "But there's space for him!" Tevos complained maybe a little too loud.
Shepard quickly open her eyes, wondering what upset Tevos, and when she looked up at Tevos and saw her crying, she frowned, then looked back at the TV, and saw that the movie was finishing and Jack was dying. "Oh, already breaking your heart?" Shepard smiled softly, before lay her head back on the pillow and close her eyes slowly.
"I don't get it, everybody said the titanic was the strongest and best ship ever, and now it failed on the very first trip. Now they are freezing to death, and there's space for Jack to be with Rose!" Tevos complained as she sniffed, right now Jack just fell unconscious and Rose was trying to wake him up.
"Yeah, movie logic." Shepard mumbled, sleepy.
"Not only movie, they said this was a true story."
"Well, since it was s long ago, I believe mistakes on building it happen. Now a days that rarely happens." Shepard tried to say something that would make Tevos clam down.
"We both know that's not true, Shepard. Despite how much times we try, there will always be a single mistake, maybe not as much as before, but there will be one." Tevos sniffed again. "And he's dead."
Shepard smiled a bit before open her eyes again and look up at Tevos. "Imagine its just a movie." She stretched out her hand and placed it upon Tevos cheek, removing her tears with her thumbs.
"Its a hard thing to do now, after they remembered me again it was based on a true story." There was Tevos sniffing again, but this time looking down at Shepard.
Shepard couldn't help but chuckle at Tevos.
"Are you laughing at me?" Tevos frowned.
"I'm sorry. Its just, I've never thought the Asari Councilor would be like this after watching a sad romance." Shepard tried to hold her chuckle now.
"Well, I'm not cold as a stone, I have feelings, and this movie totally moved my feelings."
"Yeah, and your pregnancy hormones aren't helping as well, I believe." Shepard removed her hand from Tevos cheek, before poke her stomach softly.
Tevos shrinked a bit when Shepard touched her, and before the commander could think she hurt her, Tevos quickly spoke. "She moved."
"Really?" Shepard was a bit more awake now, and she wanted to touch Tevos belly again.
"Yes." Tevos smiled.
"May I?"
"Of course, dear." Tevos took Shepard's hand and placed it upon her belly. Of course the only person who felt the baby moving was Tevos, Shepard couldn't feel anything, since it was still early, but maybe next month she would start feeling the baby around. "You don't feel her moving tho, for now I'm the only one who can feel."
Shepard blushed a bit as she placed her palm over Tevos belly for the very first time, she caressed it softly and took a deep breath. Yes, she did not felt a thing, but it was still a warm feeling. "Then I cant wait to feel it." She mumbled.
Tevos simple smiled before start moving her body down and finally place her head over her pillow. Shepard still didn't removed the hand from her belly, so the asari just allowed the human and closed her eyes, turning herself on her side to face Shepard.
Shepard was still staring down at Tevos belly with her palm on it. After what felt like five minutes, she looked up at Tevos who now had her eyes closed and since her breathing was slower, she figured the asari was already asleep, so she decided to not bother her.
Jane simple kept her hand on Tevos belly and closed her eyes with a small smile upon her face and finally falling back asleep. - Maybe this was going to be a wonderful experience..
Ah done, casual chapter. I hope you guys liked this one - Next one might involve a hen party ;) and Shepard's old crew showing up(few members for now)
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