Shepard's view:

I put my hands over my face. I don't believe it. I'm dreaming, I know it. This can't be happening, it isn't. Wake me up damn it! All my thoughts begin to fight each other trying to figure out the truth.

"What do you mean?" I ask.

"Commander, every memory Miranda has of you is erased. Anything she's ever did with you, seen you do, heard you do, is gone. Or even anybody she's ever met through you."

"But, how is that possible?"

"How is anything the Illusive Man achieves possible? If someone asked if they could bring the Great Commander Shepard back to life someone would laugh. But look at you now. Alive and kicking."

"Can you fix it?"

"I'm not trained that high, I have no idea. Maybe Mordin would know. Better luck asking him." I run out of the clinic and into the elevator to the lab. I step in.

"Mordin, theoretically, if someone who have there memory erased, can someone with the right skills get it back?"

"No, our brains are like computers. If something is deleted, it is gone forever. Why do you ask?"

"Miranda... The Illusive Man wiped her memory of me. I just don't know how I can go on without that. She would go back to her cold self."

"I am sorry Shepard." I walk out of the room and hear a beep on my omni-tool. Dr. Chakawas, Orianna is able to talk.

I approach Orianna in the clinic.

"Shepard." Orianna says with a smile. "I'm so glad to see you." She gives me a hug.

"It's good to see you too. How are you feeling?" I ask.

"Better thanks to you." I can tell Orianna's vision is still a little wary, because she looks to her left to see Miranda passed out on the other bed.

"What happened to Miranda?"

"She.. went through what you did, but longer. Her memory was also erased of me."

"Shepard, that's horrible." She grabs my hand to comfort me. I hear a little murmur from behind me. Miranda's waking up. I quickly turn and pull up a chair. Miranda's eyes start to widen and start to focus upon me.

"Wh.. what happened to me?" She starts to get up and I lay her back on the bed. I can sense her feeling threatened, her biotics start to show and I quickly restrain her using my biotics to keep her from hurting anyone. Orianna gets up and stands in front of Miranda.

"It's ok Miri, were here to help you." Miranda quickly calms down.

"Ori, what are you doing here?" Miranda asks.

"We got a little hurt, but were better now. Just relax, Commander Shepard is here."

"Commander Shepard?" Miranda questions.

"That's me Miss Lawson, I'm taking care of everything, so don't worry it'll be ok." Her big blue eyes stare into my green eyes. She doesn't trust me, I can feel it.

Three days later...

We dropped Orianna back home on Illium after she spent some time with her sister Miranda. Miranda has returned to her normal duties and I have yet to tell her about our relationship that she doesn't remember. What will she say if I even decided to tell her? She doesn't have feelings for me anymore. I'm going to fight for her back, even if our some of our best memories together are gone to her.

I feel that I will have to confront her sometime, so I go up to see her in her room. As usual I just walk in without knocking.
"Miranda, do you have a moment to talk?"

"Of course Commander, what can I do for you?"

"I wanted to know if the Illusive Man has tried to contact you?"

"I'd say that's none of your business Commander."

"It actually is, this is my ship, and what goes on in it is my business."

"I don't think it works like that." Miranda corrected.

"It does when I love you!" I blurted out. My emotions got the better of me. Something they normally don't do. Miranda stared at my with a blank expression for a moment.

"You love me?" She questioned.

"I know this is going to sound crazy, but before your memory was erased, we were romantically together."

"That's not possible, I know the stakes for this mission, I would never let my emotions interfere. Especially with my Commander. Someone who knows as much about the Collectors as I do."

"Well you did."

"I'm sorry if I don't believe you." I nod and walk out of the room.

Miranda's view:

He's crazy. I could never get into a relationship with anyone.

I look over to my right on my desk and notice a photograph. It's a picture of me and Shepard, kissing. No. No. This can't be. Not possible. He knew this picture was here, he knew I would see it. That's why he stopped pushing me. I grab my phone and unlock it. I go straight to my pictures and there's other pictures of us together. I look so happy. There's so many of us smiling, hugging, kissing, his butt? I need to go talk to him. I leave Kelly a message telling her to inform Shepard that I need to see him.

Within five minutes Shepard walks in.

"What happened?" He anxiously questions.

"Relax Shepard." I motion him to sit and he calms down a little. "I wanted to tell you that I believe you..." He starts to smile. "But that doesn't change one fact, I don't feel it." His smile quickly fades.

"I... understand." I sit next to him and we stare out into the beautiful galaxy.

"I would like to go back to my home in Sydney, Australia. It's been forever, and I don't wanna be apart of this anymore."

"Being apart of what?"

"Cerberus, fighting, being used as a tool, hurting you."

"I don't ever want you to think that your hurting me. Because every time I see your face, I get nothing but stronger." I smile for the first time around him, or that I remember.

"Ok, I should go." Shepard walks out of the room.

I walk over to my terminal and contact the Illusive Man. He pops up on my computer screen.

"Did you do it?" He questions.

"Yes." I answer.

"Good work, I'll send someone to get you in Australia. Trust me Miranda, you made the right decision." His orange hologram fades away.

A day later the Normandy is stationed on Earth in Sydney Australia. I bring cargo but Shepard grabs two bags leaving me with one. He walks me into the taxi area and he says his goodbyes.

"Are you sure you won't reconsider this? Aside from having you here on a personal level, your a damn good second in command. You did a lot for this team."

"I'm sure." I push the button for a taxi and my estimated arrival for one is two minutes.

"Can I at least get a hug good bye? Sorry, never mind. It was to much." He keeps rambling on.

"Shepard." I say to break his ongoing conversation with himself.

"Yeah?"

"Kiss me." Without even hesitating he pulls me in and his kiss is so intoxicating. He presses his lips hard against mine. I let go of the grasp of his lips after what feels like forever.

"I'll miss you." He says as he helps put my things into the taxi. He opens the door for me and I get in. Shepard watches me as the car rolls away.

In my head all I was saying was, I'll miss you too...