Authors Note: I am SO sorry about how long this one took to get out. This chapter and the one after it have been the bane of my existence for about 7 months. It was started, re-written, edited, re-written again then became two chapters then was re-written again and edited. Both of them. Not an abandon story just a pain in the ass. But they're done and here and both will be posted and I'll be on my merry way. Please enjoy and I do appreciate feedback.
Mass Effect
"Foreign Relations"
Chapter Seven: A Silver World of Fortress' and Fire
Running through a hot, humid, muggy jungle was not on Sidda's list of things to do today. The vegetation was thick but they were following the locator from the shuttle. The transmission that caught the Lante's attention had been found, however it had been found along with 'local livestock'. That 'local livestock' was now chasing them through the jungle looking for a meal.
"Go! Go, go, go!" Sidda shouted, not really like she had to order Nov and Rajin to run, they had that idea as well. Sidda also realized that no matter the situation the Turian's were faster than her. Rajin was in the lead blasting through the overgrown flora, Sidda was next, and Nov was behind her.
"Run faster, Sid!" Nov yelled she may have been running at top speed for a human but far too slow for him. He could hear the creature feature crashing through the jungle behind them and it was getting closer.
"I'm running as fast as I can!" she replied, not bothering to look over her shoulder. She heard it too and would just as soon not look back.
"Not fast enough!" Nov shouted back as he was right on her back.
"Well, what do you want me to do? Fly!?" she responded as Rajin cleared the thick jungle and found their shuttle with Balin open and waiting.
"Balin! Balin, start take off now!" she shouted and lost her footing on the path and went face first into the dirt. Nov stumbled over her but kept his footing skidding to a halt to cover her.
"Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on!" Nov rattled, grabbing her arm as she scrambled to her feet. She got up and he fired a burst down the path at the big creature chasing after them.
"Callus! Come on!" she shouted as she cleared the jungle and found the shuttle primed and ready to go. Rajin was set to cover them and a few seconds later Nov blasted through the tree line with a giant, snapping reptile behind him.
Sidda and Rajin fired on the creature as Nov leapt onto the shuttle. "Go, Balin!" Nov shouted as the ship rocked from the creature jumping for it. The shuttle rose from the surface and headed back up to the Lante.
"What the hell was that?" Nov asked, breathing hard.
"That looked an awful lot like a damn T-Rex." Sidda replied, shocked and surprised.
Rajin gave her a curious expression. "A what?"
Sidda plopped down on the bench seat. "Big, bad, carnivorous reptile, ancient period back on Earth. Big teeth. Bad attitude. Yeah." She said and let the adrenalin surge dissipate.
Sidda felt like one giant salt lick, the planet was hot and humid and she could feel sweat pouring down her back. She licked her lips and found the taste of salt, blood, and dirt. The blood was from her face plant into the ground as was the dirt. Rajin, Nov, Balin, and herself were all stowing their gear after the semi-wild goose chase they just went on.
"Can't you guys go on a mission where you don't run into trouble?" Victus demanded, not even bothering to stop and let them know he was there.
Nov gave him a scoff. "It's not like we planned it." He replied. "The source of the transmission was found." He said silently arguing with his right boot when it wouldn't come off like the other one did. "A crashed Turian probe. Couldn't tell that from the ship because of the highly ionized atmosphere, I was able to recover the hard drive though." He stated sounding more than a little annoyed with everything, including his misbehaving armor.
"That's when T-Rex's little bro showed up." Sidda added from her seat on the bench across from Nov.
"And when we all started running." Rajin put in.
They all sounded annoyed, Victus couldn't tell if it was because of the apparent close encounter or something else. "Couldn't you have landed closer to the probe?" he asked.
"Oh no. No, Sir," Nov answered finally getting his mud caked boots off and stood to get the rest of his armor off. "that planet holds the record for most dense vegetation in two galaxies. Very dense."
Victus cocked his head to the thick, wadded up green leaf stuck in Nov's left shoulder guard. "I can see that." He replied plucking it from the armor.
Nov looked at the shredded broad leaf. "Thought I'd bring you back a salad, General." He quipped and got the 'don't be a smartass' look from Victus before snatching it from him. "I did learn one other thing on that planet." He stated.
"What's that?" Victus asked and let his eyes move over to Sidda. She was facing away from him with half her armor off revealing sweat soaked undershirt.
"Humans need to run faster." He snipped, it was a very pointed statement to Sidda who turned and glared at him.
"Bite me. I was running as fast as I could, Jackass." She replied in an equally pointed statement.
"That's what frightens me." He replied, pulling his gauntlets off and setting them in his locker.
"Well, we can't all be decedents from birds, now can we?" she snipped back.
"Ape." He sniped earning a glare from his friend.
Sidda flipped him off. "Fuck you, Polly." She knew he wouldn't get the reference but she knew he would take it as an insult like she meant it.
"Hey!" Victus said in a raised tone to get them to stop insulting each other. They both looked at him then went back to stowing their gear. Rajin had gotten all her armor off and now she was bound for the showers.
"Sir." She said quietly as she passed him, Victus turned to follow her and she paused before heading to the shower room. "they have been like that since they landed on the planet. I suggested they spar and get it over with." She informed and Victus nodded indicating she could go then headed out of the locker room.
Sidda sat at the usual table in the mess hall alone forking through her human rations. By the time this assignment was over her taste buds were guaranteed to be dead due to lack of stimulation. She was pretty much half way through her assignment and so far really had no complaints, she actually enjoyed being around the Turians.
"Hey." A familiar voice said she looked up to see Maridus sitting down with Nov next to him. She grunted a response and he glanced over to Nov, who he had a similar greeting from earlier. "Are you two fighting?" he asked, implying that they were acting like a married couple right now.
Sidda gave him a mock glare but said nothing. Nov looked up from his tray to the human across from him. "Yeah, almost being eaten by a giant reptile tends to sour ones mood." He stated with another pointed comment to her.
Sidda dropped her fork in exasperation and stared at him. "Really, Cal?" she snipped. "You're fine, it never got close."
"Closer than I'd like." He responded and she narrowed her glare at him.
"And whose fault is that?" she asked and Nov answered quickly.
"Yours. Run faster next time." He stated.
Sidda glared at him more as Maridus watch their exchange. "Bite me." She shot back as Rajin sat down next to her across from Maridus.
"Good grief, are they still at it?" she asked and Maridus gave her a nod and gestured to the two of them.
"Yeah, apparently." He stated as both Sidda and Nov seemed to ignore their presence.
"You know, you might want to be careful who you say that too. Someone might take you up on that offer." He said and she leaned forward getting closer to his face. "Turians bite when they mate."
Sidda knew that but Victus had been careful not to leave any marks. "You promise?" she asked in a flirty tone taking a little wind from his sails.
Nov blinked, part of him was ready to jump on her right now but there was an overpowering fear of Victus. "You're a pain in the ass, you know that?" he replied biting his tongue about what he wanted to say.
Rajin chased after Sidda when they finished eating. The medic was a little taller than Sidda with blue eyes, grey skin, and colony marking that Sidda had never seen before on any Turian, a single jet black Turian handprint across her face. "Hey, Sid." She called and broke into a jog to catch up with her.
Sidda paused and turned to see who had called her name. "Hey, Deliah…" she replied as Rajin paced her and walked with her.
"What's uhh…what's going on with you and Nov?" she asked and Sidda chuckled.
Sidda shrugged. "I think he's PMSing." She stated and caught the twisted look from Rajin, she didn't get it. "I'm sorry. Sometimes I forget you guys aren't human."
"Well, whatever it is I take it it's a bad thing." She replied as they continued to walk down the corridor.
Sidda nodded with a snort. "Oh yes." She replied. "I don't know sibling rivalry I guess."
Rajin had a question she just didn't know how to broach it without sounding like a bitch. "What's really going on between you and Nov?" she blurted. "Well, that wasn't it." She thought to herself.
Sidda stopped and looked at her with a cocked head and a furrowed brow. "What do you mean?"
"That didn't look like sibling rivalry. That looked like something else." Rajin said and Sidda blinked, it finally dawned on her just as what she meant. "Are you sleeping with him?"
"What? Wait, Deliah, no." she replied confused and stunned with her interpretation of their feud. "No way."
Rajin blinked realizing she had misread the signals she had seen over the past few days. "Oh, I'm…I'm sorry." She stammered. "Sidda, I'm sorry."
Sidda cocked her head looking up at her, she had learned to spot a blushing Turian, or at the very least and embarrassed one. "You like him."
Rajin ceased her stammering and attempt to take back what she said. The flustered Turian opened her mouth a few times but nothing came out as she didn't want to wholly deny an accusation that was very much true.
Sidda grinned as she now found herself in a matchmaker position. "You do. You like him." She said again with the biggest smile on her face. "I think I've been on this boat long enough to recognize and blushing Turian."
Rajin's embarrassed expression changed to a glower with that comment.
"Why don't you talk to him?" she asked.
"He's my CO." she replied and Sidda could have said many things to that comment.
She shook her head. That was a lame excuse. "Not anymore." She replied letting her hands out to her side. "I am. Talk to him, you two'd make a cute couple."
Rajin shifted her weight and Sidda couldn't tell if it was nerves or uncomfortableness. "No. That's okay." She replied now sounding uncomfortable. "It's okay. Do me a favor, Sid, don't tell him."
Sidda cocked her head. "Sure, but why?"
"Nov likes Asari females, I'm not his type." She answered and Sidda narrowed her eyes to that. "I gotta go." She said and walked away from her after successfully embarrassing herself.
"That's gonna be a bitch to keep quiet." She said under her breath.
The somewhat friendly feud that was going back and forth with Nov and Sidda had now reached the Training Room. "Alright, you have been an insufferable bastard for three days." Sidda stated as she quickly wrapped up her hands. Sparring with a Turian was bad enough but their tough skin made it even harder on her knuckles.
Nov was pacing waiting for her to finish getting ready so he could gleefully kick her ass. He just wanted to fight something so it may as well have been her. "Three? Where the hell did you come up with three?"
Sidda gave his a sardonic expression as she finished her last wrap. "You were a colossal prick even before your close encounters of the lizard kind. What's the matter? You need to get laid or something?" she asked stepping onto the mat. She had been training with Victus and Nov and had gotten 10 times better then when she first came onboard.
"Laid?" he questioned making Sidda raise her eyebrows.
"Sex. Banged. Fucked. Whatever you want to call it." She said and noticed his reaction. If the red faced Turian could blush like a human he would. "That's it isn't it? You haven't gotten any for at least the amount of time I've been onboard. I think." Nov felt a little embarrassed, as she was right or at least partly right. She was within striking distance directly in front of him and he fired a punch right into her mouth. He didn't hit her as hard as he could have but he initiated the sparring with that hit.
Sidda's head went back at the force of the punch but she didn't move otherwise. She could taste some blood in her mouth and wiped her lip. "Oh, perfect, Turian Pon Farr."
"Okay, I don't know what that means." He stated and the sparring was on.
Sidda had improved on her sparring technique since training with Nov and Victus. "It means you need to need to talk to Rajin and have some good old fashion sex. Work out some of your issues so I can have your sunny disposition back."
Nov stopped his movement and cocked his head to her. "Rajin?" he asked. "What does Deliah have to do with this?"
Sidda paused and scoffed. "The denseness of men transcends species'. Go figure." She muttered. "She likes you, Moron."
Nov cocked his head it finally dawned on him as Sidda's left foot caught him in the jaw from a roundhouse kick. He grunted sprawling to the floor augmented by Sidda chuckling.
After soundly kicking Nov's distracted ass Sidda made her way to Victus' cabin for their weekly dinner together. It was under the guise of an Officers Mess although mainly Sidda attended, on occasion Maridus and Ruvio would join but typically it was just them. Victus' chef had mastered the challenge of cooking Levo food. The small store of food on board for her was reserved for the weekly dinners so it could be stretched and they didn't have to restock.
"Have you ever been to Palaven, Sidda?" Victus asked as she tore into food that actually tasted good. The rations did little more for the pallet then keeping her alive.
She finished her bite of meat and shook her head. "Never made it out that way." She said and looked at him wondering why he would ask that question.
"The Hierarchy has ordered the Lante back to Palaven for a one week refit." He said and she washed her food down with a glass of water. "We could drop you at Earth or another colony if you wish."
She shook her head; she'd actually like to see Palaven. "No." she said quickly shaking her head. "I'd like to see Palaven."
Sidda spent her next morning running through the corridors of the ship. She would typically do laps on the deck her quarters were on. She was working up quite a sweat and running off the typical sore spots that had become common with having relations with a Turian. She originally slipped into a pair of shorts but discovered a large bruise in the shape of a Turian's right thumb on her left thigh so she went with some sweat pants.
As she embarked on her final lap she followed the curve of the ships corridor, looking down rather than at where she was going. She felt as if she'd run into one of the bulkheads and bounced off the object trying to keep her footing. She steadied herself on the opposite wall and looked up to see Nov in the same position opposite her. He had staggered backward into the wall and was trying his damnedest not the fall on his ass.
"Cal," she began but Nov didn't give her time to finish.
"Damn it, Sid!" he snapped in an irritated tone. Apparently kicking his ass all over the training room did not improve his mood. "Don't they teach Alliance Special Forces to watch where the hell they're going?"
Sidda fired him her best 'you're being an asshole' glares. "Don't they teach Turian Special Forces to stay the hell out of the way?" she fired back and Nov stood up straight to his towering height looking down at her. He wasn't threatening. At least, not yet, he was more like bantering, flirting even. If this is how Turian flirted. "Alright, peace, Cal." She stated firmly. "Peace. No more bantering, no more fighting. I call a truce. It's been fun vying with you."
As she started to walk past him he grabbed her arm lightly to stop her. "Sid, wait." He said and she looked down at his hand then back up at the tall Turian. "I did come down here to ask you something." He finished and she turned toward him, his hand dropping back down to his side. "Word is Victus is taking us to Palaven for leave. There's a bar in Cipritine called Tova I was wondering if you come with me."
Sidda's brow furrowed, he'd lost his damn mind. "I am not going with you to a bar ever again." Sidda unequivocally stated trying to shut Nov down right then and there.
"Oh come on, you had fun last time." He replied and Sidda paused eyeing him, was he completely off his rocker?
"Callus, I don't even remember what happened last time. I remember going into Oblivion and waking up in a cell." She stated and Nov held his hands out innocently.
"Well, that's the fun part." He replied with a laugh.
"Fun? You and Damar got bitch detail for two weeks after that." She said and he laughed at the human expression.
"That's how you know you had a good time. When the CO has to come and get you." He said and realized he wasn't getting any closer to getting her to come with him.
"Nope. No way." She repeated and started to walk away from him only to have him start chasing after her.
Nov stooped to begging. "Come on, please, Sid."
Sidda turned to him. "Why do you want me to go so bad?" she asked and that was his kryptonite apparently. "Cal?" she asked growing suspicious when he didn't respond looking at the floor instead of her.
"I asked Deliah to meet me there." He blurted. "I was hoping you'd come along with me. I'm not very good with females." He added sounding embarrassed.
Sidda couldn't resist. "You? The master of tact and subtly…no."
He glowered at her. "Funny."
Sidda smirked. "I thought so." She said and heaved a sigh. "Okay, I'll go but I'm warning you, Callus Nov, if I have to fight my way out of another bar you better hope they don't put you in the same cell with me."
Sidda gazed out the window as the Lante's shuttle broke through the atmosphere of Palaven. The Lante was in docked in orbit for its refit and Maridus, Victus, and herself were on the way down to the planet. She was the only one in an enviro-suit since the planets magnetic field was too weak to block the radiation that could kill her. She'd heard thousands of things about the Turian homeworld but had never seen it firsthand. Anderson had seen it; his view was tainted by his dealings during the First Contact War. She saw the sliver look to the planet as the ship approached and couldn't help but remember the descriptions told to her. "A silver world of fortresses and fire." She said and both Maridus and Victus looked at her.
"What?" Victus asked.
"That's a description from an Asari Diplomat." Sidda said and kept her eyes on the beautiful planet below. "She was right. It's beautiful."
Cipritine was a massive city that took Sidda's breath away. Just the sheer size of it was overwhelming. Buildings spired into the sky and reminded her of Roman architecture from Ancient Earth. The heavy military influence seeped into the Turian culture; even their cities, buildings and cities were placed for a strategic tactical advantage. If anyone tried to assault this planet they were going to be in for a surprise. Victus was giving her a quick tour of the city. Sidda wasn't crazy about running around in her armor but it was for the best. There were a few environmentally controlled places but not many.
"Father." A voice called and Victus stopped and turned sharply. Sidda looked and found a Turian the same height as Victus with a very light face and the same colony markings.
Victus was visibly surprised to see him. "Tarquin." He said the surprise evident in his voice. "What are you doing here?" he asked then realized how that sounded to his son. It was good to see him but he didn't expect him to be on Palaven.
"New assignment." Tarquin replied and looked to Sidda. A human, what was a human doing on Palaven. He'd never really been around humans but she wasn't the first that he'd met.
Victus grumbled inwardly, it was proper to introduce them but he would have liked to do this some other time. "This is Cdr. Shepard, Alliance Navy." He introduced. "Commander, this is Tarquin…my son."
Sidda extended her hand to him. "Call me Sidda." She said and Tarquin didn't hesitate to shake her hand. The handshake may have been common practice on Earth but also among the Turians. She didn't know if it was for the same reason but regardless it was used the same between the cultures.
"Shepard?" Tarquin asked recognizing the name. If he said the 'Hero of Elysium' she was going to scream. "From the Skyllian Blitz?"
"Well at least it wasn't 'Hero of Elysium'." she thought. "The same." She replied.
"It's a pleasure." He said and Tarquin could tell his father was a little uncomfortable.
"Would you excuse us, Commander?" Victus asked and she took a moment to respond, confused but did as he asked moving away from the two Turians.
"What are you doing here, Father?" Tarquin asked.
"My ship needed to undergo a refit." Victus replied and leaned on the railing.
Tarquin paused and looked back to Sidda trying not to look awkward standing by herself. "And her?"
Victus looked to Sidda and let his gaze linger a bit before looking away from her. "A temporary assignment by the Council." He said. "For a human she's…extraordinary."
Tarquin could read between the lines and noticed that way his father acted and spoke about her. "Really?" he said and Victus looked at him.
"What?" he asked feeling his son's gaze burning through him.
"Extraordinary, huh?" Tarquin commented. "How extraordinary, Dad?"
Victus caught his tone and rolled his eyes shaking his head. "Tarquin…" he said in a fatherly, warning tone.
"Well done, Old Man." Tarquin prodded. "Never would have thought a human."
Victus sighed again, standing up straight and grumbling to his son who was having way more fun then she should have been having with this news. "Tarquin." He warned again.
Tarquin chuckled and patted his father's shoulder. "Alright, I'm done." He chuckled. "I'm done."
Victus eyed his son; he knew he was only poking fun at him. "Don't you have somewhere to be?"
Tarquin chuckled loud enough for Sidda to hear. He had the same laugh as Adrien. They looked almost the same, Tarquin's skin was lighter and he carried himself differently. Adrien carried himself with pride and cool confidence. Tarquin carried himself like a trained solider, confident yes, but not seasoned confidence. "In fact I do." He said. "It was good seeing you." Victus nodded, it wasn't planned but he was happy to see his son. He hadn't seen his son in a long time. "Cdr. Shepard," he said walking over to her extending his hand again. "an honor, Commander."
Sidda shook his hand and offered him a smile from behind her helmet. "Likewise." As he left she noticed that Victus hadn't moved from his spot by the railing. She walked up next to him and leaned on the railing much like he did earlier. "So…that was your son." She said and Victus nodded. "He looks a lot like you."
He knew that, everyone said that to him. The light skin tone was his mother's but the rest was him. "So they keep telling me." He replied.
"You're better looking though." She added hearing him chuckle to that.
Victus looked down at her, he wanted to see more of her face but it was hidden safely behind her helmet, he settled for a glimpse of her hazel eyes. They seemed to have a green tint to them in the Palaven sun. "Shall we, Commander?" he asked careful about keeping his hands to himself.
Sidda eyed him and stood up straight, her smile hidden from him. "We shall."
That evening Sidda made good on her promise and went with Nov to a bar call Tova. This bar was much more tame then Oblivion was but the number of Turians had increased, Sidda's presence caused the same reaction as Oblivions but this time she wasn't going to be knocking back and untold amount of Brandy. She still couldn't remember how much she consumed that night, apparently enough to start the fight that landed them in the brig. When she walked in it was like a moment of déjà vu, the fact about Oblivion was there were plenty of Turians there that served on the Lante, not this time. The crew had scattered for their week long leave so she was on her own with Nov as her only shield, Rajin too once they found her.
To Sidda, Rajin was hard to find in the sea of Turians. The black hand print of her colony was lost in the dimly lit bar so Sidda relied on Nov to find her.
Nov cut through the crowd of people with ease and seemed like he knew where he was going. If he'd seen her he didn't advertise it. "Cal!" she heard someone call and looked over to see Rajin on her left standing at a small table. Rajin looked much different out of uniform and armor. She wore, what looked to Sidda, like black leather pants and a red corset. "Sid…" Rajin began sound almost surprised that she was there with him. "I didn't know you were coming."
Sidda nodded, seeing the wind deflate from Rajin's sails. "Yeah, it's his fault." She replied gesturing to Nov.
Nov's expression was colored with confusion. "My fault? What did I do?" he asked, he'd been here for 30 seconds and something was already his fault.
Rajin and Sidda chuckled. "Cal, why don't you go get us some drinks." Sidda instructed seeing Rajin's body language change.
Nov didn't need much more than that and headed off into the crowd to do just that. "Deliah, I'm sorry, he asked me to come." Sidda apologized. "He'll face down a bullet but a date scares the hell out of him."
Rajin giggled. "Apparently no matter where you go all men are the same." She said pretty much reading Sidda's thoughts.
"Exactly." Sidda replied with a laugh as she leaned on the tall table.
Rajin looked her up and down then leaned forward onto the table mimicking her. "Hey, why don't you hang around? Plenty of Turians out there that may be interested in an interspecies fling, one of them may suit you." She said and Sidda allowed a blush.
"Nah, thanks, Deliah." She replied, in fact she did want her interspecies fling but her target wasn't present. "I'm gonna make sure he doesn't need me to hold his hand then I'll head back up to the ship." She stated and saw Rajin begin to protest. "I'm more comfortable up there." She justified and Rajin could understand that.
Rajin leaned on the table toward her. "Then let me ask you this." She began and Sidda saw the next question coming a light-year away. "Did you tell him what I said to you?"
Sidda stammered a little and thought about how to answer that then decided to just fess up. "I'm sorry, Deliah, he needs to loosen up and you two look great together."
Rajin wasn't mad, in fact she was grateful. She'd had a long standing crush on Nov but she was too shy and he was obviously too dense. "Don't apologize. Thank you."
Sidda couldn't hide the happy smile. "You're welcome. But you may not want to thank me yet. He's been acting like a buffoon lately."
Rajin chuckled as she leered after the red faced Turian waiting at the bar for the drinks talking to a few other Turians. "No, he's been acting like a male." She replied looking Nov up and down.
"Nice to know that behavior among males is a galactic constant no matter what species they are." Sidda stated and Rajin chuckled.
As Nov returned with three drinks he noticed Sidda and Rajin chuckling and periodically looking at him. "Alright, I think you two are getting on a little too well." He said. "You two, giggling and looking at me…not sure if I like that."
Rajin and Sidda looked at each other and took the two drinks he'd gotten for them, a small glass of Brandy for Sidda and something else that Sidda couldn't identify for Rajin. "Oh don't worry, Cal," Rajin said with a flirty tone. "You're safe with us."
Nov took a swig of his drink, it burned as it went down and he cleared his throat. "Oh yeah, tonight's gonna be a fun night." He said and neither one of them were sure if he was sincere or sarcastic about it.
After leaving Tova, Sidda took the last transport back up to the ship; it was safer for her to be on the ship in a regulated environment. She spent the rest of the evening occupying herself with running or working out in the training room. The only other people on the ship were the engineers and security personnel. She ended her run in the training room; this was her time to think. She was half way through her assignment and it was the best assignment she'd ever had. The only thing that nagged at her was Victus. What was going to happen after her assignment was over?
Normally, Victus would spend his leave down on Palaven rather than on a ship that was being refitted, but what he wanted was on this ship. He made his way to her quarters but found them empty. That puzzled him, at this time of night that's where she usually was. As puzzled as he was Sidda was relatively predictable so he headed to the Training Room. She'd spend the better part of her assignment so far bettering herself in hand to hand against Turians. She made a best friend in Nov who had done a hell of a job teaching her his dirty fighter techniques. True enough he found Sidda in the training room and leaned on the wall simply watching her.
"How was the bar?" he asked breaking the silence and making her turn sharply.
Damn, Turians were stealthy Sidda thought to herself. "Why am I not surprised that you know I went to a bar?" she asked and he allowed a chuckle.
"Sid, nothing happens with you on this assignment that I don't know about." He stated and moved toward her.
Sidda blinked and stopped what she was doing. "That's disturbing." She commented. "Kind of stalkerish."
Victus allowed another chuckle as he stood close behind her and put his hands on her waist. "You going to a bar full of Turians with Nov…all I could think of was Zinith." He said and she chuckled.
"Wholly uneventful this time, Baby." She replied and leaned back into him. "But I figured sticking around in a room full of intoxicated Turians was a fight waiting to happen so I came back up here."
Sidda could have sworn Victus purred. "I'm glad you did." He said and she put her hands on his just letting him hold onto her. "You want to spar?"
Sidda scoffed. "No. I've gotten my ass stomped on enough lately." She said and turned in his grasp putting her arms around his neck and shoulders as best as she could due to his height. "But you can take me to bed, General." She said and he started to purr again. Whether it be a purr or growl Sidda enjoyed hearing it coming from him and Victus was more than happy to oblige her request.
