Kaidan missed the Normandy so it was good to be living on her once again, it was quiet now, not like it had been that fateful night after the Normandy had picked Kaidan and Liara up in London because they had gotten hurt pretty bad.
It was all like a dream…
"Quick get me medi-gel and some blood I need universal Human and Asari!" screamed as she franticly tried to stop the bleeding in a gaping wound in kaidan's side and the three gun shots in Liara's stomach.
The room was spinning and getting blurry.
"Damn it Kaidan stay with me!" Chakwas almost shook him, she lifted up the blood soaked bandage and blood gushed out splattering the doctor's face.
EDI's voice came over the ship's speakers "Doctor, Liara is flat lining."
The doctor squirted some medi-gel on Kaidan's wounds and then ran over to Liara. Kaidan turned his head to see the doctor stab an adrenaline needle into her heart and watched has her eyes flew open and she coughed up some of her purple blood on 's outfit.
The room shook and the lights flickered.
Kaidan coughed up some blood, "I'm so sorry Shepard" he whispered as the blackness closed in around his vision.
Kaidan shook the vision from his head as he sat shirtless on Shepard's bed; he ran his finger over the long scar along the right side of his ribs closing his eyes
"Mordin says that the initial estimate of three years was very far off he said that Shepard will be out of the tank in a year and a month… give or take."
Kaidan hadn't even noticed Liara come in "That's great news!" Kaidan forced a smile.
Liara frowned "Are you going to tell me what's wrong?" she sat down next to him on the bed.
"I was just thinking back to the last time I saw him how hurt we both were, we almost died that day if we hadn't pulled through we wouldn't have had a chance to bring him back. It's just I don't know it's just scary how quick we can lose everything."
Liara listened while she watched Kaidan feel his old scar as he looked out at the now cleaned up cabin.
"I can still hear his voice sometimes, him telling me that he loves me or that he's so sorry." Kaidan said numbly
"Kaidan I… I don't know what to say, nothing I can tell you will make it better or any easier… I… I still hear him sometimes too, it hurts I know I find myself waking up in the middle of the night calling his name as you and me tried to get him to abandon ship on the first Normandy. Back on Earth before the battle me and Shepard linked and we shared some memories with each other, just of our times together and the laughs we shared. But I saw a lot of you in there Kaidan he loved you dearly. And I know that Shepard wont let a thing like death change that."
Kaidan hung his head and rubbed his tearing eyes and kinda half chuckled. "Yeah this has got to be what the fifth time someone has brought him back to life?"
Liara laughed lightly and leaned her head on Kaidan's bare shoulder and closed her eyes.
Kaidan too shut his eyes as they sat there in silence.
"Liara?" Kaidan said looking at her.
"Hmmm?" she said looking up at him their faces inches away.
"Thank you I'm really glad that you are here with me."
" It's-"
Just then Kaidan's omni-tool alert went off he looked down to see who was calling him. "Shit it's the council!" He exclaimed.
Kaidan opened the COM link and the Asari councilor appeared on the screen "Major Alenko I trust that you have nothing to do with the Normandy's disappearance or that you have nothing to do with the fact that five major associates of Commander Shepard were seen on Illium shopping for parts, weapons, ammo, and ship fuel for the Normandy."
"I, uh…"
"I don't know what you think you are doing but you better have an explanation." The Asari counislor scowled at Kaidan.
"I really can't give you an explanation councilor." Kaidan said firmly
"I see well then it must be important, I will pass along the info that you are in no way associated with this and don't worry your friends will be excluded as well, and how are you doing Dr. T'soni?" The councilor said with a smirk
"I am well councilor Tevos and you?" Liara said popping into view
"I am good as well, I will trust that you will keep Mr. Alenko and the Normandy safe it represents a large investment on the council's behalf to buy it from the Allience."
"You have my word." Liara said with a smile.
"Well then good luck you too may the goddess be with you." And with that the line went dead.
Kaidan fell back on the bed " Holy Christ I don't know how Shepard did it. I about shit my pants when I saw it was them. Shepard must have had some pretty big balls."
Liara laughed, "You would know! She said as she pushed him making room for her on the bed
Kaidan laughed "Yeah I suppose I would!"
Kaidan and Liara's eyes met once again Kaidan blushed and Liara smiled. Both of them don't know who made the first move but the next thing Kaidan knew Liara was on top of him and they both were in the middle of a heated make out. Kaidan kissed her with the ferocity of over a year with out the slightest human contact and very soon felt a tent start to form in his pants. Liara rubbed the exposed flesh of Kaidan's chest and the combined biotic energies that flowed from the two crackled and shocked as they continued to kiss each other at the speed of lust. Kaidan retracted his tongue and sucked on Liara's bottom lip just as Shepard had done to him… Just like Shepard Kaidan thought and instantly rolled out from under Liara and onto the floor as he stared up at the ceiling in horror panting like an animal.
"I am so sorry Kaidan, I don't know what came over me." Liara said after she took a moment to compose herself.
"I'm sorry too Liara that was a mistake." Kaidan said as he felt his mouth with his hand and tried to see if they were even his lips that had just committed such an act.
Sure Shepard was still dead or was he? How long till the gelatinous mass down in the med bay was alive and Kaidan would have truly cheated on him. The strange thing was that it didn't feel weird to him; sure he had been with many girls before and then when Shepard came along he threw those feelings for women out the door. But even this was different Kaidan had never been with an alien let alone an Asari, the way their biotics flared with each other and crackled felt amazing and even though they had kissed a short time Kaidan could feel Liara in his mind filling it with lust and ecstasy.
Kaidan just lay there on the floor too afraid and embarrassed to look at Liara.
"Kaidan, can you please come back up here so we can talk?" Liara said.
Kaidan got up and sat down on the bed, still not daring to look at Liara, he could tell his face was red by the heat radiating off of them. Damn it Kaidan thought to himself.
"Look I don't want this to change anything between us Liara you're a great friend." Kaidan said looking at his feet.
"I never meant for you to find out this way, because I didn't want to put you in this position." Liara said.
"What do you mean?" Kaidan said finally making eye contact
"Kaidan… I should go I need to check something… er on my broker terminal… yeah" Liara said as she got up and practically ran for the door.
Kaidan lay there looking up at the view port and looked out at the stars as he did after he and Shepard had sex that night.
What have I done? He thought to himself. Here we are finally bringing Shepard back and im messing around with Liara?
Kaidan activated his omni-tool and called Councilor Tevos, the Asari answered, "Yes what is it Major?"
"I'm sorry to bug you councilor but I have Liara covering this personal assignment for me and I feel it would be wrong for me to neglect my responsibilities as a spectre to say here." Kaidan said hiding his true intentions.
"I see well it just so happens that your old colony Horizon is in need of relief supplies the Reapers really did a number there and the colonists there are having a hard time bouncing back. I'll send you the details just have the Normandy drop you off there."
"Will do councilor." Kaidan said with a hard heart, but he knew that he had to get out of there.
