It's a little dramatic I know but it is neccesary for a major upcoming storypoint.

Comments are highly appreciated.

Shepard looked at her.

'I know' He said, and he smiled.

'Why didn't you ask me?' Tali asked.

'I was waiting for the perfect moment and that moment obviously never came' Shepard said, grabbing Tali's left hand.

'We will be one happy little family on Rannoch after this is over' Shepard said.

Tali leaned her head against his chest.

'But how is it even possible?' Shepard asked and turned his face to look at Tali directly.

'I have an extremely rare genetic defect, it causes my problems in my dna code, allowing mixing with dna from other races' Tali said.

'We are damn lucky' Shepard said.

Shepard hugged hear from behind, feeling her chest rising and falling.

'Commander, you might want to prepare to dock, because we are about to reach Omega' Joker said over the com.

Shepard stuffed the last piece of bread in his mouth, and walked to the docking door.

The journey had taken about four hours, four long hours.

Every minute it took, he could hear the cries of the dying in his head.

'Tali and Miranda, gather at the docking door asap' Shepard said over his com.

Shepard had put on his armor just in case.

Omega was a place not known for being friendly.

Hell, the last time Shepard was there, hundredths of Cerberus troopers where shooting at him.

The evidence of this battle could still be seen.

Dozens of destroyed warship still dotted the area around omega itself.

It would perhaps take dozens of years before they would be taken care of.

The Normandy took a turn to the right, and slowed down.

A hanger bay appeared to their right and Joker piloted the Normandy to perfectly align on the first try.

Both Miranda and Tali arrived.

'You know where we are headed?' Shepard asked to Miranda.

'The meeting point was in one of the slums, but it was an area riddled with violence and drug abusers' Miranda said.

'Isn't that the case for all of Omega?' Tali asked.

'Not all of Omega is bad, the area's firmly in control by Aria are fairly well civilized' Miranda asked.

The door hissed, pressurizing the air.

'But we had to meet in the most god forsaken area's in all of Omega, just to be sure no one was following us' Miranda said.

Shepard opened the door, and the three of them stepped inside Omega.

Omega hadn't changed dramatically since Shepard was last there.

Sure all the bodies were gone, but a major part of the damage was still there.

Almost all of the lamps in the ceiling ten meter above their heads were still not working, and as the group walked further inside Omega, they noticed that a lot of area's were closed down because of breaches in the stations outer layer.

'It's still a fucking hell hole' Shepard said.

Tali and Shepard followed Miranda as she carefully led them through a maze of hallways, shops and housing.

As he walked next to another shop, Shepard thought:

'Omega is the definition of organized junk'

'You sure we have to go like this, I think the air here will damage my filters' Tali complained to Miranda.

Miranda nodded and let them further inside omega.

Suddenly the walk way they were following went downwards, and let them away from all the houses and shops.

They were exchanged for bars, and Shepard saw that Miranda was right about the drug abuse in the area.

More than once, when they passed a house, they saw people of all races hunched down, grabbing their stomach.

Some of them seemed dead, until you watched them closer, that's when you could see that they were in some sort of trance.

'This is horrible' Tali said.

'Omega has always been like this and this is the way it will always be' Miranda said.

She pushed aside a piece of cloth that was hanging in front of them, and led them even further.

As the journey continued on, Tali grabbed Shepards hand.

'I don't trust the bosh'tet'' She said silently.

'We have to trust her, there is no other way' Shepard said with a slight distrust in his voice.

'What would I gain in abducting you?' Miranda said, she overheard the conversation.

'The galaxy's greatest hero?' Tali said.

'God, I don't think there is anything I can ever say that will win your trust' Miranda said and she stopped right in front of a door.

'No, you don't' Tali sneered back.

Miranda shook her head, and turned around.

'We reached the café were we usually went' She said.

'Let's get inside and get it done' Shepard said looking at Miranda.

Miranda opened the door and walked inside, with Tali and Shepard following behind them.

Unlike Shepard had expected, the place was dead quiet.

Not even vermin were present in the café.

Chairs and other pieces of furniture were thrown all around the café's bar.

It surely didn't seem a place where agents of one of humanity's richest sects would gather.

'I think she's leading us into a trap' Tali said.

'For once in your life you have to trust me' Miranda said as she walked around the bar.

Using her biotics, she pushed the majority of rubble aside.

It revealed a carpet of red fibers mixed with some blue and purple.

Miranda also shoved it aside, bringing forth the wooden floor.

Next, she activated a button somewhere right between the wooden beams using her biotics, and it sprung up.

'What the hell did you just do?' Tali asked.

'It would be bad if just a random person opened this, so it's only able to be opened by someone from Cerberus, the lock has a DNA-scanner on it' Miranda said.

'And how did you managed to open it, since you left Cerberus years ago?' Tali asked.

'Well, some things just take time changing' Miranda said, and she took a very tiny black box.

Miranda stood up, and she gave the box to Shepard.

'If any information about surviving groups exist, it's on here' She said.

Shepard nodded, and he put the box in his pocket.

Suddenly, Miranda grabbed both of their arms.

'What the?' Tali tried to exclaim.

Miranda razed her finger, urging them to be quiet.

'Someone is outside' She gestured.

Shepard grabbed his gun, and aimed it right towards the door.

They all waited for something to happen.

And it did.

A huge shockwave knocked the door and the three behind it down.

Multiple bandits stormed inside.

'Money or your life, we can also settle with both of them at the same time' A Salarian said.

Just in time, Shepard managed to grab Tali, and together with her, jumped behind the counter.

Miranda also avoided the bullets by jumping out of the way into the toilets next to the counter.

'Shepard!' Tali yelled.

He ignored her, and instead looked around him.

He found a small hole right in front of him, allowing him to see the four bandits.

Shepard aimed his gun right through one the hole in the counter, and took one of the bandits out.

The bandits riddled their position with bullets, Shepard pushed Tali to the floor, and layed down upon her to shield her body.

There was no way Shepard could do both protect Tali, and kill the bandits.

'We should have gone in full battle gear' Shepard thought.

Right when one of the bandits was walking towards their position, a blue wave knocked them back, smashing them against the wall.

Four shots in quick succession sounded across the bar, and it was silent again.

'They are dead, you can come out of hiding now' Miranda said.

Shepard got up to his feet and looked at her.

'I'm happy we brought you with us' Shepard said.

'Well, I'm always happy to help' Miranda said, and she put her gun back in her pocket.

Shepard took a deep breath and said:

'Finally, we're ready'

'Let's get going then' Miranda said.

They walked to the door before Shepard noticed there was something wrong.

'Tali!' He yelled.

'Shepard…' He heard her say faintly from behind the counter.

Shepard almost jumped the entire distance between the door and the counter, before he threw himself over it.

Tali was laying hunched up against the counters inside wooden wall.

She was grabbing her stomach.

Shepards face turned white as blood was pouring between her hands.

'Shepard, we have to get' Tali said faintly.

Shepard ripped a piece of cloth from one of the dead bandits uniforms, and wrapped it around her chest, trying to stem the bleeding.

Miranda appeared right beside Shepard.

'We have to get her back now!' She said.

Miranda helped Shepard lifting Tali from the ground.

Shepard grabbed Tali tightly, and ran outside.

Miranda didn't even need to show him the way back.

As Shepard ran back, Tali didn't respond to anything.

She was weaker by the minute.

'Prepare surgery with doctor Chakwas immediately!' Miranda exclaimed over the com with the Normandy.

The further they went back, the more desperate Shepard became.

He started to feel Tali's blood sipping through onto his hands.

The cloth was already soaked in it.

The short journey of less than three minutes felt like it lasted for hours.

Time was running out, time they didn't have.

Shepard could feel his heart pounding.

Tali was the love of his life, losing her would mean the end of everything.

Finally, after a seemingly hour-long run, the three reached the dock were the Normandy was.

The door sprang open, and the three stormed inside.

Doctor Chakwas was already standing ready.

She had prepared herself,

She was wearing a white operation cloth, it covered her from thirty centimeters below the waste all the way towards her chin.

'Get her to the sickbay!' She said.

Shepard ran straight past her, into the elevator.

Right before the doors closed, Dr. Chakwas also got inside.

He didn't know how fast he could press the bottom.

After according to Shepard very painful one seconds delay, the elevator went down.

The doors opened again, they had reached the sick bay.

Dr. Chakwas pushed the door open, and Shepard got inside.

He laid Tali on an operating table and looked at Dr. Chakwas.

'This is going to be tricky, you might want to look away' She said, and she grabbed her instruments.

Carefully, Chakwas removed the cloth that Shepard used to help stop the bleeding.

Chakwas face didn't change at all.

She carefully removed a part of Tali's suit, exposing her greyish-white skin.

'Can she make it?' Shepard asked.

'I don't know, but it's bad, very bad' Chakwas said.

Shepard wished the world disappeared under him.

To swallow him, and allowing him to get away from this nightmare.

'Give me one of the bottles on the right!' Chakwas said.

Shepard handed her the bottle and watched as Chakwas poured it over the wound.

Most of the blood was washed away, allowing Chakwas to see the wound.

'Is she and her.. going to be alright?' Shepard asked.

'Yes I know you two are having a baby, and yes, if I can save Tali, the baby will be fine, her womb wasn't in the path of the bullet' She said

'The shot has carved a path right through her, repairing the damage will take some time, you must leave the room now' Chakwas said.

'But I..' Shepard tried to bring in.

'NOW Shepard, I need to concentrate and I work better alone.' Chakwas said, looking at him for a second before immediately returning to work.

In a split second Shepard decided to do what Chakwas said, and he walked outside.

Outside some of the crew was waiting for him.

'What happened?' Ashley asked.

'Bandits, they attacked us, and shot Tali in the process, she was hit badly, Chakwas is trying to save her life' Shepard said.

'Dear god' Another crewmember said.

'I will pray for her' Ashley said.

'You're a religious person?' Shepard asked.

'Sometimes, It's a leftover from the war' Ashley said.

'Pray all you can, Tali's going to need it' Shepard said, and he walked to one of the chairs on the dining table, which was right against the elevator shaft, and between the sick bay and Miranda's office.

Over an hour later.

Shepard was still staring at the sick bay.

Suddenly the sick bay's door went open, and Dr. Chakwas came out.

'Did she make it?' Shepard asked.

'It was the hardest operation I've ever done' Chakwas said.

'But did she make it?' Shepard asked again.

'Yes Shepard, she made it by the skin of her teeth, I barely managed to save her, if you hadn't covered her torso with the cloth, she would not have' Chakwas said.

Shepard hugged her.

'I'm forever thankful' He said.

Dr. Chakwas smiled.

'Go and visit her' She said.

Shepard walked straight to the door and went inside.

The sick bay seemed like a battle field.

There was blood everywhere on the floor, and Chakwas instruments were still laying on a table close to the one Tali was laying on.

He saw that Chakwas had closed the wound, and had covered it with a thick layer of bandage.

Shepard didn't even want to think about how it looked like beneath the bandage.

All it mattered was that Tali had made it.

Shepard couldn't imagine a world without her.

She was the sun in his life.

A candle in against Shepards inner darkness.

As he watched her chest slowly rising and falling, he felt like he was blessed with a mountain of relief.