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Mass Effect: Jumped In

WARNING! This chapter contains mentioning of rape and sexual assault and some other slightly adult situations. Read at your own risk!

Chapter 10

Sharia's Past

Asteroid X57. Hangar Bay.

Sharia panted really hard and slowly. Her fingers were still warped around the batarian knifes handle. She felt pain going through her entire body, the beating from Balak still hurt. There were small drops of sweat on her head. Everybody was completely silent. Shepard, Tali and Liara, all watching Sharia's every movement.

She then slowly took her hands off the knife and got up. She stared at the shocked expression the batarian was giving. "Consider this a payback from last time Balak." Sharia said. "Hope you are happy that I returned your knife back." she added the last bit more quietly. Tearing her gaze from the batarian terrorist.

Everybody changed glances between Sharia and Balak, who was miraculously alive. It had happened so fast. For a moment it looked like Sharia was going for the batarians heart. But in final seconds changed her direction and stabbed Balak right on his right shoulder.

Sharia then started slowly walking past Commander and others. Right towards the elevator. Her face seemed to be clear of any emotion. Only her eyes seemed to reflect what she was feeling. And she seemed to be somewhere between confused and angry.

"Commander. I…" she tried to say, but were interrupted.

"Is everybody alright?" a familiar voice asked. "I thought I heard someone yelling…" engineer Atwell stopped when seeing the exhausted Sharia, slightly shocked looking Liara and Tali (even though he couldn't see her face), slightly glaring and somewhat disappointed looking Commander and panting and injured Balak. "Oh." he said.

That seemed to be the cue for Sharia since she almost immediately sprinted towards the hallway and towards the elevator. Tali all of sudden turned to Juliana. "Commander. If I wonder if…"

"Go ahead Tali. I think she needs someone to talk with." Juliana said understanding. "But I'm going to have my own talk with her later." she added. Sounding quite strict which kind of scared Tali. "Of course Commander." Tali nodded. "And thanks." she then ran after Sharia, wanting to catch her before the elevator left her.

Sharia closed the elevator, the bodies of batarians were the only ones waiting. She stepped in the elevator, but instead of making it going upwards, back to the main room. She hit the controls and stopped the elevator. She then slammed one of her fists onto wall, while pressing her forehead against it, sobbing.

She just couldn't do it. After so many years of thinking getting back to Balak, and the opportunity finally had presented itself, she couldn't do it. And when Tali had showed up, that's where she felt like she was betraying her. And not just Tali, but also Commander and Nethely.

Why this suddenly became so hard! She already knew killing Balak wouldn't bring Nethely back. But at least he would pay for all those lives (including hers and Nethelys) he had ruined. But that didn't happen, but at least he was now captured and probably the Galaxy never had to see him again.

Sharias thoughts were interrupted when the elevator's doors opened and Tali stood before her, her Omni-tool activated. "Sharia…" Tali began shutting down her Omni-tool. "Is… is everything alright?" she asked, although she probably knew the answer.

"No. I'm not alright!" Sharia said. "My head is messed up and right now I don't know what's right or wrong." she breathed heavily. And she started feeling the tears coming back and tried to stop them, but in vain.

Tali continued staring at her. Feeling really bad for her. Sharia looked completely lost and she wasn't sure what to say. While she went after Sharia, she wasn't completely sure how to speak to her. But now seeing Sharia like this, Tali suddenly forgot what she had thought about saying to Sharia.

"I thought I made myself crystal clear that I would kill him and that would be it. That I would deal with what ever was going to be thrown at me!" she said, her voice still raised. It also seemed like Sharia was almost like talking to herself than to Tali. "But now that I came to this close, and I couldn't do it!" Tali remained quiet for a long time. While she was thinking what to say, the elevator doors soon closed and the elevator started ascend upwards.

"Listen Sharia… while I might not know how you feel." Sharia started raise her head, looking at Tali. As if saying "You sure as hell don't!" to her. "But I know that you can't beat yourself about what happened between yourself and Balak in past. And now."

"I've seen it before, with my father." she said. " You remember, when I told you about my family?" she asked, in which Sharia nodded, remembering their conversation about how Tali's father was affected by her mothers death.

How it seemed to have made him more distant from his family. And his daughter. Was the same thing happening to Sharia as well. Had the urge to kill Balak really drove her away from others? Like last time? This all was just too much for her right now. She needed time to think. Time to be alone.

"Tali… please. Don't say anything. Please." Sharia pleaded. Now looking away from Tali. "Right now, I want some time to think this over. I… I want to be alone right now." she said. Like she wasn't fully believing her own words.

"Are you sure?" Tali asked. Not sure if leaving Sharia right now alone was a good idea.

"Yeah." Sharia said.

The elevator soon stopped with a small sound and the doors opened, revealing the large hall where they had fought while ago. Sharia then saw two of the humans that were held as hostages, were now caring the bodies of the batarians away.

Sharia walked across the hall. As she walked up the stairs, she noticed the woman Kate Bowman sitting next to a table, her hand on her head. Suddenly, before she knew she had changed direction and started walking to the room where the woman was sitting right now.

"Hey." she said. Getting the woman's attention. "Is everything alright?" she asked. For a moment Kate just stared at Sharia with bland expression. Then turned to look back at the window. "Hanging I guess." she said with distant voice.

"And uuh, thanks from before."

"Huh?" Sharia asked. Not really following what Kate meant right now.

"For rescuing us." Kate said. Sharia on the other hand felt little stupid for forgetting that part. "You are welcome." Sharia said, with small smile on her lips. It felt little good to hear someone giving some compliments. For a moment Sharia wanted to stay there with Kate for a moment, but she didn't feel like invading the woman's privacy.

"Well…" she started awkwardly. "I hope you can get over this. From what happened today." Sharia said.

As she was about to leave, Kate suddenly stiffed a bit and started talking. "He killed him." that made Sharia stop.

"What?" she asked. Sounding bit shocked.

"That Balak." Kate said. Her tone was really sad. "He killed my brother Aaron, when we refused to tell him who was shutting down the torches." she explained.

"I'm… I'm sorry." Sharia said lowering her head. She felt a lump rising to her throat again for the fact that Balak had taken someone precious to someone from them again. But it was over finally. "But with what price?" she wondered. How many lives had he already destroyed?

"Don't be." Kate said. Giving Sharia a small, sad smile while also cutting Sharia from her thoughts.

"I believe we, he did the right thing." suddenly Kate let out a small chuckle which confused Sharia.

"He was the one who got me to this station. Said 'It would be an adventure'." Kate explained. Her voice cracking a bit. "He was always looking for a something exiting."

Kate suddenly felt someone patting her shoulder, she turned her head, seeing Sharia standing next to her. But not saying a word, but in way this was a moment where words weren't exactly enough.

"Thanks." Kate thanked quietly. "Could let me be alone for a moment?" Kate asked. Almost pleaded.

Sharia decided to not bother her anymore. This woman had gone through a lot and probably needed some alone time right now. "Of course." she said. Starting to grow the distance between them. She didn't feel like saying anything else for Kate, so she decided to walk quickly back to the Mako where she might get some more alone time.

Sharia then proceeded to walk past Tali, who this time didn't seem to follow and that seemed to disturb Sharia a bit. But she decided to shake that off, she wanted the herself right now.

Asteroid X57. Inside Mako. Preparing for pick up.

Juliana felt frustrated. The fact that Balak wouldn't shut up when they hauled him inside one of the ships Juliana had carefully disabled and the way Sharia had been acting this whole mission had emerged many feelings inside of her. Feelings like frustration, disappointment and maybe even some anger. And for a good reason, Sharia could've put them all in danger. But that also reminded Juliana of herself from before. The way she had acted long ago.

But this day had it's good side. They were able to get Tali a new armor when they found out that Simon had one in storage. But it wasn't easy to tell him about the engineers who hadn't survived from the cruelty of batarians. Surprisingly he had took it little better than she had thought.

"Normandy closing in Commander. ETA in 4 minutes." Joker called. Interrupted Juliana's trail of thought.

"Roger Joker." Juliana answered. She waited for a while and then activated Mako's jump packs as SSV Normandy flew over them and picked them up. There was a small jerk as the vehicle hit the deck.

Almost immediately, Sharia took off towards the elevator and her quarters before anyone could stop her. But Juliana decided to let her go, since she doubted that it wouldn't do Sharia any good if she started shouting at her in front of most of the crew. And she wanted to learn little more about her and Balak's past, since it seemed to be quite personal.

"Hey Shepard, what's crawling up with that asari's ass?" Wrex asked, while looking at both Juliana and the direction Sharia had ran. Juliana didn't answer that.

"That is quite personal Wrex." Garrus answered on behalf of Juliana.

The Battlemaster made a sound that seemed to be small laugh. "Well, just give something blow up and the problem solved." Wrex said. "She looked like she could tear a Thresher Maw into pieces." he commented while getting back to his original place. Juliana wasn't sure if the krogan was giving a compliment for Sharia, which was interesting since the krogan Battlemaster didn't usually give compliments to anyone. Only when he seemed to find some kind of reason for it.

But then Juliana turned to Garrus. "You know about Sharia and Balak?" she asked in a bit surprised and slightly outraged voice.

To that Garrus became quite uncomfortable. "Well, you could say so." he sighted. "That was a horrible day for Sharia. And also for C-Sec." Garrus explained. And was about to continue, but suddenly stopped. As it seemed like he was thinking what he was going to say. "But you should ask Sharia herself. If she wants to tell you." he explained. Then left Juliana and others, while started working on the Mako.

SSV Normandy. Personal quarters.

Sharia felt really tired. It felt like one of her long C-Sec guard duties or after doing a long case. But it wasn't like that now. And one thing might be sure that her time in this ship might not be so long. For a while now, she had felt bit bad for betraying Commanders trust like that. After all, they were on a mission to stop a rogue Specter who had army of Geth under his command.

And when Commander had offered her (sort of) to join up with her, she had thought it would be a long shot, but she might get a better chance of finding Balak. And she actually found him. And couldn't kill him. She sighted. Couple years of trying to find him and now she had, but she had left him live. For some reason that had made her feel somewhat better, which she wasn't sure if that made any kind of sense.

But either way, she had betrayed Commanders trust, by pursuing her own desire for revenge. And failed miserably. She sifted slightly on her bed, feeling bit cramped. She then heard the quarters doors opening and couple people entering her room.

"Sharia, we need to talk." she heard Commanders low toned voice.

"I guess this is it." she thought. "I guess." she sighted. Raising her head from her knees. She noticed that not only Commander was there, but Tali also and Dr. T'Soni for some reason. "Probably only wanted to company the Commander." Sharia thought.

"Do you have anything to explain yourself?" Commander asked. Sharia noticed that Commanders voice wasn't that strict like she had expected.

Sharia laid her head against her knees again, but only for a short time before raising it again, but not facing the Commander. "I guess not really…" she said, while looking more likely at Commanders feet than her face. "And you probably already know most of my reasons." she sighted.

Juliana looked at Sharia, noticing how she still looked quite lost. She wanted to understand what had exactly happened between Sharia and Balak, but it was also her duty as a Commander to make Sharia understand that she couldn't just pursue her own needs and probably jeopardize the mission.

"I think I got the picture Sharia." Shepard admitted. "But that still doesn't mean you can ran off like that!" Shepard was now raising her voice. "Going off like wouldn't only put the mission in jeopardy, but also everyone that is involved!"

"I knew about it, and tried my best to avoid it!" Sharia said. Her own voice started to rise, but she did her best not to outburst right in front of Commander. She was already in deep trouble. "And I wanted to pay Balak back for what he did to Nethely and me!"

Now Juliana was getting little frustrated. Sharia was becoming quite difficult when she couldn't even tell her the whole story. "That still give you the excuse to do something like that!" she said.

Her voice even more raised. "Damn it Sharia, why can't you just tell me what exactly happened!" she almost yelled.

"You can't expect me to understand you if you can't tell me!" Shepard said her voice tone still raised, but not so high like moments ago.

Sharia was completely still for a long time. For a moment it seemed like she had completely frozen in her place, her eyes seemed to look into nothingness. But she quickly came around when her eyes blinked couple times and mumbled something that no one couldn't heard her. "Sharia?" Tali asked, getting the asari's attention.

"He raped her…" Sharia said now more loudly. "And not only that… he raped her right in front of me for hours! And to add insult to injury, he was going to do the same thing for me!" Sharia's voice was getting louder from every breath she took and her eyes had started to water horribly.

"The bastard ordered his men to hold me still while he… violated Nethely!" Sharia hissed. The sudden change of Sharia's mood was both surprise and little scary. Even though Sharia tried her best not to show much of emotion on her face, her eyes seemed to burn with hot fire enough to burn entire planet. "And I could see from his face how much he enjoyed it!" Slowly Sharia's Biotic fields started flare around her entire body which made Shepard and other back down a bit.

"Sharia! Get yourself together!" Shepard was now yelling.

That seemed to get Sharia around as her Biotic fields started to fade. "Sorry about that…" she mumbled. Sharia was now getting up and sited up from her previous position. "It's just that Nethely meant a big deal for me." Sharia said, still a bit shacked off. "She… she helped me out when my live was a wreck."

"What you mean?" Shepard asked. Tali also looked at Sharia, which showed both interest and worry.

Sharia took couple deep breaths before telling Commander and others about her past with Nethely. "Before I joined up with C-Sec, I was at some point part of a gang." she explained. She then let out a small chuckle when she saw Commanders and Talis surprised looks. "I guess you didn't expect that." she said.

"But yeah, I was a gang member a while ago and I'm not proud of it." she sighted. Sounding also ashamed. "It was that time at the Citadel that I kind of wanted some excitement. And before I knew it, I was part of this gang called 'Neblulas Arm'." Sharia told them. "And I don't know why decided to call themselves in such cheesy way." Sharia quickly added up.

"We weren't that much of a gang that caused that much trouble, we were more like freelancers. We took different kinds of jobs, well not most of the time anyway. And sometimes we… well, most of the time stole some small stores or put a small prank on someone. But it was mostly harmless." Sharia admitted. "But then, something changed."

"What you mean?" Tali asked this time.

"I'm not completely sure, but slowly the gang started doing even more and more daring things." Sharia explained. "We started doing more 'pranks' at some small politicians. But even those were getting press's attention. After we almost attempted the live of the Councilor Tevos's live." to that everybody gasped. That sounded like madness.

"That's were I tried to reason with them. But that didn't work out well." she sighted. "At first I thought I got through them. But that wasn't the case. And since I was still a naive Maiden, I believed I got through them. But that wasn't the case at all." she told them. "After they told me to wait and return later, they've already left." Sharia growled slightly.

"And that wasn't the only thing. First they had left my that time…" Sharia seemed to consider carefully her next choice of words. "friend, Atheria her name was, was left unconsciously on the floor. And then before I knew it, C-Sec rushed in with guns blazing." Sharia said, for some reason having small amusement in her voice. But it didn't shown in her face.

"Of course they didn't hit us since I quickly took cover. But I was already in bad trouble, and soon found myself inside a interrogation room." Sharia shacked her head. "After a long talk with various C-Sec officers and detectives, I found myself inside C-Sec cell."

"What about this Atheria?" Tali asked.

"From what I heard, she was sent all the way back to Thessia." strangely Liara showed much more interest, while others were little puzzled, why would they sent this asari all the way back to their homeworld, while Sharia stayed on the Citadel.

"Why did they send her all way back to our home planet?" Liara asked. Speaking for the first since she had wanted to join Juliana and Tali. The question seemed to confuse Sharia a bit.

"Uuuh… I'm not sure. From what I heard that she was some kind of criminal back there." she explained. "Why?"

"I'm not sure." Liara said. "But for some reason that name sounded familiar." she almost mumbled.

Everybody were once again quiet. Like they had forgotten the reason why they were there. But soon Sharia shocked herself again and continued.

"Anyway. After a day in the cell, they gave me two choices. Number one was taking community service for eight months to repay the damages I helped to caused." Sharia now looked really embarrassed, if not ashamed of herself. "And number two was got jail, where I could get out in couple years just from good behavior. So I took the community service of course."

"But that wasn't such an easy thing like I had imagined it. The places I went to work, the workers didn't want to have anything to do with me. And to make matters worse, I couldn't find a place to stay." she sighted. Shacking her head again.

"And that's where Nethely came in. She offered me a place to stay and you can just imagine my surprise, that a C-Sec detective offers a former criminal a place to stay." she chuckled. Remembering her own and Nethelys reaction. "And soon I found myself at Nethelys place and have lived there ever since." she explained. Slowly a sad smile forming on her lips.

"After the whole community service was finished and I was done with it, C-Sec finally let me go. But my live was already quite a mess, since no one wanted a someone like me to work with them, so I was facing a new problem and that was getting my life back to its feet." Sharia could still see that Tali was still sitting next to her. But it looked like she moved only slightly more closer. But she decided to ignore it.

"After Goddess knows how many failed attempt to get myself a job, Nethely once again brought a crazy idea for me. Joining with the C-Sec." at that point Sharia let out a small laugh, but there was also still the same hint of sadness. "I of course tolled her that she was mad. They would never let me join them. But again, only Goddess knows, she somehow got me a place at C-Sec Academy."

This time Sharias smile seemed to brighten up a little. "Those were some of my best times in my long live. After the whole gang thing, I thought I could never get my live back together. But with help of Nethely, my live was getting brighter."

"But those weird happenings weren't completely over. After I was graduated from the Academy, Nethely tolled me that she had became my partner. How did she even do it, I never wanted to know." she laughed. Now her entire being seemed to have pushed away the stress, sadness and confusion she had felt before. And for Tali and others, it was welcoming.

"And after that, my live had become quite simple, but I enjoyed it. Enjoyed it with all of my heart." but then Sharias mood quickly changed back to its original state. "But every lighter side just had to have its darker side." she sighted.

"And that was Balak?" Juliana asked.

"Yes." Sharia simply said.

"You said before that he was involved with some kind of case you and Nethely were doing. Something about people disappearing." Juliana said. Remembering their last conversation about this subject before.

"Yeah. It was about six years ago." Sharia tolled them. The unpleasant memories starting to surface again. "Various species were disappearing. Well, most of them were different kinds of people that no one missed. Well, not immediately anyway. After a while planning, me and Nethely decided to be kidnapped."

"So we went for undercover, and after couple days we got what we wanted and soon found ourselves inside a batarian ship." she explained. "From that point the harder part started, as we needed to clear the ship from hostiles. We tried our best not to kill many batarians, but that was easier said than done. But after almost an hour, we had cleared the ship from hostiles and were somewhat lucky to have some prisoners for interrogations."

"But the problems didn't stop there." Sharia said. "While we were trying to get the ship back to Citadel, a strange looking ship appeared out of nowhere. And it didn't even looked like a ship." she told them. "Either way, when we finally got the ship under control we quickly took the nearest Mass Relay and put lot of distance between us and that strange ship." From that point Sharia took a short break to collect herself. Since she was closing the events of her live which were one of her worst experiences.

"And then Balak came into picture?" Juliana asked in a soft tone, not trying to upset Sharia much.

"Yep." Sharia said blandly. While she seemed to look at nothing. "It happened in a middle of a night. Neither of us saw it coming. After we returned from a small "stress relieve" from one of Citadels bars, they were already waiting us at Nethelys apartment." Sharia started slowly shaking and her eyes started watering.

"When we entered the apartment, the first thing that almost greeted us was a banging pain on back of our heads. When I started woken up, first thing I noticed, I was only on my underwear and someone was holding on my arms. And then I saw Nethely..." now Sharia was pressing her hands on her knees really hard that her finger tips changed slowly into more paler color.

"Nethely was completely stripped from her cloths and Balak was right in front of us. And he started telling us how he would make us pay… and regret that we interrupted his dealings before he would dispose of us. And then…" now Sharia started sobbing, and Tali found herself holding the asari in her arms.

"It was like a nightmare… and the worst part was that I couldn't wake up! It was really happening!" Sharia now sobbed loudly. "I couldn't turn away, he wouldn't let me! All I could do was to watch. Watch the pain on her face and hear her screams!" now the tears were running loosely from the asari's eyes.

"I'm not sure what happened then…" Sharia said. Still sounding really upset. "All I could remember was all I could see for a moment was flash of bright light, and Balak and his goons were all over the room. And…" now it seemed to calm down a bit. "Then I ran, Nethely screaming me to get C-Sec, then Balak…"

That calmness seemed to be only for a short moment, since she started sobbing again. Maybe even more than before, and seemed to clung on Tali even tighter. "I think I get the picture." Juliana said with sympathetic voice.

"But that wasn't all." Sharia said, now seemed to get a little better grip of herself as she slowly pulled away from Tali's embrace, while giving her an quiet . "I don't what exactly happened, but for some reason my brain just… short circuited, I guess. Or that's what the doctors told me anyway." she said.

"What you mean your brains 'short circuited'?" Tali asked, not sure if she wanted to hear the answer.

"I'm not sure, but the doctors said that it was from the emotional stress I went through. So in other words, I was in some kind of a shock for about six months." she explained, in depressed tone. "I didn't respond to anything. I only ate and slept when I needed to. But then something changed, like I something told me to get a grip and start thing anew. Again."

Tali looked as Sharia was slowly returning from her depressed mood, she cursed own suit once again. While she had listened Sharia's story, she had her own share of tears behind her mask, but couldn't wipe them away. And when she had embraced Sharia, her stomach and heart had made couple flips.

"After that I had to got for some therapy so they could understand what had exactly happened. When I was finally released and able to return back to C-Sec." Sharia said. She then looked at the Commander. "Now you understand why I wanted get Balak so badly."

Juliana couldn't help but let out long, frustrated sigh. "I can't say that I don't understand you, because I understand and know what kind of hell you've been through." she told Sharia.

"What are you saying Commander?" Sharia asked, not daring to use Commanders real name. Since she felt that they weren't exactly in that good speaking terms.

"When the batarians attacked Elysium, my home colony. I was on a mission slightly away from the planet." Juliana started explaining. "And when were alerted that the batarian slavers had launched an invasion force on the planet, my objects changed quickly." Sharia could see that something was haunting the Commander, like with Balak had haunted her.

"At first when I arrived back to Elysium, tried my best to defend and evacuate the civilians off the damn thing." then Commanders mood changed into something that showed both sadness and regret.

"But things got a sudden turn when I heard the reports that my mother was killed in action when the batarians attacked. That set something off in me."

"I and my team then attacked right in the heart of batarian forces. It was a horrible battle. Me and my team didn't show any kinds of mercy." Juliana then shacked her head in shame. "I was fool enough make them believe that were doing it for the safety of Elysium, but really it was because of my personal revenge for the batarians for taking away my only family."

Juliana then let out another long sigh before she continued. "But after the fighting was over and batarians had been drove away, I found out later that mother was actually alive." Juliana shacked her head. "I simply felt horrible. And I've just been name "The Hero of Elysium". But I didn't feel like a hero at all. I felt more like a monster for what I've done" she said in sad tone. "So many good men and women died because of my personal vendetta."

"Much later I confronted my mother and told her what had really happened." she told them. Not noticing that Liara had gotten littler closer towards her. "It was little weird how she took it. She didn't yell at me, or told me that there was no excuse for what I've done." she explained.

"But instead she calmly, but still disapprovingly said that what I've done wasn't easily forgiven, but she understood my pain and even told me that she might done the same if our roles might've reversed." she told them. "Then she simply told me that now all we can do is to learn from our mistakes and then hugged me." she added some amusement in her voice when she mentioned her mother hugging her.

"Your mother sounds like an interesting person." Sharia said, her own voice also holding some amusement.

"You have no idea." Juliana let out a small chuckle. "She never was that kind of person that yelled often at people when she should. But listen now carefully Sharia." Juliana then started, having her commanding officer face, but her voice tone was still calm. "While I know little better about this thing between you and Balak, I hope you can leave those personal feelings aside and focus on our mission." she said.

Sharia seemed to think for a while before answering back to Commander. "I… I believe so." she said, suddenly feeling that she could do it this time. She then changed her uncertain attitude to more certain one. "I will try my best Commander. I won't let you down this time." she said. Fully confident.

"Good." Juliana nodded approvingly. "But I can't just let you out of this without some punishment." she told Sharia, who was now looking down. "I hope you can understand. So that's why can't leave Normandy until I see it otherwise."

That seemed to raise Sharia's mood only slightly. It was fitting for her. "I understand Commander. And thank you for giving me a second chance!" she thanked Commander, with a smile to which Juliana answered back with her won smile.

"I guess I'll take my leave now then." she said. "I have a feeling you need some privacy right now." she told Sharia as she started heading towards the door.

"Commander." Tali suddenly talked. "Is it alright if I stay here for little longer?" she carefully asked.

Juliana turned to look at Tali. "I don't ask Sharia about that." she simply said.

Tali then turned to look at Sharia with a look that told her that, she wanted to spent sometime with Sharia. "Sure." she said. Smiling.

"Thanks Sharia." Tali thanked.

"I guess me and Liara are then off." Juliana said. Leaving Sharia and Tali alone.

After the two had left, the room was in awkward silence, since Tali didn't know what exactly say to Sharia. But Sharia seemed to save the situation. "So, you want to hear more of my experiences at C-Sec Academy?" she asked little awkwardly.

"Yes!" Tali said maybe little too bluntly. Which caused her to blush inside of her mask. This time she was thankful Sharia couldn't see her face.

But thankfully for her, Sharia seem to just ignore her response. "Well, there was this one time when this salarian tried to hit on me quite many times, until I decided to give him little lesson…" and so Sharia went on about her time at C-Sec Academy and with Nethely. She and Tali shared many good laughs, and Sharia felt really good. She never thought telling about her experiences with Nehtely would make her feel this good.

Whew! This chapter was really hard. Lot of emotion and other things and I hope you noticed what I did with Shepard's background. Heh.

I really hope you guys liked this chapter and sorry if it sucked, I might try little later correct all of my spelling mistakes and other when I have little more time. So please, don't forget to comment/review either this chapter or the story. And the constructive criticism is always welcome. While now flames, please. Unless they are part of the constructive criticism.

Till next time, THANK YOU AND GOOD NIGHT!