Here's chapter 10! I'm glad I got positive reviews from the last chapter, so I will try to do the same in this chapter. – Everybody desires some ShepardxTevos action perhaps that will happen today. - There will be some Shepard and Miranda friendship moment.
Enjoy! – Sorry for any typo.
Chapter 10: Its decreasing
Shepard's Vacation Mansion
When Shepard woke up the headache hit her hard, perhaps she shouldn't drink so much with Jack, but she believes Jack and Ashley are way worse than her by now. She looked at her left side and saw at the small table her clock, god damn it was almost midday. Huffing out, she brought her upper body up, so she could sit while rubbing her face, trying to remain awake. "Ugh, need a pill for this hangover." She mumbled under her breath as she moved her legs to the ground, when her feet were touching the ground, she finally stood up, but the very second she was standing up, she quickly fell down and smashed her body hard against the ground, luckily for her the small table was far and she did not hit against it, but it did not stopped her from groaning in pain. "What the hell!?"
She turned around, so she could sit down on the ground while her hands stretched out for her left leg, it hurt like a bitch, it hurt way more than usual, it hurt more than last night, but why was it hurting so much?! "Shit…" Shepard cursed under her breath as she tried to get up again, but it was no use, her leg was numb, but not numb to the pain, because she felt it a lot, like somebody was ripping her muscles apart. She dragged herself on the ground towards the bed, and used her strength to lift herself up and lay down back on the bed, when she was finished she let out an exhausted sigh as she started to massage her left leg while small groans of pain escaped her leg. "Why are you hurting so much?..."
"Shepard, are you alright?" Tevos quickly open the door as she sounded a bit breathless, but when she saw Shepard on the bed the breath finally came back and she seemed to relax. "I heard a loud noise, I thought.."
Shepard quickly removed her hands from her leg, not wanting anybody to find out this horrible new. "Huh, oh yeah, totally fine.." She tried to control the groans in pain that wanted to escape her throat.
"Sure? You don't sound fine…" Tevos perked up one of her white marked eyebrows as she approached the bed.
"It's just the hangover. We humans after drinking so much the next morning we wake up with strong headaches and spend the all-day dizzy and grumpy, if we don't take a pill to calm down the headaches. " Shepard shrugged while she still remained with that expression that was holding too much pain. "If you don't mind, could you?..." She wouldn't ask Tevos if she didn't felt the headache was killing her and so was the pain on her leg.
"Interesting…" Tevos mumbled when Shepard spoke about how humans got after a drunk night, then she asked her to get some pills. "Oh, sure. They are at the bathroom, right?" Tevos asked as she watched Shepard nodding, so she went to the bathroom and open the small door with the mirror as she looked through it and found a bunch of medications, she knew most was for Shepard's condition, and probably there was a few here for her parents, and then there was those ones that everybody needs to have at home. Tevos looked through the meds and she found one that was a pain killer perhaps that was what Shepard needed, so she came back into the room with those pills and a glass of water, since she got it from the bathroom as well. "Here you go."
Shepard forced a smile at her before take the glass on her left hand and the pill on the other, she threw the pill in her mouth then used the water to let it slide more gently down in her throat and land in her stomach, after drinking the entire glass, she placed it over the small coffee table, but Tevos picked it up and went to the bathroom to place it back on its place.
"Your mother prepared you the breakfast, but since you were sleeping we did not woke you up, so right now she's preparing the lunch. – If you don't mind, I will go help her out." Tevos told Shepard as she walked out of the bathroom.
Shepard quickly shook her head. "Of course I don't mind. Keep spoiling my mother like that." Shepard laughed at the end of her words to let Tevos know she was only joking. "She really likes you, and that's what matters. Enjoy your time together." She smiled now.
Tevos laughed at first at Shepard's words but then her laugh ended with a smile on her face, she was rather surprised that Shepard was caring about her mother's affection to Tevos and for them to enjoy their time together. Was she being a real actor, or?...Perhaps just a too good actor, but Tevos still pretty much felt Shepard's hand squeezing her ass last night, of course it was probably an accident since she heard Shepard's curse, but god damn, wasn't that pleasing mistake. "Alright, I will call you when the lunch is done." Tevos told her while leaving the room.
Now that Shepard was finally alone she let out a sigh of frustration and quickly got her hands on her left leg as she began to massage it again, it was hurting like hell, and Shepard was fearing the worst, she need to know why but she did not wanted people to find out about this, so there was only one person she could trust this and that could come to her place without making a big deal. "Miranda…" She mumbled under her breath as she quickly went to find her omni-tool till she remembered she was still wearing on her wrist, so after turning it on she typed a message to Miranda. It took her probably a minute to do that, she was typing more faster than ever, probably the pain was making her feel desperate and she needed Miranda's medic skills at this very moment.
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"Shepard?" Miranda knocked on the guest door.
"Come on in." Shepard called out as she still remained on the bed.
Miranda open the door and stepped inside, she took a look around the room and found Shepard on the bed, with only a tank top and some dark feminine boxers while gripping onto her left leg and leaving some harsh red finger marks on them, when she took a better look at Shepard's face she could notice that her past commander was in an extreme pain and she needed assistance right now. "The others took Tevos out for shopping just like you requested them to." Miranda told Shepard as she remembered on the message there was written to make Jack, Ashley, Kasumi and Liara to go take Tevos out to the city and do some shopping, Jack was against the idea, obviously, she didn't wanted to go shopping, but Shepard only wanted Miranda with her, so Jack went with the rest.
"Thank you." Shepard managed to speak while controlling the groans of pan.
"So what's the matter?" Miranda asked her as she walked up to Shepard and a white bag on her left hand, how she brought the bag without anybody suspecting it was a mystery.
"It's my leg…since last night it began to hurt and now today when I tried to wake up, I had no strength on it and fell. Now it's hurting more than yesterday, like…hurting like…the beginning." It took her awhile to admit this pain was the same she felt on her first days to try go back to walk, she was a completely mess and she didn't wanted things to go worse.
Miranda frowned slightly as she walked up to the bed and dropped her white bag over it, she removed Shepard's hands from her own leg and began to press her own palms against it, which made Shepard gasp in pain but Miranda just kept pressing more harder than before.
"Ah-ugh, what are you doing?" Shepard pressed her palm against her face, trying to control her sounds.
"I need to know where the main problem is…" Miranda mumbled as she kept on squeezing Shepard's thigh, then she went down to her knee, and Shepard let out a bigger gasp, then went down to her leg, and the sound was low but still there, when she touched and squeezed her foot, Shepard made no sound. "Does it hurt here?"
"Where?" Shepard mumbled as she removed her hand from her eyes and looked where Miranda was touching her…wait a minute, why didn't she felt Miranda's hands on her foot? "Can you squeeze it again?" Shepard voice almost sounded shaky, she was praying that she still had some feeling on her foot.
Miranda frowned slightly and squeezed Shepard's foot again while looking up at her, and Shepard's expression was all she needed to know that Shepard had no feeling on her left foot.
"Fuck.." Shepard cursed under her breath as she tilted her head back, letting it slightly against the head boarder while she pressed her palm against her eyes, trying to control tears that were about to come.
"Shepard, it is not the end of the world. Sometimes the process decreases, but it doesn't mean it will stay like that." Miranda said as she removed her hands from Shepard's legs and began to look through her white bag. "I'm going to inject you some medication to relax the muscles and control the pain." Miranda said as she got the needle and prepared it.
"I don't want the process to decrease, Miranda. – It has been almost 3 years and I was finally starting to walk like a normal person…but now…" Shepard frowned, as she clenched her fists, trying to control her anger, hangover and this leg pan combined lead to a not so rational Shepard. "Everything's going down the hil- augh!" Shepard gasped in pain when Miranda injected the rather large needle into her leg and began to let the fluid follow through her muscles. Feeling that needle into her and the liquid invading her, hurt more than before.
"It's only a matter of minutes till the effect starts kicking in, and the pain will slow down, it doesn't mean it will disappear, but you will be able to bare it." Miranda told her as she put the needle in a small bottle then back in her bag, before get a bottle of pills hand it to Shepard. "Take this after an hour you inject this medicine."
"Does this mean I will have to spend my time now injecting myself and taking pills?" Shepard sounded rather angry.
"The injection is one in the morning and then one before go to bed. The pills are taken an hour after the injection and if the pain keeps on, you are able to take one, but only in extreme cases. It works as a pain killer but stronger." Miranda informed her.
"For how long?" Shepard frowned, wanting to know the most important thing.
"I…I cannot answer you that, Shepard. You will have to do it till you get the feeling back on your left foot." Miranda started chewing on her lower lip feeling more nervous now. She did not want her friend to suffer like this.
"And how long will that take?" Shepard sounded angrier now, and the grip on the bottle of the pills was stronger.
"I do not know, Shepard…"
"Ugh!" Shepard snapped as she threw the bottle of the pills across the room and even if it was made of plastic she managed to break it once it hit the ground, letting the all pills fall around. After this tantrum, she simple pressed her palm against her eyes as she tried to control her tears again.
"Shepard…" Miranda mumbled under her breath as she went to pick up the all pills. "It's not the end of the world, Shepard. You will be okay, it will take time, it won't be easy, but you will be okay."
"You don't understand! Almost three years ago, I was about to die, and this wasn't going to be another project to bring the savior back, I was going to die if they didn't found me! Then when I woke up, I had no feeling on my legs, with time I accepted the damn wheel chair, and used that as my way to move around. – Do you know how it feels to be the one that people now look down to you? Like literally down!? I was Commander Shepard, I was the savior of the Citadel, the hero of the galaxy! But now I'm a miserable fool who cannot walk normally like everybody else!" Shepard's voice was very shaky and tears were falling down from her eyes, her lower lip was trembling and she wasn't hiding her face anymore, she was allowing Miranda to take a good look at her now red face and full of wet tears falling down over her cheeks.
"You still are the Commander Shepard, the savior of the Citadel and the hero of the galaxy. You are not a fool Shepard, you are going to be okay. – People still admire you, if you are on a wheelchair or not, you are their bloody hero, you should be damn proud of that." Miranda told her as she kept on picking up the twenty pills and placing them on her palm.
"Miranda, the process is decreasing, and for all we know it can stay like that forever or get worse! I'm not going back on that wheel chair. I'm not going back to a crippled person; I'm not going back to that useless state! – If it was for all this trouble then I should've been left dead!" Shepard shouted at the top of her lungs with tears filling her eyes and falling down over her cheeks like a waterfall.
And that's when Shepard said too much, Miranda could understand her agony, but she did not wanted to hear such thing. "Don't be absurd, Shepard! Everybody was worried sick when nobody could find your body, everybody was crying every night and hoping you would return! We skipped meals, skipped rests just to find you in time and make sure you would stay with us. How can you be so ungrateful after our entire effort?!" Miranda shouted back, she had enough of this, she didn't want to yell but she had to, she had to wake up the commander Shepard, so she wouldn't have a break down. "And how can you say that after knowing you are about to get married and you have a daughter on the way? Do you even know how much Tevos cares about you? She forces me to tell her everything about your health condition and I cannot do or say a thing without her knowledge. She's worried sick about you, and last night we spoke a little together and she said she was happy that back in your hometown with your friends you sounded happier and the happiness looked natural, not forced. – So please, Shepard, woman up and get over this. I'm not going to say it's going to be okay so soon, I'm not going to say it will be easy, because it won't, but I do know you will get over it with or without help you will get over this and you will be fine, you will be able to walk again, just don't give up."
Shepard looked up at Miranda while crying, she didn't say anything else, but the only sound that she made was sobbing. When Miranda finished her words she sniffed and hide her eyes again with her palm, bloody hell, she still felt bad about lying to everybody by saying Tevos and her were in love and they were going to have a daughter. She kept feeling bad about this, but for some odd reason knowing that Tevos done such things for her, calmed her down, and the pain of her leg was calming down and so was her crying.
"I'm sorry…" Miranda sighed out in defeat as she held the pills on her hand and went back to her bag, so she could put it on broken bottle; it would work out to hold the pills there.
"No..no need to." Shepard rubbed her eyes as she tried to wipe out the tears. "I never imagined myself having a breakdown in front of somebody, especially in front of you. I'm rather taken back by your words, but I'm glad you said them." She sounded way calmer now, and that's what mattered.
"That only proves that perhaps you trust me more than you know." Miranda gave a small smile before remove another bottle of the same pills from the bag and place it on the coffee table.
"Maybe, but that's good…I think I need more a friendly shoulder than before." Shepard chuckled through her sobs before keep on wiping her tears against her bare wrist.
"Here.." Miranda removed a tissue from the bag as well and handed it to Shepard.
The blonde woman took the tissue and began to wipe her tears and blowing her nose against the tissue before speak. "Thank you."
"You welcome." Miranda was now putting everything away so she could leave.
"So…you and Jack? Is it serious now?" Shepard leaned her head against the head boarder as she sniffed again, still feeling her throat shaky from the crying.
"We have always been serious." Miranda replayed with a simple shrug.
Shepard simple perked up an eyebrow at her while having an expression 'I know you lying'
"Fine, at the beginning it was only supposed to be night stands, but yes, now we are serious."
"I'm surprised you two are going to marry."
"So am I, Shepard. Who knew this would happen?"
"Yeah, especially with Jack." Shepard chuckled along with Miranda. "But the messed up biotic woman like she calls herself needs a happy ending, doesn't she?" Shepard smirked at Miranda.
"Yes, she indeed does."
"Just like the perfect woman needs to be married so people will stop to be thirsty, or at least less people will be." Shepard laughed again still a watery chuckle but it was better than the last one.
"I hope so, it drives Jack insane the way everybody looks at me, sometimes she likes it because she can show off I'm all hers, but other times she totally flips and threatens everybody." Miranda rolled her eyes as she sat down on the bed while talking.
"Well, she's a good woman despite everything that has happen in her life. You deserve her, the same way she deserves you."
"Guess you are right, Shepard. Thanks, you sound way better now."
"Yeah, just had a little break down, once in a while it happens, since I hold so much in, at the end it will have to come out, right?" She gave another weak chuckle.
"Indeed..soooo how are things with Tevos?" Miranda perked up an eyebrow with a silly smirk.
Oh snap… And Shepard knew this question was a trap…
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Before Miranda and Shepard noticed, they had spent two hours talking about life, talking about Jack, talking about Tevos, talking about the unborn Athena, talking about marriage, and talking about what is there to come in their futures.
They only noticed the time when they began to hear more noise through the house, which meant the other girls were back.
"Bloody hell, we spent two hours talking." Miranda mumbled as she stood up from the bed.
Shepard was now fully laying on the bed and with her left leg a bit away from the rest of her. "At least we had some nice chit chat."
"Yes we did, Shepard. Let's just hope he others had just as a half as a good time we had." Miranda told her before pick up her white bag and slid it under Shepard's bed because she could already hear footsteps coming upstairs. "You will have to tell her; because there's no way you are going to move from that bed without two crutches." Miranda warned Shepard about her leg again, Tevos needed to know just like the rest of her friends, they will know something is wrong anyway.
"I know, but I will tell her later. Let me just pretend I prefer stay at bed the entire day, and when I get the guts, I will tell her." Shepard cleared her throat, feeling more nervous than what really was necessary, it's not like Tevos is her real wife or bond mate, so why such nervousness? "Come on in." Shepard sad after hearing a knock on the door.
Tevos stepped inside the room with a smile on her face. "Hello, we are back from our shopping. I can't believe you spent two hours on the bed." Tevos chuckled lightly. "Oh and Miranda, Jack's calling for you, she seems rather…frustrated. Perhaps it's because Kasumi forced her to wear dresses and make-up. I even got myself blushing while looking through some human female fashion clothes. – It's a mystery how such race that doesn't seem very comfortable with their sexuality, decides to wear such clothes that reveals so much skin."
Shepard perked up an eyebrow when Tevos commented about the humans clothes. Did she try on some of those clothes she was talking about? Shepard quickly cleared her throat to remove such thoughts from her mind. "Yeah…we are a mysterious race…"
"Indeed, I'm very interested though." Tevos commented as she approached them.
"Hum..I should go now to Jack and calm her down. I believe you two need a moment alone, so I will just leave you guys." Miranda said as she walked out from the room, completely forgetting the bag that was under the bed.
Now that they were alone Tevos walked up to the bed and sat down besides Shepard. "So…are you just lazy or 'hangover' or…?"
"Just lazy! And a bit hangover.." Shepard quickly said not letting Tevos mind wonder to other options. "I just feel like spending the entire time here, and don't worry, I already ate my lunch. But I'm thinking about taking a nap now, since my tummy is full."
Tevos found Shepard's behavior a bit odd, but she remained quiet about it. "Alright…I shall go eat something as well."
"You still didn't ate your lunch?"
"Oh no, I did. But I'm still hungry. You can take your nap while I eat and check out the clothes I bought us!" Tevos almost yelped in excitement at the end of her words, the pregnancy was really messing around with her hormones.
"Us?" Shepard perked up an eyebrow at Tevos excitement.
"Yes, us. Me, you and our little Athena. – I bought more for Athena though, I could not help myself after seeing such adorable baby clothes, then I bought some dresses for myself, my tummy keeps getting bigger and I'm starting to not fit in anything that I own. And for you, I bought actually just one sweater and one t-shirt, but you will love it, at least I hope so." Tevos kept her excitement as she walked towards the door.
"Alright…can't wait to see it." Shepard smiled while awkwardly accepting Tevos excitement, and the words 'our little Athena' still stuck in her head and heart.
"Me too! Now rest, and enjoy your nap." And with that Tevos closed the door, leaving Shepard alone in the room, to take her nap.
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After her nape, there was dinner, and after the dinner, there was bed-time, which for other words meant spending the night at the same bed as Tevos while watching TV and try to find another classic human movie because Tevos got addicted to them.
"Oh! I had completely forgotten about the clothes, let me show you." Tevos said as she kicked the sheets and stepped out from the bed, she was wearing one of her famous sleeping gowns that Shepard was starting to love way too much.
"Alright…" Shepard brought her upper body up as she leaned her back against the head boarder watching Tevos looking through the bags and placing clothes over the bed, while she done that, Shepard reached out for the light switch and turned it on.
Whenever Tevos was done, she just stood on the ground in front of the left side of the bed and clapped her hands together. "Well, let's skip my dresses, since it's only five and they are basically all the same." Tevos said as she began to move away her dresses, they all had the same design, but only with different colors, and there was one with short sleeves, one without sleeves, and one with long sleeves. "Here the baby ones." The asari told her while raising up one that was a newborn footed sleeper, it was white with pink stripes, and then a small monkey head on the left side, and then monkey heads on the feet, it was adorable.
"Oh, that's adorable…" Shepard commented with a small smile as she looked at the footed sleeper.
"I know right?! Now look at this one!" Tevos quickly picked another footed sleeper, it was all pink and it had written 'I love mommy', and she bought another one that was basically the same but it was black and it had written 'I love daddy'.
"Oh wow… Shepard chuckled slightly as she placed her palm over her left leg, trying to ignore the pain that was growing again.
"Beautiful, isn't it?!" Tevos kept her excitement as she kept showing another seven pair of footed sleepers, and then three dresses, one was red, another purple, and another yellow, then she had small adorable boots for the baby, then small adorable hats, till it stopped in another footed sleeper but with the symbol of 'N7' on the left side of the chest zone. "Jack found this one."
Shepard looked at the footed sleeper, and felt a very warming feeling around her heart as she stretched out her hands and took the cloth on her own hands, she just stared at it, like she was admiring the finest piece of art ever, and she even had forgotten the pain on her leg. Perhaps she was letting herself fall too much in this all fake bond, and fake father role.
Tevos watched how much Shepard got lost in the outfit, and she was glad that happen because she was really hoping for this, she wanted Shepard to appreciate the clothes for the baby, she wanted Shepard to feel as happy as she got when she looked at those all clothes, it's like they can't wait to dress their little baby girl Athena with those clothes. Yes, their little girl, Tevos was completely sure she was developing feelings for Shepard, and she was ignoring that this was all a big lie and they didn't had to act like this. "Oh-huff!" Tevos groaned as she pressed her palm against her belly.
Shepard snapped out of it when she heard Tevos groan. "What's wrong?" She quickly put on her worried expression.
"Nothing wrong…she just kicked, strong one, and now is moving a lot." Tevos chuckled lightly as she started to massage her own belly.
"Oh…" Shepard smiled a bit as she stared down at Tevos belly.
"You can now feel it." Tevos told Shepard since she could see Shepard desired to touch and feel the kicks. Perhaps the videos of the young Shepard wanting so many children and loving them weren't wrong, and Shepard still had that side.
"Really?" Shepard looked up at Tevos with hope in her eyes as she watched the asari nodding.
"Give me your hand." Tevos said as she got on her knees over the bed, and took Shepard's wrist, before slowly place her palm over her belly where the baby was kicking, and it was only matter of two seconds before a strong kick hit Shepard's hand.
"Oh wow!" Shepard said excited like a little kid as she stared down at Tevos belly while feeling another kick against her hand. "You got a little fighter down there." Shepard chuckled as she wanted to feel more of those kicks and moves against her palm.
"We…we got a little fighter down here." Tevos said as she looked down at Shepard, wondering if she was getting her hint.
"Oh right, sorry, I can't forget about that or else I will ruin this entire fake bonding thingy." Shepard shrugged as she pressed her lips together for a second before caress Tevos belly slowly, like she was calling the baby girl to kick again.
But no, the commander did not understood what she really meant, so she needed another rapprochement. "Shepard, last night your mother showed us videos of you as a young teen, she said you done those videos like your diary."
"Oh damn, she showed you guys that? That's so embarrassing." Shepard replayed as her eyes did not left Tevos belly.
"It was interesting, not embarrassing. It helped me get to know more of your past and know the real Jane and not the commander Shepard. – There was one video that showed you with a little human baby on your arms, and you spoke about how many children you wanted, and how you found pregnant women beautiful."
"Mhm." It was all Shepard's replay.
The commander really seemed to have a fetish for pregnant women, well at least not a sexual one; she just seems way too focused on the baby. "It made me wonder if you still have those desires."
"Huh?"
Tevos sighed before place her palm over Shepard's, so she would give her a bit more attention. "I wonder if you still want children of your own."
Shepard finally stopped paying attention to the belly and a looked up at Tevos. "Oh? Perhaps, I mean, getting pregnant right now it's not in my mind, but I guess I wouldn't mind to adopt a child this year or next one. – Maybe it would help me spend less time bored and alone." Shepard chuckled slightly before shrugging and look down at Tevos belly again.
"You are not alone." Tevos pressed her lips for a second before allow Shepard caress her belly again, it helped the baby to calm down as amazing it may sound.
"Yeah, you know what I mean. Like, a real family, perhaps there would be no father, just me and the child, but that would be okay, because I would make sure he or she would have everything."
"You can already have that." Tevos felt a bit breathless when she said those words.
"I guess, I mean, I have to pretend I'm the child's father in front of everybody's eyes so nobody will suspect a thing. – It won't be a real family, but oh well." Shepard shrugged again as she felt another kick against her palm and she smiled softly at the feeling while caressing Tevos belly.
"I meant it, Jane." Tevos wrapped her blue fingers around Shepard's pale wrist. "You can be the real father, you can have a real family, and this doesn't need to be a pretending story anymore. – This can be real, if you wish." She sounded dead serious as she looked down at Shepard.
The blonde human looked up at her with confusion written all over her face, she began to wonder if Tevos was doing this for her. "I can't ask you for such thing…the child is yours, I will only step in when it's really needed. – You don't have to do this for me."
"I'm not only doing this for you, I'm doing this also for me. This won't work out as a lie, the child will believe you are her father; I don't want her to suffer such pain in the future when she finds out the true. – So I want this to be real, I want this to actually happen with real emotions, real memories, real feelings.." Tevos even lost her words.
"I..I don't know what to say, I don't even know if you mean what you are really meaning, if that makes sense. I mean, of course I would love to have a normal family, and this to be real, like real real, and not a lie. Feelings and emotions, of course, I mean, if you want to, what are your emotions and feelings in this? Is it the same as mine? Or? Less? Perhaps more? Or none? I don't really know what to say right now…" Shepard looked at Tevos with fear written on her eyes.
Tevos rose her eyelids a bit as she watched Shepard rambling like a nervous teen, she wasn't even making sense but Tevos simple found that amusing and adorable. "Shepard…" Tevos called out for her. "Calm down, will you?" She mumbled as she took the human's chin on her fingers and brought her head closer, till their lips crashed in a soft way.
Shepard even groaned a bit into the kiss, she was totally feeling like a girly teen that had a major crush on the teacher and got accepted. The kiss was totally different from the other quick one yesterday before Shepard leaving to the hen party. It was soft, romantic, and it held that small sparkle that showed each other the feelings that were really there and they never gave enough attention to them.
Tevos soon broke the kiss, and slowly open her eyes as she stared into Shepard's. "What does this tell you?"
Shepard licked her lower lip after Tevos lips left hers; she could still her full lips against hers. "Yes?..." She looked up at Tevos with her eyes full of hope.
"Of course, silly." Tevos chuckled slightly before lean in again and lock her lips around Shepard's. This kiss now involved tongue, after five seconds, Shepard allowed Tevos tongue to invade her mouth as they start to do some tongue wrestle, which made a few groans escape from Tevos lips.
Shepard huffed a bit when she felt Tevos lips but then accepted them and began to kiss her back and brushing her tongue against hers. She pressed her palms against her hips, like she was wanting to Tevos to come closer, and that's what the asari done. Tevos began to scoot closer to Shepard, and then with a big effort while kissing she managed to drop one of her legs to the other side of Shepard's, so she would straddle her lap.
Tevos hands went to cup Shepard's cheeks, but then she slid her blue fingers down over the human's neck, to her shoulders, her arms, hands, then her hips, stomach, and was now sneaking up to her chest zone. When she was about to cup Shepard's chest, a load hiss escaped Shepard's lips, and Tevos could tell this wasn't because of the pleasure within the kiss.
Shepard broke the kiss as she groaned in pain and sneaked her hand underneath Tevos thigh, so she could touch her own thigh. Tevos at first wasn't doing any pressure against her leg, but when she started doing it, Shepard couldn't bare the pain anymore.
"What's wrong? Did I hurt you?" Tevos sounded worried as she tried to gain back her breath from the kiss. When she felt Shepard's against her thigh, she tried to control a groan of pleasure from escaping her throat, there was no time to enjoy Shepard's touch because she really looked hurt.
"My leg…" Shepard mumbled.
"Oh my!" Tevos gasped as she quickly removed herself from Shepard's lap, as she felt her cheeks getting dark with a purple color, this was totally embarrassing. She was about to 'bed' with Shepard till she decided to hurt her. "I'm sorry… I had completely forgotten about that."
"I…its okay." Shepard mumbled as she kept massaging her own thigh, she needed the second injection now, but to get that she had to get herself under the bed and remove the white bag. As much as she hated to admit, only Tevos could do that without much trouble. "I…can you get a white bag from under the bed? If your belly doesn't let you, don't worry, I can get it.."
"No, no, stay there, I will get it for you." Tevos placed her palm over Shepard's shoulder to stop her from moving, and then she jumped off the bed and got on her knees, trying her best to bend down while she began to search for a white bag, and when she got it, she brought it up to the bed and placed it over the sheets.
"Thanks.." Shepard mumbled as she open the bag and began to look through it, she found the syringe, and removed it.
"What's that?" Tevos had completely forgotten her embarrassment, and was now more worried about what Shepard was about to inject herself with. She did not remember any information about Shepard needing these things.
"It's a medicine.." Shepard told her as she prepared the syringe.
"Obviously, but what does it do? Why are you taking it? I thought you didn't need it?" Tevos was asking too much, but it only showed how much worried she was getting.
"Well, now I do." Shepard was quick to answer, because on the next second she shove the needle into her leg, and a loud gasp escaped her lips, before she pressed her lips together and muffled groans of pain could be heard. Whenever the all liquid was inside her, she removed the needle and gasped in relief before drop it inside the bag.
"Shepard…" Tevos frowned slightly, not wanting to drop this subject, she needed to know more.
Shepard sighed out when Tevos insisted. "Today I woke up with an extreme pain on my left leg, when I stood up, I fell because I got no strength on it anymore, when you went shopping with the others, I actually planned that so Miranda could check on me alone. I..she found out I have no feeling on my left foot now, so this medicine will help me out." She started with a normal tone, but as she ended her words, her tone began to get depressed and lower.
"Oh goddess…" Tevos mumbled under her breath as she frowned slightly while looking down at Shepard's leg. So that was the real reason, Shepard's process was decreasing, and of course it depressed the blonde commander, Tevos couldn't judge her. "I…I don't know what to say."
"I don't need pity, Tevos. Just ignore it, I will start use both crutches now, or else I can't move. – Now only time will tell if I will start walk again or not." Shepard sounded like she was saying something simple and normal, but the angriness was clear in her eyes, and so was the grip against her own clenched fist, she was not accepting this well, and Tevos knew.
Tevos wasn't sure what to do or what to say, if she said something wrong, she would upset the commander and things could only get worse for them specially after this suppose love confession, and as much as Tevos wanted to finish what they started and talk more about it as well, Shepard's health condition was first. So she had a wonderful idea. "Well then! Let me massage your leg till you fall asleep. I will be careful."
"You don't have to do that." Shepard looked up at her with a perked up eyebrow.
"Shhh, just lay down and let me do something for you." Tevos smiled and pressed her palm against Shepard's shoulder as she forced the commander to lay down.
"Alright, thanks. If I fall asleep before one hour, wake me up because I have to take a pill that time." Shepard told her while lying down and making herself comfortable.
"Aye, aye commander. " Tevos joked sweetly, before scoot herself to the middle of the bed and stretch out her hands as she pressed them against Shepard's left leg, she began to squeeze it softly and massaging it here and there while watching Shepard's expressions to know what she was doing right and what she was doing wrong.
Maybe tomorrow they could talk about their feelings…
Wow, this was a long chapter to write! – I hope you guys liked it, and it wasn't too boring/lame. | Tell me your thoughts about this "confession" and what you want to see on the next chapter.
Stick around! (Once again, sorry for any typo. Sadly no beta)