Personally I like this, chapter it is one of my best in my opinion. This is the big reveal of what makes Shepard's supposed to be perfect life, not so perfect. My only real problem is the ending, so if anyone has any thoughts about it, please leave comments. As always Read, Comment, Enjoy…

Shepard and Tali continued walking, behind them they heard the sirens of the C-Sec response vehicles. Tali was still staring at Shepard, she knew he was dangerous but this was an entirely other level that she hadn't even known about. It was kinda sexy.

For awhile they just milled around a series of stores nearby as their adrenaline ran down. But eventually they managed to recover themselves. And they started walking together again, they did what they had been doing. Looking at knick knacks as they went from store to store.

After a while they both realized that they were hungry. They went back to their hotel room, and Shepard ordered for some food for himself, as well as some Turian food for Tali. The decon systems in the elevator would take care of any bacteria.

Tali, expressing an interest not to be seen by whoever was going to be bringing up their food, put her suit back on for a few minutes. Shepard wished that Tali had been here to see exactly who had brought up their food. The women from the front desk a few days ago. He smiled at her, and she gave him her patented sour smile. He could almost imagine her asking him 'So, where's your little friend? Didn't die did she?'

She left, and Shepard looked at the food, the decon systems in the elevator on the way up would take care of any bacteria. So, he went looking for Tali and found her in their room. Flipping through a selection of vid's on the viewer in their room.

She looked up at him, and switched her omni tool off saying "The food up here already?"

Shepard replied with a simple 'yes'.

Shepard left, and after a few minutes Tali came out in an outfit similar to a Human sundress, which would make sense since Tali couldn't wear human pants, due to the 'spurs' on the back of her legs. This was probably also on loan, from one of the female crew members that Tali got along with. That was something he would have to do for her, get her some proper clothes that she could wear. But in the mean time he didn't mind how it looked on her, and he said "Hey there beautiful."

She blushed a little, they both walked over to the dining room table, and Shepard being the gentlemen he was raised to be was there to pull the chair out, and push it in after she sat down. He walked around to the opposite side of the table, and sat down. They both started eating. And Shepard was just happy that Tali was enjoying the large variety of foods that she hadn't ever been able to enjoy before.

After a few minutes Tali looked up at him, and steeled herself. She asked him "Tell me more about your past, I know the story about you and the Skyllian Blitz, and I obviously know everything since then. But I don't know anything else about you, and it just doesn't." Tali stopped for a second before continuing and she then said "sit well with me, that you know so much about me, and that I don't know even half as much about you"

Shepard, smiled at her persistence that was one of the things he loved about her. She, like him went after whatever it was they wanted until they had it. It was just that by her peoples' unfortunate circumstances that what she wanted usually came at a cost to herself for the benefit of everyone around her. He put his fork down, and said "Okay, you win this round." He smiled at her again, and continued saying "Where do I start?"

Tali was surprise that she had found success, he never had said anything to her before, and these one sided conversations usually yielded more questions than she had thought possible. She paused before saying "Well, what about your family?"

Shepard looked a little bit crest fallen that she had chosen such a subject right now, but he felt that she deserved to know so he spoke anyways. "Well, mine was a lot like yours. Grew up in a military family, the first half of my childhood was spent on ships and stations. Parents weren't around that often, the only good part of it was that I had a sister to keep me company."

He stopped there hoping that in the short term this would placate her, but it didn't this merely intrigued Tali more. So she asked, "Where is she now?"

Shepard looked down at the table for a few minutes before saying "Dead."

Tali gasped, she had never had any siblings, but the other children that she grew up with were as close to as she could get and it had hurt when she had heard that one of her friends had died on their pilgrimage. She started saying "Ohh- Shepard I'm so sorry, I shouldn't have ask-."

Shepard held up a hand, stopping her. And continued to speak "No, no, its alright you want to know and you deserve to know. Besides I think I came to terms with her death a long time ago."

Tali didn't believe a word of what he had said, but she didn't stop him she sensed that he needed to get this off of his chest. She came around the table, and leading him by the hand, she made him sit down and sat in his lap. Listening to his story with rapt attention.

He continued "She was my twin and," Shepard gestured to Tali as he said "I don't know how often or even at all Quarians have twin children, but it's a commonly held belief among humans that Twins share a special bond, and can even feel it when one of them is in pain, or distress. And me and my sister felt that we actually had one. Anyways she died in an attack on our ship. My mother was on an assignment onboard the Einstein at the time, but my dad who was a marine, was reassigned to the Elysium garrison. We were hitching a ride onboard a freighter that was heading to the colony, and my mom and dad agreed that they wanted us to go to the colony. Time with fresh air and water would do us both good. Problem was, on the way their we-" Shepard paused choking up a little bit, he continued saying "-We were attacked. I guess it was slavers, or pirates but I couldn't be sure. I was 9 years old at the time, all-all I remember from the attack is that my sister fell as we were running for the escape pod. He had me on one hand, I don't know what happened in his head. I don't know whether he just didn't notice that she fell down, or that he was too scared, or that he knew that he could save me or none of us at all. What I remember is that the pirates boarded the freighter looking for something I guess, because they weren't trying to take any prisoners to sell as slaves, at least as far as I could see. They were gunning people down as they ran for the pods, he shoved me into a pod, and dived in after me. He hit the button and we were launched. With-"

Shepard huffed, trying his best to keep his composure "Without my sister, I screamed and yelled at my dad 'why'd you leave her? Why'd you leave Rachel? I hate you, I hate ypu' He just stared at the ship through the viewport of the pod, and we waited for a while until we were picked up by a passing Alliance frigate. We didn't say a word to each other after that, he worked the nightshift at a security station so he would wake up at roughly the time that I would be going to bed. It changed my dad, a few weeks later he committed suicide. After that my it left my mother broken, she loves me I know that, but she just didn't have the strength to look after me for so long after that. So I was handed off, every few months one of my aunts or uncles would unload me on the next closest relative that they could think of whenever they were sick of me."

Tali gasped again, she had heard stories of people that had committed suicide when the Geth had won the war, 300 years ago. But the survivors had passed on their mental fortitude to their children, and it was never heard of that anyone committed suicide on the flotilla. She started to stammer "Ohh, Shepard I'm so so sorry." She hugged him as tightly as she could. And he responded with the tightest hug he could give her, he started to lose his composure.

Shepard whispered "Thanks Tali, I'm sorry you had to hear any of tha-"

Tali pulled away surprising Shepard, and looking him full in the face said "Don't be, Szeretlek, you know that right?"

It took Shepard a moment to process what it was she said, he hadn't asked her what that word meant in a long time. But he knew, he only gave her a smile and hugged her again. And this time he whispered "Szeretlek Cica"