I'm sorry this chapter is really short :( I have had the most horrible pain due to my wisdom tooth finally coming in and it is coming in fine! Yay! Next chapter will be longer but just wanted to give you all a little something. Enjoy!

Chapter 13

Normandy SR2

I stand in the cargo hold as the shuttle door opens. I first see Thane walk out. He nods to me and I nod back to him. Next comes out Samara. She nods to me as well and walks toward the elevator and then comes Nate with his quarian friend Tali'Zorah. He smiles at me and I smile back. I'd really like to run up to him and give him a kiss but I have to remember professionalism. I may feel like a lovestruck teenager on the inside but I have to act like a Cerberus operative.

"Miss Lawson."

"Commander." I acknowledge him.

"This is Tali, but I think you do remember her."

"Welcome to the Normandy Tali." I reach out my hand.

She doesn't take it and just looks at me, her glowing eyes staring right into my soul. She walks past me and heads to the lift not even looking at me. I look back to Nate who shruggs and takes of his gloves,

"What was that about?" I ask him.

"Don't mind her, she'll come around. She doesn't trust Cerberus."

"Another lovely crew member who hates Cerberus." I mutter.

"She doesn't hate Cerberus. She's not like Jack." He answers me walking with me to the lift.

"I see." I enter the lift and he follows me in.

I look over at him and his brown eyes look straight ahead to the door. He looks very serious and I can tell something is on his mind but he isn't sharing it. He is a very private person and there are things about him that I still do not know. The lift door opens and I step out the deck where my officer is.

"I'll see you in a bit." He tells me just as the lift doors close.

I smile and walk toward my office. I sit at my desk and view the message from the Illusive Man. He knows where we can receive a Reaper IFF to go through the Omega IV Relay. They have a dormant Reaper in space that was destroyed many millennia ago. A Cerberus team was sent there to investigate and set up a science lab but we have lost contact with them. How could we lose contact? I have heard of indoctrination. However, if it is indeed destroyed then there should be no indoctrination. Something about this feels wrong...feels...I don't know...I don't like losing contact with our whole science team. I grab a tea from my mini fridge and take a sip of it. I hear my door open. I am expecting Nate but instead come face to face with Jack.

"Jack... I wasn't expecting you?"

"You weren't huh cheerleader? Just like you weren't expecting me to find out the truth you fucking bitch!" She lashes out at me.

"What the hell are you talking about?" I get up from my seat.

"You know exactly what I'm talking about! That facility on where they kept me...you knew all about it!" Jack steps closer to me.

"I didn't know about it Jack and it was clearly a mistake...the whole damned thing was a mistake."

"Are you saying I am a mistake?"

"As a matter of fact I am. You are an experiment gone wrong!"

"Shut the fuck up Cheerleader! I am not a fucking mistake!" She lifts up a chair with her biotics.

"Get the bloody hell out of my office!"

"Fuck you!" I step out of the way of the flying chair.

The door to my office opens and in steps Nate looking clearly irritated.

"What the hell is going on?"