Time Together.
Saturday 24th December 2185.
After curing the genophage and destroying a Reaper on Tuchunka, Cassie returned to the broker's ship to collect her family, she decided that she wanted everyone she could together for Christmas, and an early present from Admiral Anderson made her desire even stronger.
Anderson gave her the keys to a Citadel apartment he didn't want, and she was touched that it had clearly been refurbished just for her. It had been changed into a one large bedroom en-suite apartment, with a spare bedroom fitted for children.
"Can we stay here?" Megan immediately asked when they saw the new apartment.
"Only for a week, I really don't think the Citadel is safe for you, so at the start of the New Year I'll take you back to the Broker's ship." Cassie informed them. "Now go choose your bed, your mothers need to talk."
The kids hurried away, whilst Miranda, Kelly and Jack moved for the sofas, with the others quickly joining them.
"So… There's only one bed, does Anderson think we'll be that frisky while we're pregnant, or is he thinking several steps ahead?" Miranda immediately asked, once she'd settled on the sofa.
"It does fold out, so there's plenty of room to spare Miri," Cassie said as she sat down beside her, with Jack immediately sitting on the other side.
"Don't you want the physical contact while you sleep, feel our combined body warmth making you feel truly loved?" Kelly asked, sitting in the chair beside the sofa.
"You make an excellent point," Miranda grinned. "That bed should be big enough for us, but I have to ask if you're planning on adding any more lovers to your little 'harem'?"
"Maybe," Cassie said knowingly. "There's that bitch that tried to kill Liara who's got me in her head, though I might just keep her as my bitch. Plus one other woman I can think of right now; regardless of the risks, they've both got potential."
"What about Comm Specialist Traynor? I've seen her eyeing you up every chance she gets." Liara suggested coyly. "Or that reporter? She's certainly trying to get attention with that low cut top."
"Oh I've got my eye on them both my dear," Cassie growled. "But just like all my lovers, I give them the choice whether or not they want to be in a very open relationship with me and all of you."
"So, including them and any other potential unforeseen lovers, how many women would you say you'll limit yourself to?" Miranda asked.
"Worried you'll be forgotten?" Ash laughed, everyone looked around to see Doctor Michel escorting Ash and her daughter into the apartment.
"Sorry we're late," Chloe added.
"Are you alright Ash?" Cassie asked, leaping to her feet to greet the new arrivals.
"I'm fine, I just had a check-up with the good doc here," Ash smiled, hugging Cassie tightly. "In fact I'm due to be released soon, so I was hoping you'd still…"
"You always have a place on the Normandy Ash; as soon as you're discharged I'll be there to pick you up." Cassie said proudly. "Come take a seat, today it's just us lovers, tomorrow the other crew are coming for a Christmas party."
"Everyone? Or just those who aren't busy with the war?" Ash asked cautiously.
"The latter, there'll be a get-together for everyone soon, but the war must go on," Cassie said regretfully. "Take a seat, Liara could you get the drinks out please."
"Of course," Liara said brightly. "How you been Ash?"
"Recovering," Ash replied simply.
"I noticed that Udina visited you several times, may I ask why?" Chloe asked as she sat beside Ash, her daughter staying close beside her mother.
"He offered me the position of Spectre," Ash revealed. "With the 'unique position of protecting the Council'. Like they're not already well protected."
"Really? Ash that's fantastic!" Cassie beamed. "A little suspicious considering the timing, but as long as the offer is genuine, it's a real reward for your contribution in recent years. I'm sure your grandfather would be so proud, you've truly broken the Williams' curse."
"Thanks Skipper, I definitely have you to thank for this promotion," Ash blushed at the attention. "I'd either be dead or still on Eden Prime were it not for you."
"I just brought out the best in you Ash, that's all," Cassie said bashfully. "I feel I've done that with everyone I've met."
"Except that woman on Virmire," Liara said flatly.
"She was indoctrinated!" Cassie retorted. "I killed her before she killed someone else."
"So you brought her brains out instead!" Jack laughed.
"Yes Jack, I did, I'm not proud of it as she still thought she was fine, but the evidence of Reaper indoctrination in that place was irrefutable." Cassie sighed. "But we shouldn't be thinking about the war, or the past, we should be looking to the future, our future."
"Cass, could we… could we have the old dress code again? Just while it's us lovers?" Kelly asked excitedly.
"What dress code?" Ash asked, completely confused.
"After the Cerberus crew were arrested, and the men left for different reasons, I thought it would be fun to relax around the Normandy half naked." Cassie explained; the idea lighting up their faces. "And since I suspect we're all sharing the one bed, but our children are running around upstairs, I'm going to say keep your trousers on, but you're allowed to take your tops off, but keep your bras on."
"Aye aye commander," they all said in unison, as if they'd been waiting for the opportunity, before they began taking their tops off.
"Were you planning this?" Cassie immediately asked.
"To an extent," Emily admitted. "We planned for partial nudity, but we were mainly thinking about ourselves."
"You forgot about our children?" Cassie raised an eye brow.
"We didn't forget, we were just being a little selfish," Karin smiled.
"Well relax ladies, there's one thing about this place I kept quiet," Cassie smirked. "Our bedroom has an en-suite, with a hot tub big enough for ten people."
"Wait, there are eleven of us!" Gianna exclaimed, quickly doing a head-count.
"Plus three of us are pregnant!" Kelly squeaked.
"Ladies, ladies, please relax," Cassie smiled. "It's big enough for ten people IN the hot tub, but it is in the en-suite, so there's some room on the side, and not all of us need to be in the hot tub at the same time."
"This place will not suffice for raising our family after the war," Ash said plainly.
"I have no intention of living here after the war," Cassie said reassuringly.
"Hot tub?" Jack asked excitedly.
"Yes, after we put our children to bed, we'll all relax around the hot tub and properly talk about the future," Cassie informed them. "And we can properly relax."
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As promised they had a simple meal together, the lack of tops making the environment very relaxed and informal, before putting the seven children to bed in their shared room and shutting the door. The moment they closed the door on the large master bedroom; Cassie and her lovers began removing the rest of their clothes and moving toward the large hot tub, which Cassie had gotten ready before they arrived.
"Oh goddess that feels amazing!" Miranda groaned as Sha'ira helped her sit in the hot tub.
"No one else find it odd that since we slept with Cass we say 'goddess' instead of 'god'?" Ash asked, as Chloe helped her into the tub. "I mean I was raised with Christian teachings, and a belief in God, but one night with Cassie and I'm saying Goddess as if I've been saying it all my life."
"Not really," Jack replied, brushing off help as she lowered herself into the hot tub, choosing to sit beside Miranda. "I just assumed it was because she's half-Asari, and melding with her is just another example of her 'imprinting.' Now the idea of her marking us may sound odd to outsiders, but every alpha male in the animal kingdom marks his territory to show they own it, this is just the great Commander Shepard marking the finest asses in the galaxy as hers, no one else's."
"You really look amazing ladies," Cassie changed the subject by complimenting them, sitting on the edge of the hot tub, her feet in the warm water, letting her ladies enjoy the full experience of her hot tub.
"Thank you Cassie," the ladies smiled, and Cassie turned the bubbles on as a little reward.
"Funny how one little thing can bring about so much change," Liara noted, her eyes fixed on Cassie's erection.
"I've fucked a few different races and men, and believe me, that thing ain't small by comparison," Jack laughed. "Never got knocked up before though."
"You never let a man… finish inside?" Kelly asked awkwardly.
"Plenty of times, nothing quite like that sensation, but I was always careful," Jack admitted. "I was REALLY careful with Cass yet… here we are."
"As I've learnt, doesn't matter about our different physiologies or whatever preventative measures taken, if I finish in you, you will get pregnant." Cassie sighed. "Just ask Tali or Miranda if you're seriously unsure."
"Then why isn't the doc, blewbs, or lil miss Spectre pregnant again?" Jack asked indignantly.
"Ash didn't join me to fight the Collectors and has spent the past few weeks in hospital, and as for Liara and Karin, well they've been a bit more careful…" Cassie informed her convict lover.
"We've been careful in where Cassie 'finishes'," Karin clarified. "A little self-control, even when I feel younger than ever, goes a long way."
"Are you saying you don't want more children with Cass?" Ash asked.
"I haven't decided but, and I mean no offence to you ladies, but I don't want to be on the front line of a war while pregnant." Karin replied. "But when it's over… I'm not opposed to having a bigger family with my commander."
"You mean a bigger family than just being with fifteen plus women and their children?" Miranda laughed.
"You make a fair point Miranda, but even that won't stop our beloved from wanting to have wild, passionate, unprotected sex with us for years to come," Karin laughed.
"It's certainly an appealing idea," Cassie laughed.
"So Cassie, what's your grand vision for the future?" Karin asked.
"To bring all my family together, and go home." Cassie said proudly.
"That it?" Jack asked flatly.
"Do any of you, with the exceptions of Miranda and Karin, do any of you know about my youth?" Cassie asked uncertainly, and the silence that followed gave her the answer she was expecting. "I was born on Thessia, but I grew up on a far-flung Asari colony world. In the same year that my mother died in that Batarian pirate raid on the world where we were holidaying, they also ransacked the world I grew up on, and the damage they inflicted caused the Asari to abandoned it, rather than rebuild."
"Nevos? They abandoned it?" Shiala asked in disbelief. "I never heard about this."
"Our people do not like appearing weak, abandoning a colony because of a major pirate attack would not be an acceptable thing for the Asari Republic to admit." Sha'ira informed the younger Asari. "Are you planning on breathing life into the colony world again?"
"Yes." Cassie smiled, her eyes travelling from one pair of breasts to the next, resting momentarily on the three pregnant bumps visible just beneath the bubbling water. "I remember it being so idyllic and beautiful, and I would love to raise my children, and live with my family there."
"Just you, your many lovers, and our children?" Ash clarified. "That does sound idyllic."
"How do you know the Asari Republic won't want to recolonise that world after the war?" Liara asked.
"I was planning on asking the Asari Republic to give me ownership of the world," Cassie confessed. "It's a distant colony world the Asari abandoned roughly thirty years ago, and if I win this war, it'd be drop in the ocean compared to what I did for them."
"And if they refuse?" Jack inquired.
"I'll seduce Councillor Tevos." Cassie said after she couldn't think of a reasonable request.
"That could work," Ash admitted, but Miranda was confused about her lover's plan.
"So you want us to all live with you and our children on a remote Asari colony world and do what exactly?"
"Live our lives together in peace," Cassie smiled, though it was clear they still needed convincing. "We'll get some mechs to do the menial labour, but after spending most of my life in the military, I want nothing more than to relax and put my feet up with those I love."
"So it'll be just us on this world? No outside contact?" Liara asked.
"Contact yes, I don't think any of us could survive without outside contact," Cassie replied. "We'll work out the minutia when we get to it, but do you all like the sound of getting away from military life, away from the media, and live on an idyllic, remote colony with our large loving family."
"I think we need time to think about it Cassie, but we're definitely behind the idea of living with you after the war," Karin said after a long pause.
"Alright, but while you think about our future, I will say one thing," Cassie said, getting everyone's attention. "Merry Christmas."