The continuing story of my Shepard & Liara. This takes place immediately after my previous story, Beginnings.

Instead of starting a new game, I end up living it. Now, stuck in a world meant to be fiction, I must use my knowledge to save this universe. OC/Ashley, Femshep/Liara. Rated T for language. Newly rewritten and improved.

A year after her abduction and subsequent rescue, Tevos's life has settled into something resembling normalcy - or as normal as it can get with the Queen of Omega as her bondmate. However, with Liara about to give birth to her first daughter, Tevos finds herself reevaluating her choices while Aria tries to suppress the grief she thought she had already buried. Sequel to CoI.

Femshep\Liara with a number of original 's slightly AU because when I started it, Liara's lineage was unknown. Now that we have canon, I'm leaving this story as is but adapting in later installments to bring Liara's canon father into the adventure. OC human\asari pairing as well, to set the stage for bigger things to come.

Mass Effect is a great game. A fun game. But the fun and games stop when it all becomes real...when I find myself on the Citadel, with the terrible knowledge of what's coming. Can one person really make a difference? I'm sure as hell going to try, because the Reapers aren't taking over this galaxy on my watch.

Samantha Traynor, ever the consummate chess player, finally makes her opening gambit and comes to Holly Shepard's door late one night, determined to finally get what she has sought from her, for so long...

After being dumped by Shepard in ME3, Miranda is suddenly forced to take on another mission with her former commander... Great...

Shepard has a promise to keep. And what are a few burns and broken bones if you've got a former Cerberus operative waiting for you?

The reunion with Liara doesn't quite go as Shepard had planned. Luckily for her, Liara's not her only option for "stress release"... or is she?