Shepard walked into the CIC area. She still couldn't believe the quad on the warden of Purgatory. Trying to hold her for ransom? It was the stupidest idea she had ever heard. And Jack looked like she was going to be a handful to control.

After a small conversation with Kelly about Jack, Kelly told her that she received a message from Ashley and if she wanted she could contact her with the communicator in her quarters.

Ashley was sitting at her desk filling out the second incident report that week. One of the colonists had been harking on her about the defense cannons still not operating correctly, and being a little more aware of her new found temper had been standing out of her reach. Unfortunately for him, he had forgotten that she had her pistol on her and thus got shot in the knee.

She was about to send the report in when her monitor told her that she had an incoming communication. She accepted the call and after a few seconds, "Hey Ash!" Shepard said as her image filled the screen.

"Shepard?!" Ashley said, not quite believing that it was in fact her.

"Alive and kicking again. And I hear that you're one of the ones I should be thanking for it."

"That's right, me and Liara. How are you doing so far? I got a message from Tali that said she had seen you."

"Yeah we saw each other in the last colony that got hit. And I'm doing fine, how 'bout you?"

"Not bad. Hey do you think you could come and pick me up once you get the chance. I'm tired of the people here."

"About that, I got a message from Anderson asking me the same thing before you start to get into serious trouble." Shepard's face took on a stern but playful demeanor, "Ash, what been going on."

Ashley let out a sigh, "Besides every colonist making me want to kill them all myself? Not much. I've punched one here and there, though today I lost it and shot one in the knee."

"Oh, come on Ash you're better than that." Shepard said, almost whined.

"Hey, you take care of a bunch of whiny colonists that blame you for just about everything for several months and see how you feel."

"Well, I'll see what I can do. With luck I'll be there in a week or two."

"That's perfect because that's actually when my replacement is supposed to be here."

"Well then, I'll look forward to your return. Oh and before I forget, you're going to have to share my remaining bed space with my 'sister' Kelly."

"Oh, I finally get to meet her?"

"You've been wanting to?" Shepard asked.

"Hell yeah. And of course I don't mind."

"Ok then I'll talk to you when I can."

Anderson was in his office going over a couple of reports. A few were of sightings of Shepard, some of another colony getting attacked, and one was another incident report from Williams. He sighed and pulled up his communicator. After a few minutes his call to the colony she was in went through. "Hello?" came across the line.

"This is Counselor Anderson. I need to talk to Chief Williams."

"Hold on, I'll transfer you to her terminal and page her."

After a few minutes she picked up, "Yes sir?"

"Williams, what's going on there?"

"What's going on is I'm losing my patients with these colonists blaming me for everything. As soon as she can Shepard is going to be picking me up."

"Good, I actually wanted you to get back onto her crew and keep an eye on her. Word is that she's working with Cerberus, and I don't trust them. So it'd be good if you could keep an eye on her."

"Sound like a plan."

"Good then I'll make sure that you have a proper leave of absence by the time she gets there."

"OK. Also who's my replacement?"

"It's Kaiden."

"Also, how are the girls doing?"

"Their doing great. Though I suspect that Seara might have a crush on one of her classmates."

"What are they?"

"A human girl named Andromeda. Cute girl, a little shy but I'm sure Seara might be able to bring her out of her shell."

"Hm, well it's nice talking with you, but I'm going to start packing."

"Got it, oh and Williams, take care of Allison for me."

"Will do."

Two weeks later the Normandy was pulling away from the colony and Ashley was walking around the crew deck having a look around.

She had stopped in the med-bay and spent a few minutes catching up with doctor Chakwas.

She looked to her right and saw the door to Miranda's office was open so she decided to stop in and have a quick chat with her, "Knock knock." She said as she entered.

The dark haired owner of the room looked up from her computer at her, "Ah, Chief Williams. I was hoping for a chance to speak with you."

"About what?" Ashley asked as she took a seat across from the Cerberus officer.

"Since you are onboard this ship to keep an eye on Shepard for the Alliance, and as a personal friend of Shepard I just would like for you to know the chain of command on this ship. First and foremost, Shepard is in command, followed by me. So if I have to give you an order I expect you to follow it without question unless Shepard says otherwise. Are we clear?"

"As long as those orders don't contradict my own morals we'll be fine." Ashley said.

"Fair enough," Miranda said, her gaze shifting to something behind Ashley, "Ah Jack, I was wondering when you'd finally show up."

Ashley looked behind her and saw a woman with a shaved head and pretty much nothing covering her chest but tattoos.

"Fuck you. Who's she?" Jack said, eyeing Ashley.

"This is Gunnery Chief Williams."

"We have an Alliance officer on board?" Jack scoffed.

"I'm here to keep an eye on what's mine." Ashley said.

"She has an intimate relationship with Shepard."

"Ph, ha. This should be fun. So what, are you going to be kicking Chambers out of her bed to keep her all to yourself?"

"As long as she keeps her hands to herself I may not have to." Ashley said as she left Miranda's office.

That night Ashley finally got her first look at Shepard quarters, "Hm, nice set-up. And nice bed, finally I won't have to rely on you to keep me from falling out of the bed."

"Yeah, Alison does like to keep a strong hold of whoever is in bed with her." Kelly said with a laugh.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, laugh it up you two." Shepard said from the bathroom.

"Don't worry we are," Kelly replied.

"So Kelly, can you tell me a bit about Shepard when she was younger?" Ashley asked as she stripped off her uniform.

"Well first off she's always been a lesbian. Dad never saw anything wrong with it or at least he never let any… distaste of it show."

"I thought the two of you were orphans." Ashley said as she removed her bra.

The exposure of Ashley's breasts left Kelly distracted for a moment before she regained her composure, "Uhm yes we were, but we like to call Anderson that since he did take us it without any questions." She said trying not to stare at Ashley's still exposed chest.

"You can look if you want, I don't mind." Ashley purred into Kelly's ear making her shiver.

"Hey, stop teasing my sister Williams. If you want to help her finally lose her virginity you're going to have to show some serious romance."

"Ok. Oooohhhh, maybe we can convince Liara to join in an…"

"If you say that you want me to join the three of you in an orgy forget it." Kelly said, her face redder than her hair.

"We'll see about that. If Shepard was able to turn me lesbian then we both might be able to talk you into an orgy." Ashley said, finally slipping into her pink silk nightgown and slipping into the bed.

"Willing to bet on that?"

"Sure, if I win we do the orgy, if you win…"

"You have to invite Jack and Miranda in my place." Kelly said boldly.

"That'd be interesting." Shepard said, settling down next to Ashley.

"If you want I could ask Mordin for tips to make your sexual encounters more interesting after we acquire him." EDI said over the speakers.

"Save that for when we ask." Ashley said.