Sara consumed too much of their alcohol comparable substances after celebrating the victory over liberating a camp of twenty some slaves. She woke up partially disrobed laying next to Prad and a heat lamp designated for her use.
Prad's arm pulled her close again.
Did she…
Embarrassment overcame her as she tugged on the carefully layered clothing as best she could. A pair of lips kissed her neck. " What's wrong?"
Prad's voice sent chills up her spine. Sara shrugged off the chills determined to not be too bothered by a natural act.
" Did we?"
" Yes," His strong arms and muscular body felt good against hers. She stopped fighting the panic and enjoyed the brief moment. " You were intoxicatingly wonderful,"
Her brow lifted comically. " Really?" She remembered none of it.
Prad tickled her sides. " The way you danced, hips swaying, the laughter as you spun on your feet. And later, not too soon after with you on top-" Her face burned with growing understanding how many witnesses may have overheard or seen her uninhibited actions. " I want more,"
Shit, shit, shit. Tann, Kandros, and Prad? Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit to the nth power!
His contented sigh broke her heart. She breathed deeply. " I don't remember any of it," She wanted to remember at least some of it.
" I can reacquaint you," She swore the color of her face matched the color of her blood exposed to oxygen. " All you need to do is say yes,"
Yes. No. Yes. NO!
Her brows pressed together as she imagined where their appendage hid. Turians had plates that concealed the member. Humans 'let it hang out'. Salarians….well she was too embarrassed to describe it.
" If we do, will we keep it our little secret?"
Prad rolled her to face him. " Last night was very public, but if you want I can forget about it now," She inwardly winced at the thought of public sex.
" Prad, I may be in love with someone else,"
" And I may die tomorrow,"
Well she couldn't argue with that.
" Was I a strong performer last night?" She trailed her hands along his neck and chest. So unlike Kandros. So not human. Entirely intoxicating.
He lifted her hips to his. " I believe you said my name in admiration and appreciation," He whispered far more into her ear making her wish she remembered last night because the way he described it it must have been a-mazing!
Sara closed her eyes. " Stop teasing me. Just show me what you 'inspire' before everyone wakes up," Her lips crushed beneath his, the lurking Saen observing while pretending to be asleep next to a large boulder.
Prad and Sara acted as if nothing happened between them, but Viraan and Haddon eluded to the first coupling during their first rounds at the nearest daar they escorted the freed slaves to. Only Saen stayed silent on the subject. A thoroughly embarrassed Sara avoided even looking at Prad who kept admiring her in a kind but not intrusive manner. Haddon traded glances with Saen and Haddon turned the engine off. Heavy snow blocked their path. Saen triggered the beacon under his seat. Viraan stopped checking her omnitool.
" What's wrong?"
Sara poked her head out the door. " Haddon, you may want to rever-"
" We're snowed in. If we try to move now, we'll dig ourselves in more,"
" So we're going wait out a blizzard and freeze to death?" Sara climbed forward, Viraan pushing her back. Prad caught her before she could hit her elbow off the arm rest. " If we're buried in, we'll die,"
" Don't worry. I contacted the daar. They'll send a team to retriev-"
" In a blizzard?" Sara tried again, held back by Prad. " Are you crazy?!"
Viraan sneered.
" Enough, Viraan," Prad snapped.
" You're the one-"
" What happened is none of your business," Sara almost yelled. " Fuck this, I'll walk,"
Prad anchored her down. " No, you won't. We need to stay put,"
" Then move the damn vehicle!" Sara yelled at Haddon. Her omnitool flared to life as she messaged SAM and Scott with coordinates. Prad let go of her waist. " Don't you dare stroke my hair like I'm a cat,"
" What's a-"
" Shut up, Saen!" Sara heaved in proper panic.
The loud thud of bodies hitting the ground outside went unnoticed. The door wrenched open and a chosen stared at all of them. Sara kicked it hard with the heel of her boot and ducked away from Viraan's firing pistol.
" Start the vehicle!" she ordered Haddon.
Pulled from the vehicle, Sara screamed in profanity before the snow blinded her. Without her helmet she risked frostbite. Prad raised his rifle and fired into the blizzard missing Sara by inches. Haddon failed to start the vehicle. Saen dropped down next to a tire and took cover. Dragged through soft deep snow by a stronger taller enemy, Sara twisted and dug her hands into the snow, never striking solid earth.
Viraan shoved Haddon to side against the door and pressed the button to engage the engines. It jumped to life. Haddon pushed her down to avoid the anointed unloading ammunition into the cab. Both Prad and Saen targeted the anointed at the same time. Sara finally lay flat with two chosen above her thinking she hit her head too hard to climb to her feet. Breathing hard, she dragged her hand to her side. Her fingers creeped across the trigger and grasp.
Hopping to her feet, Sara pulled the trigger twice and lunged forward with the omnitool blade. Kett blood squirted across Sara's face. She whirled on the remaining chosen and fell back, a broken nose stunning calculated aim into a wild shot glancing off the kett's shoulder. For the second time in two minutes, kett blood splattered across Sara's face, temporarily blinding her.
She screamed at being grabbed. Saen tackled her to the ground and pinned her arms to her chest. " Calm down!"
" Let me go,"
Saen wrestled the pistol from her. Sara scrambled away from him after his weight lifted. She grabbed a handful of snow and pressed it to her face, scrubbing away the snow and repeating the action two more times before Prad grabbed her off the ground gently.
" Are you bleeding?"
Her nose throbbed horribly, eyesight restored. " Bastard broke my nose," Swelling already started. She sat down in the snow and prepared to reset it while everyone watched in confusion. Viraan held her helmet, dreading the report to Evfra and thoroughly aggravated at Sara freaking out over a prank that everyone agreed on before leaving out that morning. Sara grunted in pain resetting the cartilage. She finally looked up at all of them.
Haddon and Viraan framed the background of a destroyed ground transport. Prad cleared his throat. " Are you further injured?" She shook her head. " Is your brother on his way?" She checked her email again and announced thanks to deciding 'sleeping it off in the transport is a good idea' decision they were fucked. She snatched the helmet from Viraan and held out her hand for the pistol Saen seized from her. He handed it back reluctantly. Sara maglocked the Ushior to her leg and eased the helmet over her head.
Sara set off across the deepening snowfield emailing Scott as she went. Stumbling along stubbornly, Sara prayed that someone got them before she passed out of exhaustion and her armor's solar heat battery. Blindly believing her map she walked right into Scott's team. Right behind them the rest of her team stubbornly tailed her.
In the near white out, Scott forced Sara into the Nomad. Lexi immediately started a physical of her current well being. " I already informed Commander Do Xeel you are stranded. Unfortunately they're locked in. We have back up. Peebee flies the shuttle. Once the weather cleared up, we're flying out. Business is complete on Voeld and we need to track down the Moshae at that facility that's impossible to enter,"
Inside the vehicle, Sara shivered and winced as Lexi helped Sara mend her nose.
" What exactly did Sara share?" Prad asked carefully.
Scott shrugged. " That you were ambushed, transport destroyed, and she had 15 hours left on the battery," He cleared his throat. " Should I know something?"
" Sara is special," Prad copped to it. " I want her to be happy and safe,"
" You and Sara had sex, didn't you?" Scott crossed his arms and stared Prad down. " Look, I know that she's her own person, but if you so much as hurt her, I will kill you,"
If it weren't for the blizzard, Prad would've hugged Scott. Ignorant of the reveal, Sara cried out as Lexi stabbed a booster shot into her numb arm. " Easy! You're a doctor, not a killer," Sara the crook of her arm.
" You should've seen Scott the moment he received the email. Two hours of sleep and one word about you and a blizzard and he yanked me and Liam on the rescue trip," Sara cocked a brow at a dozing Liam. " Don't worry about him,"
She kicked the seat. Liam snored undisturbed. Lexi shook her head and placed a datapad in Sara's hands. " I know you won't be leaving the Resistance soon so this is all the information we have on the angara anatomy, the culture, how sex likely works, their known medical problems, weaknesses, strengths, and every rumor Peebee dug up," Sara tucked the datapad into her side pouch.
" So when are you and Scott going to have blue babies?" Sara teased.
" When you and Tann raise Salarian babies," Lexi countered with a ready smile. " It is still Tann, right?"
" Yes and no. I'm starting to think I'm going after something that is impossible to achieve," Sara admitted. " I need the physical, not so much the emotional. And I feel guilty about bedding Kandros,"
Liam stirred and turned into a semi fetal position. Sara shook her head. Lexi hugged her. Scott opened the door. " Peebee's here,"
Sara gingerly pulled her helmet back on. Scott helped walk her to the temporary shelter that would see them through the storm.
