Shepard's eyes fluttered open, her room was lit by the aquarium perpendicular to her, and in the dull hue she could see a dark figure crouched near the end of the bed.

"Thane?" She asked, sitting up on her elbows, her eyes adjusting to the darkness. He swiftly moved from the couch to the bed, pressing a finger to her lips. She let out a small gasp as he pressed his lips on hers gently as his hand raised and caressed the side of her face. She could feel a heat building in her core, she wanted to reach up and touch him but found her hands glued to the bed. His lips moved away and he looked deeply into her eyes, Shepard let a goofy smile cross her lips.

"Wow, we should do that in real life..."

She shot up in her bed, looking around as if she was expecting him to actually be there. Shepard raised a hand and pushed it back through her hair then laid on her back and looked up through the window.


'Our little encounter left my mind a little distracted, that's all...' She thought, closing her eyes and trying to fall back asleep. So what if she had found Thane attractive, she had found Jacob attractive, and hey, Garrus had a great personality. It was just nature she supposed. Still, it was a pretty nice dream. She shifted under her covers and eventually fell back asleep.

Her fingers twitched on the trigger, she was ready to get this short mission over with. A couple of mercs she had been asked to take care of, smuggling drugs of course. Not that Illium had not seen its fair share of drug runners, but a few more weren't going to help.

"This place is just as bad as Omega. It's dressed up a bit, sure, but the thugs here are just as lowly." Garrus grumbled, pulling his rifle up and looking down the sights. She grunted in return, looking around the warehouse cautiously.

"Garrus, I want you to go left, Thane, go right. I'll take down the centre. If you guys find anything just radio me and we'll meet up." The two nodded and the small group split up, quickly and quietly.

Shepard wove in between crate, she could see a door on the other side of the room, hopefully a good lead. Her boots clicked against the hard floor, if they were in there she hoped they wouldn't hear her. There was a small window beside the entrance, switching to her own sniper rifle, Shepard attempted to see in.

It was them, blue suns by the look of it. They had been crawling all over the place when she had recruited Samara, small wonder they were here. She smiled, these ones, she would take down in style.

"Guys, I found them up ahead, I'm going in." She radioed.

"Wait for us, it'll only take a minute." Garrus replied, almost immediately.

Shepard grabbed her shotgun in one hand and charged herself up, a blue glow pulsing over her armour.

The door caved with no problem, and the mercs all jumped aside, one getting crashed into by Shepard as she shot into the room. She turned and raised her gun, pumping a round into the merc behind her. She turned and hooked another across the face, knocking him out cold.

"You bitch!" Shepard turned and caught the fist of another merc,twisting her arm in attempt to throw her to the ground. The merc gave Shepard a straight shot into the face, and she could feel hot blood begin to pour from her nose like a faucet. She laughed and twisted her gun, swinging at the Asari's face. She wanted to get her once before she killed her.

Her attempt to catch the Asari with a stasis failed, and she felt her feet lifted from the ground before being thrown back against the opposite wall.

"Can't keep your hands to yourself, can you bitch?" The Asari kicked Shepard in the side, she reached for her gun but the her attacked kicked it away. Shepard turned, charging a biotic to get her away when the Asari was vaulted across the room and against the wall. Shepard rolled onto her stomach grabbing the shotgun, she jumped to her feet and blasted the mercenary, pumping three rounds into her.

"I told you to wait for us!" Garrus shouted, pointing one talon at the commander.

"I can handle myself." Shepard said, rolling her shoulders and holstering her gun.

"I got tied up with a couple of them on my way so you're lucky Thane got here when he did." She looked at Thane who was holstering his own gun, then gave her a small nod. She sighed and crossed

her arms.

"You're right, it was dumb of me to just charge in without you guys around. I should have waited but I thought I could take them down, and I appreciate you helping me Thane, I really do." Shepard smiled at him and turned back to Garrus. "You know I get a little excited, and I guess as much as I've done I forget that I'm not invincible." The Turian waved a hand at her and the group packed up.