To say that things have not been going as planned would be an understatement. If Tali were to use a human phrase, "it had all gone to hell" would have been the most applicable.
Commander John Liam Shepard, the dashing human marine who had swept the young quarian girl off her feet and stole her heart, was simply not himself anymore. The man had always been chivalrous, the finest example of an officer and a gentleman Tali had ever seen.
But in recent days, John, her John, had turned into something else, a far cry from the man she had come to love, the one she was willing to link suits with. The handsome, strapping young man had become something akin to a varren in heat, scurrying around and fucking anything with breasts, sapience, and a heartbeat.
This included the quarian engineer, herself.
Twice.
As she sat alone in her private quarters aboard the advanced Cerberus vessel, the once bubbly alien girl felt her cheeks heat up in embarrassment, flushed at the vivid memories of her captain lifting her up onto her workstation, trapping her against the elevator wall, his skilled fingers running down to her…
That bosh'tet…
Tali was more than a little angry.
What had happened was not the way it was supposed to go with John. There was supposed to be a night reserved just for the two of them, several hours all to themselves. There was supposed to be a nice, soft bed, maybe some sterilized flower petals….
Her captain was supposed to make love to her, a long, savored event that was to be spent exploring and learning each others' bodies, finding out what was pleasurable, what wasn't. John was to undress her slowly, to un-wrap his quarian like a gift. And in a way, she was. She would be giving him the greatest gift a quarian could give to her love; herself.
Tali knew how childish it sounded, how she had been looking at the whole thing through a "rose-tinted" faceplate. It probably resulted from the too-many times she had curled up in her cubicle-room and watched "Fleet and Flotilla". But John, he was such a gentleman, so much like Bellicus from the vid. He would have obliged her, doing everything in his power to make it special.
The man she fell in love with would have devoted the entire night to pleasing her. And in return, she would have given him everything she had.
Her love, her support, her body…
Her entire body…
More than once, Tali had spent a couple hours cooped up in her private quarters with Nerve-Stim Pro activated, thinking up all the ways she would let John use her, all the ways he could take her and make her his entirely. Even now, she was shivering at the thought of those strong arms scooping her up and throwing her onto the bed, peeling her suit away…
But those fantasies were with the dashing hero, not the scoundrel who couldn't keep it in his pants for five minutes.
John had changed for the worst and Tali knew exactly who was at fault.
It was that tattooed bitch they had picked up several weeks back.
Ever since that short little As'lezt had come aboard, she had been eyeing John up like a varren would a piece of meat. It infuriated Tali to no end, but the quarian pushed the anger away, believing the convict to be undesirable in John's eyes. Why would a man of virtue, such as Shepard, even want her?
Jack was a criminal, a murderer, trash! She was a living embodiment of everything John had hated in the galaxy, there was simply no way he would…
And yet he did.
After her brush with the "new" John, Tali had heard rumors around the ship, how Jack and the Captain could be heard "screwing like bunnies" as Donnelly so eloquently put it.
Yesterday, it was said that Jack had taken John and headed to a high class brothel in Nos Astra. Tali couldn't bear to even think about what they had done down there.
Tali needed to find a way to get her captain back to way he was before, back to man she loved. The first step would be to stop that tattooed bosh'tet's influence over him, but that would prove difficult. Tali may have been seething at the thought of the small human female, but her anger would not turn her into an idiot. Jack was a powerful biotic, even by asari standards. Any obvious moves against her would be met with-
The sound of the doors sliding open pulled Tali out of her deep thoughts. The quarian engineer turned to the opened entrance to her quarters to see a very familiar figure leaning against the door frame.
Speak of the devil…
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"Hello, Jack," Tali said through clenched teeth, not bothering to mask her contempt for the shorter human.
"Buckethead," Jack replied coolly.
Tali narrowed her eyes at the blatant slur against her people, scowling behind her mask. To Jack, however, it just seemed as if the quarian was taking longer than usual to reply. Jack's eyes wandered, taking in the sights of the small, decorated room. The quarian had done a well enough job of taking the once-sterile Cerberus quarters and making it her own.
The walls were covered with drapes and clothes of many different colors and patterns, most likely of quarian descent, and the small table beside the bed had been converted into a makeshift workstation.
Jack also noted that the Cerberus logos that once hung prominently on the walls had all been scraped off or painted over. The convict could not help but grin at the sight.
Buckethead's got good taste, I'll give her that…
"Why are you here, Jack?"
And with that, the grin was gone.
Jack's eyes locked back onto her target, the quarian before her attempting to keep an imposing stance. Jack knew that situation all too well, thinking back to the labs and trying to look threatening to the guards so they wouldn't take her to the testing chambers. It would never work.
"To talk," Jack answered.
The quarian shifted her weight from one three-toed foot to the other, placing one hand on her hip.
"Talk about what?"
Jack stepped into the room, causing Tali to tense up.
"Before I start saying anything, I have to make sure you won't get all… kill-y. I don't really want to put you into a coma, Buckethead."
Jack could practically feel Tali giving her a look of confusion behind her mask.
"Wha-?"
It was at that moment that the quarian realized that she couldn't move, finally noticing the blue haze that enveloped her entire body.
Jack managed a small smile, witnessing the buckethead attempt to squirm her way out of the convict's stasis field.
"You- you bosh'tet! Release me this instant!" Tali all but shrieked, her body jerking against the biotic forces all over her slim body.
"Relax, wrench-girl. I'm not going to hurt you. I just wanted to talk to you about the object of your desire."
Tali stopped struggling, her eyes focusing on the tattooed human female before her. Even through the mask, Jack could tell that the quarian was giving her a deadly look even a krogan would back down from.
"And what… might that be?"
Tali's voice was strained, the girl obviously trying to remain calm. Her anger was just below the surface, ready to be unleashed. But Jack knew what kind of girl Tali was, the kind that wouldn't let her feelings control her. Jack could respect that.
"The Commander, of course," Jack said. "Don't act so surprised that I know, bucket. Everyone knows about your feelings for the guy. I mean, with the way you follow him around and fuss over every little cut and scrape he gets, it's pretty fucking obvious."
When Tali didn't respond, Jack continued.
"I'm going to be honest here; it's getting kind of pathetic. I had a little chat with half-face a while back. I learned that your little 'thing' with the Commander had been going on since you met him two years ago. Two years and you haven't even made a move? With a guy like Shepard, bucket, you don't wait that long."
Tali appeared to be fully listening now, though she still seemed quite tense.
"Hell, if I were in your… suit, I'd have jumped that rod and rode him raw as soon as I got him alone. In fact, that's exactly what I did."
Those were the words that ultimately undid the quarian. Tali started screaming again, cursing Jack with a colorful variety of expletives, all in her native quarian tongue, Khelish. The slim woman thrashed against the field that held her in place but to no avail.
Jack simply quirked an eyebrow and leaned back against a wall, waiting for the girl to lose steam. When Tali finally slowed down and went limp against her restraints, too tired to continue, Jack spoke up once more.
"Don't tell me you're actually angry. Shepard isn't your property, buckethead. He was fair game for any woman to snatch up unless you already had him plowing your field. But you decided to wait for the 'right time'."
"You bitch…" Tali cursed, still tired from her attempts to break free.
"That's the general idea, yes. Did you expect another type of person when you saw my scars, my tattoos and my shaved head? Fortunately, bucket, you are in luck. I have decided that I don't entirely hate your guts. We have some things in common, actually. We both hate Cerberus, we both like shotguns, we… no, that's pretty much it."
"Oh joy. You don't hate me. I feel so honored right now. It's a real privilege. Bosh'tet…" Tali grumbled.
"Hey, you should feel special. I hate damn near everyone so what I just said is like finding a four-leaf clover in a haystack… or however the saying goes. It also means that I'm going to try and do something… nice for you."
Tali snorted.
"What could you possibly do for me now that would be considered nice? You took John from me and turned him into… into…"
"A good fuck?"
"A bastard!"
Jack laughed at that, cackling not unlike one would expect a problem child would.
"Please, wrench-girl. If Shepard continued on the way her was, sex with him would've been boring as shit. He would've been all gentlemanly and such, giving you some nice, wholesome, vanilla loving and then he would've pulled out and cum on a towel or something. But knowing you, I think you would've just loved that."
"Sh-shut up!"
"No thanks. Back to what I was offering. We have a mission coming up. A dangerous one. They say it's a suicide mission. Shepard said he'd prove them wrong but it still doesn't feel good. The Commander told the crew to make sure they had no regrets. You want to fuck the Commander. I'm willing to allow that to happen."
Tali was silent now, her eyes noticeably wide even from behind her mask. She must have been quite shocked at those words, given that she didn't notice that Jack had released her from the stasis field.
"W-what?"
Jack rolled her eyes, sighing at the quarian's sudden inability to hear.
"The Commander and I, we're good together. Sex is fucking great and I do things for him that he doesn't even know he wants or is too scared to ask for, because he's a "gentleman". But he doesn't love me. Not the way he loves you."
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"He… he loves me?"
"Of-fucking-course he does! Please, don't tell me this is news to you!"
Tali began to fidget nervously, wringing her hands in anxiety.
"W-well, I knew he had feelings for me, but I didn't think-."
"He's in love with you, buckethead. It's as simple as that. I may be a psychotic bitch but I'm not so evil as to fuck something like that up. Spice it up, maybe, but not destroy it."
Tali stopped fidgeting, letting what Jack said sink in.
John loved her. Keelah, he loved her!
"So… everything you've done with John… it was to 'spice things up'?"
Jack nodded.
"That was the general plan, yes."
"A plan that involved sleeping with him and manipulating him into feeling me up in my workstation?"
"Yep. You're welcome for that, by the way. I heard your screams all the way from my hole. He must've been good."
Tali blushed furiously but managed keep herself composed. The quarian crossed her arms, her luminescent eyes meeting Jack's
"What's the catch?"
Jack gave a devious smile.
"I'll let you have your time with the Commander. You get to have your hero, your 'Lion of Elysium', plus great sex due to my influence. The only catch is that you allow me to show you what to expect when the time comes. That and…"
"And…?"
"…And, if I want to, I get to join in. Later, though. I won't interrupt your precious 'first time'."
Tali pursed her lips, shifting her weight from one foot to the other, contemplating. On one hand, she could finally have her John and get taught from a reliable source just how to please him. On the other hand, there will come a time when Jack, a person she does not particularly like, will want to join her and John in bed.
Tali did not find such an idea alluring, but John would no doubt enjoy it. Tali knew John deserved some happiness, given the responsibility the leaders of the galaxy placed upon his shoulders. Plus, Jack was able to do so with no problem. If Tali were to outshine that tattooed bitch, she needed to prove to John that she was equally open-minded.
Tali outstretched one hand to Jack.
"Deal."
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Jack's "lessons" turned out to be nothing more than porn-vids. At first, Tali protested, saying that pornographic material wasn't realistic and, therefore, not a good teaching tool. Jack countered by saying that they would be using amateur vids.
So, they sat on Tali's bed, their backs against the wall, as Jack used her omnitool to project vids onto the far end of the room. Tali had made sure to lock her door so they would not be interrupted.
It came as a shock to the quarian woman when she discovered just how many quarian/human porn vids there were. It was equally shocking at how they were just so depraved.
A good example was the one Jack had Tali watching right now. A large, muscular human male stood in the middle of some hotel room, with two suit-less quarian women before him, both on their knees.
The human had his pants undone, hanging off of his waist, with his long, throbbing cock standing at attention. The two quarians were pleasuring him with their mouths, slobbering over the stiff member with their tongues, wrapping their lips around the head and shaft, sucking him off with a hunger that left Tali speechless.
All the while, the women were speaking absolutely filthy things, praising the man's cock and begging for his come in between licks and sucks. The man groaned loudly, both large hands reaching down to pet the two women as if they were pets, running his fingers through their curly hair.
"Oh, fuck, you two are amazing…"
"Thank you, human!"
"Now, give us your cum! Shoot it down our whore throats!"
Before that, there was the vid with two males, a human and a turian, and one quarian female. When the turian pulled his stiff organ out, Tali was impressed, but when the human did the same, Tali was almost floored by his size.
And I thought turians had reach….
The two males had the woman sandwiched between them as they pumped their cocks into each of her holes.
The turian had the girl's mouth, thrusting forward, deep into her throat while she moaned around his thick rod. Behind her was the human, a darker-skinned man, who pounded his length hard inside her, alternating between fucking her slick folds and pumping his cock into her tighter rear entrance.
It was a bit much for Tali, seeing all this and realizing that this was what would be expected to happen up in the loft with John. All this dirty, filthy…
No. If this is what John wants, I must be able to do it. I love him too much not to do it.
"Anything else I should see?" Tali asked, looking over to Jack.
"Oh, you haven't seen anything yet, buckethead. I still have to show you deep-throating."
Keelah, this is going to be a long night.
