A/N Hey guys! Hope you enjoy this chapter, a lot of flash backs have been going on. Like I said shoot me your own Ideas and they could turn up in the story. (: Thank you for reading.

Thane's POV

She walked over to me, sitting on my lap my heart was beating like a snare drum, butterflies filled up my stomach as she sat on my lap he skin warm against mine. When she leaned in I thought I was going to die she was moving so slow. Her lips gently brushed mine at first, my teeth chattered eagerly wanting more. Finally she full on kissed me her lips smooth and cool compared to the rest of her. I pulled her closer, my arms easily wrapping around her petite waist line. She pressed into me, slowing down her kisses before she slowly bit my bottom lip, I shuddered. Then she pulled back, I looked at her smiling. Then I kissed her softly, and couldn't help letting myself smile back at her.

"Where were we?" She said leaning on the edge of the window in front of the mass effect core.

"You were about to tell me some of the memories you've shared." I said watching her face as she talked.

"Oh right. Well.. During the First Contact war with the Turians I was captured. Willingly though of course..

"Violet, you can't do this, not alone." He said grabbing my arm before I could jump over our small barricade. People were being shot down all around us. The Turians were making a push. We had to act fast. There wasn't any time for a debate.

"I have to do this. I know you have my back. Just stick to the plan." I said as I kissed him deeply before winking at him and vaulting over the barricade. I quickly made my own barricade with my biotics as I ran along the edge of the battlefield. I have to get caught, I need inside their base. I thought as ducked behind a piece of building rubble. I was breathing heavily as I leaned over shooting whoever I could with my pistol. It wasn't much, but if I took our advanced weapons, they'd fall into their hands and we don't want that. I ducked back to reload when I noticed the tip of an assault rifle staring back at me. Turian, I thought as I smiled up at him. He used his foot to knock the pistol out of my hands. I held my hands up in surrender.

"Move!" He shouted at me as he grabbed my arm lifting me to my feet pushing me in the direction of their base. Everything was going according to plan I thought as he hit me in the head yelling at me to keep my head down. Once I got inside they housed me with a Krogan. We never talked until the day they were tired of me playing mind games with them and they beat me so badly I couldn't walk back to the cell, they had to drag me. When they threw me in, I laid there in so much pain as my body tried to heal itself. He walked over to me, and lifted me up onto one of the cots that was also used as our seats during the day. He didn't say anything as he handed me a cup of water and helped me drink it. I spilled it all over myself because my lips were so swollen. He wiped it off and laid me down on the cot, covering me up with a blanket. Then he sat down in front of the cot. I could feel the heat radiating off of his back plates."

"So what'd you tell them?" He said roughly.

"That I slept with his brother last night." He chuckled.

"You've got a quad girl. Careful it doesn't get you killed. You humans don't last very long in here."

"I might su-ss-urpri-ssse you." I said nudging him with a slur to my words as my mouth swelled up even more.

"Try and get some sleep kid. You'll feel better in the morning. Don't worry I won't let anyone touch you." He said looking at the guards watching us.

"Thank you..."

"Jax."

"Vi-..." I blacked out from exhaustion and pain.

After that night we became two peas in a pod. We plotted our escape for days. Our plan was for me to crack the lock while he took out the guards. Have five minutes to get down the hall to the armor room and grab our old gear if they haven't tossed it by then and if they did steal some of theirs. And then the action started, fight our way our without dieing. Signal the resistance to blow the bombs we'd planted earlier and run like hell. We fought like we were born to be beside each others side in battle. He took them out at close range and I took them out at long range with my biotics. I also kept barriers around us when missiles came flying. When the resistance set off the bomb Jax was standing too close. The earth caved beneath him and I rushed to his side. I grabbed him pulling both arms out of their sockets. He was literally ripping my arms off on accident as I tried to hold on.

"Let me go." He said.

"NEVER!" I screamed through clenched teeth as I focused all my biotics on him and my arms throwing him out of the crater.

We sat there looking at each other, both of us panting; him out of fear and I out of strength for the time being. He walked over to me, patted me on the back, almost knocking me over. He handed me his knife to bite down on the end as he pulled my arms back into place. It was the second most painful moment in my life. Behind childbirth."

When it was all said and done, the war over and time for us to go our separate ways. We stayed together. He became my father, my brother, my closest friend. I loved him until the day he died. Before he took his last breath I shared all the good times in the time we spent together and read aloud from the Bible. Even though he didn't believe in such, it would have meant the world to him that I did. He died saving my ass and I 'll never forget it." When she finished speaking you could see her shoulders actually drop as if she had let go of an enormous rock. I wonder if she realized that her eyes glowed a bright biotic blue when she went into those trances. I'm glad mine don't. I thought as she stood there in silence wiping a tear from her cheek.

"He sounded like a good man."

"As good as you are." She said half smiling at me. My heart sank. I don't believe I am a good person. To which I am trying to atone for. Maybe that was a sign. I thought as she came over. She hugged me. I tried not to notice that her boobs were on my face.

"Thank you for listening Thane." She kissed my head before leaving.

"The pleasure was mine." I said to no one.

Shepard's POV

When we reached Miranda's contact she had some bad news. Which in turn I killed a bunch of people. Miranda was her control freak self, Jack actually killed people and I hacked a bunch of terminals. I found a locket, with a picture of some guy in it. Once we reached Niket, we had to deal with that Asair bitch, who Jack actually liked. I was going to toss her across the room if Miranda hadn't. Niket ended up shot by her cause lets face it Miranda wouldn't have forgave herself if she actually shot him. Then I had to convince the cheerleader to go and talk to her sister. That took some convincing.

At the end of the day everyone was happy. Jack got to kill a few people, I found money for our mission, gave that Asair woman her locket, got some credits. Then Miranda had to go and hit on me.

"Shepard, thank you. I couldn't have done it without you." Then she ran her hand down my arm. I just smiled awkwardly at her and walked out of the room. Ew no, I thought to myself as I saw Violet coming out of Thanes room.

"Vi." She phyiscally jumped back like a cat except she pulled a knife out on me.

"Holy hell! Don't sneak up on me like that." She put the knife back. Where she had it hidden I had no idea and didn't want to know.

"What'd you talk to Thane about?"

"Why does it matter?" She said walking around the elevator to the lunch room.

"Because he's part of my crew."'

"And i'm not?"

"Well.. Uh..."

"That's what I thought." She said clearly still annoyed from our conversation earlier.

She picked up a granola bar and sat down at one of the tables. She had her hair pulled back into a tight bun. I knew when she let it out to relax it would be wavy making her check bones stand out along with those eyes. It feels like it's been years since i've seen her just relax and be herself around me.

"I'm sorry."

"For what?" She said cutting me with a sideways glance.

"Overreacting to your past. I'm sure you had a reason for not telling me." She turned to look at me clearly interested in what I had to say as she took a nibble of her granola bar.

"I just, I respect you. And I thought we were close enough that there shouldn't be secrets."

"You're keeping secrets yourself Shepard. Even if you don't realize what you're hiding."

I froze. There was the woman who would always know more about me than I did. She knew more than I could ever hope about the universe and it made her that much more intimidating. She could see your deepest secrets and never breathe a word, but just as easily turn them against you to make you who you could become if you just tried.

"Shepard, you're lying to me." She said her voice cold and eyes flat. I tried not to look at her. How did she know? She wasn't there. No one said anything to her did they? But how would they have known... I rubbed the back of my neck.

"I don't care that you left without telling anyone where you were going. But don't you dare stand there and tell me a lie about where you went. If you don't think i'm doing a good job teaching you, you know where the door is. I won't stop you." She said turning away from me.

"It's not that... It's jus-." She held up her hand still facing away from me. I knew then it was over. Nothing left to say. I could either leave or prove I wanted to stay. I sighed and sat down with everyone else to go over the briefing.

When she finished I figured she'd ask Leo and Teelisa to go with her as usual.

"I want Shepard on point with me. Leo, Teelisa and Vexly; you'll follow behind us making sure they don't try to ambush us from behind. Stay low and blend. I don't want to hear you." They nodded.

"Alright, let's do this." She said clasping her hands together before heading to the cargo bay to get ready.

She didn't talk to me as we walked down a well beaten path to the pirates hide out. I kept trying to think of the right thing to say but couldn't. Everything was going well up until we rounded a bend to find a group of pirates on patrol. "Get down!" She yelled as we hid. Her behind a small tree and me behind the only rock I could find. She disappeared as she leaned out and sniped them off. I leaned over the rock taking them down with my assault rifle. We were holding them as she told the rest of the crew to hurry up in case we needed the help. Just as she got off her com a heavy mech came. I didn't see it as I was reloading. She jumped in front of me as a missile flew right towards me. She had a barrier up, I watched in awe as she took the missile and threw it back at them. Her barrier absorbed it, turning it around on the mech. I couldn't believe my eyes as she did it, I didn't even notice the blood pouring out of her nose as she strained herself.

The pirates were in as much awe as I was, their dumbfoundeness allowed me more time to shoot them. Then something happened I would never forget. One must have been using their own infiltrator unit, out of no where an electrified rod shot through Violets stomach. She stood there in shock, I thought she was going to die right there, blood was coming up through her mouth, blue colored. She spit, the blood fell on the pirates face as he stood in front of her shoving the rod in. She smiled, grabbing a hold of the rod pulling it through her and him closer. Then she touched him and his head exploded. You could see the biotics simmering off her hand.

"Help..." She breathed as she fell to her knees coughing up blood mixed with what looked like pieces of her gut. I started dry retching at the sight as I tried to pull the rod the rest of the way out. Her breathing was ragged but she managed to say.

"Do it fast like a band-aid." And I pulled.

She was still sitting there, the granola bar wrapper crumbled up into a ball, staring off into space. I walked over and placed a hand on her shoulder giving it a squeeze.

"We'll talk later." She lifted her hand up touching mine, and nodded.