A/N: Story coming right up :P
The Asari was sleeping deeply. Her apartment was locked, no Shadow Broker agent would be able to get to her.
Liara twitched at the sound of someone walking on metal, albeit slowly. The sounds were becoming clearer. It was now apparent that there were two people in the vents.
She awoke. A second later two dark figures jumped down from the ceiling. The S&D pair. Not so silent now though.
"Well, hello Krios. You too, Halls."
"Just call me Nate," he replied.
"Anybody want to share a bottle of Asari wine?" asked Liara.
"You sure? I mean, you just woke up and all," Nate said.
"I'm sure. I already got the payment for the hit. Your share has been transferred, 300 000 credits each."
"Nice!" Nate said out loud.
Liara let out a small smile and moved into the kitchen area. She returned with a bottle filled with blue liquid.
"Thane, you sure you don't want some?"
"Later. First, I'll have to pray."
Nate sat down behind the table and peeked out of the giant window. It was nighttime. Illium's lights were shining brightly. The nearby Dantius Towers were the only dark ones.
Two hours later Thane had left and a drunk Nate and a VERY drunk Liara were stumbling out of the apartment.
"So uhh… where are we going?" asked Nate.
"No clue," replied the Asari, bumping into an angry Volus passing by. He mumbled something about "those damn drunk couples ruining the environment"
Around the same time the Illusive man was impatiently walking around his office. Commander Shepard had just reported in about Horizon and the collectors. He needed information. Information about one of the best silent killers in the world. But it's not exactly easy to come by something like a certain location for an assassin, especially if he's named Thane Krios.
He received constant reports from the people he had assigned on digging up something on him, but most were just about no findings. There were only a few pieces of information: the assassin had an apprentice, of whom equally little information was available and that he was currently on Illium. Not enough.
A beep sounded. The Illusive man opened his inbox, a new message had been received: a report from one of the people who was researching his apprentice.
He opened it with anxiety. A small list opened up. Finally something!
The suited mastermind started reading:
Name: Nate Halls
Age: 19 and 5 months.
Aggressive combat style; silent, but deadly.
Responsive for the deaths of 26 people.
Relationships: his mentor, Thane Krios, close friend Liara T'Soni.
Family: Father and mother murdered, no brothers or sisters.
The Illusive man lit another cigaret. Liara T'Soni, huh? She had recovered Cerberus commander Jane Shepard's body. The Galaxy is small. Time to let Shepard know, the Asari must be talked to.
He gave the order to find anything about the Asari Justicar, Samara.
Nate in the meanwhile was on a side alley, walking away from the skyscraper that housed Liara. He had no idea where was he going. What he knew though, was that the Asari he was walking hand-in-hand with was moving closer and closer to him. And in a way that a normal Liara wouldn't do.
"Uh, are you sure that's appropriate?" asked Nate.
She found herself clinging onto him very tightly. Slowly she moved away.
She also discovered that they had no goal to their little walk.
"Do you think we should go back?" she asked.
"I've been thinking about it for a long time."
With that they turned straight around and a bit awkwardly stumbled towards the building.
The two of them reached the elevator and took it up, to her suite. There, the Asari walked back to her bed and laid down.
Nate did the same on the couch. The sun was rising. Commander Shepard set course for Illium.