Last chapter Venus went into a hormonal rage, now let's see how the T'soni's are doing. (Also I might have mistaken and write Venus instead of Benezia, I just wrote something with Venus awhile back, and it's messing my mind, so I apologize)
Enjoy! – Sorry for any typo
Chapter 3: She will freak out
T'Soni's House
Benezia was laying on her bed, as she just kept staring at her omni-tool, waiting for any word from Venus, but it has been three weeks since their last meeting and yet the asari still didn't sent her a single message, which was weird, then she thought about Venus parents, maybe they caught her, and she's grounded or something. Huffing out, she turned around and stared at the wall, with an emotionless expression.
She already had too many problems in her hand, some she feared to talk about, and now not having Venus around only made her heart even more. Hell, she even began to cry, at this very moment, gripping onto the sheets, and trying to control her sobbing and tears. She needed Venus by her side, she needed somebody to talk to, but there was nobody, at least not about this subject, how was she suppose to tell her mother that she actually had a girlfriend and that girlfriend was Venus? She would flip her around, and oh may if her father found out, it would be even worse...Shaking her head, she tried to push those thoughts away, as a sob escaped her lips.
Ok, she couldn't deal with these feelings any longer, not alone, she needed to open up, and she would need her mother for this. Not really knowing how to contact her, Benezia simple sent her a message to her omni-tool, asking for her to please show up in her bedroom, alone. Now it was just wait for her mother to show up, and since the entire family was home, it only took few seconds till Liara knocked on the door, and open it slowly, seeing her daughter laying on the bed, crying.
"Oh goddess, Benezia. What happen?" Liara said, closing the door behind her, as she rushed her way towards her daughter, sitting down on the bed, and pulling her head on top her lap, as she began to caress her head softly.
Benezia didn't said much, she just stayed there, now gripping on the cloth of her mother's pants, and whimpering even more, trying to control the loud noises she wanted to make, but she couldn't.
"Darling, please. Talk to me." Liara almost begged, hating to see her daughter like this. "Are you hurt?"
Benezia shook her head at her mother's last question, before take a deep breath, and wipe her eyes, and then she raised her head away from her mother's lap, and sat up straight besides her. "I'm sorry, I needed a shoulder to cry on, in this case a lap." Benezia joked a bit with a weak smile.
"What's the matter, hun?"
"I...If I tell you, promise me that you won't hate me, or harm anybody."
"Why...What did you do? Why are you asking me to promise this?"
"Please, mom. Just promise."
"Fine, I promise." Liara took a deep breath, getting more worried about this.
"Well, I have been dating somebody..." Benezia started slowly, waiting for her mother's reaction.
"Oh, that's great, darling." Liara said with a small smile, she really didn't mind her daughter date somebody, in fact, she thought it was healthy as long as it was with the right person.
"Thank you. She's awesome, mom. Brave, funny, bad mouth at times though, but still with a very kind heart."
"She seems to be indeed a good person."
"Yes, but there's one single problem..." Benezia bite down on her lower lip, wondering if she should really open now, if she should really tell her mother about Venus.
"What problem?" Liara perked up an eyebrow(if she had one).
"Well, her name is Venus." From there Benezia allowed her mother to understand things on her own, she would surely remember about Aria and Tevos daughter, they all had a meeting last month, when for some odd reason her father and Venus father had some "business" to discuss, and they also decided to make a family dinner.
"Venus?-...Oh my..." Liara finally understand she was talking about Aria's daughter; her own daughter was dating Aria and Tevos's daughter! Not like it was a bad thing, it was good actually, because Liara knew Venus and was glad with her daughter's choice; however Aria might not be so glad.
"Yeah..." Benezia forced an awkward smile, as she kicked the air softly.
"How long?"
"Almost two years."
"Two years?!" Liara said shocked, how did her maiden daughter managed such secret for so long.
"Y-Yes...You are not angry are you?" Benezia asked, fearing her mother's next words.
"No, darling. Of course not, it's totally normal date with this age. I was just surprised you managed to keep it a secret for two years, and it's with...Tevos and Aria's daughter, I wasn't really waiting for that."
"That's why we kept it secret. We know your guys background, and we feared for what would really happen."
"Don't think we would break you two apart. I know I wouldn't, if she makes you happy that's what mattered, Benezia. Next time don't keep such secrets, it can eat you from the inside." Liara said with a small chuckle, now understanding why her daughter seemed so distant and depressed lately.
"I'm glad you accepted it, mom. – But there's still one more thing, that I'm not sure if I should tell you..." Benezia said all nervous as she stood up from the bed and walked closer to the window of her room.
Liara looked up at her daughter, watching her. "Oh, what is it now?" She took a deep breath, wondering how many secrets her daughter still held.
"Do you keep your promise?"
"Yes."
"Well then..." Benezia began to chew on her lip, as she felt her heart race with such speed, her breath not being so normal; her hands start shaking, till she finally took a deep breath, and calmed herself down. "I believe...I'm pregnant." The maiden mumbled as she clenched her fists, controlling her shaking.
"What?!" Liara quickly got herself up from the bed, shocked at this situation.
Benezia turned around quickly placing her finger in front of her lip. "Shhh, mom. Keep it down, I don't want dad showing up."
"Are you serious?!"
"Shhhh!"
"Are you serious?" Liara said half whispering half screaming. "You sure about this? You tested it more than once? Twice? More than the moons that exists in the galaxy?" Liara felt like yelling at her daughter, but she was still concern about her well being.
"Yes, I'm very sure. I tested it more than twice; the result is still the same." Venus voice began to get shaky.
"Oh goddess, Benezia. You are just a maiden!" Liara still managed to keep her voice low. "For how long?"
"Three months..."
"Three months?!" There was her yelling again.
"Shhh! Yes, yes." Benezia almost begged her to remain her voice low.
"When were you thinking about telling me?"
"I...I seriously don't know."
"Ugh, great. Does Venus know? Does her parents know?"
"No, she doesn't know, and her parents don't know anything about us either." Benezia was on the edge of having a break down, her voice more shaky as she felt tears showing up. "I... I haven't seen Venus in three months, maybe she got caught by her parents and now she's grounded, I don't know. But mom, please, don't get mad at me, I didn't meant it to happen, I didn't wanted it to happen. Not like this..." Benezia managed to say between her sobbing.
Liara sighed out, even if she wanted to get mad, she couldn't, seeing her daughters in pain hurt her more than she ever thought it would. She approached her maiden child, and wrapped her arms slowly around her, bringing her into a tight embrace. "Don't worry, I'm here for you. We will solve this." Liara said with her motherly tone in her voice, as she held Benezia tightly against her.
The young asari just kept on crying, this time against her mother's shoulder, as she threw her arms around her, and held herself tightly against her mother. Not saying anything else.
"I need to tell this to your father, Benezia."
"No! Don't tell her, she will freak out!" There was Benezia begging again.
"I have to, your father needs to know about this, dear. She will help you, don't worry."
"No, please. She will be so angry that she won't talk to me again. It's already a big bother to her when we try to talk about love, what will she think of me when she finds out?" Benezia looked up father mother with her big blue eyes, full of tears.
"Darling, she's your father, she won't harm you, she will get mad of course, but it's only for your own sake, she will help you out, I'm sure of it. I will be by your side all the time, to make sure the argument doesn't get too carried away." Liara said caressing her daughter's crest, making her relax.
"But-..." She took a deep breath, as she sniffled. "Fine."
Liara smiled slowly removing her arms away from her daughter, before peck her forehead softly. "We will solve this, don't worry."
Benezia simple nodded, as she watched her mother leaving her bedroom, going downstairs to talk to her father.
When Liara got there, she regretted she didn't, because it seems her younger daughter was having an argument with her father.
"I want to play with it!" The little asari shouted.
"No, you can't play with it. It's not toys." Shepard told her daughter, as she held one of her Normandy's small models that Shepard loved to collect.
"But mommy said they were toys."
"Well mommy is wrong." Shepard huffed out, turning around to put the small model back on its place.
"But I want to play with it!" Liana's tiny voice simple got louder.
"Don't you yell at me, Giulliana!" Shepard was the only one who could say Liana's full name when she was angry, Liara tried, but she always spelled it wrong.
"I yell if I want! Let me play with it!" The little asari was standing up for herself, going against her father, which was something not so smart, but she was like Shepard, she was stubborn.
"No, you are misbehaving, Giulliana. Go back to your room!"
"My name is Liana!"
"Whatever, go to your room, you are grounded!" This was Shepard's final shout to her younger daughter, she stared at the little asari with a frown, as the blue girl just began to cry out loud, throwing a tantrum right in the living room, to get her attention, and get whatever she wants. "Your room. NOW." Shepard's voice wasn't as loud as before but still very demanding, as she watched her daughter still crying like a mad person while running upstairs and lock herself in her room.
Shepard simple huffed out, annoyed as she turned around heading to the kitchen, not really paying attention to Liara.
"Wow, that was intense..." Liara said as she walked after Shepard, watching her lover getting some beer out of the fridge.
"Yeah, she needs to stop with that damn behaviour. It won't get her anywhere. – Let her cry the entire night if it's needed, Liara. She has to learn with her mistakes." Liara said still annoyed as she open her beer and took a sip from it.
"Alright..." Liara answered feeling a bit uneasy. Great, this was the worst moment to tell Shepard about their older daughter's condition, but she had to. "Shepard...I have to talk to you about something really important."
"What is it?"
"First I want to make sure you won't have any heart attack. You seem very frustrated."
"Liana is just a hard piece of work, I'm fine. Now what is it?"
"First, promise me you won't do anything stupid."
"Ugh, Liara. Where is this going?"
"Promise me."
"Fine, I promise."
Liara took a deep breath, she was basically like Benezia had to control Shepard by making her do the promises before talking. "Benezia has a girlfriend."
"A girlfriend?" Shepard asked, raising her both eyebrows up, taking another sip from her beer.
"Yes, she's an asari, and you know her well...Its Venus."
Shepard chocked onto her beer, before swallow hard, trying to make her own throat feel more comfortable after such "attack". "Really?! With so many asari's out there, she had to pick Venus? Does Aria know?"
Liara simple shook her head, wondering if she would tell her about their daughter's pregnancy, she had to, before it started showing, and Shepard would only get madder to be the last one knowing.
"Great, she will probably throw fist once she sees me." Shepard sighed out, her and Aria was at the best terms possible at this moment, they don't break the "don't fuck with aria, don't fuck with shepard" rule anymore, but of course sometimes they really don't get along. It's like dealing with Jack on the beginning.
"There's still more..."
"Oh great, what is it?"
"They have been together for almost two years now..." Liara raised her hand, making Shepard stop from making any comment. "Plus, they are in trouble now. You see Benezia is...pregnant." Now she just waited for the hurricane to come.
"She's what?! Liara is this some kind of joke!?" Shepard shouted at her, placing down her beer, making a rather loud noise, thankful the bottle didn't break.
"No, Shepard...It's the truth."
"Ugh, what was she thinking?! Why there isn't any kind of things to stop this! We humans have the pill!" Shepard was totally going to break some things, first it was her younger daughter pissing her off, now it was Benezia.
"There are...But they aren't as "soft" are human pills, this ones mess around with your body in the beginning; most asari's don't feel comfortable and don't take it. – Plus, I never knew Benezia was already dating somebody, so I never gave her ones..."
"Still, you should've given her ones!"
Great, now Shepard was angry at Liara as well. "Don't yell at me, Shepard. I'm not content with this situation either." Liara said frowning while watching her bondmate, walking in circles.
"Yeah, yeah, sorry." Shepard quickly said it, with no meaning at all. "How are we going to solve this? She's too young, Liara. She can't go through this."
"I know she's young, but now it's done. All we can do is support her, Shepard."
"No, no, there must be something else we can do. We can just do abor-"
"Shepard!" Liara shouted, stopping her wife from finishing those words. "Are you really listening to yourself?! You are willing to kill a living being?!"
"She's too young, Liara! You of all people should understand that, you are her god damn mother!"
"I got pregnant on my maiden years too!"
"But you were still few years older! I-...She can't have this child, Liara."
"I can't believe such horrible words are leaving your mouth, Shepard...You-... You were willing to do the same thing to me before?" Liara was clearly now getting more depressed than before, she couldn't believe her wife was actually willing to kill an asari baby that was still in her mother's belly. She knows Benezia is still young, but she would never do such thing.
"Of course not! We planned it, you wanted to make sure I would see them growing up, so we took the chance. But we done it together, we already had all the support needed and we were able to bring a child to this world."
"Shepard, she has a mother and a father who loves her, we have enough money to take care of Benezia and her daughter, that's not a problem. – What is the real problem you are trying to explain, Shepard?"
"Nothing, she's just too young." Shepard lied looking away, still feeling anger inside her, she had to get rid of this feelings.
"Either way, I won't allow you to do that to our daughter, Shepard. Like it or not, Benezia is going to have this child, and as a good parent I will support her."
"Oh, now I'm the bad parent?! Who turned Giulliana in such spoiled brat, huh?!" Shepard slammed her palms against the table, looking at Liara, who was now standing up from the chair.
"Don't talk about your own daughter like that Shepard. Liana is only going through a phase, she will calm down eventually."
"Yeah right, you said that years ago, and look how things are so far. They are worse, you keep giving her everything to stop her crying."
Liara folded her arms in front of her chest. "We are working on her behaviour, Shepard. Stop throwing the blame on me." Liara hated when Shepard put the blame on somebody else, she only done that when she didn't wanted to face such big problems that bothered too much, but Liara had never seen her wife like this.
"Whatever." She threw her hands in the air, before starting to go upstairs.
"Shepard where are you going?"
The ex-commander rushed her way more quickly upstairs.
"Shepard, get back here!" Liara already knew where she was going, so she ran after her wife, praying to the Goddess to nothing bad happen.
When the door of Benezia's room was open with such force, making a loud noise once it hit the wall, Liara jumped slightly on her spot as she quickly showed up behind Shepard, grabbing her wrist, to not let her approach Benezia. "Shep-"
"Liara..." Shepard mumbled, as she looked around horrified, her daughter wasn't her. The bed was all messy, and the closet doors, the drawers they were all open, some were empty, others had less stuff. Then there was the window open, this only meant one thing. "Liara, she ran away!"
"What?" Liara open her eyes wide, once she noticed the bedroom from her daughter, shocked. Shepard simple began to run through the house, looking inside each room, to make sure if Benezia wasn't hiding, Liana thankful fell asleep after crying so much.
"She's not here!" Shepard shouted, before run back at Liara.
"She probably heard our argument." Liara clenched her fists, controlling her tears. "She probably heard your hurtful words."
"It still doesn't give her the right to run away!"
"Shepard, stop and listen to yourself for a second!" Liara yelled t her. "You are stressed, and annoyed, I can understand that, but think twice before say something else. I got enough of your hurtful words, can't take it anymore."
Shepard huffed out, as she went downstairs, grabbing her jacket.
"Where are you going?"
"None of your business." Shepard told her, coldly, before put the jacket on, and leave the house. It was Liara's business, because it concerns her daughter, and now Laira feared if she was going to have a fight with Aria, or would do the worst stupid things to find her daughter.
The best thing to do now was talk to Councilour Tevos, even if she had to break such news through the omni-tool, she figured Tevos would the only one understanding her position as a mother, and help her out, making sure nothing bad happen to her Benezia, to Shepard, to Aria and to Venus.
Huff, this was a tough chapter, I had to re-write like three times, because Shepard was either too evil or too good, but I guess I found the balance. We can't forget she's Shepard, she will protect those ones she love, no matter what, plus she's a over-protective parent, like few human parents tend to be. – Plus she has other reasons to not want her daughter have the child. – And yes, Liana is such a pain in the ass, I actually type her based on my cousin, so yeah. xD
Hope you liked this chapter – Next one shall be full of drama as well.(at least I will try)
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