"She lived her life without you! Why show up now!?" It was finally gone. Liara's normally cool manner had been replaced by anger at the mother of her girlfriend.
"I should not have to explain my actions to some cheap blue whore!" Hannah Shepard had her reasons for staying out of her daughters life, reasons she thought were sound and therefore required no explanation.
"I am not a whore" the asari retaliated, "Your daughter is the only woman I have ever loved!"
The salarian doctor hid in the corner, avoiding a beaker that the elder Shepard used her biotics to throw at Liara. The fight had escalated from verbal a while ago and security was on its way to remove Commander Shepard's mother and lover, while the woman herself stayed asleep, still recovering from her injuries.
When security arrived, Liara bowed her head in shame as she was lead out. She wanted to stay with Hayley, but her anger had gotten the better of her, so she accepted her fate and was taken outside. Hannah on the other hand continued to mutter her hatred for the shadow broker as she was taken away, not once turning to look at her sleeping daughter.
The visits had become less frequent now, instead of Liara spending all day and night with Hayley, she visited for an hour every other day, trying to stay away from her girlfriends mother who was always at the hospital, either in her daughter or sons room.
As the shadow broker, Liara had access to everything on everyone in the galaxy -this was how she discovered her father, Matriarch Aethyta, was actually alive- but never in her 18 months in the position had she looked at Commander Shepard's information. Had she looked, she would have known that Hannah Shepard was alive, not dead as her daughter had believed, and that she had a brother, Tom, who was 2nd Leiutenant in the alliance navy, but Liara was never able to bring herself to invade the woman she loved's privacy like that, so all this information was as new to her as it would be for Hayley Shepard when she woke up.
It was a normal visit for Liara today. Walk in, spend an hour wanting Shepard to wake up while hearing improvements on her condition, walk out. At least she thought.
"...Li...ara.." A struggling voice came from within the room and Liara could have sworn she felt her heart burst.
"Shepard! You're awake!" The asari's voice was thick with joy as she ran and threw her arms around the humans half reclined form.
"Ow!" Hayley grimaced, instinctively pushing her girlfriend away slighty as she was still sore from being burnt by harbingers beam and being blown up on the crucible 4 and a half months ago (Even with modern medicine, extensive burns and multiple fractured and not to mention organ damage still took a long time to heal).
"Did I hurt you? By the goddess I'm so sorry Shepard!"
"It's okay, Liara. Nothing a few seconds break won't fix" The Commander wore her normal smile, one that was slight but warm that never failed to put someone at ease. For a couple minutes Liara and Shepard just looked into each other's eyes and smiled. It felt good to be able to be together again, now that everything was over.
"Oh, you're awake I see" Hannah said as she walked in, Tom walking in just behind her.
Oh no was all Liara managed to think.
"Who are you?"
"Wow, my sister can save the galaxy 3 times yet can't recognise her own mother" Tom smirked and leaned against the wall, the lighting of the room allowing for a shadow to fall across the top half of his face.
"That's a lie! my mother died years ago, during the first contact war" Even though Hayley was only 4 when her father died, the memory had remained vivid for the 28 years following it.
A/N: Sorry the chapters are a bit short, but writing on evernote makes me overestimate the length. I'll try and lengthen them but please don't kill me if they are short xD
Also any formatting errors are not my fault, it just doesn't copy and paste from evernote too well