With the police surrounding her, their guns all pointed at her, Sendai just sighs and looks down. One of the Asari officers grabs her and pulls her on her feet gaining a groan from the pain she can finally feel from her leg. "Hey look, could you ease up a little? This is just a huge misunderstanding and I'll fully coopera.." Sendai was cut off and pushed forward gaining another groan.
"Save it human! You'll talk when we tell you to," the Asari officer says pushing her slightly forward again getting her to walk.
What the hell did I end up getting myself in? Sendai thinks letting out a sigh and walks on trying her best to ignore the pain.
They make it to the station and Sendai is thrown into a cell and left. When she sees the officers walking off she limps over to the door confused. "Hey wait! Don't I get a phone call? Or even someone to fix up my leg? Hello?!" She yells out and the officer that got her on her feet looks back at her and smirks before walking out of view. "Well son of a bitch," Sendai says letting out another sigh and limps over to a chair that's in her cell.
About an hour passes and Detective Anaya shows up in front of Sendai's cell. "Alright human, I have a lot of questions to ask that need answers. And for your sake I hope they're good."
"Like I was trying to tell the damn officer that threw me in here this is all just a huge misunderstanding and will fully cooperate."
"Misunderstanding how?"
"Alright, it will be best if start from the beginning honestly. This whole thing spiraled way out of control." Sendai says with a sigh. "My name is Sendai, I'm pretty much a mercenary for hire. I can do the hard jobs no one else can get done, like finding a famous crime lord and bringing him to an employer. I was contracted to find the crime lord Osiris and bring him to my employer so he could get the credit of finally turning him in. That Krogan that I killed in the markets was his right hand. The Asari the Krogan went after is his daughter, he had been looking for some kind of reason to kill her besides just existing and apparently Osiris gave it to him. I found out and went after him and he didn't leave me much choice other than to kill him."
"Is that how your leg got injured?"
"No, I found where Osiris is at and one of his guards shot me."
"Wait. You know where Osiris is?" Detective Anaya asks surprised.
Sendai gets a bit of a gleam in her eyes when she hears this, "I do. I can give you his location, and I assure you he is still there, if you let me go."
Detective Anaya thinks for a moment before answering, "well according to the merchant and other witnesses all you did was protect someone from an attacker. With the Krogan's record he's probably better off dead anyway."
"So I was going to be let go anyway?"
"After an extensive amount of paper work, yes. But if you tell me where Osiris is then I won't put any record of you in the system. The higher ups would do anything to nail him. Deal?"
"You have a deal! If you grab my Omni-tool I can send you the location. Its an old warehouse out in a really secluded area. Also, could I get someone to clean up my leg? Please?" Sendai asks.
"Of course no one helped you," Anaya said with a sigh. "I'll get someone to bring your things and someone to look at your injuries. Also, while you're still here please reframe from getting into anymore trouble."
"Trust me, I will."
With that said, Detective Anaya unlocks Sendai's cell and gets some one to bring her weapons and Omni-tool and Sendai sends the location of Osiris's warehouse to the Detective. After having her injuries taken care of Sendai is finally let free. Sendai walks out of the station and takes a deep breath and lets out a long relieving sigh. "Thank god that's over with. Good thing I took the money up front for this job.."
"You were on a job?" a familiar Asari merchant appears slightly startling Sendai.
"Whoa Orla, what are you doing here?"
"Well I was a key witness." She says with a slight laugh, "I was also waiting for you."
"Waiting for me? Why?" Sendai asks confused.
"Well for one, I have a lot of questions to ask you."
Sendai lightly laughs nervously, "naturally."
"Also, I didn't get the chance to properly thank you," the Asari says with a smile. "I was thinking I could treat you to dinner and you could answer my questions then."
"That sounds good to me. I'll answer any questions you have as well." Sendai says returning the smile. Orla walks over to Sendai and wraps an arm through hers.
"So, how about we head to my place so we can start?"
Sendai lets out a laugh, "even better."
They make it to Orla's apartment and Sendai takes in her surroundings, Orla finally letting go of her arm. "Make yourself at home," she says gesturing Sendai over to the couches in her living room.
"Right, thank you." Sendai says taking a seat watching Orla walk off. Wait a second… She thinks. My clothes are torn and bloody.. I don't have any spare clothes on me either. What do I do? Orla didn't say anything but still..
As if she were reading her mind Orla reappears with a fresh set of clothes. "I thought you could use these," She says with a smile standing over Sendai. Sendai smiles back at her grabbing the clothes as she stands. "I think these will fit you well enough."
"Are you a mind reader?" She says jokingly getting a laugh out of Orla.
"No nothing like that. You were just making a face like you were worried and I figured it was because of your clothing."
Sendai laughs, "well thank you, is there somewhere I can change into these?"
"Yes, just down the hall is the restroom. You can leave your clothes in there and clean up as well."
Sendai nods and heads towards the restroom. She walks in and looks at herself in the mirror and sighs. "I'm a damn mess.." she says ruffling her shoulder length blonde hair and looks into her blue eyes seeing they're slightly bloodshot. "I need to learn to stop overdoing it with the biotics," Sendai says letting out a slight laugh. She looks at the clothes that were given to her, "These are human clothing. I guess from an old partner?... Or a currant partner.. Oh please don't let it be the latter." She says taking off her tattered clothes and cleaning any remnants of blood left on her and washing her face before putting on the fresh set of clothes. "Wow, these fit pretty nicely though." Sendai says to herself before walking back to the living room catching a wonderful smell coming from the kitchen. She walks in seeing Orla cooking what looks like steaks. She takes a seat at the table making Orla look behind her and smile.
"You do clean up nicely for a brute." She says with a laugh getting Sendai to fake wincing in pain and grabs at her chest.
"Now that hurt. Me? A Brute? Never. And to think I never clean up nicely hurts even more."
"Well I guess you'll just have to prove me wrong then."
"Oh? And what else shall I be proving you wrong on? Looks like I already have a good start at least." Sendai says with a smirk.
Orla places their food on plates and sets one in front of Sendai and takes a seat across from her setting her plate down. "Well I guess now is time for the questions I wanted to ask. I suppose your answers will prove whether or not I'm still wrong."
Sendai stiffened slightly but managed to relax herself again and take a bite of her steak. Once in her mouth her eyes gleamed with joy and a huge smile went across her face shocking Orla for a second. "Holy shit, this is amazing!" Orla stares at her briefly before letting out a huge laugh and Sendai just scratches her head. "Sorry, its not only been a while since I've had steak but I also can't remember the last time I had an actual home cooked meal. So, even if you think I might be some brute or whatever else just know I really am grateful for this."
Orla couldn't help but bring a soft comforting smile to her face. "How old are you Sendai? You must be young for a human. Based on your looks anyway."
Sendai laughs, "Yeah I guess I'm still young in human standards. I'm 21."
"So what do you do for a living? I'm going to guess you do a lot of traveling of course." Orla asks while they eat their meal.
"In a basic sense I'm a mercenary for hire BUT I take the jobs no one else will be they high risk or 'impossible' to do."
"So a job was what really brought you to Illium?"
"Yes. I was hired by an employer to find and apprehend the crime lord Osiris and bring him back to him. My employer wanted the to be known for finally turning him in. I knew Osiris was on Illium but not where. I was digging for information so I was really surprised when you knew him. I felt it was way to easy too and then learned why." Sendai says with a sigh.
"So that's where my father comes into play then?"
"Yeah, but even if you hadn't told me and I found him on my own he would have killed you and I would have been none-the-wiser."
"Wait, so you threw away your job just to save me? What about Osiris?" Orla asks with concern.
"For high risk jobs I get paid up front because of all the things that can go wrong. Don't worry about Osiris though, I killed him. Also all of his men. Then ran after your father." Sendai says laughing nervously and scratches the back of her head.
"So you killed a crime lord, all his men, then ran all the way back on a wounded leg and still managed to kill a Krogan? Are you sure you're human?!" Orla says laughing, "You really are a brute."
"I am indeed 100% human," she says with a smile.
"You seriously did all of that just to save me?" Orla looks across at Sendai. Sendai stands up and grabs their empty plates and shoots a wink at her before taking the dishes to the kitchen sink getting Orla to slightly blush.
"Of course."
"But why?" Orla stands up now looking Sendai in the eyes.
Sendai slightly laughs, "I may be a gun for hire brute but I'm not heartless. I have the ability to help people, I just happen to do it in a very different way. Being a mercenary people don't expect you to be a caring and helpful person." she says walking into the living room and sitting down on the couch. Orla follows behind her sitting beside her and share a moment of silence that seems like an eternity to Sendai. "So Orla I have a question for you now."
"Oh? What is it?"
"These clothes. I don't think its customary for Asari to have human clothing, especially ones imported from Earth. So-"
Orla raises a hand stopping her midsentence, "they belonged to an old partner. I apologize if it's weird. You did need a change of clothing and I thought they would look good on you to be completely honest."
Sendai gives her a reassuring smile, "they fit perfectly actually so again I'm grateful. If I may be so bold and ask, what happened?" she asks instantly regretting it seeing the immediate sadness on Orla's face. Sendai places a hand on her shoulder, "Don't worry, you don't have to tell me."
Orla places her hand on Sendai's and smiles softly at her, "he died fighting in the Reaper War. He made sure I was always safe."
"He must have been a very kind and honorable man."
"He was. I can't even begin to imagine how life must have been for you during the Reaper War." Orla says turning her attention to Sendai now.
"My sister and I have always been pretty good biotics and with weapons. Having one another seemed to be just enough for us to survive whatever was thrown at us. We also helped as many people we could along the way"
"You have a sister?"
"Yeah, she's my twin actually. Her name is Azreal. She's the only family I have though. Azreal and I were sold to batarian slavers at a young age. They learned we were biotics and could fight so we had to do a lot of their dirty work. Being the oldest I did most of it so Azreal didn't have to."
"The two of you have certain been through a lot." Orla says lacing her fingers between Sendai's.
"I guess you could say that." Sendai says looking at there hands before asking another question to change the topic. "So Orla I have to ask."
"Yes?" she says smiling at her.
"You asked for my age, mind if I ask your age?"
Orla laughs, "I am 233."
"Really? I was thinking somewhere in the 100's."
"I take it you've been with a lot of Asari?" Orla asks getting Sendai to laugh nervously again and scratch the back of her head making Orla laugh even harder.
"Uh, well. Um."
Orla gets in Sendai's lap straddling her, "so do I get the chance to be with you then?"
Sendai smirks pulling her closer to her, "hmm I don't know. What do you think?"
Orla smiles, her lips just inches from Sendai's. "I would like to think so."
Sendai closes the distance between them kissing her and Orla slowly making it more heated. Sendai is in the middle of running her fingers under Orla's shirt when she gets a call on her Omni tool. She groans breaking the kiss getting a giggle from Orla.
"Don't you need to take that?"
"Nah, it's Azreal." Sendai goes back to kissing Orla getting another giggle from her and she gets another call but ignores it this time. About the fourth call Sendai lets out another huge groan, "Sorry, I guess I better take this."
"I understand," Orla says with a smile getting off of Sendai and watches her walk back towards the hallway.
Sendai sighs once out of ear shot and answers the call, "You better have a damn good reason for calling me."
"If you would answer the first time around that would wonderful too asshole." Azreal says with a hint of anger in her voice.
"Okay okay just get to the damn point." Sendai snaps back already getting annoyed.
"That stunt you pulled with the Krogan has you all over the Externet. Thankfully the only thing they know about you is the fact you're a human and you have blonde hair. Oh and by the way! A certain crime lord and all his men were found dead by the police. What the fuck Sendai! I got my ass chewed by your damn employer! No idea why he didn't just call you."
"Hey I got my ass chewed out by your last employer so don't even start! But what do you mean I'm all over the Externet?!"
"You can see for yourself once we leave."
"What do you mean once we leave?.. Please for the love of god Azreal don't do this right now…" Sendai says almost begging.
"Sorry Sendai, urgent job just came up for the both of us. And I'm already at the door."
Sendai hears the com for the door and sees Orla getting up to answer it. Sendai runs over to Orla right as the door opens and closes it back making Orla stare at her questioningly. Then Azreal yells out at Sendai and she sighs.
"I got a quick look at who it was before you closed the door. I'm guessing that's your sister?"
"Yeah that's Azreal.. Apparently there's an urgent job that requires the both of us."
Orla laughs and kisses her cheek and opens the door letting Azreal in. "Well thank you ma'am, sorry my sister lack proper manners." Azreal says greeting Orla and sends a death glare and Sendai with her sending one right back getting Orla to bust out laughing.
"You two are definitely sisters and not just because you look alike either," she says between laughs.
"I guess we better go. I'll be sure to bring the clothes back to you," Sendai says with a wink.
Orla smiles, "I'll be waiting then. Be careful, both of you."
Sendai and Azreal nod and walk out the door. They head out of the apartments then Sendai punches Azreal in the arm getting her to back up defensively. "What the hell Azreal! Why do you have to be such a cock block!"
"You don't even have one and you always go for Asari. So it would be taco block" She says with a sigh rubbing her arm.
"Don't ever say that again… Pull that whole 'show up at the door' shit again and I'll give you a scar across your other eye."
Azreal stops and covers her left eye that has a four line scar across it, "you're the damn reason I have this one!"
"Yeah well you deserved it at the time. Anyway, what's this damn job that's so urgent that you have to block me." Sendai says with a sigh.
"Now don't be mad," Azreal says with Sendai immediately giving her a glare. "The job is in Alliance space."
"No!"
"Just trust me, alright!"
"I swear to god if this goes wrong I'm killing you."