A/N Mass Effect is Bioware's. To celebrate the fact that I have a follower of this story, I decided to post this chapter.

Miranda

I keep looking from my reports to Cheyenne. I feel myself growing more attached to her. I turn away from her, I am not pleased with the feelings I am developing. We have talked so little, but it seems like she's already gotten under my skin and heading to my heart. For years people have tried to break the ice from around my heart only to give up at the most in a month. Cheyenne hasn't even really tried and I can feel the cracks in my defenses. I get up and check on her. I know she is fine, but I am drawn to her. I move a lock of hair from her eyes. She is very beautiful her hair is jet black. Like her sister's only shorter. Her eyes were an emerald green her sister's were hazel green.

I return to my desk. It takes me less then a hour to realize, that I would not be getting anything done as long as she's in the room with me. I enter the commands for privacy mode on my terminal and change into some night clothes. Normally I would have no need for clothes while I slept. I think about having her moved back to med bay, but I can't bring myself to make that call. To be in the bed with her, close to her it overrides the remaining willpower to move her. As carefully as I can I slide into the bed next to her. Again I am struck by her breathtaking beauty. I notice immediately that her body is all soft and curvy and yet it is full of strength. She did take down a Krogan with her hands.

I can't see any excess fat. Her abs are like a wash board. She is short for her family. I stand at 5'9 and she stands at 5'0. Shea is around 6ft tall. Her dad was 6'2 her mother is 5'11. Normally if a person isn't as tall or taller then me I have no interest in them. On her though I find it adorable. She rolls on to her side that isn't cracked which put her back to my front. I gaze down at her ass. She does have a great ass. It's curved just right and my groin curves around it perfectly. My mouth waters at the thought of squeezing it and I feel desire stronger then ever thinking about grinding my pelvis into her. I move away quickly and get off the bed.

I need a cold shower, how did this happen. I never wanted this to happen. I am completely enamored of her. While I shower I again think of sending her back to med bay. After moments of deliberation I am resolved to move her. Until, I reenter my quarters and that resolve flies out the window. I resign myself to the couch near the bed. She looks so small from here. That in itself makes me see her as precious. I feel this overwhelming sense to protect and cherish her. So new fears took hold. If I don't put an end to this I am going to fall in love with her. "Distance. I need to keep distance from her." I remind myself.

A blinking light on my terminal signals I have a message. I don't want to look, I know who it's from. If I don't though he'll assume I am engaging in the very acts I was thinking about doing with Cheyenne. Then he'll ask me to use it to further gain Shepard's loyalty. Above all else I will not allow him to use Cheyenne that way. I will not give him another card to play. Begrudgingly, I answer his message. " She is only here for me to observe her for the night the med bay still needs to be cleaned and sterilized. From Garrus's care. Gardner is supposed to be on it." I was glad I checked the med bay camera to see Gardner is indeed doing that. "Cracked ribs. It was too dangerous to move her too far." I reply to his query about taking her to the bustling crew quarters.

Cheyenne

I awoke to the smell of milk and honey body soap and shampoo on the pillow next to mine. The scent confuses me, the last I knew I was in med bay. It takes me a moment to place the scent. "Miranda." I whisper to myself. I look at my surroundings. I am in Miranda's room. How did I get here. I find her sleeping on the couch. I contemplate moving her to her bed. A twinge in my side makes me think better of it. Besides I have my morning issues to work out. I can see it's only 4 am. Which means the showers are completely empty.

Quietly, I sneak out of her room. Hoping EDI doesn't give me away. I am so happy that TIM did not put cameras in the bathrooms. I do a double check of the restroom and satisfied no one is in there or will be for at least another hour. I start the shower and remove my clothes. As usual my morning wood is hard as a rock. I remember my dream about taking Miranda in the shuttle bay and begin to stroke my cock, my strokes are faster as I remember how I pounded into Miranda from behind as she was leaning over the console. With a guttural cry I release my seed into the drain.

"Impressive. I don't think I have ever been so turned on as I am right now." Kelly's voice says. "Fuck." I say. "Would you care to help a girl out?" she asks seductively. " I would, but I'm afraid I'm tapped out right now." I reply. She makes a show of undressing while I am attempting to. I'm only slightly surprised when her show does nothing to excite me. "Kelly you want tell anyone about me will you?" I ask. "Not a word." she says. "Kelly one more thing before you get in there can you bandage my ribs. I think I might have pulled something." she smiles. "Of course, maybe after your at 100 percent you could give me a hand." she says playfully. "Aren't you going after my sister?" I ask as she begins rewrapping my side.

"Noticed that huh?" she says. " I have and so has she. It's not like you aren't obvious about it. The thing about my sister is if you and I do anything she won't do anything with you. Vice versa. Ask me again when that's resolved. If she has sex with you, I won't Shea has never been good at casual sex. If you and her don't have sex then we'll see. I'm not good at casual sex either." I tell her hoping either my sister takes an interest in her or by some miracle Miranda gets to me first. The only way I could be with her is if Miranda flat out says she isn't interested. Maybe I could be involved with Kelly then.

"Now those are tempting offers. Even better if I could have you both at once." she says. I blush. The idea had crossed my mind once or twice. But I always dismissed it realizing how truly uncomfortable that would be. "Thanks Kelly. Why are you up so early?" I ask as she starts here shower. I'm normally up by 5. I couldn't sleep after I woke up at 4. Your welcome by the way." she started humming to herself as she disappears in a cloud of steam. Memo to myself take a late night shower instead. "Oh and Cheyenne I would like to know how you came by that extra appendage some time." she says I groan

"EDI?" I ask the AI. "Yes lieutenant commander?" her voice says through my Omni tool." Cheyenne is fine. Do you know at precisely what time this bathroom will be completely deserted?" I ask. I really don't want have to go through this again. "Yes Cheyenne. It's usually from 2:00 am to 5 am standard galactic time." She says. "Ok thanks EDI. Nothing further." I reply. "Logging you out Cheyenne." She says.

Shea

It was relatively easy to recruit Kasumi. For once I didn't have to kill anyone to get her, but to earn her loyalty I had to help her retrieve her old partners grey box. Which is now why I was sitting in a surprisingly comfortable dress listening to Kasumi's plan. "It seems a well planned out mission. We should not have any problems. We'll get that grey box for you." I say confidently. Which of course I end up eating my words. Donavan Hawke did not want Kasumi inside the party. " So what do we do now?" I ask. "The plan hasn't changed much. I'll just be going in cloaked now." she says.

Okay so I did have to kill some people, but we got the grey box and some new SMGs and the cherry on top no more Donovan Hawke. It was obvious how much the grey box meant to her so with a warning I allow her to keep it. She sinks back into the memories and I just give her the time she needs. "Where to next?" I wonder out loud. I still have to get the Krogan warlord and the convict. I look at the map. We are closer to the Krogan. So I set the ship to go there first. Cheyenne has been cleared for ground side. I want Miranda to see her at her best. I send a message to both Miranda and Chey to get their gear ready. I'll take Mordin and Kasumi to the prison ship.

Miranda isn't in the launch bay yet but Chey is. " Hey sis. Are you sure your ok with coming?" I ask her. "Yes please. I need brief respite from Ms. Chambers." she says. I'm intrigued. "Oh? Why's that?" I ask. " Well you know my morning issue I have. Well it was really bad last week and I had to take care of it. So I went to the showers. Kelly had seen me and then she tried to seduce me. I turned her down because you and her are interested in each other and She is pretty but, well I got zero arousal for her little show of taking her clothes off. Now every time she sees me she looks at my crotch and I can swear she has licked her lips while doing it." she says.

I try to hide my smile. Kelly had told me about the run in. But not about the looks. I smile. "You already knew about the shower huh?" she asks. "Kelly did tell me. Only because she was curious if I had one too. I told her no. I just have strap-ons. She's a naughty minx she even admitted to wanting a threesome where I wear one and we both take her." I remark. Chey pales. " Are you sure you want to get involved with her then?" she asks. "Not relationship wise. I'm finding a friends with benefits thing more appealing though." I tell her honestly.

It has been my long standing opinion that anyone who wants to fuck me and my sister is not relationship material. .though Kelly is kind of making me want to. I can guess sex will be quite exciting. With Ashley though I knew sex would always be the best because we love each other. Or at least we did until I died. Maybe I needed a new relationship completely different from ours to make me feel alive again. Still need to think about it though. "I still need to think about it though." I tell her. "About the threesome? I would think that would be a bit awkward don't you?" she says. " I won't lie. I had thought about it. But yes it would be awkward." we both shake the images off. " I think we should go kill things. I don't really want that image right now." I state. " Oh God yes please. Killing good sex with same woman at same time bad." she says. "Okay. Here's the game plan?" I inform grounding party.

Cheyenne

I had not been this happy to have so many things to shoot since my wife was murdered and I traveled with Shea on her hunt for Saren. It definitely kept my mind off our disturbing conversation. I started to take my showers at 2:30 am, breaking up my sleep so I avoid everyone. "Hey Shea did Kelly ask about my condition?" Miranda was out of ear shot. "She did. I told her how it happened. Are you mad? I know it's not business to tell." I hugged her. "So not mad." she clarifies." Nope you saved me the hassle. Thank you.." I said.

"Anyways I don't think I could have handled being in a room alone with her." I state." Alone with who now?" Miranda asks. "Kelly." I reply. "Why is that? Kelly is a sweet girl. Albeit a bit too friendly at times." she replies. " Has she been trying to get in your pants too?" Shea asks. "The comm channel is off right now right?" I just realized if she heard our conversation it would really hurt her. We all check our channels and sigh in relief all off. "No. I think I make her way too nervous. I know she's been after you Shepard has she been going after you too Cheyenne.?" she asks. " She has. It's not that she isn't beautiful but I don't mind aggressive when I actually am in the bedroom, but aggression to get me into the bedroom makes me a bit nervous." I reply not even really thinking that I just shared too much information.

"I could talk to her for you tell her to ease up a bit." she offers. "No it's ok Miranda I think I should talk to her myself and that maybe we should stop talking behind her back. We should let her know exactly where we stand. I'll talk to her when we get back. I did not think about it at first. Then I remembered how you felt when we were talking about you and you overheard us. I can tell Kelly is really sensitive about these things." I reply. She stops dead. Crap I said the wrong thing.

"And you don't think I am?" she says. "No. Not in the fact that you aren't sensitive about it. Kelly's just more sensitive. If you catch my meaning." I nervously said. She started laughing. Shea and I were shocked. The ice queen was laughing. "I'm sorry I couldn't resist. I had to give you a hard time. That face, so adorable." then she chokes off her laughter realizing what she said. Shea comes to the rescue. "Yeah, it really adorable. I used to get her to make that face almost every day when we were growing up. You should laugh more Miranda. You have a great laugh. Doesn't she sis?" she asks me. I shyly nod and look away to hide my blush.

After we tear through a couple more blue suns and enter the base Krogan Berserkers set upon us. " This is only my second mission since joining your crew and again we have Krogans. I'm starting to think you plan for me to be here when Krogans attack. I beginning to wonder why?" I ask Shea. She laughs. "Not entirely true. You got to miss out on the Krogans when we got Garrus. I might start taking you along every time Krogans are sure to be there. Not many people are crazy enough to charge Krogans or fight them hand to hand" she replies. "She wouldn't really do that would she?" Miranda asks me. I sigh in resignation. "Yes, yes she would." I reply simply. "You're right she is evil and diabolical." Miranda replies mirthfully. We start laughing. I never want her to stop. She has a beautiful laugh. Thus cements my fate to travel further into the rabbit hole of falling in love with her. And I relished it, to feel again, to be alive. I hadn't realized how much I had missed it.

Miranda

I was happy it was a strange feeling for me and it scared me further. In truth though I was beginning not to care about the fear. I just wanted the happiness not to end. I knew it would though such was my life. Every time I was happy it all fell apart. There was nothing to say this wouldn't fall apart, but it was a risk I was willing to take. It took all of six weeks for me to fall for Cheyenne. That in itself was terrifying. I could understand Kelly's infatuation all the more. How could anyone not fall for Cheyenne. Perhaps I should make it plain to Kelly that Cheyenne was not on the market. Then I thought better of it. I do not own her nor does she even know I harbor such feelings for her. She deserves to find someone better. I didn't necessarily think Kelly was better, but that was for Cheyenne to decide.

We reach the lab and speak to Okeer for a bit. He goes on and on about his perfect Krogan. Then we end up fighting the Blue suns leader and some Krogans and a heavy mech. An explosion goes off in the lab. "What in the hell us he doing up there?" I ask. "We have to hurry!" Cheyenne says. We were too late to save Okeer but his perfect Krogan survives and Shepard has it loaded onto the Normandy. Jacob and I argue about what we should do with it. Shepard decides to study it a bit further then decide whether to open it or not.

I watch the video feed and listen to Shepard ask EDI a series of questions them open the tube. The Krogan charges and has her pinned to the bulkhead. They exchange s few words that ends with the Krogan now called Grunt. I see her pistol was pointing at his belly. "Both Shepard sisters are mad as a hatter." I say out loud. "Operative Lawson you asked me to inform you when Kelly Chambers and Cheyenne go off alone. They are currently in the port side observation deck." I switch the camera to them and turn up the audio. "Thank you EDI. Nothing further." I reply. "Your welcome logging you out."

"Listen Kelly. You are a beautiful woman." She says. I start to clench my fists. "Thank you." she replies and looks down to her crotch then suggestively rubs Cheyenne's arm. I feel my Biotics flare and I'm about to turn off the feed when Cheyenne steps away. "You're just a bit too aggressive for me." she says. "Really? Your profile suggests you like an aggressive partner. Your ex-wife was a aggressive to wasn't she. " she was married before. So this is new and she likes women obviously. "Don't. Don't bring Liana into this. Yes she pursued me, but not as much as you are. I do like an aggressive partner but only in the bedroom not while they are trying to get me there." she says.

"If a person is overtly assertive it's a big turn off. Even if my partner is too aggressive in the bedroom I get nervous, uncomfortable and can't get it up or keep it up." get it up what a strange term for a woman to use. I wonder. "So if I dial it down you may be more receptive?" she asks Cheyenne. "Not necessarily. You are going after my sister to and I want you to know that a there will never be a threesome with my sister. I also need you to know. That as sweet as you are my heart is set on someone else." both mine and Kelly's eyes widen. She voices the question I long to ask. "Who?" Cheyenne gets really close and whispers. "No way! " she nods I wish you luck then." Kelly says. "Damn it who did she say." I ask out loud. "She said Miranda Lawson" EDI say. I faint.

Cheyenne

It felt good to come clean with Kelly. " I am sorry if I lead you on. It wasn't my intention. I've just never been good at this kind of thing." Kelly hugs me" No harm done. I'm sorry was so pushy. Maybe I do come on too strong." she adds. "It's not a bad thing. I'm sure it works on some people really well. Just not for me. "I reassure her. " She looks at me and smiles. "Do you think it works on your sister?" she asks. "Shea is so confused right now I could not tell you. I guess it would depend on your intentions. If sex is all you want from her keep it up. If you want more then that dial it down a notch. With Ashley assertiveness worked well to get her in bed, but once they were there, Shea wanted to be in charge." I supply.

"However, Shea right now is indecisive. She is torn between Ashley and her growing attraction to you. As long as that is on her mind she can't fully commit to anything." I feel a bit guilty for laying my sister out like that, but she needs the push right now. "Cheyenne it appears Operative Lawson is in need of medical attention but Dr. Chakwas is indisposed at the moment." EDI says. "Where?" I ask. "In her quarters." I race out the door and to Miranda's room. "EDI any idea what happened?" I ask running my hands over her body trying to find any injuries that we weren't aware of. "I believe her mental, emotional, and physical state is due to stress from the mission and lack of sleep." EDI says.

So she overtaxed herself. I gather her up and place her on her bed. I shake her gently "Miranda? Miranda wake up! Miri wake your ass up!" and I fumble for the smelling salts in the first aid kit. She jerks awake and let's loose a biotic throw, fly I did right out her door. I landed on my stomach with a thud, the air knocked out of me. "Oh my God. Cheyenne are you alright? I didn't mean to. She helps me stand and I look at her with a smile. "What are you smiling about? I could have really hurt you." I laugh. I show her I had my tech armor on. "You arse." she playfully hits me.

"Ah sweet vengeance. That is for what you did on Korlus." I reply. "Arse." she replies but I can see her smiling. As if noticing where she was for the first time, peers into the mess hall. She breathes a sigh of relief when she realizes we are very much alone. Then she seems to get tense and nervous. I lead her back to her room. "EDI says your exhausted. You should get some rest Miranda." I say. " I can't I have to finish proofreading the reports and send them in." she answers. "Miranda. You are exhausted TIM can wait six hours for the reports " I attempt to convince her. She shakes her head. " I won't be able to relax enough to sleep." she says.

"I can fix that. Is there a privacy mode on this room's camera?" I ask her breath hitches. I wait for her to turn it on. "Get on your bed." She seems extremely nervous. "Cheyenne.." she says. "Trust me Miranda please. I promise I won't do anything you don't want to." she shivers and looks up at me with apprehension. " On your stomach please." I believe she is completely nervous. I don't get why. Then my eyes widen. " Oh! Oh. I'm sorry Miranda, I didn't make my intentions clear. I'm just going to give you a back massage." she exhales in relief. It kind of hurt that making love to me is appalling to her, even more so that she thought that is what she thought I meant. I guess I would think that too, the idea has tempted me numerous times.