Shea
So now I now knew why Miranda was so loyal. I don't think she sees it, but TIM is essentially holding Oriana hostage to keep Miranda in line. Hopefully this will open her eyes more to just how evil TIM is. I can't say all Cerberus is evil, because so far the crew I have on SR2 is good and I feel like I can trust them. I wonder if Chey knew anything about Oriana. The fact that Miranda has a sister seems like it would have been important. I didn't even care that Miranda was in ear shot almost. "Chey did you know about Oriana?" she shakes her head. "Really? With all the company you and Miranda keep with each other. It seems a bit strange that Oriana never comes up." I comment.
"When I'm in Miranda's company other things tend to come up." She says. Great a pun. "I am trying to be serious with you, stop with the innuendo." Her eyes light up. " Sorry sis, but Miranda's the only one allowed in my end oh!" Damn I walked into that one, I hear Miranda snicker. I am on the verge of saying something else when I hear an irate Asari outside of Eternity. I approach and ask her what is wrong. "Oh some idiot is causing a scene in my club. If he doesn't quit it soon I'm going to warp him into pieces." She says. "We'll look into it." I tell her We enter the lounge, I head to the bar and stop short. "Maybe we shouldn't get involved with this place's business after all, let's go speak to Lanteia." I really didn't want to go over there.
"What? You said you would, a Shepard never backs out of their word." Chey says. "But I don't wanna, now." I whine. My eyes dart back to the origin of the disturbance, Chey follows my gaze. "Isn't that Conrad Verner?" she asks. I nod. "Shea, look at him his wearing fake N7 armor, he is going to get himself killed. He needs to be set straight again." She says. "You do it then." I tell her. "No can do sis. If he hero worshipped me I would, but he doesn't, so it falls to you." Chey says. I groan. "You're right and I hate you." I say. "No you don't you love me to pieces. I'm your favorite sister." She says. "You're my only sister numb nuts." I said already feeling like I would regret saying that. "I haven't had numb nuts in a while thanks to Miri." She says.
"Oh Dear merciful God. Miranda shut her up, even if you have to stick a sock in her mouth. Damn it!" Miranda has adopted that soon to pun grin. "I would, but the only thing I'd like to stick in her mouth I left on the ship in my bedroom." She says. "That was a terrible pun my love, but I would be more then happy to allow you free reign of my mouth later tonight." She says suggestively rubbing Miranda's arm. I can't take it anymore. I would rather deal with Conrad for a day then have to hear their sexually charged comments. An hour later the problem is solved. Conrad thinks he helped and is now leaving. I return to the entrance where a Quarian and slave broker are talking. I demand the slave be freed. They explain about some stupid contract and how it can't be broken. I have to figure a way around it. I convince a representative of Synthetic Insights to hire her, pay out the contract and garnish wages until repaid.
Then I follow Miranda to her contact. After speaking with Lanteia we head to where Oriana is supposed to go. We find out Niket, an old friend of Miranda's betrayed her for a great deal of money from her father. I stop her from killing him, but then the Eclipse merc does. I have never seen Miranda so pissed and deadly. I feared for my sister at first, but I knew Chey could take anything Miranda dished out. Eventually we made it to her sister where Chey convinced her to speak to Oriana.
Chey
" Come on Miri, it won't kill you to talk to her. You don't have to tell her everything. But it wouldn't hurt her to know she has a big sister to love and look out for her. I don't know what I would do if I had never had Shea. Give it a chance love." I tell her. "Oh alright, I'll go." She says. "Okay we'll wait here." I reply. She grabs my hand. "I don't think so you are coming with me to meet her. If I am going to have a relationship with my sister, then she needs to know who you are and what you mean to me." She says. I hear my sister snicker, she just loves how Miri has me wrapped around her finger. I sigh and go with her. "Are you nervous?" she asks. "Almost as nervous as you." I reply.
We approached Oriana and her family. "Hello, my name is Miranda Lawson, and this may be hard to believe but I am your sister." She said though you couldn't tell right off how nervous she was. "It's not that unbelievable. When I was placed in foster care, a man who went by The Illusive Man told me I had a sister and he knew you and that you rescued me from our tyrant of a father. I asked him if I could meet you, because I had felt a piece of my heart was missing. He said that you were on a classified mission and he couldn't divulge it. He also said our father keeps tabs on you. So meeting me would put you and I in danger. After that he never spoke to me again. I didn't want to compromise you in any way so I didn't look into it any further." She said. Miranda hid her shock well, but I could also tell something was niggling at her mind. I would ask her about it later.
"Hello, I am Cheyenne Shepard, a friend of your sisters." I said not sure how she would feel about me being her girlfriend. "No, I think you are more then that." She said. She was very astute. "Cheyenne is my girlfriend and we love each other, but I thought you should meet her. Because if you are ever in trouble and you can't find me, look for Cheyenne or her sister Shea." She points to my sister who is speaking to Kasumi at the moment. "They will help you and keep you safe, if I am ever not able to. I can't tell you everything now. I promise you I will though. I think I'm going to speak to your parents a bit, let them get to know me." She saunters off I watch her go. Suddenly terrified she left me alone with Oriana.
"So, you are my sister's girlfriend. I think I can see in you what she does. I don't know how much we are alike, but usually if someone isn't as tall or taller then me I don't look twice. On you though it is adorable. Also you are really hot, I may try and steal you away." She says smiling. "You can try, but you won't be successful. Every molecule of my being is for Miranda." I respond to her playful teasing. "Do you even like females?" I ask. "That's mighty bold of you. In all truth, I do not have a preference. I love who I love." She says. " Do you feel the same?" She asks. "Nope. I prefer women all around." I reply. "You will take care of her right and keep her safe?" she says. " I can't promise that, not with what we're facing. I can promise to fight with all that is in me to do my best. I can also promise to always love and cherish her. I hope that is good enough for now." I say somberly. "For now." She comments.
Miranda comes up to my side and laces her fingers with mine. "We need to leave my love. The mission won't wait forever. Let me say my goodbyes to them and I'll join you guys soon enough." She says. I kiss her hand and wave goodbye to them and meet my sister at the elevator. "nerve wracking isn't it, meeting your girlfriends family." Shea says. "Yes was that like that for you?" I ask. "Worse. Williams women are terrifying." She responded and I laughed. "If they were anything like I Ash, I can believe it." I said. "They are very much alike." Shea says chuckling too, but I could see her sadness. I hugged her, to give her some measure of comfort.
Miranda
"You seem to hit it off with Chey pretty quickly?" I ask my sister. "We did, didn't we." She smiles at me. I watched the exchange it looked a little flirtatious to me. I better make it known that Chey is mine. "You aren't harboring intentions are you?" I ask. "What if I was?" she asks. I think she may be teasing. "She is rather delicious all compact and bursting with strength, she is absolutely gorgeous." She says, ok I am almost sure she is teasing. " That she is, but she is also mine, and I do not share. Not even with my sister." I tell her. She giggles. "Relax sis, I have no intentions and she has made it clear she is taken. Her exact words were 'every molecule of my being is for her'. I promise she is all yours." She replies. "And don't you forget it. I want to marry her. But first I need to ask her to move in with me. I have given your parents my contact information on the Normandy and this is my personal contact information. If you write or send me anything make sure it is well encrypted." I tell her. "I will. I'm glad we finally got to meet." She hugs me. I stiffen at first but quickly relax into it.
I rejoined the Shepards and Kasumi. I put my arm around Chey's shoulder and we waved good bye one last time. I turn to the eldest Shepard. "Thank you again for doing this for me Shea." I tell her. " Your welcome. I was happy to help. Now let's catch up with Liara and try to find Samara and Thane." She tells us. I do not think I stop holding Chey's hand the whole walk to Liara's office. When Liara greets them, I get a pang of jealousy as Liara embraces Chey. In my opinion, I think she holds her just a bit longer then I like. When she separates from them I grab Chey's hand. Liara gives our joined hands a look and then I notice she glimpses down at Chey's cotch. Jealousy pings me again, and a part of me wonders if there was something between them. "Surely Chey would have told me if that was the case." I think to myself.
In less then a minute Liara resumes her cold exterior. I feel Chey squeeze my hand and we leave the room for a bit. "A credit for your thoughts, you got a bit tense in there are you ok?" she asks. "Liara seemed to hold onto you longer then Shea. Did you and her…?" I ask she finishes. "Get together. No. we are just friends. She was more interested in my sister and Tali. Plus at the time she met me, I was an emotional void. She eventually got me to open up more, but not completely, which led us to be friends. Until I met you I never really let anyone in completely." She answers. I lean down and kiss her. "Sorry. I shouldn't have jumped to that conclusion." She hugs me and nuzzles my chest. "It's okay. I sometimes worry Jacob will take you from me. He told me you two had a thing for a bit." She says. "I'm sorry. I should have told you. When I was rebuilding Shea, we used each other for stress relief. I ended it when he seemed to want more." I reply.
"Why? Jacob's a decent fellow, not that I am complaining his loss is my gain." She says. "I didn't want a commitment. I never wanted more then stress relief until I met you." I tell her. "That's good to know, because casual sex and I don't work. Not that I ever tried mind you. My wife was my first and only partner until you came along." She says. I want to ask her to move in with me, but it doesn't feel like the right time yet. "Then I will endeavor to be a good experience for you." I said. "You already are." She says. Shea meets us in the hallway. "So we're going to meet Liara at her apartment this evening. We need to get her shadow broker obsession taken care of before it kills her. Chey do you think you'll be ok learning about your Biotics from Miranda and Jack and maybe Liara if you can reach her?" she asks her. "I'll be fine, plus Jacob can help teach me too." She says.
Shea
I felt a bit bad putting getting Samara off, but I could see Liara spiraling in to a vortex of self destruction. I think Chey will be fine for now. Her Biotics seem under control for now. "Do we have time to resupply before going to Liara's?" Chey asks. "We can get some, mostly get food and drinks, don't forget to get more dextrose rations. Triple the amount of food we normally get. Once you Biotics completely kick in we'll need the extra portions. The stores are on the way to the cab station." I inform them. I also want to look through the gift store. I wanted to find a gift for every birthday, anniversary and Christmas I missed and ones for this year too. I didn't think gifts would make it better between Ashley and I but still I wanted too.
My ears are assaulted by a big voice spouting terrible poetry. I follow the voice and am shocked that it belonged to a Krogan. I followed his line of sight which led to an Asari. She looked a bit tense and was shaking her head and pinching the bridge of her nose. I approach her. "Is that guy bothering you?" I ask. "What? No , yes I don't know. That's Char he was my boyfriend not to long ago. He's harmless we got into an argument and now he is trying to woo me?" she explains. "Tell me more, maybe I can help." So she does. "Look at him, obviously he's crazy about you, give him another chance." She considers it a moment. "You're right, and I can't deny that I absolutely love him too. I'm going to go talk to him. Here's a discount to my store. Thank you Commander Shepard." She says.
"Ah and Cyrano de Shea strikes again." My sister remarks. "Yeah, yeah. Whatever." I look through her wares, nothing here screams Ashley, but Char did give me an idea. Ash loves poetry, so I decided I would woo her like Char did. Except through emails. I'll find some that express how I feel and attempt to write ones of my own. It was bit nostalgic for me. Ash had wooed me with poetry when we were dancing around our feelings for each other. She actually seduced me before Ilos with a poem. The poem wasn't even remotely sexual, but her velvety voice always reduced me to putty in her hands. The night before Ilos I was a virgin. Ashley never laughed or teased me when I told her I was a. She was gentle and passionate with me that night. It was perfect.
"Maybe I should read them to her and send her the voice recording as well as the poems written down." I decide to myself. There is a noticeable lift in my step and I end up buying everything on her terminal. All ship models, fish, and even a space hamster. I send Kasumi back to the ship to wait for the orders. I do not think she would nick anything, but I sent a message to Aunt Karin to bring the deliveries to my room and send her a list of my purchases, just in case anything gets "lost in delivery". All that done I look for any upgrades I can afford. By the time we get to cab terminal I have a several more upgrades and just enough credits left to take the cab to and from Liara's apartment.
I didn't expect to arrive at a police scene. "What happened here?" I ask one of the police officers. "Someone tried to kill your friend." An Asari says from the stairs. "let them pass." She orders the officers. "You can't do that." One of them says. "I just did, let them in Spectre authority." She says. She shakes my hand. "Tela Vasir. Special Tactics and Reconnaissance. I see that you have been reinstated." She says. "I did. So what exactly happened here?" I ask her. " A sniper tried to put a bullet in your friends head, I do not think they were expecting the kinetic barriers." She said.