Shea
It was 0300 when my message terminal went off, though I thought I had silenced the beeping. EDI must have flagged it as important and allowed the alert to go through and loud enough to wake me. "Alright, alright damn, I'm coming. Who has the nerve to call me this late at night." I grumbled. My eyes were still blurry from sleep, my voice hoarse from sleep. " Commander Shepard speaking." I answer. "Oh good I woke you." Ashley's voice says very alertly. "Ash? Are you okay?" I ask, suddenly more awake. "I'm fine other then the fact that the file Chey sent me, kept me up for awhile. So I figured if I have to lose sleep so did you." She says. "What file? I knew nothing about it." I said. "I'm aware of that, Chey sent me a letter too." She said.
"So again, I ask what file?" I ask. "Why didn't you send these letters to me?" she asks. "Ah, that file. The one that had your name on it. You said you needed space, so I didn't send them. I wanted to, every day I did. I wanted to respect your wishes." I explain. "Well, I do appreciate that, I wouldn't have minded letters. To at least let me know you were okay." She says. "I thought Chey was sending you letters." I said. "Well, she wasn't." she said. "Ashley, I am sorry I didn't send you the letters. From now on I promise when I write you a letter I'll send it." I said. "Good, now let's talk about the poems you wrote and the ones you read. Did you really mean everything?" she asked.
"I did. Ash, I really do feel lost without you. I know you did too, and I'm sure what you went through was infinitely harder. That was another reason I didn't send the files. I didn't want you to go through that again. This mission I'm on now has a very low survival rate. I didn't want to hurt you like that again." I said. "That's awfully presumptuous of you. Did you assume that this extremely romantic gesture would get us together again." Her tone was teasing and I smiled. "Well I hoped." I said. "You hoped right, you know just how to sweep me off my feet." She said. "I had the most awesome teacher." I said. "Flatterer.'' She says smiling. "I try." I said.
"Though we need to be clear, I am still staying where I am. You better damn well survive this and come back home to me." She said. Tears shimmered in my eyes. "It wasn't just your letters and poems that won me over. They were a great start, but really got me, was the vid of you crying in Chey's arms. Now I wonder if it was staged?" she asked. "Oh God she sent you that to. Is nothing sacred with her. You weren't supposed to see that. See me being so weak." I said. "It wasn't weakness, vulnerability a bit. It reminded me that you are still you. Even with Cerberus raising you from the dead, it was still all you. I won't say I still don't have my doubts, but I will say that I will try and see more of you then Cerberus. I love you Shea. I never stopped. I just lost my way for a bit." She says. "I love you with all my heart, soul, mind and body Ash." I said.
"Is that so? Your body, huh. So do you think Cerberus changed any parts of your body?" she asks. I have a feeling I know where this is going, but I decide to play along. "Nope. Still all me." I say. " Uh huh, no extra parts like your sister, to become a stud for them. No physical enhancements, I should know about?" She says a bit mischievously with a hint of seduction. "No and no. Still the same body, minus the scars.'' I said feigning innocence. "I don't think I should take your word for it. Strip." She orders. "Yes my mistress. As you wish. I live but to please my mistress." I said and I make a show of taking of my clothes. I hear her sharp intake of breath. "I don't remember teaching you how to tease like this." She says. "I may have borrowed some of my sisters books, do you like what you see?" I ask seductively. She rips off her clothes and pans the camera down to her crotch, in the light I can see it glistening with wetness. "What do you think?" she asks. "I think I wish I could devour you now." I said.
Miranda
I wasn't sure what time it was, but I was engrossed in the book Chey wrote. I felt like I was almost there. ''Miri?" Chey says sleepily. "I'm here darling." I said. She looks bleary eyed at the clock on the side of her bed. "Miri, it's 2am, come to bed. It's cold here without you." She says in such a loving tone that I couldn't resist. I bookmarked the page I was on. "I'll be right there love. I need to brush my teeth and get dressed. I'll only be a moment. I grab my toothbrush and brush my teeth in the galley sink, now that I wasn't reading I realized how tired I was. The trip to the bathroom seemed much too far, from warmth of our bed and my lover's embrace.
I looked at Chey who had curled up on my side of the bed with my pillow against her chest and the blankets cocooned around her. My heart warmed at her show of vulnerability. Now I just needed to extradite my pillow and some blankets from her, and my spot. I changed into a simple red babydoll nighty set. The top split around my belly button and had red panties to match. It was a part of my plan to get my pillow and blankets from her. That, and I really loved how her bare legs felt against mine. I tried to pull some free but she held tighter. I guess I'll have to use her mother's old trick with a bit of Miranda flare. I leaned into her and started lightly stroking her nose. ''Darling it's a bit cold, would you warm me up. I blew onto her ear. She looked sleepily at me, I had left some of the lights on when I left.
When her eyes met mine and widened and I could hear an audible gulp. "I win.'' I thought. She set my pillow where it belonged and uncurled herself from the blankets. She moved over to her side of the bed, unexpectedly she grabbed me and pulled me down onto the bed. Her eyes were glazed over with primal lust. "This I did not expect nor plan for." I thought. Her kiss was rough, urgent, demanding, and very passionate. I felt my heart race and the fire in my blood rush, then there was the liquid heat pooling in me suddenly very aroused, though I knew I still wasn't wet enough for her to easily slide in.
She bathes my lower lips with her tongue to try add a little more slickness for her to enter me. She flips me onto my stomach and sets her teeth in my shoulder like animals do when claiming their mate. I don't get much warning as she enters me roughly. I have never seen her this wild. I did this to her with my lingerie and a few whispered words. At first it feels good, but then it starts to hurt. "Chey.. Chey… slow down your hurting me." She stops thrusting and pulls out and flips me back over on my back and gently kisses me as if to apologize, for her prior disregard for my comfort. She continues down until she reaches my aching, from her rough claim on me at first, but still wet core. She pauses a moment just before her lips touch my clit as if seeking permission. She needs no words to convey her apologies and the shame she feels in taking me like a beast.
I stroke her hair and comfort her, and nod. Her licks are gentle and tentative as if she was worried she may hurt me again. Her concern is touching and it melts my heart. I love how her silky hair slides through my fingers. Her gentle ministrations slowly bringing me to my peak, and I loved this slow burn. I want more though, but I know she needs to go through this gently right now. She needs to know she won't hurt me again. I continue to let her ease me into an orgasm. I grip her hair tighter as I crash over the edge of bliss. I pull her up gently by her head and kiss her lips tasting myself on her and it makes me hotter, I never quite realized how good I tasted. She rests her head on my chest and I begin stroking her hair and shoulders. I convey to her silently that I wasn't mad, but I know verbally she needs me to reassure her.
Chey
"I did like it Chey, until it started hurting, you can take me like that again, just try and get me a lot wetter first." I nod at her. "I will remember and do better by you next time." I vow. She twines her fingers in my hair and nudges my hips with her pelvis. I slide a hand back down to her core. She nudges my hand I take this as permission to touch her again. I take my time giving her, another orgasm. I want more I need to bury myself into her again. "Miri.. I need to claim you.. please let me.." I beg my voice tense with need. She gets on her hands and knees. I lay my chest against her back. "I love you." My teeth once again find her shoulder she has to scrunch up a bit more due to height, but not uncomfortably so.
I press into her slowly at first, again giving her a second to get used to me. I move still slowly until I'm sure she was ready. When I felt it was good for both of us I gave into my wild urges. Her walls clenched onto me and released me. I could hear how much she was enjoying it and could feel the constant stream of her love juices. Which only got me wilder. I honestly think that was the fastest I came since our first night. I shuddered above her and we both collapsed. I had enough energy to kiss her goodnight and tell her I loved her and thank you. She kissed back and said . "Your welcome. Next time I'm claiming you." I lay on my back and she laid her head on my chest. "I really loved your outfit Miri." She giggles, we both sigh and go to sleep.
The next morning is our usual routine, we still get up early, we still go take our showers and sit down to breakfast by 8. What is unusual is Shea's very upbeat attitude, and I think she looks to be glowing, like the after sex glow I see on Miri and I'm sure it could be seen on me. "Good morning my beautiful sisters!" she says cheerfully. "Umm… morning Shea." Mir says a bit perplexed. "Alright, who are you and what have you done to my sister." I say blatantly, she's freaking me out a bit. " Nothing Chey I am just in a great mood, which you should be thankful after what you did yesterday." She says making it a point to met my eyes, I could see the lingering anger at me. "Right.. Well, I should go." I say and retreat Miri following me to the cargo bay.
"What did you do?" she asks. "I may have umm… kinda sent her private files for Ashley through Liara, without asking her." I said. "What files?" she asks. "Letters she had written but would probably never send. Poems she wrote and others she read for Ashley, and a vid that EDI recorded that I didn't know about at the time. It was a very private and personal moment between us about Ash." I said twiddling my thumbs. "So, I will assume her new attitude is because her and Ashley worked things out.'' Miri says. ''It would be safe to assume that. Oh god, they had video/phone sex. No, no, no I do not want to picture that. Ewww… my eyes burn." I said. She starts thinking about it her eyes widen and I know she's picturing it. "Oh God. We need a distraction. Let's work on Biotic training." She says.
We had been practicing for about two hours when Joker informed us we had docked with the shadow broker, Liara's base. "Oooh, goody. Now I can get your surprise. The only thing I will tell you is that it is not a naughty surprise." I said. She sighs in exasperation. "You'll love it. I promise Miri." I tell her. "Uh huh, we'll see." She replies.
Shea
It was a supposed to be a short visit. We picked up our packages, and dragged Liara away for lunch. She was spending far too much time at those feeds, if the dark purple circles under her eyes were any indication. Feron confirmed our suspicions as he begged us to make her take a break, before her health suffered more. She wouldn't listen to us, so we had to employ our secret weapon. Outside of the doors we sent a message to Tali. "Please help us. She won't listen to us and she needs a break." We sent her. "On my way." She replies. We moved to the side as if she were royalty. It took all of five minutes before Tali came back through the door with Liara beside her.
Liara ended up staying until night fall. Feron was a capable second in command. Liara got lunch, and was watching a movie in Tali's room, since we had managed to make it easy to re-sterilize the room. Sometime during the movie Liara fell asleep as they told us at dinner. We said our goodbyes at the airlock and just let Tali go on board. She didn't return for two hours, and when she did, she was much more giggly. "Oh? What have we here. Is it possible that our little Tali and Liara have finally realized they loved each other and consummated there relationship?" I ask cheekily. "That is none of your business Shea Shepard." She says. "Partially true. I would need to know if I should expect you to get ill. So I could give you time before taking you on the next mission." I said.
"In that case we used all the necessary precautions. At first we just melded but, then I wanted to physically touch her. So I took some shots of an immune booster and she has a clean room too. I might get a fever but nothing that will hinder my abilities or the mission." She replies. "Good enough for me." I said. "Shea you seem really happy today, have I missed something?" She asks. "Ashley finally responded back to my email. She has agreed that although she is staying where she is, she is willing to tentatively begin our relationship again." I tell her. "That's good, is she doing better with you working with Cerberus?" She asks. "Not really, but she will put it aside for now, on the promise that once I'm done with the Collectors we have a long and overdue sit down and chat." I said. "I'm glad. The others here wouldn't be able to tell but the ones who knew you from the SR1 know you didn't quite have the same swing as before. And as you always say we all need to be at our best for this mission. I'm going to return to my duties but if you could come by and see me later, I need to talk to you about something." She says. "Of course." I said hugging her and she heads back down to engineering.
Miranda
As the evening settled on us and it was time for bed, I almost couldn't wait to put on the pjs Chey bought for me. After I put on the light blue flannel pants an white tank top, I strutted around my cabin. I didn't even care that TIM could see me. I was beaming at Chey. "I told you you'd love my surprise. You can still steal mine when you want to though. I just figured you'd like to be able to walk around the ship while off duty in more relaxing clothes. That catsuit has got to make you feel like your suffocating at times." She says. I sit next to her on the bed and we wrap are arms around each other and I kiss the top of her head. "You thought right, and maybe being surprised by you isn't so bad." I reply. "Good, because when your birthday comes around, I'm totally going to do something to surprise you." She said. "I don't have a birthday remember, I'm a test tube baby like Grunt. And when the day I drew breath in this world because of him comes I'd rather not celebrate that." I said.
"I would. Henry Lawson is a despicable man, but I cannot hate him for making you, or Oriana. So please Miri at least give me that. Let me celebrate the day you stepped foot into this universe." She asks me with a hint of pleading. "Oh Chey, I would do anything to see you smile. Okay. I'll give you that and maybe you can get me to enjoy that day, when it comes every year." I said. "I give you my word to do my best, and for now, I'll just leave that date between us, and Oriana and possibly the others but only when you are ready." She says. "I like that idea." I said. "Umm.. Miri, when is that day?" She asks. "One week from today exactly." I reply and she smiles and excitedly pecks my cheeks and lips. "Thank you for trusting me with that Miri. I love you." She says.
"I love you too." I reply. She gets out her data pad and begins resuming the SR2's story, and I resume reading the SR1 story, I am completely absorbed in. Once again I am up later then her, but I decide to at least go to bed at decent time tonight. As it is sometimes tonight Chey and I are just content to be in each others arms. Sleep comes easy and naturally to us. All I can think is how much I want this to be an everyday occurrence, for the rest of our lives. More and more I lean to quitting Cerberus, TIM be damned. Our little trip to Pragia opened my eyes a bit more, and I would never thank Jack to her face for opening my mind and heart when we rescued David Archer from the overlord project. Once again I asked TIM and he didn't deny it, he claimed it would be a good step for humanity against the Geth, but I couldn't see how he could condone that level of torture. David would never be the same again. I could only hope Grissom Academy could help him and give him a safe place to stay and call home.
Little by little the things I 've seen while traveling with the Shepards chip away at my faith and belief in TIM and Cerberus. I'm starting to see why both Shepards have said on a couple of occasions. "How can he claim to stand for humanity, when he does things like this all the time. How many times can we see a person brutalized before we see TIM is the worst of us." Now I'm starting to see, the real TIM and Cerberus, but they still have done some good over the years. Bringing back Shepard being the best thing so far, but is it enough to forgive the wrongs.