A/N: HI GUYS! Okay, so i don't know what this chapter has in store because A. i'm just now writing it as it goes along so i don't have any hints for you, but this chapter can go two ways: really good, which i doubt and really bad which i know that's the most likely way to go... so enjoy! Btw sorry this chapters a little draggy and not as interesting, but do not fret because the next one is juicy! Muhahaha!

They sat there staring at each other, Shepard laying down on her bed while her beautiful girlfriend sat on top of her. Shepard's hands rested softly on her bare thighs while she let her thumbs rub the skin underneath softly.

"What is it? You don't look very happy." Shepard said under her breath.

Miranda took a moment before saying anything, her eyes darted down and back at shepard's gray ones.

Miranda hesitated, "I…feel like I need to go see jack." She bit her lip. "I feel as though there's something we have to settle between each other."

The blonde massaged her girlfriends arms with care, "I understand, but Miri when you see her in her…current condition, know that what I did to her was because I was troubled and I-"

"Skylar, I know you would never do something like that to me." Miranda smiled, "Is that what you're trying to say?"

Shepard nodded, "Ye-yeah, I didn't want you to think I would hurt you. Or that I'm a monster…"

Sometimes Shepard did have nightmares about her hurting everything and everyone around her, when she lived in England with her mom and her dad, that is when her dad was still around, she woke up in the middle of the night to the sounds of plates shattering and screaming in the kitchen. Out of pure concern, she walked down the long hallway making sure to be extra quiet, the noises got louder and louder as she walked further along, she peeked around the corner and saw her mother laying on the floor with blood seeping from underneath her, one more pint of blood and she would have been dead the doctors said.

Her father began to search for her soon after, Shepard was smart, so she didn't hide in the closet or under her bed. She grabbed the phone and hid in a compartment in the back of the couch, she dialed nine one one while her father called out her name, whispering obscure things under his breath as he stalked through the house. The police came quickly and arrested shepard's dad before he could escape, they rushed her mother to the hospital. Shepard now suffers from PTSD and just like her nothing was the same.

Shepard didn't like to go into detail with the whole experience, she actually never talked about it, shes just wants to forget all about that time in her life.

"You're not a monster." Miranda leaned down to kiss Shepard but Shepard turned away, Miranda pulled back with an almost hurt look on her face. "Why did you turn away?"

Shepard shook her head, "I'm sorry, I-I-"

"Don't you do this. Don't you start thinking you're not good enough me." Miranda said sternly, Shepard couldn't look at the raven haired girl but Miranda forced her. "Look at me," she demanded, "You are the best thing that's ever happen to me and if you think I'm letting someone like you go you're highly mistaking."

How did she know what I was thinking?

Miranda laughed softly, "I can see it in your eyes. The way your eyebrows raise, the way your lip twitch. I can read your mind without even trying, love."

Shepard brushed her thoughts away and smirked, "Oh yeah? Then what am I thinking now?"

Miranda unbuttoned her shirt agonizingly slow, watching Shepard with a small smile on her face and half lidded eyes.

Shepard put her hands behind her head as she watched the creamy, smooth, skin underneath unveil in front of her. "Bingo."

(A/n: No they didn't have sex…I think that we'll be there for that…review if you think we should, lol.)

"She's right through here…Miranda just be careful okay?"

Miranda nodded and Shepard nodded back they entered the room, as separated as could be. They couldn't imagine that it would make things anymore comfortable if Miranda and Shepard acted like a married couple, deeply in love.

Jacks eyes narrowed at the two, "What in the hell is this?" She hissed.

"Jack." Shepard said sternly. It was more of a warning meaning: be disrespectful and when you're out of here you'll be right back in.

Jack snorted, "What is this an intervention?" Jack eyed the two up and down, "Oh I get it you're fucking the ice bitch-"

"Jack! You better lay there and shut the hell up! After all the crap that's happened you still talk shit!" Shepard exploded.

The room was completely silent, Miranda cleared her throat and stepped forward.

"Jack." She started, jack turned up her nose and scoffed. Miranda took a deep breath and sighed, not because she was nervous but because after all this jack was still an ass.

"I have no anger towards you, but I do not like you nor do I care about you. All the things you did to me were inexplicable. You are by far the worst thing that has ever happen to me." Miranda continued, "But without your years of torture, I wouldn't be who I am today. You hurt me, but you didn't break me, you made me stronger, no one or anything can break me." Miranda's thoughts flickered to her father and jack and all the emotional and mental scars they left. "When I was with you everyday I wouldn't be able to look in the mirror without crying, seeing how degrading and meaningless my life is, sometimes I wish you had of killed me-"

Jack interrupted, "Why didn't you just tell me to?" She joked.

Shepard clenched her fist, "I'm not gonna yell." Shepard took a deep breath, "Okay, I know this is just jealousy talking jack like you told me, so I'm not going to flip out and hurt you."

"No. Skylar, just look at her, she needs help and let's just prays that she finds it." Miranda grabbed shepard's hand, "Like I did. Now…I think it's time to go love."

"We shouldn't tell her, it would only make her time left unbearable."

Shepard ran a hand through her hair, "It feels wrong ori…" Shepard shook her head. "No. She's going to make it through this-"

Oriana felt her eyes beginning to sting. "But the doctor said-"

"Ori, I know what the doctor said!" Shepard said a little louder than necessary.

The attention was back on them as they were when the beautiful teens walked in, a couple of whispers and mummers from everyone around, maybe they recognized Shepard and Miranda from the paper? No, no one reads the paper…tv?

"Let's just…forget about it, Kay? All we're doing is making ourselves miserable and we both know Miranda doesn't want that." Shepard whispered.

Oriana nodded and put on her best smile when Miranda came back from the bathroom.

"You were in there for a while, what did you fall in?" Oriana chuckled cheerily.

Miranda looked a little bit less lively than when they had came in, but she still laughed and smiled.

"Some weird man was talking my head off about something about modeling or something along those lines." Miranda smiled.

Shepard furrowed her brows, "Miri your…your noes is bleeding."

Miranda eyes widen, she quickly grabbed a napkin and wiped the blood away. She didn't catch it when Shepard and Oriana exchanged worried glances Luckily. She stared at the napkin in shock, looking as if her life just ended.

"But…" Miranda whispered.

Shepard took out her wallet and laid a hundred creds on the table, "We better get you to bed, come on, we can go to my house."

Miranda nodded, the last thing she wanted to do was be in that hospital or at her own house where her father was.

The three got up to leave, even though they would get strange looks, Shepard let Miranda piggy back ride her. She laid her head on shepard's back and closed her eyes to the sleep that was so inviting.

"Wait." A man ran up to Shepard.

Shepard stopped even though she really really didn't want to.

"I am Paul maverick and I just love this amazing woman on your back, I would love for her to be my new model-"

"No thanks." Shepard deadpanned.

Paul panicked, "Look, just give me a call."

Shepard opened her mouth to protest, but a card was shoved into her mouth.

"No more talking. Just thinking."

A/n: so let me brake this chapter down, even though it doesn't seem like it, this is the most important chapter in the story. Now I know you're thinking: WHAT?! But it seems completely pointless and not a very impacting chapter at all! Yes I know, but you will be in complete shock to see how all of it pulls together! So excited!