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Chapter 9: Attack
I walked out of my room and I couldn't help but hum a happy tune. Yes, I was in a very good mood, as I made my way to the training room to spar with Jacob. As I entered, I saw Garrus in the shooting range room. Jacob wasn't even in the training room to spar. It was then that I saw Shepard's HMWSG shotgun lying next to Garrus' sniper.
"Enjoyin' youself?" I asked, causing him to turn with a turian smile. Just as he was about to say something, probably snarkily, the Commander's voice came over the intercom.
"Ground team to debriefing room, excluding Miss Lavargus," She said.
"Guess I'm not coming this time," I said with a frown.
As he was about to walk out he handed me the shotgun.
"Ann's gift to you," He said, before the door closed behind him. "Practice,"
I sighed as I lined up my first target, pretending it was Miranda's head. Not like I've got anything else to do, if I'm not going. I smiled as the target was blown to pieces. The thing had pretty respectable recoil. I rubbed my shoulder for a second before continuing.
After enough practice to give me a thick bruise, I made my way up to medbay to check in with Carolyn. I bumped into Mordin.
"Ah, Lavargus, was looking for you. Have something that may help with relationship with Mr. Moreau. Some instructional positions that may reduce breaking of his bones," He said with a smile, tapping his omni-tool.
And...cue to blush.
"Uh...," I began, but I was helpless before this onslaught.
"Positions will also give both of you to 'explore' better and for both of you to receive equal amount-"
"Okay!" I interrupted, blushing horribly. "T-Thanks."
"Stimulation of G-spot will-"
"Hey, hey!"
I looked down in time to hear my omni-tool bing with his upload.
"Very welcome," He said. "Quite curious to see outcome of relationship. See what stage it'll make it to,"
Suddenly his omni-tool beeped.
"Ah, must get to shuttle. Have important missions to do, though will stay quietly onboard of shuttle, then head to help Miranda's sister."
I nodded at him as he was about to leave. "Do you believe in inter dimensional time travel?" I asked randomly. Surprisingly, he ran with it easily.
"Not myself. Others. Yes! Many Salarian scientists say it's possible, and even probably, with modern factors," He tapped his omni-tool and mine pinged. "There! Sent five well documented theories. Must leave. Talk later,"
And with that he entered the elevator and left.
Completely forgetting Carolyn, I walked through the CIC to the cockpit, sitting down next to Joker in the co-pilot's seat. For a moment there was silence as I began to read one of the research papers. I was on the first page when Jeff spoke.
"So...," He began. "Are we..."
"In a thing?" I finished, trying to sound casual. "Only if you want to be,"
He looked at me and blinked, then smiled.
"It's nice to know you think so much of my intelligence," He said his smile reaching his eyes. "After that… Did you honestly think I wouldn't want to? Dream come true, babe."
He winked at me, by now my face had heated up a bit.
"S-So the sex...," I began. "Wasn't bad?"
"Hell no!" He exclaimed as I let a sigh of relief go. "That was so hot! And very...uh...what's the word?"
"I believe Jeff is trying to explain that you thoroughly pleased him last night by allowing him to be in control of the situation, Serena." EDI piped in causing us both to look away from her with our own blushes of embarrassment. "For someone with such a thorough lack of control in everyday matters, it must have been very pleasurable,"
"I-uh...," I scratched the back of my neck.
Jeff barked with a loud laugh. "It's ok. Deep breath," He smiled at me.
"Jerk," I muttered and went back to reading.
"Jeff," EDI began, "I am ready to activate the Reaper IFF and run my tests."
"Okay EDI," He said, still smiling. "Begin analysis."
"Okay EDI," He said, still smiling. "Begin analysis."
"Trouble. I have detected that we are transmitting the Normandy's current location,"
Jeff looked at me and then back at her.
"Transmitting? To who?" His hands began racing around on the console.
Love those hands. I smiled at a very specific memory. Suddenly a large ship appeared above the Normandy. The Collectors!
"Jeff...," I warned him.
"Shit! Activating FTL...," He said as his hands flew over the console holographic display.
"I have detected a virus within the ships propulsion system and mainframe." EDI said.
"The IFF?" Jeff asked. "Damn! You should've scrubbed it,"
I stood to go help repel boarders, when Jeff grabbed my wrist.
"Be careful," He said softly.
I leaned down to him and kissed his lips. "Don't worry." I whispered and took off down the CIC to grab my weapons and armor.
I had barely gotten the damn armor on and thermal clips for the shotgun when the banging on the doors began. I got to the hatch, where a dozen others had taken cover behind an overturned desk.
"Shepard's been hogging the action for too long!" One man hollered. "What do you say we get some?"
The others shouted with agreement. The door dented inward.
"For the colonists!" I shouted. They cheered. The door exploded inward with a burst of biotic power.
We all opened up, but the bulbous freak just kept stumbling forward. It looked like a dozen husks that had been glued together. It slowly made it's way to our position.
"Keep firing!" I yelled.
Too close. It hunched over and groaned, unleashing a massive pulse of pure biotic power. All of us were slammed backward into the wall. Three of us hit at bad angles-bones were broken. The rest of us were just stunned. I could barely lift my gun and shoot, but when I did, it finally crumpled. Just in time for a squad of Collectors to rush in.
The shotgun was incredibly powerful. One shot tore one in half. Another seriously wounded two of them. One slammed the butt of its gun into my head, and the word went black.
"So let me get this straight." I said looking at Jeff. "You defeated Sovereign , a Reaper, all by yourself? No credit to the turian, asari, or Alliance ships?"
"Hey!" He defended as Ann and Garrus sat on either side of him, trying to stop from laughing. "I dealt the killing blow! Besides if it weren't for my incredible skill the Destiny would've been destroyed!"
I laughed.
"You're so easy to rile up Jeff," I said with mirth. He looked at me as if I'd just grown another head. I realized it was the first time I'd called him by his name, and not his callsign.
M-Angel: Sorry that the chapter was so short!
Knight: I'll edit 10 tonight or tomorrow and throw it up.
M-Angel: I promise it is longer! There's gonna be a major twist in this story. Can anybody guess what it'll be?
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