M-Angel: Welcome back everybody. I recently looked at the story poll on my profile and was both happy and worried at what I saw. Most just want to see what chapter 1 will look like before they decide if it'll be a good story or not. *pouts* Well, that means I'm gonna be combining chapter 1-2 into one big chapter, so that way everybody gets a feel for it. Okay with that said...
HBHound: Hey thanks to the two people who sent their game pen-names through! So that makes the rest of you who didn't offer assholes
M-Angel: I thought we weren't gonna curse this time? *looks at Hound with a raised eyebrow*
HBHound:*sweatdrop* I thought you weren't serious.
M-Angel:*facepalm* Okay, while we have a little chat, enjoy the chapter!
Chapter 22: Living?
As I opened my eyes I saw I was sitting in a dark room. The floor, walls, ceiling; everything was completely covered in darkness, except for the only door in the room.
It was glowing an ominous red color that just screamed stay away. Where am I? I wondered as I place my chin on my left hand and continued to stare at the door. What's behind that thing? I slowly stood up. When I did I noticed I was wearing a white v-neck shirt with a white knee length skirt.
What the- my thought were interrupted when I hear the door suddenly unlock and crack open. When I looked back at it a woman was standing there in a similar attire as mine but only red. She looked oddly familiar, even though I'd never seen her before.
"Who are you?" I asked. She turned back to the door and dissapeared into the darkness of the room. The door to the room remained open. I'm gonna regret this...I thought as i followed her into the room and the door shut behind me.
Ian looked at Serena as she laid in the medbay. Every so often her hand would twitch. he looked over at Chakwas who was bringing
John up-to-date on what had happened since he lost consciousness and been brought to medbay and had to have surgery. "She has rapid eye movement, just like you did when you came into contact with that Prothean Beacon on Eden Prime." she said and paused before turning quickly "she didn't come into contact with one while you guys were down there on Virmire, did she?"
"No." both men replied at the same time.
"Okay, then..." the doctor sighed. "i don't know what could've-"
"She got another message before she fell backwards." Ian said as he rubbed the back of his neck. "Had Alberdeen not had such fast reflexes she would've hit her head on that table in there." He then looked down at the omni-tool on the table. It was then John picked it up and began to hack into it. Ian saw his eyes widen and then a smirk appeared on his face.
John looked up from reading the message. "I know how we can defeat both Saren and the Reapers." he said and then left with the omni-tool still in his hand.
Ian looked back at the doctor who shook her head and went back to looking over Serena's unconscious form.
"Uh, Commander?" came Joker's voice over the Normandy's comm. system. A groan was his answer. "Ma'am? We have a video communications coming from...uh...well...the SSV Normandy."
Ann shot out of bed at that. "Thank-you Joker." she said throwing on a white shirt over her bra and took off down to the comm. room. As she walked into the room the lights turned off and the familiar red lights washed over her form. "Serena?" she called out.
"Not exactly." came a deep masculin voice from behind her. As she spun around she saw a man with deep blue eyes looking at her wearing N7 armor. "You must be Ann Shepard." he said. "Serena is unavailable at the moment."
"What have you done with him you bast-ard?" she growled at the man.
John looked at the woman before him. she had the word trouble written across her face. She had green eyes that seemed to burn through his very being. She was thin, but muscular. Chin length red hair and wore facepaint on her face.
He chuckled. He knew enough about turian culture to know that the pain was from a turian and undoubtedly from Garrus or her Garrus.
"She's currently unconscious." he shook his head as her heard a growl. "No, i had nothing to with it." he sighed. "I believe it may be because of what happened on Virmire added with everything else that's happened to her."
This seemed to calm the woman down for a moment. "We need to talk." he said. "Face to face?"
Ann looked at the man for a moment. Something about him screamed dangerousand yet she found herself agreeing to meet him. "Okay, we're in the Kepler Verge. Come here."
"It's out of our way." he said. "The Council wants to talk to me. come to the Citadel."
Ann pinched the bridge of her nose. "Meet us at the Lower Wards, not as much C-Sec patrols around that area." she then looked at
him in his eyes. "You better not be lying to me about her. Bring her with you, even if she is unconscious. Bring her." with that she ended the conversation with this realities John Shepard. She turned to the wall with the comm. to Joker. "Joker, make a heading towards the Citadel, the Lower Wards."
"Aye, Aye Commander." came the reply. "ETA ten hours."
As I looked around the room I wasn't surprised to see that the red door had red walls, flooring, and ceiling, but there was also a large round bed in the center of the room with what looked like red sheets on it. Sitting in the center of the bed was the woman who now was laying her head on the bed. She opened her eyes and smiled at me.
"You followed." she said, her voice was light and seemed to remind me of the Tinkerbell movies back home. I nodded slowly. "Nobody ever follows." she said sadly.
"Where am I?" I asked. "Who are you?"
"You know who I am." she said with a giggle. "I gave you a vision of myself when I was a child." she sat up. "You truly do not know?" she seemed sad. "I'm Serene La'arges."
I thought for a moment and then remembered that i had, had a strange dream around the time we went Therum to get Liara. "Why are you here and where is here?"
She sighed. "Here is the In Between." she said. "And I'm here because my physical body exists no more and I'm more or less stuck here for all eternity because of what my mother did to me." she paused. "You are here because of your special ability to phase through the In Between two other realities. I needed to talk to you. You and those like you are causing an unbalance in the realities you end up in. You were originally in the Lost reality, but ended up in the Win
reality when Mrs. Lawson went to kill you aboard the Collector Base. You were supose to die, but instead you phased through the In Betweenand ended up in..."
"The Winreality, which is John's reality." i said finishing her sentence for her.
"Yes, but there is something else about you too." she sat up. "Those who can phase into other realities can also make wishes that come true, no matter how bizarre or strange the wish is, it comes true. Somehow it interacts with the quantum physic of every reality and energy builds and then a portal opens to allow the wish to come true."
I looked at her and shook my head. "Okay, then how do I return?" I asked her.
She frowned. "To your own reality?" she asked confused.
"No, to John's reality or the (i)Win(ei) reality." I said sounding iritated.
"You must concentrate on it." she said with a smile. "Meditation could help you." she then twiddled her fingers. "I was gonna ask you if you could, once you're out wish for me to get out of here. I am so lonely."
I sighed. "I'll see what I can do." with that I turned back to the now black door and opened it. "Thanks for explaining this to me the best you could." with that i left. When i walked into the black room i saw a white bed at the center of the room.
Crawling to the center of the bed I crossed my legs and began gentle breaths in and out of my lungs and began to consentrate on John's reality.
Ann looked at the Citidel as they began to come in to docks in the Lower Wards. She saw the SSV Normandy was docked three levels below them. that meant it would take twenty minutes for them to get here.
"EDI, contact the SSV Normandy and tell them we're on dock 127." she said.
"Yes Commander." the AI replied and vanished from her holo-tank next to the Commanders corridors.
Ann made her way down to the medbay and found both Chakwas and Dr. Pholus in a heated argument. She then cleared her throat gaining the attention of both doctors "I just wanted to give you a heads up doctor, we're expecting company, one of which is unconscious and I want you to do every test on her and find out what is wrong with her."
"Who is it?" Chakwas asked sounding concerned.
"Serena." she said quietly.
Suddenly EDI's avatar appeared in the holo-tank in the medbay. "Commander Shepard is outside the airlock with his team and an unconscious woman, Commander." she said.
"Who is with him?" she asked
"Officer Ian Shaw, Miss Tali'Zorah, Chief Williams, and N7 solider named Alberdeen." she said
"Allow them entry." Ann replied. "Have Krios, Taylor, and Reager at the airlock to meet them."
"Aye Commander."
with that the AI vanished.
As my eyes fluttered open I spotted a turian female talking to a greying female doctor. The beeping sounds of the heart monitor were giving me a headache. I looked over to the other side and saw Ann talking to John. How'd that happen? I wondered silently. How long have I been out? I looked around myself and saw the familiar workings of a medbay, but it seemed a bit more high tech than the SSV Normandy.
Groaning loudly I suddenly had bumbling voices asking question. How I felt? If I'm hurt? Where was I hurting? What year was it? How old was I? Then I spotted him.
In the midst of the chaos, Jokerwas standing there with wide eyes and a smirk on his face. I suddenly pushed past everybody and everything that was going on and wrapped my arms around his neck. He lowers his head down. "Miss me?" he asked in a whisper.
By now I had silent tears going down my face. "More than you know flyboy." I said and kissed his lips.
M-Angel: Ah, wasn't that sweet!
HBHound: Now we got a Shepard duo team, oh yeah! *thrusts hand into the air like an anime character with f.a.s.*
M-Angel: Thinking of ending it on that note. I mean, we all do know what happens next.
HBHound: *gasp* Yeah joker sticks his dick in edi's usb port
M-Angel: Lmbo! Haha, yeah I know. Review!