Don't Leave Me
Chapter 5
Hey Guys! Here's Chapter 5 of more Liara and Shep!
Be advised, I will be taking a break from "The Mass Effect: Endurance" until I've gotten time to play ME1 Again. (Sorry!) So I will be focusing on Don't Leave Me and The Asari Spectre!
Enough chitchat, here's Ch.5!
"I'll be there." Garrus told The Commander.
All the noise drowned out as John looked at Liara, Who was looking back. He looked into her sparkling, blue eyes. He loved those jewels. He gave her a weak smile, she returned one with love.
Liara looked at the man she fell in love with four years ago, and all they been through. The man who stood by her and held her up during her dark times, Noveria, The Fall Of Thessia, When they killed the Shadow Broker. She was just an Asari Scientist, and the savior of the Galaxy fell in love with her! Liara T'Soni! She stood with him and helped him during his times of breaking down. The weight of the galaxy that was bearing on his shoulders, but he did more than she could repay. She loved the man with her life and after.
John started walking and gently pressed through the guys as he limped to his Asari. She smiled as he walked toward her. He returned the smile. He felt his wound spike in pain as his legs froze, tripped, then he fell to the ground. Liara was instantly by his side, along with his crew.
"Shit! That hurt!" He cursed.
"Are you ok, John?" Liara asked him, worrying.
He nodded, "just tripped," he said until he felt blood on his left hand where his wound was, "Ah, crap, I'm bleeding! Give me some more medi-gel!"
Liara applied more medi-gel as Garrus and Samara gently helped him up.
"Thanks." He said to the three, "let's get the Normandy down here."
Pain spiked through him again, more this time. He yelled in agony as he collapsed again.
"John!" Liara yelled as she caught him, with tears in her eyes.
"Get The Normandy Down here now!" Kaidan yelled.
John clutched his side as pain coursed through him.
"John! Please! Don't Leave Me!" She sobbed, "Please hurry Joker! I don't want to lose him! My life depends on him!"
She continued crying as John writhed in pain. The medi-gel wasn't going to hold much longer. The fall must have broken some bones.
The Normandy appeared into view as it landed in front of them. The Cargo Bay doors opened with James, EDI, And Dr. Chakwas. She was holding a medical bag and James was carrying a folded up stretcher. Liara and Samara supported John as the ladies helped him on board the frigate. His entire team followed.
"Lay John down on the stretcher while I check his vitals!" She said, urgently.
Samara and Liara did as they were told while they laid him down on the stretcher. Dr. Chakwas quickly activate her Omni-Tool and scanned John.
"He was multiple fractured bones, severe burns, a large hole in his side, His cybernetics are overloading, and many other injuries. We need to get him to a medical frigate where they have required equipment. Carry him to the Med-Bay.
James and Jacob stepped up and gently picked up the stretcher and started heading for the Elevator, Liara was at John's side, holding his hand, shedding tears.
The Normandy was on its way back to the Alliance Fleet, Hackett was contacted about the Commander, He was relieved that he made it. Liara, along with the others were outside the med-bay as Dr. Chakwas and a couple of other crewmen doctors worked to keep him stabilized and alive. She prayed to the goddess again that John would live. She couldn't live without him.
After an Hour or so of patient waiting, Dr. Chakwas came out of the med-bay, Liara stood immediately.
"How is he?" The question that was asked.
"He's stabilized. But he will need a more equipped facility for him to fully recover." She let out a sigh of relief.
The deck was filled with cheers as fellow squad mates and crewmen clapped, banged fists, and hugged each other.
Liara wiped the tears away as she heard the news of her life, she smiled, "Is he available?"
She smiled and nodded, "He awake for now, and he shouldn't be in any pain. He's asked to see you."
Liara followed Dr. Chakwas into the Med-Bay, she saw John. He had bandages all over him, a few machines hooked up to him to monitor his health and a few other necessities. He smiled at Liara when he looked over to see her. She smiled back, she grabbed a nearby chair and sat down next to him, intertwining their hands.
"How are you feeling?" She asks.
"I was going to ask you that, I probably almost gave you a heart attack back there..." He told her. His lungs were on fire, but he didn't care. He was talking to the woman of his life. He'd go any length.
She squeezed his hand slightly, "I'm more worried about you."
"It kills me inside to see you hurt. Externally or internally."
"I'm Fine, John."
"I'll make it, Liara. I always have."
"But you're not in control of it."
"Perhaps, but I'm in the hands of some good doctors."
"Yes, you are."
He let a couple of tears escape as he admitted, "I thought I wasn't going to make it...I kept pushing myself to get back to the woman I loved as I promised. I wasn't going to let anything get in my way, or die trying."
She gave him a loving smile as her own tears left her. She gently pulled him into a passionate kiss. When they separated, John asked a question,
"Did I lose anybody down there?"
Liara shook her head, she went along and told him about the army they've gathered as they fought to the beam, gathering squads like the Ninth Platoon, Victus, Wrex and Grunt, Bau, his old squad mates, STG, and the others. She told him about the "base" they set up, and how they repelled any reaper troops. John listened the entire time.
"Seems like some of me rubbed off on you." He joked.
She smiled at him, "it seems so."
"I can't believe I missed all the fun, I Imagine Grunt and Wrex always ran into battle?" He asked her.
"Yes, they would go and shoot everything that moved."
He chuckled, "I missed all of that."
"You have to take a break soon, you know."
"I get restless."
"The war is over, it's time for your killing to go away."
"But I don't wanna..." He pouted.
She shook her head at him, "I don't want you scaring the kids."
He looked at her with a surprised expression.
"You want kids?" He asked.
"Of Course."
"At this age?"
"Yes."
"You might even outlive our own children." He joked.
"I doubt."
"I just saying."
She rolled her eyes.
"Don't be rolling your eyes at me!"
"Whatever, John."
"But, we'll see after I recover, ok? I would love to have kids with you. I'm going to have a stroke if they get your eyes." He told her, looking into her Gem eyes.
She laughed at him, "I'm sure they will."
"I hope so, Oh good lord." He said as he imagined.
She laughed at him again.
"I love that sound." He told her.
"What, my laugh?"
"Yes, it's music to my ears."
She smiled at him lovingly.
"And your smiles. They melt my heart."
She was getting emotional by this man.
"The most important, are your eyes, they put out the fire in my soul."
She had tears welling up by the romantic phrases he was putting together.
"But, you, you are the universe to me. I would do anything for my goddess Asari. I'm truly blessed to have you in my life. I wouldn't have made it without you. You are the wind pushing my boat through the storm. You, Liara T'Soni, You are my life." He told her, giving her a loving smile.
Tears were flooding her face as she heard the words, she pulled him in for another passionate kiss.
Liara started her own, "John, when you came into my life on Therum, I knew you were my knight in shining armor, You protected me from a battlemaster, you stood by me when my mother died, you stood by me when we took down the shadow broker, you stood by me when Thessia was lost. You forgiven me when I couldn't visit you on Earth, You helped me talk to my father, and you loved me to the end. It's my turn to stand by you and pick you up whenever you fall. John Shepard, I love you with my very soul. You are my candle in the darkness, you are the man in my life that I will never forget and always love. When it seems I'm far away, I'm always by your side because I am your lady and you are my man. Your love is something I could never forsake." She said whilst tears flooded her face.
He gave her a very loving smile as he touched the texture of her beautiful face, she rasied a hand to cover it. She squeezed it. He turned over to where he could put both of his hands on her face and wiped the tears away.
"I'm really looking forward to settling down with you, my Asari Scientist."
"As am I." She said with a warm smile.
"I think we should settle down on Thessia after it's been rebuilt." John told himself.
Liara gave him a surprised look. He wanted to settle on Thessia? She figured he wanted to stay on Earth, or Eden Prime, perhaps. But Thessia? It's too good to be true.
"Wouldn't you want to live on Earth?" She asked.
He shook his head, "It gets me away from all of the media, and plus, like I said, I want you to show me your beautiful home-world." He said and smiled at the last part.
She smiled lovingly at him with tears in her eyes.
"And we can raise our little blue children at your mother's house." He finished as he gave a very big smile.
John would love to have kids with Liara, it would be a new experience for him and her. He was going to do what Anderson couldn't, raise a family, for him, like he wanted John to. He shed a couple of tears for his old man. David was the best father and mentor a man could have. The tears worried Liara.
She stood up, "Are you okay, John? Do you want me to call Dr. Chakwas?" She asked urgently, looking over him.
He waved a hand at her, "No, it just..." He struggled to find the words as he grieved for the old man.
She sat back down and held his hand, "What's wrong?" She asks.
"Anderson...He didn't make it...fuck..." He muttered to her, tears rolling down his eyes.
She gripped his hand tightly, she knew who Admiral Anderson to her lover, she felt her own tears building up.
"He didn't get a chance to have a family, he was always busy while his duties kept him away from his personal life...He told me to raise a family that he couldn't, and I will. He told me that I would make a great father, I will. He gave me the chance to have a family with the Asari I love." He told her through his tears as he remembered the man.
Liara was crying while he gave her a little speech, she felt emotional for the man her lover has lost. The man who never met her, told her man to have a family with her.
"Do you want to know what Benezia said to me when she sent you away to speak to me?" He asks.
She tried to brace herself for the words, "What did she say?"
"She told me, give my daughter a family which I could not be for her, Give my beautiful little wing a life she deserves, protect her, love her, and keep her safe in your arms. Please, John, Give My Liara T'Soni the future life she always dreamed about." He told her, smiling at her.
She was sobbing, John held her hand and squeezed it, "And I said, I will, I promise. I would Do anything for her. I held her hand until she drew her last breath."
Liara was uncontrollably sobbing, her man held her mother's hand until she died! She didn't go alone! Her mother wanted her to have the life she wished for! This was all too much to take.
He sat up and got off the bed, gently. He pulled her up and brought her into a tight embrace as she poured her feelings out. He stroked her back while he held her.
"Just let it out..." He said calmly.
He patiently waited until she poured all of the water out of the bucket. When she did, she looked lovingly into his eyes. This man was more than she asked, but she's still going to keep him. She loved him more than ever now, nobody has done so much for her. She pulled him in for another, long, passionate kiss, she shredded tears of happiness as their lips sealed.
And There you have it!
Again, I apologize to those following Endurance, I hope I can make it up with these chapters!
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