Lantar Sidonis wakes up another day on the Citadel, in some bed and by the color of the sheets he realized it was not his own bed. Lantar looked at the table, walls, this definitely wasn't his apartment. Where was he? He propped himself on his elbows, "Where am I?" he asked himself. Then looked to his left side and spotted something morbid and disgusting, "Holy fucking shit!" he exclaimed and jumped off from the bed, almost fell down as his legs were still wrapped in the blanket. He pressed himself against the wall, his breathing was quick, Lantar held his heart. He observed the human, seeing he had numerous injuries all over his body. They were mostly traces of bites, very deep ones, "What the hell happened?!" Lantar thought in horror, his heart beating so fast at sight on the devastated human. The turian held his head, trying to remember what happened while he was calming himself from the shock. He tasted a metallic flavor within his mouth and saw his claws and majority of body dyed with dark red, brownish color. He immediately ran naked to the bathroom to see himself in the mirror. He saw his mandibles and upper plates of his mouth colored with the red color and was starting to put all pieces together, "Alright… calm down, Sidonis. What do you know? You accepted to have sex with human… he offered you alcohol and… Hallex. Yeah, Hallex! You were stoned, couldn't control yourself! It was his fault! He should have known how this could end! What was his name? Philip? Josh? David? Fuck… I don't know but I don't care! I killed him! He bled out!" Sidonis grasped his head with both claws, "Can't leave like this! People will notice the blood and especially people from C-Sec…" Lantar said and entered the shower. He let hot water to wash him, yet he was so stressed and thought what he would do with the corpse in bed. Scratching off the dried blood was horror, especially when he knew this blood was innocent, no delinquent. Lantar finished washing himself, he dried himself and dressed up into his C-Sec uniform which he had on while coming here, "What if they find the body? What if C-Sec finds out? No… there's no way they could find out. Unless… my fingerprints are all over this place. Shit…" Lantar stopped and leaned against wall, thinking. Suddenly, he got brilliant idea, "Yes! If I report this and say that I run investigation I can get time to take care of this!" Lantar grinned, opening the door of the apartment and got out, "Better lock this up…" he thought and turned the button on the door from green to red color, putting there a C-Sec lock to prevent it from bypassing.
Lantar went to the C-Sec to inform his superiors that he's started working on this case, but of course didn't mention that he was the killer. When Lantar took the Hallex drug, he didn't realize what he was doing and all bounds were released. A sex with turian means to expect violent biting. Sex between turians is fine since they all have hardened skin but when turian has sex with human who has soft, fragile skin, he needs to stay off his biting. Because Lantar was stoned, he ignored the fact and let his natural habits and instincts to take over him, thus he bit the human to death and let him bleed out. After reporting the crime that he made, Lantar went into his office and sat down to his console, ready for another paperwork. Sitting made him flinch a little, not because he got pounded, but because he could sense his reproduction system being overwhelmed with pain, "Damn! He wasn't kidding when he said that orgasm would last for three hours!" Lantar thought, carefully sitting with his legs spread a little so the pain was lesser. The console was switched on and Lantar exhaled long breath before he started to process through bunch of dossiers. This wasn't his favorite part of job, but it paid him some credits too. However, he wanted to go out and hunt the thugs around Citadel, which seemed more important than verifying some stupid documentations.
He was already working for two hours, getting rid of each file when he was suddenly interrupted by somebody entering his office. It was Alice, "Yes? What do you- Alice?!" Lantar asked as he got surprised by her standing at the door. It was blonde human woman, a little bit smaller than Sidonis but had a nice figure, "How are you, Lantar?" she asked with smile and Sidonis started blushing, "I… quite good… you?" he said, feeling water within his skin getting to the boiling point, "Good. Heard what you've found in the residential area. I wonder what kind of dick could have done something that brutal!" she said, leaning against one table. Sidonis gulped, "Mhm… but that human guy had Hallex. Maybe he had sex with somebody so possibly that guy who killed him didn't do it on purpose." Lantar explained and Alice nodded, "We'll see soon. Bailey sent Dartus to investigate that place." Alice said and Lantar quickly stood up, frightened, "What?! I mean… that's amazing! If somebody will solve this, it's Dartus!" Lantar smiled while saying that, but truly he meant, "Dartus will fuck me in two ways! Who else has got that?!" and sat down, "Well, anyway… about that incident few days back…" Alice started but Lantar raised his hand, "It's ok, Alice… Dartus spoke to me and I realized my mistake. It's just I didn't get laid long time but you can be sure it will never happen again. You have my promise." Lantar said and Alice blushed, visibly getting red in her face, "Is she hitting on me?" Lantar thought when Alice approached him and sat right next to his console, "Actually, I was thinking once I left C-Sec that evening and I'd like to see what you're hiding under that uniform." Alice said and placed her hand on Lantar's shoulder, "Yeah… she's definitely hitting on me…" he thought again, "Eh, Alice. I think that it would be better if we stayed friends only. Besides, we should be professional here!" Lantar answered but it didn't seem like it did anything to her. She moved her hand down Lantar's uniform, exploring his curves, "Who says anything about love? It's just sex." Alice said, "Alright, she's starting to push…" Lantar thought, "But, you know… I'm not actually into humans…" he defended himself, "Oh, really… well, let's change that mind of yours." She put her hand around zipper on Lantar's uniform, pulling it down, "Fuck… she's persistent! I don't want her! Damn, I have to say that…" Lantar thought, opening his mouth, "I'm a f… FUCKING GAY!" he shouted and Alice pulled back with her hand, for a while stunned by the answer, "Sorry… I didn't mean to scream…" Lantar apologized but Alice slowly withdrawn from Lantar's table and then disappeared in the door, "Well, that went better than I thought… fuck, but I have to do something about Dartus or he's gonna blow it!" Lantar thought. He felt nervous and so his work was slowing down with his hands shaking. He was already considering critic plans just in case somebody would have found out. Running out again? Didn't seem like a good idea. C-Sec would have intel about him. Also, he had enough of running. Letting himself go to prison, maybe? The food in prison was good from what he heard. Bed for free and possibly even fuckbuddy. But what if there would be krogan? He was kinda scared of krogans and the way they fornicated. Was there any other option except for these two? He doubted that C-Sec would turn a blind eye over murder. Especially not from a C-Sec officer and definitely not from Sidonis. Say what you want, Lantar tried hard to be a good officer, but people still knew the rumors about him and Garrus and what happened so that didn't help his reputation. Yet, it was early to give up. Sidonis could do something to stop Dartus from revealing the truth.
Lantar finished his assignment at late afternoon and still thought of talking to Dartus. He left his office and headed to the elevator that would lead him to another floor where Dartus' office was located. The C-Sec academy was mostly empty again, perfect time to do something about his problem. It took him a while to find Dartus' office but as soon as he found it, he entered and saw Dartus wasn't there, "Where is he? Don't tell me he solved it and now he's telling Bailey… shit!" Lantar thought but saw his console opened and decided to take a look what he had there, "Crap! Those are my fingerprints he found in that place! He probably didn't send it to analysis yet. Maybe there's chance. I have to delete them before he comes back and-" Lantar thought, reaching for delete option in Dartus' console but quickly flinched himself and jumped back as he heard the door to the office opening. Dartus entered the office, astonished to see Lantar standing there behind his desk, suspiciously close to his console, "Lantar? Why are you here?" Dartus asked, going behind his desk and sitting down to his console, "I… I've heard you were sent to investigate the crime scene so I went to check what you've found." He made up quickly, "Also, I thought I'd talk to you since I haven't seen you for like three days or so." He added and Dartus left sound resembling snicker, "Well, because you're the one who should be investigating this, I think it's ok for you to see it. Whoever killed that guy, we'll know his identity once the lab boys compare fingerprints with database of people on the Citadel. That bastard won't be running away for long." Dartus chuckled at Lantar who forced himself to laugh back, "Y-Yeah… he won't!" Lantar stuttered, "Now when you're here, Lantar, you mentioned you wanted to talk which is good because I wanted that too and that's why I wasn't here. I was looking for you at down your office but you weren't there." Dartus said while standing up and facing Lantar, leaning with one arm against the window, "Y-You wanted to talk?" Lantar asked, "Yes. You told me about you and Garrus. You seemed quite upset while talking about it and it seems to bother you. Did you try to contact him?" Dartus asked and Lantar nodded, "He told me to mind my own business." Lantar said and Dartus frowned slightly, "That must have hurt. Well, then I can only say he's cocky dickhead." He snapped out, "D-Don't say that!" Lantar responded, defending Garrus, "Why? I mean, look at you. You do all the C-Sec stuff because you want to do some good, right?" Dartus asked and Lantar nodded, "Hey, did you mention you are with C-Sec by the way?" Dartus asked and Lantar nodded again, "Then logically it's his fault. If he can't stop dwelling on past and simply forgive you when you do everything to make things right, it's his problem, not yours." Dartus said, "Yeah but… I also asked him about Shepard, you know. I think that was something I shouldn't have done because it may have made him upset." Lantar said but Dartus rested talon on Lantar's shoulder, "Kid, listen to me. I was feeling quite bad once we parted that evening after having drinks. I was feeling bad that I just fucked you and you didn't have anything from it. You know that Garrus isn't there for you but if you feel like talking to someone, you know where I am." Dartus smiled at Lantar who nodded but didn't smile back, "Kid, you seem tense! Do you want to hang out in Dark Star? I'm almost done with this. I'll just send it down and we can go." Dartus said and sat down to his desk, sending out the fingerprints, "There, we should know the answer in few hours. So, care to join me?" Dartus offered and Lantar scratched back of his head, "Sounds good to me, Dartus. I just need to finish few things before we can go. Do you mind waiting for me in front of the academy?" Lantar asked, "No problem. I'll wait." Dartus said.
Lantar ran out of Dartus' office heading towards the elevator that would take him to floor where laboratory was located. When the door of elevator opened, Lantar spotted that everybody worked at their positions. Sidonis went directly at the identification section where officers should take care of things such as fingerprints or blood identification. Lantar stopped at the table with human officer sitting at console, processing through fingerprints. The human moved his eyes to the turian who stood in front of him, "Uh, yeah? Did Bailey send you to tell me that I'm fired?" the human officer asked, "Uh, no I… well, yeah. Said that you work too slow. Sorry." Lantar said and the human left sigh, "It's fine. I was expecting that sooner or later. I guess there's no point in staying here." The human stood up heavily from the table, packing his stuff and leaving, "Good luck in another job!" Lantar shouted. He looked around himself if nobody watched him and sat down to the console. He filtered incoming requests on identification of fingerprints and searched for Dartus' request. He found it and after checking the date, he removed it. Lantar sighed of relief, feeling big weight falling off his heart and left the identification post, getting in the elevator and leaving to the ground floor. Once he reached the ground floor and escaped the elevator, he heard shouting, "I didn't ever say anything like that!" captain Bailey shouted and Lantar quickly hid himself behind some door near to him, "Fuck… is this ever gonna end?!" Lantar thought, "But that turian said that you thought I was slow!" the officer defended himself, "Oh, really? Let's talk to that turian then!" Bailey said and along with the human officer from identification post they went to the elevator, passing Lantar hiding behind a door. Lantar left his hide spot once he heard the elevator leaving the floor. He sighed long, "Man… I need a drink…" he thought and walked out of the C-Sec academy. After he spotted Dartus standing there by a cab that was ready to take them right to Dark Star, they left.
Few minutes later, they both found themselves inside the bar, sitting at their usual places, next to each other. Lantar was starting to enjoy presence of Dartus next to him. There was a hell of difference of age between them, but they didn't have problem to find common topic to talk about. Lantar was still containing feelings towards Garrus, but listening to Dartus' deep voice was making him horny and the best thing about that was Dartus being bisexual so there was some possibility that Dartus was attracted to Lantar, maybe? Well, 31 years without wife and children definitely makes you feel desperate and lonely. Though, Dartus didn't want to push Lantar to anything. He knew that Lantar still loved Garrus and if he wanted Lantar to be with him, he must have let Lantar to come himself. It was strange how only one quickie in the office was enough for Dartus to start feeling something towards Lantar. There was one question that rushed in Lantar's head and kept him distracted from Dartus' talking: How will Dartus react once he finds out that it was Lantar who killed the human? Lantar didn't know. On one side, Dartus was faithful to the C-Sec for 20 years so he could be punctual about keeping justice. On the other side, he fought humans in the First contact war. He might have hated them so he could forgive Lantar for what he did. Maybe he could even help him to get from troubles with law. Then there was Garrus. If Garrus found out that Lantar killed another innocent, he would certainly kill him right away. Again, he couldn't stop thinking about what Garrus thought. Even he was light years away, his opinion was important to him even after being answered to mind his own business. It wasn't easy for Lantar to see who he liked more. Garrus or Dartus?
It was getting late and Lantar with Dartus agreed that it would be a good time to go and get some sleep before starting another day of work in C-Sec. While waving at each other and walking the direction opposite to the other one, Dartus stopped at the center of Zakera ward and watched how Lantar was distancing from him. His steps seemed light and Dartus wished he could ask Lantar for spending one night with him at his place. Dartus would make him dinner, let him have shower, use his extranet, all for one thing – just to have somebody there with him during the night so he wouldn't be alone. Just one night with somebody in his bed to cuddle with. He didn't need sex that much, he just wished to touch feel the heat of body of somebody else. Lantar took a cab to residential district and to his apartment. Surprisingly, even that Lantar didn't do many things today, he was exhausted. He wished to fall to his bed and sleep. Perhaps he was tired of all the stress he had to cope with today, from shouting at Alice, through hunting the fingerprints documentation to not letting himself get caught. He hated how he had to lie to Dartus, but he had to do it. Dartus was so far the only one that Lantar had option to hang out with. Maybe one day he will tell Dartus the truth about him and how he killed the human.