Mass Effect Shepard Rises.
Shepard stood leaning on the railing looking at the galaxy map sleep had evaded him after his chat with Tali, he looked at the position of the Normandy on the map they were still a few hours out from the citadel, he steps down from the map and walks into the com room and activates the terminal there "all ground team please report to the com room for debriefing." he switches of the com and sits down heavily on one of the chairs.
The ground team walked in after a few minutes and sat down forming a circle he stands up and offers his chair to Tali as he leans on the com room projectors rubbing his hand over his face he goes to open his mouth but Liara bet him to it "commander are you okay," he sighs heavily "not really Liara my heads been scrambled a lot." he shakes his head and stands strong "but I will get over it," he says trying to hide his weakness, "maybe I can help I am an expert on Prothean's" before he can speak Ashley speaks,
"hold on commander is this a good idea after what happened last time?" he shrugs "it's worth a shot, Liara go ahead." he watches as she walks slowly toward him swaying her hips when she is within arms reach she places her hands on his arms and slowly slides them up, he turns to Tali and watches as she visibly stiffens and her eyes narrow "relax commander." Liara snaps his attention back to her as she bows her head "embrace eternity."
The images from the beacon flash in her mind she can feel the pain and horror as the images get more intense so do the feelings more and more the images get more bloody her legs buckle and she pulls back breaking the connection, she watches as Shepard shakes his head "did you find anything?" her breathe catches in her throat "that was intense….how do you….you must be strong willed indeed"
"this isn't helping anyone Liara what did you see" Ashley's voice snapped me out my thoughts "yeah what you see?" I watch as a bead of sweat rolls down her head as she shudders "it a message but it came to late, the beacon on Eden Prime must have been damaged there's pieces missing."
He sighs and cracks his neck "you mean there are more beacons out there we need to find." he watches as Liara nods "yes Saren will be looking for them as well, so we follow his footsteps." he nods and watches as Liara sways abit and clutch her head "are you okay?" he asked "I'm fine its just the joining was exhausting you are remarkably strong willed I had to fight to get into your thoughts." he turns to Garrus and kaidan "take her to see Chakwas" they both nods and walk out with Liara "rest of you except Tali dismissed." as the rest of the team pile out he notices Ashley shoot Tali a glare have to have words later he thinks to himself.
Once alone with Tali he looks into her eyes and watches as she shuffles and her hands do there dance "Tali we haven't had much time to talk since Feros" he watches her nod "I k-know I've been m-meaning to erm apologise" he tilts his head confused "why Tali you did nothing wrong" he watches her shuffle her feet nervously "y-yes I erm d-did I called you erm…." he walks over to her and grabs her hands "its okay relax." he says squeezing her hands "I called Nihya?" he nods "what does that mean?" he asks slowly rubbing his thumb over her three fingers.
Ok be confidant girl and tell him Tali thinks to herself she takes a deep breathe "it a Quarian term we use to call our erm p-partners" she watches him scared he will snap at her disgusted with the idea, but he doesn't all she feels is him squeeze her hand harder "wait a minute Tali are you suggesting something?" she shakes at the intensity of his blue eyes her voice takes on a sultry tone "what could I possibly be suggesting" she says as she try to turn away from him "I mean a young woman gets rescued by a dashing commander who lets her join his crew and treats her as an equal," a silent tear falls down her face scared he will see her different but she pushes through "how can she possibly develop any kinds of feelings for him." she watches him closely her body shaking with fear.
As he listens to Tali his mind struggles to believe he wants to pinch himself to believe this is real, he looks at her and realises she waiting for an answer he slowly smiles and his hands travel up her arm and around her back and he pulls her in close "how indeed." he says as he rubs her back "Tali I don't blame you if your scared I am to but believe me when I say I want this, I want you."
Tali's whole world crashes to a halt at them three words he wants me, he wants me, ME she thinks, her hands seem to move by themselves as they travel up his toned arms as they wrap around his neck "I want you to, I will do some research and try to find away to make this work." she feels him squeeze her tighter "if I can help tell me." she nods and raises up on her toes and places her helmet on his forehead looking deep into his eyes "this is how we kiss when in our suits" she says her tone full of sexiness she didn't know she had, she feels him chuckle "well then I better get use to having a lot of them" she can only nod as she looks into his eyes.
Liara was lying on the med-bay bed thinking about Shepard he might not have known the importance of her melding with him but she did, she knew she had feelings for him he was handsome, strong but it was his eyes when she looked at them it was like they seen into her very soul and she knew after the meld that he had feelings for a crew member she didn't know who, it wasn't the Quarian so that left her and Ashley and she wasn't going to lose to Ashley, she'd win Shepard over, when he next came to see her she'd as the humans say test the water she smiles to herself as she closes her eyes to rest.
sorry a short chapter next one will be Virmire so as you can see the romance has started before you ask yes I have used some of mass effect 2 words in this chapter anyway please review.