Leilani leaned against the railing next to the console for the drive core. Her back ached a bit because of the metal bar digging into it but she couldn't bring herself to care. Her omni-tool covered her arm, casting an orange glow around it. The screen was up in the air and she began to scan through passwords. The Cerberus network should have each and every dirty little secret for nearly everyone they came into contact with.

Surely, she could have just asked Shepard for access or Jack to give her the information she wanted, but really she didn't know what she wanted to find exactly, or if it would even have anything it wanted, so she didn't want to look stupid.

And frankly Jack scared her a bit.

She sighed as the passwords continued to list on the screen, obviously Cerberus thought this though, maybe she should just ask Shepard the codes.
'Oh, wait. He's gone off to get that Justicar. Damn.', She thought, feeling a twinge of jealousy that he hadn't brought her along, but rather Garrus and Miranda. Lani had no problem with Garrus, he was a good man, and a damn good soldier. But with Miranda and her perfect genetics , she didn't stand a chance with Shepard.

It was true she had felt a certain something when the Commander was around, but her 'crush' was nonsense. She didn't even know his first name. And what if he was being controlled by the Illusive Man? He was rebuilt by them. Besides, he would never turn to her. Not when he had Jack, Kasumi, Kelly, Miranda, or any other woman on the ship. She's just a girl who lost her family and was now chasing down the people who had done it rather pathetically. She couldn't even find them on her own.

She felt a little guilty taking up Shepard's important time with her silly grudge and for her unreasonable jealousy over something that wasn't hers to have.
Lani nearly fell off the railing when the small beep sounded from her omni-tool.

Access Granted

She gave a little smirk as she started to sift through files, opting to pull up the Normandy crew's folder.
Kelly Chambers
Karin Chakwas
Jeff Moreau

She started to sneer as she scrolled through several names of people she didn't even recognize. But that soon changed when Lani found what she secretly desired.

John Shepard

Gulping she glanced around making sure no engineers were watching her. They were both at their respective consoles, working as usual. She inhaled deeply and selected Shepard's name, causing multiple documents pop up. Reports of his actions on Virmire, saving the Citadel, saving the Council, Rachni Queen, being spaced off the Normandy SR-1, a list of nearly every single man and woman he was in charge of, every current mission he had been on, and so much more.

She had no interests in what he had done, most of it was common knowledge, with the exception of recent events since 90% of the galaxy believed him to be dead. She left the files of missions and such. Looking for the more personal information. She knew that it was an invasion of his privacy and she did feel a little wrong for prying, but really was she supposed to follow this man to death while knowing nothing more than what he had done. She needed to know who this Commander was before he was a Commander.

'John Shepard,Born April 11th, 2154. First human spectre, a colonist, War Hero. Figures. Adept. Alliance registered him as Killed in Action two years ago.'

She continued to sort through his past, learning about him joining the Alliance and his rise to where he is now. She also took time to go through a few others, curiosity getting the best of her. She took a look at Mordin's , Jacob's, Miranda's, and Jack's. She either didn't care or respected the others too much to look through theirs. Not that she didn't respect the ones that she had looked through, she just wondered about them too much to resist.

She held her breath as she moved her fingers deftly over the holographic keyboard that appeared over her lower arm typing in Aviation.

One document popped up, only stating the supposed job they do, testing poisons and other essences from plants. Nothing about the hundreds of people they may have killed or made mentally unstable. She growled in frustration, bringing down her omni-tool all together.

Just as she was about to turn back to the Drive core's console, EDI's voice came from the speakers,"Commander Shepard has requested your presence in the Hangar."

Lani gave a jerky nod, turning on her heel and leaving the core. She got into the elevator and took it one floor down to the Hangar.
The elevator came to a halt and the doors slid open, revealing the Hangar with a few shuttles around the room, Shepard standing next to one of them with Kasumi there as well.

The raven stopped when she was with the group,"You asked for me Shepard?"

He nodded and ducked into the shuttle, Kasumi following suit. Lani raised an eyebrow, but followed the two. Kasumi sat down on the bench and Lani decided to stand next to Shepard, questioning him silently with her eyes.

He seemed to understand,"We're in the Prioxios System. I've had EDI scan the planets in the system. If she's right we should be heading to the planet Kulea, Aviation's new base."

She was suddenly hit with the nerves of a scared little girl, staring into the unforgiving eyes of the Cerberus Scientists. They would ruthlessly shove syringes filled with vibrant colors into her body and study the effects it made. She had watched as people around her, people she had grown up with, died or went insane.

She swallowed the bile that rose up into her throat and squeezed her eyes closed tight.

"Don't worry, Lani. We are going to find these guys and stop them. They can't hurt anyone anymore.", Shepard leaned forward, placing his left hand on her right shoulder.

She took a deep breath, reopening her blue eyes, and nod strongly.

"You're right"