Author's Note: Hey guys, I'm sorry for the wait. I've been really busy with school work and trying to stay ahead of everything. Here is the third chapter, finally, after forever. I hope you guys like it. Please review. I apologize for any errors. I typed this up at nighttime, so I'm really tired. Anyways, enjoy the read.

The bed in this room was one of the most comfortable things I have ever slept on. Granted, Cerberus didn't exactly treat me to things like a bed as nice as this. It was like laying on fluffy clouds. Or at least, how I imagine laying on clouds would feel like anyway. Even though it didn't really do much for the lovely hangover I had, never drink again Elle. Never.

I rolled over, facing the bedroom door, remembering everything that had happened the night before. Oh god. I'm such a dumbass. My face began to heat up just remembering that cheesy comment I made to Aria. Can't I ever catch a break?

"Goddess, I made an ass of myself." I frowned as I got out of bed and went into the bathroom.

"I guess I should take a shower," I say as I turned on the warm water, "but I don't have any clothes…"

The sound of the bedroom door opening caught my attention, so I peeked from behind the corner and saw one of Aria's asari servants. She walked into my bedroom like she had done this sort of thing a thousand times. She almost looked bored.

"Aria told me to give these to you. She says that she'll give you credits to go shopping for other clothes when you're done in here." She states, handing me the clothes, then adds, "You should be thankful, Aria doesn't just do this for everyone. In fact, she doesn't do this at all."

I nodded my head. "Thank you Miss." I say to the young asari as she leaves my room.

The next time I saw Aria, she looked more than a little irritated, but was still speaking to me like she wasn't. How odd. She gave me directions to a small market center on Omega. I would be lying if I said that I wasn't even a little bit nervous to be out there by myself. Omega wasn't exactly an ideal place for someone who barely had any fighting skills or any kind of survival skills in general. It seems that I'm just going to have to wing it if trouble comes looking for me.

I noticed that the public areas on Omega were full of sketchy people. Which made me even more nervous than before. Especially since I've heard all sorts of stories from riding on Aria's ship with her crew members about how bad batarian's were about slave trade. This definitely wasn't my cup of tea. Anxiety almost consumed me as I headed towards the market, trying to keep to myself. But then I noticed a batarian was watching my every move. Or maybe it was just paranoia. Nevertheless, my heart was still trying to beat its way out of my chest. Why does this always happen to me?

Finally, the market salesperson was directly in front of me. I looked through all the clothes they carried, finding quite a few things that I liked. After several hours of browsing every market area on Omega that carried clothes, I purchased the items I had and headed back to Afterlife. It was beginning to get really dark and I was actually kind of worried if Aria would approve of how long I stayed out. Did she give me a curfew? Did Omega even have a curfew?

Omega had a real ominous feeling to it, like it was the setting of a scary movie. The silence was almost too much. The air was still and very few people were around the area that I was at. There was a drug deal taking place in an alley to my right. A human and a turian seemed to be bickering about the price range of what drug they were selling. As my attention was on them, footsteps could be heard coming up behind me. A stranger arm covered my mouth before I could scream and pulled me closer to them as the other arm was being used to hold a knife up against my throat.

"I've been watching you gorgeous." The stranger said. My heart stopped. It was that batarian that was creeping on me earlier. I knew I should have kept my guard up.

"Now, I'm going to take my hand off your mouth… so you better not scream. Otherwise, I'll slice your throat open." He said, nipping my ear with his disgusting teeth.

He uncovered my mouth. All I wanted to do was scream for Aria and cry, and be held by her as she whispered sweet reassurances into my ears.

"What do you want with me?" I asked, my voice shaking as tears filled my eyes. I already had a pretty good idea about what his intentions were. I could feel it against my tailbone.

"I want to have a good time." He stated spinning me around and ripping the shirt, Aria gave me, off. I screamed for help this time. As loud as I could, quickly regretting it as the batarian punched me in the stomach.

"I told you not to scream didn't I you little bitch." He growled, putting the knife back up to my neck and drug the blade down an inch, drawing blood.

"And I told you not to Fuck with Aria, didn't I?"

The batarian froze, fear in his eyes. He turned sharply, staring into the blue eyes of a pissed off asari.

"A-aria… I wasn't… I mean…" He stumbled over his words. Aria raised her tattooed brow.

"Soo, you're going to fuck with me, then try to lie to my face about it?" She chuckles darkly. "How pathetic. In case you haven't realized this, she is with me. So basically, you fucking with what is mine means that you are fucking with ME." She finishes, looking the batarian right in the eyes.

"O-of course Aria. I'm sorry. It won't happen again." He states quickly. Aria smirks.

"You're damn right it won't." She states simply before bringing a gun up to the batarians head and shot him.

I was in shock. My mind couldn't process that she had actually came for me. Aria came to save me!

"Hey you okay?" She asks softly, stepping closer to me to hand me her jacket. Everything suddenly came crashing down as my shock finally wore off. I began to cry.

"Hey… come here." She says pulling me into her arms. "It's okay now, Elle. You're safe."

"Y-you came for me." I sobbed into her shoulder.

"Of course I did, Elle… I…" She trailed off. "Here, let's get you back you to your room. You're probably exhausted."

Aria led me back to Afterlife with one arm around me and the other occupied by my new clothes. After all that happened today, I still couldn't help feeling happy and having a smile on my face because of how perfect Aria was to me.