The next day there was nothing to do, the crew felt down and it would be three days until arriving at the citadel. Most of us spent the day thinking about what happened, though some of us rather drowned it in drinking. The commander had decided to stay with me, we sat together under a soft blanket reading a book to keep our minds distracted. We didn't talk, it was too soon. We just read and leaned against eachother, I enjoyed not thinking too much, it was oddly relaxing. We spent almost the entire day like that, only getting out when we needed food. Occasionaly the commander would stop reading and pull me in for an embrace, I could tell that losing Kaiden was hard on her. We got through the day like that and fell asleep early at night.
The next day the commander looked better, she went around the ship to check up on everyone and make sure they had everything they needed. She worked on some things in my room and talked to me a few times. By the time we arrived at the Citadel everyone was feeling better and we all spent some time offshore, we visited friends or just hung around. The commander talked to the council and captain Anderson and came with the news that the Normandy was grounded. Everyone immediately protested ofcourse, but the council didn't change their mind, the galaxy was in danger that was coming closer everyday and the council forbid us to save it. So much for bringing protection to their people. I had damned the council many times, but this was just ridiculous. We all stayed in the citadel for a few days and the commander and I stayed in the same appartment.
"I feel stressed, Garrus. The council, Saren, Sovereign, the Geth, it's all stressing me out." Deya said, we were in our appartment with a beautiful view on the peridium at night. "Do you want to punch something? Because that's what I do when I feel stressed." I said, she looked into my eyes and with a seductive voice said "I know of something else that could relieve my stress." My mandibles flared and I hoped she meant what I thought she meant. "Now do you?" I said in a low voice, she then did that odd thing with her eyebrows and answered in the same seductive voice "Yes, though I will need your cooperation. Would you be so kind to remove my clothes?" I almost rushed over to her, but managed to keep a moderate pace "I would love to be so kind." I said, smiling.
When I stood close to her I let my hand go through her dark brown hair, admiring it. I stroked her cheek with my hand and looked into her dark brown eyes. When we were together like this there was no haste, I wanted to memorize every part of her body, every little spot and scar. She sighed and traced her finger over my mandible, they twitched under her touch and she smiled. With my thumb I followed her eyebrow, it was still an odd thing all of her hair, but it was mostly soft to the touch and it certainly looked good on her. Her lips then traced over my neck and I sighed in return. I took hold of the hem of her shirt and pulled it over her head, she was wearing one of those undergarments she referred to as a 'bra', I waited for her to remove it, for I wasn't exactly good at doing so. She removed her bra and I let my hands run over her soft breasts, those were also odd, but very attractive at the same time. She then rid me of my shirt and pressed herself against me, reaching up to kiss my forehead. She was not particularly small, just a tiny bit smaller than me. The feeling of her soft and squishy chest against my plates sent signals right to my nether regions. I pulled her against me and ran my hand, with now blunted talons, down her back. Little bumps appeared on her skin when I traced it, she was still so alien to me.
She then broke our embrace to get something, I let her go and followed her with my eyes, curious. "I spoke with doctor Chakwas, she did not have many suggestions and tips on our relationship, but she did tell me that chafing is a thing." I didn't fully understand what she meant by that and asked "What do you mean?" She then returned with a bottle containing some kind of oily substance. "Chafing means my wkin will get irritated, painful and red. It's because of your plates, they're not exactly soft so we need some oil to prevent chafing." I nodded and she approached with the bottle. She stepped out of her pants easily and I followed her lead, we went to our shared bed and she sat down "Can you apply this onto my skin?" She asked. I was very curious and agreed by nodding and taking the bottle, and she lowered her back onto the bed. I poured some of the content into my hand, some of it immediately running down my arm. I made sure both my hands were covered, while Deya removed her underwear, and began applying it onto her thighs. I massaged her thighs and she responded with a barely audible moan. When I was done with the front of her thighs she turned over, there was another bodypart completely different from turian anatomy. Two round orbs she would occasionally refer to as her 'ass' it was something, by my understanding, that humans found appealing. I massaged the back of her thighs and also her ass, it was soft, like her breasts, but also different. Because of Shepard I might not be able to fall in love with a turian ever again, her body was so soft and full of muscles, while a turian body was so hard and not supple at all. She then turned around again and smiled "So, are you more into my ass or my breasts?" She asked with a smug smile, I answered "I don't understand why you would make someone choose between those two." There was definetly no favourite for me, they were both great.
She then sat me down, with my back against the headboard and legs on the bed. She straddled me, giving me a full view of everything she had, succesfully stimulating my body even further. She kissed my forehead and lovingly cupped my face "I love you." She said with a soft smile on her face. I embraced her and whispered "I love you too." When I let go she waw still smiling and her hand reached downwards. She traced the lining of my lower plates and I growled in my throat. She then sat directlt above my member and teased it, letting it touch but never lowering herself onto me. I growled and pushed her over, I looked into her lust-filled eyes and entered her, causing us to moan in unison. She seemed to adjust rather quickly and let me know by rocking her hips against me causing me to gasp in surprise. I then grinned and began driving into her, she was tight, her walls moved around me in a way I would have never imagined. The sounds of the busy city drowned out and I could only hear her delicious moans filling the room. I kept the same pace, sometimes stimulating her by running a finger over her clit or licking her nipple. She then switched our positions so I was the one on bottom and she ground her hips against me, "Fuck, Garrus, I-I love-" she tried to say as she rocked against me she moaned loudly and tried again "F-fucking love you." I grinned and my hips bucked. She gasped, I seemed to have hit something that stimulated her even more. Confident, I began bucking my hips upward when she went downward, colliding our hips. I let out a loud moan and said "H-how are you so-" I gasped "S-so good at this? Damn!" I took hold of her hips and guided them against mine. "Because I'm with y-you, ofcourse!" She spoke breathlessly, we were both breathing heavily and I angled her hips. My member was now perfectly alligned with her spot and I kept a faster pace of bucking up and pushing her down. She bounced on top of me, no words coming out of her mouth, only moans. Her breasts bounced with her and that image of her, riding me was the most erotic image I would ever see.
I felt my climax approaching and fliped us both over one last time, and I pounded her as quick and hard as I could. I was probably waking the whole appartment building with my moans, but I didn't care, all that mattered was pleasuring us both. Suddenly she gasped loudly "G-garrus, are those-" she then let out another gasp "Are those fucking s-spikes!?" She moaned loudly this time and some saliva was now trailing down her chin. I grunted, feeling her walls tighten against me every time I pulled back "Y-yeah, they- Fuck! They are." She raked her nails over my back and almost yelled "F-feels fucking great!" I grinned. I was going to reach my climax very soon and said "I- I'm almost there. Y-you?" She pressed her nails into my back and said with an out of breath voice "Y-yes." I then felt her walls clench down on me and I couldn't hold it anymore. I came together with her, her walls were still contracting around me as I came.
I then rolled onto my back next to her and held her hand as we fell asleep together. I awoke the next morning, fully awake after a good night's rest. I felt very proud of myself from my prestations yesterday, I grinned and pulled the commander a little closer. I felt her awaken and let her turn to face me "Good morning Garrus." She said with a hoarse voice, she smiled "Good morning Deya." I said, going through her hair with my hand. "You wanna shower?" She asked before siting up in the bed. The covers fell to her side and revealed her beatiful body, I smiled and nodded. I followed her to the shower and we both sat underneath the shower, talking to eachother. "Yesterday was great, but was I more flexible?" She asked raising an eyebrow I chuckled and said "Oh, you are flexible in ways a turian could just never be." She smiled triumphantly and said "Well, I certainly do appreciate your reach, though I don't think we have fojnd the full potential of it yet." I grinned and jokingly said "If you keep giving me compliments I'll get arrogant!" She just laughed and responded with "You already are, no I'm kidding. But how come your genitals just suddenly got spikes yesterday?". If I could blush the way humans did, I would. But instead I explained "Well, if the recieving partner has not climaxed yet and the other partner is close, it will happen as a mechanism to equal the pleasure. Though I'm not sure if it feels as good for humans as it does for turians." She then looked a bit surprised and said with a grin "Well, it felt damn good. Do male turians have more stamina than male humans, or do you just have a lot of stamina?" I felt my heart swell with pride again and laughed. "I wouldn't know how long human males last, though I am fairly sure that I am very average." I said my grin never leaving my face. "Well the one person I have ever been with didn't last that long, but that might've been because we were younger. I hear human females just take way longer to reach their climax than human males. I'm glad you and I are about the same." She said, she placed a wet kiss on my already wet skin and I tried to hold onto the happiness I felt in that moment.
Later that day she came back from talking to Anderson, she explained that Anderson would distract Udina so that they could find the conduit and stop Saren and, more importantly, Sovereign. The crew was quickly assembled and we fled in the Normandy, as soon as we found the planet with the conduit located on it we dropped off. If we had more time I would have looked around more, there were prothean relics EVERYWHERE! But the constant shooting kept me from exploring the prothean culture further. Wave after wave after wave of geth swarmed around us, it seemed like an eternity before we finally made it inside the building that held the conduit. We almost raced through it in the Mako until we seemingly landed in a trap. We got out and found an old VI from the protheans, it informed us of the reapers, the protheans and how the citadel was designed as a giant trap. Shocked we also learned that the conduit would teleport us to the citadel. We hastily went on and bashed through even more waves of geth. Then we launched the mako right into the conduit, I had never thought I would ever experience anything like it, it felt as if we were not only travelling through space, but also through time. But before I could even wonder more about that, the mako came to a harsh crash inside the citadel.
Shepard, Wrex and I got out of the vehicle and started making our way to the council room. The citadel then closed itself and Sovereign managed to disable the weapons of the citadel and a few ships. Then Sovereign took place in the middle of the citadel, on the council tower. Because the citadel had folded itself shut we were walking up the side of the building, it felt as if we were only three against an army of geth. When we finally made it to the top Shepard confronted Saren. Saren tried to explain that if we surrendered to the reapers there would be a chance we survived. Shepard then brought in that we would let the reapers win, that we should stand up and fight! Somehow Saren saw what had happened to him, he had become a puppet to the reapers. Saren remembered what the commander had said in Virmire and pulled the trigger on himself. He fell though the glass beneath him and we all thought it was finally over. Shepard walked up to the control terminal and uploaded some of the data the prothean VI had given us. As soon as we got control, a mayday message came through from the Destiny Ascension, the ship holding the council. Shepard then heard from Joker that he was waiting for us to open the relays to the citadel. "Shepard, the council has done nothing but work against us in all this time, we need to focus on destroying Sovereign." I said, surprisingly Wrex cut in "This situation is larger than humanity, Sovereign is a threat to the whole galaxy!" I then quickly responded with "Yes, and because of that, we should not waste resources on the Ascension, we need all of the alliance to bring Sovereign down!" Separd signalled the Alliance to focus on Sovereign.
"Let's check if Saren's actually dead." The commander said and we jumped down, I watched Wrex shoot Saren's body through the head once more. I radioed Joker "Saren is dead." When suddenly the building shakes and something happens to saren's body, there was an explosion. I was sent flying and hit the wall so hard the air was knocked out of me. The commander had also landed on the ground, she was still conscious. I was about to ask what just happened when I heard the horrifying sound of ripping flesh behind me. I looked back to see Saren's dead body stretch out, an exoskeleton formed a different body from Saren's old one, ripping flesh in the process. It must have been the most haunting thing I had ever seen in my life. It looked up at us and screeched.
The thing moved swiftly, but was also very sturdy. It constantly hopped around, making it impossible to hit precisely. The commander stunned it a few times and we fired all the bullets we had. We fought with the thing for what seemed like ages. Then it finally fell down, broken and then turnedto dust. Then there is the sound of shield failing and thousands of guns firing, then a loud explosiin followed by another. The next thing we know is seeing a piece of Sovereign heading straight for us. The commander yells "RUN!" And the last thing I hear is the sound of breaking glass.
I then woke up, it was dark, I could see nothing. I heard some voices fromfar away, my body felt like it had been broken into a million pieces. A light began to shine and I saw human figures coming my way, I groaned and tried to sit up. I hissed in pain and saw Wrex getting up next to me. I then see the familiar face of captain Anderson appear and he asks something, after some processing I realized he was asking for Shepard. Feeling fear grip my heart tightly I just shook my head, unable to talk. I could feel tears coming up and suddenly the pain in my body faded to the background. A team of alliance members raised me to my feet and I just stand there. I walk with them towards the exit from the tower when a loud noise behind me catches my attention. I rapidly turn around and I see a figure stepping down from the stage, I feel the fear wash away and when Shepard comes limping towards us I can't help but run towards her. I embrace her tightly, ignoring the pain my entire body and felt relieved. Shepard chuckled and embraced me back, she then said "I'm not leaving yet, don't worry." I let go of her and press my forehead against hers, before taking her hand and walking out of the building with her and the rest of the team.
The weeks went by very quickly after that, the news of a new threat to the galaxy was spreading, and especially the news of the council dieing. Even though Saren and Sovereign had been destroyed, there were still tons of geth out there. Ofcourse we had to be the ones to destroy those too, because it was clearly not enough to destroy a reaper. We were flying close to a planet where in the past month three shops had disappeared already. I just sat at the dinner table, reading a book since there wasn't much to do. I then decided to see what was happening upstairs and went up. Pressly said something about it being stupid for us to be sent out fighting geth and the commander agreed. Then one of the crew members said "there is a ship showing up on the radar, it's right behind us." I frowned and then she continued "It is giving chase!" The commander frowned at this too. Joker said "That's impossible. The stealth system is activated!" Then Pressly said with a worried tone in his voice "No geth ship can move that quickly." The commander now looked like she was about to panic. Then Joker said, with a dark tone in his voice "Those are not geth." Then the whole ship shook and something exploded.
I began to slightly panic and the commander yelled "Joker, get us out of here !" Then another explosion and the commander yelled "TO THE ESCAPE PODS!" I turned and began sprinting for the pods when another explosion ripped through the ship and a beam entered fromthe ceiling. I cursed and followed Shepard downstairs to the pods. She put on her helmet and I yelled "Will the Alliance make it in time?" She turned around and said "We shouldn't hope for it. Get everyone into the pods!" She then grabbed a fire extinguisher and began putting out the fire, I stood there for a second and another explosion hit. "I'm staying here with you commander. Joker needs to get out of here as well." I said and as another explosion sounded through the ship, I was afraid it would tear in half. There was fire almost everywhere and she yelled "Get out of here damnit! I will haul Joker out of here myself!" I felt like leaving her now would be the bad choice but she yelled "That was an order!" And I moved out, getting the others into the pods before punching the button to send us away. I felt scared, not for myself, but for Shepard. The normandy was literally about to fall apart. We lahnched into space and I knew there was no way of turningback now, I had to trust her.
Shepard p.o.v.
I sprinted up the stairs, panicking, I need to get to Joker. Crossing the part where the galaxy map was, I could see the planet we were so close to from a beautiful angle. But then I made my way over to Joker and hauled him out of his seat, not listening to his protests. Another loud explosion and the Normandy was ripped in half. I quickly shoved Joker into the escape pod. An even louder explosion sounded, pushing me away from the pod with the heat of our sun. I grabbed onto a ledge and punched the button as hard as I could I heard joker scream "COMMANDER!" And then he shot off, the last escape pod. I was still in space for a moment before a series of explosions shot me around like a pinball. I opened my eyes and felt myself helplessly drift through space, getting dangerously close to the nearby planet. I panicked trying to move away from it. I screamed in frustration inside my suit and then heard a loud hissing sound. Fuck, no no no no! My oxygen tank has a leak. I tried to reach it, moving my arms towards my back. I flailed, feeling the oxygen deprivation weaken me. I began to see stars and my body felt heavy, I thought, what a beautiful last sight this planet is. As a tear slipped from my eye, my vision went dark. Feeling nothing, seeing nothing, hearing nothing, being left in complete and utter darkness.
Garrus p.o.v.
We are sitting in one of the pods right now and I am thinking back to what happened before all of this, how I spent my time with the commander. I look around me. I am in the pod with Tali, Liara and some of the maintenance crew. "What do you think happened to Shepard? She was not in one of the pods that left the station." Tali said with a slightly worried tone in her voice. "The commander has survived many things, she will make it out of this. Besides, I saw another pod shoot into space after we had been launched." Liara answers trying to keep her matter-of-fact tone, but I can see she is worried. I keep silent, I don't want to think about the odds. Instead I think back to our time together. I never expected to fall for her. I have never been particularly into humans, though I might be now because of her, but she is something different. I don't see her as 'a human' I see her as my friend, my commander and above all as my love. Losing her would be painful... but I don't need to think about that right now, there are enough problems in the galaxy.
"Look! It's the Alliance!" I hear one of the crewmembers yell. I look out of the small window in the pod and see a big Alliance ship approaching. The whole pod moves just a few minutes later. The door opens and we are all stepping out of the pod, the general of the ship confirms our identities and sends us to a room. The room we are sent to is some sort of meeting room, one by one we are called over. They examine us for wounds and they ask us questions about what happened. When it's my turn I sit down in a side room and wait for the questions. "Your name is Garrus Vakarian, right?" The general asks in a strict manner. I nod. "Please describe the last minutes in the Normandy before you had to evacuate." The general orders. I begin to speak after sitting silently for two hours "We were investigating a strange disappearance of at least three ships in the past month. There was another ship behind us, a ship that matched no logos or any ship ID. Out of nowhere it began following us, our stealth-systems still engaged-" The general cuts in "That is impossible, the Normandy was the most advanced ship in the galaxy!" I frown and continue "Then it began attacking, a beam shooting from the core of the ship. As soon as we were hit the mass effect drive cores would not activate-" the general cut in again "The pilot should have overrided the system, sent all of the power to the drive core." I irritatedly responded "The escape pods would not have been able to launch and there is no way to make sure that overriding will actually work, we would have all been dead. Then the commander ordered us all to evacuate and I followed her downstairs. She put out fire in the main processor and ordered me to leave as well. I argued and said that our pilot still needed evacuating and she responded with yelling at me to go and running up to Joker herself. I then left in the pod." I finished my story, the general then said "I think you were attacked by the geth, their ships don't match any ID either." I frowned even deeper and said " It was not a geth ship. The build of the ship was almost... organic. There is no way that the geth cokld have evolved their ships that far. " the general then said "Last time I checked you were not a ship expert. I know more about ship structure and the way it has been described I conclude that it were geth." I snarled and said with an aggressive tone "Well fine, believe that, you are no better than the council. You make the same mistake too many times. The commander warns everyone for Saren; no one believes her but it turns out to be true. We warn everyone about Sovereign; no one believes us but it turns out to be true. Make this mistake as many times as you would like, but don't come running to us to stop another galaxy-threatening attack."
I stand up and walk out of the room, leaving a wordless general to his thoughts. I enter the bigger room again and sit on one of the chairs around a big table. Most of the crew is there, Tali, Liara, Williams, doctor Chakwas and most of the shipbound crew as well. But no Joker or Shepard, I feel my heart clench painfully and try not to think of what might have happened. Some of the ship's Alliance members are walking around the room, one of them holds a datapad and is typing something. I almost got up, but then Joker came through the door. He was on his crutches and looked very bad. He had some cuts on his face and he looked very tired. Still no commander, she could still be talking to the authorities, she IS one of the most important crewmembers. I walk over to where Jokersits and I feel my heart beating in my throat as I ask him "Where is the commander?" The room falls silent and everyone turns to us. Everyone is waiting for an answer from Joker. The longer it stays silent, the more I begin to panic. Then the general walks in and orders everyone to sit down. I do as he says and sit down, still nervous and scared. But I hold onto the hope that the general will bring better news.
"We are not yet certain how many lifes were lost in the destruction of the Normandy." He pauses and looks around, uneasy. "We have gathered all survivors in this room." My heart sinks and it feels like someone just punched me right in my stomach. I hear Tali ask with a shaky voice "W-what about the commander?" I look up at the general, still foolishly hoping he will say what I want him to say and for the commander to jump through the door opening and yell 'Just kidding'. But the general looks grim and says "Commander Deya Shepard is officially deceased." He then swiftly leaves the room and I stand up. Before I know it I punch one of the walls of the ship as hard as I could, but the pain in my hand isn't even close to distract me from the pain in my heart. I feel furious, at the crew, at Joker, at the attacking ship, but most at myself. I wasn't with her when she needed me. I could have stayed. I let out a frustrated noise and punch the wall with my other hand. Then my vision becomes blurry, at first it looked as if I am going to pass out, but then I realize they are tears. I sink to the ground and silently cry, the cold tears striking over my heated skin. How could anyone believe in a higherpower when someone like Shepard dies. Who would let someonelike that die? Me. I let her die. I could have stayed with her, I SHOULD have stayed with her. Damn it. Fuck this place. I sit here for almost an hour before being escorted out of the room. I don't register anything, only the feeling of sorrow, guilt, anger, frustration and sadness. I finally let myself fall down on a bed and close my eyes, hoping they will stay this way forever like Shepard's did.