Shepard dreams.
She dreams of EDI and Jeff destroying Reapers.
Her family travelling to uncharted worlds ; her kids setting foot on an unknown planet while holding her hand.
What they could do with their new, trans-human, awesome superhero selves.
Making love to Liara.
Flying naked in the sky.
The Normandy.
Shepard and Tali are walking inside the SR-3, trying to figure out how this damn ship really works.
Tali
(looking at her omni-tool scanner) "I think she kept the shape just to make you feel at home.
Those wings are really gun pods packed with rapid-fire omnidirectional guns."
Shepard
"Where are the engines, then ?"
Tali
"Nowhere. Are there actually any engines ?"
Shepard
"I guess this is the part where she tells you engines are obsolete."
Shepard turns around in her bed. She twitches, almost wakes up, then drifts, as her dream takes a new direction.
She is running. She has been running for a while, as she does every morning. Her body feels great, hot and cool, as the air flowing around her evaporates her sweat. She feels her heart beating and her blood flowing. She adjusts her speed into the sweet spot where she could go on for hours. Her feet find their way around by themselves. Her mind drifts. She feels great.
She turns her head and then, she sees. Harbinger is there. Ready to end all that she holds dear, her family, everyone.
Her dream turns into a nightmare. Her sleeping body spasms, closed eyes let out a tear. She reaches for her gun, but she does not carry while jogging. EDI's monstrously powerful handgun is still locked in that drawer.
Harbinger vaporizes her, then her home, her love, her kids, then everyone else.
Shepard wakes up in a gasp, her body drenched in cold sweat. She looks everywhere, in panic, and understands she is in her bedroom.
That dream. Again.
Shepard slowly returns to reality.
In the very dim light, she sees Liara right in front of her, sleeping peacefully. Her sight warms Shepard's heart and slowly washes the nightmare away.
Shepard allows herself some time to return to her life. She notices Liara is sucking at her own index finger, as she often does in her sleep. So adorable. She moves closer to Liara, then slowly pulls the finger out of her mouth, and substitutes her own, without waking her up. She feels her lover's lips clenching around it, then once in a while, unconsciously, making a little suck. A little moan. A little twitch.
Shepard lets the feeling of pure love overwhelm her, and just lets go of everything, her eyes open, watching at nothing in particular.
After a while, Liara wakes up.
Her hands find Shepard, feel her body in the dark, and feel their way up to her hand. She realizes she had been sleeping, sucking her finger. As Shepard motions to remove it, Liara prevents this with her own hand. She wants a little more.
They don't move. Liara quietly enjoys waking up like this. She savours the feeling for a while.
They have a meld-conversation. It is so practical to be able to talk with a full mouth.
Liara
"EDI figured us out, you know. She is so..."
Shepard
"Yeah. She was so eager to know how it felt like being us..."
Liara
"Our brains should be fully done by now. I feel it. If anything, I love you more than ever."
Shepard
"Me too. I hope all of this is true, and not just a dream."
Liara
"This new existence she gave us..."
Shepard
"No turning back. I hope she feels the same as us.
Hell, I hope she feels even better."
Liara
"We need to tell everyone about this..."
Shepard
"Definitely. We'll start slow.
Then, the tips of Liara's tentacles move, and caress Shepard's forehead."
Shepard
(surprised) "Are you supposed to be able to do that ?"
Liara
"It took a while, but it really works as EDI said.
I removed most of the cartilage and replaced it with muscle. I could add little suckers, if you wanted."
Shepard
(laughing) "You're so... adorable."
One of Shepard's impossible dreams comes true : really spooning Liara without getting her eyes stabbed.
It feels wonderful. She holds her very close and squeezes her body in her arms. Tentacles open like a flower, then close around Shepard's face, squeezing and caressing her. She doesn't even notice the weirdness.
Then she kisses Liara in that previously unreachable spot in the back of her head. It is the last part of her body where Shepard's mouth has never been, and the first time an asari has ever been kissed there.
Liara giggles as they make history. She is still slowly sucking at Shepard's finger. The whole situation feels fabulous.
Shepard increases the tactile sensitivity of her fingertip. She feels each tiny taste bud rubbing against her fingerprints' ridges. She focuses her mind on itself, and temporarily reroutes a few nerve circuits.
Then Liara notices Shepard is moaning a bit too much. Suspiciously so.
Liara
(mocking) "She gave us that power... and you use it to turn your finger into a clit."
Shepard
(writhing) "Can't help it ! Don't stop..."
Still laughing, she gets serious on that finger. She works on it. She does things to it.
Shepard
(already on edge) "Don't stop... I'm gonna..."
She definitely does.
While Shepard floats on post-orgasmic bliss, it seems Liara is fully focused on something. One of her tentacles keeps twitching. Doctor T'Soni is not going to be out-done here. She seems satisfied, grabs that tentacle and rubs the tip between her fingertips, which makes her emit an unvoluntary squeak.
She turns towards Shepard, and...
Liara
"Well, it seems we really have no shame, after all."
She shoves the tip of that tentacle in Shepard's mouth.
Liara
"Suck on this, Shepard.
I love you."