A/N I have realized that every chapter starts with Ashley's point of view, but that just the way the ball bounced. One chapter left.
Ashley
I was in hog heaven right now. I check out my commander, a different distraction takes hold, my fantasies are richer and more arousing, since I know what she looks like naked and I can feel her skin beneath my touch as if it was really there. These were my thoughts as it seemed like we would be plummeting to our doom on Ilos. Joker and Shea came up with this completely insane stunt to land he mako 20 feet from the door. I gripped the sides of my seat on the Mako, clenching my ass and praying fervently for God to keep us safe. I would do so until we landed. My knuckles had turned white by the time we hit the ground, we were safe and I thanked God profusely. This woman was killing me with her crazy ass stunts. "You're going to be the death of me Shea." I tell her. "Only in bed sweetie." She says. Oh my God she just… in the middle of all this.. she said that. I may have opened a can of worms with this one. "I've created a monster." I said quietly so Shea can't hear. "That you did. My dear sweet sister- in -law." Chey says. I pinch the bridge of my nose. "Welcome to the family Ash." She says. I groan, but it still makes me smile.
"Apparently I have missed something important." Liara says. "Only the awakening of Shea Shepard and her inappropriate comments." Chey replies. "So basically she woke up and is now very much like you." Liara counters. "Yep." Chey replies. "So now we have two dirty talking Shepards to contend with. How and when did this happen?" Liara asks, and I knew what was coming, I knew it and still I blushed twenty shades of red. " I'm surprised you didn't hear it." Chey says. Oh god I hope the whole ship didn't hear. "Hear what?" Liara asks innocently. I sigh her we go again. "Ask Ash. She has the inside status." I glare daggers at her as she catches up to Shea. "Hear what Ash?" she asks me. I sigh in resignation. "I hope the ship didn't hear it and it's just Chey being Chey. Shea and I umm.. consummated our relationship last night." I said. "Oh. OH!" she says and I can see a faint blush. "Did you and Tali?" I ask. She blushes deeper. "No, we just cuddled and took a nap together, though I did keep seeing it in my mind. We didn't hear anything." She says.
"According to Tali, your eyes were a bit black when you woke up. She also said she kept seeing some very naughty and arousing visions." Chey said. "Oh Goddess! Did I unintentionally meld with her. I need to apologize to her." Liara said panicking. "CHEY!" I shout at her. "That was not a very nice thing you did there." Shea scolds her. "I'm sorry, it was a distasteful joke. Tali really did have those dreams but your eyes were never black." Chey admits. Liara hits her with a warp which we knew wouldn't hurt her but it would get her point across. I see the very real guilt on Chey's face, she wraps Liara in a tight hug. "I'm sorry Liara. I wasn't thinking. Forgive me?" she asks and she is very sincere even I can tell. "I can, on one condition, you share with me your most embarrassing moment." She says. Chey nods, Liara's eyes go black and she laughs once she comes out of the meld. "You are forgiven." She says and now I'm curious to what she shared.
Chey looks at me, knowing I'm curious. "I showed her that time you caught Liana and me." She shares. "Really you didn't seem that embarrassed, you didn't even go soft." I reply. She smiles abashedly. "Liana put a ring on me, I couldn't go soft." She replies. "I didn't see that, wrong angle." I reply. "Alright everyone let's get our minds out of the gutter for now. We have an army of Geth, A madman, and Reaper to stop." Shea says. "Yes ma'am." We reply. I was thankful that sex talk would be on the back burner. I was close to telling Chey about my special times surrounding that event. I could never tell her. I would rather die then even mention how arousing that had been, and how I wished they had kept going that night. I was a bit of a voyeur. I really wish I had recorded it.
Shea
We spoke to Prothean VI named Vigil, and learned the conduit was smaller version of a mass relay that went straight to the Citadel and that the keepers were the ones who were supposed to set the signal off for the Reapers to come and open up the relay out of dark space. The Prothean scientists managed to alter that code, but Saren was planning on opening the relay for them. "Not on my watch he won't" I declared to myself. "So now we are going to drive the mako through a relay, and hope we don't get blown to smithereens in the process." Chey pointed out. "Lovely." Ash said sarcastically. The run to the relay was desperate and I had to plow through the Geth in the way. I managed to dodge the Colossus's attacks and hit the relay with 10 seconds to spare. We almost didn't make it out of the burning mako before it exploded. When we got far enough away to escape the blast we were immediately under siege by husks and a few geth.
It was not a fun sight when Sovereign touched down on the Citadel tower, it was equally nerve-wracking to have to walk the exterior of the tower and face off against all sorts of Krogans and Geth. The icing on the cake was the Geth dropship and turrets we had to blast through, but we made it to the inside of the tower. I thought Chey would be disappointed that she didn't get to kill Saren, but she wasn't she actually felt bad for him in a way. He had no choice just as Benezia had no choice, and the people at Zhu's hope. I tried to get him to fight with us, but he shot himself knowing it was too late for him. "Make sure he's dead." I order my squad. I watch them jump down and all three of them add a bullet to his body. I was standing at the Citadel control panel when Joker hailed us. "The destiny ascension is asking for assistance. The council is on board. Should we deter and help or focus on Sovereign?" he asks. "God help me go and save their asses." I order and I pray I do not regret this decision. The tower is hit by an Alliance ship which causes me to end up on the bottom with the others and Saren's body. It glows red and starts to convulse. "Oh Fuck! Get to cover now!" I order as rocket nearly misses us.
"You know it would be really great if that which was dead would stay fucking dead!" Chey says. I couldn't help but agree. We had a few close calls, but we managed to take him down and we watched as Saren's Reaper controlled corpse convulses and burns to ash. "And stay fucking dead!" Chey says. It still amazed me that my sister who essentially faced a thresher maw alone and on foot and everything else we've come across but reanimated corpses freak her out the most. She has had this fear of zombie like things since she watched that old vid "Night of the Living Dead" when she was 6. We watched as Sovereign was shot down, the massive ship leaning and falling pieces of it everywhere. I watched as piece came flying towards us. "You have got to be kidding me! Everyone down!" I ordered. I barely managed to miss that piece this time. I was pinned down but by not by the pillar that collapsed but by Chey who had covered me her shields and tech armor taking the brunt of the weight. "Chey. Chey! Are you alright?" I ask concerned her eyes are closed, and it freaks me out until I feel her shift and see her eyes open. "You ok?" I ask again. "Peachy." She replies we use both of our strength to free us from the column.
I hear some voices and debris shuffling. I support Chey as she walks unsteadily we climb over the mountain of debris and I smile in relief Ash and Liara are safe. Hurt a bit, but alive. As soon as a soldier grabs Chey, I run to Ash and pull her to me and kiss her. She grins and kisses me back. "Hey Skipper, had me worried there for a minute." She said. "I'm sorry. I'll make it up to you later with wine and poetry." I said. "Be still my heart, you're such a Casanova." She says. "I'm your Casanova though." I said. She smiles. "Don't go forgetting that either." She says possessively. I shiver pleasantly.