Liara I Knew From the Moment I First Touched You Again Mass Effect 3
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Title: Then and Now Liara/Tiberius Shepard
Characters: Liara and Tiberius Shepard
Universe: Mass Effect
Author: moreeman06
Staring at the data terminal aboard Cronos Station Tiberius Shepard couldn't help just permit those creeping doubts cross into the fore of his mind.
What if none of this was always existent, sure I tin remember everything from before the crash. The fight against Saren, Akuze, and Kaiden; everything, they haunt me every night simply what If I'm…
No it has to be real… I have to be real and what near Liara.
The doubting voice in his caput answered, Liara would take said something, subsequently everything we've been through she would have told me. conveniently
It felt just like yesterday when he had found himself in a corner staring at the empty Marine Commander's station, Liara abreast him, doing her best to comfort him about Kaiden. we had almost shared our first kiss and so.
I notwithstanding don't know why I tried for information technology, but I was going to practice it. Finally taste those lips… stare into those abysmal sapphire optics, glowing with a smoldering kindness and care. I remember seeing her cheeks get flush with color when Joker interrupted us; he had to have been eavesdropping. The light pinkish flowing outward beyond her face mixing with her blue skin to create a multitude of colors and shades, rose pink, aquamarine, the lightest lilac and the deepest purple; it wasn't just cute when she blushed it was beautiful, the way that one simple reaction could cause such a multitude of colors each mixing and rolling over each other nonetheless amazes me. Instead of the long osculation I'd been waiting for I settled for a quick kiss on the cheek and being able to meet that blush for a few moments more earlier heading off to meet Anderson.
He had been furious at Joker merely that fourth dimension, no affair the interruptions, everything turned out for the all-time. Later an escape programme that involved an unconscious Udina Tiberius had given the crew a pep speech to get them psyched up for the final push button.
I didn't even believe what I was saying then I was just hoping that the others would buy into it.
It was a bit of a surprise when he heard a knocking on the door to his cabin and opened it to see Liara standing there concern etched on her face.
I tried to requite her that same spiel "Nosotros'll come back safe and audio," I'd said; she wasn't having whatever of it though.
"Delight… I'one thousand not looking for comfort," she'd replied.
"Saren might already exist at the conduit it is time to be completely honest with each other."
And honest we were, every unmarried part of that come across screamed honesty. That beautiful chroma on her cheeks every bit I slipped her out of her lab glaze; slid my hands around her waist and pulled her tight towards me and the bed. The experience of her hands on my face as she cupped it, the feel of those moist tender lips and her sugariness breath on my face. The press of our bodies as we striking the bed, and the polish feel of her skin every bit my easily moved over her torso. Yeah we had been completely honest, that moment was more than simply sexual activity we had melded together, forming for even the briefest of moments one mind… ane soul. Information technology was dissimilar than the other times where she had just read my heed for information on the Protheans. This time I saw into her to and in those moments I knew everything her fears… her hopes. At last when we had finished we had both fallen asleep she went first her caput falling on peak of my chest breath gently issuing from her mouth, her left arm and leg draped across my body. I lay at that place watching her slumber a gentle perfect vision of beauty. For lack of a less clichéd word an angel. It was in that moment that I'd realized for the commencement fourth dimension always I had found something. No not something, someone to fight for.
A month after Saren was gone, he had committed suicide and a new threat had revealed itself. The Reapers, a race of sentient machines, whose purpose was to clean house every 50,000 years wiping out the Galaxy'due south leading sentient species. We however were stuck on make clean up duty wiping out the final major pockets of Geth resistance instead of trying to discover more about these reapers
We were downward in the shuttle bay ready to brand planet fall, Liara was going to pilot that mission while Garrus and Tali accompanied me to the Geth outpost, when the first explosion rocked the ship. I recollect her shouting my proper name as I ran towards the elevator and the cockpit as I heard the first of Joker'due south emergency transmissions. "We are under attack, unknown enemy ship, distress beacon has been sounded," and just as quickly as that we heard Joker screaming over the intercom "Weapons down, Shields down, come on babe just hold together for a few more than min." As I reached the coiffure deck flames had engulfed every surface and the blast doors on the stairwell to the CIC had closed indicating a hull alienation. I went through a quick cheque on my armor'south atmospheric seals and so turned towards the trouble of releasing the latch on the smash door. "Shepard" I heard behind me followed by panting, Information technology was Liara. She must have run all the style up here, damn information technology I wanted her to stay in the shuttle bay I had locked the lift for a reason.
"Shepard…"
"Why didn't yous stay with the shuttles," worry and acrimony was plastered on my features.
"I…I heard Jeff set off the distress beacon, volition the Brotherhood go here in time." I could run across her face set in a grim decision; she was here to assistance me no thing what I wanted.
"The Brotherhood won't abandon us. Nosotros merely need to hold on. Help get everyone to the escape shuttles."
"What about Joker he won't carelessness the cockpit."
"Only get to the Shuttles," I hoped that she would understand the pleading in my voice the begging in my optics below the helmets visor. Just get out now please I don't want to run into you lot die, I wanted to scream but I knew that would simply make it worse.
"I'm non leaving."
"Look get to the shuttles with everyone else and nail away from hither every bit fast as you can, I heard the latch click as the kinetic barriers engaged and the door began to slide open. "I'll get Joker, only go."
"Shepard I'm not leaving."
"Liara, go now." I looked direct into her eyes and tried to communicate, to will, all of my feelings for her into the space betwixt united states of america, tried to brand her understand; and after the briefest of moments I turned running upwardly the staircase into the CIC. I grabbed Joker and one-half dragged half threw him downward the gaping hole through to the crew deck, a upshot of the last blast the send had taken. I dragged him into the last escape shuttle and was most to enter when the last blast hitting. This ane knocked out the fill-in generators and vacuum began seeping through the gaping holes in the ships infrastructure. I was knocked abroad from the shuttle and the decompression started to drag me towards open infinite. At the concluding second I pushed the emergency release button, it ran on a separate battery and made apply of old school explosives to belch the shuttle with Joker within it towards open space and hopefully condom.
I released my grip on the push and allowed my trunk to be pulled out of the transport's crumbling infrastructure. I wasn't succumbing to expiry, I knew my suit could concord indefinitely and it was merely my air supply that put a timestamp on how long I could survive out there. Then I felt it a sharp impact on the back of my head and I felt a hiss coming from below my head, I saw the escaping air crystallizing on my visor and as I fitfully fought trying to terminate the air from escaping, to stop myself from beingness suffocated and flash frozen I hoped that Liara didn't meet me.
Doctor Chakwas was with Liara in shuttle iii she was staring out of the shuttles just viewport and witnessed a lone figure fighting against decompression. She could hither Joker over the intercom saying that Shepard hadn't made it into the shuttle with him. She heard Liara sobbing across from her and enveloped her in a hug doing her all-time to make sure she didn't run into what was happening beyond that single viewport.
Two years passed by equally Tiberius lay on the planet dead. Eventually he awoke in a secret facility run past the Lazarus Prison cell of Cerberus. Cerberus itself was a terrorist organization comprised of ex-Alliance blackness ops members and later on what he learned about their involvement in the slaughter of his squad on Akuze Tiberius wasn't inclined to trust them. Only they had given him his life dorsum and a cause. They had discovered the ship and species, the collectors, that had caused his decease and he jumped at the chance to get rid of them especially when he learned that they were abducting homo colonists. As he collected a new crew for his planned suicidal assault on the Collector home base he ran into some old faces and many new ones. Garrus and Tali rejoined him along with Chakwas and Joker, he fabricated some new friends in the class of a tank bred Krogan named Grunt and a thief named Kasumi. Through all of this there was something missing, Liara.
They told me that Liara was working for the Shadow Broker, I didn't want to believe it but things had inverse, even though It only felt like I was asleep for a minute 2 years had passed. I plant Garrus as a rogue vigilante on Omega, Tali had go a ascension star in the Quarian Fleet; Wrex had returned habitation to Tuchanka and was hard at work unifying the Krogan, and Liara… Liara was unreachable, working for the Shadow Banker on the planet Ilium, the same Shadow Broker that had helped Saren. I spent every dark missing her and did she even know I was still alive that I was however here thinking about her every waking moment.
"But yous're not alive," the phonation of my doubts would echo into the dark confines of my cabin at night. "Cerberus said they rebuilt you, they may accept said you were you but they've lied before. Recall Akuze, Admiral Kahoku, that incident Tali told you about betwixt them and the Migrant Fleet. Why should you trust Cerberus when they say you lot're really Commander Tiberius Shepard, for all yous know you lot're an AI, they've built them but inquire EDI."
No, I bid the voices to be silent but they wouldn't stop. "If you were really yous Liara would be with y'all past your side similar always."
Somewhen I fabricated my fashion to Ilium; Cerberus revealed that they had lied almost Liara's interest with the Shadow Broker although they would not tell me why. It gave me promise that she hadn't come up because she didn't know I was live, that Cerberus had kept her out also as they had kept me isolated inside my mission.
"Accept you faced an Asari Commando Unit before? Few Humans have."
Those were the first words I had heard from Liara in over ii years and it chilled me to the bone, so much had changed, what had happened to her, the change was a shock but wasn't as bad as the coldness she greeted me with.
A small osculation, a "Shepard…. My sources said you were alive just I never believed… It'due south very good to see y'all." All of it restrained, cold, distant it felt similar she was doing more than just property dorsum, information technology felt like I was face up to face with the Berlin Wall potent, cold, devoid of any emotion. Or at least if there was any emotion left it was also far buried for me to sense. She had sources, hired musculus, was working as a Information Broker; for me it had only been minutes and nevertheless the Liara I had known had disappeared. I was crushed. I asked for her to join me and she gave me a "No," there was no hesitation like she had fabricated up her listen ages ago when my corpse was still warm. She asked for my help securing information for her and wouldn't even tell me why. "Don't you think I want to Shepard? This isn't because I don't trust y'all…" the problem is that whenever they say that it always means they don't trust you. I helped her grudgingly if only considering of what nosotros had in another life.
After gathering the information I constitute that she was gunning for the Shadow Broker, another tidbit that Cerberus conveniently forgot to tell me. She told me "we crossed paths non long subsequently you died, with this data I'g ane footstep closer to taking him downwards."
"If you need to take him down, come with me I tin can assistance," I offered hoping that she would except it that she would give me some sign that she remembered what we had.
"I'chiliad sad Shepard only the galaxy doesn't work that style, I demand to trace downward leads, rail information, I need to piece of work. I merely tin can't do that on the Normandy, I… I wish I could." She seemed to be on the verge of tears and I… I was happy near it. I was glad for whatever excuse that would make her feel fifty-fifty a sliver of what was going through my veins at the moment and I pressed further.
"I've never seen you lot ready to execute someone in cold claret, what did the Shadow Broker do to yous?"
This was it I was expecting something to come crashing out, an apology, anything that would accept made her rethink what she'd put me through these last few hours. I was being selfish, I know that know, simply at the time her answer served to infuriate me and intrigue me more.
"I was on a job with a friend; The Shadow Broker'southward men defenseless us. My friend didn't escape. I don't know if he'south expressionless, or being interrogated, but I demand to find him. I owe him my life… and I need to brand the Shadow Broker pay for what he did." The adjacent day I came back after promising Liara that I would help her in any way I could equally I left I could accept sworn I saw longing in her eyes for only the briefest of seconds before nosotros tore our gazes away from each other.
The next twenty-four hours I helped her figure out that her secretary Nyxseras was a mole and assassin sent by the Shadow Broker. By the time I was able to get back to her office Nyxseras was gone and Liara was sitting there like nothing had always happened. "She was very talented, and I'm sure if she wanted to assassinate me she wouldn't take had a problem... but her barriers needed do. Practice I'g afraid she won't exist getting." This new Liara was disruptive me at some moments I could almost sense the emotions and openness nosotros used to have bubbling merely underneath the surface. At others she seemed completely cold and distant, not threatening at all but stating events like her dealing with Nyxseras as a simple fact no extra particular or emotion present. It was puzzling and she didn't requite me the time to question her about what happened over again. She told me "If anything else comes up I'll allow y'all know." and and then gave me information on ii more than potential members of my coiffure a Drell assassin and a Asari Justicar.
I didn't run into Liara once again until after our assail on the Collector Base. It was a suicide mission, or at to the lowest degree that'south what I kept on hearing. I was miserable I couldn't go over her, I couldn't become over what had happened to us and my mind kept on flashing dorsum to those conversations on Ilium where I could sense pocket-size flashes of the sometime Liara underneath that cold demeanor, could run across sorrow flash through her eyes. It gave me promise that if I survived we could starting time over. Before the mission I got a priority message from the Illusive Homo, he said that he had some agents sniff out the location of the Shadow Brokers base and that if I survived Dr. T'Soni, Liara, would exist very interested in the location. It gave me extra incentive to survive this time at any cost and as we jumped through the Omega 4 Relay towards the Collectors I sabbatum in my cabin staring at a picture of Liara that had been recovered from the wreckage of the Normandy SR-ane. The frame was scuffed and dented but the hard drive carrying the motion picture had survived bear on and information technology flashed a grainy prototype of a blushing Liara, from the first time I invited her to dinner in my cabin back before nosotros killed Saren in, it's cracked screen.
Tiberius looked downward at his right arm the bracer had a modest trench running through it from the axle from the rifle of a Collector Sniper. They had all survived that mission, Tali, Legion, Garrus Thane, Kasumi, Grunt, Samara, Miranda, Jacob, and Zaeed; although Garrus did take a shot to the abdomen. It was a miracle only when yous're the living epitomy of miracles anything can happen. What was even more miraculous was that after The Illusive Man suggested saving the base instead of destroying information technology Miranda and Jacob his two Cerberus lapdogs not only openly defied the Illusive Man and quit Cerberus but advocated breaking all ties with the group and turning the ship in to the Alliance Navy after a few loose ends were tied upwardly of course.
We had made our fashion back to Ilium and when I found Liara she was looking more stressed than ever, her optics had dark rings on them and it looked like she hadn't left her office for days. A half empty bottle of Brandy stood hastily subconscious in a half open drawer when she let us in. When she saw me I could see the relief wash across her features and they seemed to brighten a fiddling scrap as a wan grinning crossed over her features. At least I knew that she however cared. I gave her a day to clean up before telling her the news.
"Cerberus gave me some Intel on the Shadow Broker if y'all're still interested."
"Yes of course just permit me run across what you've got… It looks like a leaked transmission between operatives. Some hints as to his location, and… It's near Feron he... he'south still alive."
The fashion her face up lit upwardly at that news had my gut wrenching in jealousy and I wanted aught more to ensure that this 'Feron' had nothing to do with Liara. I hesitatingly asked her "Who'southward Feron?"
"He was a friend. He helped me recover your body from the Shadow Banker."
That threw me for a loop; I had no idea that she went subsequently my body when I died or why information technology was so important. I was dislocated again and I was aroused at myself. How could I retrieve she didn't care that I was just a fling for her. How could I ever retrieve so selfishly, that I ever wanted to hurt her just to make her feel the fashion I did. "… Why did the Shadow Broker want my corpse?"
"He was going to sell you to the collectors, but Feron and I stopped him. Feron sacrificed himself to save me."
It was starting to make sense and I began to think that my initial perception of Feron was incorrect, but I had to enquire her I had to know.
"And then yous rescued me? Then how did I end upward with Cerberus?"
"They gave me the Intel to find y'all. They paired Feron upwardly with me. Subsequently I got out, I gave you lot to them. They said they could bring you back…"
I could see tears welling in her eyes again equally her phonation dropped off and she looked away from my optics. Like she was expecting me to accuse her of betraying me when after all this time I finally constitute out who was responsible for making sure I was brought back. "
"Thanks Liara, y'all… I don't even know what to… thank you." I tried to put as much emotion as I was feeling into the words but in the cease they failed me.
A await of relief done over her again as she looked up "I didn't know how you lot'd feel when Cerberus restored you if you'd experience betrayed or…"
I couldn't stand information technology any longer I enveloped her in a hug and was relieved when she returned information technology, I felt that warmth flow through her once again for the starting time time in the almost 3 months since I'd been resurrected. She broke off and continued "… and know they're giving me a take a chance to find Feron. I take to go to my apartment and get fix you'll come over later to help me depict up a plan?" she left with those words not even waiting for a response and I saw her scoop up a shadowbox from her desk-bound although I couldn't encounter the contents.
Every bit shortly every bit I had found myself in her embrace nevertheless it was almost taken from me again. Tela Vasir a Spectre nether the Shadow Broker's pollex attempted to kill her. Thankfully Liara survived without a scratch on her caput crests and afterwards dealing with Vasir we went on to free Feron and kill the Shadow Broker. Subsequently the battle we were left alone, there was some tension still, even though it had merely been iii months for me it had been over two years for her and from what I'd gathered on our journey to the base there was still a lot of baggage. I just hoped that she didn't come across me in the act of dying seeing my body had to have been bad enough. When I asked her almost whether taking over as the Shadow Banker was a good thought she began to let information technology all out
"Information technology was either that or lose everything his contacts, his trading sources, those volition actually help us. With the Shadow Brokers data network I tin… I tin give you… I can." Feron and Garrus left us at that moment and we were finally lone for the first time in years. She walked abroad towards the consoles her back to me and her body convulsing from sobs. I walked over feeling worse than e'er for doubting that she loved me and touched her arm to get her to turn around and face me. The tears streaming down her face were too much for me to deport "It'south over… it'south finally over, for 2 years I…" I didn't let her finish that statement as I enveloped her in a hug and tried to pour all of my love into her, to back up her to show her that I didn't forgive her because there was nothing to forgive. To show her that no affair what I withal loved her more anything in my life. To show her that she was my inspiration, my will, that information technology injure me to see her anything but happy and to show her that I was in information technology for the long booty this time… That I wasn't going to dice this time. I kissed her and she bankrupt it off quickly. "It'due south been two years Shepard… I don't… we're different people… yous have your mission and…" I didn't let her finish that i either I grabbed her again and held her tight as I kissed her once more, I finally felt the wall she had put upwards fall flat, crushed like the Berlin Wall, and every bit I ran my hand over her tear stained cheeks I wanted more than anything to make her happy over again, to stop the tears. As we broke off she said that she would have to stay at the Base for awhile. And I offered her a tour of the Normandy and a proper date; it had been ages since nosotros had 1. "I'd like that she said with a fiddling smirk before we said our goodbyes and I left for the Normandy to file a debriefing and freshen upwards after the boxing.
That dark was the starting time time in a long fourth dimension that my mind didn't bother me, I didn't take any nightmares of Akuze or Virmire, No creeping doubts of whether I was really me or just a AI in a robotic beat out. I was having dreams on Liara, of that blue smile and of what the future would hold for us.
The next day we had our appointment; Liara was dressed in a stunning purple and ruddy dress that hugged the curves of her body. I gave her a semi guided tour of the new Normandy although I left her with Garrus and Tali for the last half hr and then I could set up in the Cabin. I had cleaved out a bottle of Château de Beaulon cognac, 20 yr. old Hors d'Historic period, the canteen came from the same cask every bit the 1 I shared with her on our start dinner aboard the original Normandy and I hoped that she would relish it equally much now as she had so. Our dinner consisted of a lot of small talk and later on we chatted most more serious things. What would happen in the future with the Reapers, with the states… She gave me a wrapped present inside was the shadowbox that she had carried out of her role on Ilium. It independent my canis familiaris tags, the aforementioned ones that I had received from Captain Anderson afterward Akuze. They were a good luck amuse according to Anderson and were the most important possession that I had endemic. New feelings of appreciation and love flowed over me as I looked down on the box then upward at her before giving her a small kiss on the cheek. She told me that her birthday was in a few months. I replied that I should get her something; she replied "you're alive again; I've got everything I want." She followed it up with a question for me "If this all ends tomorrow what happens to us?"
I wasn't trying to be smart or funny when I replied "Wedlock, and lots of little blue children." I meant every word of it, this beautiful adult female in front end of me, Liara T'Soni, was the person I wanted to spend the rest of my life with.
She didn't take it that way and tears started to flow from her eyes once more. "You just say these things," she said as she turned abroad looking at the helmet I had recovered from the Original Normandy, the helmet I had died in. "Goddess you were dead…"
"I got better," I replied trying to lighten the mood once more.
"This fourth dimension, but you're going to exit again. When the Reapers finally arrive you'll swoop into the fray." She walked towards the bed and looked down at the dog tags I'd placed on the bedside tabular array. I walked over to try and console her but she connected. "I spent two years mourning yous. So if nosotros're going to try this I need to know you're always coming back."
"I don't know that'southward a pretty large promise to make." I replied grabbing her hands that drew a grin from her.
"Oh… is information technology," she said teasingly
"I'd have to have something special to come back to."
"I'grand open to… to suggestions."
"How about this," I answered every bit I began to kiss her neck. Her optics turned to black and this fourth dimension the meld was like I'd never met her before. All of her fears, her joys, they flooded into me and I sent dorsum all the honey I could muster.
Just over nine months had passed from that point, six of them Tiberius had spent under business firm arrest at Alliance HQ Vancouver, and another had been spent aboard the Normandy trying to relieve the galaxy after the Reapers had invaded. While he was under abort Liara hadn't visited, she had dropped a line in reply to his birthday message simply that was information technology. When he found her on Mars studying this Prothean super weapon, The Crucible, he understood and he was happy to detect that she was going to be staying on the Normandy for the residual of the war. He was happy that she wasn't going away this time. Unfortunately though while he was on Earth the nightmares and doubts started again, he would wake upwardly in the centre of the night convinced that parts of his trunk were whirring, humming like a machine. He was having nightmares of Virmire and Akuze once again. His nightmares even took new shape in the grade of Liara leaving him afterward discovering that his body was fabricated of metal. The time on the Normandy didn't help either, the war was stressful and fifty-fifty though they were able to scrape a few serenity moments most of their time was spent separate, a pity since they were just separated by deck infinite.
At present staring at that information screen Tiberius Shepard, survivor of Akuze, hero of the Citadel, and the Milky way's last hope had to answer his doubts.Yous're non real it says. She won't tell y'all because you're they're last hope
"Liara, I don't call up anything… possibly I'm only me, or maybe I'm a high tech Vi that just thinks its Commander Shepard."
"Shepard, I wish you had told me… I knew it was really you the showtime time I touched you over again."
"she's lying" the phonation said once again
I felt a wave of love launder over me and I knew then "No, she's non lying."
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