Belonging 1/7 or so
anonymous
December 3 2011, 19:42:16 UTC
Still working on this, but here's a first installment:
Tali woke up, not quite sure where she was. Not her usual bunk. She was surrounded by warmth, but there was something hard, with noticeable edges, pressing into her on one side, and something lying across her waist. She opened her eyes, letting them adjust to the dim light. Blue light, coming from a large oblong object ahead of her and to the right...
Shepard’s fish tank.
What was she doing in Shepard’s quarters? What was she doing... on Shepard’s bedShe turned her head. Shepard was lying on her right. The weight lying across her was Shepard’s arm. His face was turned toward her, his mouth open a little. She almost smiled at the utterly slack expression. So if Shepard was there... she turned her head the other direction
( ... )
Re: Belonging 2/7 or so
anonymous
December 4 2011, 05:31:04 UTC
Tali busied herself with work the rest of the cycle, brushing off Ken’s jokes about coming on-shift so late. But she felt strangely unsettled, her mind flitting back to waking wedged next to a warm body--how strange that was, even after the cramped conditions of the Flotilla, and yet how comfortable
( ... )
Re: Belonging 2/7 or so
anonymous
December 4 2011, 21:38:46 UTC
OP here and I'm loving this with a burning passion. And and and... what really happened when she left? Will you tell us? You must tell us. Oh, anon, if you don't post more soon, I'll bite away not only my nails but fingers too and hands and arms to the shoulders in anticipation! :D
Re: Belonging 2/7 or so
anonymous
December 5 2011, 16:20:58 UTC
I should have been more careful with my wording. As far as I'm concerned, no explicit sex is necessary (though I certainly wouldn't mind). What I meant by "will you tell us? you must tell us" was: will we know for certain that Garrus and Shepard have indeed spent that night together? But you've already answered that, so all is well. :)
Re: Belonging Bonus! 1.5b
anonymous
December 5 2011, 23:07:10 UTC
Ordinarily Shepard would have swallowed cheerfully, but he wanted to check into the cross-species thing further before attempting it, so he popped his mouth off Garrus’s cock as the turian came, stroking him with his hand and watching. There was something unbelievably sexy about seeing the normally cool and collected Vakarian so completely undone, moaning something untranslatable before collapsing into the bed
( ... )
Re: Belonging 2/7 or so
anonymous
December 5 2011, 01:50:40 UTC
I like it so far soooo is Garrus suggesting all three of them go for it since they both like Tali? I liked how she was being curious about them both in bed.
Re: Belonging 3/7 or so
anonymous
December 5 2011, 03:40:12 UTC
author's note: I'd intended to keep this story light, in keeping with the tone of the original, but, well... I had a bit of bad news this week, and the story decided to take a detour through Angstville.
-3- That sense of something being just slightly off, out of place, persisted over the next several cycles. She joined Shepard and Garrus for a few ground missions. As they fought their way through waves of mechs, the three of them fell into step like she was used to, covering each other, each knowing what the other two were going to do almost before they did it. And then afterwards, the two men would exchange a look, or one would slap the other on the ass when they thought she wasn’t looking, and they were out of sync again. Tali felt obscurely left out, and wasn’t sure if it was her imagination.
And what if there was something between them? Shouldn’t she be happy, if her friends were happy together? Why should that make her feel twisted up and alone? Keelah, was she... jealous?
Jealous of what? Maybe she’d had a little crush on
( ... )
Re: Belonging 4/7 or so
anonymous
December 5 2011, 03:51:21 UTC
She smacked Garrus on the shoulder the next time she saw him, and told him not to scare Shepard like that, and he laughed and promised to duck better
( ... )
Re: Belonging 4/7 or so
anonymous
December 5 2011, 16:31:16 UTC
OP here, again.
Oh, anon, this is so beautiful. I'm sad to hear about whatever trouble RL has thrown at you, but just so you know, the tone of the story so far is exactly what I was hoping for. Doesn't sound like a "7" to me, though. :) I trust you'll let the story run for as long as it needs to. You are an amazing storyteller.
Re: Belonging 4/7 or so
anonymous
December 5 2011, 23:15:27 UTC
Glad you like it, OP! I have this whole stack of half-finished FemShep fills, but I've somehow gotten really into this triad. I think there's a natural endpoint coming up, but I may not be done with them yet. We'll see.
Re: Belonging 5/Ok, I don't know
anonymous
December 6 2011, 04:58:33 UTC
Tali hadn’t planned to burden Shepard with her problems. She was only going to ask for leave, to seek passage back to the Migrant Fleet. But Shepard wouldn’t hear of it.
“Of course we’ll take you,” he said. “This has to be a mistake, but I’m not going to leave you to deal with this bullshit alone.”
And Garrus, eyes flashing: “No one who really knew you could ever think you were a traitor.”
Neither of them would let her board the Rayya alone. She was grateful, almost pathetically so, to have them with her, twin bulwarks at her side as her own people lobbed one bombshell after another at her. Her name. The charges. Her father. Tali couldn’t believe Auntie Raan would do this to her, but there she was. She let Shepard do the talking, working his Shepard magic, trying to get something out of the admirals. Garrus put an arm around her shoulders and just stayed, silent, letting her compose herself, and prepare for the fight they had ahead, to retake the Alarei. She hoped, desperately, that she would find her father and he could answer all
( ... )
Tali woke up, not quite sure where she was. Not her usual bunk. She was surrounded by warmth, but there was something hard, with noticeable edges, pressing into her on one side, and something lying across her waist. She opened her eyes, letting them adjust to the dim light. Blue light, coming from a large oblong object ahead of her and to the right...
Shepard’s fish tank.
What was she doing in Shepard’s quarters? What was she doing... on Shepard’s bedShe turned her head. Shepard was lying on her right. The weight lying across her was Shepard’s arm. His face was turned toward her, his mouth open a little. She almost smiled at the utterly slack expression. So if Shepard was there... she turned her head the other direction ( ... )
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That sense of something being just slightly off, out of place, persisted over the next several cycles. She joined Shepard and Garrus for a few ground missions. As they fought their way through waves of mechs, the three of them fell into step like she was used to, covering each other, each knowing what the other two were going to do almost before they did it. And then afterwards, the two men would exchange a look, or one would slap the other on the ass when they thought she wasn’t looking, and they were out of sync again. Tali felt obscurely left out, and wasn’t sure if it was her imagination.
And what if there was something between them? Shouldn’t she be happy, if her friends were happy together? Why should that make her feel twisted up and alone? Keelah, was she... jealous?
Jealous of what? Maybe she’d had a little crush on ( ... )
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Oh, anon, this is so beautiful. I'm sad to hear about whatever trouble RL has thrown at you, but just so you know, the tone of the story so far is exactly what I was hoping for. Doesn't sound like a "7" to me, though. :) I trust you'll let the story run for as long as it needs to. You are an amazing storyteller.
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“Of course we’ll take you,” he said. “This has to be a mistake, but I’m not going to leave you to deal with this bullshit alone.”
And Garrus, eyes flashing: “No one who really knew you could ever think you were a traitor.”
Neither of them would let her board the Rayya alone. She was grateful, almost pathetically so, to have them with her, twin bulwarks at her side as her own people lobbed one bombshell after another at her. Her name. The charges. Her father. Tali couldn’t believe Auntie Raan would do this to her, but there she was. She let Shepard do the talking, working his Shepard magic, trying to get something out of the admirals. Garrus put an arm around her shoulders and just stayed, silent, letting her compose herself, and prepare for the fight they had ahead, to retake the Alarei. She hoped, desperately, that she would find her father and he could answer all ( ... )
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