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Hallowed Truth	By : Spiritwolf71 Category: +M through R > Mass Effect Views: 3767 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Lanie had never allowed herself any type of luxury, nor had seen ever been given any. The last time she had allowed herself any form of relaxation was with James over five years ago and before James was a bowl of ice cream she had shared with her Uncle when she was ten. Now she had taken an extra day and half with Sam that she had not prepared for or expected but she could not deny the feelings she had for the woman. It was as though she had bottled all of her thoughts and emotions and left them on a shelf somewhere but now, every time she looked at Sam she felt as though that bottle would explode. She had fought back the feeling so hard that it was almost as if they were on overflow. She still struggled to control them.
The last two days had been wonderful, but she still had no idea of what Sam felt, if it was a stress release, something to pass time or if she had feelings. Lanie could not help but hope she did cause Lanie could easily see Sam in her future and with Sam, everything seemed much brighter. It was like she had been living in darkness for years, going through the motions of being a human but never actually feeling it. She ate, slept and did her job. For brief moments there were light but the darkness always snuffed them out.
She looked to Sam; they had fallen asleep entwined with each other, their foreheads touching slightly. She watched as the woman slept, her eyes jerking slight, hopefully while she had sweet dreams, her lips slightly parted as her breath gently escape. She was so beautiful and serene and Lanie felt her own eyes moisten slightly. She could feel Sam’s arm under her neck and gripping one of the railing on the head board, her other arm rested on Lanie’s shoulder.
Sam leg was still resting slightly over her hip with Lanie still holding it there, her hand resting on Sam’s hip, her fingertips slightly caressing the lower curves of her backside. She wondered if she was in love, was this how it felt, she really had no idea; she had never been in love before. She wondered if Sam had, but even if she had, should she even ask about it. Did she even want to know if Sam had been in love before? Would that make her jealous? She knew it would, she was only human after all, and one that had certain insecurities, insecurities about these sorts of things.
She watched as Sam’s chest raised and fell, she realized that this was one of those rare, perfect moments in time that one experienced throughout their lives. She personally had only had one before this and that was the first time she had held her daughter. Now she felt the moisture start to threaten to pour out of her eyes and she closed them, taking a few moments to listen to Sam breath as she controlled herself.
She noted the steady change in Sam’s breathing and realized she was waking up, she opened her eyes and smiled, wanting that to be the first thing Sam saw when she woke. She waited patiently as Sam slowly woke and watched the smile spread over the woman’s gentle face as she became aware of their circumstance.
“Oh, I think I could wake up to this every morning,” Sam said, biting her lip. Lanie adored her English accent and the way she sometimes chewed on her bottom lip when trying to think of what to say. She smiled and ran her fingertips from hip over down to the back of her thigh and back in little circles.
“Mmmm, me too,” Lanie grinned and pushed forward kissing Sam’s tender lips, feeling her push against her as Sam massaged her shoulder.
“I’m finding it harder and harder to believe that you have never been with a woman before,” Sam said, “Cause, just, wow,”
Lanie chuckled slightly, “I never said I haven’t been with a woman before,” she paused considering how to form the words to explain things, “as a slave, I worked in a brothel and I've seen all there is. What I meant is,” she paused as Sam’s caressing fingers sent a wave of shivers through her. “You’re trying to distract me.”
Sam smiled, “No, honest,” Lanie felt her fingers slide lower towards her breast and bit her lip as she smile more. She brought her own hand up and took Sam’s in hers.
“Let me finish,” she whispered and kissed Sam again, “it will be worth it.”
“Sorry,” Sam said but Lanie knew she wasn’t.
“What I meant is those people, it was just an act, but these last two days Sam, us making love, just being together, was the first time I have ever felt I completely and utterly connected with someone, with you. Like I belong with you,” She held her breath knowing that was saying a lot and knowing that it might just be what scared the woman away. She expected her to untangle herself and just leave but instead Sam smiled at her.
“Maybe you do,” Sam said, “Maybe we were two halves of the same person, if you believe in that story.”
Lanie giggled, “I don’t think I know that story.”
“Really?” Sam could not help but look surprised.
Lanie shook her head and began to caress Sam with her fingers again, “Tell me.”
Sam smiled and kissed her as she began to melt under Lanie’s soft fingers. “They said that a long time ago humans were made with two faces, four arms, four legs, four ears, you get the picture. They were powerful and complete and challenged the gods for a place in Olympus,” She moaned slightly, closing her eyes as Lanie continued to lasciviously caress her with her fingers, she had to really concentrate on telling the story but it was getting harder.
“They waged battle for years with the humans beginning to get the edge over the gods, Zeus quickly looking for a way to stop the war before Olympus was destroyed decided to weaken the human.” She tried to control her breathing but her hips gave her away as they started push into the other woman.
She closed her eyes for a second and felt Lanie’s lips on her as they kissed, she took a deep breath, determined to tell the story, no matter how much Lanie was trying to distract her. It was the hardest thing she had ever done. “So Zeus ordered that the entire human race were to be cut in half and that Apollo was to complete them in their own forms. He then had cast away from each other. In this they would spend their lives looking for each other. They would search until they found their other half and embrace them and want to become a part of them and grow,” Sam moaned as Lanie expertly continued to distract her, she swallowed hard afraid she would not be able to finish the story before she submitted to Lanie’s caresses. “Grow old together. So they say when a person meets their other half that they are struck by a sense of love and belonging and desire and that they don’t want to be seperat… God, Lanie” Lanie smiled slightly as she watched Sam arch, biting her lip as she did, then took advantage of this and kissed her hard, her lips moving down her neck and to her breast, holding her tightly, suckling as Sam completely gave into her, not able to control herself.
Lanie held her gently in her arms as she struggled to regain her breathing, her body still not in her own control as curled into her lover holding her tightly. She felt Lanie’s fingers moving threw her hair as she very slowly began to gain control of her sense’s, and body once again. Lanie lifted Sam’s head from her chest and kissed her deeply then smiled. She whispered “I think I want to hear the end of that story.”
Sam took a deep breath and struggled to find her voice, “They say they don’t ever want to be separated and that they never truly know just what it is they want from each other, they just feel the deep desire and need to be with each other.”
Lanie placed her forehead back on Sam’s, searching her brown eyes that were now slightly glossy and bright, lighting her face up even more, “And what do you think of that story, Sam?”
Sam looked to her for a long moment, Lanie seemed to be holding her breath, “I think that I understand that story now, better then when I first heard it, because I feel that way about you.”

Lanie smile and closed her eyes for a long moment before opening them again and looking straight into Sam’s eyes, “I feel that way as well,” she said not wanting to leave Sam out on a limb. She leaned in and kissed her holding her close, desperately wanting to make them whole once again.

It had taken both of them every bit of will power they had to finally shower and get dressed. They could not stay forever even though they wanted to. Sam had already told Lanie of almost everything she had learned while hacking into files. She conveniently left out the part about Gary’s daughter and would continue to do so until she could contact James and confirm it. She knew what would happened if she mentioned it now. Lanie would go off without even a second thought and probably get herself killed in the process. Sam didn’t have all the answers yet, but she was willing to bet Gary was a more powerful man then he had let on.
She looked out into the forest and smiled, it had been a wonderful couple of days that she knew she would never forget. She closed her eyes as she still felt Lanie’s caresses and kisses. She thought of just how soft the other woman’s lips were when they were making love and how gently intense she was. Sam had never experienced a lover like her.
She thought of the story she had told this morning, about looking for one’s other half and she knew that she had found it in Lanie. She had been unable to explain it since the moment they met, but there had always been something there. She had never really feared the woman, not that she had planned to cross her, but it was, just hard to explain.
“Ok we need to go, I want to go back to Gary’s and do some snooping. I also know a bar where a lot of Terra Firma people hang out and I can try and find someone to get some information out of there.” Lanie said as she exited the bathroom. Sam turned and frowned. “What?”
She looked at Lanie standing in the oversized jeans, held on by an ugly belt with a big dragon shaped buckle and her usual black hoodie. “Really? You’re going to be seen in that?”
“What, you don’t like the dragon?”
Sam laughed, “The dragon is the least of the problem, but actually, it’s a kind big belt buckle. Those clothes, they really hide those wonderful curves you have,” she moved closer to Lanie as she admonished her clothing, “and the hoodie hides those wonderful freckles, all one hundred and fifty two of them.”
Lanie laughed and pulled Sam into her, “You counted my freckles?”
“I did, while you were sleeping, and it think my favourite it this one on the side of your nose,” she added and pointed to it. Lanie laughed again and then kissed her deeply; she took a deep breath and parted regretfully.
“Ok, we need to go, no more playing around and if we kiss like that again I won’t be able to stop myself,” Lanie admitted. Sam grinned and grabbed the omni tool as Lanie set to finish packing the back pack. She tucked one of the guns into her waist and placed the other in the front of the back pack.
“I’m just going to checkout then we can go,” Sam said, Lanie smiled to her as she opened the door and stepped out. She was surprised how dry it was considering it had rained most of the last two days, but it was the middle of summer and the sun was shining; it was beautiful and for one split second Sam almost twirled and started to sing about the hills being alive. She refrained though, not wanting to bring attention to the two of them. Instead she giggled to herself.
She realized she was a beat off from skipping towards the main cabin and she stopped as she passed their car. She could have sworn she heard something beeping. Before she could even realize just what the beeping could have been the car exploded and she felt herself flying in mid-air then hitting something hard before landing on her stomach on the ground.
Slowly she tried to push herself to her stomach as she could hear people screaming far away. Someone was firing a gun or maybe many someone she couldn’t tell. She tried to focus but everything was hazy. “Lanie?” she called out and felt a hand on her arm and she was yanked to her feet by some man dressed in an Alliance uniform. Before he could do anything though a bullet exploded through his head and she was falling again, this time she didn’t hit the ground.
“I got you Princess,” she heard the Marine say and smiled, she loved it when Lanie called her that, however she could sense an urgency to Sam’s voice as things began to clear up slightly. Lanie brought her back into the Cabin and out the back window as fast as she could, going back only to get the back packs.
“Ok Sam, come on,” she said half carrying her towards the road back towards the cabin the back way.
“No we need to run, the forest, we can hide there.”
“No they will get there first thinking that’s what we will do. We’re going the back way and taking one of the shuttles.”
“There’s shuttles?” Sam was confused.
Lanie didn’t say anything but she was kicking herself for letting her guard down. Had she not taking the time with Sam this would never have happened, but then, neither would her time with Sam have happened and that she decided, she didn’t regret. Still it just showed her what happened whenever she took a break from real life.
“Shit,” Lanie threw the both of them into the brush, hiding behind a pine tree as she heard voices coming their way. She could feel her heart pounding in her chest as she finally got a good look at Sam. She reached up and tried to wipe the blood from her a large cut on her temple. She used a touch of medi gel on it. She stiffened slightly though as the running footfalls approached and then ran past.
She chanced a quick look and when she was satisfied she readjusted the backpack and lifted Sam to her feet and continued down the road staying in the bushes this time. “We’re good,” she whispered and set Sam down when they finally reached the end of the line of cabins. “Ok two guards by the closest shuttle, when I take them out you come.”
“Will do,” Sam said finally starting to focus again, but her ears were still ringing. Lanie grabbed her omni tool and turned the cloak on. She realized it had been some time since she had cloaked herself and smiled. Maybe she was a ninja and didn’t need it anymore.
Quietly she moved behind the first guard and wrapped her arms around his head quickly and twisted sharply. She felt the bones in his neck snap and he slumped against her and she let him fall to the ground pulling the knife out of her belt as her cloak dropped. She was on the second guard before he could really comprehend what was happening, knocking his gun out of his hand with a quick kick and grabbing him around the shoulders as she thrust the knife deep into his neck, effectively silencing him from sounding any kind of alarm.
She motioned for Sam to run and the smaller woman did, still obviously disoriented slightly. Lanie ran and met her half way and guided her to the shuttle. “My ears are still ringing,” Sam said.
“You were beside the explosion Sam, they will ring for a while,” Lanie said as someone shouted behind her. “Gogogo,” she urged as they ran up the ramp and into the shuttle, she slammed the controls to close the door behind them as the shooting started.
“Strap yourself in,” she said to Sam and moved to the cockpit area. She felt someone grab her arm as she did and realized that there was still a pilot inside. “Fuck,” she cursed realizing her mistake, the punch to the side of the face was also a good reminder. She grabbed the man pulled him close as she brought her knee up into his ribs repeatedly. There was a short struggle before he pushed her away and started to lift his pistol out of it holder, firing wildly as he did, missing her completely in his panic. She slammed both hands on his causing the weapon to drop to the floor and followed with a quick punch to the middle of his face.
She felt his nose collapse under the strike, and knew that he would disorient him for a few seconds and that was all she needed she bring her own pistol up and shoot him point blank in the chest. He froze for a moment before sliding down to the ground. Lanie looked at him for a few seconds then down to the blood on her hands and wondered for a few seconds if she would ever be able to stop killing.
Now was not the time for self-pity though and she jumped into the pilots unoccupied seat. And noticed where those misplaced bullets had hit. “Oh, well shit,” she mumbled starting the shuttle up anyway. “Navigation is fried,” she called back. Something rocked into the shuttle as she lifted it off the ground and into the air. She noticed the other shuttle was also lifting up into the air.
She had never really done well in the short flying courses they had in training. They were really only the basics of it. She was a good driver but she rarely had to fly, she usually had her own pilot when she was on mission to other planets or stations.
She flew out forcing the shuttle up to top speed as she knew the other one was probably right behind them. She just wished she knew where exactly they were going but three bullets had shattered the navigation system. She could hear it beeping at her but had no idea why. Something else was beeping as well, but this one she knew. The other shuttle was behind her and probably closing. She continued to fly the shuttle as fast as it would go, not even really sure what she was going to do next. She watched as the landscape rolled beneath them and she really had no idea where they were. She pounded the navigation system before a really stupid idea hit her.
“Ok, fuck,” she whispered to herself and then began to move the shuttle back and forth. She began to calculate all sorts of factors in her head, none of them that really ended up good for them. “Ok, I’m doing it,” she again mumbled to herself. It was the stupidest thing she had ever come up with but she couldn’t just keep racing over the landscape. Sometimes she wished more shuttles were made with weapons.
She quickly powered down and slowed her speed in half; she wanted the other shuttle to be in front of her so she could see where it was. She found out quicker than she had imagined though as she felt the other shuttle slam hard into the back of hers. A string of curses flew from her lips before she could even stop them. That she had not expected, they must have been closer to her then they should have been, perhaps even trying to ram her.
Alarms went off all over the dash she knew that things were not good. The shuttle moaned and protested but Lanie continue to push it.
“Lanie?” Sam called concerned.
“I got this,” she lied, but as much as she had just gained some speed she could feel the shuttle now slowly. “What a stupid idea Flynn, hit the break, let the other shuttle fly in front.” She took a second to look back to Sam.
“I clearly do not know enough about shuttles,” she quipped as Sam’s eye widened completely. Lanie turned back around and didn’t even have time to hit the brakes as the other damage shuttle appeared in front of then. “Holy shit,” was all she had the chance to say as something exploded beside her. They were going down, but luckily the other shuttle was going down as well. She struggled to pull the nose of the beast up so they wouldn’t just crash land and hopefully use the momentum for some kind for a normal landing.
The problem was the shuttle had other things in mind ad it dropped suddenly again its momentum waving as the nose went down. Lanie barely had enough time to strap herself in before the shuttle finally grazed the ground twice then finally slide to a stop, killing several trees in the process.
Lanie wasted no time once they were down, she could feel pain in every inch of the body but now was not the time for self-inventory. She spun out of the chair and looked back to Sam who looked dazed but gave her two thumbs up.
“We have to move,” she said and started to go through the shuttle, finding several med packs and stripping the pilot of his ammo and weapons. She also managed to find a standard issue avenger assault rifle and some more ammunition. She paused for a long while looking at the armour on the pilot and although she knew it would be too big, it would be useful. She just didn’t know if she would have enough time to change. She decided against it and took his omni tool instead.
“Where are we?” Sam asked.
“That’s a great question, the nav system was down, we can figure it out later, the other shuttle crashed close by, and we need to create some distance.” She said and moved to the door. It opened slightly but then stopped. “Fuck, are you kidding me.” She slammed herself against the door several times with no result.
“What about the window,” Sam pointed, Lanie followed her finger, and the glass was already shatters. She nodded and moved to it smashing it with the butt of the assault rifle. She let Sam get out first and then pushed out the back packs then followed. She brought her omni tool up to try and figure out where they were.
She winced, “Well, we went the opposite direction then I wanted to go.”
“What does that mean?” Sam asked looking around. They were beside some body of water, but then British Columbia was full of small lakes.
“Well, give or take some miles we are about 500 kilometers off track and about a hundred klicks from any town.”
It was quiet for a few moments, “Really?” Sam finally said, Lanie nodded.
“Well we should start…” She was interrupted by a bullet hitting the tree beside her. She pushed Sam back towards shuttle and brought up the assault rifle as she spotted two alliance soldier taking cover. “Stay down,” she hissed at her lover. She moved behind cover herself and cloaked. It took little effort to get behind them when she was invisible. She brought the rifle up and took aim and froze. She could kill them, quite easily too, every fiber of her being told her to kill them, to pull the trigger and move on. They might be wearing Alliance colours but she knew their loyalties were elsewhere.
She growled internally and uncloaked taking a shot between the two of them. They turned around, “Uh huh,“ she cautioned and they threw their weapons towards her. “Sam,” she called and watched out of the corner of her eye and the black haired woman made her way over.
“Well,” Sam smiled slightly. “What do we do with them?”
A smile made its way to Lanie’s lips. “Strip,” she ordered them.
“What?” this was from Sam.
“I want their armour and I don’t think they’ll run around after us naked,” she paused as they glared at her, “I have some flexi cuffs in my back pack, get them.”
Sam moved off and Lanie looked to them, “She is the only thing keeping me from killing both of you, however any wrong move and I will have no qualms placing a bullet in your heads, now strip for god’s sake.”
The two men looked to each other for a few moments then slowly started to strip.

For the first time in a long time Lanie felt more normal, wearing armour instead of clothes that made her look like some punk reject. It would be nice to not have to worry about being killed by some stray bullet now. She had to laugh at Sam though; she looked like a small child wearing her father’s armour. Not only that but she was more than uncomfortable in it, a fact she had already repeatedly told Lanie.
“It’s only until we reach civilization, Sam,” Lanie explained. “They are going to come after us here in full force where not to many people can see them. We need to be prepared. This can’t be your first time in armour?”
“Well, no, basic training, but it was light armour and it wasn’t five sizes too big for me,” she said. Lanie laughed and pulled her close kissing her.
“I think it makes you look cute, like a button,” She said then began to tighten some of the straps and adjust a few of the setting. “You have this upside down” she stripped of the shoulder pad and turned it around then did the same for the other side. “You do remember how to shoot the rifle?”
“Umm well,” Sam looked to it. “Point and shoot?”
“You need to make sure you have a good grip on it, it will pull up on you as you fire so make sure you keep that in mind and,” she pointed to a small button above the trigger, “this is the safety, you will need to turn it off or the gun might as well be a club.”
“I got it, I hope,” she said and looked up to her with those big brown eyes that melted Lanie’s heart, “So where are we heading?”
“East, there’s a small town called Quesnel, well grab a car there and head back to square one. It’s a long hike Sam and it’s going to take a couple days.”
“I’m a tech, I hate walking,” Sam complained, Lanie laughed.
“We’ll pretend it’s a camping trip with angry bears trying to hunt us down.”
“Lanie, this is British Columbia, there probably are angry bears out there wanting to eat us,” the woman commented.
“Well then, nothing in life is ever easy. At least we’re together right?” She said raising a hopeful brow and smiling.
“You love this don’t you?” Sam realized.
Lanie nodded slightly, “I love the wildlife and the camping, ever since I did the survivalist course for the N programs.” She took Sam’s hand and they started their long trek, “I always like the absolute serenity of nature. I mean there are dangers and the odd predator you have to deal with, but I really prefer that to my own kind trying to kill me.”
“I don’t know, I’ve heard about some of the critters on some planets. I guess we can be thankful we don’t have thresher maws on earth.”
Lanie laughed, “I’m thankful for a lot of things right now Sam,” she said squeezing the woman’s hand. “We’ll be all right, with you at my side; I know we can get through this.”

Ok so I got a little risqué this time so hopefully it’s not absolutely horrible and thanks Gryph for giving it a quick run through, I did make some changes. It really wasn’t planned, it was just supposed to be a talk about their feelings for each other but it kind of developed before I could even stop it. Oh well feel free to let me know just how horrible it was. PS I love review, especially when I write things like this so I know IM not terrible , or that maybe it was terrible.. they are always appreciated and treasured.
Have a great Christmas everyone and I hope some dreams will come true.
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