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Turnabout-	By : Spiritwolf71 Category: +M through R > Mass Effect Views: 7688 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Well I was almost done once and the computer ate half of it so if it seems a bit of sorry.

Time with Shepard had always been few and far between. After they had first admitted their feelings for each other they had one special night before they dealt with Saren. That first was, for Liara, the most memorable. She had never seen Cayle as vulnerable as she had been that night. Her lover had allowed her to see a side of her she had never shown anyone and Liara had treasured every moment.
Liara remembered the young Commander actually blushing as she had tried to explain how she had been reading and watching vids about the Asari. It had been cute, how Cayle’s hand fidgeted with each other and she looked everywhere but at Liara. Then when she finished telling her she looked to her lover as if daring her to laugh or make issue with it. There was no laughing as they kissed. The young human had been a great hands on learner. Not that Liara had much to compare it to either, but the term heaven came to mind.
She had watched Cayle battle both physically and emotionally as they struggled to stop Sovereign. Her strength had actually scared Liara at first, but soon she had learned that it was Shepard’s strength that carried the team. It was Shepard’s strength that had drawn Liara to her. Seeing her struggle and vulnerable had endured the Asari to her, it had actually sent feeling through her that she had never experienced before. Not that Liara had any more experience in this regard then the human. But Shepard was so strong and so determined that she always met every challenge head on leaving a trail of destruction behind her. She always did what she had to without complaint and to her fullest, she never stepped back she never caved in. It was one of the reasons why people followed her.
Her loyalty to her people was legendary; she always put their concerns before herself. Sure they all went on dangerous missions but Shepard had always done her best to bring each of them back. Liara had never forgotten how destroyed Cayle had been when they had lost Kaiden. There was not a day that had gone by where the Human did not try to think of what she could have done to save everyone. She had never accepted it as impossible, only a failure and a learning experience. She had told Liara that she would never lose anyone again but they both knew that was impossible.
That first night together, she would never forget Shepard’s gentle clumsiness, the tremble in her hands as they explored Liara’s body, bringing out sensations Liara had never experienced before. The little, almost silent throaty grunts through her slightly parted lips as Liara explored her body. Cayle was an intense person at the best of time but that night it was mixed with desperation and love.
Liara had been surprised when she took Shepard into her arms, lying in the afterglow, the young human trembled, her head resting against the Asari’s chest. Completely vulnerable and open and completely trusting in Liara and her love.
Liara had never forgotten that night, she still dreamt of it on occasion. Not that any other night with Shepard had been less, but it had been the first.
This was the memory she wanted to hold as Falere fought to get their ship back under control. If they were going to die, she wanted to die with that memory.
Sparks and flames were intermittently shooting through the cockpit as Falere curse under her breath. Liara felt the ship pull up, and she could only wonder if that was a good idea. It would just make the fall that much worse. However the sudden steep climb was enough to finally shake the Cerberus ship that had crashed into them. Falere seemed to finally gain some control.
“There, that wasn’t too bad.” Liara said with a smile and a nod to her talented pilot.
“We are going to have to land, we can’t break atmosphere.” Falere answered not sharing the Shadow Brokers enthusiasm. “Landing is…”
Explosions cut the Asari off as the ship suddenly tilted and plummet towards the ground. “This is not good.” Liara called over the loud noise the ship was now making.
“You are very good with understatements T’Soni.” Falere bit her bottom lip as she fought the control trying to at least level the ship. She did not want a head on collision with the ground. The older Asari’s hands flew over the control and finally managed to control the descent, at least a little bit. The ship leveled off and a slight reversal of the remaining engine was enough to slow them down. That did not lessen the impact with the ground as Liara felt her straps digging into her skin.
When the ship finally stopped moving it was quiet for a few moments then, suddenly, both women started to laugh. It took them a few moments to get over the nervous laughing fit they were having. Falere cut her straps first and moved over to help Liara out of hers.
“You ok?” She asked. Liara nodded but winced as she tenderly touched the bruises the straps had left behind.
“You?”
“I don’t think anything’s broken.” Falere replied as they made their way out of the ship. “Communications is down.”
“You didn’t happen to see where we landed or where the other ship landed?” Liara asked, one look at Falere told her, she had not. At least they had Mouse to come down and get them, whenever he figured out he needed to.
“I see smoke over there a bit; I would guess that would be the other ship.” The Ardat Yashi stated.
“Well I suggest we go and find out who that was.” Liara knew it had been a Cerberus Griffon, not that all them housed Cerberus officers but in this case she would hazard that this one did. She took a few moments to collect the things she would need while Falere pinpointed their location on her omni tool.
She handed Falere a pistol and took one for herself. She almost laughed at her assistant reaction to the weapon.
“I, don’t know how to use one of these.” She said holding it by the barrel. Before Liara had employed her, Falere was housed in a Monastery for other Ardat Yashi. A place where they could learn to control the power they could wield. She had been the only survivor of the Reaper massacre of the Monastery.
Falere had promised to stay in the destroyed building alone but Liara had felt sorry for her and given her an alternative. Falere’s condition was deadly but the Asari was more than able to control her urges. However, Liara was prone to keeping her out of harm’s way. Unfortunately this little excursion had not been planned and now both of them were trapped on the planet.
She had thought of leaving Falere with the ship and let her try and get communications running again. But she then decided that until they dealt with the possible Cerberus threat that she would keep the other Asari close.
Liara smiled and took the pistol, connecting it to Falere’s belt. “I am sure you known enough.” She said and stood. “You probably will not need to use it, but you will have it just in case.” They were both biotics, powerful biotics, but Liara had never really seen Falere in any sort of combat.
Falere looked at her for a moment as if she had two head. Running around a strange forest after some pilot that was crazy enough to ram their ship, was not her idea of a good time. She was more of the office, I’ll get your info and your coffee sort of person. She had shot a gun, once, out of curiosity but it was loud and rough. She preferred her biotics. “Are you sure it’s wise to hunt this unknown person. We know nothing about who it is, we have limited computers and no communications.”
Liara smiled. “We will be fine.” She said. She had never really seen combat herself until she had met Shepard. It had been Cayle who had taught her how to properly fire a gun. “Maybe we’ll get lucky and they died in the crash.”
“Or they could be hunting us down.” Falere countered.
“Only one way to find out.” Liara led them away from her ship.
The distance between the two crash sights had not been as far as it looked. It had only taken just over an hour. The Griffon had taken a lot more damage than their ship. She actually figured it was in its final resting place. She moved around to the back, her pistol drawn, she motioned for Falere to go the other direction.
She spotted the armoured figure on the ground, withering and moaning something she could not really make out. It was the blonde hair she recognized first, the short cut, usually neat hair of the assassin from Earth. She was obviously injured as she had blood on her cheek but Liara was not certain this was what was affecting her at the moment. It was simply not that kind of moaning. She moved closer and the woman snapped up to a kneeling position, shaking her head as if trying to clear it.
There was something severely wrong with the woman and she was bleeding, but from the shoulder, she could see the blood leaking out from the armour. For some reason seeing this woman hurt affected her on a level she could not understand.
“Are you ok?” Liara asked bending slightly looking into the woman’s bright green eyes. She noticed the almost fully dilated pupils. She was high on something; she had not pegged the blonde as an addict.
What happened next took Liara by storm. The woman was standing right in front of her in an instant. She was fast for an injured, drugged out human. But then Liara felt the woman’s hand cup her cheek, her thumb caressing her gently.
“You are beautiful.” The woman whispered, and then she kissed her. Liara’s hands went to her hips with the intention to push the woman away but the kiss, she had been kissed like this before. She had been kissed by these lips before. Instead of pushing the woman away she placed her hands on her hips and gripped tightly, pulling her closer.
It was as if her whole world started spinning and the only thing that was right was this kiss. Her mind, and heart were racing but her mind only focused on the kiss. Time had frozen.
“Liara.” Falere’s voice reached her, it was filled with concern. The blonde woman opened her eyes and jerked away as if she had been slapped.
“What the hell?” She sputtered.
“Cayle.” Liara whispered it was her; there was no doubt in Liara’s mind. The kiss, her voice, her lips, she imagined the woman with long black hair and blue eyes and it was Cayle. She reached out, wanting to draw the woman back to her. The Cerberus assassin jumped back as if Liara’s hand was on fire and slapped it away. She then turned and ran.
Out of the corner of her eye she saw Falere drawing her pistol and aiming it at the woman’s back.
“No!” She screamed and biotically pushed the gun away as it fired. Falere turned her head and looked to her. “No.” Liara whispered. She looked to where the woman, where Shepard had run off to, placing her fingers over her lips, still feeling the kiss. She looked to Falere. “That was her.” She stated.
Falere obviously had no idea what Liara was talking about. She turned to her boss. “That was who?”
“Shepard.”
Falere stopped for only a few moments to consider this “She’s a well-trained assassin.” They entered the Griffon. “She doesn’t even look like Shepard. She works for Cerberus, Shepard would,” She paused and thought about that. “Not work for Cerberus in that capacity.”
“She never worked for Cerberus; she just took their funding and information and used it to defeat the collectors.” Liara defended and made a face as she accidently stepped into something that caused a blue cloud around her foot.
“Ember.” Falere said.
“The box is broken; she must have inhaled this by accident.” Liara could not help but smile. “It must have been a ride.”
“I wouldn’t know and Ember doesn’t affect us.” Falere said. “Except, maybe a slight effect on our biotics.” She said. Liara looked to her.
“Well that’s not good.” They might need those; they were going after Kai Leng after all. She could only hope that it was out of their system before they found him.
“How do you figure she’s Shepard?” Falere asked finally.
“I’m not telling, I’ll just have to listen to you tell me how foolish it is.”
“Liara!?!”
Liara sighed as she made her way to the cockpit. Concern filled her as she noticed just how much blood was on the pilot’s seat. “It was in the kiss.” Liara said as she cut away a part of the bloodied seat, “The way she held me, the feel of her hands.” She looked to Falere. “It’s not something you ever forget.”
“Her communicator is still working.” Falere said. “You want me to have Mouse come down?”
“Yes, then we can track her down and hopefully she will led us to Kai Leng and we can get this over with.” She paused. Then she would find Shepard and do whatever it took to get her back.

Mouse had taken Falere back with him aboard his ship and she had teamed up with Krios. Liara felt much better knowing that Falere was now out of harm’s way.
Koylat had come a long way since Shepard and Thane had stopped him from making the biggest mistake of his life. Not that Liara was ever truly convinced that the young Drell would ever have pulled the trigger. She knew he wanted to think he could do it but not even he was completely convinced.
Krios had a good heart. He was kind and thoughtful and exceedingly smart. He was also cunning and sly and one of the most covert people she knew. He had been working for her for the better part of three years and he had never failed her in the information he was able to gather.
Today was no different.
They lay low in the bushes looking at the factory about three hundred meters away. There were three guards at the main door and two on each of the additional doors. Koylat had confirmed that Kai Leng was inside. He had two of his Phantoms with him and the rumour was he had something that Cerberus wanted, something essential to whatever they took from the Eclipse. He had just not been able to figure out what it was. He did know that there was some sort of an auction going on inside via the extranet.
“I don’t think the front door approach would be best.” Liara said. “Any roof access?”
“That would not be easy. He has guards all over the place and I am sure someone would see us scaling a wall.” Koylat said. “However on the other side there is this one entrance. It has two guards but one of them smokes and the other doesn’t like it so he goes for a walk while he does. We could take them out one at a time.”
Liara scowled slightly, she and Koylat would not be able to take on two Phantoms as well as Kai Leng. She certainly did not want to involve Falere or Mouse. They would simply be fodder and Liara would not allow that. She would have to come up with a spectacular plan.
She suddenly wished Tali and Garrus were here. Tali could hack into anything. She had been good during the war but gotten so much better since. Tali often helped her get some deeply buried information. Garrus would have been a welcomed gun on this outing. They had children to think of now and Liara would never endanger that.
“Falere told me about the Cerberus assassin.” Koylat said turning to face her.
“Falere talks too much.” Liara said a little bit angry.
“She is just worried about you, as am I. We have become a little bit of a family, the lot of us.” Koylat said. “None of us want to see you get hurt.”
Liara looked to him for a minute. “It was Cayle.” Liara said. “I understand now is not the time to chase her and we need to find out what Cerberus did to her, but when this Kai Leng business is over, we will be dealing with it.”
“And what if it’s not her, just someone like her?”
Liara sighed and looked down. They did not understand, they did not believe. It didn’t matter she believed, she would bring Cayle back. “What are the chances of that?”
“Better than the chances of Shepard surviving the blast on the Citadel, getting kidnaped by Cerberus and transferred into some assassin woman.” Koylat said.
He was right, they had all become like a family and Koylat was that wise older brother. He and Falere were her closest with Mouse being that weird cousin and Javik being that older reclusive weird and opinionated Uncle. She had hoped they would have least supported her in her beliefs.
“She was never found.” Liara countered.
“Hundred and thousands of people were never found. From what I understand there was not much of Admiral Anderson to bury and he was slightly away from the blast. Liara, please I worry that you could really get hurt.”
She smiled to him and resisted the urge to hug him. “I will be fine.” She said simply. “Let’s go to the other side and wait for that guard to go for a smoke.”
She let Koylat guide her around. He had been the one that had spent hours scouting the place out and admittedly he was better than her at this sort of thing. She had not really done anything like this in five years.
As they moved her mind wandered. She knew why her friends had their doubts, why they were all concerned, but she knew. She was absolutely sure that the blonde woman was Shepard. She was a little bit less sure on how Cayle had become a Cerberus assassin, but she knew there was an answer. She knew it in her heart the instant their lips touched. The question now was how to get her back.
“I don’t remember anything.” She remembered Cayle saying, the scene replayed in her head. Edi had shown Shepard a program about the Lazarus project. She remember the tone in the Spectres voice, she had never heard it before, doubt, confusion, fear. Her heart had gone out to her lover as she struggled to understand what had happened to her. What Liara had allowed to happen to her.
“Maybe they really just fixed me, or maybe I’m just a high tech VI that thinks its Commander Shepard. But I don’t know…”
“I wish you told me Shepard. I knew it was really you the first time I touched you again.” Liara had tried to console her. It was true though, literally the first time on Illium, where they touched and Shepard had kissed her, she knew it was Shepard and not something Cerberus had built. She knew it now and she was going to get her lover back.
She felt Koylat grabbed her and pull her down with a jerk; she fell to her knees behind some tall grass, looking She looked around and then to him.
“Over there, just behind that jeep.” He said and pointed. She saw it immediately, the human laying on the ground, a pool of blood around his head. She looked to the second guard who she had thought, at first, was leaning against the jeep. She now realized he was wedged between the pile of boxes and the corner panel and was not moving, his head angled awkwardly. “It seems as though your ghost has been here.”
“Well we seem to be after the same thing.” Liara said. “If we get lucky, she wants him dead as well.”
“Yes but if she get whatever it is he has it will go back to Cerberus and I somehow do not think that’s a good thing.”
They moved again, past the two dead guards and into the complex. Once inside he activated his scanner. “There is a room closer to the middle and two flights down. It contains three people. You friend is approaching the room.”
She nodded and let him lead, as she withdrew her pistol. The scanners were never fully accurate and she wanted to make sure she could cover her partner. “I’m thinking we let your friend take out the phantoms and then we race her for Kai Leng. I have a bag of that Ember that is so useful on humans. Falere thought it might come in handy.”
Liara nodded slowly. She more than certainly did not want to drug this woman knowing it was Shepard, but she was deadly and they did not need another threat. Besides, they could use it to subdue her and return her to the Alliance and let them figure everything out. No, Liara mentally shook her head, she would not be taking Cayle back to the Alliance, she would bring her home and try and fix it herself.
“Let’s go see what we have first.” Liara answered.
They traveled down a set of stairs to the level they required, it was only a short trip to the room that was hopefully housing Kai Leng. They could hear fighting before they even reached the room. Koylat entered first with Liara at his heels.
The blonde woman, Cayle, was indeed there and was already in the heat of battle. One of the Phantoms lay dead off to the side of the room and the Cerberus agent was head to head with Kai Leng with a second Phantom standing back as if waiting.
The fight was fast, almost dizzying as they beat on each other but it was obvious woman was getting tired and faltering. Kai Leng had that smug smirk on his face he always had. Liara remembered that Cayle was injured.
“What are we doing boss?” Koylat asked.
Liara watched, not sure what to do. Had it been anyone else down there she would have waited and simply eliminated the victor.
“Just hand over the control device, Kai.” She heard Sheppard say.
“Now why would I do that, I’m winning.” The ex-Cerberus officer said. He was playing with her. She was too injured to keep up with him yet she fought anyway. It just convinced her further that the blonde was indeed Shepard. “I like this, can we call this foreplay?”
The Assassin grunted her response and attacked once again but Kai Leng danced around her attack and punched her on the side of the face. She snapped around and came back firing her pistol. Leng was forced to back pedal and move for cover. Shepard gave him no space though as she charged into him causing them to fall to the ground.
Liara actually smiled as she watch the woman lift bag from Leng’s belt and place it on her own. The man had not noticed it as he threw her off.
“Lissa I have the power. The Ambassador can’t do anything without the device.” Kai Leng said as they circled each other. Liara raised her pistol not liking where this conversation was going. “Come with me and we can beat him together.”
“What are you doing?” Koylat whispered.
“She has the device, we get her out of here and we can take it from her.” Liara lied. Her heart was beating hard in her chest. She was not going to let this bastard take Cayle away from her, not when she just found her again.
“I’d rather rot in hell.” Shepard said. Liara could not help but smiled slightly. ~That’s my girl. ~ She thought to herself.
Kai Leng’s smile turned into a scowl. Gripping his sword tightly he launched at the woman. Cayle moved back wards ducking from his blade and using her arm plating to block. She smiled slightly as she moved backwards. Suddenly she had a sticky grenade in her hand; Cayle hit him with it and rolled back and towards the door.
“Good night.” She said and ran as the Phantom suddenly spurred into motion. Leng was already swatting the grenade away but the blast sent him flying. Liara pushed at Koylat and they used the distraction to exit the building themselves.
“We need to find her.” Liara said. She needed to find her. She wanted her Shepard back.
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