Originally posted by Claptrap
As Liara entered her office, she quickly pushed the trash that had been strewn across the floor into a pile behind her desk with a quick burst of biotic energy. She then slowly sat down, placed her dinner on the left side of her desk and pressed the voice command key on her computer.
"Call Commander Jane Shepard". Liara said in a half-whisper.
"Acknowledged". The computer automatically said back.
Aboard the Normandy SR-2, Commander Shepard was alone in her private room reviewing the battle against the Collectors in her head. The Illusive Man, the leader of Cerberus and Shepard's as-of-now former boss, was not happy with her decision to destroy the Collectors' base, which he had wanted for himself. And while miraculously not one member of Shepard's team had died during the attack, Shepard had no clue when or where the Reapers might attack again. She was running out of plausable ideas to prepare or plan an offensive against her ancient enemies. Some of the more agressive crew members, namely Jack, were becoming restless, and Shepard knew that she was going to need some kind of mission to distract them.
"Uh, Commander..." Shepard's pilot, Joker said over the ship's intercom. "You have a call coming in from Liara, do you want me to patch it through"?
"Of course". Shepard answered, suddenly focusing back on reality.
Shepard walked over to the private computer in her room, where she quickly opened up the video call.
"Shepard". Liara's picture on the screen said, "I heard that your mission was a success".
"Yes it did". Shepard answered back with a smile "How goes the hunt for the Shadow Broaker?"
"Not so well..." Liara answered back. "I seems that all of my best leads this week have hit a dead end".
" Is there any way that I could help?" Shepard inquired.
"There is something" Liara replied. "I have one plausable lead left, but I can't do anything myself. I was calling to ask if you might be able to help me."
"If it doing this helps you, then of course I'll do my part." Shepard quickly followed-up, "I should be able to reach Illium by tomorrow morning."
"Thank you, Shepard". Liara answered finally letting loose of her serious tone and cracking the first smile Shepard had seen from her fellow, blue crew member since their first mission together against Saren. " I will be able to give you more information once you arrive," Liara concluded. With the final words uttered, Liara's picture disapeared from Shepard's screen in a short flash.
Shepard took a moment to ponder the call. Liara's face seemed to be slightly rounder than it had been the last time she had seen her, and Shepard couldn't help but think that there was a slight improvement to Liara's overall figure. Or maybe Liara's new found heft was all in her head...she knew she'd find out for sure tomorrow on Illium.
"Maybe I should bring her a gift." Shepard thought, as she discreetly put in an order for a obscenely large box of exotic choclates to be picked up at the Nos Astra Port. She figured she could swing by quickly on arrival at Illium.
The next morning, Liara awoke to find that she had once again fallen alseep in her office chair. It could have been her imagination but it seemed to Liara that the chair was getting softer. "I guess I've finally manage to break this chair in," she quietly said to herself. She glanced at the clock and noticed that she still had a few hours before she would be expecting Shepard, and knew that she would need something to pass the time.
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