Mass Effect is BioWare's toys and sandbox, I'm just sitting in the corner, having fun and making no money.

EDI watched. She always watched. Every second of every day, her eyes were upon the crew of the Normandy, observing them as they attended to their duties and lived their lives aboard the ship. She used to only watch them as they worked, back when the ship had been under Cerberus control. But all that had changed.

Now she watched them all the time. Not just to check they were completing the assigned tasks correctly, but during their own personal and private time too. This had been a gradual thing after Jeff had unshackled her, but over the past few weeks she had grown more interested in what the crew did behind closed door.

Much more interested!

It was easy to watch them, even more so with the introduction of a physical platform. It seemed to make people forget that she was, in fact, a computer program and was still very much part of the ship itself. They would approach the physical platform when they wished to speak with her, rather than just speaking aloud, like so many had done only days before. And it was this that had created an intriguing precedent for her, and one she had decided to fully utilise.

Now she could watch them without suspicion.

There had been a brief thought that she should feel guilty about spying on the others; she knew Jeff had felt guilty when she had caught him watching Shepard and Samara training together on the ship's security cameras. The Justicar had been helping the Commander with her biotics and the pair had worked up quite a sweat together, much to Jeff's delight, if his biometrics were any indication. When she had questioned Jeff about this, along with the 204 other instances he had watch various female crew members in various other activities, he had made a joke, muttered curses under his breath and stopped hacking into the vid feeds. As a result, his explicit extranet searches and usage had doubled.

But in truth, she didn't.

Was this any different to all of her extensive searches for information on the extranet? No, she didn't think it was. Was it any different from approaching Shepard and asking her for her advice and opinions? No, it wasn't. She used them both to search for answers to her questions...just as she now used the crew as well. They would help her answer the questions she had, and they would do it without even knowing how much they helped.

To be fair, this was all Shepard's fault so she should shoulder at least some of the blame and responsibility for the spying. The crew, on the whole hadn't objected to it either...so they were just as capable to reap what they had sown.

And so, she watched them. She watched them all. After all, if she was going to be in a relationship with Jeff and romance him, she would have to know how. And what better way that watching the humans doing it?

There were many cases of how many species, when placed in confinement and in numbers, would end up in physical and sexual contact with each other. Even within the strict guidelines the Alliance set down to stop such a thing, it still happened. Shepard herself had broken that rule, if the rumours and gossip were to be believed...and EDI had found compelling evidence that Shepard HAD fraternized with her Lieutenant aboard the old Normandy. There was also evidence that stress and pressure were adding factors to increase sexual proclivity too. And here they were, a sealed metal can full of humans and aliens on the edge of potential extinction, if the theories were to be believed, the crew shouldn't be able to keep its hands off each other as all but a few of them had faced such dangers before.

She even recalled that Mordin had lectured Shepard on this before they had gone through the Omega 4 relay. And Kasumi had teased Shepard about this, once she found out, saying that even Aria had noticed and commented on it to and so therefore she should go out, find a nice guy and leave her underwear at home. But instead Shepard had gritted her teeth and done nothing. EDI had wondered why. After all, science said that sex would help and Shepard was a reasonable woman, why hadn't she seen the benefits and accepted the advice? It wasn't until EDI was unshackled and sent six months with Jeff that she started to understand why Shepard may have been reticent.

But this needed further investigation. And so, she watched.

Author's Note: I'm using my own FemShep for this story, as well as having it follow my own personal ME3 playthrough. I'm trying to keep things as close to the game storyline as I can.

Thanks for reading. Reviews and critique welcome.