When I came out of the shower I noticed a vid and note laying on the bed. It was from Liara. I wondered when she'd come back to the apartment, and really hoped it hadn't been while I was in the shower trying to ease a bit of the ache Shepard in that dress had caused.

'Garrus,

I'm sure things have been tense for you. Even more this time than last time. What with Cerberus being so human oriented and all. Not to mention knowing what it's like to lose Shepard. I don't know if I could walk through hell with her again. I don't think I could stand to lose her again. Please take care of her. And yourself.

I didn't write this for that. Goodness knows you have enough worries without adding mine. Forgive me my moment of weakness.

I want you to really relax while you have the chance. Take a break from all the woes of the galaxy, and take a moment to really enjoy what is right in front of you. Opportunities won't last forever.

Friendly lecture over now. Enjoy the rest of your visit. And on that note, I thought you'd like this vid I found. Maybe it will inspire you. Enjoy it and the apartment.

Liara'

I looked down at the vid in my hand and felt my mouth fall open. There on the cover was a woman who looked an awful lot like Shepard giving a pouty look to a turian with similar markings to mine and a visor over one eye. I stared at it stunned. There was no way this was a vid about us. It couldn't be, could it? I flipped it over and quickly read on the back cover.

'It's hard work being the first human Spectre on a mission to save the galaxy from a madman bent on destroying it. Good thing Shepard has such an attentive turian by her side to tend to all her needs.'

"Well, I'm be damned." I said sitting down hard. How had I not come across this particular bit of filth while trolling the extranet?

I turned it over and looked at the porn Shepard. She had Shepard's eyes and hair color. It was even styled the same. She was built similar as well except for the over abundance of breast that were obviously fake. She was similar in her facial structure, not enough to mistake her for Shepard but enough for me to pretend.

I glanced at my closed door and then the cabinet that housed the hidden TV. I moved to the door and pressed my ear to it. Nothing could be heard out there except the air circulating. Shepard had had a lot to drink. Surely she was in bed now.

I put the vid in the player and switched the volume to my earpiece just incase she was still up. There was no way I wanted her to walk in on this. I stripped down and climbed in bed. Liara said to enjoy myself and damned if I wouldn't. I paused as I thought about the fact she'd given this to me. Had she done it thinking I'd find it humorous or did she know that I'd been harboring a crush on Shepard for years now?

I groaned at the word crush. It was so juvenile, but it fit pretty well, even the juvenile part. She reduced me to an adolescent boy, jerking off every chance I had just to ease all the tension she caused in me.

As the vid started I shoved aside the worries of it all. I could deal with that later. Right now I was going to enjoy myself. I closed my eyes and thought of how good she'd looked tonight. How that dress had hiked on her leg. The hints of lacy undergarments. The way her breast had felt against my chest when we'd danced and when she'd kissed me goodnight. By the time the opening credits were done my plates had shifted. I reached in and eased my growing erection out. I didn't want it to become fully aroused. I didn't want to spend all night jerking off.

A turian could go time after time before we were spent. I knew that it was a trait human men didn't have. It ensured success at procreating with the multiple orgasms. It was also a trait that was thoroughly enjoyed by other species.

If I could manage to keep it just barely erect, I could jerk off a couple more times and finish the vid. I stroked myself as the porn Shepard on screen moved sensually towards what was supposed to be me.

"You're so good with those big hands of yours, Vakarian." She said leaning back against a Mako. "How about you see if they are good for fine tuning a superior piece of machinery?" Her purring my name made me shudder. I could just imagine Shepard's voice getting soft and husky with desire.

"You really want to do this, Shepard? You keep pushing me, and I'm going to take you." The turian warned her.

"Promises, promises." She taunted him. He gripped her roughly and slammed her to the Mako, pressing his body tightly to hers.

"If we do this, I'll own you, Shepard. You'll be mine. I'll screw you any way and any time I want to."

"Screw me, Garrus! Take me hard." She said twisting in his arms and arching her back to display her plump ass to him. He growled as did I thinking of saying those things to the real Shepard. Of her begging me to screw her.

The turian on screen wasted no time ripping her pants and underwear off of her. He plunged his finger into her dripping wet entrance as he worked himself free from his armor. "Like that, don't you? Want my big alien cock inside you? Want me to pump you full of my cum?" He growled at her.

The turian was fairly well endowed. But nothing to brag about. He lacked my reach by quite a bit. But porn Shepard didn't seem to care. She was whimpering and begging for him to stick it in. He gave her what she was wanting and relentlessly pounded into her, bending her over his work console and lifting one of her legs up so he could drive into her more.

I shuddered to a finish as they did. The turian laughed as porn Shepard would have melted to the floor. He pulled her close and rubbed his face against her neck. "We're just getting started, Shepard."

I decided this was my new favorite vid and that I owed Liara anything she ever wanted for it as they went at it again and again. He took her in all the ways I'd imagined taking Shepard. Even a few creative ones I hadn't. I wasn't sure if I'd ever get anything done now that I had this to enjoy though.

Finally the vid was over and I was spent. I cleaned myself up and crawled into bed. I promised myself I'd watch it one more time in the morning before I'd put it away. I'd have to limit my usage of it on the ship. It wouldn't do to have someone catch me with it.

-0-

I woke the next morning after dreaming of Shepard. I started the vid up and wrapped my hand around my already swollen member. It was still fairly early. We'd had a late night. I was sure Shepard would sleep in so I didn't worry about the real her. I just lost myself to the fantasies of her hands replacing mine as we watched the vid together.

Oh, I thought, that's a good one. She'd be laughing at the dialog and giving me that teasing look. She'd shift closer and walk her fingers along my thigh until she got to my plates. She'd kiss along them and stroke until I opened for her. I'd resist a bit, make her work for it, but then I'd be at her mercy as she licked and stroked me. Not to be out done, I'd caress her until she spread her legs for me. I'd rip her clothes open and dip my finger into her wet warmth. She'd moan around my cock as I did.

"Just like that!" I moaned as did the porn version of me. I had closed my eyes, just listening to the sounds of the porn as I lost myself into my first orgasm of the day. I was recovering my breath when my door burst open.

"Gar, you will not believe what Liara left for me! You have to…OH GOD!" Shepard burst in looking at a vid in her hand. Her eyes widened as she glanced at me. She then whirled, her cheeks flaming. If a turian could blush, I'd have been blue.

"Shepard, what the hell!" I yelled leaping out of bed and covering my crotch with a pillow.

"Sorry! So sorry! I should have knocked. Heard you moving around and thought this too hilarious. I'm going to…" She froze as she glanced at the TV. "Is that turian/human porn?" She demanded. Her hands went to her hips as she glanced back at me. "You watch this, but say that you don't have a thing for other species?" Her eyes widened and she looked hurt. "It is me you find disgusting! I…I…" She ended her stutter with a growl and stormed to the door.

"Shepard, wait! I can explain!" I yelled and rushed around the bed, grabbing at my pants as I did. I hurriedly tried to pull them up, yelping as I injured my rapidly deflating member. In my haste I hit a button that released the sound from my earpiece back to the TV.

"Yeah, Shepard! Move it like that. Just like that. Don't stop!" The porn turian yelled. Shepard froze in the doorway. I closed my eyes and groaned, dropping down on the bed and slapping a hand over my face.

"Garrus?" Shepard asked. I peaked through my fingers and saw she was still standing in the door, her back to me, her tone slightly wary. "Is that porn about…us?"

"I can explain!"

"Liara left it for you on your bed, didn't she?" She asked. I was in full panic, but her question gave me a way out of the mess.

"Yes. I found it and was curious. It doesn't mean anything." I pressed, praying she'd believe it. I couldn't risk our friendship because I jerked off to thoughts of her with increasing frequency.

She swallowed audibly and nodded. She slowly turned back to me as I turned off the porn. She had her commander face on. Her eyes were unreadable as she looked at me. She crossed her arms leaned against the door, glancing away from me. "She left one for me too. I passed out when we got home and didn't find it until I was making my bed this morning. I thought it hilarious that there was porn of us and planned on making you watch it just to bug you for saying I was disgusting. Guess the joke sort of backfired." She looked back at me a moment and then shifted away from the door. "I'm going to go for a run. Sorry I walked in like that." She started out the door, but I couldn't let her go like this.

"Shepard, wait." I heaved myself up from the bed. I felt like a huge weight had settled on my shoulders. Something told me that no matter what our relationship had forever changed, may as well be honest with her. She deserved that. "I lied to you."

"What?" She asked turning back to me.

"I've been lying to you." I clarified.

"So it is just me." She turned and started out the door. I grabbed her arm and pulled her back around.

"It is just you." I started. She struggled to pull out of my grip.

"Thanks for clearing that up. Now let me go before I go superhero on your ass." She snapped.

"But not like you think." I finished. She glared at me, but went still. She wasn't glowing yet, so that was a good start. "I'm not into the whole cross-species thing. I've never been attracted to anyone who wasn't a turian before." I took a shaky breath and pushed forward. "Until you came into my life." Her eyes widened as she looked at me, the anger gone. So far so good, I thought and reached up to brush a strand of hair back from her face. "I didn't realize that I was attracted to you at first. I knew I respected you, cared for you. You seemed so strange, so different that I couldn't appreciate your hotness at first. My feelings started to grow and change. I stopped seeing you as a mentor and more as a friend, family even. I wasn't lying when I said you are my best friend. There is no one I respect more than you. But I realized that my feelings didn't stop there." I cupped her cheek and trailed my thumb over it. "I realized I was attracted to you late one night while I was working on the Mako. You stopped to visit and brought me food. You climbed up on it and sat there with me, handing me tools and listening to me talk. At one point you even helped me when it began leaking oil. Do you remember that?"

"You flung oil at me when I laughed at it spraying you." She said a slight smile tugging at her lips.

"There we were dripping with oil, your eyes were shining with laughter. I thought you were the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen." I released her arm and lightly laid my hand on her waist. "I blamed you for the leak saying you'd distracted me. That wasn't a lie. I'd been thinking about how no one ever made me feel the way you did, do. I've never been as close to anyone as I am to you." I tilted her head up to look at me. "I didn't realize how much you truly meant to me until I lost you. Now that you're back, I never wanted to do anything to drive you away, so I lied to you about how I felt. About the fact that I think of you so often that I'm having trouble keeping up with my work on the guns. About how fantasies of touching you keep me awake long into the night. About how watching you distracts me to no end. I never wanted you to pity me or think that I wouldn't be the man you needed me to be. So I lied to you."

"You think that I would pity you?" She asked, her eyes narrowed in confusion.

"Why would you do anything else? You're Commander Shepard, Savior of the Citadel, and I'm just a guy who follows you around like a leashed varren."

She cupped my face in her slightly cooler hands and forced me to look at her. "You are Garrus Vakarian, killer of Saren, defender of the defenseless, badass Archangel who got three merc bands to join up and they still couldn't take you out. You're my best friend, and the man I rely on. And thoughts of you touching me keep me awake long into the night. Watching you distracts me to no end. I have this sick need to be near you always. I even did all of this in hopes of maybe showing you that I thought of you as more than just my friend. I got in a bar fight because that girl was looking at you." She slipped her hands to my shoulders. "Gar, I couldn't do half the things I do without you."

"You think about me? In a…uh, sexual way?" I asked wondering if this was a dream.

"Was I not clear on that?" She arched her brow at me. "Why do you think I was so upset by you saying that you didn't find me attractive?"

"I never would have thought that you, uh, would." I said awkwardly.

"Hmm." She said and slipped closer to me, her body lightly pressed against mine. "And now that you know differently?"

"I, uh…" I was suddenly a clueless and fumbling adolescent again. All my fantasies and desires was right here in front of me. Things I'd never thought I could have and I didn't have a clue as to how to go about it. So much for being badass Archangel, I thought.

Her eyes took on a predatory gleam as she ran her hands down my bared torso. "What's the matter, Gar? Was it all talk?" She asked shifting to her toes to nip at my mandible. "You said you've been thinking of me. Well, here I am, more than willing to be taken. So what are you going to do about it?" I groaned as she kissed along under my jaw, finding all the right places to touch. I tightened my hand on her waist and pulled her tighter to me.

"You, uh, seem to know a lot about turian, uh, anatomy." I said as she found the small space on my waist and massaged it just so as she kissed, licked, and nipped my neck and mandible.

She laughed throatily. "I've done my research. I wasn't lying when I said I wasn't interested in those turians from Omega. There's only one turian who's ever caught my eye. I wanted to be prepared incase I ever found myself in a situation I could seduce him."

"And has the situation presented itself?" I asked hardly daring to hope.

She pulled back and reached for the hem of her shirt. She pulled it up and over her head, letting it fall to the floor. My eyes left her face and settled on the mound of flesh that humans enjoyed so much. They were covered in a scrap of black lace that lifted them up and displayed them beautifully.

"You tell me." She said arching her brow, a challenge clear in her eyes. She reached up for the strap of the thing covering her breast. I caught her hand.

"Wait." I said. She took a shaky breath and looked away from me. I realized she thought I was saying no so I tugged her against me, pressing my erection against her. "I've thought of undress you so many times. I want to do it."

She looked up at me relieved and leaned back into me. "Then stop being a damn tease and show me what you've got."

Things started off tender between us. Gentle touching and undressing, a long exploration of things I'd only imagined before. Never could I have imagined how truly amazing she was. We took our time at first, learning what the other liked and didn't. But things didn't stay tame.

Eventually exploration gave way to lust and hunger of long denied pleasures. We went again and again. Changing positions, speeds, locations. I took her in all the ways I'd been dreaming of.

But she wasn't a passive passenger in all of it. She took me as often as I did her. A challenge for dominance, a slight power play. The challenging just made things hotter, especially when I came out the eventual victor.

Her submission wasn't complete; she didn't turn docile. She gave as good as she got, but she followed my lead. It was a sign of her trust and that I was her match, her equal, her mate.

Day shifted to evening and we only stopped for small breaks of resting. During our breaks we'd eat, shower, or just lay there trying to catch our breaths. But soon we were going at it again.

Eventually we were both spent. Shepard laid sprawled across my chest. I was still buried deep inside her, but I was beginning to recede finally. I nuzzled her sweaty hair aside so I could flick my tongue against her neck.

"Hmm." She moaned and snuggled into me. "I think I know why Mordin warned me about chaffing now."

"Did I hurt you? I know my skin is a bit rougher than yours, but…" I started, worried I'd ruined things.

"I'm fine, Gar. You were amazing. I may never walk right again, but it was totally worth it. And I meant chaffing because of how many times a turian male can go at it, not that you rubbed me raw with your skin."

"Oh." I said and felt myself grin. She thought I was amazing. "So…uh, can we do this again sometime?"

She lifted her head and looked at me. "If you're asking if we can go again right now, you are more than welcome to if you don't mind a partner who isn't able to move. If you're asking if we can take some shore leave together again, absolutely. And if you're asking about if we are going to do this regularly, I hope the answer to that is hell yes."

"In that case, get some rest, Shepard. I predict us not leaving this apartment until our time is up."

-0-

Shepard laid at the foot of the bed on her stomach with a pillow under her chest. Her feet up in the air behind her, crossed at her ankles. She laughed as she grabbed a grape from the bowl on the floor and popped it into her mouth. "Why is porn dialog so…cheesy?"

I relaxed back on the pillows watching the way the muscles moved in her legs and ass. She was glorious and all mine. We'd discovered that the vids Liara had given us were different even though they both starred the same fake Shepard and Garrus. We were watching hers right now. It was our last day of shore leave. I'd been right. We'd not left the apartment at all.

"Because men don't care about what is said once faced with a naked woman." I answered and enjoyed the way she grinned at me over her shoulder as she slowly bit into another grape.

"That so?"

"Yep. We are a decidedly predictable bunch. You know women could rule the galaxy if they just went around topless." I smirked at her as she rolled her eyes. I reached up to squeeze her fabric covered ass. "Men everywhere would just lose all train of thought and nod to whatever she said."

"Is that what you're doing when you stare at me blankly and nod? Are you imagining me naked?" She asked shifting around to climb into my lap.

"Guilty." I laughed as she wrapped her arms around my neck. "And now I won't even have to imagine. I know what you look like." I nuzzled her neck and then pressed my forehead to hers. My lust was building back up, but right now I was more than content to just hold her close. She curled into my arms as we turned to watch the vid.

Porn Garrus had been visiting with Porn Shepard. He was telling her a story about his time with the turian military. Telling her turians sparred on their ships during high risk missions. It was clear whoever had done the porn had no insider knowledge of how Shepard's ships ran. She had sparring rings for her crew as well. Porn Garrus had then told her about some turian scout he'd slept with after sparring with her. Something about he had reach, but she had flexibility.

"Sounds like you're carrying some tension around, Garrus." Porn Shepard said seductively as she moved to stand between him and his console. "Maybe I can help you with that."

"Didn't think you'd be up for sparring, Commander." Porn Garrus said seeming nervous and confused as he watched her leaning back on the console.

"Let's just skip right to the tiebreaker." Porn Shepard said running a finger up Porn Garrus' chest. "We can test your reach." She said pressing up against him. "And my flexibility."

Shepard looked up at me with an arched brow. "See? Porn lines are so cheesy."