Shepard grinned in the dark room at Aria, their plot to surprise their respective significant others was about to come to a head. Aria had lured Thea to her apartment on Omega and had blindfolded and bound the submissive politician to a chair. Getting Liara there had been much more difficult, the information broker didn't particularly like Omega and on top of it getting her away from her self-appointed job as the Shadow Broker was always a trick.

She'd managed it by preying on her bondmate's fetish for being blind, while knowing she was protected. She'd told Liara that they would go to a city where no one knew her, and Shepard would parade her around blindfolded. The idea of being seen by strangers who she herself couldn't see had made the broker gush.

Instead Shepard had Joker dock at one of Aria's private docks, one of the only ways to Aria's private apartment, and had taken Liara straight into Aria's private playroom. Stripping the blue archaeologist had been tricky, the young asari thought they were in a semi-public place instead of a place so private only Shepard's cabin on the Normandy was more private. Still, Liara had submitted to her mistress' demands and allowed Shepard to strip her down before she bound her into a chair.

With a nod to Aria, and a silent count, both domme's ripped the blindfold's off their respective subs, who were facing each other and equally nude, at the same time.

Predictably both submissive asari squealed and attempted to cover up when they noticed they weren't alone with their domme as they had thought and were predictably and hilariously foiled by the bonds they'd allowed themselves to be put into.

Both subs recovered at almost the same time, exclaiming, "Liara?!/Tevos?!"

Shepard smirked and looked over at Aria, "Aria?!"

The pirate queen got the joke and returned it, "Shepard?!"

"What's going on Mist-Shepard/Aria!?" The two submissive's yelped at their respective mistresses.

"Just doing a little show and tell. See, we found out a while ago that both of you are submissive little pets who just love to do our bidding. Naturally, we couldn't stand to see such good friends as the two of you labor to hide this facet from each other so we brought you here. Now we're gonna have a bit of fun," Aria explained, motioning for Shepard to continue as she walked out of the pair of subs' view range.

"See. Aria was just about to go on one of her visits to the Citadel when I suggested this instead. She leapt at the chance to not only avoid having to sneak through security, but also to play a little game. The point of this game is simple. See, other than both of you being workaholics to the extreme, and submissives, you also have something else in common," Shepard paused to help Aria wheel a table into the pair's line of sight, the table was littered with all manners of instruments exceptionally well suited to tickle the living daylights out of someone. Aria and Shepard smirked when Liara and Thea exchanged panicked glances.

Aria picked right up where Shepard left off, "That's right, you're both ticklish as hell. Only, it wouldn't be any fun if it was quite as simple as we're going to tickle you now. Oh no. Shepard and I made a bet you see, I bet that I could make little Liara squeal louder and faster than she could do the same to Thea."

Both asari paled at the sadistic grins adorned by their respective domme's, though one of the pair narrowed her eyes in determination a moment later.

Several long and torturously ticklish hours later Aria gave Shepard a frown as she passed her a credit chit while the two looked over their bondmates, both of whom had passed out near the end of the events. Much to Aria's disappointment however Thea had squealed like a pig being sent to slaughter right before she passed out from overload, a full ten minutes before Liara passed out with naught but a whimper.

"What do you do to her on a regular basis to make her so unsquealable?" Aria muttered as they untied their respective subs and carried them to Aria's nearby bed to sleep their exhaustion off.

"Nothin'," Shepard grinned, pride in her bondmate echoing through her words, "That's just my girl being her usual beautiful, loyal, and, possibly most importantly, stubborn self. She squeals just fine for me."

Aria gave her a mock frown, "Don't have to rub it in. Thea isn't as stubborn as Liara is..."

Shepard just gave a smirk and sat on the bed next to Liara, stroking her slumbering bondmate's cheek with a couple fingers.

Another more tender scene played out when the pair of subs woke up, but that's a story for next time.