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Tali and Shepard's Citadel Date Part 2

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                                           Tali And Shepard's Citadel Date Part  2
"What?"

Shepard laugh at Tali's confused reaction. "I'm asking you if you want to go out with me and enjoy the Citadel as my girlfriend?"

It was a soon as those words left his mouth that Tali had finally realized what he was asking. John Shepard was asking to spend more time with her. In Public. With her.

Suddenly Tali's emotions exploded into utter bliss. She hugged Shepard even tighter than before and began to cry her tears of happiness and replied "Yes! A thousand times yes Shepard!"

"Well that's good because if you had said no I might not have survived the trauma of rejection" he replied with a chuckle. This resulted in a chuckle from her lips as well, replacing the tears of happiness that were being produced by her.

"So not that the hard part is over, where would you like me to take you Miss vas Normandy?"

"I thought it was custom for the person who asks out the other person to handle the details?" she replied in sweet mockery.

"You're right. So would you like to accompany me to go to see the new Blasto movie?"

"John those movies are terrible!" she replied with a giggle.

"Well you are asking a man what he wants to do, that usually involves explosions, action or eating. We've had thousand years to evolve but some things never change." he replied with a shrug.

"Well like usual it looks like it's up to me to fix that. I hear there is a nice store that sells tech upgrades and I know you recently got some Alliance finance with a few extra zeroes..." she began to imply with the evil grin that Shepard knew all to well.

"If that's what it takes to make you feel better me and my wallet are ready to sacrifice whatever it takes to make you feel happy, just try to remember I still have to use this money to help us save the universe so try not to get me to spend it all in one place."

"Shepard I would never do that to you, besides you still need to buy me dinner after our shopping spree."

"You drive a hard bargain Ms. vas Normandy."

"Well you did say I was worth it."
He smiled and put his forehead on her helmet, the Quarian equivalent to a kiss he had learned, and said

"You will always be worth it Tali. Now come on, its time to show the world you are mine."
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                                             (Zakera Ward)
"Welcome to Hernandez and Liana Electronics! How can I help you 2 fine people today?" announced the human cashier to Shepard and Tali as they walked into the store.

"Yes we were wondering if you have any upgrades for a standard Alliance Combat Drone?" asked Tali.

"We sure do ma'am! We got all sorts of upgrades for combat drones, sentry turrets, omni-tools and whole other tech stuff! What type of upgrades would you like?" replied the cashier with excitement.

"Well I want Chiktikka vas Paus to have a longer range of attacks and a good defense but I can't seem to be able to do that without causing her power to drain at a rapid rate, do you have any ideas what I would need?"

"Well you could probably install a Geth Holographic interface, after the Geth joined our side they've been sharing some of their tech. With that interface you can stabilize the the attacks and the shield output so that they don't drain their energy supply so quick." he replied.

"That sounds great! Do you have any on you this moment?" Tali replied excitedly.

"Let me check" he answered. He then turned to the door behind the counter and opening it he yells "Liana do we still any of those Geth holographic interface?"

"We sure do, I'll bring one up!" replied a synthesized voice.

"It will be here in a few minutes, so you folks been on the Citadel long?"

"We are on leave to restock on supplies. I'm Commander Shepard and this is Admiral Tali'Zorah vas Normandy" replied Shepard.

"Commander Shepard? It's an honor to you have you in our store! I used to be N7 too. Ex-N7 Captain David Hernandez" replied the cashier with a salute.

"David Hernandez? I've heard of you, you made the longest kill recorded in all the universe. I've heard it still hasn't been broken yet."

"Well that's good because that shot was a pain in the ass to do and I would hate for it to be broken so easily" replied Hernandez with chuckle.

"Why did you retire?"

"I was on a mission where it was either to abandon a colony or save a military structure and I chose the colony. The brass didn't like it but they couldn't exactly court martial me without looking bad, so they discharged me honorably and sent me on my way with a few thousand credits and a promise to not reveal any information on the subject" he answered with shrug.

"That's horrible!" yelled Tali.

"Ah it doesn't bother me anymore, besides I was going to retire anyway they just sped up the process. It was getting to political for my tastes" he replied with another shrug.

"Here you go Hernandez" said a Quarian as she came out of the backroom, handing the package to Hernandez.

"Liana is that you?" asked Tali

Liana turned her head towards the direction of Tali. She stepped back in surprise and put her hand to her helmet.

"Tali Zorah! It's been ages since I last saw you. Come here and give your cousin a hug!"

The two embraced and quickly began to begin to question each other.

"Tali are you going to introduce me?" interrupted Shepard with a grin

"Oh Shepard I'm so sorry! This is Liana'Zorah vas Nemma, my cousin. We were the best of friends when we were little kids. I haven't seen her since we both left for our Pilgrimage. What have you've been up to Liana?"

"Well I was a mechanic on the Citadel before the Geth attack hit, then I was fired because I was they blamed us for the Geth. I tried looking for work but no one wanted a Quarian" she replied as her head bowed down out of sadness for the dark times she suffered in.

"Then how did you end up here?" asked Shepard out of curiosity.

"Well I was walking to the Turian Shelter when some people came out of no where and tried to attack me. Apparently they were Cerberus soldiers who were looking for Quarians for some experiment. They almost got me but then David came out of no where and killed them all. He took me to a medical clinic to get me checked out then I never saw him again. So then I spent a few weeks trying to figure out who he was and when I found out I tracked him down and I tried to give him my thanks and I ended up saving his life instead."

"How did that happen?" asked Tali who turned to Hernandez who was trying his hardest not to let his blush show.

"He was trying to re-purpose a K-9 unit to serve as a guard dog but all that did was put him in permanent attack mode. I got there just in time to disable it. After that he offered me a job at his store and that's how I got here."

"That is so nice of you" stated Tali .

"It's the least I could do for her. Besides I saw what she did with that K-9 unit and I was really impressed, anyway your part is ready if you want I could have it shipped to your ship."

"Thank you and sure."

"Anytime Commander."

"I'm sorry Tali but we have to leave in 3 hours and we still need to find dinner" said Shepard after he turned his attention back to Tali.

"Well if you are looking for a good place to eat I recommend you go to Rusty's. They serve great Quarian, Turian, and Human food, the only issue is the reservation but i can pull a few strings and get you in today. Here let me send the request and the location" interrupted Hernandez with smile.

"Thank you but why would you do that?" asked Tali.

"Well a friend of Liana is a friend of mine! Besides a couple like you would probably be hungry after staying here for over an hour" replied Hernandez with another smile.

At the mention of the word 'couple' Tali began to blush and looked away from Hernandez. Liana had noticed this and said "So are you and the Commander are together?"

Tali started to play with her hands, something she did when she was nervous, and looked towards the ground, the way I child does when they are caught by their mother doing something that might have gotten them in trouble.

Shepard took notice of this and put his hand around her waist and pull her to his side. He then turned to Liana and stated "We are together."

Liana looked between Shepard and Tali and after a few moments nodded in approval.

"Well congratulations Tali, you sure know ho to pick them! Besides he's not bad, for human anyway" she responded with a giggle.

Suddenly Tali's nervousness disappeared and was replaced with a joyous fit of laughter. Soon Hernandez joined in followed by Shepard.

Their laughter filled the store, drawing attention from the other patrons who began to wonder what was going on. Some noticed the human holding the Quarian closely and began to question if they were in a relationship.

Suddenly Hernandez's Omni-tool chirped, interrupting his laughter as he drew his attention toward the device.

"Okay your reservation is set for 5:00, which is in 15 minutes so I suggest you hurry!"
"15 minutes! Come on Shepard we've got to hurry! Thank you for everything and I'll talk to you soon Liana!" yelled Tali as she took Shepard's hand and dragged him out of the store with her in the lead.

"See you later Tali" yelled back Liana. She watched as the couple pushed through crowds to get to their destination, drawing confused glances along the way.

"They look like a nice a couple" stated Hernandez as soon as Liana returned to behind the counter and began to get back to work.

Liana did not notice that statement as she was to busy listening to the gossip being spread throughout their store.

"Was that Commander Shepard?"

"Who was that Quarian he was with?"

"Are they together?"

She smiled at the last question and finally replied,"Yeah, they do."
The 2nd part to Tali and Shepard's date. It was originally only going to be 2 parts but I decided to make it a 3 part story. I'm so sorry but I got to creative and I just couldn't stop writing. Hernandez(Soldier) and Liana(Engineer) are actually part of my multi-player squads but I decided to add them to the story.
I hope you like this chapter and keep in touch for the next part which will be a little more romantic :).

Please Review and if you have any ideas for the next chapter I'm all ears.

I own no one in this story except Hernandez and Liana. Everybody else belongs to Bioware.
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Sipioc's avatar
Ya gotta love Tali the girl who doesn't know how beautiful she is. Good work but you should link the chapters