Reunited

Author’s notes: This is the 21st chapter in my fanfic about Captain Megan Shepard and her beautiful lover, Miranda Lawson. Yes, Christmas chapter baby! Thanks to Rikenen for reviewing so dutifully for so long, and to SihaKatieKrios and dsauer for reviewing as well! Come on people, don’t just favorite my story, review. It’s the best gift you can give to a writer. Also, the more reviews I get=the faster updates will happen. Captain Megan Shepard can be seen with Miranda Lawson in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVPIKd0LUQI

Even though it was just 29 years since humanity had joined the Council races, Christmas was already an integral and major holiday in the Council’s calendar, right alongside the major holidays such as the asaris’ holiday of Janiris, the turian New Year, and the salarians’ Festival of Fertility. That was why Captain Megan Cassandra Shepard, 2-time savior of the galaxy, the heroine of Elysium and the Citadel, first human Spectre and first female N7 graduate, and her girlfriend, Lieutenant Commander Miranda Anne Lawson, the perfect woman and top ex-Cerberus operative, found themselves in the middle of the holiday shopping throng on the Citadel on Christmas Eve. It was even complete with pseudo-snow and piped-in Christmas carols. Both women were laden with dozens of shopping bags of gifts that they had gotten for their fellow crewmembers, and yet they hadn’t finished their shopping.

“Goodness, it’s beyond crowded here!”Miranda exclaimed as she dodged past a salarian wearing a Santa hat and ringing a bell, trying to keep up with her Captain and lover. “No kidding! I’m seriously tempted to just use my biotic charge to clear a path!”Megan yelled back just to be heard over the din as the brunette finally caught up to her. “Impatience, impatience.”Miranda sighed dramatically as Megan just laughed and swung a heavy shopping bag at her, which she dodged with the genetically-given grace she was born with. “Right...don’t tell me you’re not tempted to use your biotics and fling everyone out of the way.”Megan shot back with a grin as her girlfriend sighed once more. “Guilty as charged. Anyways, I’m heading over to the Presidium to pick up some more presents. See you later honey!”Miranda smiled as she kissed Megan before heading off to the elevator.

“See you honey!”Megan called back as she headed to Kithoi Ward to meet her contact, from whom she’d ordered Miranda’s present. On the way there, she met one of the four Normandy delivery robots and handed it all of her shopping bags and it dutifully headed back to the Normandy to store the bags in her cabin which she shared with Miranda. Finally, she reached the dingy little café where she’d agreed to meet her contact from whom she’d ordered Miranda’s Christmas present. The contact was a shady turian arms dealer who specialized in getting extremely rare weapons, such as the Cerberus Skunkworks X12 Locust that Megan had bought from him. Just as Megan was about to sit down, he shook his head and motioned for her to follow him. The redhead followed him into an alley, where he procured the package from behind a dumpster.

“Okay, 6500 creds right?”Megan asked as she activated her omnitool, ready to make payment. “Not anymore, Captain Shepard. I went through...quite a few...difficulties to procure this, so the price has gone up.”The turian crook said with his mandibles extended in what was supposed to be a sly smile as Megan sighed, knowing that she’d have to start negotiating for an hour or so with this shady arms dealer. “Okay, tell me what you’re thinking.”She sighed before she gasped as the turian had grabbed her ass and roughly slammed her against himself. “Well, how about 5500 creds and you, me, and a good time right here, right now?”He purred into her ear as Megan replied with a sly smile of her own, deciding to play along with him. “Oh? Hmm...I like the sound of that.”Megan whispered throatily as she slid a hand down his pants and past his crotch plates, finding his turianhood and gently stroking it.

“Heh. So easy to do business with the great Captain Shep-ARGH!”He yelled in agony as Megan squeezed and yanked his turianhood and his quads as hard as she could before yanking her hand from his pants and he doubled over in agony. “A good time with me? Go fuck yourself you deluded asshole.”Megan bent down and got in his face, growling her threat as she wiped her hands on his clothing. The Spectre then stood up, picking up the package that contained Miranda’s present and paid him 3500 credits. “Fuck you, you human slut!”He yelled from the ground, still clutching his privates before a swift kick from Megan knocked him out. “God, save me from all these jerks.”Megan groaned as she strode out of the alley and headed to the Presidium, but not before getting her present for Miranda gift wrapped at one of the many gift wrap booths throughout the Citadel with a 2000 credit bribe to the asari who’d wrapped the pistol, making her ‘forget’ regulations against firearms.

In the meantime, Miranda was busy shopping in Dantius & Morales, which was regarded as the galaxy’s most exclusive luxury retail chain, and was formerly co-owned by Nassana Dantius and an uber-rich human man named Julio Morales, but was now solely owned by Morales as Dantius had been killed by Thane. Oh the irony. I’m shopping in the store of a woman whom I helped to kill. Miranda smiled as she browsed through the watch section as she planned to get a watch for Gardner, as he’d always talked about his ‘baby’, a gold watch that he’d lost when his colony, a settlement for eezo-miners like himself, got hit by batarians. That was why Miranda wanted to get him a new, much more valuable platinum watch as a Christmas present and a token of her thanks for teaching her how to cook Megan’s favorite dishes.

Just as she was about to pick a very exquisite one, the sounds of weapons being fired filled the air, and she saw a bunch of humans and turians dashing in and liberally looting the valuables in the store, and a human male got right in her face, his shotgun aimed right in between her eyes as the brunette mentally sighed and raised her hands. “Good girl. Now follow me, sweet cheeks.”The robber growled as Miranda meekly complied and followed him into the manager’s office, where an asari lay dead on the floor with multiple gunshots to her chest. The man then threw the corpse out of the room and ordered Miranda to kneel, which she did. Less than a minute later, the large office was filled with terrified hostages and 6 guards, and a little human girl who couldn’t be any older than 9 was kneeling next to Miranda and she was crying nonstop.

Miranda felt a twinge of pity in her heart and she hugged the girl close to herself while stroking the girl’s soft brown hair. “Hush cutie, hush now, you’re safe with me. What’s your name, and where are your parents?”Miranda whispered reassuringly as she kissed the girl on the crown of her forehead, serving to calm down the hysterical girl a little. “I’m-I’m Michaela. My daddy’s not here and they...hurt my mommy...”The girl sobbed as the Sentinel kissed her on her forehead once more. “Shh Aunt Miranda’s going to protect you from these baddies alright?”She whispered to the girl, who just buried her face into Miranda’s shoulder and nodded as the hostages heard heavy gunfire coming from outside the store. Miranda took one last look at the sobbing girl as she took a deep breath. Suddenly, she raised her hands and hit all 6 thugs with stasis.

Miranda then calmly stood up in front of all the hostages who were looking at her in a mixture of awe, admiration and hope as she drew her S5 Phalanx and shot each thug once right between their foreheads, killing them all. “Okay everyone, I need you to stay here, stay down and stay as quiet as possible.”Miranda instructed the hostages as they just nodded, still in awe of their raven-haired savior as she stalked out into the store proper. As the manager’s office faced the main entrance, Miranda could clearly see that 20 robbers had C-Sec engaged in a fierce firefight, and unfortunately for C-Sec, the robbers had excellent cover but outside of the store, cover was sparse, which was why C-Sec was taking heavy casualties. As Miranda stalked through the shelves with her Phalanx drawn, she caught sight of her girlfriend outside the store taking shots at the entrenched robbers with her S6 Carnifex.

The XO started to worry for Megan’s safety as she quickly snuck around until she was behind the robbers and behind good cover before she biotically lifted up 4 robbers and flung them far outside as the rest of the robbers spun around. Miranda managed to drop 4 robbers before her biotic barrier gave way from all the incoming rounds and she quickly ducked behind the expensive and solid asari creekwood counter and waited for her biotic barrier to regenerate itself as Megan took advantage of their crooks’ disorganization and confusion and she charged straight into 2 of them, sending them flying right into the counter Miranda had taken cover behind as Megan quickly opened fire on another 5, killing them with headshots before she had to reload. However, the robbers were bringing their weapons to bear on her, and Megan used her biotics to charge behind the same counter where her girlfriend had taken cover before she reloaded as the counter shuddered with the sheer force of so many incoming rounds.

“Hey honey! You all right?”Megan asked as she gave Miranda a peck on the lips while she popped the spent heatsink from her pistol, a birthday present from Jack. “I’m fine dear! What about you?”Miranda asked in reply as she briefly broke cover to vaporize 3 robbers with her heavy warp bolt. “Never better!”Megan yelled back as she tossed a shockwave, sending the thugs flying everywhere as she, Miranda and several C-Sec outside opened fire on the scattered hostiles, taking most of them down before a turian, a human female and male surrendered, dropping their weapons as C-Sec officers rushed up to apprehend them as the gathered crowd applauded the C-Sec officers and Megan and Miranda as they stepped out of the store and began to giggle uncontrollably when they saw Garrus in a Santa hat assisting the C-Sec officers.

A turian in medium Phantom armor and an asari in light Janissary armor approached the couple just as a C-Sec turian officer was about to lead them away to take their statements. “Good afternoon Officer, I’m Verlus Kryig with the Special Tactics and Recon branch, and this my partner, Nyla T’Lokk. I’m afraid that you will not be able to question Captain Megan Shepard and Lieutenant Commander Miranda Lawson as we need to report to their ship immediately without further incident. Rest assured that I will personally send you a report of both the Captain’s and LTC’s statements ASAP.”The turian Spectre said as the officer just nodded, grumbling something under his breath about how big a pain in the ass Spectres tended to be as he walked off to report to his CO. “Excuse me, but why do you need to report to our ship?”Miranda asked the duo and the asari replied.

“Well LTC Lawson, I’m not sure if you received the memo from Councilor Anderson regarding our permanent posting to the Normandy, but we’re your new crewmembers.”Nyla replied as Miranda slapped her palm against her forehead. “But of course! How the bloody hell could I be so forgetful! Hang on, I need to get something first, then we’ll head back to the Normandy.”The brunette apologized before she walked back into the store before reappearing with an immaculately gift-wrapped box. “So, what is this that made you go back into a shot up store to get it?”Verlus asked as the foursome walked back to the docks. “It’s a present for our ship’s cook, who has been really keeping our morale up the whole time.”Miranda smiled as they passed by Garrus, who stared at Verlus, and the Spectre stared back before they shoulder bumped. “Verlus you old bastard!”Garrus greeted happily as they shook talons.

“Garrus Vakarian you old troublemaker!”Verlus grinned as Garrus fell in step with the group. “Garrus, you know Verlus?”Megan asked as Garrus nodded. “He was serving in the same ship that I was. Remember that recon scout I told you about? Well, he got his ass handed to him by her-OW!”Garrus yelped when Verlus clocked him on the back of his head as Nyla, Megan and Miranda began giggling as Garrus gave his turian buddy a whipped-pup look when Verlus said “Shut up, idiot.”The turian Spectre growled as Garrus immediately shut up and began rubbing the back of his head, much to the amusement of the 3 women as they walked back to the Normandy. The minute they got back, Megan and Miranda showed both Spectres around the ship, and meeting all the crewmembers that were still there. Surprisingly, Nyla had heard of Thomas before, and they filled everyone in on how Nyla was pursuing Thomas after an assassination done by the sniper a decade back, but she failed to catch the wily Brit.

After the 2 new additions told their tales, Megan broke in and got them back to business. “Alright, your bags are in the crew quarters, but first...shooting competition. Thomas, do you mind showing them to the range?”The redhead asked as Thomas just nodded and smiled, knowing full well he was going to go up against some stiff competition as Verlus was also a sniper. As they were heading down to the range, Samara came out of the starboard observation deck and Nyla gasped. “Grandaunt Samara?”She gasped as Samara’s blue eyes widened. “Nyla! You’re a Spectre?”Samara asked as she joined them in the lift, and Megan began to get a sneaking feeling that Anderson had purposely assigned Verlus and Nyla to her ship as they had connections on board the ship. Once they were there, Thomas broke out his favorite Geth Pulse Rifle and handed one each to both Spectres and they began their competition, working their way up to sniper rifles eventually.

Needless to say, Thomas won in all categories, but he very nearly lost out to Verlus in the sniping competition as Verlus was a very good shot. The turian was better at rapid sniping, but Thomas was still superior at long-range sniping. Finally, with the shooting competition done, Miranda showed Nyla to the female quarters and Thomas showed Verlus to the male quarters as they discussed sniping techniques, and Nyla happened to get the bunk below Jentha’s, and Jentha was snoring loudly as she napped. “Does she always snore this loud?”Nyla chuckled as she unpacked her belongings, causing Miranda to let out a small laugh. “I’ve heard that it gets worse sometimes.”Miranda giggled as Nyla sighed in mock exasperation. Unable to stand Jentha’s snoring anymore; Miranda reached up and shook Jentha awake. “Hey Jenny, you’re irritating our newest crewmember with your monstrous snoring!”Miranda said with a big grin on her face.

“Huh? Wha...new crewmember?”Jentha mumbled sleepily, rubbing the sleep from her eyes as she jumped off her bunk, only to collide into Nyla. “Oof!” “Ouch! Hey!” Both Jentha and Nyla cried out as the Latina engineer knocked both of them to the ground. “Oh so sorry...uh...wow.”Jentha stammered as she unwittingly ogled at Nyla as both women stood up under the mirthful gaze of Miranda Lawson. “Um...I’m Nyla...and you are...Jenny?”Nyla said uncertainly as she offered a hand to Jentha, who simply couldn’t take her eyes off of Nyla’s face. “Uh...no! I’m Jentha, but you can call me Jenny like everyone else.”Jentha stuttered out, a blush coloring her face as she desperately tore her hazel eyes off Nyla’s sky blue ones. “Okay Jenny it is then. If you don’t mind, I need to find Captain Shepard and report to her.”Nyla smiled as she walked out of the quarters, leaving an awestruck Jentha and a thoroughly amused Miranda standing there.

“Wow...Nyla’s really pretty...”Jentha sighed dreamily as Miranda began to giggle uncontrollably, unable to restrain her laughter anymore. “Jeez Jenny, you’re just like an awestruck teenager!”The Sentinel giggled as the Latina engineer finally snapped out of her stupor. “Wha-! No! Hell no! I was just...dreaming! I-uh...need to wash my face!”Jentha babbled out as she dashed for the bathroom to ‘wash’ her face, which was burning with embarrassment as Miranda walked out of the quarters, smiling to herself as she pushed an errant lock of jet black hair back behind her ear as she nearly bumped into one of the delivery robots which was delivering all the ingredients that Gardner had ordered for the Christmas dinner the following day. Nyla and Verlus, who were seated at one of the mess tables with Jacob, Mordin, Megan, Erin, Kasumi and Thomas, stared at the robot with their mouths slightly agape. “Whoa, that’s a whole lotta food.”Verlus let out a low whistle as Miranda slipped into a vacant seat next to Erin.

“Yep. But it is the Christmas party after all, so...”Megan chuckled as Verlus looked at her cluelessly while Nyla went “Oh...” “Christmas party?”Verlus asked as Erin answered. “I assume you’ve heard of Christmas right Verlus? Well, the Captain has decided to give us all a Christmas party, and everyone is invited. Of course, presents or cards are a must. After all, it is the season of giving!”Erin smiled radiantly at the turian Spectre who nodded, and then his jaw dropped. “Spirits, it’s the eve and I haven’t got anything yet!”He groaned as Nyla’s eyes widened with the realization that she too had nothing to give. “Relax Verlus, Nyla. You’ve got leave to go buy holocards and presents. Actually, don’t bother with presents. A holocard’s great enough.”Megan smiled at the 2 newest additions to the crew, who breathed out a collective sigh of relief. Just then, Mess Sergeant Gardner walked back to his post.

“Hey Sergeant! Make sure you give our 2 new additions a Christmas feast to remember!”Kasumi said to the cook, who just turned and gave a toothy grin. “Don’t worry, all of you are gonna remember the feast for the rest of your lives! You’re gonna try to find roast turkey as good as mine, but ya ain’t never gonna find it!”The Mess Sergeant hollered back as the assembly went into a conspiratorial “Ooh...” before they burst out laughing. “Okay everyone, I assume you’ve got quite a bit of preparing to do for the party, so let’s hop to it!”Megan announced as the crew nodded and “Yeah!”-ed their agreement. “Nyla, Verlus, do you mind helping to put up the decorations after you’re done shopping?”Miranda asked them as Nyla replied for the both of them. “Of course not LTC Lawson! We’d be more than happy to help!”She beamed as Verlus gave Miranda a large turian grin as a sign of assent. “Thank you so much. Well, get shopping!”The brunette smiled as the 2 Spectres went into the lift.

The rest of the day was spent setting up the Christmas decorations. Megan, Thomas, Garrus, Samara, Ken, Gabby and several crewmembers busied themselves decorating the Engineering deck and setting up a massive evergreen tree there (every floor had a tree), while Miranda, Ashley, Jack (surprisingly, she was quite excited about the Christmas tree and the decorating, yet more evidence of the positive impact Ashley was having on the convict), Jentha, Nyla (she joined them later on after her shopping trip), Jacob, Legion (who kept droning on and on about how his data collection was going to greatly benefit geth and organics alike, providing quite a few comic moments for the crew there), and yet more crewmembers decorated the crew deck, and finally Mordin, Grunt, Heinz the shuttle pilot, Erin, Kasumi, Kelly and even Joker helped to decorate the CIC. Throughout the time the crew were decorating the ship, Miranda noticed that Jentha was constantly ogling at the oblivious Nyla, and the LTC privately teased the hell out of the ex-merc, who was too embarrassed to say anything.

Finally after a few hours of hard work, the crew of the Normandy was done with decorating the ship, and all who’d bought presents put the presents under the Christmas tree in the crew deck. After sharing the traditional eggnog drink before bed (Garrus and Verlus got the closest thing Gardner could come up with, which was pretty far from the actual thing), the crew went to bed, barely able to tolerate the wait till the next morning, but Megan and Miranda managed to sleep surprisingly well. On Christmas morning, Megan was shaken awake by an excited Miranda. “C’mon Cassie you pig, get up already! Merry Christmas!”Miranda laughed as the redhead just groaned, inwardly cursing her raven-haired lover’s enthusiasm as she got off the bed reluctantly. “Merry Christmas Miri baby.”Megan mumbled sleepily as she gave her brunette as sloppy kiss and half-hugged, half-slumped against Miranda who had to support her weight.

“For God’s sakes Megan sweetie! It’s Christmas morning yet you’re as energetic as a husk!”Miranda whined as the ‘husk’ in question groaned in protest, mumbling something unintelligible against Miranda’s nightgown. “Oh shut it…to the shower with you, pronto!”Miranda snapped as she dragged a sleepy, uncooperative Megan to the shower and there, she proceeded to give her Captain and lover a very steamy ‘wake-up call’, which woke Megan up and practically made the Vanguard very energetic. Once Miranda was done with ‘waking’ Megan up, they went down to the mess, where most of the crew was already assembled. Garrus had reindeer antlers on his head and a huge red nose taped to his nose at the insistence of Kelly, his girlfriend, and now everyone was teasing the hell out of him. If turians could blush, Garrus would’ve been glowing so much he’d light up half the Citadel.

Most of the women were dressed in Santarina costumes, and Joker, being the pervert he was, couldn’t take his eyes off of Erin’s exposed cleavage, which was exposed due to her extremely skimpy Santarina outfit, and Ashley’s wasn’t that much better, but Ashley looked less happy about the whole situation than Erin did. However, Jack was grinning like the cat that ate the canary. Jentha was in a pretty skimpy Santarina outfit herself, but she kept ogling at Nyla, who was dressed in fatigues with just a simple Santa hat. That fact didn’t escape the ever-vigilant eyes of Miranda Lawson, and she nudged Megan and told her everything that’d transpired between Jentha and Nyla the day before as soon as they took their seats at the table. Megan giggled softly as she heard about how infatuated Jentha was with Nyla, drawing a few curious glances that she answered with a steely gaze.

“Alright, good morning everyone, and Merry Christmas! I wish you all the best for the coming year, and of course, I hope that all of you will find happiness.”Megan smiled at the crew as they nodded. “Jesus Shepard, that’s as corny as fuck-hey!”Jack grunted as Ashley poked her in the ribs, trying to get the tattooed woman to quiet down. That earned quite a few chuckles from everyone until Gardner broke in with a loud yell. “Okay everyone, Merry Christmas and eat up! If you want more, there’s seconds!”He greeted loudly as the crew let out a cheer and headed for the mess counter, where there was an almighty delicious aroma wafting from. There was bacon, scrambled eggs, sunny-side up eggs, sausages, fresh asari vegetables and a seemingly unending stack of toast for the levo-amino crew, and for Garrus and Verlus, there was a respectably big stack of what looked like pink-colored pancakes drowned in some extremely thick white…goop. There was also coffee and hot chocolate in free flow (surprisingly, turians could drink both coffee and hot chocolate, but generally ended up with stomachaches).

“Whoa! Sakivres? How on Palaven!”Garrus grinned as Verlus let out a low whistle. “Really Sergeant? I never expected you to be able to cook sakivres!”The turian Spectre said in admiration as Gardner grinned. “You’re talking to the ex-head chef of Friolia restaurant, mister Kryig!”The cook replied as Verlus and Nyla’s jaws dropped. “Whoa really! I love that place! It’s too expensive for me though.”Nyla sighed dreamily as Jentha smiled. “Well…I guess I could take you there someday…”The Latina engineer smiled shyly at Nyla, who smiled back appreciatively. “Really Jenny? Thanks!”Nyla smiled back as Megan smiled slyly. “Whoa Jenny, you sure work fast! I mean, it’s only been a few hours and you’re already asking Nyla out on a date!”The redhead grinned predatorily as Nyla’s jaw dropped as she turned to look at Jentha, who was blushing so much she looked like an overripe tomato.

“No! I’m not asking anyone out on a date! I-you’ve got it all wrong!”Jentha blabbered out in a panic as Miranda noticed the curious stares of everyone around the table and decided to add on. “Oh really? From the way you were ogling at Nyla yesterday, I thought you wanted to woo her.”Miranda grinned evilly as Jentha buried her burning face in her hands as the entire table erupted into laughter. “Jenny’s got a crush on the FNG? Damn Nyla, you work fast too!”Thomas grinned as fresh peals of laughter erupted all around the table. “Ach, one is excellent with tech while the other is good with biotics! A beautiful combo, I say!”Heinz boomed as both Jentha and Nyla hid their faces in their hands. After a good 15 minutes of teasing the poor asari and engineer, the crew finally ate and before they dispersed, Gardner reminded them to come back to the Normandy for Christmas dinner.

“Sounds delightful. Oh Nyla, come to my room and I’ll give you some advice about bonding with a human female like Jentha.”Samara deadpanned, but her eyes were twinkling with mirth, as soon as Gardner had finished his reminder. “Aunt Samara!”Nyla whined as everyone else laughed. “Hang on; I thought justicars couldn’t…”Garrus trailed off as Samara fixed him with a light gaze. “My young turian, just because I’m a justicar doesn’t mean I don’t have urges. Also, I have not forgotten the frolics of my maiden days.”The justicar replied as the entire table went “Ohh…”in a conspiratorial manner before they dispersed and went to get their presents and cards from under the Christmas tree. Gardner was extremely thrilled with the platinum watch Miranda had gotten him, and he promised to make dinner extra special because he liked the watch so much.

Gifts were received, but most of it was holocards. However, Megan had given Miranda that Cerberus Skunkworks X12 Locust, Garrus an Antarctica snow globe, Jentha a toolbox (making the Latina engineer laughed when she saw it, saying it was ‘just what she needed’), Thomas and Jacob a huge pack of condoms and a old 21st century hunting knife each as revenge for giving her the dildo during her birthday, Erin a compilation of classical Shakespeare literature, Jack and Ashley new Geth Pulse Shotguns, Samara and Kasumi a new S6 Carnifex, Chloe, Kelly and Chakwas silk nightgowns, and finally Joker got a model of the Normandy SR1, his original baby on which Megan had first died and the rest of the crew got cards. Miranda had gotten Megan a new omnitool, Jentha, Samara, Chloe and Jack a pair of lacy bustier each, Thomas, Garrus and Jacob got a revenge gift of a Kama sutra datapad each, Chakwas a limited edition bottle of 2165 Serrice Ice Brandy, Kasumi a very pricey painting, and finally Ashley got an actual paper copy of Wuthering Heights while the rest of the crew got cards.

Megan got another datapad full of poems from Ashley, more fish from Kelly and Chloe, an enhanced optical sighing scope for her rifle from Garrus, a S3 Predator of the Razer pistol line from Thomas, an old 21st century combat knife from Jacob, a model of the SSV Kilimanjaro, which her mother was the captain of, from Joker and very suggestive lingerie from Kasumi, Jentha, Erin, Chloe and Samara and cards from everyone else. Miranda had gotten an actual paper copy of the Bible from Ashley, a set of throwing daggers from both Jacob and Jack, a top-of-the-line Rosenkov Materials reflex sight for her rifle from Thomas, an OSD full of old 21st century movies from Erin, some ancient turian literature from Garrus, lacy and very racy lingerie from Jentha, Chloe and Chakwas and cards from everyone else. However, both Megan and Miranda promised each other that they both had a very special Christmas gift for each other later on.

The entire crew then dispersed and roamed around the Citadel, but most of them, Megan and Miranda included, went to the Presidium Park after lunch where there was a massive Christmas concert going on and many of the galaxy’s biggest stars and bands were performing. After a few hours of rocking along to the acts, the crew gradually returned to the ship, where as promised, Gardner had a massive feast waiting for them. “I hope everyone’s hungry, cause there’s a lot to eat right here!”The chef grinned as the hungry crew settled in and several low whistles and ‘wow’s could be heard all around the table as they took in the spread. There was the usual roast turkey, but it was the ‘Gardner Special’, which meant that it was stuffed with a mixture of breadcrumbs, onion, celery and herbs, and had bacon strips on the outside, and it was all smothered by a thick cranberry sauce.

There was also a roasted leg of honey baked ham, roast beef and a huge rack of pork ribs, in addition to the salad, garlic bread and pasta that Gardner had whipped out. For Garrus and Verlus, Gardner had whipped up a traditional turian holiday delicacy for them that was impossible for anyone else to even try and pronounce and was very loosely translated as ‘gloopy yellow fish in black sea sauce’. The crew dug in, and muffled praises for Gardner’s wonderful creations were constantly mouthed throughout the meal as the chef himself ate with the crew, grinning from ear to ear with all the compliments. The crew kept the tradition of breaking the wishbone to see who would get the bigger piece, and it came down to Chloe and Erin, and the petite French doctor won and managed to wolf down her portion, amazing everyone, especially her boyfriend Thomas, as she had already eaten a lot before she got the piece.

After the dinner was done, they sang some Christmas carols before they retired to bed. “Well honey, time for me to show you your super special present.”Megan purred into Miranda’s ear as they headed to the lift. “How coincidental…it’s time for your present too. See you in our cabin in 5 minutes.”Miranda smirked salaciously as she headed for the bathroom and Megan crammed into the lift. 5 minutes later, Megan sat at the edge of the bed dressed in nothing but a purple blow that covered up her breasts and womanhood, much like the bow that Miranda had worn on her birthday, and a brown trench coat. Suddenly, Miranda entered in a black trench coat as Megan stood up, and both women stared at each other for a few seconds before they burst out laughing. “Wait, don’t tell me, and let me guess.”The XO giggled as Megan finished for her. “We’re each other’s Christmas presents! What a funny thing!”The Spectre laughed as they embraced.

They then pulled away and Megan ripped Miranda’s coat off. “Hey!” “What? You know I like to open my Christmas presents early.”Megan purred salaciously in reply as she admired Miranda’s form, tied in a pink bow similar to her own. The brunette then yanked Megan’s coat off as they pulled the on the bows at the same time, leaving both naked as Megan swept Miranda up into her arms and threw her on the bed, earning an aroused and excited gasp from the Sentinel. The redhead made sure Miranda was watching her every move as she strapped the chick dick onto herself before she crawled towards Miranda on the bed, and they kissed each other passionately before they looked into each other’s eyes and laughed. “Well Miri babe, aren’t you going to play with your Christmas present? I am.”Megan whispered saucily as she nibbled on Miranda’s earlobe.

“I am, so turn around. Time to have some…mutual fun.”Miranda sighed, shivering in pleasure as Megan released her earlobe from between her teeth before she maneuvered herself in between her girlfriend’s legs as Miranda started to stroke and suck on the dildo. “Oh Miri…”Megan moaned before she began to eat Miranda out, causing her XO and lover to moan as she blew Megan, adding more pleasure to that already surging through the Captain. They continued licking and sucking each other before Miranda came first with a muffled shriek as Megan thrust her dildo into her throat as the redhead faithfully lapped up all of her orgasm, careful not to let a single drop of her delicious juices drip onto the bed. A minute later, Megan came thanks to Miranda’s skillful tongue and lips. “OH MIRI I’M CUMMING!”Megan screamed as she shot her feminine cum into Miranda’s mouth, filling the brunette’s mouth with her juices.

Miranda kept drinking up Megan’s gushing fluids, and after a minute, the redhead stopped squirting and she fell to Miranda’s side in a whimpering heap. The Sentinel then pulled Megan back upright and drew the panting redhead into a loving embrace as they both recovered from their massive orgasms. Finally, just as Miranda felt like drifting off, Megan spoke up. “Ready for more honey?”She asked huskily as Miranda grinned, flipping onto her front and lying on her chest as she kneeled so her buttocks were sticking up in the air. “I was just waiting for you to say that.”Miranda replied sassily as Megan smiled, kneeling behind Miranda and grasping the brunette’s perfectly curved waist before she penetrated her curvaceous lover. “Oh fuck Cassie baby…so good…”Miranda moaned breathily as Megan hissed at Miranda’s unrelenting tightness and her warm wetness. The redhead increased the speed of her thrusts and both of their moans increased in volume and intensity until Megan was thrusting as fast as she could with the aid of her biotics.

“Ooh-ooh-ooh yes Cassie!”Miranda squeaked in delight as Megan’s right hand grabbed her right breast and massaged the hard nipple while the redhead was smacking Miranda’s ass with her free hand as she thrust into her lover while she ground back into her hips. “Mmh so tight…Miri sweetie you’re the best…”Megan panted as she drove herself and her brunette lover to an orgasm. After a few more minutes of hard pounding, Megan came first, sending Miranda into an orgasm of her own. “HOLY SHIT! MIRI!”Megan shrilled as she began to pump her cum deep into Miranda’s pussy and womb, her thrusts becoming erratic as Miranda came to her peak. “UUUHH CASSIE! FUCK ME!”Miranda screamed as she came, her juices squirting out of her fully filled womanhood in erratic bursts. When both lovers were drained, Megan pulled out of Miranda and both sighed in delight.

“Ready for more?”Miranda asked after a few minutes of resting. “Round 3 honey. Let’s go for it.”Megan purred back lustily as Megan positioned herself over Miranda and thrust into the brunette’s anus until both of them climaxed once more as they screamed their mutual orgasm out into their passionate kiss. Miranda then took the dildo from Megan and began to make passionate love to the redhead and both were brought to yet another orgasm. After 7 more rounds, both women lay sated in each other’s embrace, knowing that the best gift of Christmas was that they had the love of their other half.

Final notes: Merry Christmas everyone! I’m still brainstorming on ideas for the next chapter, so it will be later than usual. Review if you enjoyed people! Once again, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!