Sowing The Seeds of Victory

AUTHOR'S NOTE:  This is a sequel story to the Kink Meme fills "The Best Laid Plans" (http://masseffectkink.livejournal.com/3083.html?thread=6407947) & "The moneyshot is paid off." (http://masseffectkink.livejournal.com/3083.html?thread=6427403).  I'm not the original author of these stories, but enjoyed them enough that I decided to write my own continuation.  Hope it's enjoyed.

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At first, Gianna Parasini had thought she was the victim of an elaborate prank.  But the deep blue eyes of Killira T'Nama showed no sign of mirth, and her face betrayed no emotion.



"So, let me go over this so we're absolutely clear," Gianna said, trying her best to keep from laughing out loud.  You don't do that sort of thing in front of the CEO of Binary Helix, no matter how ridiculous the words coming out of her mouth are.  Not if you ever want to get work again.  "You want me to track down some guy who's knocking up your employees?"



"That's correct," Killira said.



Gianna furrowed her brow.  When she'd been called in urgently to the Binary Helix offices and marched directly to the CEO's office, she had a lot of ideas on what it could be pertaining to.  But certainly nothing like this.  She chose her next words carefully.  "Not to question you on this, Ms. T'Nama, but isn't this a personal matter for the women involved?  I mean, so a few women have to take off a couple of months, it can't be that big of a problem, can it?"



The asari matriarch said nothing, and simply slid a datapad across the smooth surface of her desk over to Gianna.  The Internal Affairs investigator picked up the pad, her eyes bugging out in shock.  "All these women?"



Killira shook her head.  "Those are just the ones who have put in for maternity leave in the past month.  The full list is... substantially longer."



"And you're absolutely sure these are all from the same father?"



"Since the trend was noticed, we've been in communication with the doctors involved," Killira blandly intoned.  "DNA taken from the children all indicate with a 99.96% probability that all of the children are by the same father."



Gianna whistled as she scrolled through the list.  "Guy's been busy.  How could..." Her words trailed off as she saw a particular name.  "No, that's impossible.  This has to be a mistake."



"It's not," Killira blandly stated.



The dark-skinned agent looked down at the datapad again.  The name that had caught her attention was undeniably turian.  Scrolling through the list revealed several more names that wouldn't be given to any child born off the surface of Palaven.



Killira's voice was cold as she added.  "In addition, a small numbers of quarians we employed as indentured servants abruptly broke their contracts and returned to the Migrant Fleet.  As we don't offer maternity benefits for quarians, however, they are not listed."



Gianna's mind reeled.  This wasn't just some dude knocking up a few secretaries on shore leave.  Whoever, or whatever, this person was, they were able to impregnate women across all species, something that shouldn't even be possible.



"This is... we need to tell someone about this," Gianna said.  "Somebody capable of doing this... who knows what we're dealing with?"



Killira's eyes narrowed.  "Miss Parasini, I have brought you in today because your reputation speaks for itself.  After the debacle with Mr. Arterius, the last thing Binary Helix needs is to have its name blasted across intergalactic headlines again.  I don't want to think about how the meetings with the shareholders would go if word got out that we weren't meeting quarterly expectations because our workforce is too busy having babies."



The asari CEO steepled her fingers as she appraised Gianna.  "I chose you for this, Miss Parasini, because I believe you can handle this for me discreetly.  If you don't believe you're up to the task, I have other options."



"Assuming I'm able to find out who is behind this baby boom of yours," Gianna said, "what do you want me to do then?"



"Nothing," Killira said, her voice devoid of emotion.  "Simply communicate the name of the individual back to our offices, and we will take action from there."



Gianna winced internally.  She doubted that a company willing to work with someone like Saren Arterius would be the type to send a polite letter to the guilty party.  But in the corporate world, you had to make a few ethical sacrifices sometimes.  And, hey, it wasn't like this guy hadn't gotten enough enjoyment out of life already, right?



"Don't get me wrong, I'm willing to take this case on," Gianna said.  "But these women... there must be at least a dozen different offices on just as many planets involved here.  How will I even know where to begin?"



"Our people have done some work on this," Killira said, "And we've got a good place to start.  Go to the next page on the datapad."



Gianna pressed a button, and the list of expectant mothers was replaced with a star map.



"Based on the dates of birth of some of the earliest cases, we've been able to work out a rough timeline on the dates of conception."  Killira said, as Gianna pressed another button to bring up a green line tracing across the galaxy.  "After some further research into vessels that visited the areas during this time frame, we were able to narrow it down to one likely ship."



Gianna pressed another button, and when the name came up on screen, her eyes went wide.



"NORMANDY SR-2."