A Little Assistance
'Keelah. I can't believe I'm doing this.' Tali said to herself as she stood before the doors to where the residential thief was settled on the Normandy.
She needed help, but had trouble finding it.
She had the man of her dreams, but she didn't know if she was fulfilling all of his needs. Sure they could be together every once in a while, but the amount of time it took in-between their adult nocturnal activities made her want to make those times together mean something.
These thoughts had started to appear a few days ago when she had walked in on John satisfying himself.
Tali knew John loved her, and she knew that some of the times he took care of those urges he was thinking of her. Just the memory of that time he didn't know she was within his cabin and pressing an "ear" to the door of his bathroom and heard her name when he came made her mask fog up.
She wanted every one of those moments they shared outside of her suit to count. Even though she had been with Sheppard once a week since taking out the Collector base, she still felt inexperienced when she felt that feeling of skin on her own. In her state of mind at those times she didn't know what to do.
This led her to where she was now standing.
She needed advice, but didn't feel comfortable asking Chalkwas and Samara since they both felt like mother figures to her. Jack was out of the question. And she didn't really like asking Miranda.
No matter how much she said to herself that the woman was now a friend, she still didn't like the idea of the former Cerberus operative telling her how to deal with the problem. Even the knowledge she had pertaining to how much the "perfect woman" knew about John's body when rebuilding him made her feel ill.
She needed someone who acted a little more sisterly. Kasumi had been with a man before and might know a few things. She preferred the thief then Gabby and Kelly. Sure those two were both nice to her, but Kelly was a little strange and she didn't want what she wanted to ask to change how Gabby saw her in engineering.
Kasumi was the only female member of the crew the quarian felt the most comfortable asking.
She took in a steady breath before she knocked on the metal door.
"Its open." the familiar cheery voice responded.
'To late to back down now.' Tali thought to herself before she opened the sliding door.
The human was sitting on her bed with her face in, what Tali heard was, an old book made out of a substance called paper. All she knew about paper was it was produced from trees on the human homeworld, Earth.
That was weird to. Why name a planet, Dirt?
"Uh… Hi Kasumi…" she greeted and saw a confused look when the woman looked at her.
Like always with the thief, she only saw her lower face.
"Tali?" she said out loud, sounding slightly like a question before starting to look around for something. "Give me a minute. I took off my Omni-tool." she explained as she set the book down and got off of the bed.
Tali took this time to look around the room. She noticed Kasumi had gotten a small coffee table, and placed it in front of the couch next to the window. She saw the painting next to Kasumi's bed for a moment before looking to a flower in a small glass vase on the table next to the door.
It looked beautiful to her. She wished she could smell it. It was red with numerous petals while the stem had two green leaves and some dark thorns.
"That's a rose." Kasumi explained as she manipulated her Omni-tool. "Say something, please."
"Uh… it looks pretty. Is it from earth?" she asked and saw the satisfied smile on the woman's face.
"It is." she answered as the orange display of her Omni-tool vanished before starting to walk up to her and look at the plant. "I used to leave one in the place of the things I stool. I don't do that anymore, but I keep it around for sentimental value." she then looked up to her guest. "What do you need, Tali'Zorah vas Normandy?" she then let out a small amount of laughter before giving Tali a mischievous smile. "Or is it, Tali'Shepard vas Normandy now?"
The idea made Tali's cheeks warm up before answering nervously. "I… It doesn't work like… I mean…" she started fiddling with her hands as her view went down to her feet. "I mean… It's not like… Sure It sounds…"
"Relax." Kasumi soothed with a tone that said she was becoming very entertained from watching the Quarian's reaction as she placed a hand on her shoulder. "I'm just messing around with you." she started leading Tali to the nearest sofa and sat down next to her. "What do you need?"
"I…" she forced out as she continued to mess with her hands. "I was… hoping you… Keelah. Why is this so hard?" she groaned as her hands stopped messing with each other and held her head. She felt so embarrassed at the moment. Only time she could remember being any more embarrassed was Shepard and her first night together.
"Is it that bad?" Kasumi asked as her voice changed from amusement to curiosity. "Is it something bad?"
"No…n… no. It's just…" Before she could manage to form a sentence, Kasumi got up and started walking to the small bar in the room. "What… Where are you going?"
"This sounds like something that should be easier to say with a few drinks." she answered before disappearing behind the bar.
Tali wanted to argue and say she wasn't much of a drinker, but she settled for just sitting there and waiting.
After a few seconds, the hooded woman appeared with a bottle, a glass, and a tube connected to a second bottle.
"Would you like some wine?" the host asked playfully as she handed Tali the bottle with the tube. "At least I think its wine. It got Garrus drunk anyway."
She then sat back down next to Tali and started to fill her glass with a red liquid that Tali would have thought was blood if she didn't know better. The quarian started hooking up the tube to the filters in her mask and took a sip of the drink.
It tasted sweet to her so she drank a little more before relaxing into the seat.
"Feeling batter?" Kasumi asked after taking a sip.
"A little." she admitted as she tried to prepare herself for the soon to come embarrassment. "I was hoping you could give me some… advice…"
"Is this about John?" she asked before she continued.
"Yes… I wanted to ask if you could help me…" she took a bigger drink before continuing. "… Understand… him better."
"Is there a problem?" Kasumi asked as she put her feet on the sofa and slightly hugged her knees close to her chest with one hand, and held onto her drink with the other. "Last I heard, you two were really kicking it off."
"I still… love him, if that's what you are asking." she replied and then let out a sigh. "It's just how our relationship is. All the preparation for when we both want to be together. The time in-between." she then took another drink. Her head was starting to feel a little light headed now, but that helped her continue a little easier. "I just don't know if… I am satisfying his needs."
"What makes you think you aren't?" Kasumi asked as she refilled her glass.
"It's just… we both want to feel each other more often, and I feel like I am… failing... I want him to be… satisfied when he wants to be with me. I am… beginning to think he made a… mistake when he fell in love with me." she shook her head a little to try and clear her mind before speaking again, not fully sure if she should say what she was about to. "I… have walked in on him a few times… while he was…"
"Jacking off?" Kasumi finished for her bluntly.
Tali felt all of the blood in her body go to her head when she heard her Omni-tool translate what was just said.
"I… wouldn't have… used that term… but… yes." she answered as her free hand went to her forehead. "Every time I am with him, I completely forget all the experience I have gained from the previous time. I feel like a child when I am around him."
"So he is the one who leads in the relationship?" Kasumi concluded to herself as her words started to sound a little more slurred. Tali began to wonder if she sounded any different. "Boys just get urges. It's normal."
"I am supposed to be able to be there for him, like he is always there for me." Tali partially sobbed. "To know I can't… remove this damn suit and be with him all the time is maddening."
"Don't be like that." Kasumi soothed in the saddest voice she had ever heard the thief use. Kasumi always acted cheerful and optimistic when talking to others. "You are doing fine. I was there when he defended you at that trial in the Flotilla. He has fought for both of us. If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't have moved on when my Keiji died."
Tali didn't really know if she should say something at that point. She wasn't on that mission, but she heard a few things. Under that smile of hers was a person who lost her loved one.
She didn't know what she would do if she lost John. Every time something hit his shields, or he got hurt, she would momentarily panic. Hell, the first time she saw him shave with a razor almost made her have a heart attack.
Not sure what to do, she reached with her free hand and pulled her into a gentle hug.
"I'm sorry… for making you remember…" she began to sob along with the woman.
"No. It's not your fault." Kasumi said back, quickly regaining her cheerful attitude. After returning the hug, she pulled away before speaking. "Anyway. About John. Man, especially human men, have a lot of testosterone. Sex is on their minds most of the time. With you around, you should only be worrying if he didn't do something."
'What Kasumi was drinking, must be powerful.' the masked woman thought to herself.
"You two will most likely be together for years to come. So let me save you the headache." Kasumi started after taking another drink. "Me being a human, let me just tell you we are… complicated sometimes. We all have fantasies swimming around up there in our noggins. Some are acceptable, while others… my sound down right inappropriate."
Tali nodded a little at that. She had met a lot of humans, and while some were nice, others she would catch staring at the nearest posterior of the opposite gender. And to her dismay, no matter how much the majority of the galaxy saw her race as pickpockets, and thieves, some would still look at a quarian the same way they would a woman of their own race, or an asari.
Thankfully, whenever someone tried something with her, Shepard would appear and scare them away like her personal guardian angel.
These thoughts actually started to make her feel even more depressed about why she was in Kasumi's room.
She loves him, and he loves her. But now she saw that she owed the man even more.
"What I mean to say is…" Kasumi continued. "… You are what's on his mind. Don't take it as him needing to be pleasured by a woman who couldn't whenever she wants. Think of it as, he thinks about you because you do a good job under the sheets. You give him something to think about."
For once, Tali was happy the thief couldn't see her face. By now she must be blushing furiously.
"I want him to be able to feel my skin when he wants me, and I want to feel his when I want him." she explained in a whisper. "For me… it is understandable with my immune system, but for him to bottle up his feelings…"
"You want him to feel the flesh of another…" Kasumi said out loud. "You are more worried about him being alone then yourself?"
"Yes." Tali answered quietly.
"So… when you walked in her… you didn't just want advice…" Kasumi started to voice Tali's true intentions. The ones Tali was too afraid to even ask. "You were looking for someone to… join you two?" once the words left her mouth, the thief looked like she couldn't fully comprehend what was being asked of her, as she gaped a few times like a fish. But to Tali's surprise, the woman didn't quickly decline, or throw her out. If anything, she looked pleasantly surprised, which made Tali raise an eyebrow. "As much as I feel… flattered about what you are asking me to do, I couldn't help but ask… why me?"
"You are… the only woman I feel… comfortable with asking this." Tali answered hesitantly. "If Liara was here, or Ashley… I would ask one of them. But Ashley… doesn't trust John and I anymore. And… Liara has Feron, and is busy looking for information on the Reapers." she then reached out and held the woman's hand as if the thief was her only hope. "You… are the only woman on this ship I… trust with this."
Kasumi looked down at their hands as if in deep thought. Her face showed many emotions, but Tali had some difficulty deciphering most of them. And that was one of the downsides of being a quarian. Growing up in an environment where you couldn't see a single facial expression. But, she could read a little bit.
It was a look of happiness.
And that was when Tali's eyes widened in both shock and realization. She understood how the woman thought of her John. The way she talked about him, the way she acted around him, why she stayed as close to his side as Tali did on the other while off of the ship.
"You…" Tali started as the shock started to subside. "You… love him." she said those last two words as not a question, but a fact.
In response, Kasumi showed the first sign of embarrassment she had ever showed in the whole conversation and diverted her eyes a little.
Tali was expecting herself to feel angry, to feel territorial, but what she felt at that moment was a thing they both had in common. And that one thing made her feel as if she was somehow mystically connected with the other woman.
They both loved the same man. The same man they both would do anything for.
"I…" Kasumi started again, this time being the one shy and flustered. "Yes. I love him. And… I have for a long time. He did so much for me… like I said before. I was thinking of telling him after the mission… but he was already claimed."
Tali felt her heart ach for the woman next to her. To go so long without telling the one you loved how you felt.
When John… died, she thought she had lost her chance at happiness. The day he showed up alive and well before her eyes, she thought she had drifted off into a dream.
Before her was John. Her John!
It took everything she had not to just break down on the spot. She wanted to run up and embrace him, to rip her mask off and show the man she loved her face before reality could correct itself and pull him back. If that force had tried to take him away from her again, she would fight for him.
She would rather die then let the abyss take him.
"I would understand… if you are mad at me." Kasumi voiced in the quietist voice the quarian had ever heard her use. "He is yours… And I can respect that."
It was quiet in the room until Tali moved and hugged the woman again, the sudden movement almost taking the other by surprise.
In the following minutes they stayed like that, no words needed to be said. They both formed an understanding in their embrace. No words would even be able to convey what they shared in that moment.
"Are you sure about this?" Kasumi asked quietly as they slowly started to pull away from each other. "If I am going to be doing this… then I need to be sure you really don't mind. I may be a thief, but there are things even I won't steal."
Tali understood the question. Would she be okay with this? He was hers, and she wanted him to be happy.
Tali slowly started nodding her head as she squeezed the thief's hand again.
"If it is you, then I… wouldn't mind." Tali answered.
"Would John mind?" Kasumi asked as she leaned in a little. "Would he be alright with this idea? I know most men would, hypothetically, cut off their own arm for the chance to be in a threesome, but John… He isn't like most men..."
"He's better." Tali finished with a smile, clearly missing the hidden innuendo her statement could have been taken as. "Maybe… if we both… talked to him about this… he would consider it."
"Maybe." Kasumi echoed. "Would he mind you and I, being… close?" she asked as she finished off her glass and looked at it. "If we are going to be doing this, then I better not see you sitting on the sidelines."
Tali felt her heartbeat quickly at the thought.
When Kasumi saw Tali beginning to shyly look away from her, she giggled a little before grabbing the chin area of Tali's mask, and gently turned her back to look at her.
"We could both be with him in his cabin." Kasumi suggested with a coy smile showing itself on her face. "We can both play." Tali felt shivers at those words. "And I don't just have to play with John. I can play with just you sometimes, Tali-chan? Maybe when he is away? And when he has another one of his… urges… what will you do?"
"I… want to help him." she blurted out before she realized what she had just said. Before her mouth could say anything else, she started drinking a little more to keep herself quiet.
"Do you now?" the hooded woman asked as she leaned in a little and started whispering into the audio receptor on the left side of her mask. "What part do you want to… help with? Do you want to wrap your fingers around his shaft and start moving your hand up and down his length? Do you want him to watch you do it?"
At this point, Tali just slowly nodded as she continued drinking. Although she was already too far gone to see that it was most likely her drink that was making her clam up in the conversation. She felt herself becoming wet in her suit and wanted to activate her nerve-stimulation program, but a part of her mind thought that would seem inappropriate. The part she was calling a bosh'tet.
She looked over to the other woman and saw the look on her face. Apparently what she was drinking was starting to have an effect on her. She guessed as much when the woman in question started to squirm where she was sitting, just like she just realized she was doing herself.
Kasumi put her feet back down on the ground before placing her empty glass on the little table in front of them. She then started leaning into Tali as her legs opened so that a hand could rest on the crotch of her cat suit.
Without realizing it, Tali leaned in as well, making the woman able to use the quarian's shoulder as a pillow.
"Do you want to feel his cock twitch in you hand when he cums?" she purred up to Tali, as her right hand rested on the quarian's left thigh, making her jump a little and let out a quiet moan. "Do you think he would be hard right now if he saw us like this, Tali-chan?" her hand started sliding up a little higher, making Tali take in a breath of air. "Do you want to make him exited, Tali-chan?"
"Yes…" Tali gasped as she felt that hand through her suit.
Kasumi gave Tali a little kiss on her mask before turning to the quarian on the couch fully.
"Do you feel this, Tali-chan?" she asked seductively as her other hand reached up and grasped Tali's right breast. She got her answer when the quarian let out a sharp gasp. "Are your breasts sensitive, Tali-chan? Do you want more?" she asked as both of their breathing started to sound heavier. She then slid her hand even farther up Tali's thigh and started to rub were she could feel some virginal lips through the material. Tali saw the woman grin when she let out another moan. "Do you like the feeling of me rubbing your cunt?" she asked as the other hand squeezed her breast a little harder.
"Yes… Keelah, yes…" she moaned as she started thrusting her hips into the human's hand. "More…"
Even through the suit, her skin felt highly sensitive to the woman's touch.
When Kasumi pulled her hand away, she couldn't hold in the whimper that came out. When she looked to Kasumi, she saw her lower her hood to reveal her short raven black hair and the rest of that beautiful face that was blushing furiously do to both the drinking and their activities. Tali had seen her face a few times, but this was the most she had ever seen.
When she took off her boots and started to unzip her cat suit, Tali let out a gasp when she realized what she was doing.
"Kasumi… I can't take off my suit… And what if…?" Kasumi shushed her as she bent forward as she pulled down both the tight lower section of her suit, and white panties, showing Tali her round ass and wet lower lips.
Tali had never seen the thief act this way and was focused on the view before her as if she were under a spell.
"Do you like looking at my pussy, Tali-chan?" she asked seductively as she lifted her ass up a little higher while resting her hands on the small coffee table. "Am I making you wet?"
"Yes…" she answered as she started rubbing herself through the suit as her free hand disconnected the tube so that she could put the bottle she was drinking on the table.
"Do you want to touch me?" Kasumi asked as she lifted a hand off of the table to mess with her Omni-tool. The holographic display on the door went red before Kasumi looked over her shoulder to watch the quarian.
Tali didn't know why, but she wanted to grope the ass in front of her, and did so.
Instantly, Kasumi moaned as Tali's delicate three fingered hands squeezed.
The human stayed still as she was groped, and after a while she grabbed Tali's wrists and pulled them away. Before she could ask, Kasumi turned and bent down to take one of Tali's gloved fingers into her mouth. Even though her hand was gloved, she could feel the woman's tongue slithering around the digit. When Kasumi pulled it back out, and gave it a playful lick before releasing it.
What came next surprised Tali even more. Kasumi placed her right foot on the couch on Tali's left side, giving Tali a clear view of the woman's core. She also saw the lack of hair.
She saw how wet the human was, and hesitantly lifted her hand.
"Yes, Tali-chan… I want you to fuck me…" Kasumi voiced through heavy breaths.
Tali was a little hesitant with this next part. She had done a lot of research in her time with John. She wanted to know what he might do. When two quarians linked environments, they didn't have time for the amount of foreplay human's did. Her first night with John, she thought they would go straight to intercourse, and then she would have gone into his shower to sterilize and put her suit back on so that they could cuddle on the bed.
She didn't however, expect him to… She couldn't think of it without pleasurable shivers running down her spine. That first night was magical to her, and she will never forget it.
She traced the crevice with one of her fingers, causing Kasumi to moan and whimper. Kasumi's fluids made it easy for her finger to slide in. the loud moan the human let out made her realize that one of her fingers were equal to two of kasumi's.
With this in mind, she slid her finger back slowly before pushing it back in.
"Fuck… Yes, Tali-chan!" Kasumi moaned loudly as she started to thrust to meet Tali's finger. "Fuck me… Fuck me, Tali-chan!"
Tali didn't really know what "chan" meant, and why the thief was saying it with her name, but she liked how it sounded and started fingering her faster. She smiled a little when the sounds told her she was doing it the right way.
When Kasumi's inner walls clenched down hard around her finger, she continued pulling out and pushing back in. suddenly Kasumi moaned loud as Tali was sprayed by the human's nectar. She almost came just by listening to the woman, who fell to her knees when Tali pulled her finger out.
She watched the woman panting on her knees and felt a shiver when she looked at her wet hand and noticed she was covered in Kasumi's juices from her chest, to her thighs.
When she looked back at the human she met lust filled eyes connected to a woman who practically tore off the upper section of her cat suit and unhooked her white bra, exposing her breasts and hard nipples to her.
"Did you like fingering me, Tali-chan?" she asked breathlessly as she sat on her knees in front of Tali. When she received a nod she grinned. Tali couldn't help the smile that formed on her face. Not that Kasumi could see it anyway. "Oh no." she said suddenly. "I made, Tali-chan all dirty."
Tali saw the woman eyeing her suit, and she knew she was talking about the liquid on her.
"Do you want me to clean you, Tali-chan?" she asked seductively as she started to lower her head and stared licking her own juices off of one of Tali's thighs.
A tongue was harder to feel through her suit then Kasumi's hands, but that didn't stop her from letting out a moan. She lightly bit on to her lower lip when she saw the woman give her covered core a playful lick before working up her body.
"Do you have one of those nerve programs in you suit?" the thief asked as she brought up her knees and sat on Tali's lap. Tali began to answer a little nervously until a finger was placed on where her mouth was. "Show me."
Following the order, Tali held up her arm between them and activated her Omni-tool, the orange glow illuminating the woman on top of her. Kasumi just sat there and watched with a smile on her face until she saw the holographic dial mechanism. She pulled the illuminated arm closer to her so she could see how it looked.
"I met a quarian way back." she began to explain. "Nice girl. Me and her were close friends. She would sometimes help me with a small heist every once in a while. When she told me you guys had this built into your suits, I could hardly stop laughing. Ever since then, I would hack into her suit every once in a while as a prank and turn it on." she laughed a little before calming down. "Poor girl scans every room she walks in before talking to people. That asari she was buying nutrient paste from had this priceless look on her face. Maybe later I'll look through my greybox and show it to you. For now…" she then motioned her hand to turn the small circle until it turned green. Instantly there was a small buzzing heard in the room as Tali shot up straight in her seat.
The small vibrations radiating through her core made her grab the closest thing with her right hand. And that so happened to be Kasumi's ass. The sudden grope made the woman jump forward a little in surprise and jump back when there cores touched.
The woman had a puzzled look on her face as she looked down between them while Tali moaned quietly. As if she were testing out something, Kasumi brushed her clit against Tali's crotch and suddenly gasped.
"Wow, Tali-chan." she said almost teasingly as she pressed herself forward again, and shuddered. "This feels really… good." she then reached for Tali's Omni-tool and turned it up a little, making the buzzing grow a little louder as the dial turned a bright yellow. "I think we could… have fun with… this."
The added vibrations and the feeling of Kasumi's core against hers through the suit, made the quarian moan loudly and thrust her hips. The action made Kasumi whimper as she fondled her left breast.
"That's…" Kasumi gasped as their hips met again. "That's… not… fair."
Tali could only moan Kasumi's name as they kept moving. Suddenly Tali's eyes snapped open when Kasumi got off of her and lightly pushed her to lay on the couch. Kasumi didn't skip a beat as she lifted Tali's right leg and straddled her left. Before Tali could ask what the thief was doing, Kasumi thrusted her core into Tali's, making the quarian moan and arch her back.
"Do… you like… this?" Kasumi asked through gasps of air and moans.
"What… happened to… being fair…?" Tali was barely able to pant.
"It flew away… as soon as I sat on… your leg."
Tali's right leg was placed on Kasumi's shoulder as the woman continued her thrusting. Tali started moaning louder and panting faster. Kasumi took this as a sign and bent forward to grab Tali's, glowing orange, arm. The action caused both women to share a loud moan as their hips met fully in the slight change in position.
With trembling hands, Kasumi turned the dial until it turned dark orange. It didn't stay there for long, since the increase in vibrations made Kasumi instantly turn it until it turned red at the max setting.
Tali wrapped her arms around Kasumi's neck as the woman placed her head in the space between beside the quarian's head and left shoulder.
The lower part of their bodies continued humping furiously, sending waves, upon waves of pleasure through them both.
"I… I can't… I'm going to…!"Tali moaned, barely coherently.
"Just… let go… Tali-chan!" Kasumi almost screamed as their climaxes hit at the same time, filling the room with loud sounds of pleasure.
Both felt one another's body shiver as they weakly continued to try and keep up the friction. Soon, the only sound in the room was the loud buzzing, until Kasumi weakly took Tali's hand and turned the program off.
Kasumi and Tali shared a satisfied sigh, as Tali's leg was placed down to rest on the couch, as Kasumi adjusted herself on the furniture to lay on Tali's left.
It was a little hard to remain on the sofa that way, but neither of them had enough strength to make it to the bed that seemed too far away.
Once they found a comfortable position, the held each other in their arms as they rested.
"Are you happy, my little quarian?" Kasumi asked almost as a whisper.
"The only thing that would make me happier, would be if John was with us." Tali said back, just as quietly.
"Soon we can…"
"Commander Shepard, has just asked me to look for you, Tali'Zorah." EDI chimed in before Kasumi could finish. "It is getting late."
They looked into each other's eyes before Kasumi activated her own Omni-tool to see it was already three hours after the night shift started. Most on the ship would be asleep at this time.
Tali looked at the woman again, clearly giving her a 'What do I do?' look through the mask.
Kasumi seemed to come up with an answer quickly and spoke. "Tell him me and Tali are having a girl's night. If he asks what we are doing, tell him we are just doing girly things, like painting each other's nails, and talking about boys."
There was a short silence before the AI responded, seeing they both were definitely not doing such things.
"Very well, Ms. Goto." EDI said, only leaving the following quietness as a sign that she was delivering the message.
They both looked at each other again, and couldn't contain the relieved laughter.
"That was close." Tali said to the woman at her side.
"Could you imagine the look on his face if you walked up to his room like that?" Kasumi asked as she laughed again.
"I think I would die of embarrassment." she answered as they started to relax again. "What were you saying earlier?"
Kasumi hummed at her before remembering. "I was going to say; soon we can find a way."
"We can go up to his room together tomorrow and talk to him." Tali suggested.
"No." Kasumi said as she gave Tali one of her trademark smiles. "I have a plan."