Aquaria Resort, A Paradise Getaway

[Nova-FoV]

((Aquaria: http://z15.invisionfree.com/Mass_Effect_Un...?showtopic=1651 ))

Reba Denisova lowered the magazine that blocked her view and tried to get a better look at her target. She was in disguise- blonde wig, massive fake boobs, and a pair of dark sunglasses- and she was on a mission. Her mark? Her ex-boyfriend, Bryce, and the 'new girl'.

"What the hell are you doing?" one of the waitresses muttered as she stopped by Reba's table. This happened to be the bar where she worked- which she was appalled by the fact that Bryce would come here on a date with someone else- so the entire staff knew who she was and that she was making a fool out of herself.

"He- he's kissing her! Look at that!" Reba exclaimed quietly to Leanne, her waitress friend.

"Yeah, I don't blame him. She's hot," Leanne replied, looking over at the couple in the corner as they started frantically smooching and feeling all over each other.

"Leanne!"

"Reba, you look ridiculous. Get out of that outfit and go home."

Reba flapped her hand at Leanne, shooing her. "Go away."

Leanne walked away, but she wasn't finished yet. A moment after she left, Reba's omnitool beeped with a new message.

---REBA DENISOVA
PUT THE FAKE BOOBS AWAY AND GET OUT OF HERE BEFORE SOMEONE GETS HURT.
WITH LOVE, LEANNE

Grimacing at the message, she quickly deleted it and got back to her spying.

[Ryoku28]

Ignath walked into one of the many bars that accompanied the Aquaria resort. This was his favorite place to go when he wasn't relaxing at his own home just nearby. He didn't have the luxury of company, or any of the activities that the resort offered at his home. He lived by himself and could not share anything with anyone else. He shrugged off the thought and sat down at the bar, the woman with the blonde hair and rather large breasts catching his attention. He figured she was a bartender, so he raised his hand a let out a sharp whistle in her direction. "Bartender, a drink please?" he asked, then looked over to where her attention was so heavily drawn. Another couple? He figured she must be jealous and can't stand the sight of them together, but it was best not to delve into such matters if you're not a part of them.

[Nova-FoV]

Reba was startled by the sudden order from the Turian, and she sat gaping at him for a moment in surprise. Then-

"Reba?" The man she had been watching in the corner stood up and walked over to her, laughing as he went. "Reba, what is this?" His new girlfriend followed, her face turning red as she hid her uncontrollable laughter behind her hand.

Reba looked back and forth between Bryce and his girlfriend, her face burning with embarrassment. "Please don't laugh at me," she muttered quietly, but neither of them heard her over their laughter.

Looking around helplessly at being discovered and catching the eye of the Turian one last time, Reba fled to the kitchen. A moment later, when the attention of the surrounding patrons had returned to their own business, Leanne, one of the waitresses, showed up beside Ignath. "Don't worry about that, honey. Reba's a little bit of an oddball. Now, what can I get for you?"

[Ryoku28]

"Oh, I guess I'll have whatever's the best. The spirits know I can afford it," Ignath said, almost laughing at himself since he didn't say "the spirits" very often. He couldn't help feel sorry for Reba, he didn't mean to embarrass her by making other people laugh at her. He couldn't tell that it was a disguise, and that she was actually spying on the couple. He turned in his seat to them, and although he didn't know what was going on, he felt he had to say something. "Sir, ma'am? I don't know why you were laughing at that woman, but I have to say it was very immature and you should apologize to her immediately. Sure she looked a little funny, but what's the big deal? You don't look that good either," he said, giving the couple a stare that could chill bones. With that, he turned around and waited for his drink to arrive.

[Nova-FoV]

In the kitchen, Reba was having a meltdown. Leanne, after wrapping up urgent business, came back to check on her.

"I can't believe that happened," Reba said, hyperventilating a bit. "I mean, what if- what if he hates me?"

Leanne rolled her eyes and then slapped Reba across the face- hard. "Snap out of it! Bryce is evil, okay? Repeat after me. Bryce is evil."

Reba stared at Leanne, shocked.

"I think those boobs are getting to your brain," Leanne said. She grabbed the wig off of Reba's head and threw it on the floor, then reached into her shirt and fished out the fake boobs.

"Right. Um. You didn't just do that," Reba said, looking down at the pile of discarded fake body parts.

Leanne handed Reba a drink and snapped her fingers at the door. "Go apologize to that customer. I don't know why, but he went over and chewed Bryce and his girlfriend out for humiliating you. You owe him."

Reba stared at Leanne for a moment, then moved mechanically to the door out to the bar. She tried to appear as invisible as possible as she moved back toward the Turian, and when she reached him, she stayed on his other side where he blocked her view of Bryce. "Um, here's your drink," she said. "And, uh... thanks." Without the wig and breasts, she looked a little more like a normal human, and her clothes certainly fit better.

[Ryoku28]

Ignath looked at Reba now that she had removed her accessories and she seemed more human now. He took his drink in his three-fingered hand and raised it to his lips, drinking its contents in one gulp and setting it down with a satisfied breath of air. "I didn't mean to publicly humiliate you like that, if there's anything I can do or say to make up for it.." he said, pushing the glass towards her and waving in a gesture that said he didn't want anymore. He had his fill last night at Taboo, the new club on the Citadel. He hardly remembered last night, what he drank, who he met, nothing. "So who were those jerks, anyway?"

((Now would be a great time to send that message to Ignath about his bill, I think. xD))

[Nova-FoV]

Reba rested her head heavily on her hand, staring at the empty glass. "Oh. Nobody. Just... you know... my ex-boyfriend." She grimaced just thinking about it.

At this dismal moment for Reba, the Turians omnitool would receive a new message from Taboo on the Citadel... his bill for the night before, where he had ordered round after round after round, and then decided to pay for a whole round or two for everyone in the bar. The result? A rather hefty price to pay.

[Ryoku28]

Ignath's omni-tool opened up in the middle of the conversation. He had received a message about the bill he needed to pay for what he had ordered at Taboo last night. He looked down at the omni-tool and his lower jaw dropped to the floor, so to say. "Four.. million.. credits.. Ahhh crap.." he said in a dis-heartened tone. How did he allow it to escalate to that much? No time to figure it out now. He accessed his bank account and easily paid what he owed, then close his omni-tool to resume his conversation with the human bartender. "You're ex-boyfriend, huh? I've only seen him once and known him for five minutes, and I can honestly say I don't see the connection. He didn't deserve a pretty woman like you to begin with, so why'd you choose him?" he asked, resting both of his elbows on the bar.

[Nova-FoV]

Reba's self esteem was about as low as dirt, so she didn't seem to put much faith into his comments. She glanced back toward the corner where they were, and saw that she didn't need to worry about being covert anymore because they were lost in each other again. "I guess what it comes down to is... people never really notice me. I'm one of those girls that goes through her entire life invisible to everyone else. And Bryce... he noticed me."

She sighed and finally lifted the weight of her head away from her palm, regarding the turian. "I'm Reba Denisova. Let's talk about you now. You seem pretty interesting."

[Ryoku28]

"Well, if it means anything, I noticed you earlier, but then again uh.. who wouldn't have? Ah, wait, I'm sorry. That was rude," Ignath could see he was stumbling over his own words, so he just decided to shut up and allow her to glance back over in the corner where Bryce and his new girlfriend were. He didn't like the fact that he had just chewed them out and they didn't pay any heed to a Spectre's lecture. He sighed, but perked up when he heard that she wanted to talk about him. "Well, I'm not really as interesting as you think, being a Spectre.. it's dangerous, filthy, and overly tiresome work. That's why I come here when I truly want to relax and unwind for a bit of.. R&R, y'know?" he began explaining. "But it's not all that bad. Being a Spectre also means you get to meet new people, see new places, explore new worlds, it's kind of exciting at some points."

[Nova-FoV]

"You're a Spectre?" She was shocked speechless for a moment, not really sure what to say. "Wow, that's incredible. I never thought I'd meet someone like you." She smiled, finally able to get her mind off of her ex boyfriend. "That's great. Now whenever I meet someone, I have something interesting to tell him. 'Hi, I'm Reba. I've met a Turian Spectre.'"

[Ryoku28]

Ignath chuckled at the thought. And now he was able to draw her attention away from her ex-boyfriend, and she seemed a little more perked up now. That was good. "Well, I'm glad that everywhere you go, you have something to tell your friends. I'm sure they're be jealous. Although, everytime someone hears the word 'Spectre', they expect to see a bullethole somewhere, it gets kind of annoying after a while," he said. He almost laughed, for it was also kind of true, Spectres basically spelled trouble wherever they went, for they always on "official Council business, stay out of it".

[Nova-FoV]

Reba laughed. "I guess I never thought about it that way, but I'm sure that it's true. So you're here on vacation? I didn't know that Spectres ever had time off. I mean, of course they of anybody deserve to have it, but I guess I've just never heard of a Spectre's day off." As she talked to him with a smile on her face again, she caught the eye of Leanne as she passed by to take care of some tables, and Leanne smiled at her with raised eyebrows, as if to say, 'Well! Looks who's smiling again!'

[Ryoku28]

Ignath watched only with eye movement as the other lady who had come out before walked by with a strange expression on her face, probably because Reba was smiling, but who knew. "Well, Spectres don't really get 'days off', so to speak, but we do get a little R&R here and there. We can still be called into action at any point in time during it, though, but of course that extends our leave everytime," he said, a weird Turian smile crossing his face as well. He was enjoying his conversation with Reba now that she wasn't distracted by the drama of romance, it was relaxing indeed.

[Nova-FoV]

"Just out of curiosity, what do you do to relax? I always like to ask people, because some like the whole skydiving thing and think that the exhilaration deal is relaxing. Others would rather spend the whole day just laying by the side of the pool. I mean, personally if I did the pool thing I'd probably fall asleep and wake up as red as a cherry, but if I did the skydiving thing I'd probably die from pulmonary overload. So I guess I'm an in-betweener. But I'll bet as a Spectre you'd probably like the action." Now that she was happier, or at the very least distracted, she was quite talkative. Of course, she wasn't always that way. He'd just made a good impression on her, and in a place like this where most of the guests were rude or snobbish business people, that was quite rare.