[u][center]Voira and Raa[/center][/u]

Voira crouched down in front of Raa as she suddenly paused mid sentence. "Raa. Raa what's the matter. Talk to u-" That's when the Quarian blurted out that she had been shot. The Asari looked down in surprise. "We have?" Sure enough, there was a bullet hole in her shoulder, and a small stream of blood coming from it. Of course, when you finally notice the injury is when the pain starts. The Asari gritted her teeth, bringing her main hand up to feel out the damage. When she brought it back, smearing her armor with even more blood, she noticed her hand had more blood than was strictly necessary. A brief examination showed that a bullet had gone through there too. Still, there wasn't any time to worry about her own injuries. Raa took precedent. 

 "It's not that bad." She said dismissively, waving her uninjured hand. "We'll deal with it properly later." She felt around and finally found something that would have to serve as a makeshift bandage. A [url=http://i.imgur.com/iOd5VvM.jpg]blanket[/url] she had picked up earlier, intending to find its owner or at least someone who could find its owner faster than her before everything had gone to shit. Quickly she tied it into a makeshift bandage around her shoulder, stopping the bleeding as best she was able. "You sure you're fine? Nothing more than bruises?" Voira brought up her omni-tool, taping briefly away at it. "Take our Medi-gel, just in case. No buts. We'll be fine."
 
Under her helmet, Raa's face white color grew as she watched the purple blood trickle down her protector's arm until it was finally wrapped. When the blood was removed from sight, the spell it seemed to cast evaporated and her head tilted upward to study Voira’s reaction. She noted the asari’s teeth gritting causing Raa to inwardly flinch in guilt. If her protector hadn’t been busy getting her sorry butt out of there then the wound wouldn’t have happened and for a moment, the Quarian wished she never taken this job now. She swallowed the spit collecting in her mouth as she struggled to speak. 

Her head shaking rapidly to both verbally and physically making her words clear.  "No, really I’m fine. Honestly, but I didn’t mean for you to get hurt. I should’ve done more…” 

Raa cancelled the transferring of Omni-gel, having plenty of her own, and started to move on her own. She tried to ignore the subtle pain filling her skin’s surface, the darker bruises unseen, while she started to push herself upward. Carefully rising to her feet and mindful of her guardian's position, Raa managed to get upright without falling back down on her ass. However she failed to hide how much the event had rattled her because her body made minor trembling movements and threatened to make her crumble quickly. 

"Other than minor scrapes and bruises naturally. I'm injecting antibodies through your suit into your body just to be safe. Next  time, Voira, try to watch how roughly you handle her. Especially because I'm tried of her being manhandled by you and cleaning the mess up!" RK snapped suddenly, butting into the conversation between the pair. 

Voira shook her head. "There was nothing you could have done. Some times it just happens in gunfights." She watched the Quarian with a worried look, easily seeing how rattled Raa was. She placed a gentle, not shot, hand on her ward's shoulder. "Sit down Raa. We'll be safe in here for a while yet, and you need to gather your strength. It'll be fine. We can rest, you can recover. Sit down. " She spoke cajolingly and softly.

She merely shrugged at RK's words. "Bullets were flying, and they were flying in her direction. Raa is no soldier, and she had froze," She smiled gently at Raa to take the sting out of her words, "so we got her moving. I'd rather she was bruised and you were angry than she was shot and we were panicking. Wouldn't you?"

"Correct. I would've siezed control over your firearm and shot the bastard myself if that happened." RK admitted, her words cold and blunt. She casted a brief look over the asari as she shrank her figure down to merely the bust, her expression still displaying a sour look.  

Raa again shook her head no. "I'm fine, really." 

She tried not to collapse when Voira placed her hand on her shoulder, her body screamed and fought to winch. Looking weak over some bruises were terrible while her friend was shot, still bleeding, felt awful to her. At hearing RK's comment, Raa shot her AI a sharp look only to hear Voira cast it off smoothly.  Slightly surprised at the asari, she couldn't help but wonder why she treated the situation so lightly. 

"What happened back there?" Raa couldn't help but ask, her eyes looked to Voira for the needed answers. Her body, unknowingly, had slumped back to her seated position giving into what her friend wanted. It took a moment to realize her heart had finally stopped beating against her ribs and her lungs had found a steady rhythm to pull in needed air. Shortly acknowledging her mistake, her head lowering and all she wanted to do was curl into a defensive ball, feeling  like it was all she could do to make this terrible nightmare go away. 

"Why did they do this?" She asked, more to herself then Voira. 

Voira hid a smirk at Raa sitting down. She knew the Quarian was beat up and even felt slightly guilty about it. But right now all she cared about that Raa wasn't shot and would recover. She clenched her shot hand experimentally, wincing as she did so. It hurt like hell, but she could use it. 

"It's relatively simple as to what actually happened." She said, applying Medi-gel to her hand, and shoulder, now that it looked like there was actual time to do that. "The local security tried to take all the diplomats hostage by sealing us in. Avatar saw one of them trying to do that and then took him out. There was a lot of suspicious activity before hand that made us nervous, so we put a barrier around you and then threw you out when shit hit the fan."

She shrugged at Raa's next question. "We can only guess. Bandits took over? They want independence? Control of the negotiations? Whatever the reason, it has to be something really good. The Council won't be pleased, when they find out." She tilted her head, listening outside. "Hmm. Gunfire has stopped. Probably a good sign."

"I don't know, I recall gun shots usually only stop when everyone's been pacified or dead..."Raa said in a timid tone, her voice muffled through the mask and her partly curled body. She wanted to vanish from this nightmare. Both her and Voira, walking up as if it was all a bad dream but she knew better. The pain was too real and it would've woken her up so it kept her wish from coming true. 

RK noticed the shivering increasing and looked to Voira, her eyes gesturing to the damn asari to take are of the problem. Else she would and make the woman suffer later for failure. 

The Asari holstered her pistol again not bothering to give a response, be it verbal or non-verbal, to the AI. She hugged Raa, gently so as not to aggravate her bruises. "We're so sorry you have to go through this Raa. We're gonna make it through this, we promise, and then we'll spend a long time doing something relaxing and safe. Like working on a ship. Or smoking a cigar. Perhaps both?" She let go of the Quarian, crouching down to look at her. "We know it hurts and you'd rather just stay here until it all blows over or we wake up. But we can't do that, not if we want to get off this station."

Raa nodded, her body winched for a moment and slowly melted into the comfort given by the touch. Her shakes faded while her mind collected itself, pushing past the fear once more. In reaction, her arms  wrapped around Voira as to keep her from pulling away. When she finished her pep talk, Raa knew she had to let go when she felt Voira start to pull away. The quarian sighed at the lost of comfort but sat there listening, agreeing begrudgingly, to the common sense uttered by the asari. She couldn't hide forever despite how she wanted to. 

"Alright, but promise me you won't take off. I worry about you." 

The Asari stood again, reluctantly getting ready to make Raa move, casting another barrier over Raa as she smiled at the Quarian. "We won't take off or leave you. Promise. Stay close to us." With that, she drew her assault rifle and opened the door, warily sticking her head out. What she saw at first made her hopes for them escaping unscathed sink like a stone. There appeared to be a large group of turians and humans, discussing something. Luckily for all involved, before she started trying to sneak past and then shooting when someone inevitably saw them, Voira spotted Avatar. As the Geth appeared to be apart of the conversation rather than a prisoner, she relaxed, if only slightly. Still only keeping her head out, she called out to the group. "Hello down there! We're friends, not with the bastards who just tried to kill all of us, so please don't shoot us!"

Glancing back into the room she held a hand out to Raa. "Come on. Things just got a bit easier. We're going to yell at Avatar, by the way. We won't hit him, probably."

Raa's body made a gesture of relief, her breath sighing at things being easier now and Avatar's name. She had been worried, to a lesser degree, about the Geth. Partly worried he was killed during the assualt and she wouldn't get to meet him again. It never took long for Raa to bond to someone which made her easy to manipulate as well as most targetted for easy prey by thugs or bandits. It was habit she picked up thanks to the changes made within the several years since the Reaper Wars, making the race more trusting to outside help since the Geth's assistance. 

She took Voira's hand with her own, allowing the woman to lead her outward into the crowd. Her nervousness returned among strangers and her fingers tightened about Voira, silently telling her anxiety in the matter. Unknown factors usually unsettled her, even being reasurred not everyone was out to get her, that made her side on the cautious route in interaction. Though some speices and beings, like the geth or other quarians, drew different reactions out of her.