Titania visits the Highwind Family

Vincent arrived at the door when a familiar face came face-to-face with him and he says, "It seems Death spews everyone out nowadays."

"Is that the warm welcome I was promised when we met the last time," says Titania as she had returned from the dead.

"You are full of confetti, are you celebrating something?" asks Titania hoping that she didn't arrive in an uncomfortable moment for them.

"Yes, we are celebrating Ishly's return from High Hrothgar," says Vincent as he looked behind her and he doesn't see Tristan or Kaidan.

"What happened to your lover boy and brother? They wouldn't leave you alone," says Vincent hinting at the missing two while a Redguard man and a Breton woman were standing behind her.

"They are suspended in Whiterun with my mother. We visited her before finding a ship that would dare to cross Sea of Ghost to get to Solstheim," says Titania as Vincent laughs at that.

"That is normal, normally people don't visit this island except it is important. But who are those two clowns?" asks Vincent pointing at her company as he sees the same logo on their clothes that Tristan and Kaidan were decorating on their armor.

"Right this is Jacob Taylor and Miranda Lawson. They are new crewmembers on the Normandy," says Titania presenting them to him.

"Nice to meet you, sir. We heard a lot of your deeds from the others," says Miranda as she believed that Vincent was a former General of the Empire since the other kept his real identity a secret.

"Yeah, well, I won't invite you in since you are from Cerberus. I really don't know what Tristan saw in you people but I can't deny that you brought Titania back from the dead," says Vincent as he looked at Titania.

"So what do you need, you wouldn't have come here with them if it wasn't serious," says Vincent as Titania looked at him seriously.

"I wanted to recruit you for my little suicide mission since you know," says Titania hinting at his immortality without speaking it out.

"And why would I help a terror organization that sees Men's lives as superior. You know that if someone knows out that you are working with them, you would be dead before you placed a foot into Imperial Space," says Vincent serious at Titania and the other two.

"You are still alive because you are a friend of my family as are the other two idiots that came before you. Any other person would be floating somewhere in space either dead or waiting for it," says Vincent as Titania turned now serious.

"Do you think I like to work with Cerberus? I hate every second of it but I need to work with them so I can help my people who are being kidnapped by some strange race," says Titania as Vincent could read from her face that she was saying the truth while Miranda and Jacob coughed slightly.

"Do you have some picture or recording of them?" asks Vincent as Miranda opened her Omni-tool showing him on one recording some Taken that dragged the human colonists away before they turned into Taken as well.

On the other side were the Corrupted Protheans better known as Collectors at the moment when Vincent says, "You should give up on those ones. There is no coming back once turned into a Taken."

"Taken? Like in the Taken King?" asks Titania which confused her new comrades.

"Yes, we are keeping an eye on his activity even when he isn't in Imperial Space. He and his ship the Leviathan was one of the responsible for destroying the old Normandy," says Vincent as Miranda and Jacob we're surprised that Vincent knew so much about the incident.

"Then you also know that the Collectors were the other one. We were in the crossfire of both so we were more like collateral damage in their battle," says Titania as Vincent nods.

"That's right but I think we could take both down in one move if we do it right," says Vincent as he and the Empire were observing everything from the sideline waiting for the right opportunity to strike.

"What do you mean?" asks Jacob as his eyes met Vincent's cold eyes and he felt chills pass his back.

Miranda and Titania were the same when Vincent says, "I mean that the Empire will be going to war soon."

Then his eyes turned warm again before he says, "But I don't know if I should join you. It would paint me in the wrong light and I don't need that at the moment."

Vincent then dusts the confetti from his body while saying, "Even more so if we are going to mess with the Taken King and the Collectors."

"I need your help," says Titania as Vincent smiles at her.

"Bullshit," says Vincent as he points at Jacob and Miranda.

"They should be good enough for your little Suicide Squad. And if you really are going to fight against both at the same time will only place your Earth under a lot of pressure," says Vincent stating a truth that made the trio flinch.

"But if you really need me, you have to talk to the Ambassador and then make a contract to hire me. I don't think that you can pay what I am worth anyway," says Vincent hinting that it wasn't his decision but someones else.

"Ambassador Highwind already agreed to let you go with us under the condition that we pay the Empire with a supply of raw gold worth of the income of one year," says Titania as she was holding the contract signed by Naosane and herself.

"That bastard sold his ow-," says Vincent looking at the mercenary contract before he stopped himself from spilling who he was.

"I wanted to do this the good way but you left me no choice," says Titania as she was informed by Naosane about this while she was in his office on the Citadel working as Ambassador.

Vincent sighs when he took the contract from Titania and he read through it to make sure that there wasn't a loophole he could use to evade this contract that would force him to work as a mercenary.

"There is no loophole you can hide behind. Ambassador Highwind was quite careful in writing it so you can't escape your duty in helping the Alliance from dealing with this situation," says Titania with a smile on her face.

"You got quite a cheap price to pay for my blade but I can't do anything if the Ambassador thinks that I will be needed and the money will go to a good cause anyway," says Vincent as he gave the contract back while cursing at his own son.

"And Cerberus is paying the bill for the Alliance which is a win for me since we weaken Cerberus by doing so as well," says Titania as the sum Cerberus is going to pay could buy a whole system.

"We will leave tomorrow for Skyrim. If I had known that I would return so fast I would have stayed in Skyrim, to begin with," says Vincent as he entered his house leaving the door open so the others could enter.

Titania entered first followed by Jacob and then Miranda. They encounter the family celebrating Ishly's return when the people recognized Titania and invited her to sit down beside them.

They began to talk while Jacob and Miranda felt out of place when they noticed Provus sitting beside Ishly eating cake which would normally kill a Turian only to see him eat another piece as if his life wasn't in danger from all the normal food.

"Is it alright for him to eat normal food?" asks Miranda to Mako who was sitting beside her.

"You mean our son," says Mako as she points at Provus who had a third piece of the cake.

"Son?" asks Miranda confused as Mako nods.

"He is our adopted son, Provus, we took him in when we visited the Citadel the first time. The same goes for Ishly and don't worry about Provus. He has a normal gastric system which allows him to eat normal food instead of Dextro Food," says Mako informing Miranda about it when a dangerous glint appeared in Miranda's eyes which soon disappeared because of the dangerous glint she got from everyone in the room.

"If something happens to him Cerberus won't survive the next day," says Titania as she was also glaring at Miranda since Provus was a member of the Normandy before.

"I was just curious," says Miranda defending herself.

"Have you ever heard that curiosity killed the cat? You are the cat at the moment," says Vincent as Miranda hasn't even noticed that a shadow was behind her with a Greatsword pointing at her back.

"Provus retreat your shadow or I will do so," says Vincent as Provus only growls before the shadow walks to his side before it enters his body.

This gave Miranda as well as Jacob a scare for their life when Vincent says, "You can count yourself lucky to be accompanied by Titania or you would have been dead just now for even thinking about what you thought a moment ago."

"Anyway, we should show them the guestrooms. It would be for your own good not to leave until the next morning since Fenris the XX could misunderstand your movements.

"Fenris the XX?" asks Titania as a Mabari came out of the kitchen holding some sausages in his mouth.

"He is my Mabari and descendant of the first Fenris I had. He is far more intelligent than his Ancestor if I had to compare each other," says Vincent as he pets the white Mabari before he took the sausages out of his mouth.

"Did you take food without asking again?" asks Vincent seriously as the Mabari winced looking like it was apologizing when Vincent throws the sausages into the air.

"Well we are celebrating so why not but don't repeat that," says Vincent as Fenris barks happily which surprised Miranda and Jacob seeing the intelligence the Mabari was showing them.

"It is late already we should retreat to sleep since tomorrow will be a long day if we have to meet your mother," says Vincent as he talked to Titania before the women retreated with them while Provus and Ishly went to their rooms.

"It seems we dodged a bullet," says Jacob as Titania looked at them seriously.

"We are lucky to still be alive after what Miranda did. Do you want to end up as Dragon fodder?" says Titania as she almost had a heart attack when Miranda gave Provus that dangerous glance.

"We are in a family full of predators if you think that I am an Apex Predator then you are wrong they could skin me easily without anyone outside ever knowing what happened here. Don't let that repeat itself again," says Titania as they retreated to their rooms.