Garrus sat in the observation lounge with Eris in his lap while Odysseus cradled Tali in his arms as they bantered with Kasumi, as he nuzzled the spot where shoulder meets neck on Eris Kasumi suddenly straighten up looking at the twins with a mischief filled look eyes. "So Eris, demo who did you two meet your mates here?" Garrus wondered why both Odysseus and Eris tensed like they were embarrassed, Garrus nuzzled his mate closer before answering for his mate. "not really anything special really I met Eris at the citadel tower just after getting into an argument with my boss, and Demo met Tali in an alleyway in the wards after saving her from saren's men." "Reeally are you sure about that?" Kasumi asked in a tone that made the twins stiffen again but this time out of annoyance. {Watch what you say Kasumi I know where you sleep and where you hid your hair dye.} Demo warned and Kasumi laughed before smirking. "I knew it you two met your mates before come spill I want to know! Or I can just ask our moms I know they would know and be glad to tell me!" Eris sighed and spoke in a defeated voice. {Fine you win but anyone breathes a word about this outside the five of us and I will hang you nude from the krogan statue on the citadel.} that threat caught Garrus's attention and made him wonder what the story was, and so Eris began her story. {It all takes place about four years ago, I was doing a small amount of freelance work while waiting for the alliance to give me my next assignment.}
Citadel (four years ago.)
Eris lay watching through her mask's powerful scope feature waiting for her prey to enter her line of sight, when the man finally entered the area Eris switched to sighting with her scope on her sniper rifle. The man she was hunting was a man that did a lot of slave trafficking but had enough money to hid behind that C-sec could not touch him but he upset the wrong crime bosses earning a hit bounty. Eris was between assignments and the alliance turned a blind eye to whatever the twins did on shore leave so long as the alliance was never harmed by their actions, so she decided to take some freelance work to entertain herself while Demo was away on his own job. The human filth entered his apartment and foolishly opened the door to his balcony and the moment he turned away from his task of airing out the apartment his head exploded dyeing the wall in front of him crimson from a single silenced shot from Eris, the task done Eris rose slowly while cloaked and slipped away into the night cycle of the station with a cold smile on her face as another piece of trash was no longer able to hurt anyone ever again and she would be able to play with the officers soon.
Garrus climbed out of the sky cab grim faced and entered the apartment building that had a number of officers all ready there, he got to the floor he had been called to and flashed his id codes at the guards of the room before entering. The first thing he noticed was the smell of human blood and a lot of it, the second thing he noticed was how quite everyone got when he entered the room. "What is going on captain?" Garrus asked the turian in charge of the room at the moment, the man turned to face him with his pale white colony marks standing out against this darker skin. "The human you have been chasing is dead Garrus and before we go any further for the sake of the records did you have anything to do with his death?" Garrus was shocked that the captain would even ask that, yeah Garrus might break the rules to some degree to get what he a wanted but he would never kill a person without informing his superiors. "NO! Sir I was checking out leads that you suggested." The captain nodded and waved him forward to show him the body.
When the team selected to investigate returned to the offices they filed into a room to go over everything they had at that moment, the lead turian of the team of eight brought those who had not been at the scene itself up to speed. "Alright here is what we know so far our mark was know to have connections with slave running but was never convicted, officer Vakarian here was looking for more evidence on the man before he was killed." "Do we have any surveillance footage of his death?" A younger officer asked, the lead wordlessly brought up the footage from several angles and what the team saw made them all give the turian equivalent of a scowl. The footage revealed two things about the shooter the first being that the killer was in procession of a high grade cloaking device as they remained undetected and cloaked for over thirty minutes and second the person was a very good shot with a sniper rifle as the shot was well over five hundred meters, Garrus frowned at that this meant that it was clearly planned and that the person had been watching for days at least to know that the man would open the window that night and he said as much.
The team lead agreed and assigned Garrus to review the video logs and look for anyone who was watching the apartments but before that he was to check the shooter's sniper nest for anything, Garrus nodded and filed out quickly knowing that every moment wasted was another moment the shooter would have to return and clear the spot of anything that might id them. Garrus climbed into a skycar and headed for the roof of the building.
Eris sat feet dangling hidden by her cloak on the edge of the roof next to the building she took the shot from watching the skycar land on the roof far enough that nothing would disturb her sniper nest and she hummed in approval, she watched as handsome turian climb out and begin searching the area unaware that he was being watched by the shooter. Eris recorded his face and began running a search program of the officers of C-sec to get the down low and her new playmate, she half watched the man while she read his files impressed by how often he had been praised and reprimanded in the same report and how many reports were like that. {Well this should keep me entertained for awhile!} She said laughing lightly as she watched the turian search for clues about her.
The next three weeks passed for Eris quickly and gave her more amusement and joy than she had even dared to hope, the turian was good at tracking down clues and figuring out that some were false leads she planted as she played with the team. Some times she leaded them to other criminals to arrest that did not warrant her staining her hands with their blood, but after three weeks while she was watching Garrus stalk through a shipping yard in search of her Demo's voice came from her left hand side. {Play time is over we have a new job; you have three days to ready yourself we will be gone for sometime at least a year.} She nodded and felt her brother leave her as she watched her playmate snarl and curse as he found her mocking note left for him.
Garrus was glad that the doors were pressure sliders otherwise he would have slammed them hard as he stormed into his apartment snarling and cursing the entire time, this was the fifth time now that he had gotten what he felt was close only to find a mocking note in place for him. The last three had been addressed directly to him and that just made it worse as now he knew he was not the hunter but the prey in this game to the shooter, he quickly stripped out of his armor and cleaned and stored it along with his weapon before turning in for the night. That night he had a fitful sleep as he tossed and turned without ever fully waking, he bolted awake in the morning and knew at once that something was off but he could not tell what until he looked behind him at his head board and what he saw made his jaw drop. There pinned to the headboard with a throwing knife was a black bag and note, grabbing his kit he followed the proper procedures hoping that whatever this was would be the thing to let him find his mocking shooter.
After removing the knife and storing it properly he read the note. 'My dear hunter Vakarian, I have enjoyed these last three weeks greatly you have given me more joy in these three weeks than I usually have in half a year. But as they say parting is such sweet sorrow, my true employers have called me back so now I must say good bye to our fun game of hunter and prey. To make sure you never forget me and as a thank you for playing with me during a freelancing break I have left some articles of clothing that I had been wearing when I first saw you on that roof. P.S I have cleaned them and sterilized them so you will find nothing to link them to me on them. Yours the roof top sniper.' After that there as an earth cat with a sad face and waving at him drawn below with the words BYE BYE over it. Garrus carefully opened the bag to find a pair of what he knew to be human female under clothes there, a black silk with blue lace edging thong and a matching bra and stockings with garter belt. Garrus roared in frustration that his prey and been close enough to easily kill him and just mocked him with a souvenir and a good bye note.
Normandy (Present day)
Eris was blushing a bit by the end and Kasumi was laughing so hard she fell off the couch still laughing from the floor. "So did you leave stuff like that with every man that chased you?" Garrus asked not really mad but more concerned and for some reason jealous at the thought of her leaving things like that for other. {Only one and it was a really cute female turian in the military on Palaven, which made my visit to you house and meeting you sister awkward for me every time.} "What!" Garrus cried shocked, Eris just flushed a very deep shade of red. {She had been an under cover agent working to bring down a gang that I was trying to kill the leader of at the time and it was about a year before I left them for you but, it had been a night of drunken fun after a job well done and I was wearing a disguise and well what can I say your family is very skilled in bed and even if it was a one night stand your sister's skills earned her a prize.} Garrus felt his mind go blank as he tried to understand what he had been told, Eris only curled against him tighter making him rub her back as he asked. "Does she know that was you?" {Yes it was something I told her during our visit with your family.} "Ok I can handle that at least now I know that it was not just me wanting to stop saren that attracted you at the start." Eris chuckled and Kasumi looked at Demo who somehow turn white despite it tanned skin when Kasumi looked at him.