Shade Shepard had reluctantly agreed to housing the reporter, Diana Allers, on her ship a few weeks prior. Thankfully, Allers knew how to stay out of the way for the most part, but it was slightly annoying whenever she interviewed the commander in her cabin since she'd come on to her afterwards.
The Commander had been highly uncomfortable with the advances of the reporter since she had no idea where she stood with one Major Kaidan Alenko. They'd flirted and tentatively skirted the topic of their prior relationship, but they hadn't actually confirmed or denied the existence of a relationship now. And if they were to get back together, she didn't want to tell the reporter that since it was highly likely that it would be announced to the entire galaxy.
She knew she was in for trouble the moment she agreed to Kaidan coming back on the ship, even more so after their "sanity check" date on the Citadel. After that'd been over, they'd retreated back to the privacy of the Captain's Cabin and fallen asleep there. It wasn't too surprising when it became a regular thing for them to sleep there together. Kaidan started making nightly visits, leading to them deciding that the cabin would be theirs instead of just hers. He kept his bunk down in the crew's quarters, but it went unused most of the time.
None of the rest of the crew was shocked at the development since many of them had known either both or one of the two before the Reaper attack. They'd both been hung up on the other during their time apart. Joker and Chakwas especially, had seen the amount of grief Kaidan had been through when Shepard died in the Collector attack that blew up the original Normandy.
Since it was so expected, no one mentioned it much. When it was mentioned, Allers was usually down in her room in the cargo bay doing reports, so she didn't hear the latest gossip.
Naturally, she was confused at the Commander's reaction when she returned from a mission at a Cerberus base with the Major ragged and bleeding as she carried him to the Med-bay. She was recording the entire event from the second they made it back to the ship. Shepard was yelling orders to "get them the hell away from that base" as she hauled him into the elevator.
Allers managed to make it in the elevator with the two as the elevator doors slid closed. As far as she could tell, the Major had taken a bullet between the plates of his armor near his collarbone; something also seemed to be wrong with his head given the way he was pressing his palm to his forehead.
The Commander seemed completely oblivious to the reporter's presence as she tended to Kaidan. As best as she could, she removed his armor piece by piece. By the time they made it to the med-bay, the biotic Major was completely topless, allowing Shade to put direct pressure on the bleeding wound.
"Hold on, Kaidan. We're almost there," Shade muttered.
Allers followed silently until Chakwas forced them both out of the med-bay so she could work. The reporter was quite surprised when Shade simply leaned against the wall outside the door and collapsed into a sitting position.