Chapter 1

Sasha

The pain was indescribable, every part of my body was in agony but all I could think of was Garrus. God he was going to be so angry at me for dying on him, but it couldn't be helped because in the moments leading up to this there had been no other options and if my death would save the galaxy…save Garrus then I would gladly die so that everyone else could live. The only regret I had was not being able to come back to Garrus and have a future with him, I closed my eyes as my body became heavy…maybe I could rest now.

The last thought I had before my world went dark was 'Im sorry Garrus, I guess ill see you at the bar.'

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Tali

"Damn it Shepard don't you dare die," I yelled as I covered Wrex while we both ran, Shepard half conscious body cradled in his arms as he ran. Garrus had gripped my hand so tight before the medics had put him under for emergency surgery, Garrus one of the strongest people I knew had begged me to go back and save Shepard.

"Life without her isn't worth living Tali."

"Don't you dare die Sasha!" I yelled as Wrex and I jumped into one of the military hover cars we had stole in order to rescue Shepard, Wrex hopped into the driver's seat and hit turbo drive while I tried to stop the bleeding in Shepard's side, her blood was slick against my suit's gloves. Shepard moaned softly in pain as I added more pressure, but she still didn't open her eyes.

"Hurry up Wrex."
She looked so pale and her breath was coming in shallow gasp.

"Im already going on turbo," Wrex yelled back at me.

"Go faster or we are going to lose her." I shouted and slapped Shepard hard across the face trying to keep her awake but I could tell we were losing her. I slammed my fist hard against the metal floor as I felt the hover car go even faster and glanced up to see Wrex swearing in his native tongue, something about rotten tits and tiny Krogan balls.

"ETA is two minutes," He yelled back at me as I once again slapped Shepard across the face.

"Come one Shepard wake the hell up."

The hover car landed a few feet from the Normandy and once again Wrex and I ran, Shepard's seemingly lifeless body cradled in Wrex's arms. When we reached the Normandy, medics rushed forward and took Shepard away leaving Wrex and I panting and standing there hoping we got to her in time.

"Do you think she'll live?" Wrex asked and I closed my eyes and sent up a silent prayer to whoever would listen that they would both make it.

"I think the question you need to ask Wrex is will they both make it? One can not live without the other." I said.

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Garrus

I awoke slowly and intently felt pain. Whatever meds the medics had given me must have worn off because I felt the pain radiate up my side every time I took in a breath, but that was what happened when shrapnel punctured your side and nicked internal organs. Ignoring the pain, I sat up and saw Tali asleep in a chair nearby probably exhausted from the battle that I assumed we must have won. I almost didn't wake her, but I needed to know if she had gone back for Sasha like I asked or if it had been to late, part of me didn't want to know.

When I thought Sasha had died the first time I had gone into a suicidal depression but I had known that Sasha would never approve of me taking my own life so I had decided to go to Omega and make a difference but if I died in the process then so be it, then Sasha had come back from the dead and I had regained my reason to live. If I discovered Sasha was truly gone this time, I wasn't sure what I would do.

"She's alive but they put her in a coma," Tali's voice cut into my thoughts and blinking I saw she was still reclined in her chair, her voice sound exactly like I thought it would…exhausted.

"But she'll be okay?" I asked thanking the spirts for spearing Sasha.

"Yes…." Tali answered but trailed off.

I narrowed my eyes at her trying to figure out what Tali was leaving out. Besides Sasha, Tali was one of the few people I would call a friend and I knew Tali saw me as her bestfriend and wanted to protect me…so what wasn't she telling me?

"Shepard's mother had her moved to a private alliance medical center and had blocked all contact until Sasha wakes up."

Sasha didn't talk about her family much, I knew her mother Hanna was a higher up in the human alliance and her father Michael had died when she was a small child. It made sense for her mother to move her to a human facility, but the no contact order was strange, Sasha's mother must have known that Sasha's crew would want to see her so why keep us all out? Before I could ask Tali that very questions a group of medics rushed in and shooed Tali out of the room and began to exam me, rather then put up a fight I just let them do what they needed to do quickly rather then stall them with my bitching and complaining, the sooner I got cleared the sooner I could go hunt down my woman.

"Your injuries have healed nicely Vakarian." One medic said. "You should be up and moving in a few more hours."

I nodded but remained silent as I began the count down to my freedom and my search for Sarah, nothing was going to get in the way of me reuniting with my mate...nothing.

"Sir, you have a visitor." One of the medics said and glancing up I froze at the sight of my father standing tall and proud in the door way.

"Senator Vakarian, you son is recovering well." One medic said.

My father dismissed them all with a glance, silently they all filled out leaving me alone with my father for the first time in years.

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Sasha

I awoke to the sound of a heart monitor beeping loudly, announcing for all to hear that I was alive.

"Sasha…baby are you awake?"
Sitting up slowly I saw my mom was sitting beside me her face almost a mirror image of mine own, for years people had commented on how similar me and my mother looked with our red hair and pale completion but to me that was where the resemblance ended. I had inherited my fathers' dark eyes and muscular built, over the years my mother had moaned over my ability to bulk up and gain muscle in ways she considered un ladylike.

'Garrus likes my muscles,' I thought to myself as memories of Garrus trailing a talon tipped digit down my flat toned stomach and lower filled my mind.

"We almost lost you sweetie. Your heart stopped twice, and you've been in a coma for three days." My mother said as tears began to fall down her face.

She carefully reached out and rapped her arms around me and began to cry in earnest, I felt awkward as I gently patted her on her back. I never understood how my soft gentle mother could play the cut throat type of games needed to a high-ranking politician in the alliance but some where inside of her was a backbone of steal and a silver tongue. I had just never seen it growing up, hell I wasn't sure my father had seen it wither.

"Mom…how is my crew?" I asked but I really wanted to know if Garrus was okay.

My mom pulled back from me and wiped her eyes on her sleeves and cleared her throat before answering me.

"To my knowledge your crew is fine, when I transferred you here, I put up a no contact order in case…." She trailed off and I nodded and finished her statement.

"In case I was a vegetable, or you had to pull the plug."

I told my mom a long time ago that if I ever ended up in a vegetative state or was in a coma longer then three months then she was to pull the plug, I never wanted to live like that and after a tear-filled shouting match she had finally agreed.

"When can I get back to my crew?" I asked wanting to see them... needing to see Garrus and kiss him.

I was alive…we could be together without the consent threat of the galaxy going to hell all around us.

"Not for a couple more days but I'll contacted them and let them know your awake." She said and stood up and walked towards the door then paused to look back at me.

"Oh, I forgot. Congratulations Sasha I can't wait to meet my grandchild."