My 3 part one-shot; Mostly written to to help soothe me after beating the trilogy; But I do hope you all enjoy!
All respects to Bioware-
As she lay there in the rubble, camouflaged within the debris, a breath was taken. Like the breath of a new born infant this breath by the battered Commander Stephany Shepard was a breath that would mark the beginning of a new life. Though she was barely alive she could feel every inch of pain and discomfort within her body, there was a buzzing in her head and a wet warm fluid spilling from her left ear where noise was now absent. She attempted to shift her position to one more comfortable until help would find her but with doing so she discovered that her back ached and burned with the heat of the greatest suns. It was then where Shepard began to pray to every god or goddess she could remember and stay still in hopes that someone would find her fast.
Garrus leaned against the console in the main battery, staring down at the panel. It had now been three days since the Normandy took off from the ever so green garden planet they managed to land on after escaping the beam emitted through the mass relays, to destroy the reapers and all synthetic life. They have been on route to Earth and were now approaching in the next 12 hours. The fellow crew of the Normandy would often come into the main battery in which Garrus hardly ever left now a days.
"Garrus are you alright? I brought you some rations from the fridge if you're hungry", came a voice from behind him, it was Tali-Zorah.
"No, Just ate. Was just thinking…"
"About Steph?" asked Tali already knowing the answer
"Always am, I've never felt the Normandy move so slow in my life. I mean she could be buried alive for all we know by know!" exclaimed Garrus slamming his talons on the panel. The screen flickered.
"Garrus, relax. Admiral Hackett has just sent a team to search for her. Where'd all that hope go from a few days ago?"
"It's still there….I'm just a bit…nervous. We're almost there Tali..." Garrus leaned over the panel once more before releasing a deep breath.
"Yes we are."
Shepard awoke feeling the warmth of a mattress under her back and the sound of beeping and people talking frantically around her. She could feel the mattress swiftly maneuvering around the cold building which she would assume to be a hospital.
"Stephany Shepard, found at exactly 3:27am last night, legs under debris and scrap metal, upper body free. 4 ribs broken, spinal disk dislocation, both her legs broken below knee. Second degree burns from the chest to mid thighs. Left Broken arm and seems to be bleeding and loss of hearing in left ear as well. Both eyes swollen shut. Reports buzzing in head, suspect to be her synthetic implants having difficulties. The Patient is being placed in Intensive care unit for immediate surgery, High priority." Yelled one nurse to someone, Shepard not being able to see could not tell who she was directing that to, but the nurse did answer all of her questions without her having to part her dry bloody lips to ask.
"Admiral Hackett this is the Normandy. Requesting permission to dock and any news on the Commander" Joker spoke almost frantically into the comm. Every last member of the crew was standing behind him from where he sat in the cockpit. Since the defeat of the reapers Joker had lost Edi and though he still cracked the same jokes to lighten the mood, especially for Garrus you can tell there was a dark cloud of depression looming over his head.
"Normandy, permission granted. Also good news, the Commander was found not too long ago, She took a hell of a punch but is alive and if my intel is right she's in surgery right now at the Isley Jennings Hospital south of London."
Garrus' face lit up. She was alive. Every one rejoiced within the Normandy, Liara broke down crying of joy and Tali jumped up and down at the news. The rest of the crew cheered as Garrus just stood there in shock. Joker noticed and turned his chair towards him, "We got her back for you, buddy." With a grin he turned his chair back to face the panel and proceeded to land the Normandy.
"Ahem, Steph I don't know how to say this but I love- No that's stupid. Stephany I want to spend the rest of my days- No, not good enough…"
Stephany Shepard heard her boyfriend Garrus' ramblings from where she lay in her hospital bed. It had been now 2 days since her surgery and she's been asleep through most of it. To finally wake up feeling somewhat better and to hear her lover's voice, she almost thought she had to be dreaming, but then she remembered in dreams you can't feel pain and her lower back was killing her.
"Urg, Garrus?" spoke shepard, opening her eyes to see her Garrus holding her right hand as he sat next to her by her bed.
"Stephany, you're awake!" Was all he could manage to say before gently leaning in and placing his forehead to hers.
"I missed you so much" Garrus sofly ran a finger through her curly blonde hair.
"Garrus, I'm alive here today for you." Managed Stephany before the painkillers put her right back to sleep