"I hate tropical planets." Garrus watched as Commander Shepard clambered into the shuttle that would take them back to the Normandy. The short and currently irate woman pulled off her helmet, sweat covering her brow as she rested it next to her. The turian perked up, and asked,

"Something wrong, Commander? Do you have heatstroke?" Apparently humans had a huge problem with that; Garrus was rather fond of the heat, seeing that Palaven was constantly cooking. But Shepard, and in particular, Kaidan, were susceptible to it.

"Nothing, Garrus it just…messes with my hair. If it isn't the heat, then it's my biotics." Kaidan let out a snort of amusement, to which the Commander snapped, "Don't you start, Kaidan! It fucks with your hair too, and you know it."

"I'd rather forget that, Commander…but you must have it worse, I mean…when's the last time you did a big chop?" Big chop? Garrus was still getting accustomed to working with humans…well, working in very close quarters with humans; most of the human females in C-Sec seemed to keep their…hair…short. He'd heard Williams say that Shepard's hair was 'thick' and very 'long', but he'd never seen it down from the hairstyle that the gunnery chief had called a 'bun'. And unlike the paler woman, Shepard's bun was on the top of her head.

The young turian watched in utter fascination as Shepard began pulling long, slender metal things out of her hair, then what appeared to be a black band. Hairpins and a scrunchies apparently, according to his research. To better understand his human crewmates of course. And then, she tugged it out of the thick coils it was in.

A sudden 'pomf' sound could accompany the Commander's 'hair' and it would seem perfectly natural. The black and grey locks fluffed out across her face, flaring up and framing her features. Garrus couldn't resist staring and leaned forward somewhat; he'd never seen a human with her length and texture of 'hair'. There was so much…volume.

"Hey, Vakarian, you okay?" Garrus looked over at Kaidan, and couldn't resist blinking. He'd thought that Kaidan's hair was straight, but it seemed that, like Shepard's it was all fluffed out and standing on end. "You look sort of freaked."

"Uh…not used to seeing varren that big…that's all." How was it that human hair managed to do that? It was like a gigantic fringe! Well, it didn't serve any purpose when one looked at it from a tactical perspective; if Serenity was from as hot a place as she said that Brazil was, wouldn't it be better to simply chop her hair? And wasn't hair flammable? Wouldn't Shepard's hair run the risk of getting stuck in something? But then again, she had been raised in space. He made a note to ask Williams if she was in a good mood; he was still rather cowed by the stern commander, and wasn't sure what her reaction to such an inquiry would be.

"It's going to take me a while to get this rat's nest back under control."

"Why not just cut it?" At the commander's scandalized expression, the lieutenant laughed, "Of course, your vanity won't let you. Didn't your mom keep hers long too?"

"My mom also tries to convince me her hair is black. I know where she keeps her hair dye. Plus she doesn't have to deal with biotic implants." So from what Garrus gathered from the conversation, the reason that Shepard and Kaidan's fringes…hair… was being so strange was due to the fact that they had biotic implants?

As the duo bitterly complained and compared situations, Garrus couldn't resist watching, fascinated, as Shepard ran her fingers through her hair, and then Kaidan's. He sort of wanted to run his fingers through their hair too; despite them complaining about the static, both Kaidan and Shepard's hair looked very soft and fluffy. Garrus didn't have a human fetish; but he knew turians who did. But he was beginning to see what intrigued them so concerning the humans. They didn't have the sheer strength of the krogan, nor the discipline of the turians, nor the intellect of the salarians or the grace of the asari, but they had perseverance and drive few other races possessed.

"Garrus?" The turian looked up, and realize that they had landed in the Normandy, "You coming or not?" One of Shepard's long curls had flopped down into her face, and Kaidan's hair looked more mussed than before. They looked…cute.

"Y-Yeah. Just…give me a moment."

This was going to be a long journey to save the galaxy.

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