Years have passed since that final battle for earth. The Reapers were dead. Commander Shepard had been found by a search party led by Grunt. Oriana and Jack both had been with the large Krogan when he had found her limp body. They had feared the worst. Grunt had yelled her name into her ear, which had produced her opening one eye and looked at him. Her Krogan had then yelled with happiness, which had caused Jack to laugh and Miranda to begin her fussing. It had taken months for her to heal. It wasn't the wounds that would've killed her; even though they had been life threatening. It would've been the thought of going on living without her now husband.
Ann Shepard was knocked out of her reverie when she heard a noise behind her. Turning her head she saw two little children playing on the floor laughing as they played with their toy space ships. She placed her cup of coffee onto the table next to the couch and smiled as she watched her children play. The two children, one human and the other a turian, continued to play, oblivious that their mother was watching them very carefully.
Ann still remembered when she found the two children. It had been after she'd recovered in the hospital. Four months of healing and rehabilitation later she was out and about helping with the cleanup of the London streets when she spotted a little human girl clinging to a ripped piece of cloth and was trying to craw into a hiding place under a building. She had jogged over to the little one and coaxed her back out of the hole in the wall. It had taken all of five minutes to do so. She'd only been about two years old at the time, covered in mud and dried blood, and was half starved to death when Shepard had picked her up and taken her to the human survivor camp. Six weeks later she had found a turian female, dead, who had died clinging to a tiny infant. It had been found that she'd been murdered for her baby's food by another turian mother. Ann had taken both children in and looked out for them until they could locate their next of kin. None had ever been found.
The front door closing brought Ann back to the present. Looking up from the playing children Ann saw her husband.
Garrus.
The mere mention of his name could make her either grab her gun to protect his six or make a want cry, in a good way.
Ann smiled as she spotted a bag in his hands. Her eyes traveled up that arm to his chest and finally his face where she saw him starring at her. A small shiver went up her spine as their eyes make contact. Damn, he still can make me want him so badly. She thought as he walked up to her. Their foreheads touched. "Did you get them?" she asked as he nuzzled her neck.
"Hmm…yes." He said as he pulled away allowing her to look directly into his blue eyes. His head turned towards the room and smirked when he spotted all of the Christmas decorations everywhere from the fireplace to the walls and finally the fully decorated Christmas Tree which had no presents under it. He smirked at his wife.
"Santa hasn't come yet." She explained to him as she turned back to her partially forgotten cup of coffee and headed for the kitchen to reheat it.