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It had been almost two years since the end of the war with the Reapers and for most of the galaxy things were just starting to feel like they used to, for Jane Shepard things were even better. As she sat there on her couch in her new apartment she thought about just how much her life had changed. Her and Garrus getting married, her promotion to Admiral and how most of her friends were now either married or at the top of their respected fields. However, the biggest, most important change in her life had to be the little baby Turian sleeping in her arms, Atticus Shepard-Vakarian.
They had adopted a year after the war had ended, almost immediately after getting married, but they had chosen even before then, when she and Garrus had been touring the refugee camps on Palaven and they had found this little baby with no name, no home and no record of a family. She knew that from then on she would be his family; she would give him a home with more love and attention then he would ever know what to do with. Above all that, she would protect him, she would make sure no harm ever came to him and if anyone ever tried, then they would have to deal with her.
Shaking her out of her thoughts came the sounds of the small Turian she was holding.
"Hey little guy." She said as she started to caress his fringe. She smiled as he rubbed his head against her hand.
"Are you excited for your big day birthday boy? It's not every day you turn two."
As if on cue Garrus walked in thru the door with the rest of the party goers as they yelled in perfect unison. "SHEPARD!"
Jane had missed her friends, with all the rebuilding and people starting up family's most of them had been unable to keep in contact. Thankfully she had been quickly brought up to speed on what everyone was doing. Tali and Kal'Reegar had gotten married and were getting ready to have their first baby, Wrex and Bakara were getting ready for their third, Ash and James were now in a relationship and at least a dozen other stories were being told to her.
She looked into the little play area they had set up for the kids and could see Atticus, Mordin and Shepard Taylor all playing together. She laughed at how each of kids reminds her of their parents. She was having a great time, but then she looked around the room and thought about all the people who should have been there with them.
Kaidan, Mordin, Thane, Legion, Anderson, EDI and Joker, she missed them all. She had done everything she could have done to help them and part of her would always blame herself but she knew she had to stop beating herself up over that, even about Joker. When he had found out about the choice she made on the Citadel, how she had knowingly let EDI die, he had been furious with her and hadn't spoken with her since. It made her sad to think of the loss of her friends, but it couldn't be helped. The past was the past; there was no way to change that.
She had just finished talking with her mom when she felt Garrus hug her from behind.
"Having a good time?" She smiled and pushed back into his embrace.
"Yah, just thinking about all the trouble we had to go thru to get here." He laughed and turned her around looking into her emerald-green eyes.
"It was worth it thou, in the end. Right?" Her smile grew even wider and she kissed him on the scarred side of his face.
"Absolutely."