Whipsers were already going around about the newly added dossier, and since there was no gender or race included the crew had already started guessing. In the mess hall it was the worst, some thinking it was maybe a female salarian and started making fun of Mordin requesting mating contracts. Others were thinking another Krogan. Gardner threw in the possibility of a female turian since everyone was going for the female guessing. Garrus had started to get his hopes up after that and asked Shepard to let him be one of the ones to go with Shepard when they went to pick her up. Shepard didn't care whether it was a guy, girl, turian or krogan. As long as it was a talented individual who would up the percentage of them surviving he wouldn't care.
Shepard turned around and started walking towards the elevator, smiling at Kelly as he passed by. He had been flirting a little with Kelly, even had dinner with her once. The evening had mostly been spent talking about the dossiers and crew, their various opinions of people, and Shepard talking about the crew on the old Normandy. Running into Ash hadn't been as...nice as he had hoped but after she called him a traitor he couldn't stand thinking about the woman anymore. Even now it got him angry, maybe with time these things could be fixed.
Once he had arrived at his cabin he went and took a shower trying to wash the thoughts from his head. After he felt calm enough he went and descided to get some rest, setting his alarm he drifted into sleep. Facing nightmares of protheans and reapers head on again.
(5 hours later)
+Commander we've arrived at the citadel.+ Came Jokers voice over the intercom.
"Thanks Joker be down in a second."
Shepard rolled over and sat at the edge of the getting the energy to stand up and walked out of the cabin and went to go get suited up. After getting Garrus and Mordin the trio went through the airlock and onto the citadel. Of course the first thing they did was contact Kasumi since she was right there, well sort of. Shepard talked to the advertisement and went along with the theifs game, once agreeing to help with the heist she went ahead to the Normandy. Next was Elizaveta which according to EDI's reports she was in the Dark Star.
"Garrus, Mordin go ahead to Dark Star i'll meet you there in a little bit."
"Where are you going Shepard?" Garrus asked.
"Going to go ahead and meet with the counsil and Anderson, i'd ask you to come with but i don't know if i'll need a hug after this one, I hope not at least. But if i do i'll expect a big one at the bar as well as some drinks."
"Aww Commander maybe i should hold your hand on the way there just in case."
Shepard pushed away the hand Garrus had held out laughing. After giving them a chit to buy drinks with they departed ways.
Garrus and Mordin had a relatively quiet walk to the club, surprisingly enough in the doctors case who was usually chatting up a storm. When they arrived they didn't immediately start getting drinks instead Garrus went over to an empty table while Mordin went off scanning the crowd of dancers with his omni-tool. Curiosity getting the better of him he started scanning the crowd for potential canidates for their contact. To his own disapointment there were no female turians in the crowd, only feminine figures he could see were the humans and asari. Other than that there were a few salarians, turians and alot of human men. Garrus got up and ordered a drink, while waiting he caught an...odd scent. Looking around he tried to find the source, the turian bartender had paused also and looked at the door watching a human female walk through.
She had very long dirty blonde hair held back by a bandana which looked like the way human pirates in films would wear. Her piercing blue eyes were slightly surrounded by dark circles. Her outfit was a, mix of grey, sky blue and black with some white. The top reminded him of Miranda's but with a mix of Aria's straps but the arms were cut off. Her stomach was visable but surrounded by fabric which led to her pants, one leg much shorter than the other. Her boots came up to her below her knees which were covered by small triangularish shaped armor. On her right arm were an assortment of tattoo's (mostly rings looping all the way around the arm) covering most of her arm, there might have been more but he couldnt see the ones under her glove.
She walked right up to the bar beside Garrus and ordered something, the way she talked was different than he was used to. Engineer Donelly spoke differently from most humans he knew but her accent was still different. With her closeness he could smell the scent even stronger now and he found himself leaning towards her trying to smell more and more. The bartender had started leaning towards her as well, but when the human snapped her fingers in his face and asked for her drink again, the bartender rubbed his fringe and finished Garruss' drink then pulled out a bottle for the blonde. She grabbed the bottle and walked quickly to the other side of the club quickly. GArrus wanted to follow her and find out what the smell was but fought off the urge turning and going back to the table. Mordin was there now with his own drink examining his omni-tool intently. Garrus plopped down across from him and drank some of his drink trying to get the scent out of his nose.
"Curious."
Garrus looked over at the doctor who was now scanning him with his omni-tool. "Doc?"
"Increased heart rate. Sniffing air continuously. Same for other turian males in vicinity."
"I don't see what that has to do wih anything were just here for some drinks." Garrus sniffed again the scent getting stronger. He looked around and found the female cautiously walking around the bar away from a growing crowd of male turians.
"Very Curious. Human. Female. Turian interest mainly. Odd."
"You said mainly, so it's not just Turians." Garrus smelt again she was getting closer and it was driving him crazy.
"Of course human male interest. Female being stalked by other species. Plus attire is...less. Much to look at. But different reactions. No...sniffing involved." Mordin kept scanning the crowd of turians following the girl which had grown to about 13.
She stopped at the bar and got another bottle of the drink and turned and walked straight through the crowd following her back to her seat. Some of the turians had lost interest or something and just stormed off out of the club. It was down to 5 turians and he saw that 2 of them were pushing the others away. They were big for turians and a 3rd one had sat down next to the human very close. He couldn't hear what he was saying but he herd her laugh and shake her head before pushing the turian back abit. The turian leaned in again and he saw him talking, curiosity getting the better of him he stodd up and walked around to where he could hear.
"...there might be marks. But you look like you could take it"
She scoffed and scooted her chair away only to be pulled back.
"I don't, well nevermind i do know what you want from me but it is not a thing you can get...I'm not an easy girl to get."
"Can you at least explain why you smell so...' the turian leaned in a took a long breath near her neck,'Deliscious."
The girl picked up a three fingered hand from under the table and placed it ontop of the table. Then stood up grabbing her bottle and started to walk off. But the turian had jumped up almost as fast and quickly slammed her into the wall facing him. She tried wiggling out but his grasp was too strong and he leaned in and licked her neck slowly. She seemed to give in after she made a gasping noise then suddenly she wasn't held down by him anymore. She had him pinned against the wall holding his arm behind his back and pushing up actually managing to lift him off the ground which was impressive with how big he was.
"Now now behave, and please let me drink in peace, if i wish for other services i shall contact you but for now good bye." And with that she shoved him off into the other two turians who fell over under their friends weight.
She dusted her hands off then turned and sat back down, grabbing the bottle and propping her legs up on the table with a heavy sigh. She closed her eyes for just a second before snapping her head over to Garrus with an evil grin on her face, as if she was daring him to come over. Taking that as his sign to go he quickly walked over back to Mordin after getting another drink. Garrus rested his head on the table, not able to notice Shepard comming up behind him with the scent still strong in his nose.
"Already drunk without me?"
Garrus jumped out of his chair and turned and stood at the turian equivalent of attention, which startled him as much as it did Shepard who had pulled back his arm as if to punch him.
"Shit Shepard didn't notice you come in, and no just felt like taking a nap. Still need that hug?"
Shepard laughed,"Only if it means your buying gimme the chit."
Garrus fumbled around till he found the chit and handed it to Shepard who walked over and got some drinks. Carrying two in each hand back to he table he sat back with one and propped his legs up on the table. Which caused Garrus to turn and look back at the human female who was in the same position as earlier, the same as Shepard, except now she was talking with the bartender and smiling.
"Any clues as to who might be our contact?"
"Only two obvious candidates. Salarian in corner by himself. Has not had anything to drink. Seems to be waiting on something. Second candidate is..."
Garrus jumped in,"The blonde in the corner with the bartender."
Shepard looked over towards the salarian then towards the blonder female. He downed the rest of his drink and stood up. "Well only one real way to find out huh?"
Shepard started over towards the salarian first, Garrus watched but out of the corner of his eye he saw the blonde human stand up suddenly while looking at Shepard. She patted the bartender on the head and edged over to get a better look at Shepard. She went into the dancing crowd and Garrus lost sight of her so he turned his attention back to Shepard. Who had started walking back towards them rubbing the back of his neck with his hand.
"Not the salarain, pretty shady guy but definately not named Elizaveta. Which doesn't surprise me, it sounds more Earthy, probably Russian or somewhere near that area on Earth. Well time to go try the... where the hell is she?"
"Behind you Shepard." Garrus said taking another drink and smelling the air again.
"Commander John Shepard?"
"Yes that's me and i'm going to guess your Elizaveta."
What happened next was a blur but all Garrus knew was it ended with him holding the huan female who was now unconscious.
Dum dum duuummmmm... I know it's fem shep/garrus but dude thats a...well dude. You'll see where im going muahahahah! My evil schemes are going to be amasing :)
Hope i didn't go too out of character with Mordin and Garrus...