When Shepard Met Vakarian
"Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy." ~Aristotle
Shepard first met Garrus wile hunting Saren down. He was a confident C-Sec Officer and she was the Commanding Officer of the Normandy SR-1, almost twelve years of service under her belt.
She wouldn't lie; the first time they spoke she held spite and mistrust in her tone. She didn't easily trust aliens, especially Turians. Why?
Shepard grew up as a military brat, jumped ship to ship as her parents got promoted and moved. Her Father was mostly posted nearly the Hades Nexus system, while her Mother was stationed near the Local Cluster. She begged for the longest time to go with her Father, Ulysses Abraham Shepard, on the SSV Apollo. Ever since she was little, Shepard held a deep love for space and vowed that one day she would surpass even her Father in ranking. Her Mother, a little less than pleased, said "No," and forced young Shepard to stay with her on the Piranha cruiser.
Shepard was quite the girly girl actually, most can't believe the change she's made, before a Turian named Orohn joined the Piranha with his Father, Rokqire. For a time Shepard simply ignored the Turian, kept on her merry way most of the time, and before she knew it Orohn held a grudge against her.
No, it was nothing she had done but more like what she had not done.
In an act of revenge, or perhaps just to humiliate her, Orohn decided to pull out a nice chunk of her hair. Shepard screamed and shouted, wrestling with the Turian to the ground before being pulled off him by her Mother. Her hair littered the floor in long, blonde strands, and she was pulled away kicking and screaming.
Needless the say she never grew her hair out since then.
However, Garrus was not akin to Orohn. In fact, instead of reacting like other Turians had reacted when she spoke to them, he simply looked at her quizzically before flaring his mandibles and wishing her, "Luck with the Council." He gave a smile, or what Shepard thought at the time was a smile.
She'd never imagine that she'd have him on board of the Normandy, nor had she ever thought that she'd become the first human Spectre, but somehow they did it. Together.