Two hours had passed since the shoot-out and everyone was still reeling from the events from the patrons who had barely escaped the carnage at the bar to the Asari C-Sec officer who had been injured and nearly killed by the rampaging Krogan.

"Well Anola, I have good news." The Salarian doctor said as he entered the room Anola was in at Huerta Memorial Hospital on the wards. "You managed to escape the encounter with the Krogan with minor injuries to your ribs, surprising considering the size difference."

"The shields made up for the difference." Anola responded as she stood up with a wince. "How long will I be in pain for anyway?" Anola asked and the Salarian checked his notes.

"A couple of days, give or take, normally I'd say take it easy but knowing your job, well, I may as well ask you to jump from the Citadel to your home world, and yes, I do mean physically jump." The Salarian responded before he started writing on a Datapad. "So instead I'll give you a subscription for Pain Killers, just hand it in at the reception desk and the receptionist will see to it that you get your meds."

"Thanks doc." Anola responded before taking the Datapad from him. "Doesn't matter how far the galaxy has come along or what species the doctor is, they always have to make their signature nearly impossible to read." Anola thought before pocketing the Datapad. "Considering I've been run over by a Krogan whilst saving a Quarian from said Krogan your taking this surprisingly well."

"Salarians may be a short lived species, especially compared to yours, but I've been a doctor most of my life and I've seen a lot in this profession." The Salarian responded as the door to Anola's room opened. "I once treated a Volus who thought he could arm wrestle a Krogan based on an old human TV show he saw, believe he called it Game of Thrones, but that's nothing compared to the human couple who used medigel as anal lube, certainly one of the more, interesting, surgeries that has been carried out here."

"Yeah I'm just going to pretend that you left out that last part." Anola responded with a shudder and the Salarian chuckled. "Seriously, I wouldn't care how horny I got, medigel is the last thing I'd use for any type of lube."

"Well, this is an interesting conversation to walk in on." Varnus commented dryly and they looked up. "Varnus Travekian, I'm Anola's partner in C-Sec."

"Ah yes, she mentioned that she had some stuff to take care off back at C-Sec HQ." The Salarian responded as he checked his notes. "You'll be pleased to know that she can go, we've just been chatting away to pass the time."

"Indeed." Varnus commented with a nod as Anola walked up to him. "And I believe I know which character that Volus was inspired by, Tyrian Lancaster, a human midget with enough skill and cunning to make up for his size."

"You don't say?" The Salarian commented with a nod. "Might have to watch that some time."

"You should, it's a good show, once you get past the numerous scenes of blood, death and sex, sometimes at the same time." Varnus commented with a chuckle and Anola grinned.

"Sounds like a show my dad would love." Anola said with a grin and Varnus chuckled as the Salarian took a sip from a drink on his table.

"I'd expect nothing less from a thousand year old Krogan." Varnus responded and the Salarian spat out his drink.

"I'm sorry but a Krogan sired an Asari?" The Salarian asked with a raised eyebrow. "Do I even want to know how that came about?"

"Says the guy who just told me that someone was dumb enough to use medigel as Anal Lube." Anola pointed out and the Salarian nodded in defeat. "Besides, it's a lot more common than you think."

"I'm sure it is, anyway I think we should get going." Varnus responded before leading Anola out of the clinic, when she handed in the Datapad to the receptionist Varnus turned to her. "Sorry about saying that in front of the doctor."

"Its fine, I'm a lot less ashamed of it than I was when we first met." Anola responded as she folded her arms. "Besides, I'm one of few Asari who can claim that there's a chance my dad will still be around when I hit the matriarch stage so it's not all bad."

"I suppose." Varnus admitted with a nod. "A lot has happened whilst you were being treated, some stuff I can't discuss out in the open."

"What can you discuss?" Anola asked as she turned to him.

"Krek lawyered up as soon as we got him to C-Sec, by the time I left his public defence lawyer had just arrived." Varnus responded as he turned to her. "He may be a public defendant but I know him, he's a damn good lawyer."

"Let me guess, you want to handle the interrogation?" Anola asked and Varnus nodded.

"No offence but I'm better suited to deal with him, I'd offer to let you sit in but then there's Reya." Varnus responded and Anola frowned. "McKenna's been looking after her since she got to C-Sec but she isn't exactly chatty."

"Varnus, she's an eighteen year old who just got a shotgun pointed to her helmet, I can't really blame her." Anola responded and Varnus nodded. "Besides, she was comfortable around me so it makes sense that I'd handle the chat with her."

"That was what I was thinking." Varnus responded with a nod as the receptionist returned with Anola's pills. "Pain Killers?"

"The Datapad I gave her was a subscription from the doctor, it's all good." Anola responded as she pocketed the pills. "I'll read the instructions when I have some free time but I think we have more pressing issues."

"Right, the incident at the bar." Varnus nodded before leading her to the squad car, the two officers got in and Varnus started driving. "If you're worried about the debriefing, I already went over it with Bailey, he's not happy about what happened but he understands that we had to act in the defence of an innocent." Varnus said and Anola nodded with a sigh in relief, however when she saw the look on Varnus's face she frowned. "Except she's not all that innocent."

"Say again?" Anola asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I ran her prints at the station after she was printed in a clean room." Varnus responded as he activated a console and brought up her profile. "Her early years are fairly typical, she was born on a recycled Turian ship, her family moved to Rannoch during the Reaper War and two years ago she moved to the Citadel as part of her pilgrimage."

"Quarians still do those?" Anola asked with a look of confusion on her face. "I was under the impression that they were stopped after the Reaper War since it had become redundant?"

"Officially yes, but many Quarians, especially those who were young when the Reaper War started as is the case with Reya, embark on them for nostalgic purposes and for an excuse to see the galaxy." Varnus responded with a nod as he read through the file. "She flew under the radar for a few months after that before cropping up again when she was arrested as part of a gang making illegal AI."

"You'd think Quarians would know better about that." Anola commented with a frown. "AI experiments where what drove them from Rannoch in the first place."

"Setting aside the simplified explanation for the creation of the Geth you are correct, however I fear that Reya didn't have much of a choice." Varnus sighed sadly as he scrolled through the file. "Even after everything they did in the Reaper War many business on the Citadel and elsewhere are reluctant to hire them, worried about the costs of hiring a Quarian and such."

"She didn't have any family here?" Anola asked and Varnus shook his head.

"None on record, they are most likely still on Rannoch." Varnus responded before finding what he was looking for. "She got her initial sentence reduced for testifying against the gang leader, but she didn't spend long in prison even after that."

"What do you mean?" Anola asked as she leaned over. "She was let out early?"

"Yes, for testifying against a fellow inmate who killed a prison guard, after that she shows up in a police report about a shooting in a bar on Zekera Ward but then the trail ends after she boards a shuttle to Ilium." Varnus responded as he closed the console. "Come to think of it, doesn't one of your relatives work for Ilium's Police Force?"

"Yeah, my sister, different dad before you ask." Anola nodded in response. "We don't get to talk often due to the cost of long distance phone calls and the nature of our jobs but I can call her and see if she remembers Reya."

"It'll be a start at least, even after the Reaper War the Citadel and the Terminus Systems aren't exactly going to be trading any time soon." Varnus said as he closed the console and resumed driving. "But even then we still have to narrow down who put the bounty on her head and why."

"There's two possible suspects that spring to mind already, the guys she testified against." Anola said as she opened the console back up and looked up their names. "Krarner Yol was the guy who was in charge of the gang she was in, Volus right?"

"Yes and he's a dead end, literally." Varnus responded as he pointed to another tab that he had open and Anola switched over seeing Krarner's bio. "He barely lasted a week in prison before he pissed off a Krogan gang so much that they paid off a guard to look the other way whilst two Krogans held him down and the third forcibly removed his suit, needless to say the results where messy."

"I'd hate to think what he had done to piss them off so much to kill him like that." Anola thought out loud as she scrolled through the article and saw a crime scene photo, it looked like it took place in a shower and there was Volus blood and chunks of armour everywhere. "What happened to the Krogan? I'm guessing they survived."

"They did and they are currently on Death Row, the guard was fired and arrested once his involvement was discovered and he'll likely join them in the near future." Varnus responded as Anola closed the tab and looked through Reya's file. "If you're looking for the other person she testified against don't bother, she's a dead end as well."

"He's dead as well?" Anola asked and Varnus shook his head.

"No but her name isn't mentioned anywhere, I'd have to go through the court files to get a beat on that and we'd need a warrant first." Varnus responded and Anola frowned at that. "It's not exactly ideal but Commander Bailey did get in touch with the DA for a warrant to access the files but as we both know that can take a while."

"Almost makes you wish that we lived in the world of those old cowboy cop vids, doesn't it?" Anola asked half-jokingly and Varnus chuckled.

"I'd be lying if I said that it wouldn't be a lot more fun." Varnus nodded in response and Anola grinned. "One leverage we do have is Krek, mercenaries like him get jobs through contacts and rarely meet their potential employer unless they are opening up a mercenary group like the Eclipse, Blue Suns or Blood Pack."

"Krek is known to be a loner so the Omega 4 Relay will be a tourist destination before he joins a group like that." Anola commented and Varnus nodded.

"Exactly and I know what to use against him." Varnus responded as he opened up the console and showed Krek's profile. "When we booked him in we got around forty open warrant notifications that matched his name."

"The big guy's been busy." Anola commented as she folded her arms and Varnus nodded.

"And that was before I left, when I stopped outside Huerta Memorial Bailey called to tell me that a further twenty had come in." Varnus added as his expression darkened. "For the most part they are all typical mercenary stuff, extortion, murder, you name it, Krek's done it, but the last notification caught my attention."

"Why do I get the feeling that I'm not going to like where this is going?" Anola asked and Varnus nodded.

"If you think that's bad, I was one of the officers working the case, at first it seemed fairly innocent, a few young women and Asari had been going missing over the past few months and the trails ended up cold each time." Varnus said as he sighed. "That is until we busted a major slaving operation on the Citadel, specializing in sex slaves."

"Goddess….." Anola trailed off with a look of disgust on her face. "Please tell me you saved them all?"

"I wish I could but at least half the girls where already off world by that point, we are working closely with a Spectre to track them down but it'll take time." Varnus responded as he scrolled down. "My point is that the slaving group hired a few mercenaries to work security and keep the girls in line, not to mention "take them for a test ride"."

"I'd rather not know what that's a euphemism for." Anola responded with a shudder. "Let me guess, Krek was one of the mercenaries."

"Yes but he wasn't among the mercenaries arrested, I would've arrested him at the bar but that would've blown our cover and we were still looking for Jared Black at the time." Varnus responded as he closed the console. "Everyone involved got life without parole, the DA wasn't going to take any plea deals for this case, and under normal circumstances Krek would join them."

"Except he's got all those other charges against him including the attempt on Reya." Anola responded and Varnus nodded. "He'd be lucky if he just got the death penalty for that."

"And his lawyer knows it, the lawyer will try to get the charges dropped against Krek in exchange for the info but the DA won't accept that, the best I can do is say that I'll put in a good work for him." Varnus added and Anola frowned.

"About what? Telling bad jokes whilst he has a shotgun pointed at my head?" Anola asked and Varnus shook his head.

"It won't matter because the DA won't listen the moment he realizes that Krek was involved in the slaving operation but if it helps this case I'll think of something." Varnus responded and Anola nodded with a frown, a few minutes passed and the cop car rolled to a stop outside C-Sec HQ and the two officers got out. "McKenna's at her station, Reya should be there as well."

"Good luck with Krek, I think you'll need it." Anola responded before walking off, Varnus shook his head before turning to another Turian C-Sec Officer.

"Urdnot Krek is in interrogation room number three." The Turian said apparently overhearing the conversation between Varnus and Anola. "His lawyer's with him."

"Off course he is." Varnus sighed as he glanced towards the third interrogation room. "Who did Krek get as his lawyer again?"

"A Salarian public defence lawyer called Trolik Carverse." The Turian responded and Varnus frowned when he heard that.

"Carverse, great, he's got one of the best public defence lawyers in Citadel Space working with him." Varnus thought before nodding. "Thank you officer and please see to it that I have a cup of coffee ready when I'm done, I'm going to need it."

"Off course, I know what Carverse is like." The Turian nodded before walking off and Varnus entered the interrogation room, Krek was strapped in and Carverse was standing beside him.

"Well, well, you make us wait all this time and you finally show up." Trolik said with a frown as the door closed. "If I didn't know any better I'd say that you were trying to drag this out."

"My apologies, I had to pick up my partner from the hospital after her run in with your client." Varnus responded and Trolik frowned whilst Krek scoffed. "Something funny Krek?"

"If it weren't for that Quarian you'd still be picking up your partner's brain matter and yet you complain about picking her up from the hospital." Krek commented with a grin as Varnus glared at him. "You officers have your priorities screwed up, I know you were there for Black."

"How did you know that?!" Varnus demanded as he walked towards the Krogan. "That mission was top secret."

"I had you two marked as officers before you even drew your guns and even if I didn't Jared wouldn't have shown up anyway." Krek said with a smirk. "Jared knew that C-Sec was going to come after him eventually, I'm not saying that I paid for his shuttle off world but I did strongly suggest it to him."

"And I'm strongly suggesting that you don't say another word." Trolik interrupted him and Krek glared at him before grunting in annoyance. "I'm not stupid detective, I know you want to know who put that bounty on the young Quarian's head and my client would be willing to tell you who gave him the contract if the attempted murder charges were dropped."

"And we both know that it's ultimately the DA who has the final say in that." Varnus responded and Trolik nodded reluctantly. "But whilst we're on the subject of charges something interesting came up whilst we were processing your client."

"Define interesting." Trolik responded as Krek's eyes narrowed.

"Enough open warrants to put him away for the entirety of his life-span." Varnus said before handing him a datapad with the info on it. "I'll save you some reading, most of it is standard fare for a mercenary like Krek."

"Yes, I can see that." Trolik nodded as he read through the file. "What's the offer?"

"There isn't one." Varnus responded earning a raised eyebrow from Trolik. "Scroll down to the very last open warrant, it's the difference between your client getting life without parole or the death penalty."

"What are you talking about?!" Krek demanded as Trolik scrolled through the datapad, Krek leaned in to read over his lawyer's shoulder and scoffed. "You can't prove that I was involved in that slavery ring."

"Wrong, I was one of the officers working that case and your fingerprints were all over the HQ and on some of the girls." Varnus said as his eyes narrowed. "The women we could save are still in therapy for what they went through under your employer."

"Yes and said employer is on Death Row, what's your point?" Trolik asked and Varnus glared at him.

"If your client tells us who gave him the contract on the Quarian's head and where the girls who were sold where shipped off too then I'll put in a good word with the DA." Varnus responded and Krek scoffed.

"Is that the best you can do? We lost track of those girls the moment they left Citadel Space." Krek responded as Varnus turned to him. "They could be anywhere in the Terminus Systems and we both know that that isn't a small area of the galaxy! And besides, I stick to my own species when it comes to sex and those fingerprints on the girls where probably from shoving them along."

"You know who's working closely with us to find those girls? A Council Spectre, now he hasn't had much luck with finding them in spite of the limitless resources that he has at his disposal but the info you give us can give him a solid lead." Varnus responded as Krek went to respond. "Or would you prefer it if I gave him a call? Let him handle the interrogation from here? Once he knows that you were involved with the slaving operation, well, the results will be messy."

"You think you're so smart don't you?" Krek asked sarcastically as he glared at the Turian. "Fuck this, I only took that job because it was the highest paying job available at the time! I accept."

"Good." Varnus said as Trolik handed over the datapad. "Make no mistake, the only time you'll see the outside world from now on is when you are in the exercise yard but if this works out in your favour you'll at least live to see the end of your natural life-span."

"And by then you'll be a pile of bones in the ground and that Asari will be even hotter." Krek scoffed as Varnus ignored him. "Go to Steele's Bar and Grill on the lower end of the wards, look for Cameron Jacobs, he'll tell you what you need to know."

"I know him, last time I arrested him he was a red sand junkie willing to rob defenceless Quarians in order to get his next score." Varnus remembered as he looked at the Krogan. "How did he get from that to being a mercenary contact?"

"Whoever's employing him must've given him enough money to satisfy his addiction." Trolik responded before motioning to the door. "Now if you excuse me I have things to go over with my client, you get no prizes for guessing what those things are." Trolik added and Varnus nodded.

"Understood councillor, enjoy your client cussing you out for what your species did to his." Varnus added before he went to leave the room, however before he did he glanced over his shoulder. "Oh and Krek?"

"What?!" Krek demanded and Varnus chuckled.

"I do think I am quite intelligent." Varnus commented and Krek glared daggers at him as the Turian left the interrogation room. "That was a lot less painful than I originally thought it would be, wonder if Anola's had any luck."

*meanwhile*

"You would think that finding McKenna's desk would get easier." Anola thought to herself as she walked through the hallways, McKenna was a part of C-Sec's Cyber Crime unit and had, ironically, been a major part of the arrest that led to Reya's current predicament, still since C-Sec often employed Quarians to maintain their machines it made sense to send Reya to her. "Then again it's not like I interact with her much since I'm in the homicide division, it's not like killers use computers to kill people." Anola thought before spotting McKenna. "McKenna."

"Oh hi Anola." McKenna greeted the Asari as she entered the computer room, the blonde haired Scottish C-Sec agent looked up at Anola with a grin. "What can I do you for?"

"Any Quarians around?" Anola asked and McKenna sighed before pointing out the several Quarians fixing computers. "What happened this time?"

"Some Krogan got drunk last night and broke in, we still don't know the details." McKenna responded as she shook her head. "You're going to have to be more specific."

"Red and black suit, young, female, involved in a shootout involving a money hungry Krogan." Anola responded and McKenna nodded.

"Oh you mean Reya? I would've thought she would be chatting with the other Quarians who weren't busy but nope." McKenna responded before motioning Anola to come around her desk and she did so, Reya was sitting in her own chair fiddling around with her onmi-tool. "Hasn't exactly spoke much either."

"She was almost killed back there." Anola pointed out and McKenna nodded.

"Aye, and that's rough." McKenna agreed as she glanced at Reya. "Some of the older Quarians gave her some words of encouragement when they heard what she had been through but aside from that she's been pretty quiet."

"Yeah well, I was the first one to chat with her following the attempt on her life, maybe I can get through to her?" Anola offered and McKenna nodded.

"Be my guest, I have a lot of work to do anyway and, as much as I feel sorry for her, I can't babysit her all day." McKenna responded before turning to Reya. "Reya, Officer Tr'Santi is here to see you." McKenna said and Reya looked up.

"Oh, hi Anola." Reya greeted her as she stood up and turned off her Omni-Tool. "I know we have a lot to go through and I also know that Officer Varnus likely looked up my bio after I was printed."

"He did and he gave me the basics, how about we go somewhere private for the chat?" Anola offered and Reya nodded before Anola led her to a disused room with a table and two chairs, they sat down and Anola sighed. "Okay, let's start from the top, you came to the Citadel when you were fifteen right?"

"Yeah, and I did a lot of things that I'm not proud off." Reya said as she leaned back. "I chose to come to the Citadel because I thought that with my technical skills and the goodwill that Quarians earned after the Reaper War that I'd be able to find some work but it didn't work out that way, no one would hire me, not even for freelance work though I will admit that I wish I knew that C-Sec hired Quarians for technical support sooner."

"I'm afraid it wouldn't have worked out anyway, C-Sec has a policy of only hiring employees who are eighteen or over though in the case of Asari like me the age minimum is one hundred for obvious reasons." Anola responded with a sad sigh and Reya shook her head. "I can sympathize with not being able to find work, I had trouble myself when I first moved here, was this close to taking up a job as a stripper before my mom put in a good word for me."

"Your mom must be someone special." Reya said and Anola grinned a bit.

"My family has a long history of police and military service, not only that but my mom has a pretty high position in Thessia PD and it made the higher ups take notice of me." Anola explained and Reya nodded in response. "But building illegal AIS? I can't exactly sympathize with that."

"Keelah, that was so stupid of me." Reya cussed under her breath. "I did eventually find work, a Volus approached me and offered me work with no questions asked, that should've set off god knows how many alarms in my head but I was desperate and homeless and I wasn't about to turn down a job offer." Reya added with a sigh and Anola nodded in understanding. "Things were good for the first few months, I brought my own house on the Wards and had made friends but then the arrest came."

"And everything went downhill from there." Anola responded and Reya nodded. "Your parents can't have been thrilled when they found out."

"I used my first phone call to call them on Rannoch, I didn't care how much it cost C-Sec I just knew that they had to hear my side of the story before word reached my home world." Reya explained with a sigh. "They were as angry as you'd expect them to be at first but once they heard why I was even doing something so stupid in the first place they promised to fight any extradition that the Quarian government would inevitably want, it worked and I managed to avoid a much harsher punishment on Rannoch." Reya added before sighing. "But in hindsight I'd rather risk a potential life-sentence over what has happened to me since then."

"You mean the bounty?" Anola asked and Reya nodded. "Okay, I understand that it's been a while but what do you remember?"

"I was given a year-long prison sentence and got sent to a minimum security prison, by then I was old enough to be tried as an adult but considering that the rest of the gang got much longer sentences in maximum security prisons I took what I could get." Reya explained and Anola nodded. "Most of the other inmates were non-violent offenders like me….except for my gang leader of a cell mate."

"Whoa, whoa, hold up." Anola said as a look of shock appeared on her face. "They put an eighteen year old Quarian with no criminal history or history of violence in the same cell as a gang leader? What was she even doing in a minimum security prison?"

"My public defence lawyer had the same reaction when I told him." Reya responded as she leaned back. "Have you heard of the human mob boss Al Capone?"

"Yeah, I read up about him in college." Anola nodded in response. "They got the gang leader on tax evasion like Al Capone?"

"Yeah and for the first couple of months she wasn't that bad, there were definitely nastier women in that prison, until she killed a guard with a shiv, I later learned that he was corrupt and smuggling in contraband for the leader." Reya responded with a nod. "Turned out that he had a change of heart and was willing to testify against the leader except that she killed him that night, I was having trouble sleeping and saw the whole thing."

"I'm sorry you had to go through that." Anola responded as she wrote everything down on her Omni-Tool. "But why would the gang leader do it herself and not arrange a hit?"

"I don't know, I wasn't exactly in a mood to ask that at the time." Reya responded as she shifted her weight. "I pretended to be asleep so that she'd leave me alone but as soon as I got the chance I told C-Sec what I knew."

"Finding out who was working that case shouldn't be too hard, I was still on Thessia at the time and Varnus was still serving in the Turian Military so it couldn't have been either of us." Anola thought as she wrote down what Reya had told her. "You were called to testify at court I'm guessing? How did that go?"

"It went a lot better than I thought it would, the leader's lawyer tried to use the fact that I had been arrested for developing illegal AIs against me but I kept my cool and the leader was sent to Death Row, in return for my testimony I was granted an early release." Reya added and Anola nodded as she wrote it down. "It wasn't long before I found out about the bounty."

"Yeah I have some questions about that." Anola responded and Reya nodded. "Did you ever find out just how big the price on your head was? And for that matter, who put the bounty on your head in the first place?"

"I wish I knew but all I knew was that it was a lot of money, at one point I considered faking my own death and claiming the bounty through a friend but that would've required me to have friends, after my arrest all the friends I had made wanted nothing to do with me." Reya responded with a sad sigh as Anola wrote it down. "As for who, I figured out pretty quickly that it had come from my cell-mate's gang especially after I learned about my former bosses' death but that's all I knew, the bounty hunters even went as far as to send me fake job offers to lure me into an ambush but each time C-Sec intervened and I escaped."

"It says on your profile that you escaped to the Terminus Systems." Anola said and Reya nodded. "How did you pull that off? C-Sec would've tried to stop the flight since it says that you were on parole at the time."

"I know and I also knew that I was risking getting into more trouble but I no longer felt safe on the Citadel." Reya explained with a sad sigh. "It took a lot of planning, I had to have a friend I made in prison forge a fake ID for me and buy a new Quarian suit so that no one would recognize me, it was a lot of work like I said but it paid off and it wasn't long before I was on Ilium, once there I did some freelance tech work before the bounty hunters caught up to me too weeks ago."

"That reminds me, I'd better call Kressa and see if she remembers Reya." Anola thought as she wrote the info down. "So you fled Ilium for the Citadel?"

"Not exactly, first I tried hiding on Omega but that ended up being an even bigger mistake than agreeing to build illegal AIs, I'm sure you can guess why." Reya responded as Anola wrote it down. "After I fled Omega I joined a mercenary crew on board their ship thinking that the bounty hunters wouldn't look for me on a ship full of mercenaries."

"I'll give her credit, that isn't a bad idea." Anola thought as she wrote it down. "How long did that last?"

"Longer than I thought, the mercenaries on board did find out about the bounty but they made it clear that they weren't interested in it no matter how much the price on my head was, that lasted a couple of weeks before a rival mercenary raided the ship with her gang of freelancers, at first they weren't going to kill anyone and only cared about the spoils from that groups jobs." Reya said before sighing. "Until one of the freelancers recognized me from Omega, I ran straight for the escape pods using every trick I knew to slow them down until I reached the pods, set a course for the Citadel and escaped, as I was escaping a saw the ship blow up apparently at the mercenary's hands."

"Can you describe this mercenary?" Anola asked with a frown. "If she comes after you then we can be prepared."

"She was human, around your height with shoulder length black hair and blue eyes, I guess she'd be considered attractive by human standards and she spoke in the same accent as McKenna." Reya responded as Anola wrote it down. "I never heard her full name but the captain of the ship referred to her as Andrea."

"That doesn't narrow it down but it might be a good idea to have McKenna run that description through the database." Anola thought as she wrote it down. "Do you remember anything else but this Andrea?"

"She looked like she was in her early twenties but I couldn't tell her exact age, she was also a biotic." Reya responded and Anola frowned when she heard that. "But at the same time she had some impressive technical skills."

"You mean like a sentinel?" Anola asked and Reya nodded. "Female Scottish Mercenaries with biotic and tech abilities operating in the Terminus Systems going by the name of Andrea, this isn't going to be an easy task for McKenna." Anola thought but before she could ask another question there was a knock at the door and she looked up seeing Varnus standing there. "You mind if I go talk to my partner?"

"Sure." Reya nodded as Anola stood up taking her datapad with her and left the room, she closed it behind her and turned to Varnus.

"I have a lead." Anola said with a smirk and Varnus nodded

"That makes two of us." Varnus responded as he checked his ommi-tool. "Krek gave me the name of his contact, Cameron Jacobs, we can find him at Steele's Bar and Grill."

"From one shithole to another." Anola grunted with a frown. "I've heard of that place, the food is considered to be pretty good but it's rumoured to be a front for the owner's illegal activities."

"I assume you mean Victor Steele?" Varnus asked and Anola raised an eyebrow. "I ran the bar's name through the database on the way over and he's listed as the owner, I ran his name through the database as well but there isn't much, he was one of the students Commander Shepard saved from Grissom Academy when it was attacked by Cerberus but after the Reaper War he dropped off the radar until he opened Steele's Bar and Grill two years ago." Varnus added and Anola nodded. "What's your lead?"

"I don't have as much to go on as you but Reya remembered being attacked by a human mercenary from Scotland called Andrea." Anola responded as she showed him the datapad. "She last saw her somewhere in the Terminus Systems but if she comes to the Citadel we need to be ready."

"Indeed, if you want to run the description Reya gave you through the database go ahead and give it to McKenna." Varnus nodded in response as he read the info. "Narrowing it down won't be easy but if anyone can do it it's McKenna, that just leaves one problem and that's Steele's Bar and Grill."

"What do you mean? We won't be able to stake out the place like we did at Trikaro's?" Anola asked and Varnus nodded.

"We could but it would raise more than a few questions from Commander Bailey, see since it opened Steele's Bar and Grill has been very popular with some C-Sec officers, those officers were later found guilty of corruption." Varnus explained and Anola frowned once it hit her. "Normally I'd suggest sending in Amelia but she's still coping from the shootout earlier, you have any ideas?"

"That's a good question." Anola responded as she thought for a moment. "Most of my informants would look really out of place in Steele's Bar and Grill….except for one." Anola realized as an idea popped into her head. "What about my dad?"

"Thrax? I thought he retired from mercenary work?" Varnus asked as his mandibles flared. "Something about "combat getting boring"?"

"He did but he lives on the Citadel and when I told him I work for C-Sec he said that he'd be willing to help with anything." Anola responded with a grin. "And besides, my other informants wouldn't exactly fit in since they are an eighteen year old human petty thief, a Salarian scared off his own shadow and an Elcor porn store owner."

"Well I suppose he'll…..Elcor porn store owner?!" Varnus trailed off as he stared at her. "How exactly does he come in handy? Or come up with the idea to open a porn store? And how did you come into contact with him in the first place?"

"In order, he comes in handy on the off chance that a suspect has a particular kink, he comes from a family of merchants and he decided to open a porn store and it's a long story but I ended up chasing a suspect into his store and didn't realize what store I had entered until after I arrested the suspect." Anola responded as Varnus continued to stare at her. "He's a legitimate businessman who happens to know a few people in the underworld, I gave him my contact details and he's been a great help ever since."

"Right….." Varnus trailed off before clearing his throat. "It's a good thing that we don't have to run our contacts through Commander Bailey because I'm sure that he would raise even more questions than us hanging out at Steele's Bar and Grill, speaking of which…."

"I'll make the call to dad after I give the details to McKenna." Anola responded as she walked towards McKenna's desk. "In the meantime, what are we going to do about Reya? We can't let her go since she's being hunted by bounty hunters."

"I'll make the arrangements for her to be put into protective custody until we catch whoever's responsible for the bounty, quite frankly if that had been done after she testified we wouldn't be in this mess but that's beside the point." Varnus responded and Anola nodded. "Well, we have a lot of work to do so we'd better get started."

"Right, I'll make the calls to my sister and my dad once I hand over the description and I'll let you know when I'm done." Anola responded as she started walking towards McKenna's desk, Varnus walked in the opposite direction and glanced towards Reya.

"I hope we can put an end to the bounty on her head but what will happen after that? She has no job and no home on the Citadel and I don't have a spare room for her to stay in, Anola? I've been to her apartment when I had to drop off her dad from the drunk tank and it's tiny." Varnus thought as he walked down the hall. "I'm sure that we will think of something to keep her out of trouble but all that will be for naught if she ends up killed, right now arresting whoever put the bounty on her head is our priority."