From another good friend of mine (Tumblr is great for those, come join the party!) Braxy29. She requested: Zaeed paired with Jack…

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"What did you do!"

The sound of crashing metal and broken parts echoed down the hallway, emphasizing the anger in Jacks' voice.

"How did this happen?" she cried, her voice a mixture of fear and anger. "What am I going to do now?"

"Same thing every woman before you has done for a millennium, Doll." Zaeed drolled at the furious biotic in his room. "Laze around for nine months then spend ten minutes pushing to pop out a little raisin."

"It's not that easy, asshole!" Jack screamed and produced a biotic pulse that hurled all of the items displayed on Zaeed's tables into the air, their various parts disappearing into lost corners as her anger manifested as tears streaking down her cheeks. "I'm pregnant, you bitch! This isn't some plant that is overgrown that you can prune back to acceptable limits! It's another life! What the hell am I going to do with a little sprog?"

Zaeed laughed. "Same thing as every other mother, I imagine. You'll feed it mash 'till it gets its teeth, then move on to solid food. What are you so panicked about?"

"I'm not panicking, fucker!" Jack screamed at Zaeed, her every action indicative of total loss of control. "I just don't know…what the fuck do I do now?"

Zaeed finally sobered up a little, taking a step forward and laying a hand on her arm to still her frantic pacing. "You eat right and stop drinking. We pick out a name…together…and we give it a good life when it's born. What else were you expecting?" For all his devil-may-care attitude, Zaeed appeared to actually be concerned with the fate of this tiny human.

"I don't know!" Jack jerked her arm free of Zaeed's grip violently, but she still didn't leave his room, unwilling to face the rest of the world as of yet. "I can't take care of a kid!"

"Sure you can." Zeeed's overwhelming confidence in her was catching, even if Jack thought it was totally unwarranted. "Just think of all the things that happened to you…then make sure they don't happen to it."

"What about you?" Jack's voice was suddenly tiny, the tone reminiscent of an uncertain teenager more than that of an all-powerful bitch. "What are you going to do?"

"Me?" Zaeed closed the distance with Jack and took her in his arms, her struggling a token resistance only. "I'm going to be there for the both of you. Where else would I be?"

Their kiss was slow and sweet. So different from all the ones previous. But it set the tone for their relationship for the rest of their lives. And their kid?

She went on to be the President of the Universe.

After Shepard destroyed all the Reapers.