Title: Commander Shepard, You've Got Mail

Summary: Every day, starting when Garrus rejoins C-Sec up until the destruction of the Normandy, Shepard and Garrus exchange emails. After all, good friends stay in touch.

Rating: K+

Pairing: Garrus/Shepard friendship, flirting

Spoilers: All of ME1

Timeline: post-ME1, pre-ME2


A/N: Sorry about the no-show yesterday. I fully intend to update this every day whenever possible. Yesterday I had a Mock Trial competition from 6:00 in the morning to 4:30 in the afternoon, and when I got home I slept for a century. Hope this chapter is cute enough to make up for it.


Commander Shepard, You've Got Mail

Part Seven


Received: 7:40 p.m. 12/12/83

I hate batarians.

(Sent from private terminal of Officer Garrus Vakarian, Citadel Security)


Received: 7:58 p.m. 12/12/83

I know this girl who killed hundreds of them during the Blitz. You'd probably like her.

(Sent from private terminal of Commander Artemis Shepard, Alliance Navy)


Received: 8:03 p.m. 12/12/83

I probably would. Does she like turians?

(Sent from private terminal of Officer Garrus Vakarian, Citadel Security)


Received: 8:11 p.m. 12/12/83

Certain turians, yes.

(Sent from private terminal of Commander Artemis Shepard, Alliance Navy)


Received: 8:17 p.m. 12/12/83

Great. We could vacation in the Terminus Systems and have a lovely time slaughtering shiploads of batarian mercs.

(Sent from private terminal of Officer Garrus Vakarian, Citadel Security)


Received: 8:30 p.m. 12/12/83

What did they do this time?

(Sent from private terminal of Commander Artemis Shepard, Alliance Navy)


Received: 8:47 p.m. 12/12/83

Bunch of Blue Suns landed and tried to start something in Zakera Ward. One of them got through my shields.

(Sent from private terminal of Officer Garrus Vakarian, Citadel Security)


Received: 8:49 p.m. 12/12/83

Are you okay?

(Sent from private terminal of Commander Artemis Shepard, Alliance Navy)


Received: 9:02 p.m. 12/12/83

Fine. I'm more pissed off about the paperwork I have to do. Getting strangled in red tape during my first month back in C-Sec is not my idea of a good time.

(Sent from private terminal of Officer Garrus Vakarian, Citadel Security)


Received: 9:14 p.m. 12/12/83

They say justice is its own reward.

(Sent from private terminal of Commander Artemis Shepard, Alliance Navy)


Received: 9:20 p.m. 12/12/83

Yeah, I know. I just wish justice didn't come with so many restraining orders and liability forms.

(Sent from private terminal of Officer Garrus Vakarian, Citadel Security)


Received: 9:34 p.m. 12/12/83

You've got an important job, Garrus. Nobody said it would be easy.

(Sent from private terminal of Commander Artemis Shepard, Alliance Navy)


Received: 9:49 p.m. 12/12/83

You're right, Commander. I shouldn't complain so much.

(Sent from private terminal of Officer Garrus Vakarian, Citadel Security)


Received: 10:00 p.m. 12/12/83

I don't mind the complaining. If you need to get something off your chest, this is the place to do it. I just want to make sure you remember what we're fighting for.

(Sent from private terminal of Commander Artemis Shepard, Alliance Navy)


Received: 10:11 p.m. 12/12/83

It's harder to remember without you around to remind me.

(Sent from private terminal of Officer Garrus Vakarian, Citadel Security)


Received: 10:19 p.m. 12/12/83

I'm here, Garrus. Well... sort of, anyway.

(Sent from private terminal of Commander Artemis Shepard, Alliance Navy)


Received: 10:30 p.m. 12/12/83

It won't be like this forever. I'll serve my time on the Citadel, for a year or two maybe, and then I'll apply for leave to crew the Normandy again.

(Sent from private terminal of Officer Garrus Vakarian, Citadel Security)


Received: 10:47 p.m. 12/12/83

I'll be glad to have you back. Taking out mercs and cleaning up geth isn't the same without the old squad.

(Sent from private terminal of Commander Artemis Shepard, Alliance Navy)


Received: 10:52 p.m. 12/12/83

Nobody else is back yet? Not even Wrex or Tali?

(Sent from private terminal of Officer Garrus Vakarian, Citadel Security)


Received: 10:59 p.m. 12/12/83

I gave everyone six months to decide if they wanted to come back. Tali has to take her Pilgrimage gift back to the flotilla. Not sure where Wrex is, but he said he'd get in touch. Liara went to check out a dig a few systems over. Kaidan's here, of course.

(Sent from private terminal of Commander Artemis Shepard, Alliance Navy)


Received: 11:08 p.m. 12/12/83

It must be lonely.

(Sent from private terminal of Officer Garrus Vakarian, Citadel Security)


Received: 11:22 p.m. 12/12/83

Feels a bit like a skeleton crew, yeah.

(Sent from private terminal of Commander Artemis Shepard, Alliance Navy)


Received: 11:36 p.m. 12/12/83

They'll be back. We would all follow you into hell, Commander.

(Sent from private terminal of Officer Garrus Vakarian, Citadel Security)


Received: 11:40 p.m. 12/12/83

I don't plan on walking into hell anytime soon. But who knows?

(Sent from private terminal of Commander Artemis Shepard, Alliance Navy)


Received: 11:47 p.m. 12/12/83

Speaking of hell, I've just been assigned to dock duty for the next 24 hours.

(Sent from private terminal of Officer Garrus Vakarian, Citadel Security)


Received: 11:54 p.m. 12/12/83

Is that a punishment or something?

(Sent from private terminal of Commander Artemis Shepard, Alliance Navy)


Received: 12:09 a.m. 12/13/83

Not really. Just means I have to spend the next 24 hours patting down tourists and dealing with whiny babies.

(Sent from private terminal of Officer Garrus Vakarian, Citadel Security)


Received: 12:14 a.m. 12/13/83

You don't like kids?

(Sent from private terminal of Commander Artemis Shepard, Alliance Navy)


Received: 12:27 a.m. 12/13/83

Not exactly my area of expertise, Commander. I'm a police officer, not a nanny.

(Sent from private terminal of Officer Garrus Vakarian, Citadel Security)


Received: 12:33 a.m. 12/13/83

I bet you were a cute kid. Are turian kids cute?

(Sent from private terminal of Commander Artemis Shepard, Alliance Navy)


Received: 12:41 a.m. 12/13/83

Cute? Ouch. Stab to the ego, Commander.

(Sent from private terminal of Officer Garrus Vakarian, Citadel Security)


Received: 12:48 a.m. 12/13/83

What? There's nothing wrong with being cute.

(Sent from private terminal of Commander Artemis Shepard, Alliance Navy)


Received: 12:53 a.m. 12/13/83

Baby pyjak are cute. Hamsters are cute. Full-grown male turians? Not so much.

(Sent from private terminal of Officer Garrus Vakarian, Citadel Security)


Received: 1:00 a.m. 12/13/83

See? That denial, right there. That's cute.

(Sent from private terminal of Commander Artemis Shepard, Alliance Navy)


Received: 1:08 a.m. 12/13/83

You're killing me, Commander. I don't know how to defend myself here.

(Sent from private terminal of Officer Garrus Vakarian, Citadel Security)


Received: 1:11 a.m. 12/13/83

Shepard.

(Sent from private terminal of Commander Artemis Shepard, Alliance Navy)


Received: 1:26 a.m. 12/13/83

What?

(Sent from private terminal of Officer Garrus Vakarian, Citadel Security)


Received: 1:37 a.m. 12/13/83

From now on, it's Shepard. Not Commander.

(Sent from private terminal of Commander Artemis Shepard, Alliance Navy)


Received: 1:46 a.m. 12/13/83

You're still my commander, even if I'm not on your ship.

(Sent from private terminal of Officer Garrus Vakarian, Citadel Security)


Received: 1:50 a.m. 12/13/83

That's not the point. When I'm pulling rank, it's Commander. When we're just talking, it's Shepard. Got it?

(Sent from private terminal of Commander Artemis Shepard, Alliance Navy)


Received: 1:58 a.m. 12/13/83

Aye, aye, Commander!

(Sent from private terminal of Officer Garrus Vakarian, Citadel Security)


Received: 2:03 a.m. 12/13/83

Garrus...

(Sent from private terminal of Commander Artemis Shepard, Alliance Navy)


Received: 2:10 a.m. 12/13/83

Oh, right. Aye, aye... Shepard.

You know, it doesn't have the same ring to it.

(Sent from private terminal of Officer Garrus Vakarian, Citadel Security)


Received: 2:14 a.m. 12/13/83

You're impossible.

(Sent from private terminal of Commander Artemis Shepard, Alliance Navy