Garrus lounges on the couch in his apartment on the Citadel after his shift at C-Sec scrolling through message logs from the last six years, specifically messages between him and Jane. His mandibles spread into a smile when he reads the first message he'd received minutes after she boarded the shuttle and left the Citadel saying simply, 'Missing you already!'

He reads through several messages they exchanged over the next year; vids that he'd sent her from his bunk during his first few months of basic training, photos of his graduation and receiving official citizenship, short vids from her in return showing him the sights at each new post her family traveled to and lived.

Garrus opens a vid from a year later and chuckles softly to himself as Jane's excited face comes into view, taking up the entire screen as she turns on the camera before stepping back to talk to him. "Garrus! I got accepted into the engineering program!" She squeals, "I turn eighteen in a few weeks and I can start training! I miss you!" Jane moves toward the camera again, giving him a smile and holding up a sign that he doesn't know the meaning of but has become a fixture of her vids and pictures to him before turning off the vid feed.

Jane comes into view as he opens the next vid and does a twirl, showing off her new uniform. "I am officially categorized N1! I leave for the villa next week!" She sighs and sits, resting her chin in her hand, "I'm so excited, but I won't be able write as much from the field. I'll tell you everything when I'm back!" And there it is again, the hand sign eclipsing her smile just before the screen goes black, first and pinky fingers pointed up while the middle two bent down and her thumb extended out to the side.

He scrolls past a few more vids that he'd sent her of him and his squad mates skeet shooting and feels his heart warm at the compliments she showered upon him in the next letter and how she said she missed being at his side in their arena matches. Further down he skims past letters regarding his leaving the army and starting work at C-Sec when he receives a ping. He taps the prompt and smiles at the alert, vid call from J. Shepard, and opens the connection with no small amount of surprise as he hadn't heard from her in months.

"Hey stranger," He says when her face comes into view and he can see from the background that she's walking through a familiar looking busy area and seems a bit lost.

"Garrus!" She sighs in relief and beams at his image on her omni tool, "I'm here on leave! I'm on my way to your apartment now… oh wait… I think…"

Garrus nearly jumps out of his skin when there's a series of loud knocks on the door behind him. He gets up and walks over to the door groaning when he pulls up the security feed and sees Shepard standing outside. He looks down at himself, clad in just a pair of lounge pants, "Uh… hold on just a sec, Jane."

He closes the connection on his omni tool and moves to go to his room and grab some clothes when she sighs and raps her numerous fingers on the door anxiously, "Oh come on just open up! I've been waiting to see you forever!" He chuckles and keys in the unlock code on the door's console and heads to his room to grab a shirt as the doors slide open.

Shepard enters and sets down her bag as he slips stealthily into his room, standing in the living room for a moment and peeking into his room enough to get just the slightest flash of his bare back before he pulls his shirt down over himself and returns to the living area where she is waiting. She greets him with a warm smile and rushes into his arms and wraps her own around him, grateful when he returns the gesture, holding her tightly against his chest. "I've missed you so much!" Jane gushes and gives him a squeeze before pulling back.

"Me too. How long are you on leave?" He asks, looking down at her affectionately and releasing her from the hug. He takes a moment to take in her appearance as all he'd seen recently were short vid clips of her; much had changed over the last six years, loose flowing locks now pinned into a tight bun while her previously lanky body had grown curvy and soft and she's wearing an off duty uniform instead of the casual jeans and t shirts she used to don more often than not when they'd first met.

"I leave tomorrow, but I'm all yours until then." She reaches down and takes both of his hands in hers excitedly and his heart beat picks up in tempo, "What should we do?"

"Hmmm…" He hums for a moment, thinking. "Are you hungry? There's a great sushi place that just opened, we can grab a bite and catch up, then maybe drinks?"

"Sounds great," She smiles and releases his hands a little reluctantly, "I'll go change and we can go."

Jane starts rummaging through her bag and pulls out a pair of shorts and a tank top and heads towards the bathroom to change and he follows suit, changing into a more suitable outfit and pulling on his boots. A moment later she emerges looking much more like the Jane he remembers, his Jane. "Ready?"

"Yeah, let's go." Garrus stands and opens the doors for them, keying in the lock code as they exit and draping his arm over her shoulders. "How did you find me anyway?" He asks with a chuckle.

"I stopped by C-Sec on my way in and talked to Warren and your dad." She smirks and wraps her arm loosely around his waist, resting her head against his shoulder as they make their way towards the restaurant and enjoying the closeness after being away from him for so long. "He missed me, I could tell."

Garrus tenses slightly as her arm slides around his waist and her hand rests lightly on his hip, knowing she likely has no clue that it's a rather intimate place to casually touch a turian and what kind of an affect it would have on him. "He has asked about you a few times." He replies with a soft laugh, trying to ignore the heated feeling of her being so close to him.

They reach the restaurant and once they're seated begin to catch up on what they'd both missed in each other's lives over the last few years. Shepard's heart swells with warmth as she listens to him tell stories about his time in the military and more recent C-Sec experiences, she'd been missing being able to talk to him and just hearing his voice and seeing his mandibles flare into a smile made everything she'd been through recently fade into the back of her mind. Jane can't believe how much he's changed; for one, he's huge, well over six feet tall and much broader at the shoulders than she remembered him being. His fringe is much longer and his facial plates more defined and while she'd always thought he was cute, now she finds him strikingly handsome and curses the grainy vids for not doing him justice all these years. Who'd have known her best friend would grow up to be so hot?

She cuts off these thoughts as they finish their food and make their way to the bar. Jane opts for a hard cider while Garrus orders three fingers of turian whiskey and makes his way to a booth near the dance floor. Jane sidles up next to him in the booth and sighs, leaning back against the soft padding of the booth. "This is so nice; I wish I had more time to visit."

Garrus nods in agreement and downs half of his whiskey in one gulp, "So do I. But you know you've always got a place here if you ever want to stay longer." He grins at her, "Maybe even work at C-Sec, get the gang back together, just like old times."

She giggles in return and sets down her bottle after taking a swig and relishing the fizzy sweet apple flavor that dances across her tongue, "I'd love to! But in the morning I head to Akuze and who knows what after that. If only I could choose my assignments." She sighs, wishing she could take time off and visit whenever she wanted, which was pretty often.

"Yeah, I know how it goes… but it never hurts to remind you that you're missed." He says somewhat bashfully and looks towards the dance floor, finishing off his drink and wondering what they should do next.

They sit in comfortable silence for a few moments, just enjoying each other's company as Jane nurses her cider. She doesn't often indulge in alcohol and one drink seems to be having more of an effect on her than she'd anticipated, seemingly amplifying the throbbing bass of the music in the club and dulling her perception slightly. Garrus leans into her to tell her over the music that he was going to get them another drink and she shivers unconsciously as his warm breath caresses her neck and sends a wave of excitement through her.

She watches as he saunters over to the bar, leaning on it with one elbow and giving the bartender the order and as her eyes lazily move over him she realizes that she's checking him out. Now, it's one thing for her to notice that he's good looking, and quite another for her eyes to linger on him as if trying to remember every detail. Jane tries to snap herself out of it as he returns to the table only to have her attention pulled to the dance floor where a very familiar and very excited looking Kyrie is pushing through dancing patrons and heading their way.

"Oh my God! Jane!" She exclaims, her face red and dominated by a huge grin, "And Garrus!" Kyrie plops down next to Jane in the booth and hugs her tightly, "I haven't seen you in forever why didn't you tell me you were coming?"

"It was last minute and only for today," She gasps at Kyrie's sudden embrace and laughs, "I'm glad to see you though!"

"You better be!" She laughs and nudges Jane, "What are you guys doing after this?"

"Eh… we hadn't quite figured that out yet," Garrus chimes in, glad to see Kyrie but also wanting to keep Shepard all to himself on such a short visit.

"Great! You guys have got to come over, I have the best idea!" Kyrie gives them each a mischievous smile and they share a look of uncertainty before Jane gives her a shrug and finishes her drink.

"I'm in if Garrus is."

Garrus groans and nods, "I'm in, but I'm finishing my drink first. Spirits… I know I'm gonna need it." He chuckles darkly and knocks back the rest of his drink, shaking his head at Jane's attempt to chug the remainder of her cider before getting up to leave the booth, they were in for a night of trouble if he knew anything about Kyrie.