Shepard awoke with a start. She had been dreaming of the battle of the Citadel… again. So many Alliance ships lost to protect the Destiny Ascension and the Counsel.

She checked to see if she had awoken either of her bed mates, she hadn't. She sighed and carefully got out of the bed.

They had all gone to bed naked so she as quietly as she could put on a pair of sweatpants and a shirt and exited the room.

As she walked to the cockpit several crew members greeted her. She waved to them till she finally made it to her destination.

She sat down in the pilot's seat and just looked out the front window. She liked just watching the energy that fluctuated around the ship as they were in FTL. Eventually she fell back to sleep.

Alarms were blaring all around her. Everywhere she looked bodies littered the floor. She heard a scream, so she ran towards it. She ended up in a small apartment building, she heard the scream again and ran up to the third floor and spotted several Geth breaking into a room, she shot them then ran to the door, "I'm Commander Shepard, its safe now, you can come out."

The door opened and two children walked out. They were Asari, and looked about ten years of age, "Where are your parents?" she asked.

One of them pointed down the hall and Shepard regretted asking. Down the hall lay four bodies, Two Asari, a Krogan, and a Turian. She turned to the two girls, "Are you friends or sisters?"

"Friends," One of them said.

Shepard swore under her breath and picked the two girls up, "I want the two of you two close your eyes till I say to open them, ok?"

She felt them nod so she quickly ran to the stairs and made her way to the nearest clinic.

As she arrived a nurse came over to her, "They yours?"

"No I found them," she lowered her voice and took the nurse to one side, "Their parents are dead."

"I figured," she walked over to the two girls, "Either of you have any other family that can take care of you?"

"No," the older looking of the two said, "All of our Asari aunts on are in the military, my father has no siblings, he was a Krogan, and Kaira's father had a sister that died several years ago." (Kah-ear-ah)

Shepard's communicator binged and she walked to the side to answer it, "Hello?"

"Alison, its Anderson, how's your search for survivors going?"

"I just found two orphaned Asari."

"Damn, do they have any family?"

"None, one had a Krogan father, don't need to say more there, the other had a Turian father whose sister died years ago."

"Aunts?"

"All career military. Is Tevos there with you?"

There was a pause then, "I'm here Commander."

"What'll happen to these children?"

"They'll probably be put in a monastery."

"Why?"

"Because that's pretty much the only option."

"What if I take them in?" Anderson said.

"Anderson?" Tevos asked.

"If I do become a counselor, I'll live on the Citadel so they won't have to leave all that they know, and… you see how well I did with Shepard."

"I think it's a great idea," Shepard said, "He needs someone to take care of, otherwise he'll become a crazy cat guy."

"We only had two-"

"Cats at a time!" Shepard interrupted with a laugh, "We also had two dogs, an aquarium full of fish, a hamster, and three birds."

She could hear Tevos give a small giggle, "Ok, ok, enough making fun of me," Anderson said, "What are their names?"

Shepard walked over to the two girls, "Ones name is Kaira and the others name is…" she said looking at the older of the two.

"Seara" (Seer-ah) the girl said.

Tevos came back onto the line, "This is councilor Tevos, the man with me is offering to adopt you, are you ok with that?"

"What's he like?" Seara asked.

Shepard spoke up, "He's kind, caring, he'll never judge you about anything, he's just and fair whenever you do something wrong, and" she lowered her voice, "If you pull a puppy dog pout he'll do anything you ask," she said with a smile.

"I heard that!" Anderson aid laughing, "You know good and well that it only worked half the time, and only till you were fifteen."

Kaira perked up, "Aren't you Commander Shepard?"

"Yes I am."

"Then I take it that that's your father."

"Yes, I adopted her and her sister," Anderson said.

The two girls looked at each other before nodding their consent.

Joker was standing next to his seat staring at Shepard. She was fast asleep in his chair looking quite comfortable.

Liara had woken up and had asked the ships VI to locate her, once she found Shepard she just had to call Joker.

"You know, if we want to use this against her we're going to have to take pictures," Joker said.

"That would just be cruel. She probably awoke with another bad dream," Liara said.

"I'd have bad dreams too if I ordered the loss of hundreds of Alliance personnel."

"To save millions." Liara whisper shouted.

"I know, I know… think Anderson can handle the job of a counselor and a father of two Asari?"

"He handled being a captain and taking care of Shepard and Kelly well enough."

"True, but Human girls can't get pregnant from sleeping with anything."

"It's only if we want to. And I'm sure that Anderson will make them respect the union that bonding with someone can bring."

"I'm sure. Now help me wake her up. We'll be at the coordinates of that last Geth sighting soon."