"So um...Shepard, who's the gift for?" Garrus asked while he watched her neatly tie a ribbon around a box wrapped in some kind of colorful paper.
"My Dad, I'm inviting him up to the ship to spend time with me,"
Garrus's heart ached. The last person he wanted to see right now was her father. He knew that he gave him the ring, but it was most likely on her mother's request. Her father still didn't like him, but he had to make him like him.
"Is it….his birthday or something?"
She shook her head,"No no. It's for Father's Day. It's a human holiday where we celebrate our fathers."
He thought about it. He highly doubted his father would like that. Him and his father weren't as close as he liked to be.
"So how long will he be here?" He knew that the entire time her father was here he wouldn't be able to strengthen his relationship with Jane.
They weren't really dating yet, after the little event on the last mission they sorta drifted apart. She said that they were testing the waters, seeing if they would be compatible with each other. He knew they were, him and Shepard had a connection, she just didn't feel it yet. He understood that entirely, even though she knew his feelings for her, she didn't know her feelings for him.
"Garrus, come on. My Dad doesn't hate you, so stop worrying about the small stuff," she smiled back at him. Her lips were so full, so cute. He couldn't help himself.
He stood and walked over to her desk, placing a kiss on her lips. She let out a muffled cry of resentment, she hated when he just did that a random because she told him time and time again that they weren't official.
She pushed him back,"You know if you do that in front of my father, he'll hate you."
"Well-" he deepened his voice slightly,"Thankfully he isn't here, now is he?"
He picked her up and sat her on the desk, sliding the small wrapped box a little farther to the side to make room. He brushed her hair away from her neck and began to gently trail kisses down her collarbone.
She released a sigh that sounded sort of like a moan, yet she didn't push him back. Instead she wrapped her legs around his waist, pulling him deeper into her, and wrapping her arms around his neck.
The way his tongue was rubbing against her neck was beginning to mark her. The faint red spot was fairly noticeable, but lost in the moment, he didn't think about what type of problem that would cause.
He began to lift her shirt. Crouching down to lick her stomach while undoing the button of her pants with one hand. He reached his hand inside of the tight military pants and rubbed her womanhood slightly through her panties. She began to moan, while he continued to do this, pulling her shirt up and pulling one of her breast out of the bra.
His tongue and his hot breath ran across it, making her moan even louder and begin to pull his fringe. Apparently she had done a bit of research, otherwise, she wouldn't have known how good that would feel to him.
He growled and began to rub faster in her pants, his sharp teeth gently grazing the sensitive area of her nipple. She was a panting, moaning mess, and the wetness he could feel on his fingers was more than enough proof that he was doing it right.
"Shepard, don't mean to interrupt anything that might be happening, but your father's here, he's coming up right now," Joker said over the comm.
In the blink of an eye she was an entirely different person, pushing Garrus back and trying to fix her clothes as quickly as possible. The mark on her neck couldn't be covered as quickly as she wanted it to, seeing as he was probably right outside the door right now, she wouldn't have enough time to throw on a new shirt to cover it.
Garrus didn't know what to do. If her father saw him up there with her, he wouldn't be able to give out and explanation and he would get the wrong idea.
He sat back on the couch when the door pinged and she straightened her hair. When she opened the door she jumped into his arms, he idly returned the hug, squeezing and twirling her.
His eyes instantly shot to Garrus. They felt like they were burrowing deep into his soul and it was honestly one of the scariest things you could imagine. His loosened his grip on Jane and sat her on the floor.
"So, what's he doing here?" Way to start the greetings on a good note. Her father literally just got here and he already hated him.
"Umm….He was just helping me with some stuff here in my cabin," she said with a nervous chuckle. He prayed to the spirits that he wouldn't notice that mark on her neck until after he'd left because the last thing he wanted was to die at the hands of the father of the woman he loved.
"I'll just be uh….going now Commander, I'll be down in the Main Battery if you need me," he left quickly, pretty much hyperventilating while he was in the elevator. Thank the spirits he didn't have to be there with him any longer.
Shepard decided to introduce her father to the rest of the crew while he was there, seeing as he'd only met two of people when they'd gone to earth.
"So, she's your second in command," Shepard nodded and Miranda stood and shook his hand.
"Yes, Miranda Lawson, it's a pleasure," she sat back down and continued to work. Shepard seriously wanted to take her out for drinks one day when she had the chance, just to loosen her up a bit.
Her and her father continued to walk down around Crews Quarters, laughing and telling jokes.
"So you're telling me that Cerberus let you recruit an Assassin, a Thief, a convict, and a Geth?" she nodded in response and he released a sigh,"I'm more scared of the people working under you than the people you work for."
"Hey we're not all bad," Kasumi uncloaked herself in front of them both,"And I'm not a thief! I'm just a lady who enjoys nice things."
She cloaked herself and her father just stared at the empty space where she once stood.
"So um….She seemed friendly," her father joked.
"She's a lot nicer when she actually sits down and talks to people," Shepard stated.
They went all over the crews quarters, introducing themselves to everyone. As she expected they were extremely stiff when it came to meeting her father, but she understood that. The Great Commander Shepard, first human Spectre, had a tendency of blowing up things, they could only imagine what her father was able to do if he was given a little time.
"Wanna go down to the Cargo Bay and meet the rest?" She asked him.
"I'm guessing that Garrus is in there," he asked, not even caring about what she said.
"Uh….yeah, but he probably doesn't want to be bothered. He's most likely calibrating something," she was doing everything she possibly could to avoid Garrus while her father was there, the little incident in her cabin was already a close enough call.
"Let's go see him anyways," he grabbed her arm and pulled her into the Main Battery. As suspected he was doing his calibrations.
"Can I do something for you?" he asked without turning away from his console.
"Just wanted to talk," Jeff stated and Garrus tensed.
He honestly expected her father to stay as far east from him as physically possible, but here he was, standing in the Main Battery.
Garrus turned away from his console and cleared his throat,"Sir."
"Now tell me, Vakarian, what do you see in my daughter," he asked as if he was interrogating him.
"Dad-," Shepard protested, but he cut her off.
"Well she's beautiful-" he started.
"So you only love her for her looks?" her father questioned.
"No sir, I love her personality so so much,"
"Before I came into her cabin what exactly were you two doing?"
Garrus's heart nearly jumped from his chest,"I was just helping her file mission reports,"
"Last time I checked filing mission reports doesn't include moaning," Shepard's cheeks flushed as Garrus looked down and scratched the back of his head,"I was there a lot longer than you think, and did you honestly believe I wouldn't see the love bite you gave her?"
"Sir….it's not as you think,"
"Her mother may like you, but keep this in mind, I hate you Garrus Vakarian," he looked down at Shepard who was trying her hardest to avoid direct eye contact with him,"You should've stayed with that Kaiden boy, I liked him so much better."
