Jenny's eyes darted between the cards in her hand and the other crew members, it had been four and a half days since Ashley's recruitment and whilst things where still rocky between the two women they were still getting along.

"The fact that she's screwing Sheppard helps." Jenny thought to herself, they had been doing various things to pass the time whilst the Autopilot drove the ship to the Citadel and the latest idea, courtesy of Ashley, was playing Texas Holdem Poker in the conference room though it was only with fake poker chips and was purely for fun though that didn't stop Jenny from being competitive and winning.

"Come on Garrus, it's your bloody move already!" Zeead said impatiently, Garrus was taking a long time to complete his move and the other crewmembers were getting inpatient, Jenny included.

"Patience is a virtue Zeead." Garrus said. "One virtue that you seem to lack, but you seem to desperately need." Garrus muttered the last part.

"I heard that Garrus!" Zeead said.

"Fine, fine, I call Grunt's move and it's your move McKansa." Garrus said putting a small amount of chips, Sheppard, who was serving as the Dealer, put another card down and Jenny barely managed to contain her grin.

"A Straight to Ten, YES! It's another win for me!" Jenny thought with a grin as she put all her chips down. "I'm going all in." She said getting odd looks from the other crew members.

"It's your loss McKansa!" Marcus said.

"We'll see about that!" Jenny said. "You're move Samara."

"I'm afraid that I must fold." Samara said almost immediately.

"I must fold as well." Dsrondo grumbled.

"Suit yourselves but I'm going all in!" Marcus said putting his chips down.

"You're loss Marcus!" Jenny said.

"We'll see about that McKansa, your move Donnelly." Marcus said.

"Three can play at that game guys, I'm going all in as well." Donnelly said putting his chips down, everyone else chose to fold and it came down to Jenny, Marcus and Donnelly.

"Read them and weep boys!"Jenny said revealing her Straight to Ten.

"Ah damn it! All I've got is a pair of aces!" Donnelly said throwing his cards down.

"Looks like I win again." Jenny said but Marcus shook his head.

"It's not healthy to jump to conclusions McKansa." Marcus said revealing his hand, a straight to queen. "Especially when you're about to lose, that's your winning streak broken." Jenny's jaw dropped.

"You've gotta be kidding me!" Jenny said.

"I'm afraid not, so are you going to hand over your chips or be a sore loser?" Marcus asked and Jenny begrudgingly handed over her chips.

"Celebrate your win whilst you can, I'll have my revenge in the next round." Jenny said.

"I'm sorry to interject but wasn't this supposed to be for fun?" Mordin pointed out.

"Yeah, but that doesn't mean I can't be competitive about it." Jenny replied as Sheppard starting shuffling the cards again.

"Commander, we are about to dock with the Citadel." EDI interrupted.

"Thanks EDI, everyone back to your stations, its business as usual from here on out." Jenny groaned. "Well except for Legion and Garrus, you two are accompanying me to the Citadel."

"Acknowledged." Legion said standing up.

"What he.....she......do Geth even have Genders?" Garrus asked before pausing. "That wins the award for the one thing a former C-Sec officer thought he'd never say under any circumstances!"

"I'm sure I can think of plenty of other things." Jenny said before standing up and leaving the conference room.

Garrus, Legion and Sheppard left the conference room once everyone else had left and headed for the elevator and entered, once they were in the elevator Legion turned to Sheppard.

"Sheppard Commander, can you tell this unit who we're picking up?" Legion asked.

"Lantar Sidonis, Turian, used to work for C-Sec and for Garrus' unit on Omega." Sheppard answered.

"That was until he betrayed my team when he was threatened with his life by the Mercenary scum on Omega." Garrus added.

"As you can tell saying Garrus doesn't get along with him is a big understatement but we need his skills to aid in the Reaper fight." Sheppard added as the elevator arrived at the CIC and they stepped out and got off the Normandy just as Joker arrived in the elevator alongside Jacob, Ashley and Marcus, they were greeted at C-Sec by Captain Bailey and Kolyat, Thane's son who was wearing a C-Sec officer's uniform.

"Good to see you again Sheppard, pity this isn't a social trip as my shift's about to end and I was considering buying you a beer for getting the council's heads out off their asses." Sheppard grinned.

"I'll hold you to that Bailey, and by "not a social visit" I take it you mean that you've been briefed on who we're here for?" Sheppard asked and he nodded.

"Tell you the truth we were going to release Sidonis anyway, true his actions lead to the deaths of eleven men but those deaths where on Omega, way out of our jurisdiction and since Omega doesn't have a titled ruler we can't extradite him either." Bailey said shaking his head. "Reason we're doing it out here and not at my desk is because an old friend of ours is having a rally on the other side of the scanners."

"Let me guess, Talid?" Sheppard asked shaking his head; he regretted not letting Kolyat kill the politician/criminal during Thane's loyalty mission when he saw Talid talking about how Sheppard only saved him to make humanity look good.

"Yeah, that son of a bitch was giving me a headache!" Bailey said shaking his head; it was then that he got a call on his earpiece. "Bailey......what, tell Talid and his followers that if the demands aren't met we'll arrest them, tried that already? Oh great." Bailey turned to Sheppard. "We've got a problem; Talid is having his followers interfere with Sidonis' transfer, something about C-Sec selling him into slavery."

"That's only insulting, it's slanderous." Garrus pointed out. "You'd think Talid would know that slavery's illegal on the Citadel."

"We'll take care of it, Kolyat come with us, maybe seeing you again will scare him off." Kolyat nodded and followed Sheppard through the scanners and into the main part of the Citadel, it's pure chaos as Talid directed traffic, Sheppard fired his gun into the air scaring of the protesters.

"Commander Sheppard? What the hell are you doing here?" Talid asked before spotting Kolyat. "AHHHHH, keep him away from me!"

"I will the moment you stop interfering in C-Sec business." Talid frowned.

"When an innocent Turian is being sold into slavery I make it my business." Sheppard shook his head though he could've sworn he heard Garrus mutter "bullshit" under his breath.

"Two things, number 1, you of all should now that slavery is illegal on the Citadel and I have a former C-Sec officer with me right now and he doesn't take to kindly to C-Sec's good name being tarnished by allegations of Slavery, number 2, I'm a SPECTRE and if I wanted to I could gun you down right now without any consequences." Sheppard said angrily.

"Are you making threats? This is just another reason why human dominance is a bad thing! You won't be making threats from the other side of....." Talid never finished as Sheppard shot him in the head with his pistol.

"I should've done that when Kolyat was going to assassinate you! Sheppard said coldly as the four C-Sec officers emerged, two to get the body to the morgue and two to bring Sidonis to Sheppard.

"I appreciate the help, say what you will about him but he was a charismatic leader who knew how to rally a crowd." Bailey said as Sidonis was brought forward by a Salarian and a Turian C-Sec officer.

"Commander Sheppard? When I heard your voice I thought you were here to finish the job!" Lantar said.

"No such luck, we need you for a mission of Galactic Importance." Sheppard said.

"Much as I hate to admit it, he's right Sidonis." Garrus added.

"If this is my chance to make up to you Garrus then what choice do I have?" Sidonis said and the C-Sec officers let go.

"This is more than your chance to make it up to me Sidonis, it's a chance to make it up to the 11 men who are in unmarked graves on Omega because you broke you're Turian responsibility." Garrus said.

"I'll brief you on the Normandy Sidonis, for now you can come with us." Sheppard said.

"Wait." Kolyat said and Sheppard turned to him. "I wish for a chance to speak with my father."

"I'll send him down immediately Kolyat." Sheppard assured him before putting a hand to his earpiece. "Joker, send Thane to meet us outside the C-Sec office on the wards, Kolyat wants to talk to him, and everyone else is on shore leave for the rest of the day."

"WOOO, SHORE LEAVE!!!!! Huh, oh right Thane, I'll send him down ASAP." Joker replied. For the next few minutes the happy crew of the Normandy piled out of the ship some taking the time to thank Sidonis for the day off and Thane joined them last.

"Kolyat, I see that you are making something of yourself." Thane said with a smile.

"I can't complain father." Kolyat shrugged.

"I'll get you two a private room." Bailey said leading them off.

"Sidonis, wait for me on the Normandy." Sheppard said.

"Sure, I'll probably see what I can do in the Armoury." Sidonis said walking off.

"Sheppard Commander, I will join Sidonis Lantar on the ship." Legion said walking off.

"Guess that just leaves us!" Garrus said with a grin.

"Unfortunately for you the Shore Leave won't be fun and games for us, I have another issue to address here." Sheppard said.

"So why did you announce the shore leave?" Garrus asked.

"Figured that the crew could use a break, come on!" Sheppard said walking off with Garrus.