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Garrus had been sitting for a few minutes and he could hear her moving around in her room but she had yet to return. Curiosity was getting the better of him so he stood and started to survey his surroundings. He could tell that the place had a lot of remodeling done he apartment occupied the entire top floor and it suited her very well. Her private gym was well equipped and he could tell that her punching bag got the most use out of everything in it. He saw that she had an office and it looked to be the only room in the place that was a mess, it was covered in different pieces of tech and the wall of weapons was very impressive. The room next to her office appeared to be an unused bedroom so he walked back over to the living area to look at the impressive collection of real books that she had. There were many books from earth but there was also a few Turian and a few Assari books as well. In the empty spaces on the shelves there were holo pictures of her family and of some alliance soldiers, on picture in particular caught his attention it was of her sitting next to a young man that looked a lot like and they were sitting in a forest glade.

"That was taken on Mindoir two years ago. Braven wanted to go home and confront our past so we could move on. It was the first time I had set foot on that planet since the attack. It was good for both of us, it was painful and the dreams it brought back took weeks to subside but he was there for me as I was there for him. I miss him, he followed in my footsteps he joined the Alliance a few months after this. We rarely see each other now and when we do it is only for a few days at a time. I do know one thing he tries to hide it but he spends a lot of time here when I am not here. I don't even think Shailan knows when he shows up here, but some of his stuff was moved around in his room and once again he stole it."

"Stole what?" he hadn't even noticed when she had come out of her room. When he turned to look at her he noticed that she had pulled her hair up into a ponytail and had changed into some jeans with her famous suspenders and her N7 hoodie.

"Oh nothing ."

"If it was nothing you wouldn't have mention it. So what did he steal from you?"

"Well I wouldn't really call it stealing more of retaliation. He took Bashful my teddy bear, we found him in our old house on Mindoir, he survived somehow. I kinda stole it from him when we were younger and I never slept a night without it until after the attack, I think he took it because it reminds him of me and I kinda had it altered. Most of the time I keep him with me but I accidently left him here before this last mission."

"A teddy bear, those furry squishy things children carry around? How did you have it altered anyway?"

"Yes a teddy bear and for the altering, well I kinda made this tech thing that is weird if you think about it but if you aren't a twin you might not understand. I put a bio-link in it so when I sleep I can hear Braven's heart beat it keeps me calm and helps with the dreams that's why I have been having some troubles sleeping. He has one of mine but it is easily concealed. The docs that treated him had me make one up for him as a trial thing to see if it would help with some of the trauma that he went through. We were always together growing up and most of the time we slept in the same room. We were so close and being twins and our biotics kinda linked us I guess. I know we are more powerful together then when we are apart and our biotics almost seem to sync up, I know more than one person who wants to study us."

" I don't think I want to even know what you two would be like on a battle field. I can understand the bio-link thing but I do have to say the teddy bear thing is cute." At that moment he heard Shepard's stomach growl and began to chuckle a bit. "I think it is time to get you something to eat before that threatening sound your stomach makes becomes loud enough to scare Wrex."

"Hey I have heard your growl and it is just as bad."

"Yeah but mine is not from lack of food. So come on I am buying."

They left her place and went to the Zakera Ward. He knew of a place that he had been wanting to try ever since he found out it had one of her favorite foods and it was both Dextro and Levo friendly. He lead her to the restaurant and he heard something of a squeak when she had read the sign.

"Mario's how did you know?"

"Well I have heard about his place back in C-Sec and since you did mention pizza is one of your favorite things I figured this might help to cheer you up."

"Thanks Garrus." Without any thought she rose up and kissed him on the mandible. The look of shock on Garrus's face made her blush and rush inside the restaurant.

If a Turian could blush he was pretty sure he would be at that point in time his fringe had started t throb in that oh so good way and he had to take a moment to compose himself before following her in. They were escorted to their table and given menus to look over.

"Okay I know you are buying and all but you have seen me eat before."

"I know plus I was kinda hoping I could try whatever you order."

"That's fine since I tend to order the meat lovers with jalapeños. But are you sure can you even eat levo foods."

"Yeah I can, I found out before I left the citadel just in case something happened like being stranded or supplies were running low."

The waitress returned and took their order. Shepard ordered a Krogan size meat lover and jalapeno pizza and Garrus ordered a Turian dish that she thought looked similar to spaghetti but with all kinds of meat in it. It wasn't long until she returned with their order and Garrus's omni-tool pinged.

"Aghh Elika I think that we are going to have to box all of this stuff up, check your omni-tool." He signaled the waitress over and asked her to box everything up and charge everything to his credit-chit while she turned on her omni-tool and checked her messages.

She had an urgent message from the council. It seemed a salarian reconnaissance team on Virmire has information about Saren and the Council fears the team is in danger because of an unclear message they received from the ground team. "Well looks like we are heading back to the ship." She then got Pressly on the comm to give a ship wide alert and recall everyone back from shore leave because they would be leaving in an hour and a half for Virmire.

"El what is Garrus carrying?"

"That would be our dinner, why are you hungry Joker?"

"It smells like pizza. Please tell me it is pizza and that you are going to share, please?"

"Well Garrus what do you think should we share?"

"Mario's has been known to deliver to the higher ups and with your Spectre status you could just order a few more and get them delivered here. They say 30 minutes or less and we have about an hour before your dead line and you did cut shore leave so…"

"Okay I get it guys I will order pizza for the crew you pick something out for Tali. How about we take our dinner to my quarters so we can eat undisturbed, I don't share well with others."

"That's an understatement. Be careful Garrus she once stabbed me with a fork for trying to steal some of her fries."

"I think I can handle it."

"Joker here is my credit-chit to pay for the food it should be here shortly and just have whoever bring it down to the mess and there is more than enough for everyone. You might need two or three people to bring it down there should be forty-five pizzas coming two of each kind and five extra meat lovers all of them Krogan sized so we should be good. See ya later." She turned and grabbed Garrus's arm and hurried through CIC down the stairs to her quarters. "Hah no one caught us."

"You feeling okay Elika?"

"Yeah I just don't want to share and I kinda want to eat this while it is still warm. Something about this next mission feels off a bit."

"Well go with your instincts they haven't lead you wrong yet. So lets eat and how about we watch a vid. Joker will let us know when we are departing then you can debrief the rest of the ground crew, we have sometime until then it takes about 2 days to get to Virmire."

"Your right it's time to relax a bit. So what should we watch?"

"Joker what is all of this in the mess?" asked Kaidan while he watched Joker shoving his face full of pizza and Ashley sitting next to him doing the same.

"Commander Shepard ordered pizza for everyone as an apology for cutting shore leave. Tali's is in the fridge for her and it has been made Quarian safe. There is more than enough for the whole crew and I believe we already marked two of the pizzas for Wrex. She also does not want to be disturbed for a while so save the thanks for later."

"I guess that means I should just dig in"

"Wow LT is that a smile, haven't seen one of those from you in a while."

"Just don't tell her that I pinged Mario's back and added a few orders of wings. I did put El's volcano wings in the fridge with an eat and die by Shepard's hand note on top so I hope everyone gets the message, for their own safety."

"Wait a minute she paid for all of this?" Kaidan asked Joker.

"Yeah of course, what you think she charged all of this to the Alliance or the Council she is not stupid."

"But how, she can't make much more than us it is the military."

"LT do you really not know anything about her that isn't in her file, you follow her around like some lost puppy and put her on a pedestal we all see it. I even know about her family and who her dad was."

"I think you're out of line Chief."

"Look LT her dad was a huge tech wiz and after Mindoir she got everything because there was no family left. Half of the stuff she gets for us comes from her personal account she wants us to have the best. Look the only real reason I know any of this because I asked when she gave me my HMWP Master Pistol IX how she could afford it. Do you also know that she hustles pool when we are docked and she goes to a tavern with us or that she has Joker take bets on her in some underground biotic gym fights. She is human just like the rest of us. "

"How do you know all of this did Joker tell you?"

"Don't look at me Kaidan El told her that stuff on her own. I keep my secrets I am breakable, Ash on the other hand is more durable than I am so she is the only one to blame for that intel. Why don't you just sit and eat before it gets cold."

"Alright fine I will drop this for now."