New day on Normandy. The crew was still trying to collect themselves after a wild party. Most of them were lying in the medical bay, Shepard and Liara in the commander's cabin.

"Awwh, my head. It's like my skull was put on a rail and train went over it!" compared James his headache.

"What do you know about pain, Vega. You're soldier for a while from what I know…" teased him Garrus.

"Can't you both shut up? Every single fucking sound is amplified with this migraine of mine!" Joker added.

That was a morning on the Citadel docking bay. Soon the crew got on their own feet, even having a bad headache, they undocked from the Citadel and Normandy left. They were on a way to the Migrant fleet for Tali who could repair broken Legion. Shepard had one unfinished business with Daniel. Now that he knew what Daniel told him before, he went to check the life support. He wasn't there so he told himself he could be somewhere else – crew quarters, he wasn't there, observatories – he wasn't there, medical bay, AI core, vid-com room, war room, main battery, shuttle bay, nothing. He was nowhere to be found.

Shepard was becoming to be desperate. So he ran to the cockpit to tell Joker.

"Joker!"

"Commander! Please… I know I should respect your orders but this is critical state so… SHUT UP! MY HEAD HURTS!"

"Joker?"

"Ah… sorry, commander. It hurts as hell… what do you need?"

"Daniel isn't on board."

"What?! What do you mean he's not on board?! You want to tell me he's on the Citadel?!"

"We must have forgotten about him when we were drunk and headed back… damn! And I wanted to talk to him!"

"We are pretty far from Citadel but I can get us back if you want."

"No… our next goal is to bring Tali on board and let her fix Legion. Dan is… safe on the Citadel."

"Alright but you should call him at least."

"Good point." Shepard said and activated his omni-tool, ready to call Daniel. The omni-tool started sending signals to Daniel's omni-tool. Daniel saw his omni-tool flashing on his right hand but he hesitated. He lied under the blanket, naked with bandage around his belt after the injury from mission. And he had one turian wrapped around his chest that looked too happy to be disturbed.

"Daniel…" Renok opened his eyes, moving his look at Daniel's face.

"I know, they found out." Daniel watched his omni-tool.

"Do you want to answer?" Renok asked and Daniel made his decision soon. He turned the omni-tool off and wrapped his arms around Renok.

"No… I want to enjoy a turian on my chest."

"And I want to enjoy listening to your heartbeat. I love you, Dan."

"I love you too, Renok." Daniel said and they returned to resting and falling asleep. Both of them were naked. After last night, Renok made his first move and took Daniel when he could, Daniel realized Renok was his very first partner in his life. And also first alien partner. However, he didn't mind the difference. Renok showed Daniel how he loved him because he took care about him while he was drunk and so Daniel was happy to have sex with turian. It didn't even matter that the turian was male, because as Shepard said, it was 22. century. Shepard tried to contact Daniel many times but he didn't succeed. The only thing he could do was to give a report to captain Anderson. He entered the vid-com room and contacted Anderson to the Citadel.

"Shepard, it's good to see you again. Anything new on board of Normandy?"

"Yes, we are almost complete. I found Garrus and Legion. Unfortunately, Legion got badly hurt during the mission for rescuing Garrus so now we're heading to a Migrant fleet for Tali'Zorah to help us with repairs."

"I see, these are risks of military job, son. Don't bother yourself with them. Now, how is Daniel doing? Did you pick him up?"

"Well… actually, yes and no."

"Yes and no?" Anderson raised his eyebrow.

"Daniel was on Normandy that day I was talking to you on the Citadel. Yesterday we were back on the Citadel to chill out while drinking something and… when we left the Citadel this morning, he was nowhere to be found on Normandy."

"Shepard, you cannot be serious."

"I tried to contact him through an omni-tool… for some reason he doesn't pick it up. I hope he's not mad that we forgot about him."

"If you say he's on the Citadel, he is safe but hopefully he'll not come across problems. I'll look for him."

"Captain Anderson, if I may ask, why is he so important?"

"That is a classified information, commander. It's important for humanity and the Alliance."

"So… I guess you cannot tell me more about project Soma…" Shepard said and Anderson needed few seconds to think.

"Shepard, I don't know how you found out this information but it's important that the Illusive man and Cerberus will not find it!"

"Why didn't you tell me sooner, captain? Hiding this from me wouldn't help anything! And what is that project about."

"We couldn't risk anything, Shepard. Project Soma was project back on Earth in 2020. Daniel attended the team which helped to create basic concept. In the first half of 21. century, science was accelerating and making progresses. New inventions were coming sooner and technologies became more advanced. With this, scientists started to think of a human being and its short life."

"So these concerns led to creating this project?"

"Indeed. Scientists along with Daniel worked on a way to make human immortal, and they found it. They called this project 'Soma', which is Latin word meaning 'body'. Basically, the project focused on how to transfer a mind into a machine by scanning brain of human."

"As far as I know history, humans were trying to reach immortality for over 4000 years. Did this even work?"

"Shepard, if it didn't work, I wouldn't give Daniel under your command."

"So… the project worked. Does some of the test subject live?"

"No. There was only one test subject but as it happens to scientific experiments, something went wrong and he has gone rogue. As a machine, he was obsessed by a might, he wanted to rule because being inside a body of robot gave him idea to use it, so he used it for his own purposes. Many people died that time."

"You say he doesn't live. What happened?"

"Daniel realized how dangerous the option of immortality was. He knew that military units could use this to create army of robots with human will. Of course, with the risk of the robots going crazy. There were other risks such as dictator becoming immortal. This project was cardinal danger that would bring eternal war to the humanity. Daniel managed to terminate the test subject and destroy the only device he and his team have built."

"Then project Soma doesn't exist anymore. Why does the Alliance bother?"

"There are no words about the blueprints being destroyed."

"You mean that Daniel hides the blueprints?"

"Yes. Somewhere on Earth, he hides the blueprints and if we are not fast enough, Cerberus might find this and-"

"And the Illusive man will upgrade his troops… that would cause intergalactic war!"

"Shepard, we must bring Daniel back. Only he knows where those blueprints are. If Cerberus finds them first… god help us. Anderson out." Anderson disappeared and Shepard went back to Joker. Although Shepard knew how dangerous was the project, he couldn't afford to stand against Cerberus without his crew so he intended on bringing Tali and fixing Legion first. Back on the Citadel, Daniel woke up, hearing some sound. He noticed that Renok wasn't in the bed with him. The sound was coming from bathroom. Daniel has decided to stand up and investigate it. He came inside the bathroom, seeing Renok dressing in a C-Sec uniform.

"Renok?" Daniel asked and Renok looked at him, smiling.

"Hey, Dan. How did you sleep? It would be crime to wake you up when you looked so cute!" he chuckled.

"I didn't know you worked for C-Sec."

"Yeah. My shift starts soon so I'm getting ready."

"Oh, I see…" Daniel sighed a little sadly but Renok went up to him and gave him warm hug. Daniel's soft forehead met Renok's hard one. The human placed hands on Renok's faceplates, thoroughly examining all cracks to map his face. Renok made the move and kissed Daniel passionately. Daniel didn't offend, he let Renok to do it. Once their mouths parted, Renok let Daniel go.

"Be back soon, and take care of yourself."

"Heh, don't worry about me. I should worry about you if you plan on going to explore the Citadel alone!"

"Well, since I don't have anything else to do, I can do only that."

"I must go now, Dan. If you go out, don't forget to lock the door with a card. There's one extra card on the shelf there." Renok said and left the apartment.

"Bye, Renok…" Daniel said. Soon he realized that he was alone in the apartment and there wasn't much to do so he switched his omni-tool on and checked any incoming messages.

Subject: Meet me at the Citadel

Sender: Miranda Lawson

Hello, Daniel. My name is Miranda Lawson. I used to work with commander Shepard before time. If you have time, please meet me at café down in the Presidium commons. I need to talk to you.

Miranda sent a message and Daniel wasn't sure what to think about it. He dressed himself up to his uniform and soon he was ready to go out and see the Citadel. Daniel's next stop was Presidium commons. Once he arrived there, he spotted a woman in tight clothes sitting beside a military officer with dark skin. Daniel came to the table.

"Miranda Lawson? I'm Daniel Husk."

"Sit down, Daniel. This man next to me is captain David Anderson. We both want to talk to you." Miranda explained and Anderson with Daniel shook their hands. The conversation started.