* Okay first off I am sorry for the long wait I was taking a break from writing. I wasn't sure where to go with the story and I didn't want to just slop something on here especially at such an important junction wink wink haha! But after a good break and some brainstorming I think it came out good :) so thank you for waiting, enjoy!

Kaidan sat there with his bags packed and ready to go but he knew he needed to call Liara and ask what the Normandy's position was. He reluctantly hit her information and waited as the screen displayed "connecting"

"Kaidan I was just about to call you." Liara said as her face filled Kaidan's screen.

"Hey Liara I'm sorry I haven't been keeping in touch what's Shepard's condition?"

"He is stable, all systems are holding well we are seeing neural activity since the memories were implanted. Scans show all organs formed normally and are functioning."

"How is his progress?" Kaidan asked as he unconsciously bit at his lower lip.

"He is fully developed and by what I remember he's looking his age again, Mordin has been using electrical impulses to return wrinkles and muscle tone. We are trying to minimize his mental shock when he learns of what has transpired."

"My mission here is complete, what is the Normandy's current location?"

"I'll send you the nav data, when can we expect you?"

"I'm leaving as soon as my things are loaded into the shuttle."

"Right we will be ready."

"Okay see you all soon." And with that Kaidan ended the connection.

He took one last look around his apartment; it was nice, spacious the council paid for anything and everything that he needed. He picked up his bags and headed out the door, he said goodbye to a few of the friends he had met there more than a handful of them had tried to get in his pants since his arrival but he had always put them off.

The shuttle roared to life and swiftly rose to the clouds above, the nav computer synced with his omni-tool and soon the autopilot plotted a course to the Normandy, he would be there in two hours. He thought to himself that he should try to rest but his pounding heart and racing mind wouldn't allow such peace.

The flight was simple enough no problems after the FTL drives shut down all he had to do was pilot right into the hanger that opened as he approached. His heart was racing and a million thoughts were going through his head, will Shepard be out today, will his memories be intact, will he be alright, will he be mad they brought him back, and would he still love him? I guess I'll find out soon enough he thought.

As the shuttle put down in the hanger he could see that Liara and Miranda were waiting for him outside.

"Greaaaaat" Kaidan said to himself as they were the last two people he wanted to see right now.

The doors hissed open and Kaidan hoped out bags in hand, Liara greeted him with a hug, it was shy and awkward but Kaidan was sure she didn't know what to expect especially how he had split so quick after that night.

Miranda immediately started to name off vital signs, lengths, widths, and what he was before and now is, all of which with some further clarification from Liara meant that everything was normal and he was ready. But also that it was Shepard's body's choice of when it was ready, something about after his brain had basically relived all the past events and was ready to start writing new ones. It was all very complicated and mostly theory no one had done this before all they had to go by was Okeer's notes about how he cloned the Krogans.

They all took the lift up to the med-bay everyone acted as if it was no big deal that Kaidan was back and he liked that he didn't want a huge fuss. The doors opened and they arrived as Dr. Chakwas and Mordin were in the middle of a conversation and from what Kaidan caught on the tail end of it was that they were discussing whether or not Shepard could hear them. The tank wasn't sound proof but neural scans registered that he wasn't responding to stimuli and could either mean he was in a coma, a vegetable, or just dreaming.

"I want to see him." Kaidan said.

Dr. Chakwas and Mordin both looked at each other and agreed that he could see Shepard… As if they could have stopped him he thought. They scanned their palms on the door and it opened Kaidan was taken back by what he saw. The commander was hooked up to about a hundred wires and had a breathing and feeding tube in. Kaidan's confusion must have been completely evident as Dr. Chakwas began to explain.

"The wires are hooked to the last muscles that we have been toning we didn't want the Commander flopping out like a limp noodle, also we have been strengthening the bones to make sure he doesn't break all of them once he is in gravity. The breathing tube is to exercise his lungs so that he can breathe once he's out. And of course the feeding tube is so that his digestive system is functioning; we have been working him up to more and more complex food so that he's not eating mashed peas like an infant. And of course the hair on his head is long and his body hair natural because the Commander grooms himself and it's not something we can do while he is in that tank."

"He has no belly button." Kaidan said as he looked at the Commander oddly.

"Well yes he never had an umbilical cord it is something we can add with cosmetic surgery once he's out but we will leave that up to him." She explained calmly.

Besides all the machinery attached to him the Commander looked completely at peace floating freely in the water, his over grown hair flowing as the bubbles from the breathing tube pushed through it. The soft blue light glowed off of his pale skin.

Just as Kaidan was getting used to the Commanders current condition Shepard's eyes opened wide as alarms started going off. Mordin who previously was talking to Liara and Miranda outside the room now rushed in with them. As him and Dr. Chakwas pushed Kaidan aside and started looking at status screens and typing furiously on the keypads and alerts on the screen.

"What's happening?!" Kaidan yelled panicked over the alarms. He looked at the Commander who started to thrash a bit and had an even more panicked look on his face.

"He is coming out!" Dr. Chakwas screamed her omni-tool activated and patched her through the intercoms "All medical personnel to the cloning room Shepard is coming out!

And almost instantly 15 or so people rushed in and started getting a bed ready and started unhooking wires and latches. Liara and Miranda drug Kaidan out of the way so that the doctors could get into the room. Dr. Chakwas hit the drain button and the water, which was actually some sort or gelatinous fluid, began being sucked out, Shepard began to thrash more as the fluid emptied, as it must have been constricting his movement.

"It's taking too long open the hatch!" Dr. Chakwas screamed as she hit the emergency override on the hatch locks. The latch flew open and gallons of the thick fluid gushed out causing the surrounding computers to short and spark. The doctors started to remove the breathing and feeding tubes and all the wire attachments and with some difficulty because the Commander began to try to kick and push them off. He soon slumped to the bottom of the tank gasping for air and shivering. The doctors hovered above him scanning him with various types of equipment.

"Fuck this." Kaidan said a loud and with a strong biotic field pushed both Liara and Miranda to the side he grabbed the blanket off from one of the beds and rushed in still glowing bright blue pushing some doctors over and out of the way as he draped the shivering body of the man he loved in the blanket. Shepard flinched hard to the touch and looked up at Kaidan through squinted eyes, Kaidan he could tell that he was having difficulty seeing.

"It's ok Shepard It's Kaidan we are only here to help, here try to stand up." Kaidan said sweetly and calmly to Shepard.

Shepard slowly and clumsily stood up and took his first step out of the tank. The once chaotic room was now hushed as the doctors looked in surprise at the two. Kaidan led the Commander to the nearest bed and laid him down.

"Don't just stand there give me some more blankets and some water for him, he's probably parched." Kaidan said through clenched teeth as he was trying his hardest to not scream and freak Shepard out. The once frozen doctors sprang back into action as some grabbed blankets and others scanned and checked the Commander. Dr. Chakwas grabbed a glass of water and Mordin was getting a saline I.V ready.

"Try to take a drink Commander everything is going to be alright." Dr. Chakwas said as she handed him the glass.

Shepard shakily reached for the glass and brought it to his lips and started to slowly drink it down, once he was done he handed it to Kaidan who gladly set it on the table to the side and grabbed Shepard's other hand and held it, Shepard squeezed it as Mordin inserted the I.V and injected the bag with some sort of drug in a syringe, he gave the saline bag a few light squeezes and then hung it up. The drug started to take affect and Shepard's eyes slowly closed as he slowly drifted off to sleep.