"Kaidan you know sitting here staring at him wont do any good, he is sedated so its not like he could wake up at any moment." Dr. Chakwas said as she tried to reason with Kaidan.

"I don't care. When he wakes up I want him to see a familiar face so that he wont be so panicked."

"I would insist on you getting some rest yourself but I know you wont." She said as he started to gather up things. It was late and Kaidan was exhausted and besides the traumatic "birthing" of Shepard did a real number on his nerves. Regardless Kaidan wanted to be there and so that's where he was going to stay, he pulled up a chair and sat there holding and occasionally rubbing his loves hand, their glowing bio-synthetic circuits almost in sync with one another.

"Do you want Commander Shepard to know of your previous… interactions?" Dr. Chakwas said as she sat across from him on her computer trying to sum up what Shepard had been up to since he first died on the first Normandy.

"I don't think so, I mean it's a lot of pressure knowing that you have to live up to being Commander Shepard savior of the galaxy… I don't want to add any more expectations on him. It happened before, I just hope and pray that it can happen again." Kaidan said with a sigh.

"Very well I will exclude that from the report and I will leave it up to you to tell him on your own time." She said as she closed her terminal and got up and left the room. The lights dimmed to a very faint glow enhancing the glow from the two's bio-synthetics.

Could it really be true? How many countless times did I wake up from a dream where Shepard was alive and then cried myself back to sleep? How many times has my heart ached like there was burning plasma at the core of my being? Kaidan thought to himself. His eyes watered and worsened his already burning eyes. He rubbed his cheek on Shepard's hand and looked to see if he had awoken him, and lucky and sadly he had not. Kaidan could feel his lids getting very heavy; he laid his head on the side of Shepard's bed and fell asleep there, his loves hand in his own.

"Kaidan… Kaidan… Kaidan."

"Hmmm? Wha?" Kaidan sputtered out as he was brought out of his sleep. He looked up and what he saw nearly made him scream for joy. It was Shepard that had woken him up.

"Kaidan, what, what happened? Where am I?" Shepard said as he questionably looked around the room.

Kaidan stared blankly at the Commander, who was living and breathing and talking! "Oh! Umm we are in the med-bay in a… ship." Kaidan answered not knowing what he was supposed to say.

"What happened? Why do you look like a machine? And why do I look like a machine what the hell is going on?!" Shepard said as he raised his hoarse voice.

"I'll be right back let me get Dr. Chakwas." Kaidan said as he quickly got up and rushed out the door. Kaidan ran down the hall to the crew quarters and started banging on the door. "Dr. Chakwas! Dr. Chakwas! It's Shepard, he's awake!"

The door hissed open and a very disheveled Chakwas appeared rubbing her eyes, her hair was messy and she was still in pajamas.

"Quick he's freaking out in there!" Kaidan said as he grabbed the doctor's hand and almost drug her back to the med-bay.

The doors opened just a very naked Shepard was trying to get out of bed, once he tried to put weight on his legs he collapsed, Kaidan rushed forward and caught him in mid air just before he would have face planted into the metal floor of the med-bay.

"Just like you Commander, always trying to do something you shouldn't be doing." Dr. Chakwas said as she entered the room and sat on the opposite side of the bed as Kaidan helped a very weak Shepard back into bed.

"I want to know what the hell is going on here." Shepard yelled.

"What is the last thing u remember?" Dr. Chakwas said as she looked intently at him.

"I remember… I remember the Normandy was under attack… and I was trying to make it to Joker and then after I got there I put him in an escape pod and then the ship started to break a part and I was blasted into space… I… I died. Didn't I?" Shepard looked bewildered.

"Shepard it's been over six years since then…" Kaidan said looking at the floor, his hands on his knees.

Shepard looked pale, even paler than he already was. He leaned back and looked at the ceiling his mind racing.

"But the thing is that you weren't dead the whole time…" Dr. Chakwas said as she readied her timeline.

"Then why can't I remember anything?" Shepard said as he got back up and looked at the doctor.

"Here is a timeline of what has transpired since the destruction of the original Normandy." Dr. Chakwas said as she handed the data pad to Shepard. Hours passed as Shepard read through the many amazing things that had happened that he couldn't remember. Being rebuilt by Cerberus, taking down the Collectors, blowing up a mass relay and a Baterian system, fighting the Reapers, uniting a galaxy and finally defeating the Reapers and dying doing so and altering the path of evolution itself through the use of the Crucible.

Shepard let the data pad slip from his grip and lay on his lap when he was done, he looked so shocked.

"That's just a outline of the major events that have transpired, there are many more smaller details I have included on there that you can look into later." Dr. Chakwas said cheerfully trying to keep sprits up as she re-entered the room after leaving for a short period to pull her self together and alert the other crewmembers.

"So… the Reapers are gone?" Shepard inquired.

"No they simply have been reprogrammed they helped us rebuild and are transferring all of their collective knowledge to us. They have since then disappeared to a barren star system towards the outer rim of the galaxy." Dr. Chakwas said as she sat back down next to the two.

"I feel like im going to throw up." Shepard said as he looked down at his new hands. "Why did you bring me back?" he said looking up at Kaidan who still hadn't left his side since his birthing..

Dr. Chakwas looked at Kaidan also looking for an answer wondering if Kaidan would tell the truth about the thing he and the Commander had.

Kaidan looked at the floor, he had dreamt of the day he would see the man he loved with all his heart but now he couldn't even bare to look at him because all he really wanted to do was kiss his lips again.

"I needed you back." Kaidan finally said looking up at Shepard through burning eyes.

Shepard looked back at Kaidan confused.

"You know we have always been good friends, I mean we even got through Ash's death together… but over the years something changed the brotherly love I had for you changed into something more… something completely different from what I was used to and I wasn't the only one. Even you Shepard fell in love with me as well." Kaidan said as he could see the crimson shade of red on Shepard's face.

"I know." Shepard said.