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Samantha's POV

Samantha Morgan sat there in the doctors office, her purse snugly fit in her hands and lap as she watched the clock on the wall tick by slowly. She turned her head when she heard the door to the room open, the doctor walking in with a sullen look on his face. Samantha smiled at him, her heart anxious for the results.

"Good evening Mrs. Morgan." the doctor said as he closed the door behind him and looked at his chart before looking back to her.

"Evening Dr. Richard...how are my test results?" Samantha asked, a hopeful smile on her face as she stood up.

"I...I don't know how to put this Mrs. Morgan...the cancer is back. This time it's spread beyond where it was located from the beginning." the doctor said, Samantha's smile fading as she reached behind her and grabbed the examination bed for leverage.

"We can treat it this time can't we?" Samantha asked, feeling something in her begin to wither away as she looked at the doctor for answers.

"No Samantha...we can't..it's spread to your brain and heart. I reran the test four times with my nurse and the results all came back the same. We could try to put you on a experimental treatment, but there's no guarantee it will work." the doctor said as Samantha looked away for a moment before looking back at the doctor, her eyes watery.

"How long do I have?" Samantha asked, clinging onto her purse, knowing there wasn't anything she could do at this point.

"A year, maybe longer. If you want, I can refer you to a family psychiatrist so you'll have someone to talk to about all this?" the doctor said as he looked at Samantha and rested his arms at his side.

"No thank you doctor, if I'm going to die, I want to spend my time with my family and not running in and out of offices." Samantha said, a tear running down her cheek as the doctor nodded his head once more.

"I'm so very sorry Mrs. Morgan...if there is anything at all I can do, you just let me know." the doctor said as Samantha nodded her head before passing him and walking out of the room.

Later that Day

Samantha sat there in the living room of the house, staring off into space before she heard the front door open. She looked over to see Jane walking in with her best friend, Jake.

"How was school sweetie?" Samantha asked as her daughter shrugged her shoulders and began to laugh with Jake. "Can I talk to you for a minute sweetie?" Samantha asked as Jane let Jake go ahead and head up to her room before joining her mother on the couch.

"What is it mom?" Jane asked, holding her book bag in her arms as she stared at her mother.

"I was just thinking about your twelfth birthday coming up and I wanted to know what you felt like doing?" Samantha asked as she raised a hand and fixed some of Jane's hair before rubbing her fingertips down Jane's cheeks.

"I was wondering if we could all go camping out in the valley, it's the best place to stargaze at night. I wanted to know if Jake could come too?" Jane asked, smiling as her mother smiled back at her.

"That sounds like a wonderful idea baby doll. I'll talk with your father and see what we can do." Samantha said before Jane shrieked with as she jumped up and ran towards the stairwell.

"Oh and Jane...I just want you to know that I love you very much...more than anything in the world. Never forget that okay, do that for me sweetie?" Samantha asked as she reached out a hand towards Jane who turned around and looked at her with a quirked eyebrow.

"Everything okay mom?" Jane asked as Samantha nodded her head slowly, watching as her daughter smiled at her and made her way up the stairs.

Ethan's POV

Ethan sat there on the couch of the apartment living room, the mechanical shutters to the windows closed so no light could come in from the outside. He stared at the TV mounted on the wall as he watched a documentary on the Asari home-world, Thessia. He smiled at all of the beautiful buildings mounted across the even more beautiful landscape, now he knew why the Asari were a proud and beautiful race.

"Hey, what are you doing up so late?" came Shepard's voice as Ethan looked over and saw Shepard coming down the stairs from second floor balcony connecting to Shepard's bedroom.

"I couldn't sleep so I asked Glyph if there was anything interesting on to watch. Did I wake you?" Ethan asked as Shepard came over and sat down on the other side of the couch.

"No, I couldn't sleep myself. Long day of paperwork with the Councilor and then having to make sure repairs and upgrades went to plan on the Normandy." Shepard said as Ethan nodded his head before handing him the holographic remote.

"You can change it if you like, I won't mind." Ethan said as Shepard looked at the remote and then him before smiling.

"It's fine, you were watching this first. So...what's on your mind?" Shepard asked as Ethan looked at him and then back to the TV.

"Not much, the usual stuff that's been on my mind on and off the past few days. I'm starting to come to terms that I'll never see my family again, and I've got to move on. I'm here, a whole other universe away from them. I'm here...in this time right here and now, and there's no going back so I've got make the most of what has been given to me. In a way, I've been extremely lucky, who knows what other kind of universe I could have been thrown into. At least in this one, I was given a second chance at life by the Salarians and your crew. Back in my universe, I use to look up at the stars and dream of a life like this. There was a saying that I read somewhere, I was born too late, there isn't anything left to explore in the world, and I was born too early to go to the stars. I use to rethink that saying in my head all the time and in a way, it made me depressed. Life on my world was so desolate at times, I couldn't turn on the TV without seeing news footage of famine, war, disease, or something else terrible. I always thought that if I could somehow make my way to the stars, that there would be no politics there. No one to care if you were white or black, gay or straight, Christian or Islamic. The only things people would care about would be bettering the collectible knowledge of the human race and they would look out for each other, it would finally be peaceful. Here I am now, watching a documentary about another alien races home-world in a apartment with hover cars flying by outside the windows on a space colony all the while sitting next to the Commander of a space vessel. I think my family would be excited for me, so I've just gotta keep telling myself that." Ethan said as he looked up at Shepard with sincere eyes and smile on his lips.

"Your a very special person Ethan, don't ever let anyone tell you different. In the short time that I've known you, you have proven to be a resilient and enduring young man." Shepard said with a smile as he stared in Ethan's glowing green eyes, the small green pulse moving through Ethan's visible body.

"Thanks Shepard, that means a lot. I should probably get too bed, EDI said she would come over tomorrow and help me study up on this universe and everything I should know about it. Goodnight Shepard." Ethan said as he got up and moved past Shepard, smiling down at him before he made his way to his room.

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