AND WE'RE BACK WHOOP WHOOOOOOOOOOP! Sorry for the long delay. But here we are.

'What are you doing here?' Theros asked angrily.

'I could ask you the same thing!' Garrus replied.

Alex sighed, she had only been awake for what ten minutes? And already shit was hitting the fan. She looked at Theros. He had a cut and a bruised eye, clearly these two Turians were evenly matched. She rolled her eyes.

'Cut it out both of you that's a fucking order!' She snapped.

Garrus, still bristling stayed in his seat, Theros stood in the doorway glowering at him. She coughed harshly, both of them ignored each other and immediately began to cluck around her.

'Fuck off I'm fine,' she muttered. 'Now what the hell has been going on? I gave you both an order before we even left the fucking ship and last time I checked I was still in charge. Now what the fuck happened? And none of your 'nothing' bullshit.' She glared at them both accepting the glass of water Garrus handed to her.

'It was just a fight,' Theros muttered.

'About what pray?' Shepard said dangerously.

It was their turn to be all shifty and uncomfortable. She raised an eyebrow, she knew exactly what it was about she just wanted them to say it out loud and realise how stupid they were both being.

'You,' Garrus admitted.

'Why?' She asked.

They couldn't answer, she knew they wouldn't be able to.

'This is bollocks you weren't really fighting over me, you have some past shit that never got settled and you're using me as an excuse, I almost died and you two were too busy fighting with each other to notice.' She said sipping her water.

'Dr. Chakwas said you were in no danger,' Theros replied looking worried.

'She lied,' she revealed, 'I had an allergic reaction to the substance that coated the bullet, but it's ok to fight if I'm injured but not dying? Thanks.'

'Alex-' Garrus began but she cut him off.

'What would have happened if I died during your fight? Or due to it! That's right it Dr. Chakwas told me about how the both of you smashed up the medical bay! How dare you both, this is my fucking ship, I gave you a fucking order to not even have anything to do with each other and you fucking well ignored me!' She was so angry with the both of them. She could feel her pulse rising.

At least both of them looked ashamed with themselves, she breathed in heavily she was beginning to feel a little dizzy.

'Garrus, you claim Theros is stuck up his own arse, and Theros you say that Garrus is too immature? Well from where I'm sitting you're both as bad as each other,' her head spun and she could see spots.

'Get out the pair of you,' she muttered.

They began to protest, she waved them into silence unsteadily, 'no I don't want to hear it. Get out, I don't want to be part of your problem go talk it out. If I hear of any more fighting you'll both be chucked off. Do I make myself clear?'

'Alex-'

She had no idea who said it but she exploded, 'I said get out! Get over yourselves! You're supposed to be grown ups! Go talk it through and shit or I don't want to hear about it!' A wave of dizziness overtook her and she slumped back into her bed. She had collapsed.

'Alex!' Garrus shouted as he stood, Theros rushed over and looked into her eyes.

Dr. Chakwas stormed in, she took one look at what was going on and the vein in her forehead began to throb. Her omni-tool was beeping and flashing, clearly she had been hooked up to the Commander's readings and knew when she had passed out.

She pushed both of them out the way and checked her over, 'blood pressure's high, rapid breathing,' she took out a needle and vial, after injecting Shepard with the solution she turned back to Theros and Garrus.

'What the hell is going on here?' She demanded.

'I-'

'It was-'

She tapped her foot and crossed her arms, she was furious, she had almost lost the Commander on the table earlier, if Mordin hadn't caught the allergic reaction Alex wouldn't have made it. It was a substance the captured Salarian scientists had formulated while captured by Cerberus. Mordin ran in, he ignored the Turians and checked Shepard's vitals. He sighed happily looking at his data pad.

'Disaster diverted, well done,' he praised adjusting some of the settings on the machines.

'I have enough from the both of you! Clearly I was under the impression that you could both be trusted, turns out I was wrong! Now both of you get out before I practise my castration skills, without anaesthetic!' She threatened.

'Would I be able to record some footage? Would be most insightful,' Mordin asked setting up his record feature on his omni-tool.

'Ok, Ok I'm going,' Garrus held up his hands in surrender and left the Medi-bay, Theros was close behind.

He followed him into the Main Battery. Garrus sighed.

'What do you want Ris'ono?' He asked bitterly.

'I am here to talk.'

The Main Battery doors shut behind them, Donnelly who had been passing through the canteen ran to the intercom to call Joker.

'Joker! Joker! Get your arse down here! Get everyone down here! Vakarian and Ris'ono have just locked themselves into the Main Battery!'

Donnelly's voice rang out from the intercom, Joker's face spilt into a smile and he immediately sent a message to everyone's omni-tool. Stations were abandoned, tea and reports were left. Within minutes the canteen was full.

Joker pushed his way to the front and then they began to move toward the doors.

'Bosh'tets,' Tali muttered.

Liara pressed her ear against the door, several others copied her.

'Can you hear anything?' Some one asked.

'Shhh, they're talking...' she said quietly. There was a bit of shoving and Dr. Chakwas made her way to the doors.

'What is going on here?' She hissed.

'They've locked themselves in,' Tali explained fiddling with the doors controls.

'Wait I hear something..' Liara hushed them.

'Back off Ris'ono,' Garrus warned.

'I'm not going anywhere,' he replied. 'I noticed something, in that photo of yours,' he mentioned. 'Tell me when did Alex get a tattoo?'

He frowned. 'She doesn't have any tattoos,' he said uncertainly.

'That's where you're wrong, she does, and it's rather large. A dragon, I'm surprised you missed it.'

'And how the hell would you know?!' Garrus accused.

'Temper, I have happened to see her body,' he replied smoothly, Garrus knew that he was trying to wind him up and it was working.

'Shepard has a tattoo?' Tali repeated.

'Yes, a dragon that winds down her back and around her waist, its rather beautiful actually,' Dr. Chakwas said.

'When did she get that?' Joker asked.

'After the Collecters,' Liara replied. 'She said she needed something to remember by. I have no idea what she meant but she was so happy with it, actually it's only lately that she asked whether it was possible to get it removed, she said that she was wrong and now it's just a bitter reminder of what was. I'll never understand that woman.'

'What the hell do you want?' He slammed his fist against the table.

'I want her,' Theros said confidently.

'No. She is mine,' Garrus said possessively.

'Well I'm not backing down. It's not like she's going to choose now?' Theros pointed out.

Garrus cursed the spirits, damn woman. Why couldn't this be easy?

'So what do you want to do about it?' He said bitterly.

'We'll do this the old fashioned way,' Theros replied growling.

-Smack-

They all winced at the sound.

'Tali, EDI get this door open now!' Liara shouted.

'GOT IT!' Tali shouted pulling out a wire.

The Main Battery doors opened, everyone prepared themselves for the bloodshed. Which there wasn't.

Theros and Garrus held each other by the right forearms and were growling deeply.

'Ahh the Turian competitive gesture,' Mordin said knowledgeably, 'not often seen, very rare, when a female cannot decide between two equally strength males they take it upon themselves to show the female they are better than the other one,' he muttered recording the scene.

'More fights?' Liara whispered. They hadn't even noticed that the whole crew were waiting and watching not ten feet away. They simply stood with their mandibles flaring, growling.

'No, it is now to do with skill, communication and other things, fascinating.'

Theros gripped and jerked Garrus' head closer, with one last rumbling growl he let him go and stormed out the room, the crowd parted like the water to let him pass. Garrus looked at them and clicked a button on his console, the door shut with a barely audible hiss.

'Well um, what happens now?' Tali asked.

'I have no idea,' Liara replied.

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