Garrus always felt he could relax in Shepard's room so long as his definition of relax stayed a relative term. Sometimes, when Shepard asked him to come up and join her in her room, it meant she was going to jump him in a surprise attack and they were going to wrestle. Other times, it meant she just wanted him next to her as she lay on the bed and stared out the 'sunroof' over her bed.

Today, it seemed like she just wanted him there.

Garrus knew he could be an easy-going person and that always seemed to help Shepard out with her stress or even her mood.

However, his captain and casual girlfriend had fallen asleep on the bed and he was feeling nosey.

So naturally, he began snooping through her things.

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Sheppard grumbled tiredly as she woke up from her nap. She blearily checked her visor, which was askew on her head, and was surprised to see that she had been asleep for over four hours. She rubbed her eyes and sat up, her subconscious trying make her remember that Garrus had also been in the room.

"Ugh, Garrus?" she asked.

"Mmm…?" he replied.

She rolled over and stared at the Turian sharpshooter. "What…the…hell?" she gawked.

Her boyfriend was currently sitting on her floor, surrounded by a mountain of her old earth novels. His nose was currently buried in a rewritten script from 2023. Upon looking closer she realized it was the written script for the movie remake of Romeo and Juliet they had done that year.

Sitting up a bit more she started noticing a trend in the covers.

The 2014 remake script of Annie

The 2014 remake script of the 1987 version of Robocop

The 2005 remake script of the 1953 film House of Wax

"Garrus," Shepard said and the turian looked up.

"Yeah…?"

"What are you doing?"

"Snooping," He replied cheerfully, "These are actually pretty good…" he paused, "Well, except for that one." He tossed her a script.

"You didn't like Robocop?"

"Nope," He shook his head, "That was terrible."

Shepard just laughed, "Didn't know you were a movie critic." She snickered.

"Don't have to be one to know that movie flopped."

"Eh, you should read a real novel." Shepard said with grin and draped herself over his shoulder.

"And what's your definition of a real novel?" Garrus asked.

"The novelized version of the 1988 Japanese movie Akira," Shepard answered, "The Tokyo Drift novel wasn't bad either."

Garrus just stared at her. "What's Akira?" he asked.

Shepard squealed gleefully, "I'll go hook up the television!"

Yeah, these things come to me in random blurbs. Also, if this is a few days late then blame the weather. Our internet quits every time it rains, meaning spring and certain times during the summer are brutal around here.