Most of the crew had started to arrive. Shepard walked around greeting everyone, as they started to form their own groups. Kaidan was the bar with Joker, Cortez, Wrex and Zaeed. "So, when will be the day we see little Joker here, fire a gun?" Wrex said pointed at Joker with his beer bottle. Joker looked up from his drink.
"Shepard never told you? When we were about to blow the Collectors to hell. Shepard was being chased to the ship. Thane and Kasumi made it on before the platforms dropped. And BANG!"He slammed his hand onto the bar, shaking it when he realised he hit it too hard. "The Collectors started to drop like flys. Why do you ask? Because I was stood at the door shooting them down!"
Wrex slammed his beer onto the bar. "Bullshit, who was flying the ship?" Edi had heard and walked over.
She held her hand up and smiled. "That job was thanks to me, actually" Wrex punched her in the arm, giving a burst of deep, rumbling laughter. She rubbed her arm, even though it didn't hurt it felt odd for Wrex to do such a thing. She had seen Krogan do it before. It seemed to be an act of praise between them.
"Hah, well that doesn't mean you don't need the practice. He has been over half a year since that has happened and you will need to fight when we retake Earth" Cortez said as he pointed at Wrex, whilst drinking his beer. Wrex gave another deep laugh.
"You know, Joker. Cortez is thinking the right idea. We will hit a lot of fire when we get back to Earth. Edi might be able to fly the ship, but she can't fight for you at the same time" Joker looked around at everyone staring at him, even EDI wasn't defending him.
"Is this pick on Joker evening?" Kaidan walked around the bar and took his hate, placing it on his head.
"We are just screwing around with you, we know EDI is the fighter in your relationship" Everyone started to giggle and sneaker at Joker. EDI couldn't hold back her smile from it, Kaidan threw the hat back at Joker and ending up hitting him in the face. Everyone lost it after that.
Samara walked past the bar, smiling at what she had heard. She wasn't in the party mood and would rather meditate in a quiet corner. But, this could be the last time she sees some of the crew, so she wanted to spend some time with them. Her omni-tool bleeped, it was a message from her daughter. Falere was doing well, she was trying to rebuild what she could from themonastery. The Asari had sent a couple of matriarchs to help her. The Reapers have backed off and Shepard was able to pull some strings to get some of the Alliance soldiers to help and guard them.
Samara decided to reply later when she was alone, she didn't want to seem rude. She saw Liara, Tali, Garrus, Gemma and Traynor. "Do you think the Normandy will make it through the next fight?" Traynor asked she leaned against the counter.
"As long as Edi and Joker do their damn best, we will make it. The Normandy still has the upgrades from the fight with the Collectors and we have a Thanix canon. Most ships don't have that even Turian ones. We have a high advantage and we will fight even if the Normandy does go down" Tali nodded whilst Garrus finished talking, she was sat on the counter, swaying side to side with a drink her hand with her emergency induction port (a.k.a a straw).
"We shoud.. hick... ask Cerebrus if they would pretty please make a Normandy SR3? We would then have 2 ships, maybe we could kill even more Reapers with one of them...hick" Everyone smiled and laughed at her. Tali was known to be a lightweight, her body seems to have a very slow absorption rate to alcohol.
"Would that not require you to change your name to von Normandy SR3?" Samara asked. Tali started to giggle to herself. Making her drink drop all over her body.
"It is vas Normandy. Von means someone who cannot hold their bladder well. Which would seem correct in this instants" Garrus knew Tali had drunk enough. He picked her up and went to get her in bed, only be a matter of time till she actually passes out. "Oh. Careful you. You have a...hick... girl...hick...thingy. what you call it?" She tried clicking her fingers to get the word she was looking for.
"Girlfriend..." Traynor finished her train of thought. Garrus carried her to the bedroom downstairs. He thought if he took Tali upstairs, she will probably fall down them. He placed her on the chair in the corner of the room, so he could move the duvet.
"Garrus...hick... I actually used to have a crush on you" Garrus stopped. He was bent over and just lifted his head to look at the wall at the other side of the room. "But shush. He... he can't know"
Garrus decided not to talk about it. She was too drunk to remember anyway. "Don't worry. I won't tell him" Tali giggled to herself. "What's so funny?"
"You...hick... you are in your armour at a party" he looked down and saw his cracked and worn out armour.
"I always like to be prepared. You never know, Shepard might have another clone somewhere out there" He turned around to pick her up from the seat she was slumped in. "Come on, time for bed"
He pulled her up, she nearly fell back and slammed into the wall, Garrus was able to grab her by her waist. "I'm not tired" Tali banged her foot on the floor and refused to move. "I'm not going to bed. I'm...hick.. not a child"
"Your right your not" Garrus wrapped his arms around Talis thighs and chucked her over his shoulder. She protested and slapped his armour, only to shout in pain. He threw her on the bed and started to tuck her in. "You will feel better after a nap"
"I'm not..." she started to yawn. The soft pillows were like floating on cloud nine. She was soon, making soft snoring noises.
With his mission complete Garrus knew he needed a drink. He went to find the bar and have some drinks to try and forget what Tali said.
Shepard had joined the girls in the kitchen. He heard them giggling and talking about the Normandy. "So what am I missing?"
"We are telling Traynor and Gemma about some moments that happened on the Normandy" Liara replied as she picked at some food on her plate.
"I must say. I wish I met you all years ago. I would love to see these memories first hand" Gemma said. Kaidan did tell her some funny moments on the Normandy. Like when Ashley and Wrex got into an arm wrestle and he swore he heard Ashley's bone crack a little.
"Don't worry. Once we kick the Reapers to hell we can make even more memories" Traynor said in praise.
"We've had some amazing memories on that ship. A toast to the Normandy. May she fight and live a long life" everyone raised their glass in the air to Shepard's toast.
Javik walked around the apartment. He didn't get a full look of it when he first arrived. He walked into the library on the second floor and looked through some of the books.
Zaeed was sat at the sofa drinking some beer and typing on his omni-tool. "Ahh, Just the person I wanted to see" Zaeed said when he heard Javik pull a book out.
"What do you need, human?" Javik carried on looking at the book. According to the internet, books are not on datapads. Old books were made of something called trees. He never understood why they would want to read a story on wood. He poked at the edge of the paper, causing him to pull it away, maybe books could be used as weapons he thought to himself. They are sharp edges.
"I've been thinking, what if Shepard does have another clone out there. It could come to this apartment and look around" He pulled his hand out and present that apartment. "Not a single bit of security in here"
Javik looked around the apartment, this was more of a show home than anything else. "You are correct. For a primitive, you are very smart. How should we rectify this problem?" Zaeed pulled him to the far corner of the room, poking his head to make sure no one is listening.
"This is what we will do..."
Miranda and Jack were in the kitchen by the dining room table. Jack was sat on the table, chairs to her were overrated. Miranda was typing on her datapad until Jack got bored of seeing her like that and kicked the datapad out her hands. "What the hell! What are you doing?!"
"Let's talk cheerleader, why did you leave Cerebrus. I thought you loved them that much the Illusive man was fucking you?" Miranda slammed her chair onto the floor with the force of getting up.
"Jack I am not in the mood for your games. I left because Shepard opened my eyes alright!" Jack pulled her head back, repeatedly blinking. "I was wrong about everything that I said about them"
"So what, everything you said to me about being a mistake is that something you take back or do you still believe it's true?" Miranda took a step back and looked down at her feet. "So you did mean it. I knew it" Jack started to walk away.
"No wait" Miranda pulled her back. "I'm sorry. It isn't true. I didn't want to accept what happened there with you really would have been Cerebrus. I knew Shepard brought me with you both because she wanted to prove me wrong. I truly regret what I said"
Jack leant on her hip, crossing her arms. "Why didn't you say that the first time you left Cerebrus, we were still on the ship for another 2 weeks before Shepard handed herself in?" Miranda started to walk around the table, pulled her hand across the shining metal.
"I didn't believe it till after Shepard told me you joined the Alliance to help those Biotic children, they have the best teacher with them right now. I do truly apologize for what I said. I hope we can move on from the past and at least try to be friends" Miranda walked around the full length of the table and came back face to face with Jack, she held her hand out.
Jack looked down at her hand then back at Miranda. "Alright, let's say I do accept your apology. Where do we go from there?" She asked as she shook Miranda's hand. They both could feel their Biotics nearly fighting each other, the static was making their hair on the back of their necks jump up, like goosebumps.
"You know what you two should do?" They turned around and saw Joker walking over to grab some food. "You both should admit you have sexual energy towards each other. I mean I'm surprised there was no angry makeup sex when Shepard stopped you pealing a hole through the ship"
"Joker you know I can flay you like a fish" Jack walked up to his face. "Is it because you can't have sex with your curvy robot?" Joker started to giggle, he was already half-drunk.
"Don't worry we will make it work. But I'm serious not even some finger play between you both?" Miranda picked her datapad back up and threw some food at Joker. "Hey, come on now. We don't need a food fight" He rubbed the bbq sauce of his cheek.
"Well, I mean cheerleader is pretty hot in that outfit. I thought she never wore anything else until Shepard forced her to wear proper armour" Jack pointed at Miranda skin-tight leather outfit. Back when they thought the Collectors, Shepard forced Miranda to wear a full armour so she wouldn't get herself killed. Miranda did of course object. Then the Illusive man kindly reminded her that Shepard was in charge.
"Well, You are not looking so bad yourself, Jack. I prefer you with hair" Jack turned to the side, smirking at her. Joker got the message and snuck off. "Anyway, why don't we go and talk about what you have accomplished so well with the Alliance?" Jack agreed and they both left.
Shepard walked through the living and past the far corner next to the fireplace. She saw Javik crouched in the corner with his pistol out. He was talking to someone on his comm. "Uh. Javik what are you doing?"
He never noticed she was behind him. He checked his six and then stood up. "Oh, Commander, I didn't see you there. Myself and the old human are making sure you have no more clones" He holstered his weapon.
"But I only had the one clone. Miranda even said no more were made from Cerebrus" Javik stopped her with his hand.
"You may never know. The primitives cannot be trusted. We will protect this apartment for you" Shepard knew they were no winning or convincing with Javik or Zaeed.
"Alright. Just please don't destroy my apartment at the same time. Carry on" He gave her a little salute and continued to his crouching position next to the fireplace. Zaeed could be heard shouting something. It seemed they were adamant to find another clone, Shepard didn't want another. She can only handle so much till she thinks fuck it and just let the clone take over her life, so she can go away somewhere nice and sunny with Garrus.
She carried on walking around the fireplace, to see Edi trying to dance and pulling at Jokers arm. "Come on Joker, I want to dance" Joker wouldn't budge and just kept shaking his head whilst trying to drink his beer that was dropping all over his body from Edi pulling her other arm. "Shepard, would you please tell Joker he should dance with me"
"Come on, Joker. Why won't you dance with Edi?" Edi stopped pulling arm and moved to the side for Shepard to stand in front of him.
"Because I am more than happy to sit here eating and drinking. Why can't you dance with her?" Shepard took the drink out of hand and slammed down on the coffee table.
"Probably because I'm not the one dating Edi and she wants to dance with her boyfriend. So dance with her, that's an order Flight Lieutenant" Joker gave in with defeat and stood up. Giving Shepard a sideways glance, he started dancing with Edi. Shepard could see the happiness on her face.
Shepard was going to head to the Kitchen to find Miranda and Jack. She hadn't seen them much that night. She walked past the door towards the stairs, then her eyes turned towards the large Krogan standing by her terminal that connects to the elevator to get to Shepard's floor, she only had one neighbour. She has not met them yet but in the contract for her apartment. Her neighbours are not allowed to turn into crazy fangirls and try to stalk her, which was a huge relief since she could hide from fans on the Normandy. But the Citadel and most other planets were much harder.
It was Grunt. The news of Shepard party was being passed around. So people were trying to get in. "I said no. I will not say it again" Grunt shouted as he turned the terminal off. Just for it to ring a second after.
"Grunt, what are you doing?" Grunt first finished shouting at the next set of people trying to get in. He turned around with a big grin on his face. He was obviously really proud of himself.
"I've been telling people they are not allowed in. Some have tried giving me credits, food and something called a pie? It looked nice. But when they told me it wasn't Varren meat I still said no" Shepard leaned to the side to look over his shoulder. The bell was still ringing no stop.
"Do you think I should be doing that? It is my party after all" Grunt moved to one side, pulling his arm out to gesture for her to have a go. She answered the terminal and 2 human girls and a Vorcha that was dancing in the background started shouting and screaming to see Shepard. She couldn't get a word in edgeways so turned back around to let Grunt stand in front of her. He shouted 'NO' and hung up, just for it to ring again. "Carry on Grunt, you're doing a good job"
Grunt replied with his low rumbling laugh and continued his new job. Shepard carried on walking and saw Samara sat under the stairs, in her praying like pose, she did it after most missions when they worked together. "You okay, Samara?"
The biotic flames around her cooled down as she opened her eyes. "Yes, I just needed some time to myself. Everyone is still having a good time, but parties are not really my thing"
Shepard gave her a sympathetic smile. She never did see Samara around the Normandy, she seemed to come out during the evening shift when most of the crew was gone. "Just don't disappear, promise?"
Samara closed her eyes with a smile. "I promise, I won't go anywhere" She continued with her mediations. Shepard went off to find Miranda and Jack, she was surprised she hadn't seen her apartment light up blue with them both fighting if they are alone.
Vega, Liara, Gemma, Cortez and Kaidan were all upstairs, overlooking the living room. Vega at that moment was showing off what it meant to be a soldier without Biotics. Showing off his muscles. "You know, Biotics are pretty overrated. Just look at L2 over there"
Kaidan had his drink halfway to his mouth until he realised that last comment was about him. "Wait, what..."
"No offence, Kaidan. But being an L2, compared to your little chikka over there" Gemma was dancing to herself. The alcohol wasn't usually something that affects her, as her Biotics goes through calories very fast.
She wasn't fully listening to her conversation until she looked up and saw everyone staring at her. "What?" Liara caught her up. "Vega did you just call me a chikka..."
Kaidan giggled to himself. Seeing the colour flush from Vega. He might be big. But even Gemma scared him. He's seen her Biotics at worked. He was more scared of her then Shepard. "I..uh. it's not a bad thing. Just that compared to L2's biotics, yours are far more.. uh. Powerful. You could even give the Asari a run for her money " Everyone looked at Liara. But James corrected himself that he meant Samara.
"Well, what about Jack?" Cortez added. I've seen videos of her biotics at work, they are something you don't see every day. Vega laughed.
"No way, Estaban. You really think that Gemma here could beat tattoo" Without warning, he started to get lifted up in the air.
"You may be a big brute, Vega. But I could fling you across this room without lifting my finger" Gemma gave him a slight smirk as he looked at his body flaming blue. He could still move his body, but not get back down to his feet. "Here Liara, catch" Gemma swung her head to the side, making James fly across towards Liara, before he came to a stop, he got his vision back after watching the room twist and turn. He looked in front him as he floated in front of Liara, she had her arm extended.
"Alright. I get it, can you put me down now before I throw up" Liara didn't do it gently and just dropped him to his ass on the floor. "So I do have one question" He waited for Gemma to nod for him to ask it. "So do you use any of biotic fun to spice up your bedroom activity?"
"Oh no. Kaidan does more than enough that biotics are probably the last thing for us to use" No one answered. They all looked at Kaidan, he nearly dropped his drink, his mouth hung half-opened. "So I am guessing that answered your question?" Vega slowly nodded his head, making noises when he tried to talk.
"Bet you wished you never asked now, Vega. That big confidence of yours has gone out of the window" Cortez said with a giggle. Shepard had joined them, all of them still in complete silence. Gemma downed all her drink and went to find Wrex to do some shots. She wanted to see if she could drink a Krogan under the table.
"What did I miss?" She asked as Gemma walked past her. Vega tried to talk but he closed his mouth and looked at Kaidan to answer.
"I couldn't even tell you if I tried, Commander" Shepard looked between Vega and Kaidan.
"Let me guess, Vega opened his big mouth again and has been gobsmacked by Gemmas reply to whatever he said" Liara couldn't hold her laughter no more. Everyone followed suit and started to giggle and snicker. Vega started to go bright red.
The party was going on really well. Glyph asked Shepard if she wanted to make the party quieter or turn up the music more. She went with making her party a full-on rave, she wanted everyone to remember this day, well if they can from the amount of drinking that was going on. Shepard walked through to the bar to see Warx, Grunt and Gemma all doing shot after shot. Jack was cheering on and kept filling their drinks up with Asari vodka.
Grunt was starting to slip. Wrex and Gemma were still head to head, but Shepard could see Gemma starting to sway side to side. "So who is winning?"
"Well Gemma is doing good but, Wrex is above by a few" Jack said as she pointed at the empty bottles of vodka. "As for Grunt, he thinks I'm giving him alcohol, but it's actually water" She shook the bottle whilst giving an evil laugh.
"Come on Gemma. I'm winning by far, is your biotics not great in everything then I guess" Gemma just swayed in her chair, spilling most of her drink down her chest.
She activated her biotics, letting the blue sway around her hand. "Well, we could have a biotic fight if you want. Burn more calories for me to catch up to you" She placed the biotic energy from her hand to send the static shock towards Wrex.
"You're just playing dirty now" He drank another shot. Kaidan walked in and saw the bottles everywhere, a passed out Grunt and Wrex and Gemma playing around with their biotics.
"What is going on?" Shepard turned around and signalled him to come around the bar to watch. "No, I'm fine thanks, Is Gemma completely out of it?" Garrus walked in after him. He looked between them all and saw the worried look on Kaidan's face. The last thing he needed tonight was for her to be drunk.
"I'm fine. I'll be back to normal in like an hour" Kaidan stopped her from drinking the next shot. "Stop being a party pooper" He started to stand her up, but she couldn't get her footing and fell to her knees.
"Come on, Gemma. I can't have you like this tonight of all nights" Garrus started to help her as well. "You can go lay down for a little bit" Gemma tried to push away from them both, but Garrus was impatient and threw her over his shoulder.
"Why are you so annoyed for her to get a little drunk?" Shepard asked she watched Garrus carry her off. Kaidan tried to reply but he stumbled, he was really bad at lying and hiding things. "Come on, spill it"
"Fine, but it stays between..." He looked at Grunt who was snoring away. "Us three" He went on to tell them his plan tonight. Garrus took Gemma to the room Tali had slept in, he found her earlier in the shower talking about the horrible headache she had. Tali was now up and about and talking to Edi and Traynor about all the time Traynor called Edi really attractive.
He laid Gemma on the bed and she fell asleep instantly. "Well, that was much easier than before" He went back to the poker party he was having with Thane, Vega, Cortez and Joker.
At the poker table, Joker was losing his shirt to Vega again. Even after the many times, Kaidan gave him tips and pointers. "How are we doing then?" Garrus asked as he walked in.
"Vega has robbed me clean again" Joker protested as he threw his cards down. Cortez huffed placing his own cards down. Vega had cleaned him out as well.
"So, Assassin. What will it be?" Vega rubbed his cards against his hands.
Thane didn't change his expression. He could read Vega like a book, being too confident. "You tell me" He slowly placed his cards down. Everyone on the table was dead silent.
"What the fuck" Vega slammed his hands down, revealing his cards. Thane placed his hand out to take the credit to his omni tool. "You cheated didn't you"
"Not at all. Over the years I have crafted knowing peoples motives from their expressions. You actually gave it away, Lieutenant" He was about to get up but he sensed someone was watching him. "Kasumi, I know you are there" His eyes moved toward the bar. She let down her cloak and was sat on top of the bar.
"There is no sneaking up on you is there?" She said playfully as she jumped down from the bar and walked around to get a drink. Thane looked down at his cards with a smirk. The only person that could ever sneak up on him was Shepard. He never understood that but she was just stupidity quiet, when she went to see him after most missions, she would try to sneak up. Most of the time it worked. "I must ask, where is Jacob?"
"I asked Liara about him, she said the last thing she got on him was messages between him and some contacts. Nothing else. She thinks he is on the run from Cerebrus. We are trying to find him" Garrus replied as he started to shuffle the cards.
"Damn, because if he was on the Normandy. I might have come back" She said with a little giggle. She brought her drink over to the table but didn't sit down. She wasn't a poker player and would probably steal the credits before the end of the game anyway. "Anyway it was talking to you, but I'm going to go and try to cause more trouble somewhere else" With that, she disappeared again.
"You know" Garrus moved In closer to the table. "Shepard told me they had footage of Jacob doing exercise in the old armoury room on the ship and you could see Kasumi in the corner watching. Do you think if we find him, we should warn him?"
"God no, we should let him come back with a surprise" They all laughed as they started the next game. Vega this time around was not giving many facial expressions to throw Thane off. Only if they knew it wasn't working and Thane knew he had some good cards.
Shepard walked into her bathroom to use the bathroom when she saw Zaeed messing around with the terminal for her hot-tub. "Zaeed, why are you in my bathroom?"
He stood up quickly and tried to act like nothing happened until Shepard started to pressure him more. "Okay okay. Me and Javik have found a way to help if someone tries to break into your apartment" He turned around and looked the at the hot-tub.
"Why is breaking into my apartment got to do with my hot-tub?" Zaeed moved back to the terminal. He started to type on his onmi tool and the hot-tub started up.
"If there is another clone out there. If it gets in your hot-tub which could happen, since looking at it I would want to have a quick dip" He pushed a button on the terminal and it sent an electric shock through the water. "See if the clone gets in, it will recognize the DNA as the same as yours and will fry it to a crisp"
Shepard could see how proud he was of his work. But she was about to burst his bubbling. "Zaeed, you do realise the clone shares my DNA, that is how it's my clone" Zaeed looked at her smiling and nodded. "So if I get inside with the same DNA will cause the hot-tub to electrocute me"
She watched as his expression changed to pure disappointment. "Fuck. I didn't think of that" He put his fingers to his earpiece. "Javik, we fucked up. Need a new plan. Don't worry Shep we will find another way. I will take this apart now to make sure it doesn't kill you" He turned around and got back to work. Shepard knew she wasn't going to be able to use the bathroom so went to the spare room.
As she walked into the bathroom, she heard the shower on. Her eyes landed to the lump of Grunt curled up in a little ball. "You alright, Grunt?" He looked up still swaying from side to side.
"Yea...umm... Drank too much" He placed his head back down. Shepard was about to turn the shower off. "Not. leave" He snapped. She stood back and looked at him up and down.
"Guessing the alcohol has made it harder for you. You still count as a child by Krogan terms. Why don't you lay down?" He shook his head. "Alright, well if you need anything let me know" he nodded slowly and started to sway again. The only bathroom left was the room Gemma was asleep in. Shepard gave a sigh and left to try and sneak into the bathroom, she bumped into Glyph and asked him to keep an eye on Grunt.
Shepard walked into the room, Gemma was passed out across the bed. She snuck in the bathroom. As she came back out Gemma, was sat on the bed looking at her. "How long was I out?"
Shepard looked at her clock. "About 2 hours. You feeling better?" Gemma looked down at the bed then back at Shepard. She jumped off the bed, feeling the cramp in her legs. She could feel the hangover getting to her, she thought she might need some food.
"Yeah, I'm fine. I just need some food. Is everyone still here?" Shepard signalled her to follow her into the kitchen, there wasn't much food left. Wrex had killed most of it. But Shepard had hidden some food for the next morning, she wanted to make sure she had breakfast in for everyone. She found a couple of energy bars for Gemma. "Thank you"
"Everyone is still here. Tali is up and about" She looked at the ceiling which would have the room Grunt is in. "I can't say the same for Grunt he seemed to have lost between you and Wrex. I found him in the shower, I could have sworn he was crying a little" Gemma chuckled as she dug into her energy bar.
"Well, I would say Wrex won. I heard you can drink any Krogan under the table?" Shepard went to grab a beer and offered Gemma won, she quickly turned it down and went to get a glass of water instead.
"Yeah, thank you to Cerebrus for that. The upgrades make my 'organs work like a Krogans'" Shepard said using air-quotes. "But yeah it can be shit. I like to let my hair down and get absolutely slaughtered until I'm walking home with one shoe, Chinese and someone's business card in my pocket" They both looked at each other, Gemma wasn't sure if Shepard was being serious for that being a normal night out for her. But, she didn't question it and just laughed.
Kaidan heard the laughing coming from the kitchen and followed the noise. Gemma looked up at him, he could tell she was still tired. But looked a lot more alive and sober than before. She smiled and held her energy bar in the air. "You feeling any better?" He wrapped his arm around her back.
"Yeah. I am fine thank you. Just had a headache, but the food is helping. I can't face alcohol again though" Gemma couldn't even think of the alcohol again, it brought back nightmares for her.
"Don't worry. You don't have to" Kaidan looked at the clock, it was nearly 11 pm. Shepard knew by the look on his face that he wanted to do his plan now, as everyone started to settle down. Tali could be heard doing engine noises. Shepard didn't know if she was being serious or was drunk again.
"Glyph" Shepard called. Glyph appeared a second later. "Can you gather the crew and tell Garrus to grab Grunt if he is still moping around in the shower" They walked through to the living room. Everyone started to fill in, Shepard told everyone to choose somewhere to sit or stand by the biggest couch. Garrus and Grunt were the last to arrive, Grunt seemed to be able to walk. But if he stood up too long he started to wobble. "Right is everyone here?" They either shouted yes or nodded. "Wait, where is Kasumi?"
Shepard looked over at Thane. He got the message and scanned everyone until he saw the glint of her cloak. "She is next to James" Thane pointed. Vega turned to his right and couldn't see anything until Kasumi appeared when she let down her cloak.
"Dammit, Thane. I was getting a good luck of him then" She looked at Vega and gave him a slight wink and raised the side of her lip. He just looked at her and gave a weak smile.
"Thank you, Thane" He gave Shepard a bow and turned back into his position next to Liara. He hadn't talked to her much before, but he was very pleased with how well she has accomplished for such a young age. He knew Javik was watching him, he could sense the protectiveness the Prothean seems to have for Liara. "Okay, I wanted us to take a picture together to remember this night. But before we do that. Kaidan has an announcement to make" Shepard moved to the side and let Kaidan stand in front of the fireplace.
He shifted on his feet. The nerves were getting to him "So I will be quick. Just wanted to apologise, to everyone who helped Shepard take down the Collectors. I said some things that I regret. I haven't got to know you all so well yet. But without this crew or the Normandy, I would have never met some many new friends or have Gemma serving on the ship with us" He pulled his hand out to her, she didn't know what to do until Kaidan shuck his hand to get her to stand up. "I know not everyone has fully met Gemma yet, but if you do get to know her more. You won't regret it, without her me and Shepard was face to face with each other, guns drawn. God knows what would have happened" Everyone started to clap. Gemma could feel her face heated up in shyness.
"All I want to do is ask you one question right now" He turned to face her and started to dig into his pocket and brought out a little box. He got down on one knee. Gemma put her hands on her mouth, she felt like she was about to faint at this point. "I know we haven't been together long, but I want us to spend whatever time you have left. Will you marry me" Gemma didn't reply at first until.
She turned and watched the crew, they all looked like they were watching a movie and the suspense was killing them. She looked back at Kaidan, she could see him starting to sweat like he thought she would say no. "Omg, yes" She jumped on him and they both fell to the floor. The crew started to cheer around them. Wrex and Grunt slapped this fist together and could be heard cheering the loudest.
Kaidan got to his feet and pulled Gemma to her feet. He put the ring on her finger, well he tried but couldn't stop shaking. He took her around to stand at behind Shepard on the couch. "Glyph we are ready" Liara and Tali were trying to wipe their tears away. Glyph got into position to take the photo. "Say Normandy"
"Normandy" The whole crew said in union. Gemma and Kaidan kissed whilst the picture was taken. "I love you" Gemma whispered to him.
"I love you too, forever and always"