Music and Sexy Drell

"Hey Emi, The Illusive Man wants to talk to you, its urgent." Miranda says as she watched the group enter from the air lock.

Emily nods at Thane and looks at Garrus. "Take him to the Mess Hall and show him around, make sure his armor gets that upgrade against the swarms."

Garrus nods his asset and leads Thane to the elevator while Emily hits her terminal.

A grunt forms in the back of her throat as her eyes glazed over Kaidan's opened letter. Immediately after she felt someone's looming presence behind her. Turning, she catches Garrus' eyes focused on her screen. A dejected look peered across his face as Emily reached for the armored rim of his cowl pulling his face down to hers.

"Didn't anyone ever tell you not to read other people's mail?" she growls as she shoves him towards the open elevator next to Thane. "Kelly, delete that would you?" she gestures to the console before stepping into the elevator leaning against the wall.

"Emily...the..." Kelly stops as Emily waves her hand dismissively.

"Let me grab something to bite first, " she let out a sigh shaking her head as the elevator door closed.

"Emily...I..."

"Can it Garrus, I don't want to talk about it so just leave it," pocketing her hands.

"Fine, we still-"

"Yes I know..." her eyes narrowed with an irritated look.

Thane could not help but chuckle at the amusing interaction.

"Hey EDI, we got any place on this ship we can have Thane bunk in?" Emily calls out to the room.

"Life support would be perfect for him," EDI's melodious voice drifted into the elevator perking Thane's interest.

"An AI, how interesting..." he palms the wall trying to assess where the voice came from.

"Life Support should be down that way," Emily points down the hallway while she making her way to the mess hall.

A tray slides in front of her, and she looks up gratefully at the smirking Jack.

"Hey, was that a drell back there?" Jack gestures her head towards the hall.

"A drell? Mmmm yummy!" Kasumi pops out of her tactical cloak stealing a cookie off Emily's tray.

"A sexy one at that!" Tali exclaims taking a seat next to Jack.

Emily lets out a groan and shakes her head, a smile snaking across her face, "Enough guys! We've got a job to do, we don't have time to oogle the newest member of the team, even if he is drop dead sexy..."

"Drop dead sexy eh?" Kenny's scottish voice spooked her. "Why yes, I am the sexiest man alive~!" He struck a glorious pose as the girls shielded their eyes laughing.

"Not you, bosh'tet!" Tali's voice barely able to contain the laugher.

"The drell!" Jack continued, a teasing sneer on her face.

"You mean, the drell standing behind me?" Kenny grinned as he took a step to the side revealing Thane and Garrus standing by the wall.

Four pairs of eyes focused on Thane and Garrus, a knowing smirk passed between Jack and Kasumi as they watched the blush climb up Emily's cheeks. They watched as Emily pushed her tray away and surge to her feet.

"Well, I'm going to go see what The Illusive Man wants...uh...Thane if you're hungry, Gardner is a pretty decent cook, just tell him what you want and he'll make it in a jiffy."

Thane threw her an amused smile as she made her escape to the elevator and headed to the conference room.

"Shepard - we caught a break. I intercepted a distress call from a turian patrol. They stumbled onto a Collector ship beyond the Korlus system. The turians were wiped out, but not before they crippled the Collector vessel. I need you to board that ship and get some hard data on the Collectors. Find us a way to get to their homeworld," The Illusive Man said gently flicking the cigarette ash into the ashtray.

"I see, well, send me the coordinates and I'll take care of it," Emily stood holding a standard military pose.

"Already sent to your pilot Commander. Once you're aboard the ship establish an uplink with EDI. She'll mine their data for information regarding the Omega 4 relay. Good luck, Shepard," he took a sip of his brandy as the comm link died.

"Coordinates punched in, let's go find us a Collector ship," Joker's relayed over the comm.

"Okay Joker, just let me know when we're close." Emily sighed as she made her way out of the room.

Emily walked into port observation greeted with the soft subtle music coming from Kasumi's speakers.

"Is this...Beethoven?" Emily asked shock.

"Yes it is," Kasumi responded with a smile on her face. "I hope you don't mind...I couldn't resist when I saw the sound bytes on Illium."

"No, not at all," Emily stretched out and relaxed on one of the couches.

The door whooshed open and Jack came in, followed by Tali, Kelly and Gabby.

"What is this cra-"

Emily quickly 'shushed' the ruffian woman.

"Seriou-"

"Shuuush"

"Ugh fine!" Jack smacked Emily's leg making her get up so the rest of the girls could sit.

Emily settled herself on the bar again, legs dangling off her mind drifting with the tone of the piano's note filling the room.

The door whooshed open as more crew members filled the room, Thane and Mordin.

"Ah, human piano music, very nice," Mordin commented as he took a seat next to Tali.

Thane looked around the room for an empty seat spotting the barstool adjacent to Emily's head.

He glanced down at her catching her eyes, "This music is rather beautiful."

"It's one of my favorites," Emily's eyes glittered as she gazed back at him.

"Moonlight Sonata...I've heard it before, it is..."

"Beautiful," Emily gives a grin relaxing back down.

Kasumi's eyes rested on the relaxing scene, "Glad everyone is enjoying the mus-"

The door whooshed open again, Garrus looked around before focusing his attention on Emily, noting how close her head was to Thane's.

"So what's going on here..?"

"Listening to music," Jack tossed her hand up at Garrus.

"Hey, did you know, the composer of this piece was deaf and he was still able to make such beautiful music," Kelly perked up in a 'matter of fact' kind of way.

"Really? How was he able to make music if he couldn't hear it?" Garrus asked in disbelief.

Emily gave a reluctant sigh, "Come here."

Garus, sat up from the wall making his way next to Emily, "What?"

Emily reached up taking his visor off placing it on the table. Reaching up, she covered his ears and rewards him with a smile. She begins to mouth 'F.e.e.l.' to him before closing her eyes.

He nods closing his eyes as he feels the beating of her heart through her palms. Echoing over the sound of her heart he felt the beats of the music dancing in his veins. He tried to pinpoint the vibrations as they rumbled contently through his mind. Slowly his mind wavered to his youth on Palavan before forming the memories of Emily on SR1.

Catching himself he gives a slight jolt as he returns to the room. He blinks his eyes open staring into Emily's face noticing her closed eyes and the small serene smile that graced her face.

She giggled as she felt his warm gaze on her, "You were purring."

The turian's face quickly heated up, "I was not." he pulled her hands away from his face, "alright alright, I guess I can see how he could make music like that."

Emily gave another chuckle, "we humans are something don't ya think?"

"Yea, yea, something alright..." he sat down leaning his head against the couch, "you certainly are something..."

"Hmm?"

"Nothing"

The group sat listening to the music, their minds wandering where they pleased. Thinking of everything and nothing all at once.

Suddenly, Joker's voice broke through the comm halting the music, "Commander, we're about an hour from the Collector base."

"Mmm..." Emily stretched her legs and arms out. "Alright, Garrus, and Thane suit up and meet in the shuttle bay in one hour."