A/N: For those weird moments when the universe seems to listen in the worst kind of way :P

"Doctor Anwar, I have something for you." Sara's voice was low and husky, her bright blue eyes locked with Suvi's in such an intense stare that Suvi felt her mouth go dry. Her heart fluttered with anticipation as Sara crossed the bridge in quick, purposeful strides, closing the gap between them in seconds. The Pathfinder reached down and easily gathered her science officer up in her arms, drawing her out of her chair. She paused for one charged moment, eyes on Suvi's, bright blue darkening with lust, and then dipped her head. Their lips crashed together in the most blissful of kisses. Heat bloomed in her chest, radiating outwards to the very tips of her fingers and toes.

Suvi felt the world fall away. Sara was her everything in that moment. She responded immediately, hands taking a leisurely tour up Sara's arms, feeling hard muscle beneath her fingers. Tension built low in her stomach as she wound her arms around Sara's neck and tangled her fingers in lustrous raven hair, and -

"Suvi!"

Her eyes flew open in shock, and Suvi returned to the Tempest with a jolt. Her console console glowed in front of her, blazing orange dotted with multicoloured buttons and lights, a glaring difference to the pleasantly warm haze of her fantasy. She twisted round in her chair to stare wide eyed as Sara strode across the bridge towards her, the doors hissing closed behind the Pathfinder. Suvi felt herself blush bright red at having her sexy daydream interrupted by the very object of her desires. How in God's name was Sara here now, of all times?!

Her heart thundered in her chest, both from nerves and from the after effects of her daydream. She gulped, feeling inexplicably guilty and wondering with a panic if Sara might suddenly develop the ability to read minds.

Sara faltered in the middle of the bridge, bright grin dropping as she frowned at Suvi in concern. "Are you okay? You look really red..."

"Fine. Just hot." Suvi barely managed to squeak out and waved a hand in front of her face in a fanning motion as if that might help. She knew she looked and sounded frantic and that really didn't help with the blushing.

Sara studied her quietly for a moment, unconvinced but unable to work out what the issue might actually be. "Okay."

"How can we help you, Pathfinder?" Kallo asked pleasantly without turning. He was smirking into his workstation, Suvi could see it plain as day and was attempting to catch his attention before Sara could see and query it. She just knew Kallo somehow understood exactly why she was blushing and flustered. Thankfully though Sara was fiddling with something on her omni-tool and hadn't noticed.

"I have some scans of plants and dirt and stuff from Aya," she explained, typing on her glowing gauntlet and looking very pleased with herself.

"You know 'dirt' is a meaningless word?" Suvi started, but then her own omni-tool chimed as a message landed. She eagerly lifted her arm to swipe the omni-tool awake and opened Sara's message. She failed to suppress the grin as she saw Sara had written 'You're welcome ;P' but then her eyes widened as she saw a whole host of attached files waiting for her perusal. "Oh, this is brilliant!" she gushed, eagerly scrolling through the items.

Sara turned to Kallo and they shared an amused grin. They had probably lost Suvi for hours now as she became completely absorbed by the data, and both knew it.

"How did you get this?" Suvi asked, finger hovering over one file, then moving onto the next. There were reams and reams of data. The angara couldn't have trusted Sara straight away, surely they hadn't allowed her to take information on their home world back to her ship however innocent it seemed. Even if she had rescued the captured angara from the facility on Voeld and was about to safely return Moshae Sjefer to them she knew Efvra was still wary of them, second guessing every decision Sara made. No, she hadn't got this while on Aya. Besides, she wouldn't have held it for weeks before handing it over.

"I asked Jaal about it and he put it all together," Sara thumb-hooked her belt, shifted her weight into one leg. She looked pleased that her 'gift' had been so well received. "Really you should be thanking him. I'm just the messenger."

Suvi looked up and felt her stomach flip at the playful crooked smile on Sara's lips. "I will," she said breathlessly. "And you. You asked for it. I hope the angara let us look at more when we go back to Aya. I only saw a brief glimpse as we flew in, and I was..." She paused and frowned to herself, "Well. Mainly worried about being shot out of the sky at the time but what I saw was amazing. I have to know more."

"Of course you do," Sara said in amusement and Suvi blushed.

"You got something for Suvi," Kallo commented. "What about me?"

Sara looked over at him and spread her arms, looking overly apologetic. "Sorry, Kallo, they were fresh out of model ships."

"Well, that's just rude," he mock-sulked.

"Aw, no, are you going to report me to Tann for workplace discrimination?" Sara pouted melodramatically.

"You don't know," Kallo said, black eyes playful, tone serious. "I might."

Suvi's eyes moved between her colleagues as they teased each other. The crew all seemed to play off each other so well, and then there was her. Why was she so awkward when everyone else had an easy banter between themselves?

"I- I would, um, defend your honour," she told Sara lamely. She averted her eyes as those brilliant blues sought out her gaze, flicked up again in time to see that stomach-flipping sloped smirk.

"Yeah, you would," Sara said with a tone that again made Suvi feel hot all over.

"Aha," Suvi nodded, confidence growing with the look of mischief in Sara's eyes, "I could definitely take on Tann."

Kallo snorted loudly behind them and then cleared his throat to try and cover it up. Sara ignored him and simply smiled at Suvi, who felt that Sara had somehow guessed what she had been trying to do.

"You would be better suited to battling him with your mind," the salarian advised. "You have a terrible aim."

"And how would you know that?" Sara asked Kallo with a slow grin, sensing a story.

"She throws things at me when she's annoyed," Kallo answered gravely.

Sara turned to Suvi, raising her eyebrows in amusement. Suvi spluttered in response. "Just rations wrappers!" She insisted, and shot Kallo a scowl. "Nothing painful. And that's only after he's been winding me up for ages, which he loves to do."

"I would never! I am the essence of professionalism," Kallo replied. "She almost always misses, littering my beautiful bridge."

Sara laughed and turned back to Suvi. "We'll have to work on your aim sometime. Though…I really can't see you getting that annoyed. You're our resident ray of sunshine!" Suvi beamed at the compliment.

"Don't encourage her," Kallo said.

Sara laughed again and made her way across the bridge to the doors. "I have to go. Play nice. And Suvi, enjoy your scans."

"I will!" Suvi called, twisting in her chair to watch Sara walk through the doors into the corridor outside. "Thank you!"

The doors whooshed closed and Suvi dropped back into her seat properly, fiddling with her omni-tool cuff, desperate to get back to the scans but knowing she had to contain herself until after her shift had ended.

"You can look through them," Kallo said without looking up from his workstation. Suvi glanced his way and caught him smiling to himself. "It's technically work-related." He glanced her way.

"I love you, Kallo," Suvi said with a grin, uploading the scans to her own workstation.

"Oh, I know," he replied with a warm chuckle.