Hello to my newest story The Human Quarian. I came up with this story while I was flying so I decided to write it down. As far as I know no one has done this before, so I'm very excited. I'll try to stay faithful to cannon as much as I can, but expect some changes. If you do see something that is way off let me know so I can change it.

Disclaimer: I do not own Mass Effect just my OC.

Update: Here's a cleaner and updated version of chapter one. I would like to thank my Beta Reader Rfalzar for taking the time and clean up this story a bit. As to my readers please take the time and review my story. I'm not going to hold chapters over you guys just to get some review, but when you leave a good review even a simple one it motivates me. Any way next chapter should be coming soon so hang tight.

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The Human Quarian

Date: 20 years before the Battle of the Citadel


Location: Terminus System - Valhallan Threshold

System- Paz

Planet- Garvug

Mission: Search abandon base and locate possible resources for the Flotilla

Mission Leader: Mia' Toon vas Rayya nar Tom Tom

Squad: 7 people

Tech- Hal'Jorgen

Infiltrator (Mission leader) - Mia'Toon

Soldier- Jen'Reegar...

Mia looked up from her omni-tool that she was reading and surveyed the small ship her and her team were using. She quickly scanned the members of her team: some of them were veterans while the rest were young and new, eager to prove themselves.

Mia looked over to one of her oldest friends, "So Jen how's little Kal doing?"

The military veteran glanced up from his rifle to answer in a gruff voice. "He's doing well, but I'll tell'ya, you have to keep an eye on that little spitfire. If you don't, you might find him in the ceiling pipes playing marine," he ended with a chuckle.

"Well if I remember right," one of the older marines cut in, "when we were kids you used to go into the engine rooms to hunt down Geth." That made everybody chuckle, but Jen just huffed.

Mia turned towards the marine that spoke, "Speaking of young ones Rael, how's Tali doing? And I hear that you'll become an Admiral soon. Congratulations."

"Thank you. I'll be taking command of the Rayya," Rael said checking his rifle one more time. "This will be my last mission before I take the position. As for Tali, she is doing fine."

"Well don't forget to spend some time with Tali and your bond-mate," Mia said before the pilot called from the cockpit.

"ETA to the base: 2 minutes."

"Alright marines," Mia said in a no nonsense voice while standing up. "Our mission is to search this base for possible resources." She pauses to make sure that everybody was listening. "Now Intel says that this base is abandoned, but keep sharp. We don't know what might have moved in." At that moment the shuttle shook signaling that they had arrived. "Alright Jen take point, the rest of us will follow, Keelah se'lai."

"Keelah se'lai,"


2 Hours later

After going through the first two levels of the base the group of marines made their way towards the third level.

"I can't believe this..." one of the younger recruits grumbled, "this whole trip has been a complete waste."

"Can it marine," Jen shot, instantly shutting the youngster up.

Mia looked over to the tech expert who was going over some data files that they had found in one of the bases computer. "So anything so far?"

The techie by the name of Hal'Jorgen looked over to the squad leader before going back to his omni-tool saying, "Not much... Decrypting this is no easy task. From what I can gather this base used to belong to the Alliance before being taken over by a group called, uh… Cerberus. They were running some kind of experiments. That's all I got for now."

"That doesn't tell us much," Mia said with a sigh. This mission was a total waste of time and resources.

"Yea, but that's not the strangest part," the tech continued, his face glued to the holographic screen. "According to this data, this base is still up and operational." That caused all of the marines to freeze.

Mia tightened her grip on the assault rifle, 'If that's true, then where is everybody. Unless…..' "Okay, stay sharp. If we don't find anything useful on level three we're scrubbing this mission."

One of the marines muttered, "The admirals are not going to like this..."

"I don't care if the Admirals like it or not, I'm not going to lose my team to whatever is down here," Mia spat back. "Now form up on that door and get it open."


After the door opened the team flooded in, clearing out the rooms. After a few minutes Mia's communicator went off. "Ma'am you're going to wanna see this," Jen said sending his coordinates. Mia grabbed her two squad mates and made her way towards Jen's location.

When they arrived at Jen's location, they saw his head hanging low.

"Jen whats wrong?"

He just waved his hand letting them know to follow him. He led them into a room where one of the Quarians was scanning a human woman.

The human was propped against the wall so it was impossible to tell the girl's height. Her fading blue eyes were covered by strands of messy black hair. Patches of her tan skin was covered in blood. She wore what looked like a hospital gown, and in her hand was a small bundle of blankets.

Mia looked over to their medic who looked up and gave a small shake of his head. Whoever she was, she was not going to last long.

"A-A-Are you t-the leader," the woman gasped through a pained breath.

Mia squatted next to the woman as she nodded. "Yes. What happened here?"

"They…tried to…..make…sleeper soldiers…for different species," the woman gasped. She then gave a data pad to Mia who, in turn, handed it to Hal to read over, "D-D-Don't have…..much time…t-t-t-hat will…explain everything."

"P-Please t-t-take my son," the wounded girl said, passing the bundle to Mia once she put away her weapon. Mia looked into the bundle to see a young boy no older than 1. What stood out the most about the boy were his reflective violet eyes.

"What's his name?" Mia asked.

The young woman choked back tears, "They didn't let me name him…they never let name them…they just…gave them a number and began the tests and experiments."

"What should we should we do? What do you want us to do?" Mia asked as the child began reaching for Mia's mask.

"Take him…away from…here. Give him a…a…good home…..away from everything."

Mia nodded, "I promise we'll find him a good home." She stood up and gave one last look at the woman. "What were you going to name him?"

"Jay," the woman gasped as she clutched the wound on her side. "I was going to…name him Jay," she said as blood began leaking out from the side of her mouth.

"Jay... It's a beautiful name," Mia said as Jay began sucking on one of Mia's fingers, making her giggle. "We'll make sure that he is taken care of," she said as the Quarians began to move out of the room.

"Bye-bye," Jay said causing everyone to freeze and hold back tears.

"Good-bye Jay," the mother whispered as tears began to fall from her eyes. As she slowly closed her eyes, she whispered her final words, "May you find happiness amongst the stars." With that her omni-tool beeped.


Meanwhile, the marines were making their way back to the ship.

"Captain you need to hear this," Hal said as he read the data pad.

Mia looked up from Jay, who was playing with her hand. "What is it? Did you find out what they were doing here?"

"Yea, apparently they were trying to combine our amino acids with humans," Hal paused reading a little bit more. "Keelah."

"What is it?" Jen asked coming up to the tech's side.

Hal shook his head, "Apparently Subject 020 or Jay here," he patted Jay's head lightly, "Had twenty brothers and sisters."

"Where are they?" Mia asked the tech in hopes that they could find the children and free them. Hal gave her a look. "Oh Keelah."

"Yea... apparently they didn't live past the first few months," Hal growled. "That girl has been here since she was fifteen, used for these sick 'breeding' experiments. They treated her like an animal."

"But why her?"

"Something to do with her biology," Hal said, skimming though the data pad. "Jay here is the only one to survive the experiments."

"What did they do?" Mia demanded.

"What didn't they do," the tech scoffed. "Exposed the children to element zero while they were in the womb, combined their DNA with Quarian DNA, and stuck an amp at the back of their skull, just to name a few. They had other experiments and training planned out for them once the kids grew up." All of the Quarians were disgusted at the end of Hal's explanation.

"How can someone do something to like this to their own people?" Mia growled, causing Jay to sniffle. "It's okay little one, we'll take you far away from this place. I'll take care of you. I'll be your mother. Would you like that?" Jay giggled causing Mia to smile behind her mask.

Rael spoke up this time, "The Admiralty Board and the Conclave will not allow that. Even if he does get accepted, how are we going to feed him? He'll also have to be in a suit like us. No, it's better if we drop him off at the nearest human colony, or better yet we should study him and see if-"

"NO!" Mia shouted cutting the soon to be admiral off. "I'm not going to let him be studied like some lab rat anymore."

"Be reasonable Mia..." Rael said before getting cut off again.

"What do you think would happen if we drop him off at some colony and the Alliance finds out about him? Or worse yet, what if this 'Cerberus' group finds him again?" Mia argued back. "And before you say it Rael, I'll take him in."

Mia sighed before continuing. "As you know I can't have a child of my own, and if I raise him our population growth will still stay at zero so our resources won't be affected."

"And as for food," Hal, who was still reading the data pad, cut in before Rael could retort, "He can eat dextro type foods without any problems. His immune system is weak, although not to the extent like ours, but still weak. He'll need a suit anyway. It is possible that when he is older that his immune system will evolve due to the experiments, but that is a big if."

"Besides, look at his face," Mia said in her baby talking voice holding Jay, "who could resist a face like that?" Jay just smiles and turns his attention to Mia's glowing mouth piece trying to grab the flashing light. I mean come on; it's just sitting there, flashing just out of his reach as if it was taunting him.

Rael just sighed. "Let's just take it up with the Board first."


After a short trip, the group was back up on the surface near the shuttle, "Pilot, take us to the fleet and tell them to bring a decontamination unit and a child's bubble."

"Aye-aye ma'am," the pilot said, having been briefed on what had happened in the base. "Strap yourselves in." With a shudder, the shuttle took off. Suddenly there was a loud -BOOM- causing the occupants in the small ship to shake and some to fall.

"What the hell was that?" Jen asked while Mia tried to calm down Jay.

"The base sir," the pilot said from the cockpit. "It just blew up." The occupants just looked at each other in shock.

"Keelah," Jen muttered while the rest bowed their heads to pay their respects to fallen woman.


5 hours later at the Migrant Fleet

Mia was sitting in the garden plaza on the Rayya, waiting for the Admiralty Board to make their decision. Mia had pleaded Jay's case using every argument she had used against Rael earlier. Jen and Hal kept an eye on the human hybrid who was rolling around in a bubble used for infant Quarians. Mia was brought out of her thoughts by a slight bump at her leg. When she looks down to see that Jay was trying to reach out to the knife strapped to her boot.

Mia chuckled as she inserted her hand into the bubble and began tickling Jay, making him giggle. "He's seems to be taking a real liking to you Mia," a gruff voice said beside her.

"I have too, Jen," Mia said patting Jay's head before removing her hands and watching him roll around in the bubble, "I hope the Board will let me keep him."

"I do too," the veteran said in a low voice as the a group of people came back into the room. Leading the group was Admiral Shala'Raan, followed by a group of Quarians that made up the rest of the Admiralty Board and the Conclave.

When the room was quiet, Admiral Raan called out, "Mia'Toon vas Rayya, please step forward."

Mia got up and looked over to Jay who was trying to reach Hal's omni-tool. Hal was moving left to right, dodging Jay. This earned a chuckle from the surrounding Quarians. Hal looks up at Mia and nods to her unasked question.

When Mia was standing in front of the pedestal that the members of the Admiralty Board stood on, Shala continued. "After much discussion, we have decided," she paused, the ground team that had found Jay took a deep breath, "That we would accept your request and gladly welcome Jay into the Migrant Fleet."

A round of applause erupted throughout the room as Mia said, "Thank you Admirals."


5 minutes later

Mia and Jay were surrounded by the occupants that lived aboard the Rayya asking questions and taking turns making little Jay giggle and laugh. The baby in question was enjoying the attention.

"Okay everyone give them some room. I'm sure you'll have plenty of time to see the baby later," Shala said, making the group let out an audible "Awww..." and then disperse.

Mia stood and gave a quick salute before saying, "Admiral I can't thank you enough-"

Shala held up a hand cutting her off, "You don't need to, it was pretty much a one-sided vote. You argued your case pretty well." Mia blushed and smiled as Shala inserted her hand into the bubble and rubbed Jay's head. He giggled in response.

Shala chuckled, "Welcome to the Flotilla, Jay'Toon nar Rayya."


15 years before the Battle of the Citadel

"Hey mom," A five year old Jay said to his mother as they walked down the halls of the Rayya hand in hand. Jay was wearing clothing that covered him from head to toe with a small opening for his eyes. To the other species of the galaxy it would look like he was wearing nothing but rags that were wrapped around him. The only thing that you could see were his eyes.

During the past five years his mother, Mia, had been training him to control his biotics using the data pads that the Fleet had received from one of the Quarians that came back from their Pilgrimage. While biotics were very rare amongst the Quarians a few would pop up every so often. While he wasn't on the same level as an Asari or Krogan Battle-master, he had enough power to get him out of sticky situations if he needed to. Mia had also been training Jay on the technical aspect on being an Infiltrator; she would teach him more once he had a suit of his own, and when he was not busy with his other classes of course.

Over the years Jay had grown up to be the ideal Quarian. While the majority of the Flotilla had accepted him, there were a few that treated him like you would an insect. On this day Jay had ran into some of those people which prompted the question he had.

"Yes little one what is it?" Mia asked as they continue to walk down the hallways, waving every so often to a passerby.

"Do Quarians dream?" Jay asked looking up to his mother.

"Where did that come from?" Mia asked before sighing. "Is it Prazza again? I told you not to listen to anything he says."

"I don't really," Jay said "But you didn't answer my question."

Mia chuckled thinking, 'Nothing gets past him. He's also picking engineering well too from what I hear. He's so intelligent he'll make a wonderful member Flotilla.' Mia stops and squats down so she is eye level with Jay, "Well tell me, do you have dreams?"

"Yes."

Mia hops up, "Well then there's you answer," she said as they went back to walking.

"B-B-But I look nothing like everybody else," Jay stuttered out. Mia stops again and slightly pushes Jay into a clean room. Once the decontamination process was done she told Jay to step out of his bubble while she took of her mask and gloves. When they were down Mia pulled down her hood to reveal her light blue skin and black hair. Jay got the idea and began undoing his wrapping to let his white hair fall loosely to his shoulders. His violet eyes shone brightly against his pale skin.

Mia sat down cross legged Jay followed soon after, "Now you say that you like nothing us," Mia said Jay gave a nod. "Well it seems like we both have two eyes, one nose," she poke his nose, "a mouth," she poked his lips, "two ears," she said rubbing his ears making him giggle, "and it looks like we both have hair on top of our head," she finished rubbing his head.

"You see, my son, we're not so different," Mia said lightly kissing Jay's forehead. "Now hurry up and get dressed. I have a surprise for you back home."

"Is that why you took me to see Admiral Gerrel aboard the Neema?" Jay asked, as more of a statement than a question.

Mia, who had just put on her mask and gloves, turned to stare at her son. "Is that what you think?" Mia asked in mock hurt.

Jay sealed up the bubble and turned to his mother, and just crosses his arms and stared at his mother.

"I thought you would like to see the ship that, from what I hear, Tali'Zorah is going to choose after her Pilgrimage, seeing that you have a crush on her."

If his face was not covered up you would see it light up like a sun. "I-I-I-I don't know what you're talking about," he said turning around.

Mia chuckled, "If you say so... Now come on, everybody is waiting."

"So you did take me to the Neema to distract me!" Jay said victoriously.

Mia sighed. "Yes now let's go."

Mia and Jay began making their way out of the clean room when Jay inquired, "So whats the surprise?"

"I'm not going to tell you now, hurry up," Mia said hurriedly. "If you don't, Tali and Kal will be gone."

"Tali is waiting? Why didn't you say so?!" Jay said as he got behind his mother and began pushing. "Come on let's go!"

Mia couldn't help but laugh at her child's antics, but her laugh quickly turned into coughing.

Jay was immediately by his mother's side. "Mom, are you okay? Do need me to get a doctor?" he said quickly with fear in his voice.

"I'm alright child," Mia said calming her son down. "Just a small reaction from removing parts of my suit." Jay began sniffling. "Honey whats wrong?"

"I-I-Its m-m-m-y fa-fault that you're sick," Jay said sobbing. "If-if-if I hadn't listen to P-P-Prazza you wouldn't ha-ha-have taken me into the clean-,"

"Now hold it right there," Mia snapped. "It's not your fault. I chose to take you there and take off my mask *cough cough* and I would gladly do it again." She then pulled out an immune-booster and injected it into her blood stream. "Besides, I'm a marine and for me to be taken down by a little sniffle is just plain insulting," she said mocking Jen'Reegar's voice causing Jay to giggle.

Jay quickly, and to the best of ability, hugged his mother. "I love you mom."

"I love you too honey," Mia said returning the hug. "Now let's go. Everybody's waiting."


10 minutes later

Everybody was gathering around in the room that the Toon family shared along with the Reegar family. Everybody from Tali, to her mom (who wears a light blue suit), to Hal'Jorgen had shown up.

Tali, Kal, and Jay were huddled close together conversing. "So you're not going to tell me whats going on then?" Jay asked his friends.

"Sorry, under orders," Kal'Reegar said with his arms behind his back.

Tali chuckled a bit. "Keelah Kal, you're not even in the marines yet and you are already acting like one."

Kal straightened up a bit. "Father always said to start young ma'am."

"Don't start that," Tali said, her tone saying that she wasn't kidding.

"I'll try ma'am," Kal answered with a little humor in his voice. The group chuckled at their own antics.

"Anyway Tali," Jay said turning to his female friend, "you never answered my question."

Tali turns to Jay before answering. "Well like mister marine over here," she pointed with her elbow, "I'm 'under orders' sorry."

Before he could say anything a voice called. "I here it's somebody's special day," everybody turned to the doorway as Admiral Rael and Shala appeared.

Rael spoke up again. "Well, come forward Jay'Toon nar Rayya." Everyone turned towards Jay, putting him on the spot. Jay became very nervous and began fidgeting; only by the comforting words of Tali and Kal was he able to step forward.

When he was right in front of the Admiral began speaking again, "Well now, I hear that my bond-mate and your mother have been working on this for a long time," Rael held out his hand to Shala who handed him a package. "Now before I give you this do you promise to be loyal to the Flotilla and to the Quarian people for as long as you live."

Jay straightens up and said proudly, "Yes sir." Rael nodded his head as he inserted the package into the bubble using the designated slot. "Well then I'm proud to give you your first suit," Real said. "Now if you'll excuse me, I have things to do." And with that he turned and left without a second thought.

Jay stared wide eyed at the package.

"Well aren't you going to go put it on?" Tali asked from behind him. He looks up to her, her mom, and then to his mom, who gave him a slight nod to the direction to the clean room.

"Go on," Mia said with a slight chuckle in her voice.

Jay ran forward and to the best his ability gave both his mom and Tali's hug, saying very quickly, "Thank you mom, thank you Auntie Zorah!" before disappearing out of the room and leaving behind a laughing crowd.

"I don't think I have ever seen some move that fast before," Hal said, earning another round of chuckles from the group.


15 minutes later.

Mia stood in front of the clean room waiting for Jay to come out. Beside her were Tali, Kal, Jen, and Mrs. Zorah. "Maybe I should go in and check on him," Mia said worriedly.

"Relax Mia," Jen said while putting a comforting hand her shoulder. "Give him some time." No sooner had he said those words, the door opened with a hiss and out came Jay.

His suit was a combination of female and male suits; he had a full hood that you would see on the female version while his mask stuck out just a little bit like on a normal male suit, the other changes were obviously the fingers and legs which had to change to fit with his human physiology. The main color of the suit was black, while the armor plating and pockets were a light grey. The snaps and buckles were dark grey along with the boots. His visor was also a light grey, but you could still see his bright eyes glowing through the glass piece. His suit had his family pattern, which was a wavy swirl, decorated on his hood and parts of his suit.

"So do you like it?" Mia asked.

Jay just beamed. "Like it? I love it!" he said before rushing to his mother giving her a proper hug for the first time. "Thank you both," he muttered.

"Come on Jay," Tali said, getting the hybrid's attention. You could tell that she was smiling behind her mask, "Race you to engineering."

Jay smiled before replying, "Your so on!" And with that the two took off down the hall. Kal just chuckled at his friends antics before walking after them. Tali's mom mentiong having to go take care of something before heading in the opposite direction, leaving Jen and Mia all by themselves.

"Hey Jen," Mia whispered as her son disappeared around the corner. "Do you think of what could have been." She leaned into Jen's chest.

"A little," the marine whispered back.

"A part of me is glad that we didn't become bonded," Mia said looking into Jen's eyes. "You deserved someone who could bare your child, and besides if I did I would have never be able to have Jay as my son."

"That's true ma'am," Jen said making Mia chuckle.

"You haven't called me Ma'am in years..."

Jay and Tali were still racing down the hall with Kal tagging along. Despite the head-start, Jay had finally caught up and passed his friend.

As he took the lead, Tali shouted from behind him. "No fair! How do you always win! You're cheating!"

Jay just laughed in return


15 years later

Jay and Tali were racing each other to their new destination. It had become a game they had played throughout the years. One thing remained the same however. Jay was in his modified suit that had to be altered over the past fifteen years to account for his size. The plate on his mask was now a darker grey while his arms are now covered with light grey armor pieces. "Come on Tali," Jay yelled back. "Don't tell me you're getting tired now

He could have sworn she said something along the lines of, "Stupid bosh'tet." Jay couldn't help but laugh. He quickly took a sharp turn and spotted his target. Jay grabbed the ladder and began sliding down.

"YOU CHEATING BOSH'TET," Tali yelled down the ladder, causing Jay to laugh even harder. But he couldn't help but think, "Thank Keelah that she doesn't have her shotgun with her." He shuddered at the thought.

When Jay made it to the bottom of the ladder he looked around. When he saw that the coast was clear he began walking down the hall way towards engineering with a smirk on his face. His smirk was immediately wiped off when something barreled right into him, knocking him and whatever hit him down. "Ow,"

"Oh Keelah I'm sorry I wasn't…watching," Jay look up to the person ran into him. What he saw as a purple mask and a pair of the most beautiful eyes he had ever seen. Unknown to him the person who was on top of him was doing the same.

"Um Tali," Jay stuttered out. "We're going to be late."

"Huh," Tali look around to see that she was in a compromising position with her childhood friend. "Oh," She quickly jumped up and turned her back towards him blushing behind her mask, "Uh... Sorry."

"No," Jay said as he got up. He too was blushing. "It was my fault."

Tali turned around arms crossed. "You're damn right it's your fault," Tali said in mock anger. "If you hadn't cheated-"

"I did not cheat," Jay interrupted crossing his arms. "I merely used my environment to my advantage."

"So you cheated," Tali said hands on her hips. Jay leaned against the bulk head before they got into one of their childish arguments that they were known to get into.

"Did not."

"Did too."

"Did not."

"Did too."

"Well look who it is," a voice cut off Tali's and Jay's 'argument.' They turned to see a familiar and mutually hated Quarian.

"Prazza," Tali said.

Prazza stepped forward, "Tali why do you hang around this tasi," he spat, the last bit aimed at Jay.

Tali became furious; her best friend had been called the worst insult a Quarian could say to someone. He called him a tasi, which meant 'no one.'

"Whats you problem Prazza?!" Tali yelled out, "How dare you-"

"It's okay Tali," Jay said calmly.

"Okay? OKAY?!" Tali asked incredulously. "He just called you-"

"I know," Jay calmly stated. "It doesn't bother me. Oh, what is that human saying 'Wood and rocks?' It's just words. Come on Tali we're going to be late." He said taking Tali's hand and leading her away.

"That's right you better run away you damn freak," Prazza called after them.

Once they turned the corner, Jay released Tali and she immediately began to rant on how much of a bosh'tet Prazza was. When her rant ran its course she turned towards the hybrid. "Are you okay Jay?"

"Yea I'm fine," Jay said.

But Tali wasn't convinced so she stopped him and brought him into a hug. "Don't you lie to me," she said softly. "I know it hurts when he says those things."

"A little," Jay said weakly. "Why doesn't he like me?"

"Who knows," Tali said pulling out of the hug but leaving her hands on Jay's shoulder. "But know this: you are very important to me, and I will always be there for you. Now come on Ja-Ja we're going to be late," Tali giggled using his nickname that she gave him before taking off. Jay just stood there replaying what Tali had just said.

You are very important to me, and I will always be there for you. Jay quickly began running down the hall way to catch up to a giggling Tali. As he was running he was trying to understand this feeling he was having.


5 Months before the battle of the Citadel

A group of Quarians were standing outside of a docking bay. Everybody was wishing good luck to a few young Quarians who were about to embark on an important journey. The journey that all Quarians have to take: The Pilgrimage.

Right now they were saying their goodbyes to Tali, who had chosen to take her Pilgrimage on Illium. She had just gotten done receiving her supply of immno-booster and advice on surviving in the galaxy when she turned to her friend.

"You okay?" Jay asked mashing his hands together.

"Yes," Tali said excitedly. "I'm a little nervous though."

"Ah you'll be fine," Jay said trying to reassure his friend.

"So..." Tali said. "Have you decided where you're going for your Pilgrimage?"

Jay began bouncing on the ball of his heels. "Yea, I'm going to the Citadel. I'll try and find some work and go from there. Oh before I forget." Jay reached for a small packet and gave its contents to Tali.

"What is it?" she asked as she took the small packet.

"Some upgrades for your shotgun and pistol," Jay said. "Mom says it's a rough place out there, and from what I hear about Illium, it's just like Omega only cleaner." He chuckled along with Tali, "Be careful out there Tali," he said pulling Tali into a hug.

"If you ever get into trouble give me a call," Jay said tapping a few buttons on his omni-tool sending his contact info to Tali. "I'll grab Kal and we'll swoop in and come to your rescue."

Tali chuckled. "Isn't that my job?"

"I don't know what you're talking about," Jay said crossing his arms and turning his head away from Tali making her laugh. Just then somebody called out Tali's name.

"Well I better get going."

"Yea."

"Oh and Jay," Tali said giving Jay one last hug. "You be careful out there too. The Citadel isn't exactly safe either."

"I know and I will," Jay said as they released each other. Tali turned around and made her way to the shuttle, "Keelah se'lai Ja-Ja," she called out.

"Keelah se'lai," Jay returned as he too made his way to the shuttle that would take him to the Citadel.


3 Days later

Citadel-Presidium Wards

Jay's P.O.V

Finally after 2 ½ days of travel and six hours going through customs. I'm finally able to start my Pilgrimage. I don't know what I'm going to get yet, but it has to be something big. I want to be accepted by the other Quarians. I know the ones on the Rayya, except a select few, do but I don't know about the rest of fleet.

Well I guess a good place to start is getting a job. Which was why I was standing in front of a clinic run by a Dr. Chloe Michel. I open the door and step through. I was greeted by a red haired human.

"Oh wow another one?" she said with a small shock before turning into fear. "Are you hurt too?"

"No ma'am," I said polity. "I'm just here to answer your help wanted ad."

The human let out a relief sigh. "Thank goodness. By the way, I'm Dr. Michel. I know that you…" she trailed off noticing hands. "You are a Quarian, yes?"

I let out a sigh of my own. I should have known that this was coming. I spent a good two hours trying to explain this to C-Sec.

"Due to certain circumstances, I was raised by Quarians. This is not going to be a problem is it? I can just leave," I said making my way to the door when I was cut off.

"Oh no, it's just that..." Dr. Michel said tailing off. I guess she was trying to pick her words carefully.

"Don't see many humans in a Quarian exo suit?" I added, which caused her to nod nervously, "It's okay I guess I should be used to it by now." I finished crushing my hands nervously. I quickly decided to change the topic. "You said that you met another Quarian recently?"

"Oh yes," the doctor said. "Poor thing was hurt, but I managed to help her and send on her way within an hour," She said with pride.

"Umm did they happen leave a name? I might know them," I asked in hopes that I did know the person. If I had another Quarian to talk to, my time on the Citadel might not be so…..

"Yes I think she said her name was Tali'Zorah nar Rayya…."


Don't forget to R&R