As Anderson entered the apartment the first thing he noticed was A) Seara and Kaira were sitting on the couch painting with Tali, B) the apartments speakers were playing music that had always calmed Allison down, and C) the whole place smelled of lavender.

Udina entered after him, "Looks like they picked up the girls."

Tali turned to the two men, "Kelly thought a symbol of the innocence Allison was fighting to protect would help her."

"It is," Kelly said as she came down the stairs. She gave Anderson a hug before continuing, "She stopped shaking but still looks really unnerved," she looked down and held onto Anderson tighter, "I saw the images through her helmet cam. They entered the same Collector vessel that blew up the original Normandy and…" she paused and had to suppress a sob as she clung even tighter, "it looked like Gang Street," she whispered.

"Udina."

"Yes Anderson?"

"Clear my week. This is worse than I thought."

"How much worse?"

"She was sitting in a cold shower for about two hours till Chief Williams found her, shortly after a massive panic attack began," EDI said through Kelly's Omni-tool, "So she has a slight case of hypothermia as well. I recommend a week of a calm relaxing non-stressful environment with lots of loving support before she returns to work."

"Good idea… uh… you," Anderson said as Kelly released him, "I'm going to go see her. Udina, inform the other counselors of the situation."

"Yes sir," he said before pausing, looking unsure for a second, "Tell Shepard that I said to get well soon," and with that he left.

"That is probably the first time I've ever heard that man say something half way nice," Anderson said as he headed for the stairs.

"I'm sorry that I can't be there," Liara said. Ashley had called her to tell her of Shepard's panic attack and how they would be staying on the Citadel for a while.

"Well you have that job as the new shadow broker now. But don't worry, I'll keep you constantly up to date on what's going on," Ashley said.

"Good, what's going on now?"

"Anderson is upstairs with her and they're watching some old Disney vids, Kelly is with Tali and the girls in the Livingroom, I think I saw Miranda commandeering Anderson's home office for her own use, using her own terminals per his orders, Samara is teaching Jack how to meditate to boost her power, and the rest are on the ship doing whatever."

"Why are Jack and Samara there?"

"Well Samara has sort of taken Jack under her wing and wants to help her calm down her life. Jack is going along because apparently she wants to meet her mother someday and doesn't want to be strung out looking when that day comes, also something about wanting a calm future with Miranda someday."

Liara smiled, "Well I wish her luck with those goals."

"Thanks blue!" Jack called from the side room.

Ashley and Liara talked for a little while longer till Liara had to leave to do something. After the line was disconnected Ashley went upstairs to find Allison asleep on Anderson's shoulder. She giggled softly and Anderson just gave a 'Keep it down' hand gesture.

So she went down stairs to check on Kelly and Tali and saw that the girls were missing, "We're the girls?"

"Learning meditation with Jack," Kelly said, "Samara had asked them if they'd like to learn and they decided to give it a try."

"Oh, well good. I'm going to start dinner, any requests?"

"Anything Dextro based is fine with me," Tali said.

"I have no idea how to cook that, but I know of a place that'll deliver."

"That'll do."

"I'll help," Kelly said, getting up off the couch where she had been snuggling with Tali.

Allison awoke to a smell that made her mouth water. She looked around and noticed that she was under the covers but still in the jeans and t-shirt she had fallen asleep in, but minus the belt that she needed to keep the jeans from falling off her nonexistent hips.

She sat up and saw her belt on the night stand. She picked it up and made her way downstairs, enjoying the soft music playing over the speaker system, Anderson had shared his love of smooth jazz to her and Kelly and both were hooked on it to the point of learning how to play the saxophone all throughout high school.

When she got to the kitchen she found Ashley and Kelly cooking while Tali was setting out a couple take out trays, "What's up?" she asked.

Ashley turned to her, "Just making dinner. How're you feeling?"

"A little better. A few more days and I'll be good to go," she turned to Kelly, "Anything come in while I was asleep?"

"Kasumi sent word that Garrus got a message that brought fire to his eyes, Grunts been tearing up his room and acting like he really needs to kill something really big, Thane has an urgent matter that he needs to speak to you about, Mordin said he needed your help with something on Tuchanka, and Kasumi wanted to inform you that the day of the heist she needs your help with is coming."

"I'll be sure to get back to her on that," Shepard said, tasting whatever Ashley was making.

"Oh, by the way, your outfit for that little adventure was delivered here. And I think you should wear it for dinner," Ashley said with a grin.

"Itadakimasu," Anderson, Kelly, Shepard, Seara, and Kaira all said before starting on their food.

"What?" Everyone else asked.

"It's Japanese for 'I gratefully receive'" Anderson said, "I dated a Japanese woman for a few months, Shepard and Kelly loved it when she spoke Japanese so much that she taught them how to speak it, and proper Japanese table manners even after her and I broke up."

"Interesting," Samara said.

"Anything else?" Jack asked.

"Just the two main dialects of Japanese and how to write it," Kelly said, "Not really useful but it can be fun to talk to Allison in front of people and laugh as they have no idea what we're talking about."

Allison smiled, "Like that one really rude woman dad dated for a few days."

"In my defense, she was a highly decorated captain. How was I to know that she would slap a child for talking in front of her and not explain what she was saying?" Anderson said.

"She slapped a child?"

"Kelly when she was thirteen, and only once," Allison said, "After she did, she found herself on the floor receiving several well placed kicks to her ribs."

Anderson smiled, "Allison broke three of her ribs and cracked four others. I was about to severely punish her but after hearing that she was defending her little sister I singed them both up for proper martial arts training."

"Let me guess," Samara said, "Japanese… oh what's it called?"

"Kung-Fu, and yes," Allison said, "We both took different styles. Kelly was better at Crane style since she's small and fast, I excelled at tiger, Eagle, and Mantis."

"Well aren't you a f-… an over achiever," Jack said.

"Yes she is," Anderson said, fondly pulling Allison over for a small hug, "She always was a trouble maker, but only for the bullies at school. I eventually had to actually ground her when she wouldn't stop actually beating the snot out of anyone she saw picking on someone else."

"Grounding is his way of saying he made me join the wrestling and roller derby teams to give my anger an outlet," Allison smiled, "It also gave me a chance to beat on the bullies in a more school legal way since half the male ones were in wrestling, while some of the female ones were in the roller derby team. Though the rest were on the football and cheerleading teams."

"And try as I might I could never get Allison to even think of putting on one of those small outfits," Anderson said, "She preferred shirts and pants, or conservative dresses."

"Conservative?" Samara asked.

"Mostly dresses that don't show a lot of leg and boob, but still look stylish and fashionable."

"Like the one you have on?"

"Exactly. Kasumi chose well."

"I think it makes you look very pretty," Seara said.

"Well thank you Seara."

"So, do you even know who it is you're supposed to be stealing something from?" Anderson asked.

"Donavon Hawke. Killer, thief, smuggler, and all around bad person."

"Well then make sure you change your appearance enough so that you aren't recognized."

"I was thinking of wearing a black wig that looks real enough, red contacts, and then my helmet once I'm in my armor."

"Sounds good."

"Yeah, but enough about that," Shepard turned towards the girls, "How've you two been doing in school?"