Hello it's littleswiss! Sorry for the waiting but writer block again. But I'm back. Thank you for all your reviews and views. You guys and misses are fantastic. Do not hesitate to leave a review, accounts and anonymous are welcome.

So here's chapter 7.

I don't own Mass Effect, Bioware does.

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"Diana meet Jane, Jane meet Diana." I tell Diana. And she just stands there, looking at me like I grew a second head; mouth agape and eyes open big.

No reaction. I look at baby-shepard to see her reaction and she looks at Diana with a curiosity typical of a one year and two month old baby. I look again at Diana to see she's in the same state as before.

"What. The. Fuck?" Is all she says. Finally some sort of reaction, I was starting to get worried.

"Who is the baby?" She asks me while still being in shock of seeing me with a baby in my arms. Well maybe I need to start explaining because I see her fingers twitching while her left hand is near her pistol.

"She's my daughter. Not biological one as you can see." I simply say to her. She's going to say something but I interrupt her.

"I know that it's very hard to believe that I, a krogan, had adopted and raise a baby human but it's the truth and if you really know me, you know it's true because I wouldn't show you that unless I trust enough to show you my biggest secret." I tell her that with a deep breath at the end because damn that was really big thing to get out of my chest.

"You… are right. Fortunately you told me this because I was this close to shoot you and take the baby somewhere safe to be raised. Because, frankly an alien, less a krogan, are not fit to raise a human child." She tells me hesitantly while she put her gun back to her hip. Few that was close. A second too late and I think she would have shot me.

Of course after that speech, an awkward silence installs itself between us for a few minutes. During that, baby-shepard looks at the both of us with curiosity and when she has enough of this silence, she starts to babble to catch our attention.

"Um right so bring me here to show me your… daughter, so what?" She asks me while looking at Jane while she looks back at her.

Hmmm. "Well…" I start. "I was thinking that since you are going to retire from your job, maybe you help me and take care of her while I'm out working." That sounded better in my head.

"You want me, a future ex-bounty hunter to be the babysitter?" That's what I just said.

"In simple words, yes." I respond. I think the shock of the discovery is making her a bit stupid, because normally she's really sharp. She could tell someone is bullshitting when she hears him or her and she also could guess pretty accurately what I'm going to say or what I'm thinking.

"I need to sit." I point behind her to take a seat. When she's sit, she pinches the bridge of her nose and tells me.

"Why me?" She asks looking at me with some shock and curiosity.

"As you could have seen before, people are not very fond of me and tend to stay away from me. You are one of the few, who I am kidding, you are the only person that really knows me and you are not really afraid of me." It's the truth; she is the only person that knows me. Well I think, because maybe some people knew the precedent tenant of my body.

"I will do it." Just like that? I should have known. Typical of her to take decisions very quickly.

"Thank you." That is the most real thank you I have said in a long time.

"Ooooh, a krogan with a soft side, that's adorable." She says to me with a smirk. And her old self is back. I hate that smirk.

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Present time

"Well I need to go." Before I can start to move, baby-shepard launches herself at me and hugs life out of my right leg.

"You will be back soon?" She asks with her head buried in my leg. I hate it when I need to leave but I have to, even if I don't like it.

"I'll try." I honestly say. I put my hand on the top of her head and start to ruffle her red hair. I got a muffle complain as an answer.

"Be a big girl to make dada proud okay?" And I met with an hmmf of agreement. So I start to walk out of the flat. I hear Diana muffle a laugh. I stop and look at her. She points at my leg and I look at it to see that Jane is still stuck on my leg.

"Please release my leg." I tell her. She looks at me while she still attached to my leg and tells me.

"You promise you will be back soon?" She asks me with hope. You can't say no to that face.

"On my hearts."

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Third person point of view

After that Garen got out of the apartment, Diana turn to the little Shepard.

"So now that you dad is out and that we are between girls, what do you want to do'" ask Diana. At that, the eyes of the little girl lit up and she immediately asks the ex-bounty hunter:

"Can we go to the park please?" she pleaded. She would have loved to go with her dada but she doesn't know why people tend to leave very quickly when her dad is around. The first time they went to the park, the people shouted with fright when they saw Garen, particularly the mothers; they took their children in their arms and ran away screaming like harpies while the children looked confused and some looked at Garen enormous and scary form with fear and awe. So she hadn't played with other children unless she went to the park with Diana.

However even if people didn't' leave when Jane went with Diana, they still were uneasy around her. Let's say it's the fact that she has an impressive set of scars: her robotic arm and of course the right part of her face that is burned. So because of that, few parents let their children play with Jane. But still some didn't mind the scars.

"The park got it."

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After 15 minutes, they arrived at the playground that is inside the park and Shepard went immediately for the swing. When she was there, she sat on one of the swings.

"Can you push me please?" She asks Diana with pleading eyes.

"Of course and I will make you fly." She replied to the redhead. Diana went behind Jane and start pushing gently her.

"Higher." Shepard commanded. So Diana obliged and started pushing her with more force. But it wasn't enough for Jane and asks again to go higher.

"Here we go" And with a mighty push from her right arm Shepard went fast through the air but she wasn't holding the ropes with enough force and she was ejected from the swing and went flying into the air. The eyes of Diana bugged out of her eyes and with some great reflexes started to run towards the flying form of Shepard. But even with that she's too slow and she watched with horror Jane fell head first… into the sandbox, into a big sandcastle. Diana rush to the side of the little girl and kneeled by her side to check if she was not hurt.

"Jane? Are you alright?" Ask Diana. However she's met with silence. "No please don't be…" She didn't have the time to finish her sentence because she was cut by giggling and soon after by laughter. Realization falls upon her when she understood.

"You little…" As before, the rest of her sentence is silence by Shepard as she burst out of laughing. It was a little prank (not the flying part of course).

"Don't do that ever again. If another time you are really hurt, I will think you fake it so I would not be able to help you." Diana told the little redhead. At that, Jane stop laughing and looked little afraid.

"But to forget about this incident maybe we could go eat, I don't know, maybe Chinese…"

"Yes please!" Shepard shouted with happiness. She loved Chinese food! But like with the park, she only went with Diana because people run away when she tried to go with her Dada, like when she went with him to the park.

"What are we waiting for? Let's go!" The ex-bounty hunter said with enthusiasm.

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After they had eaten Chinese, the two went back to the flat. And what greeted them was a little pissed off krogan by the name of Garen.

"Do you know what time is it? It's freaking nine p.m.! You didn't even leave a note to say you were out. I even hesitate to go out to search for you two and Diana you know what usually happen when I'm pissed off and worried." He told them with a glare. But of course, it didn't work on them. It didn't work on Shepard because she's his daughter and it didn't work on Diana because she's a badass ex-mercenary.

"Well sorry for that" She didn't mean it of course. "But when we were eating and talking, lil' miss here apparently doesn't know what a school is. Care to explain?"

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And it was chapter 7. Please tell what you thought about this third person point of view. Should I keep doing it? Of course I will not use it very often. Do not hesitate to leave a review to state your opinion or to ask question. I will probably answer to them, not all.

On a sad note, next week I will start university so I will not be able to update often, but it doesn't mean I will stop the story, no I will update it but maybe a chapter a week, it will depends.

Thank you,

Littleswiss.