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This one is for Alenko... She has been waiting patiently.
For Sesh & Siri... You know why.
For Shenzi, Star, Ruby, Jane & Aslan because you get me through... everything else.
Well We are kind of stalled... an injury is nothing to be trifled with so let's see how Shepard deals with it... she isn't known as the most patient person... It's time for some...
Healing?
Shepard sat up in bed, the last thing she remembered was eating dinner with Kaidan and Dr. Chakwas. She had finished and was listening to them talk about some new treatment for Joker that might increase bone density (whatever that meant). She must have fallen asleep. At the dinner table? Now how did that happen? She threw back the covers and got out of the bed. She still didn't feel like herself. They said that she was healing but she still felt weak. She must be getting old, getting shot had never effected her this way before. When she was shot in the hip she was up the next day. Okay, she couldn't run for a while, but she wasn't lounging in bed for a day, almost two. Could low blood iron really make her tired? Damn, the two people she could ask were sleeping. Maybe they drugged her? No, she had been cooperating, more likely they bored her to sleep.
She pulled on sweat pants over her shorts and put on a robe. It was late enough into sleep watch so there wouldn't be so many crewmen around. She just needed to get out of the cabin. She went out to the mess and there was no one around. She went to the dispenser and chose a hot meat broth. Taking the cup she wrapped both her hands around it and smiled as she enjoyed the warmth it brought to them. She went over to the table and sat down.
She brought the soup to her lips and sipped. It was still a little too hot. Going over the events of the past few days in her mind, she reached for her heart locket. Kaidan's heart really, since he gave it to her.
"Devious" She mumbled to herself.
"Excuse me, Ma'am?" Unwin must have just came down from CIC.
"Nothing. I was just thinking of someone trying to … never mind." She took a deep breath and let it out. "I was just talking to myself." Shepard shoved the heart under her t-shirt.
"How are you feeling, Commander?" Unwin stood at the end of the table but had not sat down.
"I am feeling okay." She certainly wasn't going to share with someone she hardly knew how she really felt.
"Commander, do you mind if I get a cup of coffee and join you?"
"Wouldn't drinking coffee now keep you awake?"
"To be honest I don't really have that problem, caffeine doesn't really affect me. How about you, won't drinking coffee keep you awake?" Unwin pointed to the cup in Shepard's hand.
"It's meat broth. I like to drink it because it relaxes me." She took a sip of the broth.
"Actually that sounds good, so mind if I get a cup of broth and join you?"
"No, I don't mind." Shepard took another sip, it was still a bit too hot.
Unwin got her broth and sat across from Shepard.
"Commander, I was wondering what are we looking for exactly?" She smelled the broth and smiled at the aroma.
"I am sure that was covered in your briefing, Lieutenant Unwin."
"Yes, but I would like to hear your take on it, Ma'am. They say you don't always look at things the same way as other people do. I was also told you like your crew to speak freely."
"That's true enough. We are looking for the power behind the attack on the Normandy and we believe they are also behind the kidnapping of the human biotics. We have been calling them the Attackers." Shepard stopped for a moment contemplating her broth. "You know I don't like that name, it has fearful connotations. I think we need to call them something else."
"Well like what Commander, they did attack the Normandy, they did kill a lot of people." She watched Shepard playing with her cup.
"Yes they did. I think they need a name that identifies them but doesn't bring the heartache and fear we felt into the picture." Shepard thought about it. It seemed they should be able to call them something that stood for what they did. An acronym or something like it. If she could think of a few words to describe them and take the letters from those words, then she could create a word that took some of the fear away from the evil that they were. A few things went through her head as Unwin watched her and sipped her broth. She finally had some candidates. She sounded them out for Unwin. "Maybe we could try 'Overpowered Idiot Destroyers' or OIDs for short. Oh, how about "Silly Alien Normandy Destroyers' or SANDs." Shepard was starting to get into it and smiled at Unwin.
"Well you could call them 'Normandy Alien Idiot Destroyers' or NAIDs or you could use 'Alien Normandy Attackers' and call them ANA." Unwin smiled at the Commander. "What's scary about ANA?"
"Oh I have It "Destroying Aliens of My Ship"- DAMS!" Shepard started laughing but suddenly stopped holding her head as she got a bit dizzy.
"Are you alright Commander?" Unwin reached over to her.
"Yes I am okay, just a little weak still I guess. So should we call them DAMS?"
"Well we could call them that, Commander." Unwin didn't seem so sure.
"You're right, it might not go over well with the Brass. Okay well how about SADS 'Silly Alien Destroyed my Ship'" Shepard leaned back against the chair and smiled at Unwin.
"I think that works in several ways, Commander...SADS..." Looked away thinking about it before turning back to Shepard. "Yes Commander I think that would work nicely."
"Thank you for helping me in working it out Lieutenant Unwin. Now to return to your question; What do I want? I want to know why take only human biotics? Why not asari or turian or krogan for that matter?" Shepard contemplated her cup of broth. "There is a mystery there and we need to solve it. There is certainly something tying them together, and if we can figure out what it is maybe we can prevent more people from disappearing. To start with anyway."
"To start with?"
"We have people to rescue. At least, I hope we do. These SADS they're more advanced than we are. They found the Normandy despite her stealth systems and they were able to get up close and personal and put people in stasis. I don't understand if they are so advanced what is it that they are looking for. The more information we collect the closer we get to finding answers."
"But you have an idea, I think that you see something more in these attacks then the attacks themselves."
"Yes, I do think there is something... more. I think they are testing our abilities and trying to learn everything they can about our strengths. I think there is something behind the attack on the Normandy, too. I think they were looking for her."
"Why?"
"To be honest it isn't anything that I can point to, I wish there was." She took a sip of her broth again. "I want to say it's a feeling, but it's more than that. I think it has something to do with the Normandy being the ship that took down Sovereign. They wanted to destroy that specific ship."
"Don't you think that is a bit prideful?" Unwin took a sip from her cup but took too much and then blew air out of her mouth trying to cool the broth in her mouth.
"You know, Unwin, it might be. Like I said, I don't have any proof or evidence for that matter. There is just something…" Shepard shrugged and took a deep breath pressing her lips together and putting her broth down before speaking. "There is just something that ties it together in my head." She made clawing gestures at her head before relaxing back in her chair.
"So the Council and the Alliance are just going to let you go searching for these elusive SADS?" Unwin's voice held a lilt of disbelief.
Shepard leaned forward and tapped her finger on the table to stress her point. "Believe me, when the Council has something for us to investigate they have no problem telling us to divert course to here or there to investigate whatever." She folded her hands on the table. "The Alliance does it, too, for that matter. They did it while we were searching for Saren, they'll do it again now. I am a Spectre and as much as people think that we are an entity unto ourselves we answer to the Council, and I answer to the Alliance." Shepard frowned before picking up her broth and finishing it off.
"I was talking with Lieutenant Moreau about you, Commander, and he thinks you have a little something special inside you. He thinks rather highly of you." Unwin took a sip of her broth looking over the rim of her cup at Shepard.
"Do you have a question or is that just an observation?" Shepard creased her eyebrows in query.
"I was just wondering if what he saw in you was valid." Unwin took another sip of her broth.
"Well, you have been studying me to the point of distraction since you got here. What do you think?" Shepard played with her cup watching Unwin's reaction.
"I thought I was being inconspicuous, Commander. I obviously underestimated your skills of observation." She looked at her cup of broth for a minute in thought before answering. "I think the Lieutenant is right, I think there is something about you. You have something that inspires people to follow you. There is something very compelling about you, Ma'am."
"Really, Lieutenant? I'm just a woman like you. There isn't really anything special about me. I'm like a child with a bad temper. I just happen to have an adult body around me." Shepard stopped playing with her cup and sat back in the chair. "Sometimes I think people just want me to be special so they can justify some of the things I've done. They're wrong you know, for most of the things I have done, mistakes were made."
"Mistakes are always made, it's the good Commanders that takes advantage of them."
"Right, so there isn't anything special about me, I am just good at fixing things, like a handy man. I am the universe's handy man." She smiled at Unwin.
"Obviously the universe needs one." Unwin finished her broth.
"Well, then isn't it good that I fit the bill?" Shepard stood up. "Lieutenant, it been really nice talking to you."
"It was nice talking to you too, Commander, maybe we could do it again sometime?"
"You know, I think we might just do that. You sleep well." Shepard headed to her cabin.
Entering her cabin she walked over to the closet. She took off her robe and hung it up then started to take off her sweats and she almost fell. She shook her head trying to clear it and guessed that she was still feeling a bit lightheaded. She sat on the bed and finished taking off the sweatpants before dropping them on the floor, then crawled up to the pillows, climbing under the blankets. There was a sharp pain in her leg. She must have strained the wound or something. She reached over to the bedside table where Doc had left her some pain killers and she took one then settled down to get some sleep.
Kaidan went over to the Commander's door and noticed she hadn't unlocked it yet. That was odd, she usually rose pretty early. He pressed the chime and waited for her to answer. Still getting no response he pushed in the code she gave him into his omnitool and the door opened. He entered the room and saw her sweatpants on the floor and knew she must have been up during the night. He walked over and picked them up, since like most marines he preferred things neat. She wasn't that picky, but tolerated his neatness. He folded them and put them in her closet and went to check on her. He noticed her hair was matted to her forehead and she was pale again. He pulled up her stats on his tool and noticed that her temperature had skyrocketed overnight. He activated his comm.
"Dr. Chakwas, I need you in the Commander's Cabin. She has a high temperature and I'm pretty sure she has an infection."
"Be right there, Lieutenant."
He went over to the bed and sat down beside her and touched her face. She opened her eyes and looked at him.
"Kaidan, I don't feel so good." She shook her head and her eyelids closing half way.
"Yeah, I am not surprised. You're running a fever. Possibly you have an infection." He pushed her hair back off her forehead.
"Both you and Doc said I wasn't showing signs of infection." She pulled the blanket up to her neck.
"Well, something changed because you weren't." He looked in her eyes and pushed her hair back again.
"You missed something… I was wrong." She cuddled under the blanket and closed her eyes as he chuckled and then turned to the door as he heard the doctor enter.
Activating her omnitool and she approced the bed, she checked the readings. Pulling open the case she brought in she opened the portable scanner.
"Take the blanket off and straighten her leg." Kaidan did as Doc told him and she scanned the area. "It looks like a ruptured abscess that must have grown very quickly. Let's get her into med bay and I can drain it and hopefully find what's causing it." She prepared a shot and gave it to Shepard. Kaidan lifted Shepard in his arms and she didn't wake. He walked to the door with the doctor following. Luckily for them no one was in the mess to witness the Commander being carried to the med bay.
While Dr. Chakwas cleared the infected area she found a sliver of something really small and thin like a hair in the wound. She put it aside to analyze later. She set up an antibiotic drip that ran the spectrum until her investigation was over and they could target the infection. Shepard had slept fitfully through the whole process.
Once Shepard was resting more comfortably Dr. Chakwas went to work. Walking over to a small panel in the wall she waved her omnitool over it and it opened. She pulled out two crescent shaped objects, one a bit larger and bulkier then the other. She took the larger of the two and slipped it over her omnitool manipulating it until she heard it snap into place and the mild hum that said it was powering up. She then handed Kaidan the smaller object and he duplicated her moves sliding the piece over his tool until it clicked into place. These were the medical diagnostic tools they would use to analyze the item found in Shepard's wound.
Taking the foreign object that she had removed from the wound she placed it in a tray and using a miniature laser cutter divided it into several small sections. She took a tiny receptacle and placed one of the pieces inside and handed it to Kaidan. He took the container and went over to a cabinet. He took out a small tray that had a sanitary seal over it and some clear non descrip gel smeared across it. He removed the seal and dropped the piece of hair like substance on the gel. He carried it over to the desk and sat down watching as the gel expanded as it covered the foreign object.
"What do you want it set to?" He looked at the doctor.
"Across the board, I don't know what we are dealing with." She was examining the object and didn't look up at him.
Kaidan switched on the terminal in front of him and moved his hands across it several times. A virtual rectangle that was indistinct other than it's shape appeared on the desk. He placed the tray with the gel onto it. Activating his omnitool there was a white addition to the normal golden glow of the tools virtual mechanisms. Accessing this section Kaidan tapped and adjusted entering parameters and looked down at the gel. He watched as the data link glowed and the gel started to go through several colors of the spectrum as the system sent the inquiry data to the gel. It would take a while before the analysis was complete so Kaidan went over to watch the doctor work.
Dr. Chakwas had taken the pieces of the object that she had sectioned and walked over to an area of the wall that opened up and slid out a platform with four gel trays in virtual cradles. Skipping the first tray she put a piece of the foreign substance in both the second and the last tray. Kaidan joined her as she activated her omnitool and there was now a pale green addition to the virtual instruments on her tool. Manipulating the new controls the second tray lit up and a display appeared over head. As she worked the controls a picture appeared showing a black line that then started growing as she zoomed in. It grew from a fleck to a lump to a large bar that ran the length of the screen. They didn't notice anything at first but as the bar grew and filled up the screen it started taking shape.
"That looks like a chain of some type. A twisted chain. But it isn't telling me what it is. We are going to need to get more magnification." Her brow furrowed, she sucked in her lower lip for a moment.
Her fingers flew over the new section of her tool and the last tray now lit up. The gel in the tray pulsated and spread changing from dark gray to light gold to pure white. Finally it settled on a transparent clear with a bright light shining through it. The screen flickered and now the chain looked twisted. As the magnification increased it looked more and more like the spiral ladder that was the trademark image of DNA.
A puzzled look came to the doctor's face. "That's odd, it resembles human DNA. It definitely looks manufactured and not natural because it's too smooth whatever it is. I'll pull up the analysis and see what it says." She tapped some on her tool and some figures came up and a bunch of ordered pairs that read as DNA.
"If it is DNA, then whose? We'll check everyone on the ship first. We have those on file." Kaidan walked back over to the terminal and started tapping on it.
The doctor walked up next to him. "Then we'll have to go through the Alliance data base and then ask the Council..." The terminal pinged and a file came up. It was Shepard's. "Probability match ninety-eight point seven percent that it's Shepard's DNA"
"That isn't Shepard's hair, Doc, it's not even the right color."
"I know, Kaidan, but it was ingenious really. My scans couldn't tell the difference between that bit of synthetic hair thing and Shepard's DNA... there wasn't enough of a difference to show up on a quick scan. It made it possible for me to miss it and left it in place long enough to fester and hit her hard."
"It makes sense, if you wanted to hide it on a scan using her DNA would do it. How did they get her DNA though DOC?"
"Shepard's DNA is in the data base as well as everyone elses. They could have hacked the system. They could have followed her and picked up something she dropped. It would be hard, but not impossible. Pull up the analysis of the string." She tapped his shoulder.
He tapped several more times and a scientific notation showed up on the screen.
"Well, it does look like an infection. A nasty one. Since they had her DNA they should have been able to engineer it to be unusually strong against her natural defenses. This gave it the extra strength to attack her body quickly. With this I should be able to formulate an antibiotic cocktail that will clear it out of her system."
"But, Doc, that means that bullet was not needed to kill, it would have caused a problem even if it only grazed her. She was definitely the target."
"Yes, that we can be sure of, she was the target. Did C-Sec collect the guns and ammo from the scene? I would love to get some of those rounds intact so I can find out more about the delivery system." She reached down and tapped some keys brining up the fiber analysis again so she could look at it.
He nodded his head. "I believe they did, I will contact them and see what I can get from them."
"First off though, I will have to start working on the antibiotic cocktail. I may have to contact the local clinics for obscure antibiotics they might have on hand that we don't have on the ship. It might be better to move her to the clinic." He stood up relinquishing the chair and she slid into place in front of the terminaland started tapping away.
"No Doc, if she's the target we can protect her better here." Kaidan went over to the bed, leaned over Shepard and took her hand in his and holding it to his chest. He stood there and watched her breath for a few minutes. He just wanted to stay here until she woke up, but he knew he had to take some action. "I have some things I have to do, you take care of her for me, Doc, okay?"
"That I will do, Kaidan." She continued to tap away at the terminal.
He leaned down pushed her hair back off her head. He caressed her cheek and kissed her gently on the forehead. He put he hand under the blanket before turning and heading to the door.
"Call me if there is any change, Doc." He called over his shoulder.
"I will, Kaidan." Dr. Chakwas didn't lift her head but continued working on the terminal.
After contacting C-Sec and finding out that all the ammunition and guns that they had collected had mysteriously self destructed Kaidan ran into Unwin in CIC. She told him she was surprised that the Commander was back in med bay as she had spent some time with her early that morning and she seemed fine. She told him of their conversation including they new name the Commander had decided to call the enemy. He thanked her for her information and then called a meeting in Shepard's office with Tali, Adams, Liara, Garrus and Wrex. He checked on Shepard before the meeting but the doctor advised him there was no real change. She didn't say it, but he could tell she was worried. Once they were in her cabin he bought them up to date on what had happened, her condition and what was being done about it.
"So the fact that the guns disintegrated tells us that this was arranged by the Attackers. Unwin told me Shepard is now calling them the SADS instead. It stands for 'Silly Attackers that Destroyed my Ship' or something like that. Now I don't know if those two that have been watching her have anything to do with this but I'm not waiting to find out. Now this ship was being watched which we knew, I just think we didn't know how many were watching since we were so tied up in the shadows." Kaidan rubs his hand across his head. "I'm going to go out and talk to the female that saved Shepard's life. I'll take Garrus with me and we will see if we can find anything to tie them to the SADS." He dropped his hand to his leg.
"She isn't going to like that, Alenko." Wrex put his hand on the table and leaned forward. "She put a plan in place, she isn't going to want it changed. You know how unreasonable she can be when she doesn't get her way."
"Yes Wrex, I know, and when she is better I will gladly take my punishment, but we need to know if this is a threat or not. Shepard is holding her own, but the antibiotics are not working as fast as they should. I need to see if there is more information to be had. This is one avenue that is wide open to me and I am going to pursue it." Brows furrowed his look brooked no argument.
"Well, if you want to go talk to them, we are going to have every available hand outside and ready for anything. I don't want this going south, if you get hurt Shepard will have my hide." Garrus leaned back in his chair.
"I was thinking the same thing…" Kaidan pulled up a holo of the area outside the ship on his omnitool pointing to the pertinent areas. "Have the dock and area around the ship saturated with crew." Deactivating the omnitool he then looked at the engineer. "Adams, I asked you here to see what we can do about getting moving again. I know that we are not one hundred percent, but maybe we can move this to Arcturus Station or somewhere else." He folded his arms. "We are under too much observation here and if she is a target, someone is going to try again. Once she is better keeping her on the ship will be much harder, and she will be weak for a while. I am pretty sure she will think she is one hundred percent way before she is, so the more safeguards we put in place the better. It will be easier for us if we are somewhere in Alliance space." He held his arm out making his point before crossing it again. "I tried to contact Admiral Hackett but he appears to be unavailable for some reason."
"I will contact the brass and see what I can do through the engineering section. Tali and I can certainly get the ship moving." Adams sat forward leaning on the table. "We might miss some deliveries and have to wait longer once we are there, but you are right she would be safer in Alliance space."
Kaidan turns toward the turian and then the krogan. "Okay, Garrus, Wrex I need you two to set up the perimeter outside for me to go talk to the Shadows. I also need to see if I can get Councilor Anderson to talk to me, he has contacts, maybe he can get the ship relocated to Arcturus Station. His secretary said I could speak to him for ten minutes..." He looked at the crono. "In about twenty minutes from now. Think you can have it set for when the meeting is over? Have everyone in full armor?"
"Sure, Kaidan, the one thing we know is the layout of the dock." Garrus activated his omnitool and pulled up the schematics of the dock and started working out a strategy.
"And I have been scouting the area with Liara and Tali. I know just where we will do the most good." Wrex stood up.
"Adams, you can have Tali back once this is finished, it may be a couple of hours." Kaidan stood and pushed in his chair.
"Sounds good, Kaidan, good luck with the Councilor." Adams stood and headed for the door.
"Kaidan, can I check on Shepard for you?" Liara played with her hands nervously obviously worried.
Knowing she would not be able to concentrate until she saw Shepard was being taken care of, he thought of a quick solution. "She is sleeping, Liara, but if you duck in real quick you can get peace of mind before joining Wrex outside." Doc was with Shepard, she would make sure it was a quick visit.
"Thank you, Kaidan." Liara headed quickly for the door.
"Tali, if you could make sure any cameras in the area not C-Sec are disabled. It you have to disable the C-Sec ones, let them know first. I don't want an incident between us and them while our Spectre is incapacitated." Kaidan walked to the door with Tali, Garrus and Wrex.
"I'll do so, Kaidan. Good luck with the Councilor, the faster we get off here, the better." Tali said before she walked out the door with Garrus and Wrex close behind.
Kaidan turned to look back in the room making sure they left everything in order. He had made the bed before the meeting. He went over and pushed two of the chairs back under the table. He looked towards the bed as he started fingering the bracelet she had given him. Mentally berating himself not to let the fondling become a habit even though he knew it already had, he headed for the door and his meeting with the councilor.
Kaidan had arrived at the Councilor's office with four minutes to spare and the secretary said the Councilor was ready to see him right away. Anderson didn't need a whole ten minutes to talk to Kaidan, he agreed to help as soon as he heard the newest development. He would get a hold of Hackett and arrange a berth for the Antietam and guards around the ship for her safety.
Hurrying to the transport he sent a message to Garrus that he was on his way back and to meet him by the hub. He saw Garrus waiting as the vehicle came in for a landing. He jumped out and Garrus joined him as he headed straight for Amanda Grayston.
"Everything in place?" He looked around but didn't see Liara, Tali or Wrex right away.
"Yes, everything is ready. Doc said to tell you she is sleeping calmly." Garrus checked the perimeter again.
"Thank you, Garrus." He noted the locations of Wrex and Liara. Tali must be on the other side out of his line of sight. "Okay, let's do this."
He walked past the dock area and straight towards the hiding place of the Grayston woman. He saw Trainer pop from under his cover and head towards her, too. Kaidan and Garrus beat him, but only by a few seconds. As they were still a few kilometers away Grayston had stepped out from behind the crate she was using as cover and awaited their approach. Kaidan stopped in front of her then looked at Trainer as he arrived. He returned his attention to Grayston.
"I am Lieutenant Kaidan Alenko, from the SSV Antietam and I am not here to beat around the bush. I want to talk to you about the attack on Commander Shepard." Kaidan's stance was combat ready.
"I know who you are, Lieutenant, or should I say Lieutenant Commander." She looked him up and down.
Kaidan raised his eyebrow but didn't react otherwise. "It's not official yet so Lieutenant will be fine. I want to know if you had anything to do with the attack on the Commander."
"She saved your Commander's life, why would you think we had something to do with the attack?" Voice loud in disbelief with a snide burr, Trainer indicated Grayston then folded his arms.
"Yes, well, according to the Commander, she was doing okay until you attacked two of the assailants ruining her element of surprise." Kaidan let a little smile come to her face.
"Ungrateful Alliance bitch." Trainer unfolded his hands taking a step forward.
"Miss Grayston, I did advise you that I was not here to play games. It would take more than a bit of name calling to upset me. Can you tell me anything about the attack on my Commander or not?" Kaidan ignored Trainer and spoke directly to Grayston,
"Why isn't the Commander here asking me herself? I thought she was a woman that likes to do things for herself." She looked from Kaidan to Garrus.
"She is recovering..." Kaidan started but Grayston interrupted.
"I tended her wound and she would not have needed more than twenty-four hours unless there were complications." She folded her arms and frowned her voice clipped and sharp. "What kind of complications are we facing, Lieutenant?"
"Again, Miss Grayston, did you have anything to do with the attack..."
"No, Lieutenant, I just wanted to talk to her, that's all. I wanted to ask her some questions. Maybe have an exchange of information. We saw she was heading out the back and hoped to intercept her before you did. Instead we saw the attack and tried to help. When she got shot I went to help her." She looked at Garrus again before returning her attention to Kaidan. "I knew you would try to stop me and I knew she didn't have long so Jason stalled you until I could get her stable. It still took longer than I would have liked." She folded her arms. "I had hoped that she would have thought saving her was worth coming to talk to me."
"She was considering it." Kaidan said honestly. "But circumstances intervened."
"Are you going to tell me what her condition is? I know she should be better by now." Grayston put her hands on her hips.
Kaidan looked at the woman. Shepard said you could tell when a person was lying by looking at them. She was right, of course. This woman was hiding something, but it wasn't the attack, he was sure of it.
"She has developed an infection." Kaidan didn't elaborate wanting to see how smart and how knowledgeable this woman really was.
"Not from the wound I cleaned she didn't, there was no way that she got infected from just that wound. What are you not sharing?" Snapping out her angry words she took a step closer to Kaidan, he stood his ground.
"It was an engineered infection. She was the target." Kaidan waited to see her reaction, it wasn't the one he expected.
"Engineered, why didn't you tell me, shit!" She raised her arm up activating her omnitool. "Lieutenant, the company I work for has made great advances in medicine, one of those advances is an antibiotic that is especially effective against synthetic infections. Here are the stats on the drug, its composition and it's components." She handed him an OSD from her omnitool. "I will have some delivered to your ship within the hour. I will include an extra vial as I know your Doctor will want to test it before administering. Tell her not to take too long. The longer these synthetic infections stay in the system, the more damage they do."
Kaidan looked at the OSD rolling it over in his hand. "I hadn't expected you to help us again, Miss Grayston."
"Lieutenant, I want Commander Shepard alive, she does me no good dead." She turned to leave.
"And why is that, Miss Grayston?" Kaidan raised his voice to get her attention watching her.
She turned back and looked him in the eye. "Because, Lieutenant, she is the only one who has any chance of defeating the Reapers." She turned and hurried off with Trainer following.