well, here's chapter 5 and i'm guess you're all thinking "about bloody time." sorry. hopefully chapter 6 wont be as long. to wait for i mean, not length......
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'Vital signs are good. I think he's going to make it.' Dr Chakwas found herself smiling as she looked at her turian patient. When the ground team brought Garrus in, he was fading in and out of consciousness. He had been shot multiple times, including taking a missile to the face. The fact that he was still alive after that was amazing, though that could've changed at any moment.
While she was patching him up, the doctor found that she had to improvise. While the equipment she had been provided with was state of the art, it could not make up for the amount of blood that Garrus had lost in this ordeal. And of course, being that the Normandy was a ship that was built, owned and maintained by a human supremacist terrorist organisation, blood replacement solutions for Dextro-amino species were not particularly high on their priorities when it came to stocking the ship. It had been a rough few hours, but despite the odds, the monitors were showing that Garrus was in the safe zone, for the time being.
The door to the Med Bay opened. The doctor turned around to see Jacob standing in the doorway. "Excuse me Dr Chakwas, is this a bad time?" The doctor shook her head, "Not at all, what can I do for you Mr Taylor?" He winced slightly at the mention of that name, "It's Jacob. I was just wanting to get a status update on Arch......Garrus." The doctor's eyes turned to face the unconscious turian. "His condition is now stable. He will hopefully be awake in about an hour."
"So he's going to be alright?" Jacob asked, looking slightly nervous. The doctor took a deep breath, "Physically, he will not have any long term problems. Mentally......... I will not be able to judge properly until he is awake." Jacob looked confused, "So you can't be sure yet?" The doctor looked at Garrus' face and sighed, "Honestly I do not know yet. He took a missile to the face, it could cause serious brain damage. Until he wakes up, I will not know for certain if there's any effects."
Jacobs face fell in disappointment. "Oh... I was hoping that I would be able to give Commander Shepard some good news. From the files I read from the original Normandy, I got the impression that she and Garrus were good friends. And I know I would take it hard if one of my friends was going through what Garrus did." As he said this, he looked out the window towards the room on the opposite side of the mess. After a moment, he turned back to the doctor, "thank you for the update, I'll let the Commander know." He then saluted the doctor and left the Med Bay.
About twenty minutes after Jacob had left the Med Bay, the doctor was writing up her report on the operation when she heard a load groan. She walked over to Garrus' bed and found him waking up. "Well. This is a surprise. I wasn't expecting you to be waking up so soon." Garrus was a little disorientated. He looked at her squinting, "Dr Chakwas?" the doctor smiled, "Correct." She then grabbed her clipboard and returned to Garrus' side. "Well, you can remember who I am after two years. That's a good sign. Can you remember what happened to you Garrus?" The turian stayed silent, his mind deep in thought. The doctor waited patiently and eventually Garrus spoke up. " Tarak surprised me with his gunship and tried to blow me to pieces with it. I remember being knocked down by his shooting but not much after that."
Garrus started to sit up and Dr Chakwas assisted him. While she did that, she filled in the blanks. "The information that the Commander gave me was that you were knocked unconscious after taking a hit by a missile to the lower jaw. I used cybernetics to try and heal that wound. From our conversation, I can see that your memories are intact. It is a miracle that no other serious injuries resulted from that missile. You're either a very lucky turian, or a stubborn one who's determined to live." Garrus tried to laugh but ended up in a coughing fit. The doctor apologised. She didn't want humour to be a reason for putting Garrus through more surgery.
Once Garrus had regained his breath he answered, "I guess I'm mostly the latter with a tiny part of the former." he then continued, "Is Shepard around? I want to thank her for getting me out of the mess I was in." "I'm not sure," the doctor replied, "but I can find out." She then turned to a panel near the door to the Med Bay. "EDI, Can you pinpoint Commander Shepard's location please?" At this, a blue bulb appeared on the panel, "Commander Shepard is currently in a debriefing in the Communications room on deck two. She has requested that when Officer Vakarian is well enough, that he examines the Normandy's main guns in order to see how they can be improved."
While Garrus was listening to EDI, a look of concern came over his face. After it had finished speaking, he turned to Dr Chakwas. "That's an AI, isn't it?" The doctor nodded. "An AI on an Alliance warship?" Garrus continued, "It would hurt the Alliance's standing in the Council if word of that practice got out." the doctor turned to her terminal, "yeah. If that was the case it would. But since this is a Cerberus vessel and they already break every other law, Why not break the AI law too."
Garrus looked disturbed, "Cerberus?" He then stumbled off the bed and headed briskly but clumsily towards the door of the Med Bay. The doctor then realised that she had said too much.