Tali is sitting in spare BDU's in the sterilized airlock as Williams and Shepard work on matching her new armour to the old size. They are suited up to avoid contaminating the air but at this stage the Commander is regretting the need for drugging Tali as she is touching everything.

"I can feel the threads, every thread Shepard. And the floor is really cold."

Ashley isn't helping either, "Did you know that Quarians have those weird face slits?"

"Well yea, how do you think I found out about this immuno booster?"

Williams nearly gets whiplash as she stares at her Commanding Officer, who responds as helpfully as possible with vulgar hand motions.

"What!?"

"Shhh. The sooner we get her suit combat ready the sooner we can leave the ship again."

The suit is nearly done, with extra space for any mods Tali may want to install but Ashley is at the stage where she is happy with the work. Between her and Shepard they get Tali back into the suit, they leave her embroidered hood for her to fix later. Now Tali is beginning to crash Shepard shrugs, picks up the small quarian girl in her arms and proceeds to carry her through the CIC, down the damn stupid stairs, past the mess, kicks the lock for her quarters before dumping Tali on the double bed and leaving her in the dim room.

Ash is waiting just outside the cabin door, "Ah Skip, you sure that is professional?"

"Professional? No." She flashes her a grin, "However she is going to wake up hungover and slightly confused, would you really wanna wake up in your sleeping pod like that?"

"I don't have a pod, but I see your point."

"Why not Chief?"

Ashley looks slightly uncomfortable, "Full crew meant hot bunking, only spare space was Jenkins until we reshuffled at the Citadel. Then it was easier to just bunk in the bay and let Tali take the slot rather than making her share with a Krogan."

An hour later and the Normandy is on course to Feros, ETA two days. There is a vid screen set up in the cargo bay, ostentatiously to show the different species hand to hand techniques to the away team but has devolved into finding stupider fights and injuries on the extranet.

"This idiot tried to skip out on his tab at Chora's," Garrus cannot help but wince as the dancer biotically slaps a mandible off the sleazy turian, "lucky for him Fist was in a good mood."

"Did they fix his face?" Liara is looking a little ill.

"Our plates can't be re attached." He shrugs, "Only a truly careless turian would let that happen to them anyway."

Kaidan tries to bring the tone back to educational with an official vid from his jump zero days. "Boring, bring back the interspecies stuff." With everyone in the cargo bay staring at her Ashley turns bright red. The only sound to be heard is the clicking of Joker's crutches as he disembarks the lift.

"Takes a lot of effort to get those damn stairs on crutches, but you can go grab my porn collection Chief."

Wrex's booming laugh fills the hold. "I have asari/krogan on my omni if that would work Williams." She sinks low in her seat.

"Fighting or fucking Wrex?" Shepard is amused .

"Heh, both."

She glances at Ashley, who is still red and not meeting anyone's eyes. "Maybe we have had enough of biotic cheats, we did say this was hand to hand 'training'."

"So that elcor on ice?" Garrus is helpful as ever.

"Shut up," The illustrious SPECTRE does not have an argument here. "How about a human vs two vorcha?"

"Well that can't end well." Garrus sounds intrigued.

"Children should probably leave now. I'm looking at you sensitive types. Alenko, T'Soni." The word sensitive sounds foul as it drips from Wrex's mouth.

"I am 106!"

"I'm nearly 1000. Child."

Their budding disagreement is cut off by the sound of shattering glass on the vid screen.

AN - Whoo, totally back. Ish. Sorry for delay. And mad thanks for all follows, faves and reviews. Especially the reviews.

PS Sorry for the shortness.