"Garrus, I can't believe you did that!" she marched through the air lock and pulled her helmet off. Her face was reddened with anger and her forehead was covered in sweat .

"Shepard, I-"

"Cut the crap, Garrus!" she continued to yell before he could even begin to speak,"I told you not to let your feelings get the best of you on the battlefield!"

"Shepard…..Janey you don't understand," he sighed out, still trying to reason with the angry woman.

Thane burst into a fit of coughing behind him. The humidity of the planet they'd just left must've finally gotten to him. Shepard said he could stay if he wished, but he insisted on going, he said he didn't want to be a burden to the team because of his illness.

"Stop dying," She shouted while pointing at Thane. She'd gotten to a point of anger where she would just snap at anyone for the smallest things, Thane was not excluded sadly.

She began to strip her armor off piece by piece while walking down the cargo bay. He supposed that she was going to her room without speaking to anyone today. And it was all his fault.

He was just paranoid. Scared that something would happen to the first woman he ever truly loved.

He sat at the vantage point. A high tower that could view everything that was going on down below with ease. He saw Shepard and the batarian male.

"If anything goes downhill: Shoot, but only on my orders," she told him, and he nodded in response.

Thane was hidden somewhere in the shadows behind his the batarian's guards. He was to snap their necks as soon as the trade was over.

All she had to do was free the slave. A human girl who was kidnapped from the terminus. She was said to be extremely smart, a valuable asset to Cerberus, but something seemed strange here.

Shepard had to buy the slave, that way she wouldn't have to go in guns blazing. She acted as a mere space pirate, wearing a wig, contacts and make up so that she wouldn't be recognized. And he must say, black hair suited her.

The batarian was acting strange though. He made subtle movements and did gestures that didn't exactly match what he was saying. Shepard didn't notice it, of course she didn't, but Garrus did. He wasn't so sure about Thane though. Thane had to be the quietest of them all so he was unable to speak through his comm.

"So 2 million credits? I like the sound of that price, go get the girl!"

A guard left for a moment then came back dragging a girl. Her hair was a dark brown and it flowed down to her waist. She had tears in her hazel eyes and she let out muffled screams, they'd gagged the poor girl.

The Batarian leader reached behind him. Yet again, Shepard didn't see it, but he did. The batarian was going for a gun. He was going to kill Shepard and keep the credits.

Garrus knew what Shepard told him not to shoot, but she was going to get hurt if he waited any longer. He the shot, clean through the skull and the batarian dropped to the floor, blood pooling around the gunshot wound.

Shepard glared up at him as she pulled out her gun and began to shoot.

"It's a trap!" a guard shouted as he began to run and shoot at the same time. He didn't seem to care if he hit one of his allies, as long as he got away. In the midst of his uncoordinated fire, he hit the girl in the shoulder. It wasn't very deadly, but things could get ugly if she continued to lose blood at the rate that she was.

"Garrus! God dammit!"

Now here he was. A box of chocolates in hand, prepared to get on his knees and beg if he had to. He didn't ping his way in, while him and Shepard weren't officially dating yet, they still shared a few kisses here and there. She refused the idea of sex until she read up more on turian biology, but that didn't keep her from giving her the new code to her door.

She was sitting at her desk, her hair was tied back in a ponytail to keep if from covering her eyes. She sighed when she noticed his presence, but didn't look away from her datapads.

"Garrus, I have work to do, please, don't bother me and we can talk about the mission later,"

"I want to talk about it now! Is this going to affect anything between us?"

He knew he sounded pathetic, but he had to ask.

"That's exactly what I'm talking about!" She stood from her desk, slamming her palms flat against it,"I know you love me and I have feelings for you too! But when you jeopardize the mission like that, it makes me reconsider thinking about being with you."

His chest hurt. It was a severe pain, he'd never felt it before. Not ever this bad. He looked away and sighed.

"I know, and I'm so so sorry, but he was going to hurt you,"

"I know. I've had to make slave trades in the past. They don't always go as planned, I know that. But doing something rash like that nearly cost us the mission,"

"I know, I-I'm sorry Shepard,"

She reached her hand out and placed it on his shoulder,"Call me Janey, you said you liked to."

"Yeah, Janey, listen, I just. I didn't want him to hurt you. I know my feelings got the best of me, but I swear I was only doing it with good intentions,"

She took the box of chocolates out of his hand, pulling the top off, and eating multiple chocolates at a time. He knew she loved chocolates, she said it so much. He'd only had dextro chocolate, so he wasn't exactly sure what the human variation tasted like.

"Garrus, if this relationship is going to be a problem, then we may just have to end it," Her cheeks were stuffed, but despite all that she was still trying to speak.

He placed a gentle kiss on her forehead,"That won't ever stop my feelings for you."

He looked down at her. She'd swallowed all the chocolates and was blushing hard. It was kinda cute.

"Garrus, I-I…..I don't know….,"

"Shepard, I don't care how angry you get with me, how much you say you hate me, I will always love you,"