(9 years later)

"Siha, do you know where the child is now?"

I gave up. Thane had told me about his wife and Kolyat. I couldn't avoid telling him forever.

"I wasn't told who adopted him" I sighed. I struggled to talk. The words I wanted to say refused to travel out of my mouth. My throat tightened and I choked. Tears ran down my face; the sobs refused to stay quiet. I though my arms around Thane and cried into his shoulder. "I don't know anything. I don't know who his parents are. I don't know where he is. I don't even know if he has the same name anymore!"

He ran his fingers though my hair and whispered comforting words into my ear to calm me down. When I felt slightly better, I told him that if people gave up their children for adoption they didn't really stay in contact with them.

I was interrupted by Joker, telling me that we were now at earth and that I had to go. I said my goodbyes to Thane. I would miss him. The Normandy wouldn't be under my command anymore; the crew would all go their separate ways anyway. Saying that I would miss them would be a lie. This crew did so much for me, they were willing to give their lives to destroy the collector base, they did anything that I asked them too – even if they didn't agree to it; they didn't just treat me as their commander, they treat me as a friend. To say that i would just miss them would be an insult to them.

I met Thane on this journey. As soon as I meant him I felt like there was a connection between us. We both lost the loves of out life. We both gave our children away so that we could continue fighting for justice. I felt something for him that I hadn't felt for another living thing in a long time. Not since...

Our goodbye was interrupted. I walked out of the airlock with him into the docking bay of the Alliance base on earth. I embraced him, but was soon pulled away from him by some guards that were taking me into custody for destroying a mass relay and almost wiping out an entire species. The last words he said to me was, "We'll meet again, Siha."

We will Thane. I promise.

I thought I was hallucinating at first. But it was actually there. The Normandy. THE Normandy. On earth. So the stories were true then. Jane Shepard was being detained for working with Cerberus and for destroying the Batarian home-world.

It can't be true. Shepard is a hero.

She had just returned from destroying a base of evil things that were attacking human colonies.

She had saved the citadel from a reaper when I was only six years old.

There are rumors that the death of her husband and child motivated her to become the hero she is. I admire her so much.

I would give anything to meet her!