Last chapter! Hope you guys enjoy!

"Okay, this is getting ridiculous!" Shepard exclaimed, shaking her head. "I'm half tempted to just go over there and tell her myself." She said and Garrus shook his head.

"I can't take you anywhere, can I?" He asked and she sighed, folding her arms.

"Oh, come on. You can't tell me you're not thinking the exact same thing." She said but he shook his head.

"No, I'm not. Unlike you I am happy to leave well enough alone." He said, causing her to huff a little.

"But are you really, Garrus? Are you really okay to just leave things as they are?" She asked and he sighed.

"Not okay but... She's a quarian and he's a turian. It could never work properly. They're too... different. That's why she turned him down for the human guy and why she keeps friendzoning him." He said and Shepard frowned at the familiarity of the words before she remembered that she had been the one to first say them.

"Kaidan, I don't see why this is such a big deal." She sighed, folding her arms. She didn't even really like the biotic but she had decided to give him a chance. To try and keep her mind from... Anyway, it was possibly turning into one of her worst judgement calls.

"Are you kidding me, Shepard? You spend all of your free time with him. I'm supposed to be... I mean, we're supposed to be together and you spend all of your time with another man. What am I supposed to think?" Shepard sighed again, shaking her head. What should she say? The truth was that she did care for her turian friend but... it would never work. And she was sure that he didn't think of her as more than a friend.

"Kaidan, do you honestly think I'm going to run off with Garrus of all people? Even if I did like him like that, which I don't, I'm a human and he's a turian. It would never work properly. We're simply too different." She told him and he frowned.

"Sounds like you put a lot of thought into it." He said in an accusing tone.

"Kaidan, what does it matter? As soon as we dock at the Citadel, he's going to head back to C-Sec anyway." She told him before leaving, never hearing his response.

"She never 'turned him down'. That implies that he asked her." She said and he frowned, shaking his head.

"Doesn't change how she feels. She would have turned him down for those reasons. Still would." He said and she glared at him.

"No, she wouldn't! She only said those things to shut up her stupid human boyfriend who she only went out with because she didn't believe that her turian friend could ever like her like that!" She exclaimed, stepping towards Garrus. He didn't back down, instead growling at her.

"Then she's an idiot! It's obvious that he cares about her! And just as the poor bastard works up the courage to tell her, she starts dating someone else!" He said and she narrowed her eyes as he stepped closer to her, anger radiating from both of them.

"She only did that because it was driving her crazy, being around him all of the time and thinking that he could never return her feelings!" She yelled, still glaring at him. Although now he was returning the glare, just as furiously.

"How did she figure that?! She never bothered to ask! If she had just told him how she felt-"

"And have to deal with the rejection? Have to deal with living with him in close proximity for God knows how many months?!" She cried and he let out an exasperated sound.

"Yes! He was going to! She ran from it like-"

"Like a coward! I get it, Garrus. She was a fucking coward and lost her chance for good." Her gaze finally shifted from his and he touched her arm gently, shocking her a little.

"Not for good." He told her softly and she shook her head, smiling a little.

"You think so?" She asked and he nodded.

"I know so." He said and she sighed.

"So, you think that if she just spilled her guts..." She trailed off, biting her lip a little. He recognised it as what she did when she had to make a difficult decision and he steeled himself before tugging a little on her arm, pulling her close to him and gently lowering his forehead to hers.

"I think he'd ask her what took her so long." He said softly as she smiled, a little with relief and a little with something that he had never seen cross her features before.

"Then I've got something to tell you, Garrus." She said, raising her hand to his scars.

"I thought you might." He said and she shook her head a little, laughing softly.

And then she kissed him.