"I'm sorry Liara. I'm not like that usually. Ask me any question and I'll be straight with you." I said as soon as Liara and Mordin both came back. It had been a couple of hours. Lots of time to think, lots of time for my eyesight to come back. I had to close my eyes every now and then. It felt like I had just upped my prescription on my glasses when I had them. Its funny how your eyes can feel like an over worked muscle. Liara smiled.

"I can ask you later. Right now we are moving you to a ship." I glanced at Mordin. He was busy deactivating all the equipment around me. "To get you back to earth. The best place that we can find any information on you would be there. Lucky for us our ship is going that way." I heaved myself out of the bed. Looking down I saw that I wasn't in a hospital gown, brownie points for that. I noticed that they were both looking at me expectantly from the door.

"Right now, now?" I asked. Liara nodded with a puzzled look. Mordin just chuckled. A knock sounded on the open door behind them both. All three of us looked at the person. It was the turian that I had last seen before I found myself in the hospital.

"Ready to move?" he asked. Mordin and Liara looked at me. I motioned for them to head out.

"I'll follow you guys." Everybody headed out into the hall with me in the back. When we hit the lobby two more turians joined our little group falling in line behind me. I sped up a little to walk next to the turian that grabbed us. He turned his head to give me a hard look.

"What?" I ask.

"I was just about to ask you the same thing. Need something?"

"I just wanted to say thanks." If the turian had eyebrows I'm sure one of them would have lifted. As such one of his pincer looking things lifted.

"For what?" now it was my turn to give him a hard look.

"For what you did back at the station. Thanks for help saving me." he waved me off.

"I didn't do anything." We passed a checkpoint before I said anything.

"You don't think so but to me it means a lot. Thank you." His pincers fluttered.

"Ya, well…" he trailed off.

"What's your name?" I asked after what I was sure was an awkward pause for him. He chuckled.

"The translator actually can't take my name. People just call me Mal." I held out my hand.

"Nice to meet you Mal I'm Austin." Mal took my hand in a firm shake.

"Nice to meet you too Austin."

"Friends call me Jane." I said before I could stop myself.

"What?" he said.

"Nothing, sorry, just a joke that didn't work. Don't worry about it." Mal just laughed at how flustered I was. I shook my head and looked away from him only to stop in my tracks. There was a floating jelly fish and it was talking to another human. It almost looked like a Portuguese man-of-war. Laughing I turned away from the scene. We made good time to the ship. With every step on the way I felt a weight on my shoulders, on my mind, getting heavier and heavier the closer we got to the ship. I racked my brain trying to pin down what it was. Just before I was sure of what it was a hissing sound broke my train of thought.

"Welcome back. The medical room is ready as requested." A voice out of nowhere said.

"Thank you EDI. Heading there now. Please inform Shepard."

"Request sent." I looked around taking in as much as I could but it all seemed hollow to me. I knew that I could have spent days in this area learning all that I could. For some reason I was starting to feel like I didn't care anymore. Anything could happen at that moment and I wouldn't care. I knew I was starting to get depressed. From what I couldn't say. Mordin was looking at me while tapping away at his pad. I knew he could see me getting depressed and had the thought if he even knew what that was. Before I knew it we were in a room that looked very medical in nature. Several beds and equipment I didn't know what was for. Mordin stepped in front of me almost forcing me to look at him.

"I must report to the Commander. While I am doing that this women, Doctor Chakwas. Will run a full health exam." The woman took Mordin's place in front of me. She had that orange glow going as she waved her arm in front of me. As she stood there looking at her arm I started to piece my thoughts from earlier.

"Doctor?" I asked. She replied with a hum. "What is the year today?" she stopped what she was doing and looked me in the eye. I couldn't believe what she told me. Over a hundred years in the future.

"EDI?"

"Yes Doctor?"

"Could you keep an eye on him? I need to grab some water before he passes out."

"I do not have eyes but I will watch him."

"Thank you EDI." With that Doctor Chakwas left the room through some sliding doors.

I sat there as the totality of the circumstances hit me. I was alone. I looked at the ceiling timidly.

"EDI?" I tried.

"How can I help you?"

"Can you lock the door for me?"

"May I ask why?" I hesitated a moment.

"I think I'm going to have a breakdown. I need to be alone for a little while." I watched the door not expecting the voice to do anything. The circle thing on the door turned from green to red.

"Thank you." I didn't hear the reply. My mother, my family was gone. Dead for who knows how long. I started crying. I started laughing. I couldn't stop.

I was alone.

Everyone I loved was dead.

I was alone.

The Commander stood outside of the medical bay looking at the locked doors.

"EDI, why are these doors locked?"

"Because he asked?"

"Who asked and why?"

"The male human that Mordin has identified as Austin. He asked me to lock the doors as he said he was having a breakdown." Shepard stood there a moment longer thinking about sedating the man. Chakwas walked up next to him with a glass in hand.

"EDI unlock the door for me." She said.

"Yes Doctor."

"Wait," Shepard said. "Give him a couple of days. If he does anything life threatening to himself or the others notify me at once. Clear?"

"Yes Commander." EDI said. Shepard headed back the way he came.

"Now what am I suppose to do for the next two days?" Chakwas muttered.

It's been a little while huh? I now have a computer again so things are starting out slow but it is rolling again. I have always felt this chapter wasn't done right so I took it down and redid it. I hope you like the direction this one is going better because it feels better to me.