So wait… People actually like the crap I'm spewing? Sweet… honestly I didn't think I was doing to well at the whole writing thing but I suppose I'll keep it going for all you folks who want me to.

Also I haven't worked on this recently because I went camping so yeah, get over it.

Disinclaimer: I DON'T OWN YOU!

SHIP TONBAY

Tali was nervously pushing through crowds of Quarians, while every part of her screamed not to go to her father, her conscience making up dozens of excuses as to why she shouldn't ask him and to see if someone else could take care of the boy.

"No, as much as I don't want to annoy him or give him more work if possible I must do this. He's always going on about me taking responsibility well it's about time I do just that."

She thought trying to convince herself otherwise, or at least if only to squash the doubts growing in her.

Finally reaching her destination Tali stopped at an elevator as a guard walked towards her.

"Stop, whats your purpose here?" He said in an intimidating voice causing her to flinch for a second as she was still trying to come up with a way to placate her father after he explodes.

Rolling her eyes she just looked back as the man started cracking a smile before saying,

"Just kidding Talitha you know that." In a joking voice.

"I told you to stop calling me that! Besides my dad would throw you out of an airlock if he heard that. As for your question just tell him that I need to speak with him on urgent family matters."

Sighing he said "Fine, fine give me a second Tali."

Reaching up he held a button on the right side of his helmet before saying,

"Admiral Shala'Raan, your daughter says she must speak with you and it's important, something about 'urgent family business'… Mhmm, yeah alright,… Understood sir I'll send her up." He said as he looked at Tali.

"Alright he said he's waiting for you in his office you can go see him now."

"Thanks Veector" she said in a cheerfully.

"Yeah, yeah don't mention it." He replied as the elevator closed.

Sitting alone in the elevator with her thoughts she realized she still didn't have a clue about how to convince her dad to let the boy stay…

"he doesn't even know his own name… Bosh'tet how am I supposed to do this!" She thought getting increasingly annoyed with the situation as the elevator stopped on her floor which was a long hallway with doors on the side and one door at the very end which is where her dad is.

-Gulps- "Well here goes nothing." She says to herself as she steps into the hallway and walks towards her 'impending doom' getting more worried as she gets closer to the door.

As she's about to open the door she stops…

"Is this really a good idea…? I mean really he's and admiral and has to be way to busy for me to bring this on him, besides he probably will throw the kid out of the airlock for me even suggesting this,"

She continues to stand frozen thinking about what could change her life as she knows it. The young Quarian is so caught up in her thoughts that she didn't notice the door open in front of her until she hears a familiar voice.

"Ahem, are you going to come inside Tali'Zorah or are you just going to stand outside fidgeting like a hanar in the sun?" obviously amused by the girls antics.

Blushing she mutters a quick yes sir and steps inside allowing the door to close as the admiral sits behind a desk and points at a chair in front of it.

Getting the message she sat in the chair obviously worried, so he thought he should try to calm her down.

"What's gotten you so worked up, is it a boy? If he hurt you I'll deal with him don't worry."

"No it's not that. Well it has to do with a boy but he isn't bothering me. Actually he is, no wait it's not like that though but, ah well you see I don't really know how to explain…"

She trailed off as she tried to fight the urge to run from the Quarian who was currently leaning forward to try and hear her better as she is almost whispering. finally having enough she yelled out scaring her dad a little bit as he almost fell back in his chair.

"Look we found a kid inside some sort of stasis pod while I was training and he has no where to go because he was inside of it for so long. Also he's a species that has never been seen before and is currently being outfitted to be able to walk outside of quarantine zones of the Rayya, and I told the captain that we would take him in because I know how little supplies other families have to support themselves, and you always said I should be more responsible so maybe this can teach me to be so can he stay with us please." She finished as she started taking deep breaths and realized what she just did and started to brace her self for his 'fury'.

Said person was simply staring at his daughter slightly baffled at the seemingly random outburst.

"That's it? That's why you're so worried?" He asked in a little disbelief as he was still digesting the information.

"Umm, yes?" She said her voice little more then a squeak thinking he was about to explode in anger or at least something along those lines.

…

"Sure he can stay just make sure you look after him, because with my work I wont be able to do it all the time." He said simply before remembering something.

Also we will have to meet with the admiralty board to discuss if he will be allowed to stay here as this will be a first." He said not seeing the big deal but happy his daughter at least decided to be responsible.

Said girl looked downtrodden before realizing what he said.

"Yes Sir I unde- WAIT WHAT!" she yelled surprised causing the admiral to wince slightly.

"Thank you thank you thank you I won't let you down uncle Raan, I promise." She said giddy with joy before he replied,

"Yes well I still must see the boy anyways so bring him up here soon as you can understand? Also as I said before, you may have my support but the rest of the admiralty board may disagree so don't get to excited." He said wanting to make sure she didn't get too carried away with her 'victory' as she gave a quick yes sir and started to run towards the elevator so she can get a ride to the Rayya and back before they leave from the asteroid belt and go on the move again.

A FEW HOURS AFTER PASSING OUT ON THE RAYYA

"Ouch… this is starting to be an annoying habit," a young voice drawled out.

Looking up as recent events took hold he shot up and started to look around realizing he was in a white room with beds to each side of him and more across.

"Huh, looks like a hospital if I've ever seen one. They may not be from earth but apparently white must be a universal color for it or something." He thought with some amusement before reaching to rub his aching head and realized something.

"What the heck am I wearing?" He thought as he noted a hood with wiring underneath it, as he looked down seeing red plating with cloth decorating it.

"Well can't dock points for style" The cloth being black with a burgundy line pattern as he took the covers off and stood up as he saw a mirror, starting to limp towards it he took his appearance in. (Here's the mental picture part)

He's was wearing metallic boots and gloves (Like the quarian male's but repurposed for humans) metal plating leading to his waist, with cloth on the sides of his thighs, said cloth having the same pattern and color scheme as its counterpart on his chest as well as a pouch/belt with multiple pockets where his waist was looking basically like a male Quarian with human feet and hands except with a hood. Finally looking back where his face should be he noted tented black glass that made his eyes faintly glow red he thought it looked cool… well more then just cool actually but did his best not to show it on the outside.

"THIS IS AWESOME! Whoever did this needs to be recognized as a scientific marvel with their own budget and staff!"

The boy genius thought excited, and a little awed at his new look before finally snapping out of it and becoming more serious.

"But why give this to me, is their something in the air is it made to restrain me if I try to fight them…" He thought worriedly looking back at the mirror before turning towards the sound of footsteps to see a woman in a white suit, that had a white face piece walk in.

Said woman looked at the boy in surprise before saying "W-what the how are you moving, you shouldn't be able to move for at least a few weeks since your muscles haven't been used for so long…" she trailed off as she noted that he looked like he debating if he should run or stay.

"Lady I don't know who or what you are, but I want answers got that!

The boy all but demanded the doctor.

Said woman has her hand to what he thought was her chin "mmhm, wait here for a few minutes ok?" she said as she turned around and walked out the door.

"Wait what the did she just brush me off?… ok that's it any more of this and I'll just beat the answers out of someone, sorry mom but this is annoying as hell." He fumed, as he limped using a vector to keep himself from falling over, and than sat down on the bed to wait for what he assumed was a doctor."

About ten minutes later the door opened as the woman returned with a big box and sat it next to him on the bed; after she did this she grabbed a chair and sat it in front of him.

"You can read right?" she asked as she started opening the box and pulled out a square device.

"Uhm, yeah, my daddy taught me before he-…" he trailed off before starting continuing "well yeah I know how, why exactly do you want to know?" He said as his inquisitive nature took over again.

"Well your going to be here a while as we figure out what to do with you so I want you to read these it should answer all your questions, also don't worry about finishing them all, this is a lot of information that would probably take me a few weeks of leave to finish." She said, as she gave the boy the first one, before pointing at a button on the side and explaining

"Ok this button on the top is to choose categories, the ones on the side scroll up and down, and the ones below that will scroll pages, understood?"

"Easy enough I guess." the boy replied as the doctor stood up and exited the room.

"Well more than I had a minute ago" He thought as he started reading at a rapid pace, his mind processing all the information at a rate that would make a salarian jealous.

A few hours later

Docter Cal'sine vas Rayya was walking at a brisk pace toward the room with her most recent patient "Oh Keelah what was I doing, sure I was sleepy but I can't believe that I've fallen asleep for so long, that kid may have left already, hope I don't get in trouble for this." Just as she finished her mental tirade she opened the door to see the boy sitting on the bed where she left them next to a pile of codexs as he reached in to grab another.

Walking towards him looking over his shoulder noting him scrolling through the data pad at an extremely fast pace.

"Keelah is he reading all this," she thought in a little awe noting the stack of data pads, continuing her thoughts,

"But how theirs so much information in just one of those that I would need ten to twenty hours to myself to read one…

"So you're a Quarian huh? Here I was about to just call you all bucket heads and leave it at that" he said chuckling at his own joke.

The unexpected question snapped her out of her thoughts as she noted he turned it off and was looking at her with what she figured was interest.

"I've seen admiral Xen look at geth like that before" She thought shuddering a little before looking at him.

"Can you tell me what's going to happen to me or not?" he said sounding impatient, hearing the faint sound of the door open and close again as he saw what he assumed to be a young girl walking inside and handed the doctor a square tablet for her to read like the one's that she gave him, As she gave a slight "Oh" than started walking to a computer terminal and started to work on something as the girl sat next to him,

This of course was making him slightly uncomfterble as he isn't used to having people so close to him that isn't at least drowning on their own blood.

"Can I help you?..."

"Ehm well you will be living with me and my dad… Mostly me I guess because my dad is always working. You will have to work to though, well not if you don't want to but we got to feed you somehow- oh how rude of me, I just… Oh Keelah I'm so sorry I'm kind of nervous… I'm Tali'Zorah'vas'Rayya" she finished as she looked to the left a little bit obviously embarrassed, the boy could only stare as he realized something…

"Wait stay with her?" He thought as he didn't really mind but he was more suspicious then anything.

It got silent after that save for the sound of the ships systems and the typing from the doctors computer.

"Why?" he said breaking the quite.

"Why what?" Tali said not getting it.

"Why are you people being so nice to me, I've learned a good bit in the last few hours you know and one of those is earth. In fact the only recorded race of note from earth is Humans so why am I not in a test tube somewhere with people cutting me up to see what I'm made of?" He said sick of avoiding the topic for all this time.

Tali could only look at him in disbelief, as she couldn't believe that a boy no more than ten would be practically declaring her kind to be heartless monsters.

"Why would we do something like that? Theirs plenty of different things in the galaxy, so what if you're different we aren't monsters you know…" she trailed off a little sad at the fact he didn't seem to want to stay, "And after all that effort to."

The boy could only stare at her once more before he finally gave up.

"Fine whatever I'll stay if you're offering, not like I have anywhere else to go anyways." He muttered the last part more to himself as he noticed the girl perk up before she hugged him, causing him to tense.

"Don't kill her she's not a threat don't kill her…" he thought closing his eyes while taking a deep breath, as he felt that his vectors were already on the move.

Finally they calmed down he and he noticed that she had let go and was most likely blushing underneath the helmet if her body language was any indication.

"Whew close one" he said confusing the girl, as she let go and looked at him

"Close what?"

"Nothing," he said hurriedly cursing his big mouth,

"Riiight…" her voice laced with sarcasam as she continued "Well I still got to take you to my father because he wanted to meet you first, than we got to get the admirals to agree to this.," She finished slightly annoyed at the work to still be done, before turning to the doctor and finishing. "That's ok right?"

"Yes its fine, I'll have my assistant take the rest of the data pads to your room later when he goes to visit his cousin, okay?" The doctor answered not looking from the screen.

"Thank you, and that will be fine thanks. come on… uh, you still don't know your name do you?" She finished lowly not wanting to hurt his feelings.

"Nope, sorry." He answered while she supported him as he started to stand up.

"Keelah you're heavier then you look," she grunted out before getting a more comfterable position noticing he was pulling away.

"Don't worry I can walk," he said using a vector to brace himself as he walked with a slight limp to the door, and waited impatiently. "Come on I want to get out of here already."

Standing up she replied despondently "Umm if you say so follow me." Walking to the door as he finally crushed her thought of him being a thankful little kid that needed someone to rescue him.

"What an annoying know-it-all bosh't- no lets not continue that thought, I should be a little more understanding," She thought as the door opened and they walked out and toward the shuttle she brought with her.

!DONE!

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