Chapter 3

What's this feeling?

Waking up the next morning I felt a little strange like I was forgetting something, it was an odd feeling like there was something just on the edge of recognition. Shaking it off I hopped in to the bathroom for a shower before heading off to work. I got to say the showers in the future are pretty awesome they still used water but also used a sub sonic particle ray to pull dirt and the like out of your pores. Huh? How did I know how that technology worked? Feeling something at the edge of my consciousness that I should be remembering again I got an uneasy feeling like something was wrong or missing. Not able to figure it out I try and brush it off and get ready for work.

Putting on my armor I snap all my guns in place and head out. Grabbing some food and two coffee one for me and an amino-dextro one for Garrus, I make my way to our office. Walking in about twenty minutes before my shift I'm surprised to find Garrus inside already. He looks like he hasn't left at all.

I walk up to him handing him his coffee "Morning Garrus. Did you go home at all?"

Looking at the cup confused he says "I said that was a joke you know, and I got some sleep last night I just like being in early to go over any information I get on old cases that are in limbo. I just got some info that we are going to go check out later, about an organ smuggling ring."

Why does that sound familiar? Something wasn't right. For the third time that day something was nagging at me. What was it? "Hmm ok then, what are we starting with today?"

"We are going to go to the range again then were going to check in about those hand to hand combat classes that I forgot about yesterday. Then we are going to go and do some work on this information I have." Standing up he comes around his desk indicating for me to follow him.

We make our way to the range again we set up for me to practice. I draw my Predator and take aim, "BLAM, BLAM, BLAM."

Garrus does a double take as he wasn't paying attention when my shots all hit in the expert circles. "How did you do that? I thought you said you didn't really remember how to shoot?"

"Well I'm starting to remember my military training." Hold on a sec I actually do remember. Wait why am I surprised? I did a few years training and honed my Biotoics. Why am I surprised that I know this stuff.

Seeing a look of confusion on my face Garrus walks up and puts a talon on my shoulder. "Are you ok? You look like you've seen a ghost."

Shaking it off I put my pistol away "I'm fine I just need to walk it off, I just feel a little off today is all."

Looking a little concerned, Garrus just looks at me for a minute then says with a little concern in his voice "If you feel off maybe you should go home for the day?"

"Well I think I'm fine let's just continue with the day and If I suddenly feel terrible I'l let you know."

Still looking a little concerned he just shrugs his shoulders and says "Ok well since you seem to be starting to remember your training, do you need the hand to hand classes you think?"

"Well I know I need to start working out and brushing up on it but I think if I go to the gym I'll be good." Then having an idea for the fact that Garrus doesn't seem to leave the office I say "Hey would you like to go to the gym and train with me? You could be my sparring partner. I think it would be a good match, you look like you would have reach and I think I'm probably more flexible." Wait why does that seem to be funny in my head? Now Garrus looks slightly uncomfortable.

"Um sure I guess that would work. Well let's go and start working on this information I've got. We are going to a small warehouse were we have got a couple of organs deal going down. We have some evidence to go over then we will see what we can turn up."

Following him we go out to a C-Sec issue patrol car which seemed identical to a cab, at least as far as I could see other than police colours on the side and a big C-Sec printed down the side. We take-off and start heading to the wards, as we pass over the presidium I can't help but think there's no way I could get over how awesome everything looked from the air. After a brief flight we come to a district filled with warehouses. Setting down we go around the corner of the building to find a police line set up and several regular officers and forensics officers looking over the alley the entrance was in. As we pass the cordon we make our way over to a beat officer who appears in charge.

"What do we got deputy?" Garrus asks as he pulls up his Omni-Tool to start taking notes.

"Sir, we caught a Salarian and Turian trying to make a sale to an undercover officer. This is the biggest shipment we've intercepted so command had us take them down instead of just setting up a new one. It seems they are low level in ring so that rules out the theory that it's just a murderer hacking people up and selling their organs. We haven't done anything else as we were waiting for you sir."

During this speech I had started to inspect the stacked crates. Looking through the contents I start to notice something odd. "Hey Garrus how rare is it for a Turian to be AB+?"

Turning from the deputy Garrus looks contemplative for a moment then says "Well it's pretty rare why do you ask?"

"Well did you guys notice that at least three of these crates contain Turian livers labeled AB+? Wouldn't finding that many people with a liver for sale that's this rare be pretty rare?"

"Huh your new partner their makes a pretty good point. Out of all the organs we have collected we didn't even think about how rare some of them were and the fact that we had so many of them." The deputy says with a look at the stacks and stacks of crates.

"Well let's bring some of these back to C-Sec and do some work on them." Garrus motions to some of the officers to come over. "I want you to load up a couple sample of each type of organ and blood type and send them to the labs. Tell them I want to know as much about them as possible."

With that done we walk over to where the two prisoners are sitting to start questioning them. Garrus indicates for me to take the lead as I had been reading interrogation techniques from the law book he had given me.

Looking through the notes the other officer gave to me and Garrus on our Omni-Tools I pull up their names. "Mister Silurn and mister Dakken you're both under arrest for smuggling illegal organs. C-Sec would like to cut you both a deal if you will give us your employer and testify in court." The Turian just glares at me and the Salarian seemed rather bored. Garrus not really seeming to like this walks behind them and cuffs them both up-side the head.

"You might want to answer my partner here or else we just start the process to book you, at that point we won't be offering a deal. You know the penalty for this is quite high, 35 years in prison with no chance of parole. It goes up from regular smuggling since it involves organs that are generally obtained through murder."

At the mention of this the Salarian started to look a little agitated, while the Turian shot him a murderous glare then proceeded to spit on my boots. This of course was a bad idea because Garrus promptly cuffs him then grabs him by the collar dragging him to his feet and slams him into a wall. I rush over to Garrus as he looks like he is about to knee him in the back were the kidneys would be on a human, and with our armor on and the suspect having just clothing on it would probably do a lot of damage. As I grab Garrus to make him stop I nod toward the Salarian as he looks ready to panic now.

I turn and yell, "deputy come and take mister Dakken down to the station and book him. Take mister Silurn here" indicating the Salarian "to the station and put him in an interrogation room."

Nodding his approval Garrus starts toward our waiting car. "Nicely done Milo, but why did you stop me with the rude one?"

"Well I saw that the other was sufficiently scared and also you would have broken something on him if I had let you continue."

Garrus stopped and turned around "Well that's true but sometimes you need to do some things like that to get what you need from the suspects."

"While I understand what you mean I think you just about went too far with him. It's one thing to intimidate a suspect but you don't need to go so far as to become like those you are trying to capture."

"Hmm well I do see what you mean; it is hard sometimes to distinguish when it's going too far."

With a nod he turned around and we got into our car and made our way back to C-Sec headquarters. When we returned we started to interrogate Silurn, working on him for a few hours all we could get out of him is the fact they were contacted by someone who seemed to work at a major hospital and that he was paid through a separate party. All in all we didn't get much of use as the hospital had hundreds of employees and they weren't even sure what species the contact actually was.

At the end of our shift before I left our office I stop and ask Garrus "So since we aren't on shift tomorrow do you want to meet me at the gym tomorrow morning so we can work out and train?"

"Ya that's sounds good to me. After maybe we can hit up the bar."

Grinning I say " Sounds like a good plan. You know any good bars?"

"Well we can go to Chora's Den or Dark Star it just depends on what kind of entertainment we want." he says with a sly grin.

A little confused I just nod not really sure what he means. I then look at my Omni-Tool and see what time it was and give a yelp of surprise.

"What is it?" Garrus ask.

"I forgot I have to meet someone in a few minutes."

"Oh really? This someone wouldn't happen to be of the female variety would they?"

Nodding my head I don't notice him giving me a leer then he says " Well you better hurry. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."

"Um Garrus I don't think that applies here and she is just an Asari I kinda know who is going to give me a hand with my Biotics."

"Right, right and people say I'm clueless." With a shake of his head he just shooed me out will chuckling.

Not really understanding him I stop then realise I'm going to be even later and start running for the cab center.

I got back to the district with only a few minutes to spare so I decided to forgo taking off my armor for the moment. Running into the park with a slightly panicked look on my face I made a few people nervous as usually a C-Sec officer running meant something was wrong. Forcing myself too calm down and stop running I spied Amaya at a section of the park that I hadn't seen before.

"Sorry I'm late; I hope you weren't waiting long!"

Turning to me Amaya saw that I was wearing my armor and said "Don't worry about it if anything I'm sorry for forcing you to run straight from work. You should have gone home to change if you wanted to."

"No it's fine I need to work my power while wearing my armor anyways. So what is all this stuff?" I say while for the first time taking in all the strange equipment around me. "It looks kinda weird."

I started inspecting the equipment which seemed to be a series of tubes some with balls in them some filled with liquid with different colours in them. There was also a series of what looked kind of like a series of teeter-totter's but without seats.

With a wave she replied "These are for people with Biotics. They are meant to train your powers to gain strength and precision by making you do specific tasks like move the mall through the tube without dropping it or letting it touch the sides. For strength training you can try and push your opponents side down on these." She finished by pointing at the teeter-totter things.

"Swwwweeeeet! That is really cool, there isn't anything like this on earth."

"Well humans haven't had Biotics for long, were as Asari are all born with it. We all are taught to use it at least a bit. Some take commando training and learn it to a more deadly degree. I have basic commando training." She says somewhat embarrassed at the last part.

"Why did you only take basic commando training?" I ask without really paying attention to what she was doing. If I had I would have noticed her blushing again.

"Well I didn't want to join the military. Plus generally being a commando is considered, how do you humans put it? It makes you seem 'butch'." She says the last bit with an extreme blush and looks like she wants to crawl in a hole and hide.

"Why? I think it's pretty cool when a women knows how fight and can still look like you do." Once the last word left my mouth I realised how what I said sounded and looked up sharply to see her looking beyond embarrassed and she also seemed rather… pleased? "Um I mean at least that what I think." suddenly I felt way beyond awkward, after all I only lost my wife… Wait why am I feeling this awkward she died three years ago. Why does my mind keep trying to say something different? Not understanding what was going on I was suddenly hit with a wave of uneasiness again. Trying to change topics and to take my mind off of whatever was making my mind so confused I explained that I'd had a severe concussion recently and that I couldn't control my power anymore. Looking relieved for the change in mood she proceeded to go through the warm up exercises that were pretty well universal to every species to help open all the pathways in the body that related to Biotics. Feeling the familiar sensation of dark energy rising I tried to grasp it to move one of the more basic training devices. I strained trying to concentrate the energy into being but it seemed just beyond my control.

"That's pretty good all things considered." Amaya proceeded to go over all basic theory of controlling Biotics. After she had me just try and bring a small ball of dark energy into being and just sustain it. After we proceeded to go through the basic movements of the easier moves involved in combat. After that we were both beat and decided to call it a day.

"Thank you so much Amaya it feels good to be able to even use my powers even slightly again it felt weird not being able to get any of them to work." I give her a small bow like students give to their teachers in Asari culture. She seemed taken aback that I knew the custom. Grinning in my head I felt much better about losing sleep the night before to read that article on Asari cultural habits. "I'm off shift tomorrow and I was wondering if you could train with me some more?"

Looking pleased she says "I have to work the morning shift but if you don't mind it I could help you in the afternoon?"

Smiling I reply "That sounds good. I have combat and physical training with my partner tomorrow as well."

Upon hearing this she suddenly seemed horrified "Oh I'm so sorry I didn't realise you were married. Forget everything I've said."

I start laughing so hard I double over, while she looks absolutely confused as all hell. "Oh god, hahaha I'm sorry I'm not laughing at you." Tears rolling down my face "I meant my partner from C-Sec, his name is Garrus he is a Turian."

Sudden realisation hits her as she understands the miscommunication, then she just as suddenly realises what her comment divulged about her feelings. She went such a dark shade of blue that if she weren't Asari I would have thought she was suffering from asphyxiation.

As it was I tried to gain control of myself I say with a low soothing tone "Thank you Amaya but right now isn't a good time but don't think I'm not interested." With a smile of appreciation she nods. We then decide on some exercises for me to do in my spare time and plan to meet the next day after lunch.

As I walk home my mind is once again telling me something is wrong but I can't quite figure it out. As I lay down to sleep absolutely exhausted my mind starts to relax, when suddenly my mind starts screaming at me that I felt uneasy and wrong because my memories of my life, or my other life I should say are disappearing. I NEED TO REMEMBER! THE REAPERS, MY WIFE, EVERYTHING I AM IT'S DISSAPEARING!

With a final scream in my brain the darkness of sleep takes me and my realisation with it into oblivion.