Krios flat lined twice during the ride to the hospital.
Jade and Javik sat in the back of the ambulance watching for possible attacks and trying to stay out of the techs' way.
"This is our only unit of compatible blood," the salarian tech said handing an opaque bag to his asari partner.
"Damn." She hooked it into the IV line. "Lucky to have that much on this wagon. We've just got to keep him alive until we get to Huerta."
"Still no guarantee. Drell rare in galaxy, rarer on Citadel."
The asari activated her comm to report their status to hospital ground personnel. "You're right Selkat." She sighed as she checked Krios' stats again and reported them to the hospital. "They're short on blood and they can't afford to send anyone to look for a compatible donor."
Jade sat up a little straighter. There may be something I can do about that.
"Do they have a list?"
The asari glanced up from her work, soft, white markings around her eyes giving her a perpetually surprised look.
"I can help track them down if I can get a list." Javik shifted slightly, leaning toward the human.
"What are you doing," he rumbled softly in her ear. "You are injured and in need of medical attention."
"I'm fine," Jade shot back. "Besides, with all the casualties from this attack, my little scratch is so low priority it's not even on the radar." She turned back to the asari, who had been on the line with the hospital again. "So, the list?"
"Sounds like it's pretty short," she said, glancing at a message on her omni-tool. "Apparently he's an existing patient." She nodded at the drell in the stretcher. "So they've already ID'd potential donors." She looked up at Jade. "There's only one, a C-Sec rookie. I'm sending you his info now. If you can track this guy down and bring him in, we may be able to save him."
"Then I shall go in pursuit of this donor," Javik said decisively. "You are in no condition to chase about this station while Cerberus forces still occupy much of it."
Jade raised an eyebrow at him.
"I don't even think so." She cut back, annoyed at his high-handed manner. "You'll waste too much time just explaining what you are. I'm at least a recognized and common species. Most folk have never seen anything like you before."
He opened his mouth to refute her points but Jade pressed on as the pilot brought the ambulance in to land.
"You're also an unknown to Cerberus. They'll have to think twice about attacking the hospital with you there. It's not really their style to go after a goal if they think there's a chance they can't take it." Then she brought out her biggest argument. "Besides, you know Shepard will kill and skin both of us, and not necessarily in that order, if something happens to Krios. You're in better shape to keep that from happening."
The ambulance touched down and they stepped to the side to allow the medical professionals do their job. They swarmed over Krios' stretcher waving a number of tools and readers over his prone body and chattering to each other animatedly.
Javik ground his teeth and looked from Jade to Krios and back. "I will do this," he snarled. "But you will be careful and return as quickly as possible."
"Okay Dad." She grinned and rolled her eyes a little. "I'll be sure to gas up the car on my way back too." She chuckled at his long-suffering look and activated her comm channel to Bailey as Javik followed the small crowd of doctors and nurses into the building.
"Bailey."
/Who the hell is this?/ His voice was rough with strain and frustration. /This is an exclusive C-sec channel, so you'd better have a damn good reason for using it! /
"It's Harmon, one of Shepard's people. I need your help tracking down one of your guys." She forwarded him the information she'd gotten from the emergency tech. "One of our on-station allies took a bad hit. He could die if I can't get this 'Kolyat' to Huerta pronto. And you know how Shepard is about her allies."
/Kolyat? Shit, hold on./
Jade heard a rattle of equipment and series of soft beeps as Bailey looked up the necessary information.
/All right, looks like he and Lantar are putting out fires in Zakera. Cerberus did something to scramble comms in the area so all I've got is a general area but I'm sending the info to your 'tool now./
"Great." Jade checked her map. "Any way I can hitch a ride that way with one of your teams? I'm not sure the endorsements on my driver's license cover flying cars."
/You at the hospital?/
"Yeah."
/Then yes. I"ve got a team heading out of there that can put you down in the right area at least. Meet them out front./
"On my way." Jade broke into a light jog, dodging techs and patients. "Thanks Bailey."
/Don't thank me, just get that kid to the hospital in one piece./
"Roger, Harmon out." She burst through the hospital doors just as the C-Sec cruiser touched down.
When Bailey said Kolyat and his partner were "putting out fires" Jade had taken that to mean that he was actually fighting pockets of Cerberus resistance. So it came as a complete surprise for her to find him, extinguisher in hand, fighting a literal fire in a small storefront.
A turian with brilliant purple facial markings intercepted her before she could reach the tall, blue drell.
"State your name and business."
Jade rolled her eyes a little at his brusque behavior. She'd gotten the update, along with the team on the cruiser that Cerberus forces were pulling out after Shepard had pulled some kind of miracle out of her ass. She understood the need, but it was wasting valuable time.
"Jade Harmon, of the Normandy, I'm here from Huerta to get Kolyat Krios. There's been an … incident involving his father."
"Shit, we knew something like this was bound to happen." The turian scrubbed a hand across his face smearing soot and dirt into his plates. "Kolyat," he called over his shoulder to the drell. "You better get over here, you're gonna want to hear this."
She barely got the story out before Kolyat was on the move towards another flying car, Jade hard on his heels.
"Can you handle this, Sidonis?" He asked his partner as he keyed commands into the car's console.
"Sure," the turian replied. "You heard Bailey earlier, Cerberus is pulling out. All that's left is a little clean up. You go take care of your dad."
"Thanks." Kolyat shut the door and the car sped them into the twilight between wards.
The ride back to the hospital was tense. Kolyat grilled Jade on everything she knew about the fight leading up to his father's injury and probed her memory for anything about the man sent to assassinate the salarian councilor.
Jade joined Javik at the door to Krios' room and updated him on what had happened.
"So Shepard was able to thwart yet another of Cerberus' actions," Javik said slowly. "I imagine their leaders are beginning to get very weary of her interference."
"More than weary," Shepard said as she approached. "I've got a feeling this has put me even higher up on their shit list than I was before. Which is pretty impressive, considering I denied them access to the collector base they resurrected me to find. How's he doing?" She nodded at the closed doors behind the pair.
"I think he's stable for now," Jade said, watching the emotions flicker across Shepard's face. "At least the flow of personnel has, kind of, trickled off over the last hour or so."
"Thanks for keeping an eye on him." She frowned and squinted at Jade. "You take a round today?"
"No ma'am got a blade through the shoulder, it's nothing big."
"Well big or not, you'd better get Chakwas to take a look at that." She nodded toward the door. "Dismissed, and Javik, make sure she gets to the doctor. You know how soldiers are."
Javik nodded and took Jade's elbow to steer her out as the she stared open mouthed at both her commander and the alien.
"Why … I…" She sputtered.
"Come," Javik could barely suppress the note of humor in his voice. "I believe we both have orders to follow."