Shepard
Coming out of the elevator on her way to the med bay, Shepard walked straight in to Kaidan. The impact knocked her off balance and she fell on her rear. Oh, deep joy, she thought, raising her head to meet his eyes, before pulling herself to her feet.
"Shepard, what the hell?"
She looked down at herself, remembering that she was soaked and bleeding.
"Fish tank broke."
"And the shouting half the crew has been hearing for the last hour?"
"Garrus was being an fucking asshole. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to get to med bay."
Shepard tried to push past him, but found he blocked her path, grabbing her arm and roughly spinning her around to get a look at the cuts on her legs. "Did he do this?"
"Fish tank broke, I told you. Now get out of my way, Kaidan, otherwise you will regret it. My patience is non-existent today."
Kaidan eventually stepped out of the way, with death in his eyes, and charged towards the elevator, presumably up to Shepard's room.
She walked into the medbay, adrenalin wearing off fast. Dr. Chakwas wasn't there, so she found a tub of medigel on a shelf, made a mental note of where it was, grabbed a gown and headed to the women's crew bathroom. When she returned, she found Liara waiting with a worried expression and a catsuit in roughly Shepard's size.
"Hey, Liara, don't suppose you could do me a favour and slap some medigel on me? Got some minor cuts, could do with a quick patch up so they don't get infected." Shepard pulled off her gown and laid face down on a bed, so Liara could apply the gel.
"Sure, Shepard. Brought you something to wear as well, as EDI asked. Is everything okay? Do you want to stay in my quarters tonight?"
Shepard laughed. "Well, I was thinking of bunking with Vega..."
Liara looked shocked.
"That was a joke, Liara. Although seriously, I was considering taking a shuttle back down to Earth and finding a nice little hidey-hole for a couple of days. Garrus just made the mother of all fuck ups, and stupid woman that I am, I let him provoke me." Shame played on the commander's features, looking around, anywhere but Liara's eyes. Her voice went small. "I actually knocked him out. I don't doubt that he deserved it, just feel bad that it went that far. I'm kinda hurt by how he acted, and more disappointed in myself for not keeping my cool." She winced as Liara rubbed the medigel over the tiny wounds.
"Of course you lost your temper, Shepard. You love him. You feel all emotions towards him stronger than you would for anyone else. That's a good thing. He feels the same. Give it a few hours, let yourselves work the emotions out of your systems, and go back to it. I bet once he wakes up, he'll realize what a moron he's been and want to make it up to you. All done. You should let that sit for a few minutes and then get dressed. We'll go get a coffee in my quarters and I can show you some shady, Shadow Broker gossip. Appears one of the Asari councillor's underlings has a major thing for Batarians and got caught on vid." She grinned, just at the moment Dr. Chakwas walked in.
"Commander, what on Earth went on in your quarters? I've just been up there to check Garrus. Do you realize how hard you have to hit a Turian to knock them unconscious? Let me have a look at your hand, I'll be damned if you haven't broken it." Chakwas questioned, panic making her speech far quicker and less punctuated than her usual vocal patterns.
Shepard held her hands up and wiggled her fingers. "I'm fine, Karin. Little sore, but Cerberus cybernetics have been pretty good for my right hook." She sat up and began to get dressed.
"I'm not going to ask any inconvenient questions Shepard, since I know you can both take care of yourselves, but I must make it clear that I do not approve of this behaviour."
"I don't either, Karin. It won't happen again, and I'm sorry. We didn't mean to worry anyone, just had a disagreement that went a little too far. We'll get over it, I hope."
"Good. Anyway, Kaidan came up while I was checking Garrus over, so I think his pride may be more damaged than anything else. No apparent concussion. Although I had to make Kaidan leave when I did because I was certain if I left them alone Garrus wouldn't be the only one I'd be patching up."
A few hours later, Shepard was hiding in the main battery, listening to music while lying across a few crates stacked together. She heard a familiar cough nearby, so pulled off her headphones.
"Garrus, what can I do for you?"
He shuffled from one foot to the other, seemingly unsure of what to say, before kneeling down beside her and pressing his lip plates to her forehead. "I'm sorry."
"It's okay, I think we're even. I'm sorry I lost my temper." She brushed her hair from her face, looking at him and failing to understand what was going on in his head. It was hard enough figuring out what a member of the opposite sex in the same species was thinking, never mind an alien man. Shepard rarely thought of Garrus in those terms, but she couldn't forget the difference entirely.
"You had every right, I shouldn't have tried to, y'know, while we were so angry with each other. It was degrading to both of us, you mean more to me than that."
As he looked down at her, Shepard twigged what the emotion behind his eyes was. Fear. He was afraid he'd ruined everything. She leaned over and stroked his fringe, while attempting a reassuring smile.
He sighed with relief. "So, Sidonis, eh?"
[Author's Note: Sorry this is a pretty short chapter guys, I've written a lot today and now suffering from a bit of writers block as I try and work out the specifics of getting everyone where I want them to be. Hope to have the next chapter out in a few days. Thanks for reading so far, hope you're enjoying and please review if you have time. Your feedback gives me a lot of help with what I'm doing right and does influence where I take our characters next.]