"Shepard, oh thank the Goddess she's waking up." Liara's voice filled the blinding white room as a dull throbbing worked its way up Shepard's skull. She felt her hands grab hers before she even saw her.

"What happened?"

"We were in the middle of a meeting with the Council and you just fainted. You've been out cold for almost three hours now." Liara pushed a few wet strands off of Shepard's face as her eyes finally came into focus. Elizabeth and Kaidan were standing next to each other, staring at her.

"I thought you were hurt." Shepard croaked out, Liara reached for a glass of water and put the straw to Shepard's lips.

"The doctor's here are incredible, I'm ready to go back out if you need me." Kaidan's jaw clenched at her words

"Kaidan, you and Elizabeth should go to the store and buy anything the two of you need for a while, I doubt we'll be back for a while." He started to argue with her, but said nothing as he walked out of the door behind Elizabeth. "Try not to kill each other."

She gripped Liara's hand tighter and looked over at her friend. Friend, is that what she could still call her? Did she even have a single friend anymore.

"Did you know?" Liara looked puzzled at her friends question "About my baby, did you know Liara?" Liara's mouth fell open.

"You have a baby?"

"Liara, please if you knew please tell me I can't handle this shit anymore."

"Shepard, honestly this is the first time I am hearing this, how old is your child? Who is the baby's fa... Kaidan." Liara looked over at her friend as tears began burning in her eyes. "Shepard, nothing has come through any of my networks about you or the Major having a child. I swear, if I had even seen something that hinted to it I would have told you" Doctor Michel walked into the door and quickly scanned all of Shepard's signs.

"Commander, you seem to be back to great health, but I must advise that you take it easy. The stress is really taking its toll on you."

"I will keep her in check Doctor." Liara said as she smiled at Shepard.

"I do care about her Kaidan, I truly do. I will admit at first, I couldn't care less about her but I am telling you if I knew anything you and Lily would be the first to know."

"Fine, but I suggest you keep a good distance from me, and if you do anything that puts her in danger..."

"I had more than enough opportunity to get rid of her before, what makes you think I would do it now?"

"You are luring her into a false sense of security, you are just waiting for her to turn her back."

She looked at him and laughed "Shepard doesn't know the word security, she think someone is always out to get her. She's barely holding it together which is why I wasn't going to say anything until she was better. What, you think her little blackout had nothing to with anything you told her? She has an entire galaxy that expects her to win them a future, she is already paranoid about Cerberus, suffering from PTSD from her death, not to mention everything she had been through before, and you thought it would be a good idea to break her heart further by bringing this up. I had already fixed the files with Miranda, she thought the baby was dead."

"So, so what? I should just never let her now that she has a child somewhere out in the galaxy and that man has his hands on it."

"I am not saying never Kaidan, of course she deserves to know. What she doesn't deserve is more stress while she is in charge of saving the galaxy." They didn't realize that they had started yelling until Kaidan's omni tool pinged with a message from Shepard calling them back to the ship.

She began to walk off but he grabbed her arm and leaned closer to her "Keep you're distance, next time I will shoot to kill." He let her go and the two of them walked their separate ways.