Shepard... I can't...

I underestimated you Shepard.

Before she could finish the dream, she was woken up of something cooking in the other room. Looking to her side she saw that Garrus was still sound asleep. Jane went over to one of her bags and began to put clean cloths on. As she went to see what the smell was, she saw Kaiden busy making something. "Kaiden?"

"Ah morning Shepard. Thought you two could use something to eat, I'll just order myself something in a bit."

"Kaiden, you do realize that Garrus can't eat human foods, right?" She just stared at him till he finally remembered. "Oh right. Then we will have this for us two. I'll order something for Garrus now." He went to pick up a comlink and turned it on.

Hello, this is one of our all aliens buffet, how may I help you?"

"I will need 1 turian breakfast for my friend, whichever meal since I really don't know what he likes." Kaiden made a chuckle as he began to talk about where to deliver it to, that sort of thing.

"It is on the way, should be there in less then 20 minutes!"

"Alright, thank you." He hung up and got back to talking Jane. "You know the council got my this place, two bedrooms incase a friend or lover stay over, pretty nice room with a widescreen TV, and a personal kitchen. Seeing as your going to marry a Spectre, and you being one, you may get a pretty big apartment like this."

"I think Garrus wants us to move to Palaven, though I'm not sure." Kaiden returned to cooking as they heard a moan from inside Jane's room. "Kaiden if we do decide to find someplace to spend the rest of our lives at, the Normandy should go to you." He turned off the burner and started putting the food on plates, "you sure Shepard?"

"When haven't I been sure?" She gave him a wink as he grabbed the plates and brought them to the nearest table. They both sat down as a hungover turian walked over and sat down at the table. "Whatever that smell is, its probably tastes good, and is lethal to me." Kaiden rolled his eyes. "Garrus, you alright?" Jane put her hand on his shoulder. "A bit of a mess right now, but I think I will be fine."

Knock knock.

"That is your meal Garrus, let me get it." He stood up, walked over to the door and opened it. He took the conversation outside so no one would find out that She is here. As he walked back in, he headed for the table and handed Garrus his meal.

"What is this exactly?" Garrus' mandibles opened and closed as he looked at the meal then towards Kaiden. "Something turian I hope." Garrus grabbed a fork and began eating with them. "This isn't too bad, though it's missing a lot of flavor." Garrus kept eating even after Kaiden and Jane had finished theirs.

"So Garrus, what are you and Shepard going to do for your wedding?"

"Well." He swallowed the food he was chewing and began to speak, "I was hoping somewhere nice, tropical even, Palaven has a fantastic view of sunsets, and I know a few beech areas that we could do it at." Garrus leaned his head on Shepard's should and wrapped his hand around hers. "Garrus, doesn't Palaven have a stronger sun then most others?" Garrus looked at Jane for a moment. "Yes but I have some extra protective skin treatment that works quite well from what I've heard."

"Then I guess it is settled, we will go to Palaven for if you want Garrus." She gave him a kiss on the mandible. "Yeah sure. But first I-" he stopped as Kaiden turned on the TV.

"We have some new deveoplements today for you! I'm Glenn Rodgrig from Alliance News Network coming at you live from where they are setting up a stage on the presidium."

Garrus, Kaiden, and Jane were all staring at the TV, Garrus didn't even bother finishing his meal.

"The rumors are that Commander Shepard will be making a speech sometime today, explaining where she went for the past few months and what happened when the Reapers all shut down."

Jane's mouth was open, shocked that she may have to make the speech today, as she began to pick up her datapad and send a quick message to Hackett, she noticed she had missed 3 messages.

Message 1:

Shepard, if you need any help with wedding preparations, let me and Traynor know. -Liara

Message 2:

The primitive human told me where you are, will see you sometime today. -Javik

Message 3:

Jane, looks like you will have to do that speech today, otherwise they will be on a manhunt for you during the next 24 hours or so, I'll send you the location and time of where you will say the speech. -Hackett

During the next few hours, Kaiden let her work on a speech at his computer, though she kept having a hard time figuring out what to say. She had it fully made and ready by noontime, and now was getting dressed up to go. "Jane, you want me to go with you? I'm sure it will go find though."

She turned towards him and walked over and just leaned herself against him. "Garrus, I do want you to come along. If your their I will feel much better then knowing your just watching me behind a screen."

His mandibles flicked in and out. "Jane, that doesn't make any sense, at least to me, but I'll come along."


Shepard was now behind the stage, hundreds of people were waiting to see her, Garrus walked up to her and took her hand. "It'll be fine Jane, I just know it. You took down a Reaper back on Rannoch, you can do this one small speech."

"Garrus, that was when there was a fate of the galaxy on my shoulder. Now it's just me and the reporters." She seemed as if she was going to have stroke out of fear. "That isn't the girl I know, if I were you I'd just ignore them and just do the speech."

"Thanks Garrus, i'm glad I can always count on you to help me." She gave him a kiss and walked off.

There was a roar of cheers as she walked up on stage and towards the podium. Everyone became rather quiet once she began to speak. "Well, thank you for coming to see me speak, though I really didn't have much to say on some subjects. First off we will take questions and get them out of the way."

Hands rose as fast as they could, almost everyone had their arms in the air now. "You in the back by the ANN camera." The man stood up, and began to speak. "Commander Shepard, Is it true that you are engaged to a Turian Spectre?"

"Yes it is true, we both came together right before we went to stop the Collectors, though there may have been some chemistry before we stopped Sovereign. Ever since then we have been close." The man sat down looking pleased with the answer. "You over there by the drinks." The lady stood up, looking thankful at Shepard for choosing her. "May I ask, what happened to the Reapers just after the beam run?"

"To be perfectly honest, I'm not so sure myself. All I know is that Admiral Anderson died when trying to reach it, I almost died as well." The lady sat back down as a man stood up without being asked. "Commander Shepard, I'm Glenn Rodgrig from ANN, and I have a few questions submitted by the viewers."

"Go ahead." She gave him that kind of look she gave Saren when she was convincing him to stop.

"This question comes from Mark in Brittan,he asks What are your plans for the future?"

"Well Mark, I plan to either continue my role as a Spectre or Spend the rest of my life somewhere tropical with Garrus."

"The second question comes from Jake in New York and he asks will you help with cleanup efforts?"

"I would like to yes, but I think it is time for me to settle down, I suppose I did just save the galaxy a few months back." Glenn nodded to her and sat back down.

"I won't be taking anymore questions, now I will just get to the speech." She cleared her throat and began to speak. "Your probably wondering where I've been, 2 weeks ago I was still in a coma, not able to do anything but hear voices around me. I can't really recall anything that happened after I got hit by one a Reaper beam. Though I do know it was the implants that kept me alive, the only good thing I can say Cerberus did for me-"


She was now in a speeder heading to an apartment that Garrus had rented for the next few days. "What about Kaiden?" She asked him as they landed. "He will be fine he told me, besides he said he was going to have someone over."

"And what about your sister Garrus?" They both had forgotten about her in the past couple days. "She is fine as well, currently she is stuck helping the wounded on Palaven."

They walked into the apartment and began to get undress. As soon as they were, they flung themselves into each others arms as they went to bed. "You know, now would be a good time to find out what a human-turian baby looks like."

"Stop talking Garrus, lets just enjoy ourselves." As she began kissing him and taking off her Bra. "Right now, I couldn't agree more." He helped her take it off as they fell back onto the bed.


Hope you enjoyed chapter 5! I fixed most of the mistakes but there may be a little error here and there.

Chapter 6 will be out on Thursday! (currently working on it now)