I have a surprise for everyone! There are two endings! A non-romantic ending and a romantic ending!
Leaving Kasumi on the hunt, I went back to dancing taking up my spot beside Mordin.
Tali: "Sixty-seven. Holmium, very reactive, very magnetic!"
It seemed they were still naming the periodic table. What had I started?
Garrus: "Turian parties almost never end with someone reciting the elements."
Me: "I didn't think turians had parties? Doesn't the stick up your ass kind of prevent that?"
Garrus: "I'm dancing, aren't I?"
Traynor: "Sixty-eight. Erbium, atomic weight:167 and change!"
Tali: "Nice! My turn. Sixty-nine…"
Jack: "In your dreams!"
Tali: "What? I don't get it!"
Traynor: "I'll explain it later."
Garrus: "It's Thulium, in case anyone cared! Turians have trace amounts in our skin. Protects us from solar radiation."
I stopped dancing and started laughing. I was laughing so hard, I had to hold my aching side.
Cortez: "Shepard? What's so funny?"
"Sixty-nine." I was having a hard time breathing. "And you shouldn't put turian in your mouth."
Mordin: "Turians are dextro-amino. Allergic reaction in humans. Causes anapaletic shock."
Jack got it first. "Thulium's in turian skin and humans can't sixty-nine them!"
"Seventy!" Traynor said loudly to stop that train of conversation.
Mordin: "Ytterbium. Very electropositive."
I slipped out again. There was something I wanted to do before everyone was too drunk.
"Hey, everyone! Come over here for a minute!" I called over the music. "Let's get a photo to remember this. Arrange yourselves on the sofa."
"Great idea! I want a copy." Liara walked over with Cortez.
Mordin sat a cushion away from me, but Tali, with Garrus' help, slid him to my side by the shoulders. Tali then took my arm and laid it across Mordin's shoulders.
"Much better." She exclaimed wrapping her own arm around Garrus'.
"Thanks for coming, everyone. Here's to us!" I pulled Mordin closer. "Ready Glyph?"
"Of course." Glyph flew in. "If you could all please direct your attention this way…"
I checked to make sure everyone was here. "Okay. Everyone say 'Normandy'."
"Normandy!"