Garrus wasn't sure what time it was. He assumed it was late because everyone except the skeleton crew on the ship was asleep. He was about to grab a dextro snack before going back to sleep when he heard the elevator go off. He looked in the direction of it and saw Jane come walking out. She was wearing a tank top and shorts and her hair was disheveled. Even though she looked as if she just got out of bed, he thought she looked mesmerizing as always. He was torn from his thoughts when she spoke up.

"Did I wake you?" She asked.

"No. Is something wrong?" He replied. He was happy to see her but she normally didn't come down to talk at this time of night.

"No. Yes. Well, maybe." She sounded a bit distraught he thought. "Remember when I told you about my whole squad being taken out by a thresher maw?"

"Yeah. I imagine that had to be hard."

"Okay. And remember when we found that one squad that had been killed by another thresher?" She asked.

"Yeah. Those things aren't easy to take down even with the mako. I'd guess they were no match." He replied.

"Well, I talked with the admiral whose command they were under. He claimed they would know better than to walk into a thresher nest and he said he found evidence that a group called Cerberus was involved." She trailed on, sounding both drowsy and angry.

"Isn't that the group that that Toombs guy told you had set up your squad?" He asked.

"Yeah. It can't be a coincidence." She replied.

"How are you doing with that? With finding out he survived?" He realized he didn't ask her about that yet.

"I don't know. Angry and guilty." She replied. Garrus noticed she had her fists clenched. She went on to tell him that she couldn't believe someone could do that to people just to experiment on them and that she blamed herself for not going back to see if anyone made it. He tried to tell her she couldn't have known and from what he heard, she was lucky she even made it out alive. She looked like she was contemplating what he told her and said she knew he was right but she still didn't like losing people or leaving them behind. From what he'd seen of her, of her determination and compassion, he could see why she was taking it so hard. She told him that the admiral had told her on a secure channel that he found the Cerberus faction base but that he said they were after him. She said he had disappeared but he gave her the location in his message. She asked if they could go check it out. He told her they could go immediately after she's dressed and he would wake Wrex. She thanked him and went to go get ready.

"Hey, Wrex. Get up." He yelled across the bay.

"Stupid pyjacks... Grr...huh?" Wrex sleepily replied.

"Come on, we have to go." Garrus slapped his back.

"Wha? Time to go blow up some geth?" Wrex opened his eyes.

"No. Some defected alliance humans." He told him.

"What for? They working for Saren too?"

"No. It's more of a personal mission Shepard asked us to do." He told Wrex.

"Ooh. I see. The commander asked you for a favor and you were all too happy to help." Wrex teased.

"Shut up and just get ready." Garrus said annoyed but Wrex was already walking towards the elevator saying krogans were always ready for a fight.

Once on the planet where the navpoint was, they soon found a facility. The mako was oddly quiet. Jane wasn't driving crazy or yelling while she took out the turret guns. She just shot them down quickly and ran into the facility without saying a word. Garrus and Wrex had to run to keep up with her. Once inside they found rachni. Garrus was wondering where Cerberus got them but Jane just shot them down quickly and continued into the facility. In the last room after taking out some Cerberus agents, she just said the admiral wasn't there and headed back out into the mako. Jane was quiet on their drive to the next facility again.

"Shepard." Wrex spoke up. "What's up? Pyjack got your-"

"Shut it, Wrex." She interrupted, irritated.

"But-" He started.

"I said shut up!" She yelled.

"Yeah, you're right. Quiet drive is fine." Wrex mumbled. Garrus had never seen her like this. He gathered Wrex felt something was wrong too since he stayed quiet the rest of the drive.

Upon reaching the second facility, Jane again took out the turrets then got out and shot down the surrounding guards without saying a word and quickly ran into the facility. Inside they found thorian thralls. Jane quickly shot them down again but one managed to spit acid on her arm. She gasped but kept running.

"Jane, wait!" Garrus tried calling out. "We need to put medigel on-" She had disappeared down the hall before he could finish.

"Dammit." He said to himself.

"What's up with Shepard?" Wrex asked.

"Well, remember that squad of alliance marines we found that were killed by a thresher? Turns out they were lured there by Cerberus and an admiral contacted her saying he was going after them, then disappeared." He told him as they chased after Jane.

They caught up with her in the last room, she was looking around frantically.

"Damn! He's not here either!" She yelled and ran back out towards the entrance.

"Jane. We need to patch up that wound." Garrus told her as he chased after her. He and Wrex managed to catch up with her by the mako.

"We really need to take care of-" Garrus started.

"No time. I have to find the admiral." Jane interjected.

Garrus was about to argue with her but then she brought the mako to a full stop and hopped out in front of another facility. She started running into the building when guards suddenly opened fire on them. She quickly took them out then ran inside. Garrus tried to follow as quick as he could. Once they were inside, they came across more guards. They took them out. That's when Garrus noticed a forcefield with a body laying inside and rachni around it. Jane must've seen it too because she immediately shot the console to turn it off, shot the rachni, and ran to the body. Garrus heard her cursing and mumbling about being too late. She was kneeling beside the body with her omnitool out, attempting to register medigel. Garrus walked up to her and told her it was too late. She didn't say a word.

"We need to put some medigel on your wound." Garrus told her as he took out his own omnitool to do it.

"I'm fine!" She snapped.

"You are not." Garrus replied calmly. "We need to attend to that wound. If you keep going like this, you'll get yourself killed."

She finally let him give her the medigel and spoke up.

"I got the navpoint to their main facility." She said softly, getting to her feet.

"We'll go but you have to let us help you. No more running off on your own." Garrus replied.

"Yeah. We're your friends." Wrex said.

"Fine. Let's go." She said, walking towards the door.

They had arrived to the navpoint a short while later. Jane drove the mako in silence yet again. This time neither Wrex or Garrus tried to say anything. Garrus wasn't sure what else he could say. He knew he would've been as reckless as she had been if it were him. He wasn't sure what made him try to calm her down when they found the admiral's body. He had noticed that there were no scratches or bite marks on the body, only track marks from needles so he could only guess what they did to him. He blamed Jane's influence on him for trying to get her to see reason, just like she had done to him before. He didn't feel anger or resentment, he actually enjoyed the turian he was becoming under her command.

They reached the facility and all three of them took out the guards together. Jane still seemed angry but she was more focused than she had been before. Still, Garrus missed seeing her smile as she took her shots at enemies, he hoped she could be that way again. They had finally took out every last Cerberus agent in the facility and went back to the ship.

Later on, Jane had come to talk to Garrus in the cargo bay. She told him she wanted to thank him for what he said to her and forcing her to take the medigel. She admitted that even though she stopped Toombs from shooting the Cerberus scientist, she had the urge to shoot him herself. She told him when she found out what happened to her squad was all for an experiment, it had made her the angriest she'd ever been. She said it took everything in her to stick with her convictions to have the scientist stand trial and testify against Cerberus instead of letting him get shot. That she knew what Toombs needed was to get help. She again thanked Garrus for helping her and making sure she got out alive. He asked her how her arm was and she said it was fine thanks to him then she hugged him. He stood there for a second, stunned. Finally he put his arms around her to hug her back and smiled. Somehow hugging her felt right and good. He was torn from his bliss when she finally pulled away and told him she was going to get some sleep before they got to their next destination. He told her to sleep well and watched her walk towards the elevator. He noticed the motion that her hips swayed and found he couldn't stop looking. His thoughts were a mess. He noticed Wrex was looking but didn't say anything. Damn, the krogan was right he thought.