Thank you so much for the reviews on the last chapter I super appreciate it! :D

By the way I'm going to be using Captain Aya's newly discovered first name Renee. It's such a nice name :)

I am going crazy. That is the only thing that made sense to Taylor right now. First Colby comes back from the dead and now Aya wakes up from the coma she was in to come and say hello. After three days on the moon, my brain has finally given up.

"How are you awake?"

"I woke up and the doctors say there's nothing wrong with me, so I got discharged."

"But… You had a steel beam in your chest and you were barely breathing. You had a collapsed lung. You should still be in the hospital asleep or at least in intensive care."

"I remember crashing, that's it. I must have been unconscious quite a while."

"Can Aya see me?" Colby asked.

"Aya… Actually, do you mind if I call you Renee?" It would be easier to call her by her first name, Taylor thought, since Shepard was the captain here.

"I don't mind."

"Right, you know that Colby, Adair, Antoine and Trotter died right?"

"Yes."

"Well Colby's speaking to me. I know I'm crazy and everything, but she's standing right here and she's obviously a ghost-"

"Taylor, I can see her." Renee said and she looked directly at Colby.

"W-What? But she said she got on Shepard's ship and no-one saw her. How do you explain that?"

"Maybe she hid?"

"I'm still here." Colby said, crossing her arms. "I don't know how they didn't notice me. But once I on the ship I went into the cargo room to hide and something must have knocked me out. Everything turned blue and I've just recently woke up."

"There's nothing in there to knock you out. Everything's on the floor or hanging on the wall." This was making his head hurt. He needed to unload on someone. "Colby stay here, since you're invisible. Renee come with me. I want you to meet Mari."

"You're the captain now?" Renee asked, raising an eyebrow.

"I need someone else to see her. I need to know I'm not going completely crazy."

"You've had a traumatic time, it's completely nor-"

"It's not normal!" Taylor cut in, feeling his frustration building up. "Colby was dead. She died in the Varia crash and then she was inhabited by the occupiers. You were in a coma with a steel beam in your lung. How long has it been? A few days, a few weeks? You don't completely heal from a wound like that and walk out of hospital!"

"Taylor?" Mari asked, coming out of her room. "Why are you shouting?"

"You're seeing her, right?" Taylor asked, praying she would agree with him.

"Yes… What is this about?"

"And you can see her as well?" Taylor pointed to Colby who was standing against the wall, looking concerned at Taylor.

"Who are you pointing at?"

"That's it. I'm going crazy." Taylor went to his room and shut the room. He collapsed on the bed, holding his head in his hand, very close to pulling out his hair. Okay breathe… You can handle hostile body snatching aliens (almost) so you can handle ghosts.

A knock sounded on the door. "Taylor, it's Mari. Can I come in?"

Taylor took another deep breath. "Yeah, might as well."

The door opened and Mari stepped in. "What is it, Taylor? You've been freaking out since your visit with Renee in hospital."

"I can see Colby. She was a crew member on the Varia and she was like you; wanting to take care of everyone and make sure they were all right. But when the ship crashed, she died along with four others and Renee went into a coma and nearly died because of a steel beam in her lung. She was still in a coma when when we touched down on Earth, she can't have just woken up."

Mari, who had sat down next to him put an arm around his shoulders. "Maybe you're grieving, or it's just delayed shock. Things happen which you can't explain. Get some rest and just be happy Renee is better okay?"

Taylor breathed a huge sigh and laid down. "I haven't slept in a while."

"Maybe that's it."

"Alright. Goodnight then, I guess."

Mari smiled, reassuringly. "I'll see you later."

It was midnight, when Taylor woke up. He still felt groggy and checked the time. He would usually sleep through anything, but if his life is anything to go by recently, it's safe to say his sleeping patterns have changed.

He got up and left his room looking for the toilet, when he noticed something out of the corner of his eye.

He rubbed his eyes and looked again. There was a faint glow coming from the cargo bay. Cautiously making his way there, he kept a lookout for the ghost of Colby but she was nowhere to be found. He hoped with everything he had that she had been imagined and only Renee was the last survivor (apart from him). Or maybe he had dreamt her too and she was still in the coma?

Shaking the thought from his head, he rounded the corner to the cargo bay the glow becoming brighter and more blue as he got closer. Just as Colby explained.

Standing outside the door, he looked around but there was still no sign of Colby or anyone else living that was.

I can do this. Gathering up all his courage, Taylor keyed in the code and the door opened, blinding him for a second, before it disappeared.

When he took his hands away, his mouth dropped. No, no, no, no. It was his still-exhausted mind playing tricks on him. Where was Colby? Or Renee?

He closed the door and went back to his room. When I wake up, everything is going to be fine.

What or who do you think Taylor saw?