This chapter may seem a little slow.

Its just the start of everything.

A chapter story.

Garrus.

Kaidan.

Shepard.

Inspired by the Gilmore Girls.

It'll get better later on I promise.

I'll try and stick to this one I swear!

I own nothing.

Enjoy.

"So at what point of our relationship are we at? I mean, its all a little mixed up don't you think?" Shepard managed to say at last, looking up at Garrus. Garrus lifted a talon underneath his chin, pondering it for a minute. Shepard waited, feeling the nervousness hit her.

"Well…I've read in human social booklets about relationships and…well I've heard that a 'couple' goes on a few dates to see if they're compatible with each other and to see if they want to ultimately be with that person. But since I already know you, maybe we could just skip that and go right ahead with the 'relationship status'."

That surprised her. Shepard looked up at him curiously, raising an eyebrow, and she could've sworn she felt her heart beat a little bit more excessively at that moment. "You sound like as if you just quoted that from a book."

"Hmm…maybe I did." Garrus said with a casual shrug, trying to wave it off as nothing. "But the thing here Shepard is that, there's something here. Maybe we were just blowing off steam…I don't know. But…I'd rather not think of it that way." Garrus admitted, his gaze settling on the floor. "At one point during the…you know…I thought there was a moment."

Shepard took a deep breathe and went for it. "There was a moment. There was." She confessed, a small smile appearing. Would this ruin their long term friendship? At this point she really didn't care. Just as long Garrus was with her.

"Well…I'm uh glad to hear that." Garrus gave a throaty chuckle and turned back to his calibrations, a turian grin working up on his face. Shepard softly let go of her breath, feeling a large weight lift off her shoulders literally. Ever since that night she couldn't decide where to go after that. Were they still just friends, bed buddies, or something more?

Their previous conversation ran through her head multiple times and she processed it slowly as she asked Rupert to make her some hash browns, leaning against the counter, deep in thought. "Commander…Commander…uh Shepard?" Rupert finally had to snap his fingers in front of her face and Shepard nearly jumped out of her skin, apologizing to him and taking the offered food, going off to sit down at the mess hall tables.

She could hear the whispered words already. 'What's up with the Commander?' 'I heard she was just in the main battery room.' 'Do you think something happened between her and the turian?'

Shepard just ignored the whispered questions and statements, picking at her food, pushing it aside. After a few minutes of deep in thought pondering and problem solving, she decided to just abandon her food and go off to her cabin, gaining a few stares. "Me…and Garrus…Commander Shepard is with Garrus Vakarian." She repeated to herself on the slow crawl up to her room on the elevator, willing her mind to accept the new 'relationship status' as Garrus had called it.

Passing by her dead fish and dying hamster, her gaze travels over to Kaidan's fallen holoframe. Standing there awkwardly, staring intently at the holoframe, she shakes her head slowly. "Good bye Kaidan." She says to herself quietly, allowing a small sad smile and turns to walk off back to the elevator.

She'd make this relationship work with Garrus. No matter what.