Miss You Dearly

Chapter 7

She awoke to the sound of her early morning alarm. She would do a quick jog through the ship as a warm-up, then get into the real workout. It was dark in her room, dark and noiseless. She never felt like changing out of her PJs when she was going to exercise, they were light, airy, and the most comfortable clothes she owned. It seemed fitting that she'd cover them in sweat.

She threw her blanket back over the bed. Her old CO would've scolded her until the next day about not making her bed when she'd gotten up, but he wasn't here and she didn't care. She stepped out of bed and threw her hair up into something that resembled a ponytail, it would do until she felt like really getting dressed for the day.

She touched up on a few more things before she she began to walk out of the room. She didn't need a light to know where she was going, or so she thought. Her feet got caught in something against the floor and she fell with about as much grace as, well, someone falling. She hit the floor with a thud and a loss of breath when she hit her stomach. The things she tripped over groaned and shuffled, then sat up to scratch its head. How could she have forgotten about Kaidan?

He looked around aimlessly for a moment, likely unsure of where he was and confused that he was awoken by a kick to the stomach. As well as a bunch of crashing sounds. She smiled sheepishly. This whole ordeal was entirely her fault, she didn't know what else to say. She allowed Kaidan to spend the night, told him where to sleep, then completely forgotten about it and proceeded to wake him up. In a painful way at that.

"Jane?" She shivered when he spoke. His morning voice was so, rough and raspy. It was rather attractive, to say the least.

"Yeah, sorry, Kaidan," she whispered to the darkness, hoping she was making eye contact of some sort.

"What're you doing up?" He pulled up his omni-tool, dimly illuminating the room so he could see her frizzled hair and she could see his drowsy eyes, "it's so early." He mumbled.

"I like to get up to, ya know, exercise,"

"Get some more rest, you'll tire yourself out getting up at this time,"

"No no," she waved her hands defensively, even though he could barely see the gesture, she still did it, "I'm always up this early, it's nothing."

"When will you be back?" He reached out and stroked her hair, his hands had this rough feeling to them. She liked it.

"I'll be back a little later, I've got some work to do down stairs after I'm done with my workout. Feel free to stay here until you get up." she stood from his side, detangling her foot from his blanket and walking to the door.

"And Jane!" He called softly to her.

"Yeah?" She turned back to look at him.

"I love you,"

OOOOOOOOOOO

When he awoke, he watched her work. Even after being rejected so hard. He wouldn't allow this habit to just up and die. He wanted to see her with her guard down. It was an odd request, he knew, but it would make him happy.

His heart ached when he thought about her and Kaidan. He should've guessed something like this would've happened, but it still burned. When Kaidan walked through that door, Garrus stood there and watched it, waiting for the male to exit. He stood for so long, the only reason he'd left was because the crew, especially Tali, expressed worry for him. It was an embarrassing thought to look back on, but this experience sealed it. They spent and entire night together in her cabin. It was confirmed. She wanted Kaidan. He should've just backed off a long time ago.

He stood from his cot. He didn't know where he was going, but after thinking, he didn't want to look at her at the moment. Not now. It hurt too much. He wanted to do something else since he would have spent most of his time struggling to force himself back to sleep. It was early, almost all of the crew was asleep, he basically had the rest of the ship to himself.