This is a teaser for the next installment of this story. You can find the next part on my profile.

You know those places that just always rub you the wrong way? The ones that you dread going to no matter what, because something terrible always seems to happen? For Garrus that was the Citadel. For the rest of the galaxy it was a wonderful place where all races could live in harmony. Where their needs were met and you could find shelter from whatever you were running from. For Garrus the whole structure was just a reminder of terrible things that had happened in his life.

This was where he had slaved away as a C-Sec officer. Seeing first hand the dark and twisted secrets the galaxy hid in its beloved haven. Where slavers smuggled living beings in crates and drugs a plenty where hidden in every little corner. And the worst of it was, the little power he had to do anything about it.

This is also where he had lost her. The first woman he had ever truly been in love with. The woman that caused him to really open his eyes to the galaxy around him and see life anew. The one woman that caused him to doubt everything he had been. And Spirits be damned if she wasn't a human.

His musings were halted, as the small shuttle he was on halted at the platform. The ride had been long and uncomfortable but what could he expect traveling all the way across the galaxy from some backwash end planet that he didn't think even had a name, to the glorious Citadel. And once again this gleaming city only brought him more reminders of pain.

Stepping out onto the platform, Garrus's icy blue orbs landed on a news screen to his right. Like most of the news lately, it was playing the same story over and over. The reason he was back at this place. He tried to not listen, tried to not be reminded but at the same time the investigator inside of him wanted to know if there were anymore leads. So with great reluctance he turned his attention to the voice of the woman, as images moved across the screen.

"-nly a week has passed since the galaxy lost its brave hero. Spectre Nihlus Kryik was found dead on a planet that is being developed to become a human colony. It appears that the Spectre had been shot dead from a great distance. It is still unsure, whether or not the murder was human related, with Kryik being one of the leading supporters of human relations with other species. The-"

Garrus had to fight back a half hearted chuckle as he heard that last bit. If only the news reporter and even the whole galaxy knew why Nihlus was all about humans. It might have had something to do with Luna. That thought brought a small clinch to his heart. It had been six years since he had walked off the citadel and disappeared after her death but he could still see it so clearly. Hear her last words to him like she whispered them in his ear. The sad words that caused him to be truly happy for a fleeting moment. She had whispered of her love for him. And she had died thinking he didn't feel the same way. And now there was no way he could go back and tell her now.

And now his mind was on her once more. The human alliance tech officer turned Cerberus experiment, that had escaped with Nihlus and became his traveling companion. When Garrus became Nihlus's student, he had had no idea about the human. He had thought her to be an AI. And after he had discovered what she truly was, they had begun a relationship that had been the oddest yet happiest one he had ever been in to date. But that was over now. She was gone and now Nihlus was a well.