Shepard had always been a loner. Since she had been a young teen in the colonies and the slavers had butchered or enslaved everyone she had known she had been resistant to let anyone in. Even her CO Anderson acknowledged few personal details past her reports and he respected her cool strength many saw as aloofness. That was until a Lt. Kaidan Alenko.

"I think the Commander is …having relations with Mr. Vega." Specalist Traynor blurted out to EDI.

"The Commander does seem to be showing signs of pent up aggression." The AI said without agreeing nor denying.

The stress of the Reaper War was taking its effect on everyone and the Commander had just made a better show of hiding it. But with the fall of Thessia and having to support everyone else on the crew the seams were starting to show in their steadfast leader.

"Perhaps I should tell the Major?" She bit her lip, trying to get the other woman's opinion without having to directly ask.

"I was unaware the Major had an interest in Lt Vega."

"No EDI. The Commander and the Major. I mean she risked a court marshaling before the fight with Sovereign for him and he came with us after he shot Udina. …" In truth she had seen them at the Apollo Café the last time they had been in Citadel Space and it seemed they were working things out. But since then the Major had spent most of his time in the Port Observation and Shepard was doing her usual, walking the ship talking to all crew members but Samantha knew there was an edge to the Commader that she had not been able to break since the second Specter had joined the crew. Even her two closest friends Tali and Garrus had taken to asking her how she was handling it but the act was wearing thin.

"The Commander has been training Lt. Vega for his N7 program daily." The AI remarked as way of conceding the point. Since he had approached Shepard about his invitation into the highest security program and she had supported it the two had turned an area of the docking bay into a closed off training quarters and would spend at least an hour there each day.

It was not the training that bothered Specialist Traynor but rather how the Commander came up afterwards from said boot camps. She having never been a true soldier herself she knew both the soldiers were in top physical shape but the Commander always came up hair askew and sweating profusely. She also noted that the Commander would make a beeline for her showers and was never seen without her N7 hoodie afterwards. No one dared speak the implications a loud.