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Chapter 9:

While the Illusive Man's plans were unraveling, Madison and her crew were under some much deserved relaxation. No worries, no fighting, no wearing heavy armor for hours at a time. Just eat, sleep, and repeat. Madison awoke to the crying from the crib. She sat up in bed and sighed. When she went to turn to the crib, Garrus was already there lifting the child out of the crib.

"Hey now, no need to cry." Garrus said in his soft voice as he swayed his arms from side to side the way Madison showed him how to do it. "Let's get you clean up and fed." He said to the little girl as she started calming down. He slowly walked to the table they set up for her. He shifted her to hold her in one arm and he laid down a blanket for her to lay on. He carefully laid her down and unstrapped the diaper.

"How can such a little human child empty themselves so much." Garrus said. Madison chuckled and stood up. "Madison I hear you, go lay down I can handle this."

"You sure big guy?" Madison asked.

"Yes I'm sure I can handle her. I watched and memorized all your tactics in taking care of her so relax." Garrus said with a smile. Then he growled. "Oh come on Faith don't pee on me. Why the hell didn't my shields go up?" He asked the air in frustration. Madison chuckled and sat down and watched them with a smile. After Garrus dried himself off, he finished putting on a new diaper for the little girl, then picked her up and walked to the kitchen. He grabbed a bottle of a white liquid he assumed, was the concoction Madison called 'formula'.

'Why in the world they make her drink this repulsive stuff is beyond me. It smells terrible. But I guess it's the best humans have to artificial milk from the mother.' Garrus though to himself. He then grabbed a new nipple out of a bag and put it on the bottle.

'Why do they even call it a nipple? It looks nothing like a nipple, at least not like Madison's. Wouldn't it have been easier to just name it 'infant straw'? No they have to compare it to a part of the female body that looks nothing like it, instead it looks like one of Madison's toes. I don't know anymore, humans are strange.' Garrus said. He put the nipple to Faith's lips and she eagerly sucks on it drinking the formula. He mandibles widened into a Turian smile.

'I love these two Humans though. Besides... What other Turian looks as stylish as I do holding a human infant.' Garrus though with a arrogant smile.

"Garrus you can't be stylish in everything you do." Madison said with a smile as she entered the kitchen, knowing full well what Garrus was thinking with the smile on his face.

"Madison I'm hurt. If I can't be stylish in everything I do I might as well be as dull as the color grey." Garrus said with a grin.

"Garrus your plates are grey." Madison said with a confident victory smile.

"If you haven't noticed by now the blue clan pattern on my face that makes everything I do look incredibly awesome, then Madison I'm relieving you of duty until you get your eye sight checked." Garrus said with a chuckle. Madison laughed and walked over to them.

"You're a clown you know that?" Madison asked and she wrapped her arms around him.

"A what?" Garrus asked. Madison sighed.

"A person who tries to make jokes, wears ridiculous clothing and has a colorful personality." Madison said.

"Sounds like Joker." Garrus said earning a laugh from Madison.

"I mean you big guy. Why you have to be so smug and arrogant? You have to same arrogant smile when you yell 'scoped and dropped.' You have style to everything you, you are a Turian vigilante bad boy yet you stumble when you talked to me when I first showed you interest." Madison said with gleam in her eyes, Garrus knew she was only joking.

"Well someone needs to look good in our group. Besides it makes you smile and laugh, figured I give the gimmick a go until it runs dull." Garrus said.

"Too bad this doesn't last forever." Madison said as her smile faded from her face. Garrus held Faith in one are and lightly caressed Madison with the other.

"It will be one day. Just one more mission out in the stars and then finally. Some well deserve peace. What was that Mordin said he was going to do?" Garrus asked.

"Collect seashells." Madison said as her smile came back.

"Yeah, let's to that. Only thing is I can't run test on seashells, I'm not much of a scientist." Garrus said.

"Remember the song he always used to sing?" Madison asked.

"Who doesn't? However I was too busy staring at the the scalpel in his hand when he was working on my face." Garrus said. He handed the baby over to her and stood next to her. "Even though he was a crazy mad scientist, he was good friend... I remember when, he called me down, after you left his lab. He told me he saw signs of mating between us. Told me not to ingest anything and he could provide oils and lotions." Madison looked at him.

"Yeah he did the same thing to me. " Madison said.

"Then the way he would smile at you just showed he cared. Then the fact that he gave his life to save the population of the enemy. The enemy of the Salarians , the Krogan. It kills me that he was the one that had to go." He said to her.

"Yeah I know. And Thane too. He gave his life to save a member of the council. His disease was killing him, yet he still fought. I seriously believe that if Thane was in good condition like he was on the collector mission, Kai Lang would have died the moment their eyes met."

"That's true. I always wonder what would of happened if we saved Kaiden instead of Ashley." Garrus said.

"Me too. I think he had a crush on me or something." Madison said.

"Yeah..." Garrus rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly "You know. I think we should have a party before we go. Turns out, Ken grabbed all the alcohol from the ship so we should have way more then enough to knock us on our ass." Madison smiled.

"Yeah the last party was a success, why not." Madison said. Faith started to wail in her arms.

"Is she ok? I changed her and fed her." Garrus asked.

"Yes she's fine. She just needs a nap." She said. Then she got an idea. "Oh let's see if this could work." She swayed Faith in her arms slowly. She made her voice low and soft as she sang a little lullaby for her. "He was the very model of a scientist Salarian... He studied species, Turian, Asari and Batarian." She looked down at Faith, she was struggling to keep her eyes. Garrus stood besides her, he cleared his voice and made it as soft as he could.

"Ahem. He's quite good at genetics, as a subject to biology. Because he is an expert, which he knew was a tautology." Garrus sang softly. He looked at Madison and nodded, as they softly sang together.

"His xenoscience studies ranged from urban to agrarian..." They sang together. Madison laid Faith in her crib.

"He was the very model of a scientist Salarian." Madison sang quietly as a tear ran down her cheek. She watched Faith sleep. Watching her little chest rise and fall.

She reached up on her Omni-Tool and started typing away for everyone to meet here at the front of their house. She wiped her face with the back of her hand and looked up into the sky.

"Thank you Mordin. For all you did." Madison said with a smile. Garrus wrapped an arm around her as she mourned one good friend who shouldn't have to go."

*End of Chapter.*

Author's Note: I really really hope this chapter came out good. I've been really sick and literally finished this five minutes ago. I promise to make sure the next one is good. Until then please review.