LAST MAN ON THE CITADEL

Dexivea could hardly believe that even Nate was now chatting to her about a variety of subjects and made her examinations much easier even if some of the examinations were uncomfortable for him, he made sure that he took all of it and not Kurt.

Indictation of human prisoners becoming close to those in charge. Possible motivation could be social, humans appear to be very sociable beings, if unable to socialize with others, human may begin to talk to themselves and mental instability can soon follow. Recommend socializion as soon as possible, majority of infomation I, Dr Vicril have gathered has been given willingingly.

Other possible motivation may in fact be a way to avoid corrective measures, patient was very resistant to all scans and tests after capture and now patient accepts all tests without complaint despite in some cases extreme discomfort.

It should be noted that the subject known as Nate has volunteered for all tests and examinations in exchange for his fraten not being subjected to the same tests.

Recommend small probes for throat, patient can be forced to empty their stomach's if to much force is used, lubrication is highly recommended for any genital or rectal examinations to avoid pain or discomfort to patient.

See attached files on scans obtained.

Other possible motives could in fact even be a form of bonding or even sexual interest. As humans are social creatures and the most interaction the two subjects have with other life is in fact with myself, their social desire to bond and communicate may extend to those outside their race.

Sexual interest should also be concidered, although humans like turians have strong concepts of consent, also like turians they believe consent can not be given from a prisoner to those in charge of them.

Humans have a unique scent depending on hormonal changes and mood, a turian who is well prepared and trained for these scents could use them to their advantage, including deception awareness as well as short range tracking.

As for other scents, their rage can be overpowering, fear and anxiety can be unpleasant and arousal is not an unpleasant scent at all. I expect human turian relationships will one day be common, no matter the outcome of this war.

Long term relationships or genuine affection maybe possible in time, for the time being all interactions would either be one of prisoner and captor or one of enemies.

To force action is seen in much the same way turians see it, as a violation. The word they use for this crime is Rape, thankfully according to subject, humans are against it and has stated that it is seen as a war crime.

War crimes include targeting 'non combatants' which is interesting in itself. According to subject due to turian culture and society, all turians of age are concidered 'enemy combatants' while other races would be seen as 'non combatants' although that can change if need for self defense arises.

Humans have the capacity to be great allies or fearsome enemies. The human spirit is one of stubborn determination, while the human race maybe conquered, the human spirit would never be.

They will resist, they will never accept Hierarchy rule as a whole, there would be resistence that would last generations. In time they may accept Hierarchy aid and support, there is much they can learn from us and the galaxy could benefit from their presence greatly if they are guided from a distance but free to hunt on their own.

Nate had been in a far better mood since the news that humans had retaken the colony, he was asking questions about the Citadel and in particular how aliens live along side each other.

"Wait so asari can mate outside of their species?" Nate asked his mouth hanging open.

Dexivea chuckled "Yes although they don't like that term, but yes they can" she answered taking another drink of water "and there is of course other inter species relationships"

Nate raised an eyebrow "So aliens date other aliens?"

Dexivea chuckled "Yes, it's part of the reason why there was so many asari at the hospital as well as other races today, they all wanted to see you"

Nate turned bright red and stammered for an answer "This is embarrassing....."

Dexivea shook her head "Why? From what I know of your species, you are in good condition, are still able to become erect and besides you have nothing to be ashamed of"

Nate turned an even brighter shade of red "They were fear boners"

Dexivea paused for a moment "Yes I remember how you reacted to my talons during the first examinations I gave you"

Nate laughed "I just don't like those talons of yours, I don't know if humans could have get over those" he said looking at her hands, he shivered.

Dexivea looked at her talons, which she had blunted even more so after she killed that batarian who tried kidnapping Kurt, the news channels were still showing footage and even movie companies were trying to get the rights to her story.

"Turians have had relationships with many soft skinned aliens, humans are no different in that regard" Dexivea explained as she saw how blunt she had already made them "Are mine too sharp again?"

Nate shook his head "No I guess I am just being scared over nothing"

Dexivea with her sub harmonics scoffed at that "You are perhaps the bravest I have ever met, so I doubt it's fear"

Nate nodded and looked at his feet "I've been a prisoner for almost the entire length of the war. Many would say that I wasn't brave at all"

Dexivea leaned forward "Your sacrifice here could save countless human lives later on as well as allow a greater understanding of your kind"

Nate was looking back at her as she continued, his pale eyes seemed to be watering.

"You have spared your brother every uncomfortable or unpleasant test and examination. You sacrificed everything so that he would not suffer though it" Dexivea said, the two of them stared at each other in silence for a few moments before they awkwardly moved back away from each other.

Nate cleared his throat and changed the subject and to how turians would be treated in the prisoner camps.

Dexivea asked him what the conditions would be like being a turian prisoner of war.

"That depends, I'd imagine it's the same for me really" he said as he drank some of the asari tea he had been given, he was exhausted after being taken to the Citadel Hospital had countless tests all on his his bodily fluids.

"If I wasn't just some fresh out of boot camp engineer, I would think you guys would be really pressing me for infomation" he explained, he wasn't looking as pale as he once did.

"The turians captured now should be getting treated fairly well, since translators would be getting around my side by now although that depends on how much individual prisoners know" Nate explained before he leaned back "finding your homeworld would be the goal"

Dexivea was not pleased to hear that, she dreaded the idea of humans being on offensive and not on defence, truth was Dexivea thought the Hierarchy was underestimating these humans.

"Of course the real issue is lack of food for turians and any turian ship entering that system would be attacked" Nate explained "If I was you guys I would send an asari ship, armed of course it is a war zone after all" he said before he added "salarian might be interesting though" he said with chuckle.

Dexivea made her sub harmonics for confusion and of course Nate just frowned at her and rubbed his chest "I don't understand you when you do that you know?"

Dexivea laughed and apologized "Why would a salarian be interesting?"

Nate leaned forward, by now he knew more about the Council races than any human alive and even the politics of the Citadel as he was able to watch Citadel news since translators were working for him as well, at least select programs anyway.

Nate sighed "Well it could be nothing but over a hundred years ago maybe more, we had reports of UFOs abducting people and doing exams and that sort of thing....."

Dexivea's eyes went wide "Your people have proof of this"

Nate made a noise "Meh not really, somewhat outdated footage and witness reports of now long dead people. They described an aliens that looked like a salarian enough though, strange coincidence I have to admit"

Possible salarian prior knowledge of humans, can not confirm.

Dexivea made a note of that and she asked him something else "What about these capital ships you humans use? No main gun, instead has large numbers of fighters"

Nate didn't flinch at all "Must be new."

When subject was asked about the human ship fighter platform, subject lied about the design being new. Expect to see more of those ships, subject is calm and relaxed but lying, likely subject views these ships as an advantage for his kind.

Dexivea sighed "Why do you lie to me?"

Nate raised an eyebrow "Where is Palaven? And can I borrow that fancy gadget you all take off before you come in here?"

Dexivea held out her hands, she knew that he wouldn't tell her anything of value "Why would you tell me all this anyway?"

Nate sighed "I don't want turians to starve to death? Besides it's in my best interest to aid you without compromising human efforts"

Dexivea again was confused "Without compromising human efforts? What exactly does that mean?"

Nate shrugged "Basically it means that I help your guy's talk to my guys, besides now the fighting is over.... "

Prisoners are allowed to organise communication to negotiate their release, prisoners can only speak on their own behalf and not on behalf of their government however, if communcation is desired recommend asking prisoners.

Dexivea didn't look at him when he said that, she knew for a fact the Hierarchy was preparing for full scale war against humans and that earth's location was no longer a secert.

Nate swallowed hard "You.... You guys aren't done yet?" he seemed to be in shock "but there is no point anymore, I mean we took our planet back, all we have done at this point is defend ourselves" he said before he noticed Dexivea had cocked her head towards Kurt asleep in his cell, who had just stirred in his sleep.

Dexivea looked back at Nate "Do not wake him" she warned, her voice had a slight growl to it she didn't notice herself doing it, but Nate sure did and raised his eyebrows at her before he shook his head and started pacing.

It had started taking far longer than before to get Kurt to go to sleep due to him now being able to talk to Dexivea about anything.

Nate sat back down and looked down "I thought turians didn't want this fight to keep going? But now your people are going to commit to a war that won't end any time soon all for nothing than pride"

Dexivea held up her hands "They are just worried, first contact in over hundreds of years and your kind has managed to do what many thought to be impossible. You held out and even retook your planet"

Nate was clearly struggling to keep his voice down so he wouldn't wake Kurt "So because of that we should be conquered? I know you turians are tough but if you attack earth or any other human world, it will end badly for everyone"

Dexivea paused "What are you saying here?"

Nate sighed "Come on Dexi, you know us well enough by now to know what will happen if you attack not some new colony but our fucking homeworld? Shanxi will look like a bar fight in comparsion"

Dexivea grumbled "I'm just a medic, I can't......"

Nate dismissed her concerns "You are for all intents and purposes one of, if not the foremost experts on human's, so that has to count for something"

Dexivea sighed "And say what exactly?"

Nate paused for a moment before he answered "Cost, how much would it cost the Hierarchy? Shanxi didn't have anything close to the defences to what earth has. Dexi, this would weaken the Hierarchy for the batarians or the krogan"

Dexivea went to say something but Nate continued "We will get desperate and trust me there is nothing more dangerous than a desperate human"

Dexivea leaned forward and grabbed his head "Relax, you have my word I will do all I can to get them to see reason but you have to help us organize negotiations"

Nate's pale blue eyes stared back at her bright yellow eyes "I will not betray my kind Dexi" he told her.

Dexivea nodded "I don't expect you to" she said letting go of his head, the two of them stood in silence for a moment when they both heard the sound of people walking towards them.

Nate looked at her and smiled sadly "I think this is the part where your bosses want to ask me a few questions"

Dexivea looked out of the cell and saw a squad moving towards her, thinking quickly she quickly went to take the cup but found it wasn't where she had left it.

She glanced at Nate and realized she didn't have time to get the cup back off him so she grabbed her medical bag and took out a needle and gave him a shot, just in time for a turian to walk into view.

Out of all the turians who could walk in it had to be him. Kaeso Nyx, Hierarchy Intelligence and well known to every doctor for his cruel and bordering on criminal actions towards prisoners but nothing could ever be proven.

"Medic Vicril" Kaeso stated as soon as he saw her, ignoring the fact she is a trained doctor not just some medic.

Dexivea looked over at him "It's doctor actually and is there a reason you are interrupting my time with my patients?" she asked, her orders had been passed down by the Primarch himself so she didn't let him intimidate her.

Kaeso stared at Nate with hatred in his eyes "New orders" he said as he used his omni-tool to transfer her new orders.

Dexivea looked down at her orders and her heart sank.

Effective immediately all prisoners of war are now classed as withholding vital information. All infomation gathering is to take highest priority, all fleet numbers and troop numbers are to be reported immediately.

Kaeso leaned forward and spoke almost entirely with sub harmonics "Leave now and I may let you keep the puer as a pet" he offered.

With a disgusted feeling, Dexivea knew that Kaeso was not mocking her, in his mind he was being kind, offering her Kurt to adopt. A common practice with war orphans, a puer should not suffer because of a war they did not fight in.

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Dexivea swallowed the disgust and bowed "Thank you sir"

Kaeso ordered his squad to wait outside, less witnesses Dexivea realized.

Dexivea looked at Nate and tried to think of a way to tell him anything but she couldn't think of anything so she nodded as she stared into his eyes that showed nothing but betrayal.

"Dex? What's going on?" Nate asked as he looked towards Kaeso who was now staring at Kurt with malice "Dexivea? Please talk to me? Doc?" Nate was almost begging.

Dexivea looked back at him and could barely keep her face from showing emotion "I need a drink, watching these aliens all day gets tiring" she said with a chuckle, she did not think she sounded convincing.

Kaeso laughed sounding as if he believed her "Rest easy doctor, I'll take it from here"

Dexivea looked over at Kaeso and noticed he was not taking his omni-tool off, that was a strict rule of hers and one backed up by all current orders.

Nate being an engineer had already proved he is quick enough to steal from those near him. Dexivea had reported it would only take a few minutes for Nate to learn how to use an omni-tool and with it he would have access to turian fleet movements.

Dexivea didn't say anything to Kaeso and instead looked at Nate who was now glaring at her as she betrayed him and made a show of putting her omni-tool back on and flicking her eyes over to Kaeso.

If Nate could tell what she was trying to say he didn't react.

"Now human, I understand Nate is a shortened version of your full name. Please state your full name" Kaeso ordered.

Nate sat up as straight as he could "Nathaniel Boone, Private First Class 5749863 sir"

Kaeso narrowed his eyes "What can you tell me about these ships you humans use?"

Nate sighed "You got me, we call them canoes. First you take a log, then you hollow it out so you can sit in it.... "

Kaeso backhanded Nate so hard he fell from his bunk "I would not play games if I was you human"

Nate slowly stood back up, his mouth was bleeding and after he smiled a bloody grin he spat the glob of blood directly into the face of Kaeso "You hit like a bitch, no wonder you birds crying so hard"

Dexivea knew she should go before Kaeso noticed that she was disturbed by watching this, if reports of what Kaeso did to prisoners was true then she needed to think before this got a lot worse.

"These fighter platforms how many does your kind have?" Kaeso asked as he kicked Nate in the stomach and sent him back into the wall.

Dexivea needed to think, Kaeso maybe a monster but he still outranked her and she was unlikely to find any turian who outranked him that would agree with her, unless Nate and Kurt were not under turian authority....

Dexivea quickly left as she could hear the sound of Nate answering back with "Billions" the sound of defiant human laughter was stopped by the sound of another hit and a body hitting the ground.

"That the best you got? If that's the best you can do, one day your daughters will screaming for joy on human cock" Nate laughed before he screamed in pain again.

Dexivea ran as fast as she could, she knew that every second Nate and Kurt were left alone with Kaeso was a second of pain and suffering.

Dexivea ran straight into the asari councillor office, ignoring all the protests she could hear coming from Tevos support staff.

"Councillor forgive the intrusion but the two human prisoners are no longer safe under turian guard" she warned, Dexivea started to pace back and forth.

Tevos had only just taken over as the asari councillor and already she had to deal with turians greeting a new species by way of a gun. Tevos had made her disapproval at the Hierarchy very well known every chance she got and was even pushing for both the Primarch and the turian councillors to resign over the incident as well as being currently the biggest name driving for negotiations with humanity.

Tevos snapped her head up "What exactly is going on?"

Dexivea sighed "Kaeso Nyx is 'questioning' them now. Councillor, Nyx is vicious and cruel even more so to prisoners of war who currently have no rights on the Citadel"

Tevos stood up while rubbing the bridge of her nose "So you want the Republics to take custody of these human's? I hope you have thought of a reason for me to do this"

Dexivea sighed "Anything. There is a number of things the republics would be interested in, including the possibility of a common ancestor as well a human myth of salarians appearing on earth over a hundred years ago"

Tevos coughed before she raised her eyebrow "You can't be serious?" she asked before sighing again "So research purposes? I could work with that, this could help negotiations as well" she said as paced back and forth "I will make some calls"

The vid screen interrupted them, a breaking news update. Nate was out of his cell and currently running around the Citadel.

Dexivea raced back to C-Sec cells and found Nate's cell with human blood splatted around the room, including a human ear laying on the floor.

Kurt was awake, crying uncontrollably and bleeding out of one ear, he was hysterical claiming a turian tried to shoot him.

The security footage was recovered, new camera's had been placed inside since Kurt was kidnapped. Something Kaeso Nyx would not have known about.

The footage from the cell showed Nate being tortured, his face being cut up by turian talons and even a ear being cut off.

Despite what was done to him, Nate remained defiant and it was only when Kurt was dragged into Nate's cell that Nate turned serious.

Kaeso then committed yet another war crime, he took out his pistol and aimed it at Kurt and if Nate had not tackled Kaeso at that moment Kurt would have been shot.

With a desperate rage, like the namesake all humans had earned Nate attacked like a crazed pyjak, slamming him against a wall from behind, Nate then hit Kaeso with that delicate asari tea cup that couldn't have hurt but when Nate used the broken piece to stab Kaeso in the eye and around his face, that's when Kaeso screamed.

Nate reached around and rammed his fingers into Kaeso's other eye socket and used the hold he had on Kaeso's skull to slam his head into the wall over and over.

Nate was now covered in turian blood, his open wounds would also mean he would soon be getting an infection.

Nate picked up Kurt, who was unconscious and cried over what he must have thought was his fraten's corpse, with a scream of pain and rage he stood up and stripped Kaeso of everything of value before locking Kaeso in Nate's cell.

Nate could then be seen strapping explosives to his chest, Nate had warned how dangerous a desperate human was and now he was showing her first hand.

Human's have many phases and some can be very telling. A particular favorite of mine is "There is nothing more dangerous than a man with nothing left to lose"

Subject tells me that human's can sometimes become very irrational and unpredictable if stressed, scared, enraged or by grief.

Human's will also sometimes kill themselves with explosives in the hope of killing the enemy. If a human is seen wearing explosives, treat the threat as genuine.

Tevos looked at Dexivea "Where would he go?"

Dexivea paused for a moment "Spirits. He is going to message the human fleet"

Tevos frowned "What for though? To bring them here? "

Dexivea started to run towards where she knew Nate was "Palaven's location" she explained "the war is still happening for him and now it's on the Citadel"

Keri T'Vessa was currently reporting the story of her lifetime, she had been outside C-Sec when the human had came running out holding a turian pistol and had improvised explosives strapped to his chest

The human had walked out of the cells covered in turian blood and dripping his own red blood from his face, leaving purple but mostly red and blue stains on the floor.

He had caused quite a few to run away screaming from him, he looked around lost before he walked right into a group of C-Sec guards, including the squad Kaeso had sent outside.

"Let's have a quiz birdies?" the human asked, his voice was breaking from the stress and he was holding a detonator while his other arm pointed a pistol at them "escaped human prisoner loose on the Citadel, with enough explosives strapped to his chest to put a hole in galactic government"

The human looked around and started moving towards a stair case while C-Sec aimed their rifles at him and called in bomb squad.

"I drop this and they will pick us all up with a sponge" he explained "turians talk of honor and duty but it's all lies" he said as he walked backwards towards the stairs

"Back the fuck up!" he screamed at one turian who was trying to flank him.

Keri by dumb luck ended up near the human, she could be the first to interview a new species, the Hierarchy had refused to answer anything about humans other than pre-approved talking points, so much the reason behind the conflict was kept secret.

The human had locked eyes with the press that had gathered around to get an updates on the war with the humans, Keri didn't run unlike the rest of the reporters.

The human moved towards her and asked "Give me a tour would you?" he said as he grabbed her arm "long range communication where would that be?"

Keri pointed upwards "Up, but there would be no way you could get there"

The human laughed a manic sounding laugh "Then I'll make something up"

What surprised her was he insisted the camera stayed on at all times.

"What exactly do you want?" Keri asked him as the human dragged her into one office.

"I want my fucking life back" The human answered with tears in his eyes "that's not happening so next best thing is for me to relay the location of Palaven to the human fleets"

Keri was in shock but hid it well "Are you going to kill me?"

The human shook his head "Your not a hostage, your helping me get my side of the story out. I have no reason to kill you or even hurt you, if you don't want to talk just walk out that door" he said looking into the camera, while pointing to the door.

Keri took a deep breath "You say that with a bomb attached to your chest"

The human sighed "No one would have let me take two steps out of my cage if I didn't have this on, you know that. I just want to make a call"

"Okay so I'm not in danger but are any civilians on the Citadel?" Keri asked, her camera zoomed in on C-Sec following him from a distance but still close enough to shoot him.

The man sighed "Turians under fourteen are non combatants same with every other race.... "

Keri looked at the human "Are you saying every other turian is classed as a combatant? Your preparing to fight every turian here?"

The human shrugged "They all serve in the military from fifteen and all of them can be recalled to serve if for example, a new species homeworld is invaded" he explained.

"Besides what choice do I have, they will either shoot me on sight or they will torture me to death" the human said as he wiped blood away from his eyes.

"There is no torture on the Citadel, it's illegal" Keri told him.

The human laughed and looked into the camera, his face covered with blood made him look dangerous "Take a look at me and say that again" he challenged her.

Keri noticed the human had wounds over his face and on one side of his head, he seemed to be missing one of those flaps of skin humans seem to have on the sides of their heads.

"How did you get those injuries?" Keri asked as she watched Nate barricade them inside the building, before he started to take apart grenades that he must have stolen from some turian along the way.

"Turian cut my ear off trying to get me to talk" Nate explained as he checked another frenquency.

Keri looked into the camera "Torture on the Citadel? Do you know the turians name?"

The man looked at her like she was an idiot "You know I didn't think to ask"

The man was now searching channels on a long range communications headset "Nathaniel Boone, Private First Class 5749863 reporting please come in" he almost screamed into the headset.

Keri's camera zoomed in on the man's face "Admiral Dresher speaking, what's your situation Private?" a female voice came though the speakers after a moment's pause.

Nathaniel smiled but started to cry again "Captured ma'am, birds got me and my brother and took us to some place they call the Citadel"

"We have heard of it" The Admiral admitted.

"I'm sending you star charts they have here. There is so many other aliens out here ma'am" Nathaniel said as he wiped away tears "The Citadel, you should see it ma'am, it's beautiful but the birds don't want us here and they are planning to attack earth"

"You did good son, what's going on there? How did you get access to a radio?" The human Admiral asked.

"That's the thing ma'am, I was cooperating since they had my brother. I never answered anything that would hurt us ma'am but they did tests and exams on me" Nathaniel said audibly crying now "they did all of them to me instead of my brother, that was the deal but they..... They shot him ma'am, six years old and they shot him, right in the head"

Keri gasped as her own headset was going insane from her news station, telling her to ask certain questions but Keri knew to keep quiet for now and just record whatever happened next.

"I made quite a mess things here ma'am. When I escaped.... I strapped explosives to myself with a improvised trigger, I'm on the news here, locked in some police station of some kind with an alien reporter" Nathaniel explained "I..... Don't know what to do now ma'am?"

Keri stood up at that point and walked closer to the human "We are live right now, you can tell the Citadel and the Council anything you want"

The human Admiral had asked to speak with the Council immediately and then asked Nate to surrender once communication with the Council had been made.

Dexivea was watching the news as she tried to get closer to the office Nate had locked himself in.

After getting authorized to be allowed onto the scene, Dexivea had managed to get to the door and talk to Nate.

"Fuck off Dex, you betrayed me and now he's dead. He's fucking dead and it's because of you and your fucking kind" Nate screamed though the door at her.

Dexivea had nothing to prepare her for this, Nate always acted to protect his fraten and everything she knew about him and humans was based around that simple understanding. She had no idea of how he would react to anything.

"That's where your wrong, Kurt is alive, hurt but he is alive" Dexivea explained "please let me in so we can talk" she asked.

Nate paused for a moment before he opened the door.

When Dexivea saw Nate up close she could see the individual talon scars that covered his face and the blood loss from his missing ear was making him pale in skin colour again, like how he was after they took all those blood tests.

Nate looked outside, his eyes were red and swollen, his nose was dripping and his facial wounds looked irritated. Infections from turian talons.

Despite his wounds, Nate had a manic energy to him, pacing back and forth as the voice of a human Admiral was ordering him to stand down.

Dexivea took all this in before Nate placed the pistol in her face "This is for Kurt" he snarled shaking with rage, the scent of his grief and rage was so thick she could almost taste it.

She quickly held up her hands, what she knew as a sign of surrender for humans "I can prove it" she told him and held up her omni-tool.

Kurt could be seen laying down as doctors crowded around him and tried their best to repair the damage done to his inner ear.

"We need your help Nate" She pleaded "he has the best doctors we have but they don't know human anatomy that well" Dexivea told him.

Nate paused for a moment before he shook his head "Lies, that's all you turians do. I trusted you! You swore on your honor that Kurt would be safe, that all those exams and tests would show the Hierarchy we were not a threat and now Kurt is dead because of you"

Dexivea looked him in the eyes "I failed! I am trying to save you and Kurt here but you have to surrender. He is alive"

Nate looked outside and could see a large crowd gathered.

Dexivea followed his gaze "They are here for you. Public didn't know anything about humans or what happened..."

"What happened is we were attacked for exploring, you kept attacking us because we fought back. Turian honor is an illusion, as soon as it's convenient you will drop it like a bad habit" Nate snarled back at her, he shook his head, his eyes looked unfocused.

Dexivea looked at Nate "I know. But I had no part in that, my shame is that I could not keep my patients safe but I am here now and I need your help, just surrender please"

Nate laughed a manic laughter at that "So I can go back to being a lab rat? So I can be used a turian scratching post? LOOK AT ME!" he screamed as the bright red human blood dripped off his face.

Keri had stayed silent until now "Surrender to someone else then? They need you alive" Keri said as she walked to the window.

"My station is being flooded with support, all for you, there is even a volus laywer outside willing to fight the Hierarchy on your behalf. Do you know what a big deal that is? Volus almost never say anything against the Hierarchy but there is one there now" Keri explained.

Nate rubbed his eyes, and stumbled a bit but when Dexivea moved forward to catch him he pointed the gun at her again "I....... I just need to think"

Dexivea nodded as she backed away "Blood loss and dextro infection would make it hard to think clearly" she explained calmly "I am telling the truth though, Kurt is alive" Dexivea's heart was pounding, she could tell Nate was ready to die and that bothered her.

Nate looked at Keri "I'll surrender once I know the Admiral is talking to your side" Nate said as he staggered again, he left a red hand print on the wall when he used it to balance himself.

Dexivea turned her head to the sound of the human Admiral's voice "Admiral, I am Dr Vicril, while I will happily pass on your message. The other races would be furious with the Hierarchy if they were to attack you now, all I ask is assistance now in healing a young human" Dexivea looked at Nate and added "two humans, I should say"

"Keep this channel open if you can, I will get our medical staff on the line to assist" The Admiral said before she added "I trust you know we know where all your homeworlds are now? We will make it hurt if this is a trap" she warned.

Dexivea told the Admiral that she did and after she relyed the message to both Tevos and the soon to be sworn in new turian councillor and inital talks were under way.

Nate stood up and that was when the aliens noticed he didn't do anything to the vest he was wearing, he simply dropped the detonator and took the explosives off and gently placed them on the ground.

"It was a fake? You lied to me?" Dexivea looked down at the device and she still thought it was real.

Nate shook his head "Bomb is real but not connected to the detonator. I didn't have the parts or the skill to do that"

Nate looked at Dexivea and added "I didn't lie, you just assumed they were armed"

Keri made sure she zoomed in on the device "A lie, C-Sec outsmarted by a human" she said into the camera.

Nate slowly walked out with Keri and Dexivea holding him up on both sides, he was unarmed again and looking around at the cheering crowd. Some of which were chanting "Justice for Kurt" as well anti Hierarchy chants.

Two years later.

Dexivea drummed her extremely blunted talons again on the table, she had spent over three hours just to decide what to wear and her nerves were almost gone now.

"Will you calm down? Humans are everywhere now. I don't understand why these ones are so different" the turian clerk said.

Dexivea sighed, the clerk just didn't get it. These two humans had not left human space for two years and had only come out recently because of a movie based on what happened with Kurt, Dexivea and Nate as well as others.

The movie had a female turian and two human males as the leads but was made into a romance movie as inaccurate as it was, it never seemed to matter, even Nate with a fake bomb on his chest had been added to the movie as well.

The result was a smash hit, turian teenagers would later rebel against their parents and go out of their way to watch the movie while humans appeared on turian worlds far sooner than any experts had predicted.

Nate had tried to avoid being in the spotlight but Kurt had insisted on wanting to meet the actress playing the 'version' of Dexivea, the actress had been eager to meet him at opening night.

That was last night and they were still on the Citadel, so Dexivea had sent the Allaince a message saying she would like to meet them again.

After exchanging contact details and being told to meet them here and to say Dexivea was nervous was a understatement, she felt she had never looked better but the last time she saw Nate was when the human fleet had arrived to negotiate with the Council.

He and Kurt had been placed under heavy asari guard and no one other than the highest ranking asari were allowed to see them before they had been released into Allaince care.

Dexivea hoped they wouldn't hate her, she had felt nothing but guilt over Kurt and Nate's torture at the hands of Kaeso Nyx.

A familar scent reached her nostrils and she looked up and saw a small human puer with messy brown hair walking next to a scared older human who had scars near one ear.

Dexivea stood up and smiled at Kurt pointing at Dexivea "Dexivea Vicril" Kurt had said loudly, he struggled with her name but had managed to say it for the first time.

Dexivea lowered herself so she could look into his eyes "Hello Kurt Boone, nice to see you again" she said as Kurt wiped away tears of joy from his eyes

Nate stepped forward and just looked at Dexivea "Hi" he said awkwardly.

Dexivea stood up and looked at the human, now in Allaince dress blues, he had a sole medal on his chest and his brownish black hair was cut short on the sides with a strip of hair that ran down the middle of his head.

"Hi" she said nervously unconsciously smoothing out her outfit and fidgeting with her blunt talons.

Nate appeared to look her up and down "You look nice" he said after a moment.

Dexivea gestured to the table "Thank you. You look nice as well"

Kurt rolled his eyes "I'm going to go play with those other kids" he said getting up.

"Stay where I can see you" Nate called out before they both sat in silence just looking at each other.

Dexivea sat down with Nate and after a moment of awkward silence Nate said something she never thought he would say.

"This is awkward. How about we just start over?" Nate asked clearing his throat before he reached over and held his hand out for her to shake "My name's Nate good to meet you"

Dexivea paused for a moment before she shook his hand "Dexivea but you can call me Dexi or Dex" she said with a smile.

Nate smiled back at her "Would you like to have lunch with me Dexi? I would like to get to know you better" he asked.

Dexivea started to calm down now "I would love that. If you don't mind me asking you about earth? I have only heard stories it sounds beautiful"

Nate smiled and Dexivea could detect a pleasing scent from Nate the longer they spent around each other.