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Shepard is not really a big fan of vids. Even as a kid, she didn't really watch them. There were far more interesting things to do on the colony than watching TV. There was so much that was still left unexplored on Mindoir. Military life didn't exactly allow for a lot of down time in front of the television, either.

But with the excitement of Italy behind them now, there's little Shepard wants to do more than veg out somewhere for a few hours somewhere. And that place happens to be the level one rec room.

She would have normally just popped open her communicator and got some reading done, but the television had been left on by whoever was occupying the room last. At first, she left it on just in case they came back, but a half hour later, they had still not returned. She half-listens, half-watches what's on the screen as she thumbs out a book recommendation to Arturia on her communicator.

The television show's about a girl detective with a high school life far more exciting than Shepard could remember having back on Mindoir. The young protagonist was trying to find the person who had murdered her best friend. And she seemed to be doing a good job of it, too; for being so young, she was definitely pretty clever.

Shepard looks up once she's hit the 'Send' button and idly wonders what Garrus would think of the show.

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"Yeah. Been married for nearly five years," Wash said with a smile. "Oh, I bet that was interesting. She really don't like the Alliance, and Reavers... they are the most horrible thing you can imagine."

He nodded at her. "Yeah, I'd hate to think what it would be like without her here." From what he'd seen from other people on the station, the majority of them weren't married, so wouldn't know what it was like to be separated from their spouses, but just having someone from home would have made it easier. He was just especially lucky to have Zoe here.

"If the Reavers are anything like the Reapers, I probably can," Shepard remarks. "You guys didn't have any kids, did you?" So far, most of the people she's encountered seemed to be happily single and childless. If there's anything Shepard is thankful for, it's that she didn't have a child of her own.

Not that she could ever imagine herself with kids, let alone someone to have them with.

"You think the ship is going to take us somewhere else?" she asks. "Maybe eventually it'll start dropping us off at home." No one seemed to have been from that particular place; maybe this was just one stop on the rapid transit ride back home for all of them. Maybe no one needed to get off.

Wash shook his head, though he couldn't help thinking of the many conversations he and Zoe had on the topic. "No. No kids. Ain't the best life to bring kids up in." At least that was the excuse he was going to keep using, rather than he wasn't ready to be a father.

Wash sat back, thinking. "I hope so, but I dunno. I mean, from what I saw, it was pretty much in the past for all of us. Be a bit odd if they drop us off in the past."

"There might not ever be a best time," Shepard says. Kids were something she rarely thought about for reasons similar to Wash's -- both spoken and unspoken. She couldn't imagine herself cradling a child, nor could she imagine 'on the cusp of a Reaper invasion' to be the prime time to start settling down and raising a family. Especially since she'd likely be the one to spearhead any resistance. "It'd be a lot easier if we lived in simpler times," she says. "Though I'm not sure that times ever seem simpler. Right before I was born, FTL travel was discovered. And shortly after it, we had our first contact -- and war -- with alien life."

Shepard couldn't imagine what her parents were thinking when they decided to have children after settling on one of humanity's first colonies.

"I wouldn't mind the past, honestly. Wouldn't want to stay there, but I wouldn't mind seeing it for myself, either."

Wash pulled a face, agreeing with Shepherd, but knowing that Zoe wouldn't wait forever. Life as a criminal wasn't the best environment to bring up a baby in, but there would get to a point that she wouldn't take no for answer.

"We ain't discovered aliens," Wash said. "Space travel... There ain't be much FTL, some to get out to where we are now, but it's too expensive."

He grinned at her. "I'm fascinated by the past, by Earth that Was," he admitted. "Just the fact that people here are from then... amazin'."