Chapter 151: Can I Talk to You for a Second?

=== Summary ===
Mini-Arc: “Secrets’ Fallout” Continues
Shepard’s temper is worn thin due to Garrus’ attempts to help her. She feels smoothed and like he forgets things that are important to her. Garrus feels like he is walking on eggshells around Shepard due to her outbursts of temper. Neither are sure how to approach the problem and both are having serious second thoughts about getting married.
With Vi out of the house for the evening, Garrus decides to try to tackle their growing disconnection by making her some coffee and himself some rylke so the two of them can sit together quietly and work on their respective paperwork. On his way to the kitchen he discovers Shepard using her capacitor nodes to perform some unauthorized physical therapy. He calls her out on overdoing it and Shepard reminds him that she didn’t ask for or require his opinion. The two of them lose their tempers- Shepard throwing past mistakes in Garrus’ face and physically striking him repeatedly before making wild accusations that he doesn’t actually want her, and doesn’t care what she wants or needs. Garrus himself loses control and attacks Shepard, throwing the fact that she accused him while she was poisoned of cheating with Verity, and that she had thought that she might have been pregnant in May and never told him, all while man-handling her. He accuses her of cheating on him. The two of them break out into an mutual, physical fight with Shepard wrenching herself from his grip before punching him squarely in the side of his face, but Shepard is still recovering and Garrus gains the upper hand and throws her to the ground with a great deal of force (we later learn that she dislocates one of her ribs from the throw) before pinning her to the ground so he can keep yelling at her. Shepard ends up using her indoctrination abilities to command Garrus to get off of her and after a large amount of effort is successful.
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