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Garrus got into his skycar and directed it to a McDonald's on the way to the spaceport. He still had a bit of time before Shepard's shuttle arrived, and he didn't want his stomach to be rumbling when he met her.
A number of restaurants on earth had started offering Turian/Quarian options since the war. A lot of fancy black-tie places claimed to have "authentic" Palaven fare. Garrus had tried them all, and he had not been impressed. Funnily enough, the only restaurant on all of Earth that got even close to right was McDonald's. Turian meals weren't sit down affairs. Everyone had somewhere to be, usually for some military purpose, so Turian food was nutrient dense and quick and easy to eat. The one way in which McDonald's differed was in quantity. The portions in a Small Palaven Medley were three to four times more than what the average Turian would eat in a meal.
Pulling up to the window, Garrus ordered a Large Medley with extra panem, and a soda. Soda was not something you could find on Palaven, but once the molecules were set right, it was delicious.
As the skycar made its way to the spaceport, Garrus inhaled the meal. He noticed as he did so that both his pants and his suspenders getting more and more painful. It was only after he finished the last bite of panem and washed it down with his last gulp of soda that he suddenly became concerned they might burst.
"Alright, just be careful when you hug her. Once you stand up it won't be so tight anyway. Suck it in." Garrus said to himself." The skycar landed at the port, and Garrus spent a few minutes emptying out the weeks of empty McDonald's wrappers and bags from the cabin to a nearby dumpster.
A few minutes later, he was standing at the gate watching Shepard's shuttle dock. His heart was pounding for more reasons then one. While he was terrified of her seeing him so large, he was also excited to have her back. Five months is a long time to be without someone. When she finally stepped off the vehicle, lovely as ever, she...
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