They like spending time with one another. When she first started making her rounds it was to get to know her crew, and then it turned into realizing she genuinely enjoyed talking to these people. Maybe Garrus is, well, not quite abrasive, but he did need a few edges smoothed out a little. And he took to it—really took what she said to heart, and then she started asking questions. Got to know him. Asked how he got started with C-Sec, how long he'd been a detective for. Some are things she could have easily found by consulting files, but there was something so impersonal in that. It had thrown him at first, but he’d answered her questions with ease.
Then they started getting a little more personal and less work related, both of them. He asked what she was humming once, and she asked for any suggestions for dumb vids to watch for a distraction. I could join you, he said, and then immediately tried to walk it back. Too forward, and then she'd tilted her head and told him to meet her at shift change. And then suddenly that found the two of them hunkered down beside the Mako with a vid she’s never heard of and one he’s started to overthink. They sit side by side, legs stretched across the floor, and she comments damn, she didn't realize how long they were compared to hers and it pulls a laugh from him.
There’s a shift to friendship, and maybe that’s the starting point, and then they reach Virmire, then Ilos. Then there’s a moment of fear when they think she’s been crushed after that fight with Saren, only for her to come crawling out of the wreckage. They celebrate after, because of course they do, and maybe he’s just this shade of having a few too many and she might regret that last shot, but she leans against him, pressed into his space that makes their shuttle bay watch party pale in comparison. He has to lean down to hear her ask Do you have any more vids? That last one was terrible. He glances at her and says You asked for something bad, you can’t complain about that and she laughs, head back and he almost reaches out to keep her steady, even if she doesn’t need him for that.
They part ways after, for him to go back to C-Sec and her to trail across the galaxy, and he spends more time than he wants thinking he should have gone too. Movie night when I swing by the Citadel again? she sends him, and he says, Drinks are on me.
