The Tide [F!Shep/Kolyat, no Thane romance] 1/?
anonymous
February 6 2014, 00:55:35 UTC
[This is a self-fill (pretty sure, anyway... oh the joys of anonymity) so I'm not too worried about it being slightly off. It's a little AU in regards to Kolyat's age and has a bit of a hand-wave for the game ending, but I hope you all enjoy it anyway.]For the longest time, Kolyat Krios hadn’t even been sure he had a father. It wasn’t anything to be worried about on Kahje, given the number of drell who entered into Contracts or simply found the means to leave and never return to the watery planet. Regardless, his mother had been adamant that somewhere out in the vastness of space was a man who had contributed to his existence and cared enough for their survival that he sent money and gifts every so often
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The Tide [F!Shep/Kolyat, no Thane romance] 2/?
anonymous
February 6 2014, 01:01:50 UTC
It was easy enough to slip away from his new caregivers. He may not have had a Contract, but that didn’t mean that his skills were anything less than professional. He only lacked practical experience and that, at least, was hard to come by if you were trapped planetside as he was. As he was going through the last of his mother’s belongings, however, he found references to an inheritance being kept for him on the Citadel. A supposed legacy for him when either he came of age or his father finally died. He was clever though, and as soon as he had finished transferring the remains of his mother’s accounts to those under his management, he also wrangled control over the credits Thane had left behind in trust. With more credits at his disposal at twenty-two than most his age would see in ten years, Kolyat left his watery home and the memory of his mother behind for good
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The Tide [F!Shep/Kolyat, no Thane romance] 3/?
anonymous
February 6 2014, 01:04:43 UTC
They began with small talk, once he’d sat rather stiffly on the couch beside her. How he was settling into the C-Sec offices and the Normandy’s most recent trip to Tuchanka became the backdrop for a meandering conversation about the Council’s most recent blunders and the rumors (unsubstantiated, of course) of a change in the identity behind the galaxy’s most notorious information broker. Finally he found the opening he was looking for when she asked if he had been in contact with his father at all since they were last on the Citadel
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The Tide [F!Shep/Kolyat, no Thane romance] 4/?
anonymous
February 6 2014, 01:07:29 UTC
He noticed when she turned back to the couch that her smile was slightly crooked and he recalled that she had had a scar once which had split not only her eyebrow but both lips. It must have been healed with the rest of her wounds when Cerberus decided to return her to life. Its absence had obviously not changed her muscle memory, but the expression now seemed somehow less than the ones he’d seen in press photos and vids after the takedown of Sovereign. He snapped out of his daze when she nudged his arm gently, blinking at the contact, before acknowledging his rudeness with a nod and another murmured apology
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Re: The Tide [F!Shep/Kolyat, no Thane romance] 4/?
anonymous
April 13 2014, 10:40:17 UTC
Wow. Really diggin' this fic. So refreshing to see such an imperfect Thane, at least as far as Kolyat is concerned. Also refreshing to see Shep in this light.
The Tide [F!Shep/Kolyat, no Thane romance] 5/?
anonymous
February 6 2014, 01:10:27 UTC
Like any good hunter, Shepard waited for her prey to make the first move. Miranda, for her part, seemed startled to find the young drell there rather than Captain Bailey. Kolyat wasn’t sure why, as she would have had to pass the man’s desk to find the break room at all, but he kept his dark eyes on the newcomer; Lawson was Cerberus, through and through, and therefore not to be trusted. After a brief stare-down, Miranda seemed to decide to just ignore him and turned her full focus on her Commander.
“Our next contact has been located. You are required to be there for the meeting.”
“And when is this meeting?” Shepard asked after nearly a minute of uncomfortable silence.
Kolyat swore he could feel Miranda trying not to grind her teeth. “As soon as possible
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The Tide [F!Shep/Kolyat, no Thane romance] 6/?
anonymous
February 6 2014, 01:16:11 UTC
Bailey was right, not that he would ever admit as much to the Captain. Not two days after the Normandy’s shore leave was complete, he received a not only a message from his father, but one from Shepard as well. It was interesting to read about their missions from two different perspectives. While Thane continued to focus seemingly strictly on the end goal and the Commander’s prowess in battle, Shepard’s rambling summaries were punctuated with observations of not only her surroundings but her squad and their reactions to whatever mess they’d been dragged into this time. He wondered idly if her official reports to the Alliance before the hunt for Saren had been this colourful
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The Tide [F!Shep/Kolyat, no Thane romance] 7/8
anonymous
February 6 2014, 01:19:15 UTC
He arrived on the Presidium too late to assist in preventing the assassination of the salarian councilor. Not that he would have taken that pleasure away from a dying man, but perhaps the wiry human would not have escaped so easily had both Thane and himself been there to prevent him. He was pleased to see her at Huerta Memorial, though there was never a doubt that she would be there for his father’s last moments. When the rites were done and the prayers had all been said, she touched his arm lightly, eyes thoughtful as she peered up at him from where she stood at his side
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The Tide [F!Shep/Kolyat, no Thane romance] 8/8
anonymous
February 6 2014, 01:21:00 UTC
It was almost pathetically easy to be assigned to Earth when it became clear it would be the war’s final battle site, for good or ill. He had been on an entirely different continent when he heard about the Final Push, as the media had taken to calling it, but in the aftermath of the shockwave, he wasted no time getting to London to help search the wreckage. There were so many bodies - so few of them able to be saved - but only one he cared to find. There was a shout from nearby and his head snapped around to see a burly lieutenant hefting a piece of concrete off of one of the many piles. This one, however, held something precious.
“We found her!”
“Admiral!”
“She’s alive!”
“Medic!”The call ran down the line of rescue workers like wildfire, everyone craning their necks for a look at their Saviour. Kolyat forced himself to continue extracting the mangled squad of turians he’d uncovered instead of rushing to her side. He would do no good over there, getting in the way of actual doctors. She may not like him personally, but Miranda
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Really diggin' this fic. So refreshing to see such an imperfect Thane, at least as far as Kolyat is concerned. Also refreshing to see Shep in this light.
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“Our next contact has been located. You are required to be there for the meeting.”
“And when is this meeting?” Shepard asked after nearly a minute of uncomfortable silence.
Kolyat swore he could feel Miranda trying not to grind her teeth. “As soon as possible ( ... )
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“We found her!”
“Admiral!”
“She’s alive!”
“Medic!”The call ran down the line of rescue workers like wildfire, everyone craning their necks for a look at their Saviour. Kolyat forced himself to continue extracting the mangled squad of turians he’d uncovered instead of rushing to her side. He would do no good over there, getting in the way of actual doctors. She may not like him personally, but Miranda ( ... )
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