What's keeping you awake tersaApril 4 2012, 18:54:16 UTC
(I’ve moved on to a single!BroShep playthrough who is going to Romance Steve, and now Cortez/Shepard has consumed my brain with a billion little ficlets. This is one of them. There may be more.)Shepard slept. It was the only time, anymore, that he seemed to relax, the furrows on his forehead not so deep, the tightness around the corners of his mouth eased. Care and worry and strain sloughed away in slumber, but no amount of rest could banish the dark crescents, like bruises, under Shepard’s eyes
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Do you want me, answer yes or no (FemShep/Vega)tersaApril 4 2012, 21:58:36 UTC
Late game ME3 spoilers
Thessia had been a god damn shitstorm. Not that Menae, Tuchanka, and Rannoch had been walks in the park, but that-that had been hell. There hadn’t been banshees in those other places, and their screams would wake James from his nightmares into a cold sweat that drove him down to the armory to wear himself out. Add the other Reapers and those Harvesters-no matter how much he might joke with Scars about them-and the part of him he almost never let out had to question how it was he was still sane.
Or her, he thought to himself as Shepard strode across the shuttle bay to the area he’d staked out for himself. She was wearing her dress blues, something she only put on for her meetings with Hackett, and she looked good in them-until he noticed the haggardness of her expression as her gaze locked onto his. Not stopping, she closed the gap between them to annihilate his concept of ‘personal space’, driving him an involuntary step back into the makeshift wall, and still she pressed forward, into him, her hands snarling
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Only the Good Die Youngskellington1April 4 2012, 20:32:30 UTC
Karin watched the cars fly by, the wind of their passing rustling her short hair as they sped along the curve of the Presidium.
"You think she'll be okay?"
"Shepard? Sure. Girl's got balls." Massani leaned on the railing next to her, radiating comfortable, solid heat.
"After a manner of speaking," she agreed dryly. "And what about you?"
Zaeed cocked an eyebrow at her, learing, and she realized her mistake. She blushed a little. "I meant, will you be all right?"
"Hmph. Survived one suicide mission. Don't think I'll try it again. Have to get ready for the war to end all bloody war, right?" He snaked an arm around her waist and pulled her close. "How the hell you think I'm still around, woman? Only the good die young."
"Well," Karin replied faintly, "Thank goodness we're all such utter bastards, then."
"That's the spirit!" He kissed her on the temple, and his rough laugh floated away over the presidium.
prompts - The Continuing Saga of the Space Hamster - Privates Westmoreland and Campbell - Aria & Drunken Shepard
Love bites, but so do I-- NSFWskellington1April 4 2012, 21:31:25 UTC
Sometimes Joker wondered if it wouldn't be easier if they'd never started this, if he didn't have to feel every failure twice -- once for him, once for Shepard -- and fear twice -- a little for him, a lot for Shepard. If it wasn't enough to be fighting a war, without also worrying that the person fighting it would crack.
He never meant it, though. Even when she snapped, even when she got trashed despite knowing how he hated it, he loved her. Even when she seemed on the verge of throwing it all away, of giving in to recklessness and giving him a heart-attack, he still loved her, desperately.
"What're you thinking about?" she murmured.
He smiled at the sleepy tone in her voice and bent his head to kiss the place where her neck joined her shoulder. "You."
"Oh?"
"Yup." He turned the kiss into a bite and was rewarded when she arched against him.
"Jeff!"
"You deserve it." He kissed the spot, carefully chosen so it wouldn't show under her uniform, and chose another. "You really know how to put a guy through hell, y'know?"
Hm ... in the head-canon I'm building this from, Kal'Zorah nar Marineris vas Rayya was named in honor of Reegar, and was one of the first quarians born on Mars after the geth had finished with the dextro-terraforming. So I'm afraid I can't take credit for saving Reegar, even though I wish we'd seen him in ME3.
But thanks for the feedback anyway! Benny and Grunt kind of ... just happened; I was working back from that "Wrex/Shepard" thing, and, well, Grunt was only a year or so old at the time of the Reaper War, so if you postulate Benny's existence, it'd be natural for the two of them to be growing up together, right?
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And right now, my brain is mostly doing 'short'. :)
((Pouty, as in "do not accept"? You're not the only one. Don't sweat it, not every pairing is everyone's cuppa. :))
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Thessia had been a god damn shitstorm. Not that Menae, Tuchanka, and Rannoch had been walks in the park, but that-that had been hell. There hadn’t been banshees in those other places, and their screams would wake James from his nightmares into a cold sweat that drove him down to the armory to wear himself out. Add the other Reapers and those Harvesters-no matter how much he might joke with Scars about them-and the part of him he almost never let out had to question how it was he was still sane.
Or her, he thought to himself as Shepard strode across the shuttle bay to the area he’d staked out for himself. She was wearing her dress blues, something she only put on for her meetings with Hackett, and she looked good in them-until he noticed the haggardness of her expression as her gaze locked onto his. Not stopping, she closed the gap between them to annihilate his concept of ‘personal space’, driving him an involuntary step back into the makeshift wall, and still she pressed forward, into him, her hands snarling ( ... )
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"You think she'll be okay?"
"Shepard? Sure. Girl's got balls." Massani leaned on the railing next to her, radiating comfortable, solid heat.
"After a manner of speaking," she agreed dryly. "And what about you?"
Zaeed cocked an eyebrow at her, learing, and she realized her mistake. She blushed a little. "I meant, will you be all right?"
"Hmph. Survived one suicide mission. Don't think I'll try it again. Have to get ready for the war to end all bloody war, right?" He snaked an arm around her waist and pulled her close. "How the hell you think I'm still around, woman? Only the good die young."
"Well," Karin replied faintly, "Thank goodness we're all such utter bastards, then."
"That's the spirit!" He kissed her on the temple, and his rough laugh floated away over the presidium.
prompts
- The Continuing Saga of the Space Hamster
- Privates Westmoreland and Campbell
- Aria & Drunken Shepard
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I totally heard this in Chakwas's voice.
I only ship them when you write them. :) <3
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Also, this got longer than I had intended. oops?
Spoilers for ME3 romance, I suppose"Joker ( ... )
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He never meant it, though. Even when she snapped, even when she got trashed despite knowing how he hated it, he loved her. Even when she seemed on the verge of throwing it all away, of giving in to recklessness and giving him a heart-attack, he still loved her, desperately.
"What're you thinking about?" she murmured.
He smiled at the sleepy tone in her voice and bent his head to kiss the place where her neck joined her shoulder. "You."
"Oh?"
"Yup." He turned the kiss into a bite and was rewarded when she arched against him.
"Jeff!"
"You deserve it." He kissed the spot, carefully chosen so it wouldn't show under her uniform, and chose another. "You really know how to put a guy through hell, y'know?"
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But thanks for the feedback anyway! Benny and Grunt kind of ... just happened; I was working back from that "Wrex/Shepard" thing, and, well, Grunt was only a year or so old at the time of the Reaper War, so if you postulate Benny's existence, it'd be natural for the two of them to be growing up together, right?
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