And this is how it feels when I ignore the words you spoke to me

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Characters: Alice Shepard and Garrus Vakarian
Location: In their apartment, back on Coruscant
Planet: Coruscant!
When: Week 25
What: So maybe it's time to talk about that relationship-thing
Rating: 8| It could go up to R

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Garrus's rifle was in pieces, each one being methodically cleaned and oiled before being put back together. The floor of his room looked like a minature salvage yard at the moment. The parts were slightly different here, but he had been relieved to find the science of guns was still pretty much the same. So much else was different; too much, it seemed like at times. This universe was so familiar at times and then utterly mind-boggling at others. It was hard to keep a steady head

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"Oh. Well. That clears up a few things." His gentle touch becomes a full-on embrace, and he tightens his arms against her once more, showing her how much he really could never let her go.

And before he can help it, he's laughing. Just a soft, disbelieving chuckle. "We're crazy. You know that, right?" A pause, and he pulls away, just enough to see the side of her face. "And I wouldn't have to spend so much time calibrating if I wasn't interrupted so often."

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Her arms wrapped around him in return, an easy smile flickering across her face, soft and relaxed. "I don't know about you, but I've known about my questionable sanity since Eden Prime." Where it all began, really. "But you're my favorite person to interrupt. Have you ever tried bothering Jack? Not as much fun."

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"Why would you ever want to interrupt Jack?" That sounded a bit like poking a sleeping varren. Only if the varren was actually awake, rabid, and hungry.

He reaches up to touch her face, cupping the side of her head in his too-big hand with too-few fingers. "Don't ever tell the engineers this, but I didn't really mind all the interruptions."

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"She has interesting things to say when you catch her at just the right moment." Shepard shrugged. When you're trapped on a ship in the middle of space for days on end, you tend to bother those around you.

She leaned her face into his hand, not bothered by the differences between him and herself in this regard. "Glad to know, and you're secret is safe with me."

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Someday he might just accompany Shepard on all her rounds. Someday. Just to see why she did it everyday.

His thumb smoothed down her jaw, and he tightened his grip, pulling her head to his. He closed his eyes. "Good. Wouldn't want to ruin my reputation."

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She pressed her forehead hard against his, enjoying the ridging against her skin, the differences between them. "I'd hate to be the one to destroy something so precious to you," she said in a teasing lilt, smirking.

aaaaand fade to black?

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She was something else, always had been. That soft skin covering such a hard skull was something he believed he could never feel anywhere else. He returned the pressure, an unfamiliar feeling of happy and content uncurling in his gut. "I don't think you ever could."