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He asks if she wants to be serious, with him.
He’s been thinking of her since the last (second last, really) time they parted ways on the Citadel, his bag slung over his shoulder as they stood at the dock. She’d told him to take care of himself, just as she had the first last time, but then she’d stepped forward and wrapped her arms around him. The hug had been too warm to be friendly, her body molding to his, and Garrus had dropped an arm around her waist and tucked his face into her temple. She’d kissed his cheek, and he spent a week wishing he’d kissed her back.
He’s been thinking about her since she came to see him in the battery, where she held his hand and kissed him and told him she thought about him. That she missed him.
He’s been thinking about her since he followed her up to her cabin and the view of her backlit by the aquarium was burned into his memory.
And Shepard laughs in a way that’s warm and with her eyes and is one of his favorites, and when she tilts her head says to her they already were.
the presidium date, and the moments after.
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09 Jul 2026
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She could tell him yes. She could tell him no. He wishes she’d just say it. He could say something outright, as the stars blaze beyond her and she looks at him with such a sense of relief that it makes him dizzy.
“You know me,” he intones, glancing at his glass. “I get on someone’s nerves long enough and eventually wear them down into some semblance of respect.”
She rests her elbow on the back of the couch, chin propped up on her hand. “That so?”
Garrus tilts his head, tracking every small detail of her expression, cataloguing each of her freckles like he didn’t the last time they got up close and personal. The leather creaks as he shifts his weight, arm spread along the back of the couch until the bony point of her elbow rests in the crook of his. If he’s not mistaken, she leans too.
“I’d like to think some of my impressions have been more… favorable than others. Can’t say I’m never willing to give it another shot though. I wasn’t sure if…”
She draws in a breath, holds it, and releases it until his mouth plate twitches. “Garrus, do you think—”
after an interrupted reunion in the battery, garrus takes the initiative
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09 Jul 2026
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Collected stories featuring the same Shepard and the same Garrus. Each can be read alone, but they all live in the same universe if reading them in order. It should be noted that Just Like Old Times spans the entirety of the three games; for continuity's sake I'm labeling it as the first in the series.
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17 Feb 2026
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This is a slow burn Shakarian with lots of drama to go around. It's smutty AF and rather free in terms of sexuality. We'll have plenty of threesomes and kink exploration to keep your hungry mouths filled.
These stories uses my personal Shepard—Marika "Mika" Shepard—and we follow her at different points during her life. There's a red thread in this entire series. It's meant to be read in order for proper context, but, of course, you don't have to do that.
Themes: Relationship-focused—romantic, friendly, and familial—morally ambiguous choices, emotional, drama-packed, angsty, AU from work 5, dialogue-forward, with enough smut to keep you bone dry on the inside from work 6 and onwards.
Read order and short overview in the series notes.
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- 6
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16 Feb 2026
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head empty no thoughts only mandible man and his space monocle why
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11 Feb 2026