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“I can come back.”
“No, I want you to stay.”
Garrus moves to meet her halfway, standing at the foot of her bed while she blinks sleep out of her eyes. Still clad in his armor and her in little more than her pajamas she suddenly looks so small in comparison, and he can’t help but feel overdressed.
“I have something for you.” Her voice is softer now, losing its last vestiges of sleep. In the low light her hair looks darker, and he reaches up to brush some away from her chin. For a fleeting moment she leans into his touch, eyelashes casting longer shadows as she lowers her gaze, tracks it across his torso and then up to his cowl for any new signs of wear and tear she didn’t spot a few hours ago.
in a bit of a roundabout way, shepard asks garrus to move in.
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27 Jun 2026
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As she steps away to grab another drink she turns to find herself stepping into the circle of his arm. Garrus leans toward her, under the guise of reaching over the bar for his own glass, and Shepard lets out a breath against the side of his neck. She can feel fingers trailing along her thigh, following the hem of her dress without quite slipping beneath it. Since their date on the Presidium he’s held himself with more surety around her and where they stand.
Emboldened, she tilts to press her shoulder into him, mindful of the murmurings coming from the kitchen as the party winds down. Shepard tilts her head, brushing her lips across his mandible, and then pulls back as Traynor stumbles up to the bar with a grin over her shoulder to Liara before startling at the sudden start-stop snore that is Zaeed asleep on the couch.
His hand tugs her back into the solid curve of his keel, subvocal rumbling against her shoulder.
“So much for fifteen minutes,” she says.
“I doubt anyone’s going to notice.”
the citadel party ends with a bang. so does the morning after.
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27 Jun 2026
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An Indecent Proposal by ScentedStrangerCreation
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
22 Jun 2025
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Fake engagement trope babyyyyyyyyy. Set during ME 2, Shepard and Garrus exploit a loophole in the Turian Hierarchy. It's just a technicality. They're just friends, of course.
This started as a fluffy one-shot, but now we're going for a part fluff, part citadel DLC-style humor, part angst full story! Slight canon divergence at the beginning, which will only increase as we go on. Probably.
“Actually, we can do this later,” Shepard gestured with the pad. “Want a drink?”
He waved her off, “I should probably get back to—”
“If you say calibrations, I’ll vent the battery.”
“Well, I won’t say it then.”
“Come on, don’t make me beg.” She turned around and started walking as if he’d already agreed, “have a drink with me.”
“It’s actually been more threatening than begging.”
“Oh, good. Then you’ll take it seriously.”
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25 Jun 2026
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The first thought Shepard had after seeing Garrus Vakarian for the first time in 10 years was that he looked like his mother, but stood like his father.
The first thought Garrus had after seeing Shepard for the first time in a decade was that he should have known ‘Commander Shepard - Hope for Humanity’ was in fact Jane Shepard, the same kid, now woman, he had once wished -threatened- to push out an airlock.
An alternate universe where Shepard and Garrus grew up together, drifted apart, and found each other again during a re-telling of Mass Effect 1. The story is interspersed with important moments from Shepard's childhood.
This is a 3-Part Series (completed) and totals about ~100k words.
Part 1: Priority: Old Friends and New
Part 2: Priority: Making and Breaking Amends
Part 3: Priority: Loved, Needed, Wanted
Additional Fics:
How to Raise Your Human (currently being updated!)
Priority: You've Got to be Kitten Me
- Words:
- 125,344
- Works:
- 5
- Bookmarks:
- 8
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25 Jun 2026
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Jawwhn can't remember who he used to be; he has no memories of his former life. But that'll never stop him from dreaming.
When he sees a poster for an upcoming race in his town, he thinks it might be his chance to make those dreams come true.
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22 Jun 2026