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"Formula 1 was never an if with Shepard, not even in karts. When we make it. When we’re fighting for wins. When we’re the greatest racing drivers the world has ever seen.
However often those sentences ended with I’m going to kick your arse, it was impossible not to get pulled along, impossible not to believe they might really be the two kids out of tens of thousands who make it. Shepard and Vakarian, together on top of the world."
Slow burn rivalmance shakarian. Updating bi-weekly.
Zaeed enjoyers, proceed directly to CH.17
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- Part 3 of Flashpoints
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Swimming In The Deep End by misseffect for Otempora
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
13 Sep 2025
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Shepard had a voice built for arena shows but there was an intimacy to it too, when she slowed things down; an effortless, mellow, jazz-singer quality, coiling the music around her like smoke. Garrus only had to let her pull him in like the drag of a cigarette.
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Spring Break by misseffect for Otempora
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
15 Sep 2024
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“Hey.” Shepard rolled over to face him. “D’you wanna start a band?”
Garrus didn’t say anything. Or maybe he laughed, he wasn't sure. That was another one of those Shepard questions; the ones where he could feel his life fork like a mountain pass.
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That's the thing about Omega: it doesn't let you make good choices, even if you try.
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Generational Talent by misseffect
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
20 Jan 2023
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"Shepard grits her teeth and roars as she stamps on the throttle, the G-force pressing her shoulders back in the seat. Something like panic is surging through her. Whatever magic she found on the last lap unravelled when Garrus came blasting out of the pit lane; she’d have the title locked in already if it wasn’t for him and that thought alone is a cape to a bull.
They’re running out of race and the second she leaves the car, everything - the questions, the stories, everything - will be out of her control. She can’t lose this. She can’t lose this to him."
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- Part 2 of Flashpoints
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The Normandy Detective Agency by misseffect
Fandom: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
04 Apr 2021
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A Gravity Well Is a Long Way to Fall by arquennial
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
04 Oct 2025
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Garrus had once seen a bottle broken over a man’s head on the top floor of Flux nightclub; a shattering sound, a waterfall of glittering shards, the man staggering back as the blood began to well.
In this moment, standing in Shepard’s door, he feels like both the bottle and the head, shattered and dazed and certain his legs are about to give way.
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Or: Garrus falls in love.
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- Part 1 of Gravity
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05 Oct 2025
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Wrex offers Shepard a fight she can't win.
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26 May 2025
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“Chakwas said it wouldn’t be a full-strength heat cycle, but I’m still leaking pheromones all over the place. Bumping into an Alpha at the wrong time could make things messy. I’d rather just... keep to myself for a while, if it’s not going to be a problem for the team.”
Shepard stilled. “Define ‘a while.’”
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an indentation in the shape of you by interventionsandlullabies
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
26 Aug 2025
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“Oh no,” Garrus said. “I know that face. That’s your problem solving face. That’s your I think I can fit through this air vent and drop down behind their reinforcements face.”
“What if we do it first?”
He stared at her. “Shepard. I fear the consequences of the next four words immensely. What do you mean?”
A smile lifted the corner of her mouth. “What if we find you a mate before your dad gets here?”
“Spirits,” he said, the word half curse, half exhalation. “That’s what I was afraid you were going to say.”
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They survived the end of the world. They've had a few (relatively) normal years with no catastrophies. But with Garrus’ dad breathing down his neck about finally settling down, they've only got 48 hours to produce a suitable partner.
Garrus has just the girl in mind. If only she wasn't the one trying to set him up.
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Repeat the Sounding Joy (the Legends Never Die remix) by openended for madamebadger
Fandoms: Mass Effect
24 Dec 2014
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Ashley's too old to believe in Christmas miracles anymore, but sometimes you've just gotta hope.
Bookmarked by misseffect
12 Jan 2025