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Whatever Kaidan had been expecting from the Butcher of Torfan, this isn’t it.
There’s nothing krogan-like about the soldier sitting at the table. The lethal gaze from the vids is watery and unfocused. The empty bottle in his hand isn’t a gun, but he clutches it like one. When the bartender delivers a fresh one Shepard doesn’t look up, merely pops the top off and takes another quick pull.
This isn’t good.
~Sam Shepard and Kaidan Alenko, in the years before the Normandy. AKA, the slowest of slow burns.
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- Part 3 of Opus
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When Kaidan had asked for a moment of Shepard’s time at that little café on the Presidium, he had not expected to hear what he wanted, but he had hoped for it.
When Shepard had turned him down, Kaidan had received his answer, and he had enough sense to quit while he was ahead.
Shepard had thought it through. He had weighed all his options. He had made the right decision.
So why does the twinge in the pit of his stomach now feel distinctly like regret?- Language:
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06 Apr 2024
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Shepard went down with his ship, only to wake two years later and find out the love of his life had gone down, too. Or so he thinks.
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Like a knife he’d forgotten is there, Shepard’s heart clenches painfully. He swallows the lump in his throat. This is not the place to break down.“Don’t think you can’t talk about him around me,” Shepard says, which is the exact opposite of how he feels at the moment. “I wasn’t the only one he meant something to.”
“I know,” Joker replies, shrugging. “But you two were like...” He waves a hand awkwardly to empathize his point.
Practically married. Ashley had said.
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- Part 1 of From Ashes
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04 Apr 2024
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To Build A Family by Elven_Archer_3 (orphan_account)
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
28 Jan 2018
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Oh sure, humans shied away from the ‘s’ word. Biotics were definitely not slaves, well-off humans would say at their fancy parties and in their fancy government offices. But Kaidan knew better. In the eyes of most of humankind, he was nothing more than a piece of property.
An AU where pretty much everything is the same, except human biotics are seen as dangerous by the rest of their species. As a preventative measure they have been collared and since enslaved by the rest of humanity. Kaidan Alenko is one of these biotics, up for sale, once again. He crosses paths with a certain Alliance commander who, little does the biotic know, will change his life for good.
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31 Mar 2024
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When Kaidan Alenko met John Shepard, he'd like to say that their eyes met and it was all inevitable from there. The thing was, John was kind of an ass. And Kaidan was kind of stubborn.
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- Part 1 of Break of Dawn
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30 Mar 2024