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1. At least we can hold each other by Frankiesoup

   Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/M
   • Complete Work

   15 Jun 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Original Female Turian Character(s)/Original Male Turian Character(s)
   • Female Shepard/Garrus Vakarian
   • Merry Greenhowe/Sius Aetrius
   • Sius Aetrius
   • Meredith Greenhow
   • Female Shepard (Mass Effect)
   • Original Mass Effect Character(s)
   • Sitina Aetrius
   • Tags May Change
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • childhood friends to enemies to idiots to friends to lovers to idiot lovers
   • so much swearing
   • starts just after the Cerberus coup on the Citadel
   • Set during the events of Mass Effect 3
   • Slow Burn
   • spin off of 'I didn't want to die alone and you were the only one there'

   Summary

   The Reapers have taken Palaven and Sitina Aetrius finds herself as a refugee on the Citadel.
   After Cerberus tries to take the station, circumstance takes her to the door of an old friend.
   A friend she might have previously fucked over.
   A friend she might be a bit in love with.
   A friend who might still be a little bit in love with her ex-husband.
   -
   Their dynamic is basically:
   Caesus: you’re a horrid bitch
   Sitina: fuck you, you fascist pig, I need you to do crimes with me and buy my dinner.
   Caesus: I hate you, let’s go
   (Thanks Garf!)

   Anyway, we're kicking off in chapter 17 of "I didn’t want to die alone’ (https://archiveofourown.org/works/76223786/chapters/206302036).
   If you've not read that rambling mess, don't worry about it - you should be able to keep up.
   TLDR:
   - Sitina was a Cerberus hostage during the Citadel Coup. Her dufus ex and his new girlfriend tried to rescue her. She mostly ended up rescuing them.
   - Sitina is a very angry woman. You're going to hear about it.
   - Sius is her ex, and Merry is Sius's new partner. They're absolute dorks and they have my whole heart. They do not have Sitina's.

   Series

   • Part 2 of How the weirdos cope with the apocalypse

   Language:

   English

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   62,512

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   31/31

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