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Samira exhales through her nose. It might have been a laugh, but he doesn’t allow himself to hope. “Missed me that bad?”
Despite himself, he laughs. It breaks through the lump in his throat, coming out gruff and shaking. “That bad,” he confirms, without a hint of embarrassment.
God, he’s going to fall off this roof. And it wouldn’t even be on purpose.
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Samira Mohan sells her soul to the army for medical school. Nobody understands that so intimately as Jack Abbot. Out in no man’s land, they manage to form something that neither can really understand.After three years, it only takes one mass casualty incident to pull them back together.
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17 May 2026
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All that to say, it was difficult for him to understand just how Samira Mohan seemed to sneak up on him. How she managed to take root in his life as if she’d been planted there beside him all along.
In hindsight, he could see that finding her red-eyed and flustered had been the beginning of something. He had, unthinkingly, taken the leap from professional to personal. Jack hadn’t seen it that way. His mental file on Samira Mohan was long; nowhere within it had he noted that she was the type to cry at work or leave early.
Jack was worried about her. So what?
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A rambling four year character study examining just how Samira snuck up on Jack.Series
- Part 1 of i wanna know peace again
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- 4/4
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16 May 2026
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She looked over at him, startled, but Abbot wasn’t looking at her face, he was looking at her hands where they rested on the table, or maybe at something past her hands that she couldn’t see. “I thought— I mean, you wear a wedding ring,” she said hesitantly.
He looked up at Mohan, keen-eyed and sharp. “Well, I wear dog tags, too,” he said.
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Abbot and Mohan's unspoken situationship gets out of hand at work, and Mohan suggests a private conversation.
Whether or not any actual talking gets done is another question, though.- Language:
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15 May 2026
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When he boards the elevator he’s upset. By the time he leaves the elevator he’s angry, each reverberation of his feet hitting asphalt felt in the remaining bones and surgical grade titanium in his right leg, all the way up to his hip. It takes him less than sixty seconds to walk from the parking deck to the ambulance bay. Ten feet from the entrance, he sees Robby walk through the first set of doors, past Ahmad, and then through the second set of doors. His pulse roars in his ears, his heart pounding in his chest. For the first time in years, Jack Abbot feels something approximating rage, an emotion he has long assumed to be medicated out of him.
His hands furl into fists.
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Robby commits the critical error of making Samira cry. Jack reacts.
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12 May 2026
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“What the hell are you doing here?” Abbot asked. He nodded for her to continue walking
“A physician walking into a hospital just before shift change,” She watched as a grin spread across his face. “It’s a riddle no one has been able to crack.”
“You’re finally working nights?”
“I switched with Ellis,” She said. “So, you’re stuck with me for the next three days.” Her steps faltered. “Finally?”
“Are you serious? I’ve been trying to poach you from day shift since PittFest.”
“Really?”
“Really.” His response was almost instant. “You were incredible. The IO borehole, the pigtail catheter; I’m going to be talking about that for the rest of my life. Of course I want you for night shift.”
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The year it takes Samira and Jack to find one another.
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Bookmarked by echinacea
12 May 2026
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A Shakarian first time before the Omega 4 Relay fic. There are many like it but this one is mine :)
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- Part 2 of Waiting for Yesterday
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19 Apr 2026
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Jane Shepard. Orphan. Sole survivor of Akuze. Commander of the Alliance gone Spectre. Deceased, but only briefly. Captain of the Normandy SR1 and SR2.
Grown fucking woman.And still, getting flustered like a thirteen year old at a school dance.
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Shepard learns what a voice kink is.
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07 Apr 2026
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it's called; freefall by Ette
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
23 Mar 2026
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The end of the galaxy has arrived. Shepard is so, so relieved she isn't facing it alone.
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- Part 3 of crack the sky
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05 Apr 2026
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After Tav is drugged with a philter of love at the coronation party, Gortash tries to resist the bard whispering sweet nothings into his ear and fails miserably.
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- Part 1 of Flirting with Tyranny
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27 Mar 2026
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Tav spoke in a quiet, husky voice, “I asked you for a dance once, do you remember? At the tiefling party, after we disposed of the goblins.”
“I remember,” Zevlor answered slowly, but then paused.
“You turned me down. Why?” She watched him in earnest, afraid of his answer, but needing it anyway. She leaned forward until their legs touched under the table. Her eyes desperately searched his face, needing him to look at her.
“Gods, Tav,” he said hoarsely. Even his tail drooped slightly. “You are so young and I’m an old, broken paladin–”
“Zevlor,” she interrupted with a stern brow and a frown. Her hand covered his again and stroked the back of it with her thumb. “You are not old and you are certainly not broken.”
The tiefling seemed to stop breathing as he stared at her hand on his. “You don’t understand…”
Tav tilted her head in confusion. Her other hand reached under the table to lay on his thigh. “Then help me to understand.”
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17 Mar 2026
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things we lost in the fire by full_ofstarlight
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
08 Jun 2021
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“What was it like being dead?” Sober, it would be a weighty question, but now it comes out like he’s asking about how that last mission went or something along those lines.
“I’m not sure.” Her voice is soft, something between a sigh and a whisper. “I like to think it was nice. Maybe, because it wasn’t.”
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Garrus finds Commander Shepard more than a little drunk after she searched the wreckage of the first Normandy by herself.Series
- Part 1 of i have loved the stars too fondly
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01 Mar 2026
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Out of the blue, into the black by quondam
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
25 Jul 2021
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Shepard sustains a life threatening injury while on mission. Garrus renders aid and realizes he doesn't know the human body as well as he thought he did.
Takes place during the N7 Cerberus Lab mission in ME3.
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26 Feb 2026
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Two Strangers Meet at the Edge of the Galaxy by Dulcidyne
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
06 Sep 2021
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What should have been a routine assassination for Archangel turns into a fight for his life and days spent holed up in a safe house with the most notorious woman in the Terminus Systems
...and there's only one bed.
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- Part 1 of Tales from the Terminus (AU)
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24 Feb 2026
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Comparative Anatomy by girafficparka
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect - Various Authors, Garrus - Fandom
08 Sep 2023
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What exactly was the “research” Garrus did to prepare for Shepard…
Mid-Mass Effect 2 fanfiction focusing on Garrus and Female Shepard's relationship and what their squadmates think about the situation. I wrote this to scratch the itch of "no one has any comment on this turian-human situation? Really?"
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13 Feb 2026
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everything good in life seems to lead back to you by otherthingsonhold
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
05 Sep 2024
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The first news Garrus asks for when they are once again amongst the stars, is of Shepard. The second of his family. He feels guilty, for his lover’s name to be the first on his tongue before his own blood. But his father and sister have each other, and Shepard, he fears - he knows, has no one.
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11 Feb 2026
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After six tense months apart, Shepard and Garrus reconvene in the captain's quarters.
“Bring up that bottle of the good stuff with you,” she had told him, and yet it ended up just like their first night together before the Omega-4 Relay: unopened and abandoned on Shepard’s desk.
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09 Feb 2026
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Falling Slowly by WesternLarch
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
17 Jul 2025
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Man meets woman, woman meets man, and together they save the galaxy from wanton destruction. And somewhere in between, there is room for love. But in the chaos of war and in its messy aftermath, what does it take to make a “happily ever after”?
Falling Slowly is a triptych of vignettes set pre and post war. Inspired by Richard Linklater's Before trilogy of films, the story unfolds through intimate conversations, depicting the small, but meaningful moments that build intimacy across the years.
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08 Feb 2026
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Buy in for Skyllian-Five by capnmarvl
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
04 Feb 2026
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What starts as an innocent card game quickly devolves into a discussion of embarrassing romantic liaisons and Shepard's own struggles with understanding who she is after she died. As she navigates the body Cerberus rebuilt for her, she happens upon one very obnoxious road block - she can't get herself off. Thankfully her resident turian is eager to help her with all of her problems.
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07 Feb 2026
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She's prepared to face anything and everything in the galaxy. She's utterly unprepared to fall in love with her lieutenant.
Moments between Shepard and Kaidan through the course of the series and beyond.
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07 Feb 2026
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Thane, Shepard, and Kasumi find themselves at a party, blending in amongst the arms dealers and gang members to complete their mission. Thane gets more than he bargained for when Anastasia Shepard makes one giant, glaring error in her backstory, and decides to finally act on something that the pair of them had been avoiding.
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07 Feb 2026