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A week after the Collector base, a week of trawling around space and mindless errands and revisiting posts they only passed through, Garrus comes up to her cabin like a man on a mission.
They’ve gone back and forth over the past few days, him coming to her quarters or Shepard to his, passing around fleeting touches that carry more intent and are more explorative than anything they would have exchanged months ago. Sometimes, more often than not, it’s to simply spend time together, just as they always have.
For now, whatever it is between them feels real enough.
“Did you need me for something?”
“I—ah, yeah,” he says, and she twists her cheek into the dip of his cowl to look up at him.
Shepard smooths her hands down his chest, enjoying the twitch of muscle, the minute give of plates where they meet his hide, and his gaze flicks around her face. It lingers on a damp bang curled against her forehead before meeting hers again.
His hands settle on her hips and he glances to her bed before asking a curious, “Show me?”
surviving the omega 4 relay gives them a lot of time to themselves.
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He asks if she wants to be serious, with him.
He’s been thinking of her since the last (second last, really) time they parted ways on the Citadel, his bag slung over his shoulder as they stood at the dock. She’d told him to take care of himself, just as she had the first last time, but then she’d stepped forward and wrapped her arms around him. The hug had been too warm to be friendly, her body molding to his, and Garrus had dropped an arm around her waist and tucked his face into her temple. She’d kissed his cheek, and he spent a week wishing he’d kissed her back.
He’s been thinking about her since she came to see him in the battery, where she held his hand and kissed him and told him she thought about him. That she missed him.
He’s been thinking about her since he followed her up to her cabin and the view of her backlit by the aquarium was burned into his memory.
And Shepard laughs in a way that’s warm and with her eyes and is one of his favorites, and when she tilts her head says to her they already were.
the presidium date, and the moments after.
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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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“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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“I wanted to see you,” he says, voice thick. “Spirits, I missed you, I wasn’t sure if you still felt the same way about me and I wasn’t expecting…”
“I thought about you all the time,” she says. His subvocals rumble against her chest, and she tilts her head further as his hand winds through her hair with a gentle tug that draws a sharp gasp from her, warm to her core. Part it almost feels like grief dissipating.
Garrus tucks his face into the side of her neck, nose plate brushing along her pulse and his visor glows in her peripheral as he murmurs, “Yeah? You said that.”
A grin pulls at the corner of her mouth and she drags her nails along the delicate patches dotting the column of his throat only for his hips to twitch toward her and his grip tightens on her own. “I did. I thought about a lot of things though,” she brushes her lips along his mandible, letting everything else fade away just for the moment of Garrus wrapped around her, “you’ll have to be more specific.”
shakarian reunion post-menae.
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thus torn asunder by thychesters
Fandom Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Nightwing (Comics), Red Hood: Lost Days
09 Oct 2020
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purgatory sucks but it's fine. mostly. except it's also kind of not purgatory, and the lazarus pit will not be so easily forgotten. (one doesn't leave it unscathed, of course.)
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how human are you, really? by lilmissnatcat24 for thychesters, Garfbin
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
23 Jun 2026
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in which garrus vakarian attempts to soft dom shepard, but fails miserably in the process.
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- Part 18 of Shakarian Drabbles
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23 Jun 2026
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“’I win though,’ she teases, her fingers curling at the base of his fringe. He holds her tighter. ‘You always win,’ he answers into her skin.” - From the very beginning, it was always a competition between Shepard and Garrus. The contest for each other’s hearts was no exception.
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16 Apr 2026
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Shepard finds herself reliving the last few years, from finding the beacon on Eden Prime to the battle for Earth. Again, and again, and again. How much can she change? How much should she change?
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25 Mar 2026
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In order to secure the support of the turian Fleet, Shepard's sent to Palaven's moon Menae in order to find Primarch Fedorian. It's difficult to focus on the mission when the whole world is burning and she has no idea if Garrus is still alive or how she's supposed to do any of this, and it feels like she's right on the edge of falling apart... It all comes together to break her on that battle-scorched moon, when she sees something she had been praying she never would.
TL:DR: During Priority: Palaven, Shepard sees a painfully familiar-looking Marauder.
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05 Mar 2026
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During a quiet evening together on the Normandy Garrus needs to trim his talons, giving him and Shepard a chance to talk about the past, and the future.
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08 Dec 2025