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seikointelli · 11 months

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To the survivors of all the final destination movies, which animals will you be when you're reincarnated?

(Since we already did one of these for the visionaries, I won't include them)

Tod: George always said i'd be a monkey. Sounds fun enough!

Terry: I'd be a cat that hisses at everyone tbh.

Valerie: Honestly, I can see myself as a horse. It seems like a peaceful existance.

Billy: I feel like i'd be a goldfish, y'know? Just swimin' around.

Carter: People have always said i'd be like those hyenas from Lion King. I used to get mad and I still get mad about it.

Clear: I think i'd be a bird. I don't know which type though.

Evan: A cheeta. I don't know why. It just fits me.

Tim: My mom says i'd be a golden retriever but I don't see it. I feel like i'd be a roach that eats your food.

Nora: A koala seems like something i'd enjoy. And yes, Tim would be a golden retriever no matter what he says.

Kat: A cat. What the fuck did you expect? I'd be a fabulously rich cat.

Rory: A sloth on meth. But if I had it my way, i'd be a ladybug that chills on the ceiling, probably on meth.

Eugene: Probably a wolf. The idea of just prowling around seems amusing enough.

Burke: I'd be German Shepard. It fits my job anyway.

Ashley: I'd probably be, like, a poodle. The ones that wear the bows. I'd also probably be something totally cute like a fluffy mouse!

Ashlyn: Hm, i'd totally be a cat! I wouldn't be like Terry though. Being a fluffy Pomeranian seems totally cool too!

Lewis: I'd be a dog. It just fits my style. They're also my favorite animal so. (He's lying his favorite animal is cats).

Erin: Maybe a gerbil or a hamster...? I don't really think about this stuff too often.

Perry: A roly polie.

Ian: I feel like i'd be a bat. Chilling in a cave? Hell yeah. Roaming around at night? Fuck yeah. I could also be a wasp.

Julie: I'd probably be some sort of puppy. I don't know why.

Kevin: Carrie always says i'd be either a golden retriever or a tiger. I'm leaning more on golden retriever.

Samantha: I don't know, a bird I guess?

Andy: A dog? I don't have time for shit like this.

Hunt: I'd probably be some sort of husky. I had one as a kid and I always felt like i'd be one.

Jonathan: A mouse. Sitting around and eating cheese seems like a pleasant life. Mouse traps though...

Janet: I mean, I know a few people have said this but I genuinely seem like I would be a cat!

Lori: I enjoy copying everything Nick says so I feel like being a parrot matches me personally. Or a dog.

Candice: I'd be a cat but with the flexibility of a monkey. Does that make sense?

Olivia: I'd be a cat. Everything else doesn't seem like me.

Dennis: A bear. No explanation, you don't need one.

Peter: I've been compared to a snake fairly often in a my life and I can see why.

Molly: Perhaps a dolphin? I wanted to be a mermaid as a kid and I honestly still do so a dolphin is possibly to the closest thing.

Nathan: Turtle. I've been told I look and kinda act like one. I don't really see it that much but oh well.

(Sorry if this isn't that good)

#final destination #final destination 2 #final destination 3 #the final destination #final destination 5

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torntruth · 2 years

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Ashlyn and Mary Sue, platonic, good friends type ship.

Shepard and Ciri, Witcher verse. Or mix the two verses.

ooh! we can definitely put a ME type plot in the witcher verse and mix things up. commander shepard working under empress ciri and shit.

#*ooc.

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nilesdaughter · 8 months

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Mass Effect Characters

Mass Effect Trilogy

Mass Effect: Andromeda

Canon Playthrough: Selena Ryder-Huerta | Female | Infiltrator | Romance TBD

#mass effect #mass effect andromeda #commander shepard #pathfinder ryder #masterpost

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couslie · 3 years

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Anyone have any good garrus/femshep fanfic recommendations? I’m having a hard time finding a long one I can sink my teeth into; any rec is appreciated! 😊

#garrus x femshep #shakarian #garrus vakarian x female shepard #garrus/femshep #garrus vakarian/female Shepard #thank you in advance!#ashlyn rambles

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gxldencity · 5 years

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@lakambaeni tagged me to do this pic crew

Some best girls

L-R: Gabriela Ryder, Maricon Shepard, Ashlyn Hawke, Nyla Lavellan, Vera Alerion (d&d)

#elaine talks #elaine plays with dolls #gabriela ryder #maricon shepard #ashlyn hawke #nyla lavellan #vera alerion #no clara bc...she's just gabby lmao

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wandering-chronicler-blog · 6 years

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More Warframe Captura.

#Warframe #Captura #Tenno #Andromeda Cell #Ashlyn #Shepard #Eve #Minos #Andi

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scarred-by-monsters · 3 years

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RP Rules and Guidelines

Meet the Muse:

Original Characters:

Ashlyn Grant

Matthew Harris

Adrian Horrowitz

Mari Horrowitz

Tommy Horrowitz

James Harding

Stella Ivy - Hazbin Hotel

Profile coming soon:

Jenna Cousland- DAO

Michael Cousland-DAO

Nimtheiriel Mahariel-DAO

Celeste Sorana-DAO

Mika Amell-DAO

Kyo Hawke -DA2

Logan Hawke -DA2

Jason Hawke -DA2

Anya Shepard - Mass Effect

Jackson Shepard - Mass Effect

Canon:

Deacon St.Johns -Day's Gone

Viserion - Game of Thrones

Riley Flynn - Midnight Mass

Jim Hopper - Stranger Things

#meet the muse #about the muses

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femslashrevolution · 3 years

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Popular Pairing List Update

The following pairings now have 20 or more posts in their pairing tag, and are therefore too popular to be posted on Rarepair Thursdays.

For the full popular pairing list, please see our tag page.

Abby Holland x Harper Caldwell (Happiest Season)

Ahsoka Tano x Kaeden Larte (Star Wars)

Ali Krieger x Ashlyn Harris (RPF Sports)

Amber x Andi Mack (Andi Mack)

April Stevens x Sterling Wesley (Teenage Bounty Hunters)

Artemis Crock x Zatanna Zatara (DCU)

Asahina Aoi x Ogami Sakura (Dangan Ronpa)

Ashley Williams x Shepard (Mass Effect)

B'Elanna Torres x Kathryn Janeway (Star Trek: Voyager)

Bobbie Draper x Chrisjen Avasarala (The Expanse)

Carina Deluca x Maya Bishop (Station 19)

Cassandra x Rapunzel (Disney Princesses)

Catherine x Shamir (Fire Emblem)

Catra x Double Trouble (She Ra: Princess of Power)

Catra x Glimmer (She Ra: Princess of Power)

Chloe Decker x Mazikeen (Lucifer)

Christina Braithwhite x Ruby Baptiste (Lovecraft Country)

Coco Adel x Velvet Scarlatina (RWBY)

Dani Clayton x Jamie (The Haunting of Bly Manor)

Daria Morgendorffer x Jane Lane (Daria)

Dina x Sydney Novak (I Am Not Okay With This)

Dinah Lance x Helena Bertinelli (DCU)

Dorothea Arnault x Petra Macneary (Fire Emblem)

Elsa x Honeymaren (Disney Princesses)

Elsa x Tiana (Disney Princesses)

Emma Frost x Jean Grey (Marvel Comics)

Fa Mulan x Jasmine (Disney Princesses)

Fatou Jallow x Kieu My Vu (Druck)

Gwendolyn Briggs x Mildred Ratched (Ratched)

Isabel Lovelace x Renee Minkowski (Wolf 359)

Jen Harding x Judy Hale (Dead to Me)

Joan x Zoey Clarke (Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist)

Kena Mwaura x Ziki Okemi (Rafiki)

Kuvira x Opal Beifong (The Legend of Korra)

Midna x Zelda (Legend of Zelda)

Prudence Night x Sabrina Spellman (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)

Raffi Musiker x Seven of Nine (Star Trek: Picard)

Shelby Goodkind x Toni Shalifoe (The Wilds)

Tendo Akane x Unryu Akari (Ranma 1/2)

Theodora Crain x Trish Park (The Haunting of Hill House)

Tissaia de Vries x Yennefer of Vengerberg (The Witcher)

#Rarepair Thursdays #popular pairing list #femslash #wlw #femslash revolution #femslashrevolution #mod post

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mass-effect-galaxy · 5 years

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#mass effect #romance #love interest #kaidan alenko #shepard x kaidan #ashlyn williams #shepard x ash #liara t'soni #shepard x liara #thane krios #shepard x thane #commander shepard #femshep

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tabloidtoc · 5 years

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OK, August 26

Cover: Pregnant Kate Middleton is having a baby girl

Page 1: Contents

Page 2: Contents

Page 4: Taylor Swift is back on top

Page 6: Cameron Diaz gets candid

Page 7: Joanna Gaines’ self-care secret, Kathie Lee Gifford may be enjoying retirement too much and longtime friend Hoda Kotb is concerned, casting Denise Richards on BH90210 is causing tension between Tori Spelling and Jennie Garth

Page 8: Aaron Paul loving fatherhood, Angelina Jolie’s oldest son Maddox heading to university in South Korea, Cindy Crawford not letting daughter Kaia Gerber start her own makeup line and Kaia says Cindy must be jealous

Page 9: Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert keeping their distance, Kelsey Grammer was refused entry to the Beverly Hills Hotel’s Polo Lounge since he failed to adhere to the dress code

Page 10: Red Hot on the Red Carpet -- disco glamour -- Adriana Lima, Alysia Reiner, Zendaya

Page 11: Rita Ora

Page 12: Who Wore It Better? Kat Graham vs. Lily Aldridge, Leslie Bibb vs. Joan Smalls, Jessica Chastain vs. Andie MacDowell

Page 14: News in Photos -- Sistine Stallone and Corinne Foxx at the premiere of 47 Meters Down -- Uncaged

Page 15: Quentin Tarantino, David Foster and Katharine McPhee, David Burtka and Neil Patrick Harris and their kids and David Furnish and Elton John and their kids

Page 16: Issa Rae and Robin Thede, Ben Stiller, Dakota Johnson and Zack Gottsagen and Shia LaBeouf

Page 17: Eva Longoria, Whitney Port, Ariel Winter and Levi Meaden

Page 18: Kate Walsh and her dogs Rosie and Amico, Sailor Brinkley-Cook and brother Jack

Page 19: Matt Damon and daughter Gia

Page 20: Amy Poehler and Natasha Lyonne, Rachel Zoe and Rebecca Gayheart, Tiffany Haddish and Melissa McCarthy and Elisabeth Moss and Crystal Dunn and Megan Rapinoe and Alex Morgan and Ashlyn Harris

Page 22: Paris Jackson and Gabriel Glenn, Janelle Monae

Page 23: Pitbull, Amanda Seyfried and Milo Ventimiglia, Kelly Killoren Bensimon

Page 24: Lucy Hale’s new home

Page 26: Gigi Hadid and Tyler Cameron are on

Page 27: Liam Hemsworth and Miley Cyrus on the outs, Olivia Munn has made it clear to boyfriend Alex Gonzalez that she’s ready to be a bride, Renee Zellweger and Doyle Bramhall under pressure

Page 28: Brody Jenner and Kaitlynn Carter split, wedding bells for Joshua Jackson and Jodie Turner-Smith, Love Bites -- Ariana Grande and Mikey Foster dating, Dakota Johnson and Chris Martin reunited, Brandon Jenner and Cayley Stoker pregnant

Page 30: Cover Story -- Prince William and Kate Middleton’s baby joy

Page 34: Here Come the Brides -- Sarah Hyland and Wells Adams, Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez

Page 35: Jennifer Lawrence and Cooke Maroney, Stassi Schroeder and Beau Clark

Page 36: Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell -- Secrets of their marriage

Page 38: Where Are They Now? Gossip Girl -- Chace Crawford, Blake Lively, Ed Westwick

Page 39: Leighton Meester, Penn Badgley, Taylor Momsen

Page 40: Interview -- Joaquin Phoenix gets serious

Page 42: Live Your Best Life -- Elizabeth Hurley, Andi Dorfman, Jennifer Aniston

Page 43: Kourtney Kardashian, Heidi Klum, Jennifer Garner, Pippa Middleton, Lady Gaga

Page 47: Style Week -- Margot Robbie

Page 48: Denim Skirts -- Tessa Thompson

Page 50: Denim Jackets -- Jamie Chung

Page 51: Jeans -- Olivia Palermo

Page 52: Beauty -- Kate Bosworth

Page 54: Entertainment

Page 55: Q&A -- Britney Young of Glow

Page 58: Heidi Klum and Tom Kaulitz’s wedding details

Page 60: Hollywood Heat Meter -- Gwyneth Paltrow and Brad Falchuk are moving in together, Prince Charles visited Daniel Craig on the set of the latest James Bond movie and he was offered a small role, Cole Sprouse and Lili Reinhart, Tyrese reignited his feud with Dwayne Johnson, Macaulay Culkin recreates Home Alone, Stars Taking a Hiatus from Social Media -- Channing Tatum, Demi Lovato, Kunal Nayyar, Cardi B

Page 61: Sound Bites -- Orlando Bloom, Jessica Alba, Kirsten Dunst

Page 62: Horoscope -- Leo Demi Lovato

Page 64: By the Numbers -- Leslie Jones

#tabloid #kate middleton #princess kate #duchess kate

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kyxgrey · 5 years

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TWO DOGS?!?!? YOU AHVE TWO DOGS!!!?!??

Yup! Magenta is a 6 month old Black Lab Australian Shepard mix who I’m gonna train to be my Seizure alert dog/Mobility assistance dog. Ashlyn is a German Shepard Pitt Bull mix who is 9 (or 10 not positive) years old and is my retired service dog who I had before Magenta.

#kyxasks #here's the mail it never fails it makes magenta wanna wag his tail when it comes we wanna wail MAIIIIIILLL!#mythicalpurgatory

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ao3feed-shakarian · 6 years

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Battle puns

read it on the AO3 at http://ift.tt/2CuKpRX

by Ilyasviel

Ashlyn has returned from the death land some months ago, and has been running up and down the galaxy, picking up old friends on her way. The last one has been Tali, who keeps pestering her about her relationship with Garrus. But really, what relationship? They are just friends, right?

Words: 5449, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/M

Characters: Garrus Vakarian, Female Shepard (Mass Effect), Tali'Zorah nar Rayya

Relationships: Female Shepard/Garrus Vakarian

Additional Tags: Feels, Puns & Word Play, Flirting, Awkward Flirting, Friendship, Poor Tali, witness, Funny

read it on the AO3 at http://ift.tt/2CuKpRX

#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #shakarian #mass effect #garrus vakarian #female shepard #commander shepard

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nilesdaughter · 6 years

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Picking Up the Pieces

Fandom: Mass Effect Characters: Ashlyn Shepard, Kaidan Alenko, EDI, Garrus Vakarian, Miranda Lawson (Mention) Pairing: Technically Shenko and (pre-)Shakarian Warning: Language, minor bending of canon Word Count: 2633 Note: So, as I’ve mentioned before, my first ME playthrough was a bit of a mess in terms of romance, to put it mildly >_> Here’s my personal take on how Shepard broke off her relationship with Kaidan before initiating one with Garrus.

Shock turned to overwhelming joy in the span of mere seconds and before Ashlyn even had a chance to say a word, Kaidan's arms were thrown around her neck, pulling her close to his body. He clung to her, desperation and disbelief practically radiating off of him. Swallowing thickly, she allowed her eyes to slide close and she reciprocated the embrace, her arms snaking around his torso and giving him a light squeeze. Ever since waking up in the Cerberus research facility, everything had been an absolute whirlwind and she'd barely had a moment to herself, a moment to think.

In Kaidan's arms, however, everything suddenly felt right. Despite her initial reservations when they had first gotten together, she loved him enough to have missed his embrace.

When they finally pulled away from each other, she glanced back at the companions she had brought with her down to Horizon’s surface. Miranda seemed to be picking through the buildings and containers surrounding them, presumably searching for any remaining colonizers, while Garrus stood on lookout for Collectors that may still be lurking about. The turian eventually glanced over and met her gaze. She jerked her head to indicate a spot a short distance away and quirked a brow in a silent question; he nodded in response.

Ashlyn flashed him a grateful smile and she turned back to Kaidan, taking him by the hand and dragging him away so the two could have a bit more privacy to catch up with each other.

As Ashlyn turned to face Kaidan, she saw his disbelieving gaze move across her face, eyes seeming to hover on the scars there. The ones that he was accustomed to--the one across her chin and the one that bisected her right eyebrow--were long gone. In their place were the residual scars from the Lazarus Project. They were not nearly as prominent as when she'd first woken up, but they still spiderwebbed across her face; a few still emitted a faint red glow, like a light held beneath cracked porcelain. One of his hands then went up to her head, his gloved fingers brushing against her scalp, the shaved style the only remnants of her long, black locks. With something of a wistful sigh, his hand fell back to his side and his eyes finally fell on the small Cerberus logo stitched into the collar of her undershirt and his expression hardened.

The giddiness she felt upon seeing him again dissipated as she felt her stomach drop.

“So...The rumors were true.”

“Kaidan…”

“Why? You know what they’ve done! Surely you remember how many of their research facilities we shut down together? You should have come home instead of working with that… that… parasite of an organization!”

“Kaidan, I didn’t have a choice. I--”

“Two whole years and you couldn’t have bothered to keep in touch?”

Without warning, anger bubbled in the pit of Ashlyn’s stomach. She straightened up, throwing her shoulders back and lifting her chin in defiance. “Being on a lab table for those two years kind of impedes one’s ability to write, Lieutenant,” she replied, her voice clipped but surprisingly even, despite the emotions threatening to overwhelm her.

Some semblance of surprise flickered across Kaidan’s face; whatever he had expected Ashlyn to say, it seemed her actual response was far from it. In the end, however, it seemed his anger won out over all his other emotions. “But I doubt Cerberus sent you here directly. So what have you been doing since you woke up, Ashlyn?”

“Are you saying that I wasn’t allowed to get my bearings first? You expected me to get in touch as soon as I came out of the coma?” she snapped in response.

Ashlyn knew full well that if they continued to feed the fire, one or both of them would be leaving Horizon even more emotionally hurt than when they’d arrived. A part of her screamed at her to stop arguing with Kaidan, trying to convince her that the two of them just needed to take a deep breath and return to the conversation as civil as possible. Another part of her seemed too unbothered to care.

“Maybe a little bit, yes!” he shot back. “I thought we had something. Something special. The past two years, wondering if I could go back and do something different…” Now, a wistful expression passed his face. “Just... It would have been a relief to know you were alright.”

“Would it have really? If you thought I was dead, then I doubt I would have helped matters by telling you that I actually wasn’t. Hell, if the situations had been reversed, I would have thought someone was playing a sick prank on me.”

Another flicker of surprise crossed his expression and the tension in his shoulders seemed to ease a little bit. “I...Well…”

“Exactly. So you can’t fault me for not sending word,” she said firmly.

Kaidan sighed a little and nodded. “Yes… I suppose you have a point.”

Ashlyn also relaxed once it seemed that the crisis had been averted. The tension left her own body as she lightly crossed her arms over her chest. “Now, what are you doing here?”

“Well, on the topic of Cerberus, the Alliance received some intel that suggested they were the ones responsible for the missing human colonies.”

She frowned a bit. “I see…”

He nodded. “I’m on Horizon specifically because there were also rumors that this colony would be the next target.”

“And that coupled with the rumors that I was working with Cerberus… Were you hoping to run into me?” she asked.

Kaidan laughed once. “Maybe a little. Still… I hoped the rumors were false. And yet here you are… I can’t believe you’re working for the enemy.”

Ashlyn sighed a little. “Well, it’s more out of convenience than choice. As terrible as Cerberus is as an organization, they at least share my concern about keeping the colonies safe. Just because I’m here because of them does not mean I answer to them.”

“And do you really believe that, Ashlyn? Or is that just want they want you to think?” Suspicion and anger once more creeped into his voice.

She bit back a frustrated sigh and opened her mouth to respond, though she was cut off by Kaidan continuing his tirade.

“Do you know what you’re doing by working with Cerberus? You’re turning your back on everything that we’ve fought for. You’re turning your back on humanity. You’re betraying the Alliance.”

Before she could even think to stop herself, Ashlyn slapped him across the face, her frustration now turned to boiling rage.

Kaidan blinked a few times and slowly turned back to face her.

“How fucking dare you?” she demanded, her voice barely above a whisper even while it drowned in venom. “How dare you accuse me of betraying the Alliance? I would never, ever disgrace my family like that.”

“And yet here you stand.”

“At least I’m thinking about the bigger picture here, Kaidan! Whole colonies are going missing but no one else seems to be doing anything about it! As much as I love the Alliance, I know for a fact there would be too much red tape for me to resolve that I am still considered to be KIA. But the missing colonies is an issue that has be dealt with now. If Cerberus is the only one that’s going to give me the resources I need to stop this, then I will gladly sell my soul to the devil to do what I have to so that I can help people.”

Now she jabbed a finger into his chest. “Unlike someone who has his head shoved so far up his ass that he can’t even stop to consider that I’m only doing this because I don’t think I have any other choice. You of all people should know me better than that, Kaidan.”

He glared at her for a long while but he eventually sighed and looked away. “Look, I believe you, Ashlyn. You. But Cerberus? I don’t trust them, not even for a second. For all I know, they’re manipulating you by staging these attacks.”

“It’s a risk I’m willing to take, Kaidan.”

“Well, I’m not. I’m an Alliance soldier and I know where my loyalties lie. Speaking of the Alliance, I need to head back to the Citadel and report in. Hopefully they’ll have a better solution for how to deal with the Collectors.” He turned away from her.

“Come with me,” she blurt out, suddenly desperate to keep him by her side. “It’ll be like before.”

“But it won’t. Not really. You’ve changed and I’m not sure I like that change.”

Ashlyn almost immediately took a step back, reeling as if he had slapped her in return, an overwhelming sense of loss suddenly threatening to swallow her whole. As angry as she was with Kaidan, she didn’t want their relationship to end. As angry as she was, she still loved him. The possibility that this might be the end made her feel as if all of the breath had been drawn out of her lungs. It made her feel like she was once more lost in dark space, suffocating with no way of knowing which direction was up. She swallowed thickly, trying to pull herself back from that vague memory.

“Kaidan… You don’t mean that…” she said, her voice sounding small even to her own ears.

“Goodbye, Ashlyn,” he said, not even bothering to dispute her. “Despite everything… Just try to stay safe out there, okay?”

She watched as he walked away, frozen in place. Long after he was out of sight, she forced herself to make her way back towards the others, tapping her comms link as she did so, fighting back the tears that threatened to spill over. “Joker, send a shuttle down to pick us up. I’ve had enough of this damn planet to last me a lifetime.”

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As soon as they had returned to the Normandy, Ashlyn had retreated to her cabin, demanding that EDI ensure no one could come up to disturb her. In the privacy of her own room, she finally allowed herself a chance to break down.

With a strangled scream, Ashlyn grabbed the digital frame with Kaidan’s photo off of her desk and threw it across the room. It hit the wall just above the headboard of her bed, making a satisfying cracking sound before dropping onto her pillows. Her breathing was heavy and uneven, nearly on the verge of becoming harsh hiccups, as tears streamed down her face and she collapsed into the couch tucked into the corner of the room. She let out a shuddering breath and buried her face into her hands, wondering just how her life had gone so astray… So wrong.

“Shepard?”

“Not now, EDI…” she mumbled.

“Garrus is rather insistent about having access to your quarters.”

Ashlyn sighed a little, opening her mouth to say that she was not allowing any exceptions to her desire for privacy. But she stopped herself, falling silent for a few moments to think it over. The Normandy did not have many members of her original crew… Ashlyn actually wanted at least one other person to talk to, so long as they were from that group of people. And out of everyone else, Garrus had seemed to be the only one that wasn’t hung up over the fact that she was still alive.

She sighed again. “Yeah… Go ahead and let him up. But no one else.”

“Yes, Shepard.”

Ashlyn hurried to the bathroom to wash her face before Garrus arrived. While she knew he could probably guess about what had happened on Horizon, or at least could guess that she was upset about something, she was still loathe for him to see her cry. She dried her face just as the door to her quarters slid open with a hiss.

Garrus’s familiar, flanging voice reached her. “Hey… Are you… holding up alright?”

She laughed once, a very hollow sound, and stepped out of the bathroom to cross to her desk chair. She flopped down into it and shook her head. “Not at all.”

He crossed his arms and watched her for a few moments, his expression unreadable. “Do you want to talk about it?”

She sighed heavily and began to idly spin around in the chair, not quite meeting his gaze as she did so. “Not really, to be honest… But… More so because I don’t even know where to begin.”

“I have time to spare.”

“You don’t have some calibrations to work on?” she asked with a hint of a smile.

He snorted. “I think the ship will survive for a few hours.”

That drew a small, genuine laugh out of her before she let out another heavy sigh and murmured, “I… don’t think Kaidan is going to forgive me for this…”

“What happened back there?”

“He… He’s upset with me. I… He doesn’t like that I’m working with Cerberus.”

“Neither do I.”

She quirked a brow. “Yet here you are.”

“Because you asked me to help you,” Garrus said in a matter-of-fact tone. “The Collectors are the bigger issue here, so I’m more than willing to deal with some unsavory people in order to help you stop them.”

An unexpected warmth spread through Ashlyn’s chest as she became overwhelmed with gratitude over Garrus’s response. It was how she had hoped Kaidan would have reacted… How she had expected him to react. It was nice that someone understood why she was working with an organization she normally would have had nothing to do with.

“Thanks…” she told him. “That means a lot to me, Garrus. I tried to tell Kaidan that my opinion mattered less than helping the colonies, but he wasn’t having it.” She sighed once again and wrapped her arms around herself. “He accused me of betraying the Alliance.”

His mandibles flared a little in irritation. “He shouldn’t have said that.”

“No, he probably shouldn’t have… But he did say it. So… I guess that’s where we stand right now.”

“I’m sorry, Shepard.” Garrus sighed and stepped closer to place a comforting hand on her shoulder. “I know you two were close.”

She shrugged a bit, trying not to let on just how much she was hurting. “It’s probably for the best. It gives him a better chance to move on.”

“Well… I’m here, if you ever need to talk.”

“I appreciate that.” She smiled faintly and reached up to put a hand over his. “I also appreciate that you haven’t pestered me about this whole not being dead thing.”

“Honestly? I’m still just glad that you showed up on Omega when you did. Sure, I did my own share of mourning, but… I suppose I just saw it all as a miracle.”

“Thank you,” she repeated.

The two of them were quiet for a long moment, seeming equally content to just be within each other’s company. For a wild moment, Ashlyn wanted nothing more than to ask Garrus to stay in her quarters for a couple of hours. Maybe pull up a vid to watch together. She just wanted a few moments alone with a man she considered a good friend. Maybe even her best friend. But she knew that time was not something had in abundance. They still had to stop the Collectors and she could not afford distractions. So she shrugged away from Garrus’s comforting hand and rolled her shoulders back, donning the mantle of Commander once more.

“We should probably head down to the briefing room and plan our next move. We don’t have time to lose.”

Garrus looked like he might protest, but instead he simply nodded. “Alright, Shepard. Lead the way.”

#mass effect #mass effect fanfiction #mass effect creative circle #shenko #shakarian #kaidan x femshep #garrus x femshep #kaidan alenko #garrus vakarian #ashlyn shepard #fem shep #fanfiction

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