Commander Anastasia Shepard has just defeated Sovereign and now has a new enemy. The collectors. She is brought back from the dead by Cerberus- a pro human group -she is given a new ship and a new crew and a few old friends. Will she be able to convince her friends that she is the same woman she was just two years ago?

A Mass Effect based fan fiction about my own Commander Shepard, her troubles, and her Turian lover.

The battle is over for Commander Shepard, but it has left scars that will last forever. A Shakarian piece that takes place in the aftermath of Destroy ending for Mass Effect 3.

Words sounded muffled, like her ears were full of water, yet she spoke as if she knew what people were saying. She just wanted to seem as if she were normal, but she knew better, she was terrible at hiding her emotions. She felt drained, depressed, lonely, but at the same time, she was angry. She wanted to stab something, kill it with her bare hands. She was angry at the council for protecting that murderer, angry at Saren for taking the love of her life from her, but more than anything, she was angry at herself. She was angry for not spending more time with Nihlus. She knew that if she told someone about how she was feeling, they'd likely tell her that it wasn't her fault and that she was blaming herself far too much, but now she had no one to talk to. She had barely any friends and her only family was John, and she didn't feel much too comfortable talking to him about such things. It was always Nihlus. He was always there for her. She felt so isolated from the world without him. ---------- Jane Shepard is a simple engineer on the Normandy, quiet and a bit soft spoken. While out on shore leave, she meets a turian Spectre who she fall deeply in love with, but when he dies, she's left sad and hollow. Her time spent depressed is short lived until another turian comes into a life, relighting a fire in her once more.

Mass effect AU. Garrus a soldier is sent out to fight the humans in the First contact war aka Relay 314 Incident. He start to notice that every failed mission or hasty retreat has one thing in common. During one battle for foothold on a planet he discovers what. Not only that but something seems to be pulling the strings and rooting for an never-ending war between the turian and humans. A/N First mass effect fanfic ever ...... i started playing ME before dragon age but never wrote anything cuz lacked courage to do so .. but now after every DA Fanfic i think it's time i write down some of the many ideas that is jumping around in my head. Will be shakarian in the long run just not right away. No Beta reader the characters belongs to BioWare/EA

Shepard survived the destruction of the Reapers, and has, for almost seven years, been kept and cared for on a secret Medical vessel, by the Council. Nobody knows she survived and she is desperate to find her friends and introduce Garrus to the daughter he has never met. But things take a sinister turn

"It's been itching at the back of my head for so long now, I need you to tell me exactly what happened. Please Kasumi, " she begged. Kasumi pulled up her omni-tool with a smirk, "Why tell you, when I can show you?" --------- After an accidental bonding, Shepard and Garrus are stuck together. This isn't all that bad, but neither of them know a thing about each other's culture, so Shepard steps up and begins to change that. From religion to customs, she tries her hardest to become turian, while gaining feeling for her special turian in the process.

Garrus is having a rough time controlling his attitude as of late, and Helena Shepard is tired of it. So, she decides to take matters into her own hands.

Samantha Shepard has survived encounter upon encounter, and has even been brought back from the dead. Now it's believed that the infamous Commander Shepard had died saving the galaxy... Or has she? With the help of Miranda Lawson, her body is recovered and Project Lazarus has brought her back yet again. Now she's on the road to recovery and Garrus is on the way back. Will things ever return to normal?

The story starts after Shepard wakes from her two year coma. Mass Effect 2. It follows part of the story line but focuses on Shepard's feelings for Garrus and the person she turns to to fill her emotional and sexual need for him. All Mass Effect characters rights belong to BioWare. Warning: some parts can be a bit risque. First time writer, so let me know what you think. Thanks for reading, and don't forget to vote. Warning: Parental control needed for some chapters. All pictures from Fan-art belong to the artist.