A little short back story from my first story "At Long Last". While training at the academy, Jane Shepard came to realize she had more than a crush on her Turian trainer. All Mass Effect characters rights belong to BioWare. Warning: some parts can be a bit risque. Language caution. 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.

The universe is already in great peril. The threat of Reapers is a constant thought in Shepard's mind. Now, a new problem arises. After fulfilling a mission a year ago, Garrus and Shepard both thought Doctor Heart was eliminated by the hand of Garrus Vakarian, only for the man to come back to life and take vengeance on Shepard and her crew. When Shepard gets the mission to slay the doctor once more, Garrus and Shepard help each other to close this dark chapter of their lives forever. (Also posted on Archives of our Own)

"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.

When Alexis Shepard gets to Horizon, she's forced to confront her past lover, Kaidan, and receives far less of a warm welcome that leaves her reeling and heartbroken. In an attempt to comfort his friend, Garrus arrives with wine but both of them get a little more than they bargained for when unresolved feelings intermingle with the vulnerability that comes with heartbreak. Inspired by the song "You Right" by Doja Cat and "First Contact" by ReginaPrimata on AO3 The amazing Cover Art is originally from Moni158 on DeviantArt - "Meet me at the bar".

She nodded,"Yeah thanks for watching the movie with me tonight, you're an awesome friend," At that moment his entire world shattered. He'd called her his friend. Just his friend. It wouldn't have hurt as much if he didn't know about his feelings for her. But he did and she didn't, so they were just friends until he could confess. This was going to be a while. ~~~~~ Garrus is madly in love with Shepard, but she's oblivious and he's a hopeless romantic. He doesn't know much about human romance, but he was really trying. Throw in traditional Garrus awkwardness and turian jealousy and you'll have my story. Join Garrus and watch him fail time and time again, but never giving up so he can win the oblivious lover.

The story of Graceyn Shepard - life, death, rebirth, and life once again. "If It Meant Living" covers the game trilogy and much more. While Shepard is the primary focus, major characters are given significant attention and love. Canon is only respected so long as it’s worthy, so don’t get comfortable thinking you know what’s going to happen :). Note: The ME1 and ME3 stories will be published as separate works, as well as the sequel ("Beyond") and the one-shots ("Tales") - but it is fundamentally one over-arching story (hence the continuity of chapter numbering for ME1-3). The "R" rating is for language, violence and (eventually) sexual situations. Bioware owns all rights to Mass Effect and its characters.

When Shepard decided to stop being part of the world and to undergo cryosleep, she knew that she never wanted to be awakened again. She had lost everyone that ever mattered to her in an expedition gone wrong. But the unthinkable happened, the human race had encountered another intelligent race and things hadn't gone the way anyone expected. Now Naval Command is in need of Shepard's help whether she wants to give it or not.

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.

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.

The year is 2186, the fall of the Reaper threat. True the most feared and hated machines in the galaxy are destroyed, but at a cost. The Mass Relays are damaged, the galaxy is in chaos, Cerberus still has power even when The Illusive Man is declared dead, and almost all Synthetic life has been destroyed. Almost. . . The Salarian Dalatrass, furious with the desicon of the Alliance to cure the genophage, has gone rouge, sending hit and run strikes against Urdnot Wrex and the Krogan species. Signs of mutiniy and betrayal are all around as an old enemy, once thought destroyed, rears its ugly head out of the shadows. . . During this, Commander John Shepard awakes in Huerta Memorial Hospital on the rebuilt Citadel, meraciously survivng the explosion of the Crucible. Two things pop into his mind: How did he survive, and where Tali'Zorah vas Rannoch , his one true love, was. (All characters, weapons, locations, and other things belong to Bioware and EA games)