Opus - The Multiverse
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They were always going to come around to each other. It was just a question of when.
A kaleidoscope of first kisses.
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- Part 1 of Opus - The Multiverse
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Kaidan has a reckoning with the Butcher of Torfan.
Suit alarm. Another blood pressure alert.
Kaidan immediately queries his HUD for an update on Shepard’s vital signs. Pulse 116. Respiration twenty-two breaths per minute. Given the exertion required to walk into Sharjila’s headwinds on a shattered ankle, those numbers aren’t concerning. But Shepard’s systolic pressure has been dropping slow and steady over the last hour, and his body temperature is three tenths lower than last check.
A harsh gale laced with silicate batters their shields, triggering anew the flare, hiss, and inevitable overload alert. It’s happening quicker now, too. Too much sand. Too much grit. It’s a constant tax on a system not designed for this kind of sustained assault.
But that’s the least of their worries.
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- Part 2 of Opus - The Multiverse
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Sam and Kaidan have an Encounter.
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The goose puffs up its feathers, and hisses.“They hiss?” Shepard yelps. “I thought those were cats.”
“Also geese!”
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- Part 3 of Opus - The Multiverse
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Shepard is more than the N7 emblem they're about to pin on his chest.
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- Part 4 of Opus - The Multiverse
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Kaidan takes one for the team to save movie night.
“This better be as good as you say,” Shepard grumbles. “I’ve got shit to do.”
“No you don’t,” Kaidan replies.
Shepard’s glare could wilt steel, but Kaidan’s right, so the threat is empty. If only the Alliance brass knew how petulantly the Butcher of Torfan could pout.
“Also,” Kaidan cautions, queuing up the movie and kissing any sense of peace he might ever have again in his life goodbye, “I never said it was good. I cannot state that clearly enough. All I said is it’s one of a kind.”
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- Part 5 of Opus - The Multiverse
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Sam and Kaidan do a little unexpected Skygazing on Eletania.
Kaidan exhales in relief and rolls onto his back beside Shepard, staring up at the sky. It’s blue and serene, the dusty haze of Eletania’s ring sweeping through it like a starfield. One of the most beautiful things he’s ever seen. A laugh spills out of him.
“Fuck. I thought you were dead. Again.”
“Yeah,” Shepard says with a chuckle of his own. “Me too.”
Kaidan puts a shaking hand to his faceplate, apparently not done laughing. “Why do you always have to touch stuff?”
“I’m sorry, who had to go lick the beacon on Eden Prime?”
“That was professional curiosity.”
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- Part 6 of Opus - The Multiverse
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Kaidan owes Ashley a drink. He's not sure why, but she says so, and he knows better than to argue.
Kaidan’s not more than two steps out of the Citadel airlock before Ashley grabs him by the front of the shirt. “Come on,” she says. “You’re buying me a drink.”
“Wait, what?”
She doesn’t answer, just starts walking, Kaidan’s shirt still trapped in her fist.
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- Part 7 of Opus - The Multiverse
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Sometimes, to find the way back you just need room to breathe. Or a quiet moment to work on your biotic techniques.
Kaidan thought he’d hallucinated the incident on Mars. It had to be something his addled brain cobbled together in the aftermath of having his head crushed against a bulkhead. Shepard may have always been unpredictable under live fire, but he’d never tried to use himself as a mass-accelerated object.
No one’s that insane.
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- Part 8 of Opus - The Multiverse
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Shepard asks Kaidan an awkward question. The answer leads to some reflection. Also snuggling and arguing over who loved who when, and who was a bigger idiot about it.
“You loved me,” Kaidan says with a shrug. “You may not have known it, but you did.”
Shepard nods. “In retrospect, it was really fucking obvious, wasn’t it?”
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- Part 9 of Opus - The Multiverse
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“If we had the choice. To do whatever we want. To make…us whatever we want. What do you dream it would be?”
Kaidan presses his nose against Shepard’s neck, the ever-present knot in his chest tightening a little. Imagining a future with Shepard is something Alchera taught him not to twist into too sharp a focus. Better to just let the idea of it lurk in the back of his mind, a hope that exists on his periphery but never takes shape.
Doesn’t mean it doesn’t anyway, in quiet moments before the shuttle slips free of the Normandy, in between hands of poker when laughter makes him long for more, at night with Shepard curled in his arms, in the space between consciousness and sleep.
Yeah. He thinks about it.
Post-Leviathan snuggles.
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- Part 10 of Opus - The Multiverse
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Mixing business with pleasure, Citadel DLC style.
Aka, I took a screenshot and things got real fluffy real fast.
The next time Kaidan catches Shepard's eye something softens in his face, and the corner of his lip turns up in a smile Kaidan spent two years after Alchera trying not to think about. The somersault in his stomach definitely makes it feel like a date, rather than an attempt to figure out who else hates Shepard enough to try and assassinate him over sushi.
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- Part 11 of Opus - The Multiverse
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Collection of 'Wordless Ways to Say I Love You' Sam Shepard/Kaidan Alenko prompts, mostly post-war, but a few during the ME3 timeline.
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- Part 12 of Opus - The Multiverse
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Garrus and Shepard share a moment of reflection.
“Can I ask you a question?”
Shepard holds up a finger, then swallows the rest of the whiskey like it’s a shot, smacking his lips and making a face. “Okay, go.”
“How much have you told Alenko about what happened while we were with Cerberus?”
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- Part 13 of Opus - The Multiverse
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Post-war, Shepard's not sure what he keeps trying to escape from. But maybe it's not the getting away that's important. Maybe it's having someone to come home to.
There was a time when Shepard would have scoffed at the idea that an abrupt arboreal halt could slow him down, but that was back when his bones were made of something more akin to rubber bands and he’d had the benefit of combat armor to soften a blow.
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- Part 14 of Opus - The Multiverse
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A series of winter prompts, starting with the Great Hot Chocolate War. Tooth-rotting fluff as far as the eye can see.
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Shepard smiles a tender smile, which dissolves into a fiendish grin when he presses the backs of his knuckles to Kaidan’s cheek. Kaidan yelps in dismay and jerks away.“How are your hands so cold?”
The grin gets bigger and more shit-eating. “Now you know how it feels, Mr. Necromancy hands.”
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- Part 15 of Opus - The Multiverse
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They're safe with each other.
Word doodles and other miscellaneous prompts and short fics, Sam Shepard and Kaidan Alenko. Mostly fluffy.
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- Part 16 of Opus - The Multiverse
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Another kiss, another story.
Sam Shepard and Kaidan Alenko kiss prompts. :)
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- Part 17 of Opus - The Multiverse
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Peace does not extend to breakfast.
“You’re awfully quiet for someone who just put out such a magnificent spread.”
Kaidan waggles an eyebrow. “Resting on my laurels.”
Shepard knee stays at rest against his, and Kaidan leans a little more into it. The weight of it, the presence is…reassuring.
The sparrow that wings in from the roof and alights on Shepard’s stack of pancakes is less reassuring.
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- Part 18 of Opus - The Multiverse