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Part 10 of Commander Faith Shepard aka One Hot Mess Of A Human.
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2025-06-10
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You Don't Know Me

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Saw a two sentence prompt on Tumblr.

Had to write...

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"You don't know me. I'm not the same person anymore.”

Her words hang incredibly heavy between them.

Kaidan watches her closely as she picks at the tattered cuffs of a hoodie that had been with her through the unimaginable. It was the same item of clothing that sat on the chair of their hotel room during that first shore leave together. It was his hands that painstakingly lowered the zipper to reveal his prize of flesh and lingerie.

In a rush to get back to Normandy, the hoodie had been forgotten in all the chaos as they held onto every single precious second together. They'd been forced to return to their roles as Alenko and Shepard, having to act like they hadn't spent every single night together talking and teasing and falling in love.

A lot of time had passed since that moment, years in fact. Yet, somehow, through some miracle, not only had the hoodie resurfaced, but Shepard had come back to him. Horizon was painful, and it was messy, and almost dying on Mars made a man see more clearly than he had in years.

Kaidan had his regrets about how it all went down, but he knows in his heart that this is the same woman who laughed at bad Blasto movies and who had moaned when he kissed that spot right behind her ear. She may doubt who she is, and he can't begin to fathom the Hell she's been through, but he wants to understand. He wants to fall in love with her all over again.

Despite the pain and discomfort, he reaches out his hand and his eyes meet hers, softer than they've ever been before.

“That's okay, I'll get to know you again.”