'It’s not proper, Jenny knows – not at all – what they do on the floor of the library by the light of the Christmas tree. Not lady-like, and certainly not something they should be indulging in before they are married. But it’s lovely, all the same.'

He died for the first time on the riverbank of the Trident, Robert Baratheon’s hammer smashing into his chest.

Wherein Rhaegar lives again.
(And again, and again, and again...)

He's fast and she's weird.

This story is an alternate ending for "the last ten minutes" in which Shepard is, on the whole, much more Shepard-like.
This story includes a logic-throwdown with the starchild and a Shepard who does not just give up with a "You'll never understand". She uses her grit, and her mind.

And then she goes all BAMF and stops the reapers and saves the day with determination and hope.

Admiral Shala'Raan may not be going off to fight the reapers with Tali'Zorah, but she does have an entire planet to re-settle, along with some Geth neighbors to integrate with.

Shepard always maintains such tight control that it’s a pleasure to take it from her.

It’s a pleasure to be gifted with it.

“Omega has one rule,” Aria says. “Do I need to remind you what it is?”

He wears the armor she died in.

Shepard and Legion are reunited on the Normandy, and she's just happy to see a friendly face.

The Inquisitor may be the one asking all the questions, but somehow the Iron Bull finds himself just as curious about their so-called Herald.

Katrina doesn't have a history of wanting what she can't have. A lot of things changed when the world decided to end, apparently.

Legion keeps a record of their anomalous behavior.

How do we know you really got out? The Geth experience everything virtually. This all could be a simulation.

Legion creates something for Shepard

He understands this perfectly; though it never occurred to him she could feel the same way.

Legion is curious. Shepard is lonely.

Garrus thought that playing a video game or two would provide a good distraction for Shepard. After all, she badly needed some distractions.

(It never occurred to him that she would be so very bad at it.)

Of all the assignments that Shepard has given Garrus over the years, watching her hamster for a few hours should have been one of the easiest and least disaster-prone.

Operative phrase: "should have."

When Garrus is injured on a routine expedition and planetary conditions delay their evac, Shepard is forced to confront the way their relationship has blurred her role as both his commander and his lover.

James Vega asks the question everyone knows the answer to (but him): Are Garrus and Shepard A Thing?

Sequel to "A Family Affair," Shepard and Garrus try to sort out their futures, their families, and (perhaps worst of all) a wedding.

It's a strange awakening, when you're in the company of strangers who treat you as family.

Shepard asks Garrus for sniper training. Things get... up close and personal.

Shepard is dismayed to find that she's going grey, and Garrus is confused.

Even happy endings have their challenges, and age can't be shot or negotiated with. A look at Shepard and Garrus growing old together.

Neither of them expected some silly play with edible body paint to turn into something so serious.

There's nothing Garrus likes more than uncovering a good mystery. Especially when that mystery involves Shepard.

AU. The First Contact war is ended with peace negotiated by asari and salarians and a forced marriage of the two best soldiers from turian and human militaries.

Before the final mission to disarm the bomb on Tuchanka, Shepard and Tarquin Victus spend the night finding comfort in one another.

Garrus and Shepard learn there are little things they wouldn't mind helping each other with.

Garrus catches Shepard touching herself and fears it's not him she's thinking of.

Garrus and Shepard share some pillow talk the night after he rejoins the crew of the Normandy in ME3.

"This close, the fatigue in her eyes, in the darker patches of skin that decorate the space beneath them, is obvious...She’s still the most beautiful sight in the universe."

When he least expects it, Garrus finds Shepard at the door of his apartment on the Citadel, looking for a place to spend the night.

Shepard discovers why Garrus doesn't take his visor off, even in bed.

Shepard teaching Garrus how to swim.

Varric finds himself oddly tongue-tied around Hawke. She seems oblivious, though, and he's certain he doesn't have a shot with her. Isabela slips in to play unwelcome matchmaker.

"So when you said you had reach..." Shepard says.

Hawke is captured and branded in a failed Rite of Tranquility, but the longer she is forced to hide the truth the harder it is to find again.

While the Reapers ravage Palaven, some of the Turians on Menae pass the time by trading stories about the species they've bedded. Garrus enlightens them on what it's like to be with a human.

Girl likes boy. Boy ignores girl. Girl drags entire team to go fight a big old dragon in order to get boy's attention. Everyone gets their asses kicked. Repeat. Seduction!

Five times Bull found people asleep on him & one time he woke up on someone else.

A moment between Amell and Cullen after she arrives at Skyhold.

An awkwardly timed phone call, a turian who can't wait, and a sweet, sweet bit of revenge.

Shepard mistakenly puts on Garrus's shirt. He's intrigued by the sight of her in it.

Didn’t she know what he was? Were the talons and teeth not enough of a warning?

Sleeping together turns out to be more logistically difficult than Shepard would have expected. Not sex, that was pretty straightforward, but sleeping together. Nevertheless, she's up to the challenge... and it's definitely worth the work.

Sequel to The Perks of Working Late. Years after the end of the Reaper War, Shepard's crew is interviewed about her relationship with Garrus.

Shepard and Garrus reconnect after Menae and James is an accidental witness. The sex he's good with, it's what comes after that makes him uncomfortable.

Things go awry when Shepard lets someone else sit in the driver's seat of the Mako.

The first date at the bar went well, so Shepard and Garrus are branching out. Garrus is the stoic cop and Shepard knows just how to make her ticket go away.

After the tango at the club, Shepard and Garrus can't wait to engage in a different kind of dance.

Thanks to some eavesdropping, Shepard discovers that Garrus's scars do not go over well amongst his own kind. She thinks his kind is full of it, and sets out to prove that to Garrus.

Shepard and Garrus find that hanar poetry reading.

When she and Garrus first got together, Shepard had sort of expected to have blue paint all over her pillow and sheets when he was over. Turned out, whatever the turians made the paint out of didn’t come off that easily.

Blowing off steam takes less time than Garrus anticipated and now he's adrift.

Even in the future, the common cold can still make a person miserable. Shepard is grumpy and Garrus sees that she follows the doctor's orders.

Shepard buys a Fornax after Garrus's remark about krogan testicles.

Shepard finds herself reliving the last few years, from finding the beacon on Eden Prime to the battle for Earth. Again, and again, and again. How much can she change? How much should she change?

Turians can be very confusing, especially when you're kind of-sort of dating one.

Fortunately for Shepard, someone realizes that she needs advice.

Set Post-ME3 where Shepard chooses Control. A hundred years after the Reaper War, a Turian ship captained by the grandson of Garrus Vakarian comes across a derelict Reaper inhabited by a hologram of Commander Shepard.

Whenever it rains, he thinks of her.

Garrus and Shepard spend a night together after a hard-won battle against the Reapers on a rainy jungle planet. Turians aren't known for being fans of water, but for her, he'll suffer a little rain.

This is how it ends: quietly, rain-soaked, and without glory.

After saving the galaxy Shepard notices that she's been getting hit on a lot more by turians. Garrus isn't bothered at all - as he explains, turians are totally down for an orgy here and there.

Sequel to Honey In The Bushes, Water In The Well. In which Shepard discovers the secret to Garrus' success, and decides turnabout is very fair play.

In which Shepard's Cerberus upgrades give Garrus some self-esteem issues in bed, and Mordin has just the thing they need.

Also known as that fic where I say what we're all thinking about turian tongues.

There are softer women and better men.

Truth is, the first time Shepard gets Garrus's clothes off, she's not quite sure how to react.

"Poker. Social game, human primarily, but similar games of chance evident across culture lines."

Shepard liked cards. She had grown up military and cards were a soldier’s best friend. They didn’t take up much space, they weighed very little, and everyone you met knew at least some version of Blackjack and Poker, no matter what race they were. Poker was a great game for a commanding officer to learn-- if you couldn’t read a bluff or a tell, you rarely lived long enough to regret it on the battlefield.

During some downtime, some of the crew of the Normandy end up playing strip poker.

Watching her die never gets easier.

Every breath is a bullet. She gathers them, loads them into herself, and fights back the haze of death.

Shepard united the galaxy twice. Once to save all sentient life and once to save her.

Shepard and Garrus argue about armor, power output, and secrets - but not about who should feed the fish, because no one remembers to do that.

Garrus, the war, and what happens after.

Varric swore he wasn't interested in humans. Hawke was sure she had no desire for smart mouthed dwarves. They were liars, the both of them.

After Hawke returns from the Deep Roads and has to inform her mother that Bethany is dead, she finds herself knocking on Varric's door, looking for solace and comfort in the company of her best friend.

Varric knows that he doesn't want to be alone so quickly, not when the memories of the Deep Roads are so fresh in his mind. Hawke's knock at his door couldn't come at a better time.

What they both need is found in each other's arms, past memories and promises finally fulfilled as the lies they chose to tell themselves crumble in the face of an unyielding truth.

An apostate's guide to popular fiction.

(Or: Hawke runs headlong into Cassandra's book club, Varric comes along for the ride.)

If Varric ever wrote an autobiography, it would be cataloged as a farce.

Five times Varric tried to show Hawke that they were a family (and one time he didn’t need to). Starring nugs, fire, and the Dwarven Merchants’ Guild.

Shepard could swear she used to be smooth. Those days are behind her, it seems.

An old turian tradition features the woman painting herself with her intended mate's markings, plus some added colors and symbols for contrast. Garrus revives this old ritual with Shepard.

Early in the days of his stay on the SSV Normandy, Garrus contemplates some of Shepard’s more…unusual practices.