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    Minimize losses.

    The mission had to succeed.

    He'd made the call. It was the right call.

    Kaidan would either accept that, or he wouldn't. Shepard couldn't make him believe.

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    Virmire happens.

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    Kaidan wonders what Ashley would think about him using her candle like this. If she had been saving it for a special reason, or maybe had been a memento from her civilian days. He wonders if it had had any particular significance, why it had even been in her locker in the first place. He wishes he could ask her.

    But he can’t.

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    Kaidan deals with the guilt of surviving Virmire by holding vigil on the longest night.

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    Virmire means Kaidan Alenko is having a no-good very-bad day

    Or, Kaidan Alenko wasn't pushed out of the beacon by Commander Shepard and thus got the prothean information downloaded into his brain. He becomes important in a way he never wanted.

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    She wanders, and the soft step of her boots on the cold metal floor marks the distance, and then the time, it takes to walk the length of the Normandy during the night shift. Rubber soled metronome beats from her station to Kaidan’s, standing at the empty space until she can’t, until the ghost-limb presence of him is too much, and she needs to walk away.

    or: ashley lives. kaidan doesn't. the crew of the normandy helps her to process that.

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    Against her better judgement, Shepard leaves Kaidan on Virmire.

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    Someone had to check in with Shepard after everything that happened on Virmire. It might as well be Garrus.

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    ME1 Spoilers.

    Ada Shepard, sentinel War Hero, Spacer, left Kaidan to guard the nuke on Virmire. He was kind of her boyfriend, and now he’s dead. Ada tries to comfort herself by taking apart an Omni-tool. Garrus stops by to check on her.

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    Since the debrief after Virmire, Kaidan’s headache had been a persistent and constant throb of pain behind his eyes.

    Kaidan felt.. dirty. He felt as if nothing he'd ever done until this moment mattered at all because the reason he was still breathing was because of the flirty smiles and soft glances shared between him and his Commander.

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    Kaidan and Shepard grow closer when Shepard finally shares her past, and opens up about her trauma. I intend to follow the trilogy plot line, with liberties, through a series of short stories to flesh out Karina Shepard and Kaidan’s relationship. Wanted to explore a more sensitive side of Shepard.

    Karina Shepard:
    * Infiltrator
    * Paragon to a fault
    * Colonist Background
    * Sole Survivor

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    4/?
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    His emotions are written on his sleeve in neon ink. Hers are... well.

    Post-Virmire feels.

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    Track Four: Home by Tiny Deaths

    Virmire aftermath. Shepard deals with it with the help of Robert Frost, Wrex, and contraband.

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    In the aftermath of Virmire, Shepard gives a little comfort, finds a little comfort, and takes matters (and the Normandy) into her own hands.

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    VIRMIRE SPOILERS. The morning after Virmire, Bekah Shepard loses a fight to the Normandy’s coffee machine and her grief. An unexpected hand is there to help her with both.

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    “I had to choose. I chose you.”
    “But why?”
    Shepard ground her teeth hard enough to hurt; pressed her lips together as if that would make it easier to hold back the truth. “You don’t want to know the answer to that,” she said, hardly above a whisper. She wanted to tell Ashley—or, she would have, if this were a perfect world where her decisions had no consequences and her gunnery chief would not look at her in disgust.

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    After Shepard's death, Ashley Williams drifted apart from the rest of the old crew. But when a familiar name shows up in her inbox, Ash realizes that the torch she'd carried for nearly two years is nowhere close to extinguished. When she receives a new assignment, she's also given the opportunity for a second chance.

     

    ...one name in particular stuck out, making something old and bittersweet tighten in her chest. Standing at the water’s edge on Virmire, joking with Kaidan about what a good vacation destination it would make. And his smile, brighter than a supernova.

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    After leaving Kaidan behind on Virmire, Nixa Shepard has an accident while setting a course in the navigation computer.

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    She could tell herself that it would have been different if it were Kaidan standing where Ashley had on Horizon, that he would have joined her, been there for her, mourned with her.

    Even in her head, it sounded like a lie.

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    After the events of Virmire, the Normandy mourns a good friend.

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    One of the defining moments of the first part of the Mass Effect Trilogy. What would have happened if, somehow, Shepard had saved both Ashley AND Kaidan on Virmire? This is how their lives might have differed throughout that story.

    Rated 'Mature' as I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DOING! Based on my own playthrough of the original trilogy. This work could go any direction so I have been cautious rather than not. I hope that this will continue but I don't want to promise anything.

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    Chapters:
    3/?
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