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1. Obscured by BlueClanMarkings (UnhingedByChoice)

   Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M
   • Complete Work

   22 Sep 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Female Shepard/Garrus Vakarian
   • Female Shepard (Mass Effect)
   • Garrus Vakarian
   • Nihlus Kryik
   • Normandy Crew (Mass Effect)
   • Mass Effect 2
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Betrayal
   • Drama & Romance
   • Angst
   • Slow Build
   • garrus isn't oblivious anymore
   • "science"
   • the slow burn first arc
   • POV First Person
   • POV Multiple

   Summary

   PART 5

   2185: Two years after her death, Commander Marika Shepard wakes up in a Cerberus lab with a rebuilt body and a mission she never asked for: stop the Collectors before they take anyone else.
   But working with a terrorist organization comes at a cost. And so does coming back from the dead.

   Now Garrus Vakarian is standing in front of her. Time changed them both. But love doesn’t always disappear. Sometimes it waits.

   Themes: Romance, angst, slow burn, AU-territory, and "science". You don't have to have read the 4 previous parts to follow along, unless you really crave context.

   Series

   • Part 5 of By Starlight and Sapphire

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   124,235

   Chapters:

   32/32

   Comments:

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