Opus
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Sam rubs at his arm. “You shouldn’t worry so much.”
Daniel gazes down at him, still all knees and elbows, a buck twenty centimeters tall if he’s wearing shoes, ready to fight god for no reason other than to have something to do.
I will always worry about you, Sam-I-Am.
~A father's love for a whirlwind of a child.
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- Part 1 of Opus
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The 14-year old-kid who changed David Anderson's life.
The unexpected mentor who changed Sam Shepard's.
The kid can’t sit still. Sam is like a walking, talking action figure, in a perpetual state of motion with no sense of his own body. According to Daniel he’d just hit a growth spurt, shot up to over 175 cm in the space of a month, and it shows. It’s like watching a puppy try to figure out what to do with four feet, and the Alliance is shipping him off to learn how to play with dark energy.
No wonder Daniel had called him. Without someone to keep an eye on him, this string bean of a kid might take out the whole system.Series
- Part 2 of Opus
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Whatever Kaidan had been expecting from the Butcher of Torfan, this isn’t it.
There’s nothing krogan-like about the soldier sitting at the table. The lethal gaze from the vids is watery and unfocused. The empty bottle in his hand isn’t a gun, but he clutches it like one. When the bartender delivers a fresh one Shepard doesn’t look up, merely pops the top off and takes another quick pull.
This isn’t good.
~Sam Shepard and Kaidan Alenko, in the years before the Normandy. AKA, the slowest of slow burns.
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- Part 3 of Opus
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"Virmire, right.” Ashley skims Shepard’s abandoned datapad. “Sunny, beaches, great weather, missing prothean beacons. It sounds like shore leave. Surely nothing to fear there.”
Kaidan shifts in his seat. The last time they’d gone to paradise, Shepard had nearly gotten killed trying to save Kaidan from his own mistakes, and they’d discovered a race of genocidal machines trying to wipe out all sentient life, with a turian Spectre as their flag bearer.
“Nothing to fear at all,” he mutters.
The storm is coming, and it’s on Virmire.
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- Part 4 of Opus
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After the Battle of the Citadel, the Alliance calls the Normandy home to Vancouver to face an inquest. Things get...complicated. On every possible level. Especially when Kaidan discovers an unfortunate misunderstanding with his parents.
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“Have to admit though,” Shepard says, swallowing the rest of his shot, “I’ve been called a lot worse things than your boyfriend.”
Kaidan blinks. The whiskey’s definitely caught up to him. It’s warm in here, and he has to have imagined what just came out of Shepard’s mouth. “Really.”
“Compared to getting shot at and having an inquest shoved up my ass? I’m pretty sure holding your hand, going home with you and eating your mom’s risotto is a considerable improvement, yes.”
Kaidan laughs. Or tries to. It comes out as more of a hoarse squawk. “Sure, I’ll just avoid this whole mess by bringing you home with me. They’ll never have to know.”
“Maybe they don’t,” Shepard says, and Kaidan nearly chokes.
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- Part 5 of Opus
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A few minutes more and they wouldn’t have even been on the ship. The Mako was scheduled and ready for drop, both of them suited up and ready with the final checklist completed.
A few minutes more, and they would have watched the Normandy burn from the surface of Alchera.
But they didn’t get those minutes.
Alchera, and the two year gap.
Follow up to Sonata.
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- Part 6 of Opus
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Here in the light those eyes of his look real, staring Jacob down like a railgun locked on a target. Jacob’s never been much for religion or spent much time thinking about an afterlife. But being caught in the crosshairs of that cold, indifferent gaze sure raises the question about whether humans have a soul, and if they do, what happens to it when you die.
And if you can ever get it back.
The twists and turns of ME2, through the eyes of everyone but Commander Shepard.
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- Part 7 of Opus