The Ones Left Alive
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We Know the Score by Athenias, Hekaerge-Athenias (Athenias)
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy
26 Dec 2021
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Against her better judgement, Shepard leaves Kaidan on Virmire.
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- Part 1 of The Ones Left Alive
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Shepard left her family behind on Mindoir. Really, she did. Any memories resurfaced or people reminding her of them are purely coincidental. She is the model picture of mental health! A beacon of a soldier for the alliance!
If only that whole dance and song worked on Liara.
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- Part 2 of The Ones Left Alive
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As all the Heavens Were a Bell by Athenias, Hekaerge-Athenias (Athenias)
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy
02 Sep 2021
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Post-Virmire, Shepard runs into Ashley late at night. She lends her an ear.
Like most conversations, it turns to the ghosts looming over the feared Commander Shepard.
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- Part 3 of The Ones Left Alive
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I Know Those Eyes by Athenias, Hekaerge-Athenias (Athenias)
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy
09 Sep 2021
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For two years Liara mourned Shepard. Yet when news reaches her that Shepard is alive in the Terminus, she keeps minimal tabs and does not reach out. They are, after all, different people.
And then Shepard shows up at her door and Liara realizes she couldn’t recall her face before that very moment.
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- Part 4 of The Ones Left Alive
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Commander Shepard has been a household name since Torfan. She’s untouchable by her own means, a light of potential soaring towards near godhood the longer she stays in the limelight. But it takes her saving the Citadel before anyone worth a damn decides to ask who Shepard has if she’s untouchable. Who bats for her when the galaxy turns its back on her.
The answer’s simple— the same man stubborn enough to see the Butcher of Torfan and ask her if all the death was worth it. Anderson never did have a good sense of danger.
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Shepard and Anderson through the years, right up until the very end.
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- Part 5 of The Ones Left Alive
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The Dead Won’t Leave Me Be by Athenias, Hekaerge-Athenias (Athenias)
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy
18 Nov 2021
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They hand Shepard a gun and tell her to choose someone to shoot. She does. She does. And when they’re dead, she knows they’ll never leave her even when their bodies rot and their memories fade.
The war takes its toll on everyone. For Shepard, it just means it follows her to her bed, too.
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- Part 6 of The Ones Left Alive
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See By This World's Light by Athenias, Hekaerge-Athenias (Athenias)
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy
07 Dec 2021
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"No matter how good you think you are, there's always somebody... quicker, faster, and a hell of a lot smarter than you just around the corner."
Shepard sets the tablet back down on the bar, frowning. Some of it's about her; couldn't be anyone else. But there's part of her that's still left at the bottom of the ocean, blood down her face and her head pounding. Indoctrination, or at least a form of it, and she couldn't even resist. Up until then, Shepard thought that she was stronger than the Reapers. Now she's not unconvinced that they aren't simply toying with her. Her hands shake as she crests the top of the apartment's stairs, rounds past Liara's sleeping form on the bed and into the armory.
They only stop shaking when she holds her rifle in a white-knuckled fist.
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In the days leading up to the party, Shepard takes to the Armax Arsenal Arena after hours. Miranda puts a stop to it.
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- Part 7 of The Ones Left Alive
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On the Third Day by Athenias, Hekaerge-Athenias (Athenias)
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
21 Oct 2024
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Seconds before an electromagnetic pulse wipes out the Reapers and takes all Quantum Entanglement Communications with it, Miranda receives a message from the Shadow Broker.
When the dust settles, Shepard is left to pick up the pieces of herself and decide, once and for all, who she wants to be without the Alliance or the Council’s influence. She should want peace and quiet, a white picket fence to park herself in with Liara. The universe certainly seems to expect it of her.
Unfortunately for the universe, Shepard can’t seem to keep herself out of trouble. Habits like that are hard to break.
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- Part 8 of The Ones Left Alive