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About six weeks ago, a prompt on me_challenge's Insanity Round was "We Never Change". I wrote this in response. As I was writing it, I was already trying to formulate a "companion piece", as it were. A bit where Shepard is able to get the one-up on Kaidan and do something similar for him that he does for her throughout "We Never Change". I finally managed to complete it.

Prompt: We Never Change
Characters/Pairings: Shepard/Alenko
Notes: Self-betaed, so any and all mistakes are mine and mine alone.

Safe for work; contains some allusions to the original We Never Change and to the post Omega-4/pre Arrival fic I've been plunking away at for three months or so.

Vague spoilers for Arrival and the beginning of ME3.

Feedback of all stripes would be awesome and greatly appreciated.

( We Never Change )

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So, I'm replaying the ME series with my canon Shepard, getting her all set up for import to ME3 in March. I'm back to the Shadow Broker mission again and I think I just need to get some griping off my chest. Because somehow, for some reason, the agitation is worse the second time around. Maybe because I dragged this Shepard through ME1 three times and really got a good sense of her story going? I don't even know. But I need to vent.

jessieheart, this isn't anything you haven't seen before.

Incoming rant covering all of the Shadow Broker DLC and information revealed therein, also contains flipping between third person and first person when concerning Commander Shepard cause that's how I roll, yo. Also, I am decidedly not a fan of Liara (and markedly less so her Shadow Broker incarnation). You have been warned.

Now with twice the rantiness. And twice the capslock.

( Spoilers for Shadow Broker DLC )

For virusq, just in case she has comment notifications off. She requested Hawke and LI of choice's relationship from the perspective of the dog.

If I'd known you would have been this difficult, I would have prompted Shenko at you. :-P This was harder to write than I thought it would be. And I'm still not sure it's anywhere near good enough, but it was a lot of fun to try. :-)

I'll add a pairing tag later, when I know virusq has read it, so I don't spoil it. Pairing tag added.

( Dog's Thinky Thoughts )

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Putting this here, too, just in case featheredraven doesn't have comment notifications turned on.

Drabble for featheredraven who requested Malcolm/Leandra

I really hope you like this. I've never written Malcolm/Leandra before, and actually had the general idea for this stewing all week long. I hope that was enough time for it to come out at least halfway decently and that I did them both justice.

( Malcolm/Leandra )

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This is what I'm gonna do for my WiP Monday post today (what? It's after midnight where I am.). Because the bigger fic I'm *gasp* actually working on is kinda sorta stalled until I can finish ME2 again and make sure I've got some voices right. So, shamelessly stolen from virusq (as per her directions):

The first five people to comment in this post get to request that I write a drabble/ficlet of any pairing/character of their choosing. In return, they have to post this in their journal, regardless of their ability level.

Putting off that actual real life update for one more day. I'll do it when I sit down on my "break" tomorrow. Tomorrow must be a Clean All the Things Day - my sister and her boyfriend are coming on Saturday, and Boyfriend will be seeing the house for the first time, so I feel like it has to be perfect. It's a personal issue, and Boyfriend really wouldn't care if it wasn't, but I do. So blah.

And now, ME_Challenge Responses (again with a Kasumi icon because I have yet to go find a generic Mass Effect one) (have an N7 icon. I've grabbed 3 different Normandy icons, but they're all .bmp. I will figure out how to rectify this. Eventually. Maybe.):

Prompt: Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration
Characters/Pairings: Shepard, Joker

( Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration )

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Prompt: Your hair and my eyes
Characters/Pairings: Shepard/Alenko

( Your hair and my eyes )

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Prompt: We never change
Characters/Pairings: Shepard/Alenko
Notes: This one is the long one today. Also, there will be a companion piece coming (most likely tomorrow or over the weekend) with Kaidan as the one on the receiving end.
Spoilers: Very vague spoilers for Arrival and the beginning of ME3.

( We never change )

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Three weeks ago, someone put "Alistair's Rose" up as a prompt on the Tuesday Prompt Fest at dragon_age. I didn't write anything for an entire day because my brain kept turning the possibilities over. That Wednesday, I sat down and typed out the early version of this.

Title: Kaleidoscope (You and Me and He Makes We)
Characters/Pairings: Nathaniel/Aeducan, previous Alistair/Aeducan, Sigrun
Rating: G
Word Count: 1131
Notes: So very many thanks to tersa, who very patiently beta-read something like four different versions of this.
Summary: Nathaniel reminds Sereda that Alistair deserves to be remembered.

( It's funny how even the little things become monumental when you have nothing. )

P.S. Somebody want to come up with a better title? I'll love you forever. Because I suck at them.

x-posted to dragon_age and nathaniel_howe

Title: The Power of Touch
Author: lilchickadee
Rating: PG-13 for blood and gore
Characters: Dean, OFCs, OMC, Alastair
Genre: Gen, Futurefic
Word Count: 551
Warnings: Cussing (one word), gore, kids
A/N: This is completely unbetad, so any errors are mine and mine alone. This is second in a series of shorts that are a possible glimpse into Dean's future. First is here.
Disclaimer: They're not mine, though I'd be tempted to try to kiss Dean's pain away if they were.


( He's positive that even were he to scour his skin until it was raw that he'd still find the stuff in places he can't even imagine. )