Jane Shepard and Garrus Vakarian fall in love before the events of Mass Effect 1. Their story from Garrus's point of view, romance, relationship, romantic sparkles and drama with a side of criminal investigation on a rogue Spectre. Come for the smut and stay for the story.

First six chapters were beta-read and edited by TheLadyKellet [link], later chapters by mosva [link].

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I'm trying to make Shepard her own person and not a selfinsert-standin but of course some of me will blend into her personality. I'm a tech-geek so that's what she is going to be as well, although she'll probably be more of an infiltrator in battle cause that's what I played. I'm also convinced that you can't be a strong warrior like Shepard being petite and girly, it just doesn't work in my head. So she is more like Vasquez from "Alien" in appearance but the rest like the default FemShep only more angular. She looks nice but she isn't a model.

As to Garrus and Nihlus...
I blame Smehur's awesome story "The Candidate" on fanfiction.net for the insistent Garrus&Nihlus shipping that happened there (even though that is a Saren&Nihlus story and I don't ship those at all). I had no idea they would do that, I swear!

Oh and by the way, if someone would like to make art for this story, I'd be eternally grateful.

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Chapter 1: [link]

Chapter 4: [link]

Chapter 6: [link]