#kandra alenko

(commissioned artwork of Kandra and Kaidan Alenko by @xla-hainex)

Title: Vanguard of Our Destruction - Moments

**Note: these prompts were originally published in my Dribbles & Drabs collection of prompts, but because their muses were chattering so loud in my head of late, I decided to re-edit and update them then pull them into a collection of their own. There may be more prompt responses in future that will be posted here as well. I will be posting them a few at a time until I've caught up to the original ones.

Pairing: Male Shepard/Kaidan Alenko, female OC Alenko/James Vega

Characters: John Michael Shepard, Kaidan Alenko, Kandra Shepard, James Vega

Tags: (These will vary with each prompt posted, so please mind the tag list on AO3.). Twin Alenkos, Shepard stays on Earth, kissing, video game level violence, claustrophobia, angst, mShenko, fVenko (eventually), suggestions of abuse/torture, blood mention, rock paper scissors at 14000 feet, fast burn then a slow reburn, slow burn, no one left behind

Chapter 4: Cleaning the other person’s lips with a lick and a kiss

Chapter 5: I think you're beautiful

Chapter 6: Where does all the blood come from?

Chapter 7: Cross my heart and hope to die

Excerpt:

(commissioned artwork of Kandra and Kaidan Alenko by @xla-hainex)

Title: Vanguard of Our Destruction - Moments

**Note: these prompts were originally published in my Dribbles & Drabs collection of prompts, but because their muses were chattering so loud in my head of late, I decided to re-edit and update them then pull them into a collection of their own. There may be more prompt responses in future that will be posted here as well. I will be posting them a few at a time until I've caught up to the original ones.

Pairing: Male Shepard/Kaidan Alenko, female OC Alenko/James Vega

Characters: John Michael Shepard, Kaidan Alenko, Kandra Shepard, James Vega

Tags: (These will vary with each prompt posted, so please mind the tag list on AO3.). Twin Alenkos, Shepard stays on Earth, kissing, video game level violence, claustrophobia, angst, mShenko, fVenko (eventually), suggestions of abuse/torture, blood mention, rock paper scissors at 14000 feet, fast burn then a slow reburn, slow burn, no one left behind

Chapter 1: Playfully biting someone

Chapter 2: Please, I'll do anything

Chapter 3: I don't want to lose you again

Excerpt:

So, I finished up Hell Week for work today - yay! - and was wasting a few minutes looking through my WIPs and came across this piece of art that I absolutely ADORE of Kaidan and his twin sister, Kandra. Which got me to start looking through the bits of Vanguard of Your Destruction which I started for Nano...three years ago, I think? Decided to share this little bit I came across early on in the story.

(commissioned artwork of Kaidan and Kandra Alenkoby @xla-hainex)

I can’t stay.  Bits of plaster rain down from the ceiling as the building shakes for a fourth time, and this time it doesn't just push the button to her brain, it slaps it down hard.  She dashes back to her room, throwing the closet doors open until they bang against the wall. Rooting through the clothes hanging there, she finally grasps hold of the evacuation bag Kaidan had her create months ago.  Clothing.  First-aid kit.  All the necessities a girl needs to get from Vancouver to the BC interior when an invasion hits! she’d quipped at the time.  Another bellowing wail from outside screams through the windows. She clasps her hands to her ears, but not in time.

As she turns to leave, a glint of mahogany catches her eye and she hesitates, staring at the jewelry box. No...I can't... Without thought or permission, she finds herself standing directly in front of it. Anger fills her, a rage she's not felt since...since... Biting her lip until she tastes blood, she lifts a hand and settles it on the top.  It's strange to see her fingers shaking so badly, knowing it has nothing to do with immediate dangers brought by alien space creatures, but everything to do with the peace of mind she's been trying to find since her youth. Breath rattling from her lungs, her fingers brush across the lock, unsealing it. Slowly, cautiously, she lifts the lid, as if afraid it might jump out and bite her. As well it could, too. It doesn't. Carefully wrapped in the small piece of fabric Kaidan had wrapped around it, it sits there in the corner of the box, behind her charm bracelet and the earrings her grandmother had left her when she passed. Sitting there. Still. Quiet. Unassuming. And yet it offers so much. Yet another deep, resonant, mechanical wail fills the air around her, seeping in through sealed windows.  Kandra cringes out of instinct, but at the same time, her fingers close around the fabric-wrapped item.  I know you don’t want to think about it, but Kan, you need to.  I’m not kidding… The fabric falls away, like the peel on an orange, and she stares, torn by twin feelings of hope and horror. I shouldn't have to make this choice! I vowed never, EVER, to pick one up again! The very fact she does is...offensive.  Despicable.  Frustrating as all hell, too, because no matter how badly she wants to deny it, if she's going to live, to survive, she has to accept that he's right.  Quick tears fill her eyes even as the fabric fall to the floor.  It’s an older style Savant, the one he used back before the Normandy was destroyed, but it’s better than the old Gemini they’d been issued at Brain Camp.  Kan, you HAVE to survive..

Caleb Shepard (both by @xla-hainex)

Kristofer Shepard (art by @rosenkow) ; Lachlan Shepard (art by @xla-hainex)

Rhys Shepard (art by @xla-hainex); Serafina Shepard (my first Shepard) (art by @dragonreine)

Sian Shepard (art for MEBB 2016 by @artisticallyamber) ; Micah Shepard by @dreambled

from this prompt list

on AO3 here

Prompt #1 (Abboats, “look at me. you’re goinna be okay”) is here.

Here is Prompt #2!  Finally got Michael and Kaidan talking, though this went a bit angstier than I meant... maybe?  lol  You know me! :)  Anyway, this is set during the Reaper War on Earth.  Setting is New York City.  Enjoy!  And thank you for loving them so much!  (I even got a sneak cameo by Kandra at the end for you!)

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With calm, steady certainty and without a word, Shepard dons his jacket and places the pistol inside the front pocket.  He only stops when Kaidan’s hand grasps his shoulder.  “Wait just a damn minute, will you?”

“Kaidan, I don’t have time to –”

Kaidan isn’t buying it.  After all the years they’ve known one another, the time spent together, after finally working their relationship back around to where they’d been before Alchera, what’s happening right before his very eyes, in this moment, isn’t acceptable.  And he isn’t afraid to say it.  “You can’t do this, Michael!”

A heavy sigh fills the air as Shepard turns to face him.  Kaidan, bridling with anger, frustration, fear, waits.  A shimmer of blue-white energy bleeds out, surrounding his body.  

Surprisingly, Shepard doesn’t seem angry.  If anything, resignation fills his blue eyes, perhaps mixed with a bit of trepidation.  As if he doesn’t want to do this, but he’s going to anyway.  Kaidan gulps.  Of course, he is.  That’s how he operates.  Why does it always have to be like this?

from this list

on AO3 here

Whoever strikes my fancy, eh?  Well, thanks to @jedirangerpenguin and her constant love of certain characters of mine, have a bit of Kandra Alenko and James Vega from Vanguard of Your Destiny. :D

Setting: somewhere between Chicago and North Carolina, Earth during the Reaper war.

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They take refuge in the burned-out carcass of a building set in the heart of yet another dead city laid to waste by the Reapers. It shouldn’t leave Kandra so anxious and antsy, but she can’t help it.  Their journey across the country has bounced back and forth from one extreme to the other so many times over that having moments of quiet and peace are very…alien. Almost frighteningly so.  At the moment, her nerves jitter so badly – like ants creeping along beneath the surface of her skin – that fighting the urge to scratch or rub the area until it goes away leaves her almost as dizzy as the defective implant in her head does.  And these days, especially since leaving Chicago, the urge is nearly constant.

We need to be up higher.  At least then, they’d have to climb the walls to get to us, or fight their way past barricades we can put in place.  But..they’d just as easily come down from the rooftop, wouldn’t they?  Climb in through the broken windows, tear a hole in the floor or a wall, or even use the ventilation systems?  And we won’t even know they are there…

The scuff of booted feet breaks through her thoughts and she jumps, spinning around on her heel, her fingers already tickling a wave of dark energy into existence, preparing to release it…

“Hey, now, princesa!” Vega calls out in a mixture of amusement and hesitation.  “It’s just me!”

I was tagged by the fabulous @hunnybadgerv​ - thank you, dearest!  Tagging anyone else wanting to participate!  Not sure who all has done this now or before, but tag me back if you decide to join in so I can see, please!

Okay, so I’ve already done Lachlan, Rhys, and Caleb.  Let’s see... Let’s do

KANDRA ALENKO

Dinner - K’s Kafe

Sky - the limit

Trip - BAaT

Season - cooking

Sleep - snuggle

Comfort - hugs

Family - Kaidan

Black - terror

Fight - self-defense

Restaurant - dream

Home - Orchard

Power - biotics

Steal - kiss (from James)

Ocean - content

Drink - who’s buying?

Again, I was fortunate enough to be able to commission the extremely talented @xla-hainex​ for a couple of art pieces.  And look!!!  My babies!!!!  Kandra and Kaidan Alenko, biotic twins!  I’m about to burst, I’m so excited to finally see them together!!!  And in time for the last half of Nano and their writing project!!!

A little something for them from that project:

“Kan, stop!” Kaidan shouts as he hurries inside. Their eyes meet and he isn’t at all surprised to see signs of shock in hers.  She draws back her arm, preparing another attack; he blocks her movement with his forearm, disrupting the mnemonic.  “Kandra,” he barks out sharply, “зупиняти!”

His voice breaks through the haze; she blinks a few times, eyes widening, filling with horror,  but they focus on him now.  “K?”

He pulls her close for a quick hug of relief. “Yeah, it’s me.  Are you alright?”

“I …”  She looks over his shoulder before taking a step back from him.  “Yeah, better now,” she replies with a forced smile. Her gaze drifts back to his face. From one moment to the next, the shock fades and bewilderment suffuses her features.  “зупиняти?” she repeats, her accent slightly thicker than his. “Really?”