#shepshep

I wanted to play too!

Destiny’s Fate is the main story in my ShepShep world. John and Jane Shepard have known one another since they were fifteen years old. Through thick and thin they’ve been friend, lover, and spouse to one another. Destiny has a grand plan for them.

Until Jane dies over Alchera and John finally finds a way to live again. When they meet up again on Horizon, both their worlds are shattered. Harsh words and bitterness ensue, as does a divorce, leaving them on a different sort of battlefield. A personal one.

But Destiny’s grand plan cannot be changed, and as the promised Reaper attack gets underway, they are brought together once more to face the greatest threat all civilization in the galaxy has ever known. Can they set aside their differences enough to partner up and defeat the common enemy? Or will their own personal battles defeat them in the process?

Summary: Once united in all things, Destiny has guided John and Jane Shepard to separate, divergent paths; however, both know the future holds a far greater threat than the rest of the galaxy is willing to acknowledge. Can they join together one last time to complete the mission they started together, or will Fate deal them a final losing hand …

Tags: marriage, divorce, strained relationships, angst, pregnancy (past), loss of pregnancy (past), emotional hurt/comfort, death, descrption of battle, biotics, injury

Chapter: Swimming Upstream

Word Count: approximately 2600

Excerpt:

The trickle of water echoes eerily around her as consciousness finds Jane, and for just a second, she smiles and sighs.  Whoever would have thought Anderson would have a decorative waterfall in his apartment?  But something is off about the sound; it’s flat and dull, more a leaky faucet than soothing musical interlude in life.  A frown forms and she shifts her hip. Pain shoots up her right leg, not stopping until it reaches her right shoulder.  With a groan and a forceful heave to lever herself upward, she slowly opens her eyes. “Where the fuck am I?” Though dark, bits of light do give her some perspective, bright slivers shaped by the beams of metal and reflecting on multiple shards of glass lying around her.  Drawing her lower lip between her teeth, she shifts again, gaining her legs beneath her.  Her entire body aches.  From her head to her ribs, all the way down to the knuckle of her left pinky toe, everything hurts.  The pain itself is more blinding than the light, and she pauses for a long moment to take several deep breaths, willing it away.  Only, she can’t get it all the way in, not without her ribs screaming and unconsciousness teasing at the corners of her vision. “Fuck!” In her mind, a deep, rumbling laugh echoes.  Who needs air?  You’re Commander Fucking Shepard, aren’t you?

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Thank you all for reading and your comments! Feel free to drop an ask if you have questions about ShepShep or just want to talk about them! :)

Also, for those interested, I've recreated my ShepShep Playlist over on Spotify. It includes songs I've listened to at various times throughout the writing of the Destiny series, not just this story.

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I'm trying to get back into creating after a crazy year, and I don't think I have one of these yet, so might as well.

My main OC page can be found here with pictures, mood boards, bios, etc for my current OCs. My retired OCs can be found here along with links to their stories. I primarily write mShenko and Shep/Shep. I'm a sucker for backstories and origin stories as I like to go outside of canon and explore the characters.

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OCs

Beau Shepard - Earthborn/War Hero/Infiltrator/Paragade Dante Shepard - Earthborn/Butcher/Adept/Renegade Jake Shepard - Colonist/Sole Survivor/Vanguard/Paragade Ilse Schafer - Earthborn/War Hero/ANN Reporter/Paragon Mark Shepard - Earthborn/Butcher/Infiltrator/Renegon Caitlyn Shepard - Colonist/Butcher/Doctor/Paragon John Shepard - Colonist/Butcher/Adept/Renegade Nikolaj Shepard - Spacer/War Hero/Vanguard/Renegon Remi Corbin Shepard - Colonist/War Hero/Infiltrator/Renegade Séarlait Shepard - Colonist/Sole Survivor/Adept/Paragade Greyson Shepard - Colonist/Butcher/Adept/Paragade Lukas Shepard - Colonist/Butcher/Sentinel/Renegade Red Shepard - Earthborn/War Hero/Vanguard/Renegade

Recent Works

It’s from femshep’s perspective; earthborn, sole survivor, and she’s not “the” Shepard. Feedback is appreciated. :)

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Destiny’s Fate is the main story in my ShepShep world. John and Jane Shepard have known one another since they were fifteen years old. Through thick and thin they’ve been friend, lover, and spouse to one another. Destiny has a grand plan for them.

Until Jane dies over Alchera and John finally finds a way to live again. When they meet up again on Horizon, both their worlds are shattered. Harsh words and bitterness ensue, as does a divorce, leaving them on a different sort of battlefield. A personal one.

But Destiny’s grand plan cannot be changed, and as the promised Reaper attack gets underway, they are brought together once more to face the greatest threat all civilization in the galaxy has ever known. Can they set aside their differences enough to partner up and defeat the common enemy? Or will their own personal battles defeat them in the process?

Summary: Once united in all things, Destiny has guided John and Jane Shepard to separate, divergent paths; however, both know the future holds a far greater threat than the rest of the galaxy is willing to acknowledge. Can they join together one last time to complete the mission they started together, or will Fate deal them a final losing hand …

Tags: marriage, divorce, strained relationships, angst, pregnancy (past), loss of pregnancy (past), emotional hurt/comfort, death, descrption of battle, biotics, injury

Chapter: R&R

Word Count: approximately 2500

Excerpt:

“Sir?”

Pausing in the middle of reading the latest reports out of the Traverse, Kaidan glances over at Specialist Ramirez at one of the nearby terminals.  Things are heating up out there; the war is taking its toll in many ways.  Already limited resources are getting harder to find as more and more colonies are lost each day.  The hesitancy in the specialist’s tone does little to reassure him that whatever the reason for the interruption is good. 

Swallowing back the dread that follows on the heels of that realization, he sets his datapad aside and gives the Specialist his full attention.  “What is it, Ramirez?”

“Sir, Admiral Anderson is on the QEC asking to speak with you.”

Anderson?  That’s…unexpected.  It isn’t a name he expects right now, let alone hear from directly.  The only one on the Normandy who’s been in contact with him is Jane and that’s on a sporadic basis as the situation on Earth allows.  In fact, they’d spoken just a few days ago when Anderson had passed along that he was making his way east across North America.  There wasn’t any reason for another call so soon, was there?

Unless…

Kaidan shakes his head to free it of negative thoughts trying to push in.  No, if something had happened, he wouldn’t be the one calling let alone asking for me.  This is something else…but, what? 

“Are you sure he doesn’t mean the commander, Ramirez?”

“Yes, major.  He asked specifically for you.  By name.”

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Thank you all for reading and your comments! Feel free to drop an ask if you have questions about ShepShep or just want to talk about them! :)

i was challenged by @cr-noble-writes - Thank you!!!

rules: post the last sentence you wrote (fanfic / original / anything) and tag as many people as there are words in the sentence.

Let's see...

“You still got your dancing shoes, Cortez?” Jane asks in complete seriousness.

Woke up this morning with the next ShepShep chapter talking to me (Thank GOD!) for the first time in over six months. Shenanigans started then escalated thanks to a few friends on Discord...

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“Where are we going?”

Kaidan weaves his way through Citadel traffic with ease, a small smile toying at the corner of his lips as he laughs.  “You really have the patience of a vorcha, don’t you?”

Jane snorts, head darting to stare out the passenger window but not before her own lips twitch.  “A vorcha?  Seriously?”

“Well, it’s certainly not an elcor.”

Her lips purse into a thin line as her eyes narrow. “With great impatience:  Where are we going?”

If it’s possible for a skycar to skid, it does.  Kaidan scrambles for a moment to get it back under control before he throws an annoyed look at her.  “Really?”

She shrugs and feigns innocence before mimicking the elcor manner of speech again.  “Intentionally annoying:  Are we there yet?”

Exasperation oozes out in the form of a heavy sigh and Kaidan resigns himself to the situation.  His own fault, probably.  Then again, her sense of humor is unique.  Two, however, can play this game.  “With genuine unconcern:  We get there when we get there.”

Another snort, far more indelicate than the last one, surrounds them.  “Oh, it’s on now, Alenko.”  Jane clears her throat and Kaidan mentally braces himself for what she has in store this time.  “We go now!”

Kaidan’s lungs seize and the skycar jerks again as he fights for breath while Jane alters her voice to sound more like a vorcha.  “Do not make me turn this skycar around!” he rasps as another vehicle screams past them, horn blaring.