#sleep now

2 years later they’re gay asf they kiss everyday and alexi beat up his leader (or the person that lead him on)

you should.

Shepard hummed a noisy sigh, her breath curling like an almost physical thing inside the bowl of his cowl and along the base of his neck. “You should just sleep here,” she said, so quiet he almost wondered if she meant to say it out loud.

Keeping his voice light, he tried for a joke: “Is that an order?” Even as he said it, it felt clumsy, almost gauche. The air seemed to thicken around him, an extra atmosphere’s worth of pressure.

She shifted against him; the ends of her hair fell against her chin and brushed the sensitive underside of his neck. “No, it’s a request,” she replied. “Nothing formal.” And as her hair brushed again against his hide, he felt an accompanying jump in his stomach. He thought by her tone, by the way she didn’t say it, maybe, she might feel it too. That well of terrifying want.

“You don’t have to if you don’t want to,” she said, filling the space he had left quiet. “I just…”

He ran his knuckles against her side, searching for the bump of her ribs and finding a ridge of scar tissue instead. “If you say I’m welcome—” With just the pad of his thumb, he smoothed over the skin. “I’ll stay.”