#the two commanders

Thank you my darling @effelants for the tag! It has been a thousand years, but I’m still around and still chipping away at my TTC edit. So here’s an added excerpt from that!

Not sure who’s around, but tagging @briarfox13, @a-shakespearean-in-paris, @shannaraisles, @leafkisser, @laelior, and anyone who’s reading that wants to play!

“I don’t know what you’re talking about. I’ve been trying to get you into bed for years.”

It was a joke she’d made a thousand times before, to annoy or to fluster but now just to make him smile — and yet this time it hit her differently, conjuring an image which made her pulse quicken with desire.

Desire. The word came to her, fully formed, before she had even a chance of pushing it back down, unquestionable and marginally horrifying. Desire — for Cullen fucking Rutherford.

Ahhh exciting! Colonist/sole survivor Shepard’s have my entire heart honestly, especially if they’re paragon, I have such a soft spot for a Shepard battered by circumstance who still manages to fight for what’s right… but you’ve read the fic you don’t need me to tell you that 😂

It’s so lovely to hear you’re going back to it! I’m inching ever closer to my rewrite being finished, I think I’ve got 10 or so chapters left to work through? I just got distracted by Baldur’s Gate and insufferable wizards. But I’ll be done one day even if it kills me/I die of old age! Anyway, glad to see that I’m not the only one that has Mollie Shepard living rent free in their head 😂

She nodded in agreement, for she felt exactly the same; it felt right to see this through with him, to stand beside him as they faced the unknown. The journey she’d stumbled into had twisted wildly down its path, yet where it had come to — to love, and companionship, and a place she could finally call hers — was far more than she ever could have imagined.

Strange, how he’d walked that path with her, right from the very start. Had she been prone to sentimentality, she might have called it fate.

Chapters: 56/56   Words: 282,009 Rating: Explicit Fandom: Dragon Age, Mass Effect Relationships: Cullen Rutherford/Female Shepard

Chapter fifty-six, in which IT’S FINISHED BITCHES LET’S GOOOOOO

(in which Cullen steals a dog, and one of our commanders proposes)

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As Cullen retreated to an area of relative safety within Halamshiral’s gilded walls, he mused that there were two — and only two — positives about being back in the Winter Palace. Firstly, that Shepard was expected to join them any day now; her mission in the Frostback Basin had taken far longer than Cullen was happy with, and he was desperate to see her again. He ought to be used to these stretches apart by now, as even with the Breach sealed there was still work to be done, but he still felt her absence from his side just as keenly as he had at the start. At least she’d assured him in her last letter that she’d be with him longer this time — as well as outlining some plans for their reunion that he couldn’t even think about without blushing.

The second positive was that he’d found a dog.

I was tagged by @a-shakespearean-in-paris - thanks Shakes! Another added line from my big TTC edit aka 2 Commanders 2 Furious (I probably maybe won’t call it that):

“You have to make amends with him. I refuse to remain here as a mountain bandit with you.”