Hey. Threw this together as a promise to write something sweet for my friend Aislinn Trista, who's canon Femshep, Holly, romanced Thane in Mass Effect 2 and got lsighted in the romance department in Mass Effect 3. The initial idea hit me while I was driving and caused me to tear up beind the wheel and it just breaks my heart to see it on the screen now. Well Here you go Ais and Thanemancers. Something you Should have gotten in the actual game.


"Thane" Holly Shepard breathed as she entered the hospital room. He was lying there, next to Kolyat who was at his side.

"Commander, it's good to see you" Kolyat said, "I'm glad you were able to make it."

"I came as soon as the shooting stopped." Holly said. She surveyed Thane's body, her eyes immediately locked onto the bandage over his stab wound in his abdomen.

"Siha…" Thane wheezed.

"I removed his oxygen mask, to make him more comfortable." Kolyat told her.

Holly pulled up a chair and sat next to his bed. She'd been preparing for this day for months, but now that it was here, she didn't need to tell herself she wasn't ready. Her mind couldn't process what was going on. She would swear up and down in her later years that she almost had a heart attack, but her heart did not attack, it took the lead for her and expressed everything that had been a part of her life for the past 10 months since Thane jumped down from the air vents in Dantius Towers. she hadn't planned it, and couldn't remember where the words that were about to come out had introduced themselves, but they spoke for her better than anything her conscious mind. Her heart sang to him.

Heart beats fast

Colors and promises

How to be brave

How can I love when I'm afraid

To fall

But watching you stand alone

All of my doubt

Suddenly goes away somehow

One step closer

Holly placed her hand on Thane's face and looked him in his beautiful Drell eyes.

I have died everyday

waiting for you

Darlin' don't be afraid

I have loved you for a

Thousand years

I'll love you for a

Thousand more

It was as if she'd slipped into her own version of Drell solipsism. Her time with Thane danced around the two in their current states. Every time they sniped the same enemy; Him pulling enemies from cover to give her a free shot; How he would be a gentleman and let her take on tough enemies herself and he'd take out their help.

Time stands still

beauty in all she is

I will be brave

I will not let anything

Take away

What's standing in front of me

Every breath,

Every hour has come to this

One step closer

All the time they spent on the Normandy filled her with warm feelings. She remembered the nights where she would spend more time in Life support than in her own cabin. Having Gardner bring them food from the mess because they spent so much time talking together. Their time before jumping through the Omega-4 Relay.

I have died everyday

Waiting for you

Darlin' don't be afraid

I have loved you for a

Thousand years

I'll love you for a

Thousand more

And all along I believed

I would find you

Time has brought

Your heart to me

I have loved you for a

Thousand years

I'll love you for a

Thousand more

"Thane…I didn't know what I wanted from my life before you came to me." She said between verses, tears blurring her vision slightly. "I had no idea, going into Dantius Towers, that I'd come out with the love of my life. You were courageous, strong, kindhearted, and everything I needed in my life, and all I will ever need in my life."

One step closer

One step closer

"I'll always love you Thane, always"

I have died everyday

Waiting for you

Darlin' don't be afraid,

I have loved you for a

Thousand years

I'll love you for a

Thousand more

And all along I believed

I would find you

Time has brought

Your heart to me

I have loved you for a

Thousand years

I'll love you for a

Thousand more

Thane could say nothing. Words would just be unworthy. He gazed into her ocean blue eyes for the last time, leaned up gingerly and kissed her. When their lips parted, Thane's soul departed for the sea and the warm embrace of Kalahari Goddess of Oceans and the Afterlife.

Kolyat finished the prayer he'd been saying softly as to not interrupt Holly and by the use of pronouns he'd been praying for her, knowing full well that Thane had already asked for forgiveness.

Holly saw her tears drop onto his exposed chest and repressed her instinct to protect him from moisture. He was gone.