Shenko fluff, or the beginnings of.

I do not own Mass Effect or Bioware, if i did Kaidan would walk about the Normandy nekkid =]

My Shep - Spacer, War Hero, Adept.

Chapter 1

Introductions

She was his Commanding Officer. It couldn't happen, shouldn't happen. He tried his best to not let it happen but it did anyway. Kaidan knew he would fall in love with her, from the moment he first laid eyes on her.

Captain Anderson was taking his new XO on a tour of the SSV Normandy, introducing her to the crew. Everyone was excited to have her onboard. An Alliance war hero. As if having one onboard already wasn't enough of a buzz. Anderson was bringing her to the cockpit, to meet the last of the crew. The pair were obviously very well acquainted, making jokes with each other as they approached. Just before they reached the pilot's chair, that's when Kaidan felt it.

Kaidan hadn't felt another biotic's energy in a long time, not since BAaT anyways. And this was something else entirely. It tingled all over his skin causing the hair on his arms to stand on end. It was an incredible sensation. The tingling worked its way through every nerve in his body. It sent his head spinning.

He looked up for the source just before Anderson and the XO came to a stop behind himself and Joker. Kaidan started at her feet and let his eyes wonder up and down her body, repeating it a couple of times before letting his eyes rest on her face.

If he wasn't so controlled his jaw would have hit the ground. Of course Kaidan knew she was gorgeous, every red-blooded Alliance soldier could tell you that. She was an Alliance pin up. They'd all seen the vids but seeing her in the flesh was a completely different experience. He was pretty certain that guys everywhere had holos of her crowding their rooms. He grinned slightly at the thought.

Kaidan was quite aware that she was mimicking his actions. It was not uncommon for biotics to size each other up, they had all done it to each other in BAat when they had first met. When she came to meet his gaze, Kaidan could have sworn he saw her briefly bite her lip, a twinkle in her eye. She turned her attention back to Anderson who had started speaking but not before flashing Kaidan a quick grin.

"Commander Marie Shepard, this is Flight Lieutenant Jeff Moreau," announced Anderson, nodding to the pilot.

"Lieutenant," greeted Shepard, shaking his hand briefly.

"Pleasure to meet you, Ma'am," quipped the pilot, returning to his duties.

"And this, Commander, is Staff Lieutenant Kaidan Alenko," continued Anderson, gesturing to the man on the right of the pilot.

"Lieutenant," smiled Shepard, shaking the man's hand, sparks shooting up the nerves in both hands as they connected. Their hands lingered for a moment before Shepard took hers back.

"Ma'am," he returned, smiling also.

Damn, that felt good, thought Kaidan.

She was staring right at him and he couldn't help but just stare back, losing himself in those lovely pale blue eyes. She truly was beautiful.

"Now that you've met all the crew, Commander, I'll show you where you'll be sleeping and where you can keep your personal belongings and such," said Anderson, snapping them back into reality.

"Of course Captain, thank you," Shepard glanced back into the cockpit and smiled that gorgeous smile one last time, "as you were Lieutenants."

As soon as she was out of earshot, the pilot let out a whistle.

"Wow, she is way hotter in person...damn!" He turned to Kaidan, "and what the frickin' hell was all that!"

Startled Kaidan sputtered "Huh...I...What?"

"You know what! It was like you were eye-sexing the crap out of each other! You'd better be careful or i might start thinking that someone is crushing on the commander," the pilot grinned that big shit-eating grin that made Kaidan want to throw him out the airlock.

"Yeah well I'm not, it's just weird having another biotic on board. Biotics don't come across each other that often let alone work together. It's not something we are used to."

"That may be so, Alenko, but i still like my theory better."

Kaidan sighed, trying to shake whatever had just happened out of his head and get on with his work.

Marie Shepard had never been in love. Ever. She always ended a relationship before it got that far. Call it heartless, call it being a bitch, she would call it keeping her head screwed on. She was Commander Marie Shepard of the Alliance military, an N7 and a very talented and very powerful biotic. Those things - to her - didn't cry out fall in love, get married, settle down.

She could never let herself get too close to someone in fear of losing control of her biotics and hurting them. She knew what people thought about biotics and for this reason she never told anyone that she was involved with about it. Of course, after becoming an Alliance poster girl a lot of people knew she was a biotic but she never talked to anyone about it.

It was to her delight that she was to be on the same ship as another biotic. Biotics never got posted on the same ship as each other if it could be helped.

Shepard had never met another like herself. Her parents were in the Alliance so she was raised between ships and stations, never staying in one place too long. She had an older brother Tommy but he was never exposed to Element Zero like she was. Though her family had never treated her any different, others had and because of that she was rarely ever close to anyone other than her family.

Perhaps, Shepard thought, this other biotic on the Normandy would be someone for her to relate to.

She was approaching the cockpit of the Normandy with Captain Anderson, a friend of her father's. He was introducing her to the crew.

It was then that she felt something both strange and wonderful. It was as if static electricity was dancing all over her skin, tickling its way up and down her nerves.

Where is that coming from. Shepard was intrigued. I've never felt anything like it.

Shepard found herself drawn to the man in the chair to the right of the pilot. She began eying him up, from the toes all the way up to the top of his head. She did this for sometime, taking in every detail of his finely sculpted body.

She finally let her eyes meet his and her heart started pounding against her chest. He had the most gorgeous eyes she had ever seen. They were a beautiful, warm brown colour that was so deep and intense.

Shepard found her eyes flicker down to his lips.

And how very kissable those lips looked... She bit her lip before she could think of what she was doing.

Shepard was thankful that Anderson had decided to speak again when he did. Shepard would have surely kissed those kissable lips if he had not. She flashed the man on her right a quick grin before giving Anderson her full attention once more.

She was then introduced to the pilot, Flight Lieutenant Jeff Moreau. She had heard a lot about him, the best pilot in the Alliance she had been told. She was also told that he had earned the nickname 'Joker' in flight school.

Probably something only friends call him, thought Shepard, i wonder if he is actually funny...

Shepard found her attention being brought back to the man on her right as Anderson began his introduction. Staff Lieutenant Kaidan Alenko. Shepard greeted him and shook his hand.

Sparks much stronger than those of before shot right up her hand and up her arm. Her entire body started tingling insanely. Shepard started grinning like an idiot.

She looked up to find he was smiling at her, the dreamiest smile in existence. Her knees felt suddenly weak and the tingling of her skin had reached an intensity she had never imagined possible.

Their gaze locked once more and Shepard found herself getting lost in those beautiful eyes, her knees going ever so slightly weaker. She let her eyes trail all over his body once more, taking in as much as possible.

Dammit, Shep stop checking the man out, he's your subordinate. But she couldn't stop herself. I'm gonna need a cold shower...or two.

Anderson was speaking to her again. It took Shepard a while to register what he had just said. Though her mouth seemed to have a mind of its own and had already uttered a reply. She found herself being ushered from the cockpit.

She needed an excuse to look back at him.

"As you were Lieutenants," she smiled at Alenko one last time before turning her attention back to Anderson.

This was going to be interesting.

** Okay so there be my first chapter of my first ever fanfic. Not sure what you guys will make of it. I'm rather nervous coz like i said it's my first one and i haven't written anything in a quite a while. I shall take this opportunity to give a big shout to all the lovely people over at KAST, you're all amazing. There's some incredible writers over there and i appreciate everything you guys write, okay i'm making myself more nervous about posting this now ahhh. Okay i'm shutting up and posting it. ! *bites nails*