Hello, thank you for reading this! I am working on this on my own, so forgive me for my English grammar. I am not exactly following the Mass Effect story. I have never played Mass Effect 1 unfortunately, that's why I want to do something on my own. I was inspired by other great stories here, so I want to thank the authors, especially the authors of Garrus and Shepard romance stories.
But I hope you like this! The first part takes place in the present, but the next chapters, will be about Garrus' and Shepard's individual history and how they end up with each other, and how their romantic relationship grows. Enjoy! :)
- Updated: 27.6.2011
"Don't die on me damn it!" Garrus nearly yelled to Sarah Shepard covered in her own blood.
"I didn't die on you on Omega, you have no right to die on me now! I don't want to lose you again!" He paused, and continued. "If you die, I will most likely die too. You are like a part of me now! You are like my heart, and you know we can't live without it!" Garrus said, nearly crying. Turians never cried. They could, but it would take a lot for them to do so. Garrus has never cried his entire life, but now he could feel that feeling. He was about to start shedding tears. The fear of losing her again was too much for him.
Those words made Shepard stronger, those beautiful words. When he said she was like his heart, she realized that Garrus was much, much more than her guardian angel.
"G-Garrus?" Said Shepard softly, but weakly, smirking to him.
"Don't talk, I am going to get you out of here! We are getting through this alive, you hear me?"
"Joker, Shepard is badly wounded! Bring the shuttle now!" he nearly screamed. He was the XO.
"Yes sir, the shuttle should be there in no time. Bring her back safe, you are the only one who can. Joker out."
"Garrus!" she screamed. That made him really scared and nervous.
"Listen to me!" He used medi-gel on her and she felt a little better, at least good enough so she could focus better on Garrus.
"Garrus! Don't leave me!" She felt a bit calmer now that she was in his arms. She tried to stand up but the pain was too great, even though he gave her some medi-gel. So instead, she hugged, and nuzzled him.
"You know I would never leave you, ever!" he said with love and passion in his eyes and she noticed that. There was no doubt in his voice, like always when he said something like that. That's why she was always so safe and secured with Garrus. She trusted him with her life.
She didn't answer him, but instead, she stared at him in his eyes, with her big green eyes, and with a weak grin on her face. That made Garrus very excited. How much he loved that human. He would do anything for her. She was his mate, his, and that made him so goddamn happy. Now he could feel tears coming down from his eyes to his cheeks, and that really surprised him, but he wasn't crying. "So this is tears?" He said to himself, and that warmed his heart. This was his proof that he really loved Shepard. He grinned proudly. This wasn't something every Turian experience. Shepard watched him with a smirk. "It's magnificent isn't it?" She said, without irony. Garrus smirked.
"Shepard, there is something I need to tell you." he suddenly said, a little bit calmer, now that he saw that Shepard felt better, and hugging him that way. His talons stroking her smooth black hair. He purred softly, and nuzzled her cheek.
"I know you don't want to talk about this, but I have to, is that alright? You don't have to talk, just let me do all the talking. Is that alright, Shepard?" She nodded, but had a bad feeling about this. "Do you remember the times when we, "hated" each other... When we first met?" Garrus said with a little sadness in his voice. That made Shepard a little angry. Not at him, but at herself.
"No! I don't want to think about it! I was racist and stupid, I-I don't want to talk about it!" Shepard grunted. Making a sickening sound. She really hated that time, that time when she was blind. Not literally of course, but when she hated the other races. The time when she only wanted to kill aliens, especially when she was a teenager. But it got better when she reached the adulthood. She still had hatred for aliens in her heart, but wasn't so desperate about killing them anymore. Back then, she put the human race above everything else. Now she was totally opposite. Now she put the other races, Turians, Asari, Salarians, etc above humanity. Now she sees how cruel and how much hatred is in the Human race, and how wrong she had been regarding the point of view she had for aliens. It was Garrus and Nihlus who opened her eyes.
"Let me talk. I need to say this now."
"I.." He hesitated "I have always loved you, I disliked you at first of course, but when I first saw your face, your beauty, your green eyes, I just couldn't... I-I never thought in my entire life, I would fall in love with a human." Shepard had a strange look on her face, she was stunned. She didn't breathe for a second. She thought her heart stopped. This was something new to her. She felt awkward when she thought about the time when they first met. And the thought of knowing that Garrus had always have a crush on her made it worse. "There was something about you. You weren't like the other humans. You were not the first human I saw, so don't get me wrong, I do not have fetish for humans." he laughed lightly when he saw her shocked face. She couldn't stop staring at him.
"I didn't want to admit that at first though." he continued, and chuckled awkwardly.
"Garru-"
"Let me finish." Garrus gazed at the floor. "Since I first saw you, I wanted to get to know you better. But I knew that would never happen, since you didn't like aliens..." Shepard interfered him with a low growl.
"But I never gave up hope, and I have been working on something since I first saw you, just in case if this moment would ever happen, and I think it's finally time for you to know." Garrus now got Shepard's full attention. Garrus turned off Shepard's translation device for a second and sighed, and finally said:
"I-I love you, Sarah Shepard" on Shepard's human language, called 'English'. English was thought to be too hard for Turians to learn. Their language was too different from English. Garrus seemed to have practised this a lot because this was almost perfectly pronounced.
Shepard's heart melted. She was stunned, simply gazed at him with open mouth. She couldn't breathe. She was badly injured, but she didn't let that effect her feelings and this moment.
"Did you... Did you practise that for me?" She said still gazing at Garrus' face. This was one of the most surprising moment of her life. He said those words in English, and used Sarah Shepard instead of just Shepard, like everyone did.
"Well, you know I always said that I hated this damn translation device, that I wanted to learn your language an-"
Before he could continue, she reached up to kiss him on his mouth. They kissed with a great passion, her tongue playing with his. That made Garrus really excited. He recently just learned how to kiss human style. Normally, Turians can't kiss, as they don't have lips. Well, they did have lips, but they weren't very kissable. But Shepard and Garrus found a way. It was kind of weird for him though, but he liked it a lot better than the Turian 'kiss'. He wanted to rip all her clothes off and thrust into her. But he knew that this wasn't the time at all to dream about sex. She was dying and he needed medical care. She needed to get to the hospital. They could continue with this later. Garrus shoved her lightly, but regretted it immediately, he wanted more.
"Don't die! That's an order as your mate! We can continue with this little 'talk' later if you do as I say."
TBC, this is the first part of my story, it's short, I know but, I promise to make the chapters a little longer later. And I aim to do something awesome.
If you want to see more, please review so I know what I could improve, and so I know someone is actually reading this. Once again, I am sorry for my English.
