A troubled and renegade Commander Shepard meets her calming counterpart in Kaidan Alenko. As the galaxy falls apart around them, what will be their fate? Part One will cover some Pre-ME1 and ME1. *Warning, there will be angst.* Rated M for that one chapter before Ilos. Reviews appreciated.

AU -First Contact War ended with humans becoming a client race of the turians. Shepard joins the turian military hoping for a better life for herself and her family. Life among the turians is not easy but the unexpected friendship of a fellow recruit, Garrus Vakarian, is more than she could have imagined. M for canon style violence, language and mature situations.

In a universe where the turian's won the first contact war, and as a result took the humans as their slaves. Because of this, most humans still with their freedom are on the run. This is a story about Captain Garrus Vakarian, aka Archangel, commissioned human hunter, and Commander Jane Shepard, captured war criminal, realizing the line between lover and enemy is as fine as silk.