Imagine your OTP when one person has suffered a fairly mild non-life threatening injury and the other person is giving them a lot of TLC.


Shepard had run faster than she'd thought she'd be able to when she heard a loud expletive from their apartment's kitchen, leaving Adelaide and Ashley temporarily in the living room. Kaidan was running water over his hand, knife still on the cutting board where he'd been cutting up some vegetable for whatever he was cooking. "Kai—"

He barely looked up. "Knife slipped. I'm fine."

"What? Slipped where? Hold on, I'll get the first aid." Shepard flung open a drawer, pulling out their small stock of bandages and medigel. "Let me see."

"Shepard, I have medic training, it's just a cut."

She shushed him and pulled his hand out from under the water, checking the slice in his pointer finger. Kaidan rolled his eyes but let her, knowing it made her feel better. Shepard smeared medigel on it, then carefully wrapped it in a piece of gauze medical tape. "There we go. I can take over if—"

"Sweetheart." He cupped her face in his hands, pressing a gentle kiss to her lips. "I've been shot, stabbed, exploded, nearly turned into a husk, and hit by a mako. I'm fine."

She managed a weak smile and gave him a small kiss back. "I'm sorry. I—"

"It's the mom in you." He grinned and kissed her again. "I-"

There was a bang from the living room, and Shepard suddenly sprinted back for the living room.

"Ashley Danae Alenko!"

Kaidan chuckled and picked his knife back up.