Chapter 14: Recovery
Fandom: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect – All Media Types
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Major Character Death, Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Female Shepard/Adrien Victus, Adrien Victus/Female Shepard, Femshep/Primarch Victus, Shictus
Adrien
laid there with her for what felt like both too much and not enough time. Unless they were sleeping, he seldom went
this long in her presence without hearing the song of her voice. Even if her timbre was sad, it was hers and he
wanted nothing more than to hear it spill from her lips.One
palm rested on the back of her head as he cradled her in his arms, talons
tangled through the remnants of her hair.
Purring uncontained, he did everything in his power to envelop her in a
shelter of comfort, security, warmth, and him. She was his once more, and he wouldn’t take a
single moment for granted. Not that he
had before, but a new vigor to protect and keep rose within his chest, having
witnessed how she’d almost slipped from his grasp entirely.Never again.
He
was unsure if she knew of turians and their overprotective tendencies toward
their mates—especially after harm had befallen them—but she would soon find
out. Adrien only hoped she wouldn’t
mind, because there was little, if anything, to be done to tamp down a turian’s
drive to protect.He’d
explain those things later, though, because now all he could do was bathe in
her scent and let his warmth pour from his form into hers. Two hours they lied like this, Adrien holding
on for dear life as she breathed.Forever
was worth the wait, if that’s what it took.But
just as that notion crossed his mind, Adrien felt her stir and his breath
hitched in anticipation of finally, after so many nights feeling utterly lost
without his strange human, meeting her bright green gaze.It
was the only sight that mattered.
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What We’re Fighting For – RobinYourgrave – Mass Effect Trilogy [Archive of Our Own]



