1 Series by speshulduck

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• The Road Less Traveled by speshulduck

  Fandom Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy

  • Explicit
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • F/M
  • Series in Progress

  21 Jun 2026

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Female Shepard/Garrus Vakarian
  • Female Shepard (Mass Effect)
  • Garrus Vakarian
  • Earthborn (Mass Effect)
  • Sole Survivor (Mass Effect)
  • Enemies to Friends to Lovers
  • Canon-Typical Violence
  • Childhood Trauma
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
  • dorks in love (they'll notice eventually)
  • I write fluff not tragedies
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • (no they haven't noticed yet)
  • Mutual Pining

  Summary

  Cadet Jane Shepard elects to do an exchange program with the turian officer training program during one of her summer breaks from the Alliance Naval Academy. She's partnered with Officer Candidate Garrus Vakarian, and it does not go well. He's got the prickliest attitude she's ever seen, and he clearly hates her.

  Fortunately, the hatred only lasts until they discover that humans and turians can work out their differences in some exceptionally creative ways. They also discover that a turian sniper and a wrecking ball masquerading as a human biotic make one hell of a team on the battlefield.

  A mostly canon-compliant AU in which Shepard and Vakarian become fiercely loyal friends long before Saren finds Sovereign and launches Shepard's career as a Spectre.

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  202,217

  Works:

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