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The In-Between (Rewrite)

Summary:

Emry Winchester loves a good book, video games, drawing, killing shit that needs killed, and her friends. This story follows her as she makes friends, has some fun and terrifying times, and deals with grief, loss, and her past.

This is part four! What Emry and friends get up to after the Collectors and before the Reapers.
Chaos, essentially.

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This is uploaded weird because it's a rewrite! I originally started OPAK almost year ago and it was my first thing I had ever written. It was.. not great.
I'm rewriting it all and reuploading it so I can quit wanting to delete it!
The original series will be gone by the end of this and it'll only be rewrites!

Ps. I don't use AI or a beta reader so be nice 😅

I have a Tumblr where I draw all my OC's and just draw Mass Effect characters. It's the same username as here!

Notes:

**This is a series summary! If you read the others or you just don't care, you can skip this!**

Chapter 1: Did You Read The Last One?

Chapter Text

My Pyjacks, My Circus:

*Emry helped Shepard fight Saren and Sovereign, she made a drone that can turn a room into a clean room called the PCR, and became close with the Normandy team (Mainly Garrus, Tali, and Joker) and Nihlus.

I highly recommend reading the first chapter for the information explaining some of the lore of this little world.

Distractions Of Many Shapes And Sizes:
*Emry meets a Drell named Telyat Saot after they meet at a bar her and Garrus come to like called Ghost.

They have a one night stand and become close after that.

He's ex compact, hates the Hanar, and does freelance assassin work along with some work for the Shadow Broker.

She also finds out she's unfortunately immune to Drell venom.

*Over time Garrus' family takes her in and she becomes part of the family, her bio family is shit so she's quite happy to be accepted. She loves them and they love her, it's very sweet.

*Emry had a lot of trauma around Batarians from being captured by them years ago and being held as a slave among other things.

She's mainly over it by the end because she works on it, but it'll probably be mentioned here and there.

If you're curious about the story for that, it's explained in chapter 4, 'Let Them Hear It, Show Your Teeth'.

*She buys two ships during this time. The Packmule- a large ex alliance ship turned into a passenger transport ship, and The Rogue- a retired Turian warship a little bit smaller than the Normandy.

*She goes to Suen and finds a beacon.

She gets the vision and finds Shiala for the Cypher.

She then spends a lot of time communing with the Cypher and gathering as much data she can and sending it to Liara.

*She spends some time on the Flotilla and becomes friends with Kal'Reegar and some of his friends, along with Val'Mura Vas Shellen- the commander of one of the liveships.

She is sent to the Shellen to help with a sickness killing the Quarians onboard and her and Eva manage to cure it but not before watching a lot of people die.

Her and Val became close during that time.

*She goes on a job with Nihlus before leaving for the Flotilla and manages to take over the Blue Suns

She got a nasty shotgun wound for her efforts and has a large scar on her left hip from it.

*After leaving the Flotilla she goes to see Garrus on Omega a lot and becomes close with his team, mainly a Turian named Meirin Caepcius.

They fall in love in the background but never admit it.

*Her and the Vakarian family go on a 'family vacation' to Thessia and have a good time.

*Her and Kal are kinda together for a bit and break up at the end because he thinks she's joining Cerberus.

How Deep Does The Rabbit Hole Go?:

*The main story progresses relatively normally.

*The team on Omega all die and Emry stays behind to burn the bodies and the building as the others take Garrus back to the Normandy. Before she does though she makes sure that everyone has whatever they wanted buried with and she got Meirin's bracelet he wore all the time that used to be his grandmother's. She wears it everywhere now.

*When they go to Horizon Emry finds out while trying to protect Shepard that with full shields and a biotic barrier she can handle a Praetorian laser, but it's tough.

*When they go to Haestrom she finds out all Kal's friends she had become friends with had died there and Kal boards the Normandy and ends up joining them. He has extreme PTSD from the Colossus and they work on it in phases over the time onboard with exposure therapy from Dr. Chakwas.

*Emry finds out Kal used to be a Bounty Hunter and after a job went bad he was forced into Indentured Servitude on Illium for a while. She does some research and starts buying slaves to free them because it's quicker and easier than killing all the holders.

*She becomes close with Thane and they're besties by the end. Kal is a little jealous for a while but gets over it.

*Her and Kal end up together and in love. It's very cute.

*She is extremely suicidal after losing so many friends and ends up in lockup on the Normandy for a few days. She even gets medicated.

*She kills a Krogan on Omega and a video of it goes kinda viral on the station because she's a badass.

*She gets a pet Varren named Cowboy on Tuchunka after they finish Grunt's rite, he's the best boy.

*She gets thrown off a building during a job and while falling she uses her Biotics to throw herself through a window. Thane is there to warn her the target knows who she is and Kal carries her out.

*Chapter 14 'Standby, Shore Party' is my redo of Zaeed's mission. Also, Emry takes a shot for Kal from a Colossus and only survives because of her Biotics and a bit of shields. She ends up having to have extensive nerve and inner ear repair after.

*She's offered a place among the Pathfinder team heading to Andromeda and turns it down. If you want to read where she accepts, the fic is 'Off The Beaten Path'.

*Zaeed finds out Emry is leading the Suns, they come to an agreement that he'll be the face of the gang but she makes the final calls.

*Emry almost dies from a Praetorian, again.

*She promises to bring Kal and Cowboy to Palaven to meet her family after the Collector mission.

*Val leaves the Flotilla because of his peoples determination to fight the Geth for Rannoch, he becomes her pilot/co-captain of the Rogue and watches Cowboy during the last missions.

*The team all goes to Alchera to get the dog tags and fuck around, that's when the crew is taken by the Collectors.

*Everyone survives the Collector base but Thane gets shot in the neck, he makes it out with just a scar. He also promised before going that he'd seek treatment when they win so afterwards she holds him to that.