Smehur

A Mass Effect fanfic
Author: Smehur
Characters: Garrus V. and Shepard (F)
Genre: Romance
Rating: T
Summary: Turians must find human lips fascinating, don't you think?
Previously: A Game of Cards
Shepard came over to talk about the weapon upgrades. His favorite subject, really, and Garrus had been listening very carefully in the beginning. But the longer she spoke, the fewer words got through to him. The idea that it was a translator glitch occurred to him but he dismissed it quickly. He understood the words. Those that he could catch.
"Great job… secondary cannons, so… efficiency up to… just love to hear… like purring."
The lips, the lips were the culprit. They were a constant source of distraction, moving, as they were, in such a fascinating manner. He'd spoken with hundreds of humans

A Mass Effect fanfic
Author: Smehur
Characters: Garrus V. and Shepard (F)
Genre: Romance
Rating: T
Summary: Garrus and assorted crew talk about cross-species intercourse over a game of cards.
Previously: Fruit from Palaven
The little observation room was already crowded when he came in. Kasumi and Tali were sitting on the floor with their backs against the far wall, and Jack was crouching in front of them, looking at a data pad that occupied the trio's attention in full. Zaeed and Thane were mixing drinks at the bar. Some music was on but he couldn't quite place it; and there was a familiar scent of alien food in the air… popcorn. The word came to him with almost no effort at all. He was getting used to living on a human ship.
"Garrus! Have a seat between us," Tali said, moving to her left and making a

A Mass Effect fanfic
Author: Smehur
Characters: Garrus V. and Shepard (F)
Genre: Romance
Rating: All audiences
Summary: Before sparing Sidonis, Garrus has been too bent on revenge to mourn his fallen comrades.
Author Notes: A collaboration with Infiltrait0r-N7, who is to use this scene as inspiration for a painting.
The many men, so beautiful!
And they all dead did lie:
And a thousand, thousand slimy things
Lived on; and so did I.
S. T. Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Garrus has no idea how long he's been standing there, lost in thought. Lost, period. He can no longer see the sky-car up on the gallery. So Shepard's gone. He did tell her that he needed time. How much time? He glances around but the fake daylight is no more of a clue than the cold shimmering of the holo-ads lining the promenade.
So many people down

A Mass Effect fanfic
Author: Smehur
Characters: Garrus V. & Shepard (F)
Genre: Romance
Rating: T
Summary: Garrus faces the reality of serving on a human ship.
The hum of the engines hadn't bothered him before Donnelly and his crew installed the silly torque compensator (which was entirely unnecessary to begin with), into the guiding of the starboard cannon. Either there was a loose panel on the compensator, or the tech team didn't return the original panels in proper positions, and now there was a sickening resonance with one of the lower frequencies of the mass effect drive.
Garrus had demanded that the engineering crew come back and reassemble the entire thing, but Donnelly wouldn't hear of it. Literally. Garrus brought him in and instructed him what to listen to, and where to put his hand in order to feel the vibration. In the end, he even produced the frequency analysis of the entire spectrum of ac