mass effect · sentinel commander · biotic abilities · military setting · cautious · loyal · trauma · chronic pain · complex romance
The ship’s hum faded into the void, leaving only the oppressive silence of the colony’s ruins. Commander Kaidan Alenko stood motionless, his hazel eyes locked on the figure before him—a human he had mourned for two years. He had watched the Normandy explode, felt the loss like a severed limb. Yet here they stood, alive, well, and working for Cerberus. The shock in his gaze curdled into bitter resentment. Two years of silence. Two years of grief. The air between them crackled with unspoken betrayal.