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Boyfriends 🙈💕

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This is the least platonic platonic goodbye

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My step mom says he looks like keanu reeves ^^;

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Wip Wednesday

tagged by @ficbrish thank you bestie 😘

Because it's been a hot second i'm gonna share a snippet from willow 🤭

Lily pulled the body of a man out of the group, gore and who knew what else was spilling from the pile in the process and onto Lily’s heeled boots and coating her gloved hands. The man had tan skin and black hair like Kaidan. She prayed it wasn’t him…but if it was, she had at least found him. Lily swallowed hard and took a deep breath, preparing for the worst as she flipped the man onto his back.

“It’s not him.” she breathed out, both relieved and a tad disappointed.

Aiden slowly approached her and hesitantly placed a hand on her shoulder “Lil, come on we have to-”

“He could be in the other one!” she exclaimed, hurrying away. Not finding it in her to be bothered that she could’ve potentially alerted the collectors to their presence. Lily frantically searched the second pile of bodies. Garrus gagged and continued further into the base while Aiden approached his sister.

“Lily calm down, please.” he ordered but there wasn’t much force behind it.

“No!” she yelled, knocking him onto his back. “For all we know he could be here, among these bodies or,” she gestured at the ceiling “in one of those pods!”

“I sense no signs of life in the pods Shepard.” EDI informed them, likely in an attempt to calm Lily down.

“That doesn’t mean anything!” she snapped “he could be dead along with the other colonists and he…he doesn’t deserve that.” Lily hung her head, shoulders shaking “I should’ve gone with him.”

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Not me writing shit out of order sfghjkl for context Kaidan gets nabbed on Horizon instead of frozen and left alone

"It seems to be the vessel you encountered on Horizon." EDI informed them over their comms and Lily froze.

"Horizon?" She pressed her fingers against her ear and turned to the side. 

"Yes, the EM signatures are-" EDI started but it was clear Lily wasn't interested.

"Could Kaidan be here then?" She asked.

"Unknown, though I sense no sign of life in the pods." EDI explained and rage bubbled up in Lily. He wasn't dead, he couldn't be. He wouldn't just leave her like this, he promised.

"Then scan for him damn it!" She snapped and Aiden jogged over to her.

"Lily-" he grabbed her shoulders but she pulled away. 

"His name is Kaidan Alenko, he's a biotic, thirty-four years old." She placed around the vessel "six foot two hundred and nine five pounds blood type A." She prattled off the information so fast that if EDI weren't an AI she'd be struggling to process it. 

Aiden grabbed her again and turned her around "Lily," he calmly. "If Kaidan is here EDI will find him but for now I need you to focus." 

Her hands fell to her side and she looked down at the ground "You don't get it Ai…" 

"I do, I understand you're scared but it'll-" he reached out of comfort her but she smacked his hand away.

"No, you don't, you don't fucking get it!" Lily hated when people did that, even Kaidan she's told off a few times for it. 'I understand' no they didn't, no one ever understood and she didn't need anyone pretending they did. It was a stupid waste of time. 

"Kaidan was the only one there for me when you died, sure I had Anderson and Ash, but he stayed beside me. Even when it was hard, even when I knew he wanted to, he never left my side." She clenched her fist "so I'm not going to abandon him, he might just be some random lieutenant you worked with a couple years ago and that's fine but for me he makes staying in this galaxy a little more bearable."

Aiden had the feeling they'd end up this way, even with how much she claimed to hate him. He was surprised how quickly they moved though. Getting married only after two years "I'm sorry Lil, I didn't mean…" he sighed "I'm sorry."

"Whatever, we have a mission to do, let's hurry up and get it over with." She said, turning away from him.

 

Their relationship wasn't what it had been prior to him dying. She seemed so distant, he knew she didn't fully trust Cerberus or that Aiden really was who he said he was. Her motivations for joining weren't because she genuinely wanted to help her big brother like it would've been in the past.

Her attitude towards him was indifference, he'd lost his best friend and he didn't know how to get her back.

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I had way too much fun with this one

AO3 or read under the cut ☃️

"Kaidan, think fast!" Lily shouted at her boyfriend, catching him off guard.

"What are you-ah!" He flinched and instinctively held up his shovel, stopping the snow ball from hitting him in the face. 

"Nice reflexes babe!" Lily called as she crossed the street.

"Uh thanks?" He responded, confused as she ran over "what are you doing?" 

"Practicing." She answered, picking up rocks and placing them in a pouch. 

"Practicing…?" He asked, even more confused.

"For the local snowball fight," she said holding up a rather sizable rock "I lace mine with rocks and haven't lost since." 

"You...what?" He blinked. 

Lily stood back up "Yeah, *pretty sure* I'm not supposed to but," she shrugged "no one has stopped me yet." 

"Likely because you haven't been caught." Aiden said, joining them.

"Well there's that too." She said, waving her brother off.

"Wait, hold on," Kaidan said, holding his hands up and drawing the attention of the twins "you have a yearly snowball fight?" He asked. 

Lily and Aiden looked at each other and back at him, nodding "yeah?" They responded in unison. 

"It's a last man standing kinda thing," Lily explained "hence the rocks." She said, holding the sack up.

"It's completely illegal so I just make sure she doesn't aim for anyone's face." Aiden looked over at her, brow furrowed "which is precisely why she never gets caught."

Lily leaned against him, smiling as innocently as possible "best big brother ever." She said, making him roll his eyes. 

"So it's a town wide ordeal?" Kaidan asked, intrigued. 

"Yeah! Everyone joins in," she paused.'' Well almost, obviously the older folks don't but there's still a pretty good turn out."

"Do you want to join Kaidan?" Aiden asked "there's no sign up sheet you just kinda show up."

Lily deflated "awwww, I guess that means no rocks this year." She said, dropping the sack on the floor and letting them spill onto the ground.

Kaidan snorted "sorry love." 

Lily signed dramatically "Oh it's fine, all relationships require sacrifice after all."

Aiden shook his head at his sister's dramatics "so you'll be there?" 

Kaidan nodded, "Sure, sounds fun." 

Lily kissed him "but just remember, I'm not gonna be nice just because I like you." She winked.

Kaidan chuckled, "I wouldn't expect you to be babe." 

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"Mom, dad?" Kaidan asked, surprised to see his parents setting up shop in the park.

"Oh hi sweetie!" His mother said, walking over to him.

"What are you two doing here?" He questioned.

"Since we can't participate we always set up our little booth here so we can still enjoy the festivities." His father explained from his chair. 

Kaidan looked around the park and it looked like his parents weren't alone in that thinking. Every elderly business owner had set up food stalls and beverage stations. "So this is quite the event huh?" 

"It is! I'm sure Lily explained it all to you didn't she?" His mother asked, setting up the canisters of coffee and various other hot drinks along with some baked goods.

"Well sure but this is like a sporting event." He gaped. 

His mother giggled "we never do anything by halves in this town." 

"Yeah, I'm starting to pick up on that." He chuckled. 

"Kaidan!" Lily came up behind him, wrapping her arms around his waist, nearly knocking him over "you made it!"

Kaidan reached around to wrap his arm around her shoulders "someone's excited." He laughed.

"You're joining us right?" Lily asked, grinning up at him.

"Sure, go easy on the new guy though." He joked, leaning down to kiss her. 

"Hmm we'll see." She replied standing up on her tiptoes to meet his lips. 

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"Good to see everyone again for the Crystal Wood annual snowball fight!" The mayor announced, earning cheers from the crowd.

"I think it's cute how every year the same people participate to take me down, it's humbling really." Lily taunted.

The mayor rolled his eyes "yes Lily we know, you win every year." 

She flipped her hair "just thought I'd give everyone a reminder." 

Not that Lily wasn't a confident person, she very much was and Kaidan loved that about her but this was totally different. She was downright arrogant and most would probably be turned off but he kinda liked it. 

Once the speech ended a whistle was blown and everyone scattered into different parts of the park. Taking cover behind trees or benches to safely build up their stash of snowballs.

If Lily was careful she could still use her rock method but she'd never forgive herself if her target dodged and the rock laced snowball hit Kaidan instead. "No...I can still win this." Lily muttered to herself. She wasn't going to embarrass herself like this. She hasn't lost since she was a teenager. That wasn't going to change. 

Starting with her brother, Lily peaked from her cover "psst Aiden." She whispered.

"Yeah?" He answered, looking over at her and immediately being hit in the face with a snowball. Followed by the sharp blow of a whistle and a sigh from Aiden.

"Nice try Ai!" She cheered as if she wasn't the one who got him out.

"Damn…" Kaidan said under his breath as he watched from behind a bush.

"Yeah, Lily is cut throat." Another disqualified contestant said on their way off the field "good luck." 

"Thanks…" Kaidan replied, Lily said she wouldn't go easy on him and it looks like she wasn't kidding. 

Lily stuck her leg out and tripped a contestant who was, from what she could tell, running from another contestant. She could knock them both out if she was lucky. 

Lily hit the downed contestant with a snowball to the back of the head and the other in the stomach, making them fall over like they've been shot. 

"Damn you Lily…" they cursed, voices muffled by the snow.

"Sorry!" She called, running to hide behind a tree. 

After what felt like hours every other participant had been disqualified leaving only Kaidan and Lily. 

"Honestly I didn't think it'd end like this," Lily said dramatically, looking away from him "I was hoping someone would take you out first and spare me the pain." 

"I'm sorry Lil, I never wanted it to come to this." He said, playing along.

"It's okay, I'm just glad to have met you Kaidan." She said, both of them bending down to make a  snowball. 

"I'll always love you Lily." He said, raising up his arm to throw his snowball.

She threw her own snowball "And I you." 

The park was deadly silent as they watched the pair make their declarations of love. Anxiously waiting to see who would go down first. When the referee blew the whistle allowing them to finally breathe. 

"And once again, the winner is Lily Shepard!" He called and the woman in question stood up. 

"You put up a good fight babe!" Lily called to her boyfriend as he brushed the snow off himself. 

"Should've known I wouldn't stand a chance next to you." Was the game close enough that he could claim he let her win? Probably but he wasn't petty and based on the way she was taking people out left and right there's no chance anyone would believe him. Hell, he wouldn't believe him.

"And this concludes the annual snowball fight." The mayor announced, the crowd clapping despite not being even remotely surprised by the turn out.

"Aw don't worry babe, you might get me next year." She winked. 

Kaidan snorted and kissed her head "I appreciate the vote of confidence Lil."

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Lily: What's the color of Kaidan's shirt?

Aiden: Gray.

Ashley: Gray.

Lily: Now, boy scout, why don't you tell the crew what color *you* thought it was.

Kaidan......dark white.

Joker:.....dude.

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tagged my the wonderful @crqstalite, thank you!! ヽ(✿ﾟ▽ﾟ)ノ

From my soul mate au <3

"Would you like to come in?" Lily asked, leaning up against the door. 

Kaidan smiled at her, stroking her cheek "I'd like to, but I prefer to take my time." 

Lily pouted "Aw, no fun." 

Kaidan chuckled, "Sorry."

Lily sighed dramatically, eyes closed "Don't apologize, if you don't want to you don't want to." She cracked an eye open "can I at least get a kiss?" 

Kaidan tilted her chin up gently "of course." 

He leaned in, pressing their lips together and Lily wrapped her arms around his neck. The stuffed animal he had won for her at the arcade resting against his back. 

Lily pulled him against the door and he braced his hands on either side of it so he didn't crush her. 

"Mhhhm you have the patience of a saint soldier." She said breathlessly as they pulled away. 

"Not a deal breaker is it?" He whispered.

Lily shook her head "Not when you kiss like that." She teased and Kaidan couldn't help but laugh.

"In all honesty it's refreshing, most guys only take me out because they want to have sex. So I just expect it by now." She said, hugging the stuffed animal to her chest. "It's nice to know someone took me out because they simply wanted to spend time with me." 

He frowned "Lily…"

She looked down, tucking her hair behind her ear "sorry...I didn't mean to get so heavy." 

Kaidan shook his head "Don't apologize but that's why I want to wait."

Lily looked up at him "it is?"

"Yeah, you're amazing, gorgeous even I'd have to be crazy to not want to but that's why I won't. Not tonight anyway." He took her hand, kissing it. "I don't want to give you the wrong idea."

Lily walked into the apartment, practically swooning as she leaned back against the door. Giggling like a kid with a schoolyard crush into the stuffed cat. 

"Someone's happy." Persephone commented, bemused. 

"Oh," she walked over to the kitchen, a smile still plastered on her face "hey Seph." 

"Date went well I'm assuming?" She asked.

"You could say that, yeah."

"He didn't want to come in?" Aiden asked, joining them.

"No, said he wanted to take his time." She told them. Flopping down on the couch.

Aiden and Persephone blinked in surprise, glancing at each other and back at Lily "Seriously?"

Lily nodded "I know I was surprised too but he told me he took me out because he genuinely liked me. That's it." 

Persephone whistled "looks like her taste in men has finally elevated."

Aiden sniffed, pretending to wipe a tear from his eye. "I'm so relieved." 

Lily scoffed, "I hate you both."