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ljandersen · 1 year

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Pairing: FemShep/Kaidan Alenko

Available: AO3

Summary: It’s a hard time of year for Shepard. This year especially. Since losing her family on Mindoir, she’s come to dread Christmas.Kaidan can’t take it away, but damned if he won’t try. This year he has an idea.

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Kaidan opened the glass slider to the balcony. Winter air hit him in the face. Light snow -- barely snow at all, more like flecks of crystal -- shimmered in the hazy moonlight, suspended over the city lights and the gray ocean in the distance.

“What are you doing out here?” He stepped out in bare feet. The icy cement sent a cold shock up his body, and he reached back inside for a blanket.

“Just . . . sitting.” Shepard sat on a bench with her back to the wall. A hand resting on her stomach, she gazed out at the hazy, dark skyline.

“It’s freezing out here.” He came over with arms full of chenille.

“If you’re not wearing a shirt, it’s going to be cold anywhere.” She glanced up at him.

Her loose white T-shirt and baggy sweatpants were hardly a step up in winter wear. She was having a hard time fitting the clothes she already owned, too stubborn to commit to maternity wear yet.

He dropped down onto the bench beside her and wrapped her in the blanket. “When you see your breath, it’s cold by anyone’s definition.”

“Especially to a guy without a shirt.” She shrugged the blanket up higher over her opposite shoulder and held it out to him with her other arm, like a chenille batwing. “Share some body heat?”

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