Title: A Paragon Interrupts of Kisses

Characters: Kaidan Alenko, Jane Shepard, James Vega, Tali'Zorah vas Normandy, Liara T'Soni, Councillors & Udina

Pairings: Kaidan/Jane Shepard

Rating: Teen

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Summary: Kaidan Alenko is stubborn, Jane Shepard is frustrated – cue paragon interrupt

Timeline: Mass Effect 3

Warning: Slight dominance

Author's Notes: Based on prompt from Mass Effect Kink Meme – notes will be at the end of *Part 2

Title: A Paragon Interrupts of Kisses *Part 1

Pairings: Kaidan/Jane

Rating: High Teen

Summary: Kaidan is stubborn, Jane is frustrated – cue an interested yet bewildered James

Timeline: Mars Archives

Kink: See A/N at end of *Part 2

Warnings: Public Groping

"Just how am I supposed to trust you?" Kaidan Alenko demanded as he stared at his former lover, if it was even her. One didn't know when it came to Cerberus and he had seen the atrocious 'experiments' they had conducted, all in the name of advancing humanity within the Galaxy.

"Now isn't really the time for this, is it?" James Vega asked, shifting cautiously as he looked around, scanning for danger.

"Actually, now is a very good time." Commander Jane Shepard whirled around to face Kaidan, her blue eyes flashing with anger. Her brown hair, which had been long the last time he saw it, had been cut back to chin length to suit the Alliance regulations – swayed with her movements. "I don't know how many times I need to tell you, Kaidan. Yes, Cerberus rebuilt me, but they did not change who I am or whom I cared about. If they had, I would have never been able to tell TIM to fuck off and liberate the Normandy from him."

"So you say," he pointed out, she gritted her teeth and James hitched his gun closer to his chest, wishing that he could be anywhere else right now. Being caught between the Commander and the Major was not somewhere he wanted to be.

"So I say?" she asked, disbelief clear in her voice and eyes. "What the hell does that mean?!"

"You could still be in contact with them, playing us," he reminded. Now James had to get involved. He wasn't going to let the Major get away with saying that, not when he knew otherwise.

"The Commander has been in lockdown since she arrived on Earth," James spoke up, drawing their attention to him. "She wasn't allowed access to the extranet. There has been no contact with Cerberus, her to them or vice versa."

Kaidan looked back at Shepard, who crossed her arms, glaring at Kaidan.

"Shepard…" he started but she held up her hand, cutting him off with a tired sigh, her other hand dropping back to her side.

"Kaidan, I understand that you are wary – hell, I would be wary too but I'm still me. Cerberus never changed what I feel for you." He could see the plea in her eyes to believe her. They vaguely heard James cough in shock. She sighed again, obviously still seeing the wariness. "But words won't change anything, will it?" She laughed softly, shaking her head. "You were always stubborn."

That got his back up.

"Me?!" he demanded as he stepped closer. "What about you? You were always rushing head first into danger. Reading the reports showed that hadn't changed one bit with you gearing up a team to take through the Omega 4 Relay!" Anger flared in her eyes.

"That was something I had to do! The Collectors were taking humans, Kaidan. They took my crew! I was not going to stand by and let the Collectors, the Reapers, kill more people I cared about!"

"So you charged off ahead without letting anyone know, without letting me know?" he demanded.

"There was no time, and I don't know if you noticed, Kaidan, but TIM wasn't exactly letting me send outward messages. I was lucky enough to get away with giving Alliance the information on Cerberus that I was sent to gather. I hardly think he was lacking in measures that prevented me from sending letter aboard the Normandy!"

"Did you even try?" he challenged and she narrowed her eyes at him. James gulped, taking a step back. Even he wasn't this stupid to face her head-on but he couldn't help but be impressed with the Major's balls.

"Don't you turn this around on me," she warned him in her low tone, one that forewarned she was losing her patience. It was enough to make other people go running for cover but not Kaidan Alenko.

"Are you going to tell me I'm wrong?" he asked, arching an eyebrow and she glared at him, her lips pressing into a thin line.

"Do you really want to go there, especially after that 'letter' I got from you?" she challenged, watching as his complexion paled slightly, his eyes widening as his anger deflated, at least for the moment. All he could do was watch her. Not once did he believe that she got the letter or that she even read it considering how they left things on Horizon

"Y-you got the letter?" he whispered. She scoffed as she crossed her arms and looked off to the side but he couldn't miss the hurt that filled her eyes for a brief moment before she quickly covered it up. She was never the one to let anyone know if they got to her.

"Yes, I got it," she responded sharply and he winced. In that moment, he knew his apologises hadn't gone over as well as he had hoped it would have at the time. "I was glad to read that you had managed to move on and dated another woman, a doctor I believe."

"Shepard," he stepped even closer, wishing he could touch her. Now, thinking on it, maybe he really shouldn't have put in that he had tried to move on from her but she shook her head, her eyes meeting his. They softened a fraction when she saw his expression.

"I died, Kaidan. I wasn't exactly expecting you to mourn after me forever," she reminded, rubbing her forehead. "Like I said on Horizon, not contacting you was partly because I didn't want to dredge up old feelings. You had two years to move on. I got six weeks before I found out you were in danger."

Silence overcame everyone that the only noise was from the whistling of the storm edging closer. James was trying his hardest not to break the silent truce they had formed at the moment – he didn't want risk them going off on another shouting match, hoping that this would give the Major a slight peace of mind so they could continue their mission and get the hell off this planet.

No such luck existed for James Vega.

"Shepard," Kaidan whispered but she could still see the distrust in his eyes and it infuriated her beyond belief. She had always known he was stubborn, hell – it had been a part of him that she loved, but right now, she wanted to clobber him.

She growled low in her throat before she grabbed the back of Kaidan's head and pulled him down. He started stammering before being silenced when her lips were pressed against his stiff shocked ones but she didn't let that deter her. She was going to prove she was still the Shepard who was in love with him. And wanted him - badly.

"Lola!" James choked out, his voice coming out in a strange high pitch as he stared at the sight before him with wide eyes, his jaw slack with shock.

The Commander and the Major?

The Major and the Commander?

Really?

NOW?!

Weren't there a better time and place to having this sort of discussion? Like on the Normandy, in the Captain's Quarter?

Or was that not enough for them? They had to be making out like horny teenagers in the middle of a planet that was beginning to be overcome by a storm while chasing after Cerberus to find out why they were on Mars while the Reapers were gunning for the Galaxy?

A moan from Kaidan proved him right as he watched as the Major band an arm around Shepard's back, pulling her into his body as he began to respond to the kiss. She gasped as he bit her bottom lip before she eagerly took his lips back in hers.

Yep, apparently danger was a turn on for them. He groaned, rubbing his forehead. Why the hell was he stuck with the crazy people who out-ranked him? But he couldn't deny that he was beginning to grow interested in the increasing passionate couple in front of him.

Kaidan felt her tug at his hair before sliding down to the back of his neck, her fingers slowly stroking the skin over his amp, tracing it lightly and sending shivers down his spine, before her hand moved down his back, almost very much like how she slipped her hand through his t-shirt from the collar to touch his bare skin back on the Normandy the night before Ilos.

The memories reared up in his mind like a wave, he needed her closer, needed to be inside of her. She smelt the same, of destruction, oil and that faint tang of oranges – she always did like oranges.

She sounded the same, gasping when his fingers curled around her waist, moaning when his other hand brushed past her armoured thigh, gripping and tugging it over his leg so his thigh was situated between hers.

"Kaidan," she whispered against his lips and he swallowed it greedily. It had been far too long since he heard his name spilling from her lips in that husky whisper filled with lust and awe.

Her kiss slowed down, turning softer and hesitating – much like it had been the night before Ilos, when she convinced him to 'bunk' in with her. It made his heart swell and break at the same time, he was still finding it hard to believe it was her when she broke the kiss, but not before tugging on his bottom lip playfully before she allowed it slip free wetly, sending a bolt of desire toward his groin.

His eyes felt heavy but he managed to open them to see her staring up at him with a shy yet worried expression and he immediately transported back to that night. It was her…she was the only one who did that, tugging on his bottom lip.

"Shepard," he breathed before his hand, on her thigh, slid up her body and tangled within her short hair, pulling her up against him once more. She gasped into his mouth, her hands flying to his shoulders, digging into the armour.

His other hand uncurled from her waist and slipped down further, going to her ass, pulling her in even closer. She broke the kiss, her head falling backward as he kissed his way over her cheek and under her jaw, flicking his tongue at that spot behind her ear.

He was rewarded with a breathless moan of his name, her hips bucking up into his as one hand slid into his hair, holding him close. That was something he bet Cerberus never knew – there was no way a clone would be able to replicate that.

With that in mind, he stumbled forward, pressing her up against the container and she arched under his body, her hand – which was in his hair - tugged him away from her neck and back to her mouth.

He went eagerly, feeling all of his doubts disappear with each caress of lips; she tasted the same, smelt and sounded the same. She even felt the same, the way her body pressed into his despite the armour between the two of them.

Her hair was just as thick and silky as the first time he felt it, her lips were soft yet demanding and her gloved fingers caressed his face then began to wander over his body, fanning his desires.

How could a mere touch from this woman set him on fire and make him hard? It was a question he had asked himself so many times yet he never once found the answer and he didn't care. He just loved it.

He yanked her hands away from his body, pinning them down against the containers as he broke the kiss. Her eyes fluttered open before he smirked, diving toward her neck and to that one spot drove her crazy with desires.

Her lips parted, her eyes fluttering shut as she arched her body, her hands – still restrained by his – curled around his fingers as her back arched, rubbing against him.

"Kai-dan," she gasped as he nipped, mixing pleasure with pain before he chuckled darkly against her skin. "Fuck!" his biotics washed over her, encasing her in a bubble of pleasure before it snapped inward.

"Yes!" her head fell back against the container with a hard crack, her blue eyes sparkling, her cheeks flushed and her breathing heavy before Kaidan ensnared her lips once more.

"Dios Mi," James muttered under his breath, his eyes growing wide. Never did he think they used to be in a relationship…or that Lola is very enthusiastic, and passionate. Or that the seemly very-in-controlled Major could be…dominating.

He shivered, shifting on his feet and wishing he was somewhere else other than here. This was so not fair.

And how the hell did he end up in this situation in the first place? Wasn't this supposed to be a mission to find out Admiral Hackett wanted them to find? A way to stop the Reapers? How did it turn into a make-out fest between the Commander and the Major?

Gathering up his courage to interrupt the moment between them, though he feared for his life if he did, it looked like the Major had some impressive biotics, who knew it could be used for that? And he knew Lola was more than 'good' with her pistol. But much to his relief, something else got there first.

A rattling sound broke the couple apart, both of them breathing heavily as Kaidan rested his forehead against hers. Her eyes were closed, a faint smile playing on her lips and James hated to break this moment up.

She looked at peace, something he had never seen her look when she arrived on Earth and was promptly arrested. Even the Major didn't look happy as he did right now. He was looking down at her, a smile on his lips.

It was strange to see, especially in midst of the hell they were going to be facing but at the same time, it felt so right to see her happy. He never saw it during her 'stay' but right now, he had a feeling she just rediscovered a reason to stay alive and fight the Reapers.

"Later," Kaidan breathed against her lips and she shivered before he let her go, straightening up and taking the lead. She shook her head, shaking off her feelings of lust before clearing her throat when she spotted James was still staring at her with wide eyes.

A faint pink hue coloured her cheeks as she spun around, a faint smile crossing her lips as she hurried after Kaidan with James finally shaking himself out of his stupor and taking up the flank.

Later indeed, she was going to have fun breaking that control of his.

The End (of part 1)

Dios Mi – My God (Thanks to the reviews!)