Title: Winning the Peace
Fandom: Mass Effect
Rating: G
Length: 22 (Tanka)
Characters, Pairing: Kaidan Alenko/John Shepard
Content notes: Based on Mass Effect 3, Extended cut, destroy ending.
Author notes: This takes place during and after the final battle, on Earth, of the Reaper war. Neither Shepard nor Kaidan any illusions about Shepard's chances to live through the resulting explosion even if he does manage to detonate the Crucible. But not trying means losing everything.
Summary: Someone to live for...

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To win that battle
he needed the galaxy
to follow him home
Under an indigo sky
two old soldiers join their lives

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