Title: Swipe Right ‣ 1: Like
Rating: PG13 (may change)
Words: ~1650
Summary: Kaidan gets Ashley using a matchmaking app on her omni-tool. It takes her a few years to use it for its intended purpose. Eventual Garrus/Ashley.
Notes: Though this was mostly inspired by Tinder and the chapter titles are from it, I guess the messaging feature's more like Grindr or Facebook in that you can send one person a photo. I don't know, man, I think I'm swiping left too much. I didn't come up with "Enkindlr", and my friend who did disavows all knowledge of its creation.

( About Kaidan: Career soldier looking for a decent beer and a steak that wasn't grown in a vat. )

Title: Signal Corps ‣ 3: personal correspondence
Rating: PG13 (sexual references)
Words: ~3200
Summary: Garrus changes his mind about not risking Ashley's career (much). As it turns out, she doesn't need to be talked into staying in contact. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. E-mail logs for Garrus Vakarian on Omega and then on the Normandy SR-2. "This user has been reassigned. Please contact their commanding officer for their current e-mail address."
Notes: Haha whoops I managed to make it work. I should perhaps note that besides Joker and Chakwas, these weren't the only e-mails Garrus sent to the Normandy squad, just the only ones Ash-related.

( I didn't realize six months had gone by. )

"Jus Post Bellum"

Title: Polytrauma
Rating: PG (Jack cameo)
Words: ~4330
Summary: While Ashley recovers from the Mars mission, Garrus tries to visit her.

( Garrus doesn't think much of it when he finds a poetry book made of real paper in starboard obs, assuming Kasumi must have left it behind when they all left on the way to Earth. )

Title: Turian Infiltrator
Rating: PG (language)
Words: ~2400
Summary: When Ashley rejoins the Normandy, Garrus is thrilled to finally have another sniper on the squad, but paper targets in the shuttle bay just don't cut it when you really want to try out guns with someone who knows what they're talking about. What's a Spectre to do?
Notes: Non-Infiltrator Shep who doesn't snipe. Shh, no DLC weapon packs here.

( It's itchy. )

Title: Signal Corps ‣ 1: message chain
Rating: PG13 (language)
Words: ~5370
Summary: Garrus changes his mind about not risking Ashley's career (much). As it turns out, she doesn't need to be talked into staying in contact. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. E-mail logs for Gunnery Chief Ashley Williams, stationed at Systems Alliance Rapid Response Base 3. "I'm so glad you changed your mind about not staying in touch."
Notes: Ashley's third to last e-mail was run through the Zantherus Drunk Post Translator, which is why some of the typos look extremely unlikely. But who knows what future keyboard layouts are like? Her quote is from "Mad Girl's Love Song" by Sylvia Plath. "Dad loved all those sappy poets. Mom was more into Plath." Soundtrack: "Living in Your Letters" (unplugged) by Dashboard Confessional.

( In case the e-mail address didn't give it away, it's your cultural exchange/xenobiology research partner. )

2 ‣ chat transcripts

Title: Garrison Rations
Rating: G
Words: ~520
Summary: When Garrus and Tali get dextro flu on Rannoch, Ashley tries to make them chicken noodle soup. Or the dextro equivalent which she can't pronounce.
Related works: 3 era future of "Second Contact War", though not necessarily canonical for that universe nor necessarily in the same continuity as "Reparations".

( Damn, Ash, I didn't know you cook. )

Title: Late Nights in London
Rating: PG (sexual references)
Words: 444
Summary: (330): After we banged he volunteered to ducksit while I went to work. I think that's true love.
Notes: Cheers to rhiannon42 who sent me a link to that Text From Last Night with the comment, "duck 'verse strikes again?"

( Chloe's the first to get up, finding her trousers on the floor and digging through her pockets for her phone. )