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Evanescent

Pairing: Reyes Vidal/Female Ryder Characters: Nova Ryder, Reyes Vidal, Sloane Kelley Rating: SFW (there’s a short fade-to-black moment) Summary: Nova finds out Reyes is the Charlatan. (fluff, angst) Warnings: a bit of cursing. Notes: I changed some stuff in my version of things: (1) when Nova and co. get to Kadara, Sloane doesn’t have Vehn Terev in custody yet, and she says that she’s going to have her people keep looking for him. While that’s happening, Nova decides to stay in Kadara for a while and see if she can make it livable and try and get an outpost there, which is when she gets involved with Reyes. (2) While making Kadara livable, she does a few extra missions, some of which Reyes tags along for—one of them involves rescuing hostages from Outcasts. (3) I figure Reyes has got a tiny little place in Kadara’s slums that he doesn’t use much because he spends most of his time in Tartarus. (4) The Nomad can fit the entire squad.

Reyes was in deep shit. Despite his original intentions, he’d gone and fallen for the Initiative’s Pathfinder, and he had fallen hard. He didn’t think he loved Nova, not yet anyway, but he could, he was headed in that direction for sure—and thoughts like that always had his his stomach unpleasantly twisting in his gut.

Trying to distract himself from those thoughts, Reyes trailed his eyes over Nova’s body in the bed beside his, the sheets clinging to her curves as she lay on her side. Her thick, brown locks fell over her shoulder, and he reached out his hand, unable to stop himself from running his fingers through her hair. His gaze continued its path up to her face, over lips that were begging to be kissed, to those hazel eyes of hers, both brown and green at the same time, and completely bewitching.

Reyes could stare into her eyes for hours. He wanted to stare into her eyes for hours. Once he took care of Sloane, things in Kadara would be better. Then maybe he could tell Nova who he really was, and she would still look at him like she was in that moment. But maybe he’d still wait to tell her, just in case…

“Reyes, why are you staring at me like that?” Nova asked, her voice pulling him from his thoughts.

Sending his fears to the back of his mind, he smirked and shifted closer to her under the covers. “I can’t help it,” he replied smoothly. “You are radiant, mi luz.”

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“I could watch a million sunrises and still never see one quite as beautiful as your eyes slowly opening in the morning.”

— side-of-sensuality  (via wnq-writers)

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“I don’t know what I love more: His fingers brushing the hair off my face His voice whispering to me from his pillow Or my breathless anticipation of his embrace My pulse seems to run some kind of race…”

— myremarkableplace (via elved)

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Irresistible

Pairing: Reyes Vidal/Female Ryder Characters: Nova Ryder, Reyes Vidal, Liam Kosta Rating: SFW Summary: Nova and Reyes get distracted by each other when he tags along for a mission. (fluff) Warnings: none. Notes: Nova and Reyes have been together for a little while at this point, and while a lot of their relationship at this point is mostly sexy times, they have talked about how it’s more than just sleeping together. They don’t know what it is or where it’s going, but it’s something and they care about each other, so they’re just letting it play out. Also, Liam’s totally got romantic feelings for Nova at this point, but she has no idea whatsoever, so he just tries to ignore his feelings because he wants her to be happy regardless of who she’s with.

Prompt from @ohvexahlia: ❆ for a “but they’re in the next room!” kiss

Nova stared at the exile before them, her lips pursed as she gave the woman a once-over. While it was generally warm in Kadara, the woman was sweating a bit more than one would expect, her skin pale. There were dark circles under her eyes, and Nova could barely focus on what she was saying, distracted by her chapped, peeling lips.

When the woman finished explaining her situation, Liam turned his gaze on Nova, staring at her expectedly.

“So, are we gonna help?”

Nova perked up, flashing the woman a smile. “Of course we’re gonna help.”

The woman thanked them and left, disappearing into the crowds of the marketplace.

“So, is it just me, or is she totally going through withdrawal from Oblivion?” Nova asked, quirking an eyebrow at Liam.

“We’re still going to help her, right? Innocent people are getting dragged into this.”

“Semi-innocent people—we’re on Kadara, after all,” she replied. “But yes, we are going to help them. And we’re also going to talk to Dr. Nakamoto about him possibly whipping up something to help everyone who was hooked on Oblivion.”

“Brilliant,” Liam said, a grin lighting up his face.

She smiled back. “What can I say? I’m just that awesome.”

Snorting a laugh, Liam shook his head. “There’s just one problem. We don’t know where the hostages are.”

“We don’t, but I know someone who might be able to help us get a lead.” Nova pulled up her omni-tool and vid-called Reyes. When he picked up, his lips curled into a smirk.

“Nova! I was just thinking about you.”

“You were?”

“I was thinking about last night. And this morning. How you—”

“Whoa, whoa, whoa, Reyes!” Nova swallowed hard, heat rushing to her cheeks. “We’re not alone,” she continued, angling her omni-tool to get Liam in the frame. “Liam’s here, too.”

He stood next to her, his lips pressed into a thin line. “Don’t mind me. I can just go.”

Huffing, Nova shot him a glare. “You’re not going anywhere.” She focused back on her omni-tool, a smirk still on Reyes’ face. “We need your help. Have you heard anything about Outcasts taking people hostage for ransom? You know, once they realized beating them wouldn’t get them their credits.”

“I’ve heard some things. Why do you ask?”

“Liam and I are going on a daring rescue. Any idea where the hostages might be?”

Reyes chuckled. “I’ll work my contacts and get back to you.”

“Thanks, Reyes.”

He smiled at her. “Anything for you, Nova.”

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“It was the kind of kiss that pulled all the stars out of the sky and left the world in darkness. A brief pause in time that made you wonder if before this, you’d ever really lived.”

— Amidst The Stars (via lmartinezwrites)

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More Than a Distraction

Pairing: Reyes Vidal/Female Ryder Characters: Nova Ryder, Reyes Vidal Rating: SFW Summary: Nova and Reyes need a distraction at Sloane’s party. (fluff) Warnings: slight cursing. Notes: This is my version of what happens at Sloane’s party with Nova and Reyes. Nova has feelings for Reyes, though she tries to pretend she doesn’t because she’s been warned that it’s not a good idea for the Pathfinder to end up with an exile smuggler. This is my first Nova/Reyes fic, so I hope you all enjoy it!

Prompt from @ohvexahlia: Unbreakable Kiss - The type of kiss that really shouldn’t be happening, it’s a mistake, but you just can’t find yourself able to pull away.

“What the hell are you doing?”

Reyes snapped his gaze up to Nova as she narrowed her eyes, and he quickly stepped back from the crate.

“Nova! It’s not what it looks like,” he said, lifting his arms up in a defensive position.

Frowning, she stepped closer to him, crossing her arms over her chest. “So you didn’t use me as a distraction to go through Sloane’s stuff?”

“Okay, yes,” Reyes admitted, slowly approaching her. “But it’s for both our benefit! I promise.”

“Really?” Nova began, noticing his gaze drift towards the doorway. She rolled her eyes and continued. “Do you want to explain how—”

“Shit—someone’s coming!” he interrupted, his gaze darting around the room before landing on hers. “We need a distraction!”

Nova’s stomach dropped. “Can’t we just hide?”

“And risk being found among Sloane’s things? No.”

Looking around them for a spark of inspiration, Nova swallowed hard, the footsteps of whoever was approaching growing louder. She turned to Reyes, his brows furrowed and his lips pressed thin, and a scene from a vid she’d recently watched popped into her head.

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Reyes ends up calling Nova "mi luz,“ which means "my light.”

It’s absolutely perfect, because a nova in astronomical terms is when a star becomes immensely brighter. So Reyes is basically calling Nova something that not only represents her name, but what she is to him—because she’s this bright light that came into his life, that he wants to be a better man for. 

On the other hand, it’s also perfect because after a nova occurs, the star eventually fades back to it’s original brightness… and Nova and Reyes’ romance is short lived as well.

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This is just an explanation of Nova’s love life in Andromeda, because things happen a little differently for her than they do in the game.

An overview: Nova ends up falling for Reyes, but ends things with him after she finds out about him being the Charlatan. After Kadara, she eventually falls for Liam and they end up together.

The details:

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“She wanted to leave. I loved her too much to make her stay.”

— Alex Flinn

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Lisa Kleypas, It Happened One Autumn

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“And suddenly, we were strangers again.”

— Six Word Story (via diamondry)

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“As my body was walking away my heart, blood, lungs, veins, and everything was begging you to make me stay.”

— via wnq-writers)

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Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

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@seigephoenix replied to your post “For the OTP questions: 3, 4, and 14 for Nova/Liam please.”

Haha I can see Liam leaving the notes!

Yeah, it seems like something he would do.

I have this headcanon that Liam sends her lots of little random cute emails, more than the ones you get in the game. They always make Nova smile, and they’re always a bit weird, but she loves them.