Prompt: Kaidan and His Family
"What?" Kaidan's head whipped around fast enough to hurt. The tingling in his neck did nothing to assuage the shock from the words his mother had just spoken.
"Don't 'what' me, Kaidan," she said crossly. The comm terminal's output blurred her face a bit - he couldn't see the lines around her mouth or eyes, but he knew they were there.
"No, ma'am," he conceded.
She said nothing a few seconds. And then: "But what about that Michael fellow?"
Gah!
Kaidan rubbed his temples. "Tell Dad I said, 'Hello.'"
"Kaidan."
"I've got to go," he said. "I'm shipping out today."
His mother beamed. Beamed. "I saw the vid. It's all over the 'net. The SSV Normandy, is it?"
"Yes, ma'am." He looked at her a minute in silence. "Bye, Mom."
"Bye, sweetheart. Say, 'hello' to that Michael fellow of yours for me." With that, she cut the connection.
If his mother knew he preferred asari to human men, he wondered what her reaction would be.