Title: Family Dinner
Day: 30 Days of Drabbles, Day
Prompt: Family Dinner
Fandom: TMNT 2003
Word Count: 239
Author: aquietwritingcorner/realitybreakgirl
Rating: K/G
Characters: Ma Jones (Jackie Jones), Casey Jones
Warning: NA
Summary: No one quite expected this family dinner, but Ma Jones has it all in hand.
Notes: One day you will hear more about Ma Jones and my development of her.
Family Dinner
To say that this dinner was unexpected as an understatement. To be fair, the whole day had been unexpected. A man who was shot, crazy alien haters with a literal nuke, daredevil driving—and yet somehow, the most unexpected thing of all, was Casey's mom.
She'd shown up out of nowhere, barged her way in, immediately taken control of the situation, and in the end, given her approval of April. And on top of that she had proven to be far more perceptive than anyone would have guessed, spotting Splinter and Leo early on, and apparently being completely nonplused about it.
Then again, Casey hadn't cared that they were turtles, either, so maybe they shouldn't have been surprised.
In the end, Splinter had agreed to come out of hiding and talk with Jacquline "Jackie, but the kids can call me Ma" Jones. Ma had immediately said that they'd need more food, sent Casey back to the store, and started cooking.
Although the dinner had started off stiff and awkward, Ma Jones was an expert at navigating the weirdness of life, and took it all in stride, her main comment being that at least her son had some good friends looking after him.
And as the stories started to fly, Casey couldn't help but sit back in relief. Now all of his family knew about each other, and that made any stories told at his expense worth it to him.