There were days when the reports coming in from back home were boring. And boring-- boring was good, it meant people were safe, it meant the universe was doing okay. Then there were the less boring days, with scrapes and fights and battles... sometimes Kaidan got called in, sometimes he didn't, but he read everything ( Read more... )

Kaidan... wasn't really the kind of guy who felt completely comfortable chaperoning a high school dance. He did it, because he saw it as part of the job, but... that was about it.

So in order to steel himself for the night, he'd let Dean wheedle him into invited Dean over for a movie afternoon before the dance started. Some terrible sci-fi movie ( Read more... )

The problem with 'I'll just get out of town' was that Kaidan needed permission to do so... and the Alliance hadn't seen fit to give it to him. So instead he'd spent the past couple of days at home, drinking lots of water and, uh, checking extranet sites on his omni-tool no don't even ( Read more... )

If Kaidan's orders were anything to go by, this might be the first full week he'd be spending at Fandom in some time. He didn't mind, exactly - he saw enough action lately to relish the time off that he got. Still, it meant that after about four days back on the island, he was starting to run out of stuff to do ( Read more... )

Kaidan got back to the house around nine in the evening. He wasn't injured this time - which was good, because the last thing he needed was for his housemates to think he'd made a habit of that - but he knew he'd been gone a lot longer than the promised three days ( Read more... )

Without a class to teach, life had been... quiet. Not that Kaidan objected to 'quiet' on principle, just... quiet. Yeah ( Read more... )

It had been an unbearably long week ( Read more... )

Kaidan's return to the house was summarized quite well by the loud noise he produced as he collapsed backwards onto the sofa. Nice, comfortable sofa. Sofa good. Sofa very good. (He probably wouldn't admit it aloud, but this was the flop of the satisfied; he always did feel better in the days after seeing some action. But shh ( Read more... )

Kaidan had been called back in to deal with some mercenaries out near the borders of Alliance space. Then he'd had to sit through a debriefing, and another debriefing, and a third, spontaneous debriefing that happened when they ran into one of the off-duty Admirals on their way to the shuttle bay, and... ... and, well, it had been a couple of hours ( Read more... )

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