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Prompt: Poe the pool boy... modern AU
Date: 2016-10-02 03:11 am (UTC)Light's on, but Your Mom's Not Home [1/?]
Date: 2016-10-17 01:38 am (UTC)And that's how being a politician works. The good politicians feel guilty, but get work done anyways; the bad ones have their consciousness pushed and pulled by other forces - usually money, sometimes notoriety.
Leia, of course, was rich and well known on her own: a girl who summered with the Kennedys and the Vanderbilts. She has distinct memories of ice skating in Manhattan with Anderson Cooper when she was fourteen and he was still a sweet faced kid, and of her dreadfully dull debutante ball a few years later.
So like any good child of a political dynasty, she still feels slightly guilty about using people the way she does. It can't be helped of course, but Leia does try to mitigate it as best as she can. She's careful about who she hires to help around the summer home - even more careful when she finally interviews the charming nineteen year old who is frankly, overqualified to scoop leaves out of her pool.
It's no mystery why Poe Dameron - who has just finished his first year at Harvard on the Dean's List - is trying to be a pool boy and a lifeguard at a private shared beach for the summer. It's not that he couldn't snag a cushy internship - or even that Leia herself wouldn't have found him qualified to intern at the senate - it's that Poe needs the cash. And that he isn't documented - so the kinds of governmental internships that require citizenship are present a quagmire of problems, all in the form of paperwork. When Leia had asked why Poe hadn't pursued something a little more challenging for the summer, Poe had smiled and said DACA was fine for menial labor, he was pretty sure. It was the kind of arresting - charming - summary of how and why students like Poe were failed by current laws that Leia would've laughed if she hadn't grimaced.
It only made Senator Organa feel even more guilty knowing full well she'd use Poe's story to her own campaigning advantage down the line.
But that was the long game, Leia knew. For right now, he was just the kind of shock her household needed - affable, poor, hard working, and both unimpressed and unintimidated by privilege or power. In short, exactly the taste of reality her wayward Ben needed.
***
The day she had handed Poe the keys to the pool shed and to the pool house, Leia smiled. "For the rest of the summer," she said, "-you have the run of things. If Ben gives you any problems, you can come to me. Otherwise, feel free to tell him to get out of the way or get you a lemonade," she had advised. "Maybe if he gets tired of helping you out, he won't be so insistent on wanting to take a gap year next fall."
And that had been the plan. Make Ben help the help - and then he'd realize his life was cushy, and that his mother knew what was best for him. Perhaps even force him to actually pack his things at the end of summer and trot off to Harvard with a new friend already there and waiting for him.
But the other consequences of Senator Organa's plan -- those had been rather unintended.
Re: Light's on, but Your Mom's Not Home [2/?]
Date: 2016-10-17 01:39 am (UTC)Whatever her son thinks, Leia knows what weed smells like. She's mostly thankful Ben is smart enough - or dumb enough - to spend a fair amount of his allowance on the good stuff. This is mostly because it smells a little less like a moldy gym sock, and a little more like a sweaty outdoor concert.
It's the little victories you get as a parent.
Of course, it's week two of Poe's employment, and Leia can tell there's been some kind of standoff over Ben's smoking pot by the pool. From her office on the second floor, she's been watching a daily routine of Ben sprawling out over the pool chairs, and Poe gesturing at him until he finally, reluctantly, puts it out. Leia's not surprised - if Poe were in a different position, he'd probably be like any other kid, and take a hit. (Hell, Leia thinks, that's what she would have done.) But Poe isn't like other college kids. Citizenship applications ask if you've ever done drugs, and if you say yes, they deny you. End scene.
It's no wonder Poe finds Ben's smoking annoying.
By day fifteen, instead of asking Ben nicely to stop smoking, Poe simply upends the pool chair -- and Leia snickers in her office as both her son and his blunt fall into the water below with an undignified splash.
Later, Leia has to stifle a grin when Ben sulks through dinner across the table from Poe.
FILL: Light's on, but Your Mom's Not Home [3/?]
Date: 2016-10-17 02:05 am (UTC)The first month isn't even over before Leia realizes she's in over her head. She doesn't know how she didn't the flaws in her scheme from the beginning. Truth is, she has no idea how she thought she could handle a second teenage boy when her own son overwhelms her.
Worst of all, she's pretty sure that they've declared a silent sort of war against each other ever since the pool incident.
In the last week alone, Leia's counted four splooshes in her pool, three stare-downs over dinner, and at least one time she's pretty sure Poe held Ben's laptop hostage in the pool house. Leia had made it pretty clear after the second pool incident that she was going to be practicing a good bit of old fashioned French Laissez Faire with the matter, and just not get involved. If Ben and Poe were fighting, that wasn't going to be her problem.
Not that it made a difference.
By day twenty-three, tensions in the house have ratcheted to an all time high, and Leia less than accidentally leaves the liquor cabinet unlocked when she pours herself an evening nightcap. If the boys won't get along sober, she's not going to complain terribly if a little alcohol smoothes things over. (Leia gave up on trying to ban underage drinking entirely the year before. Better Ben drink at home somewhat responsibly than him drink and try to drive home. The Organas are many things, but she's working hard to avoid adding 'arrested for DUI' to the list.)
It's about eleven-thirty when she overhears the boys sneaking up to the game room. They aren't subtle, and she can't bring herself to care. The liquor cabinet squeaks when the doors are opened, and Leia can hear the glass bottles clinking together even from her study.
At midnight, she gives up on the draft she's been working on and goes to bed. Leia can hear muffled laughter from Ben's room and for the first time all summer, she breathes a sigh of relief.
Maybe Ben really will get it together.
Re: FILL: Light's on, but Your Mom's Not Home [4/5]
Date: 2016-10-17 10:17 pm (UTC)She's also a hard headed romantic with a rebellious streak a mile wide.
It's why instead of forcing her Han to spend a miserable summer with her, she lets him traipse around the Caribbean for the summer with Lando. Deep down, Leia knows that if she lived a different life, she'd be on a barely legal yacht with the two of them, spending half her time soothing her husband's jealousy over his own best friend. And then spending the other half reminding him that both her and Lando have much more fun focusing their attention on Han anyways.
Ben....well, Ben would probably be home with his uncle.
But she doesn't quite live a different life, and she doesn't have time for their yearly vacation. Most importantly, she knows having Lando around the summer house for too long is bound to raise Ben's suspicions if no one else's. So once again, her marriage feels like it's hanging by a thread, because Han leaves when he needs to decompress and Leia digs her feet in.
It doesn't help that Leia instituted a "no sexting" rule after Anthony Wiener's first scandal. Or that her rule was preceded by a "don't fuck Lando in my office" rule after President Bill Clinton was caught preying on an intern.
None of it can be helped, really.
She gets a phone call maybe once a week from an island and tries to sound like she isn't exhausted when she speaks to Han. Han tries to sound like he regrets that she didn't take her work with her and come on vacation anyways, but they both know they're flimsy liars.
It's mid-June when she calls Han and tells him she thinks Ben might finally crack and agree to go to Harvard in the fall. Leia knows Han doesn't actually care if his son hates the idea of going to college, but she also knows he has her back on this -- if Ben doesn't go to college, he's going to have to get a job. This is his last lazy summer.
About twenty minutes into the conversation Leia admits the truth.
"I don't think this is going the way I thought it would," she says, hedging around what she knows she can't ask her son about outright.
And even though they're thousands of miles apart, Han reads her like he's right there in the room.
"Is he pretty?" Han asks.
"Oh," Leia sighs. "Poe? No, I wouldn't say that, but--," she hesitates, triple checking she's alone in her study. "--Handsome. Ben certainly seems interested," she adds, looking out the window at the two boys swimming in the pool together. "I woke up last night when they snuck out to the pool. They were skinny dipping! I thought maybe if they didn't kill each other, they'd be friends, but..."
Han's laughter warms the receiver.
"You think they're going to go at it like the teenagers they are," Han laughs. "Princess, you really did bite off more than you could chew with this one."
Leia smirks.
"Do you think Ben would give me the silent treatment if I make sure he has a fresh box of condoms in his room?"
Re: FILL: Light's on, but Your Mom's Not Home [4/5]
Date: 2016-10-18 04:33 pm (UTC)Re: FILL: Light's on, but Your Mom's Not Home [4/5]
Date: 2016-10-31 03:39 am (UTC)Re: FILL: Light's on, but Your Mom's Not Home [4/5]
Date: 2016-11-17 05:05 am (UTC)