It takes another week for Poe to be healthy enough to leave Flauros. The birthing of the eggs left him weak and Oolfan and Vveeda insisted he stayed to heal up and bond with the babies as much as possible. Poe jokes that they’d have him stay forever at this rate, he smiles fondly when Oolfan and Vveeda only hold him tightly after the comment. They know he can’t stay, there’s still the First Order to fight and Poe belongs to the Resistance and the skies, even if part of him will always be a part of Flauros now.
The night before he leaves there’s a huge party thrown in his honour where he is made an official member of the royal family, not that there had been any doubt about it before. The Flaurions celebrate Poe and the little ones and Poe spends most of the night being congratulated and hugged. Oolfan and Vveeda are the worst culprits of this. In the end he has to beg to be allowed to rest so that he can manage to fly the next day.
When he does go, everyone in the city comes out to meet him. Even the babies are brought out in a portable pool. It’s actually harder than Poe thought it would be to bid the eight little ones goodbye as well as Oolfan and Vveeda. There are more than a few tears shed. Eventually though he has to leave, it’s already been more than a month since he’s been away from the Resistance, the war continues and he needs to be part of it.
With some reluctance he waves goodbye to everyone and jumps into his new ship.
The ship he leaves Flauros in is sleek and compact, they call it a Stingray and it is meant for fast flight and attacks. Poe went over all the specifics of it with the Flaurion engineers and mechanics; the shielding is sound, strong enough to take several blows but it’s meant to keep the ship together long enough to get in get the job done and fly out. Most of the Stingray’s power is focused on the engines to boost the speed, which is where the Stingray’s become a guerrilla star fighter’s best weapon.
Poe has two dozen Stingray’s being produced for the Resistance, that’s not including the dozen more that are already being prepped for transport. He would have overseen the preparations but he trusts Oolfan and Vveeda to make sure everything goes well. Besides he wants to get back to base and show Snap, Jess and the rest of his pilots their new toys. The sooner he gets them trained on the Stinray the sooner they can start using them against the First Order.
The next time he sees Ben’s ugly mask Poe is going to make sure to rub his new fighters in the traitors face. "Yeah, so I did end up doing that whole Flaurion egg-carrier thing. Easily less creepy and gross than you, Ben, not even a contest. I'm a member of the imperial family now. My baby-daddies gave me star fighters as a push-present..."
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To the nonny from chapter one, I loved your comment so much that I included it in the fic. I hope you don't mind! Thank you again everyone for reading and I should hopefully have this up on AO3 eventually, probably after lots of editing and finding someone to beta it. I'll post the link here when I'm done.
Re: A House Built Out in Space [3a/3]
It takes another week for Poe to be healthy enough to leave Flauros. The birthing of the eggs left him weak and Oolfan and Vveeda insisted he stayed to heal up and bond with the babies as much as possible. Poe jokes that they’d have him stay forever at this rate, he smiles fondly when Oolfan and Vveeda only hold him tightly after the comment. They know he can’t stay, there’s still the First Order to fight and Poe belongs to the Resistance and the skies, even if part of him will always be a part of Flauros now.
The night before he leaves there’s a huge party thrown in his honour where he is made an official member of the royal family, not that there had been any doubt about it before. The Flaurions celebrate Poe and the little ones and Poe spends most of the night being congratulated and hugged. Oolfan and Vveeda are the worst culprits of this. In the end he has to beg to be allowed to rest so that he can manage to fly the next day.
When he does go, everyone in the city comes out to meet him. Even the babies are brought out in a portable pool. It’s actually harder than Poe thought it would be to bid the eight little ones goodbye as well as Oolfan and Vveeda. There are more than a few tears shed. Eventually though he has to leave, it’s already been more than a month since he’s been away from the Resistance, the war continues and he needs to be part of it.
With some reluctance he waves goodbye to everyone and jumps into his new ship.
The ship he leaves Flauros in is sleek and compact, they call it a Stingray and it is meant for fast flight and attacks. Poe went over all the specifics of it with the Flaurion engineers and mechanics; the shielding is sound, strong enough to take several blows but it’s meant to keep the ship together long enough to get in get the job done and fly out. Most of the Stingray’s power is focused on the engines to boost the speed, which is where the Stingray’s become a guerrilla star fighter’s best weapon.
Poe has two dozen Stingray’s being produced for the Resistance, that’s not including the dozen more that are already being prepped for transport. He would have overseen the preparations but he trusts Oolfan and Vveeda to make sure everything goes well. Besides he wants to get back to base and show Snap, Jess and the rest of his pilots their new toys. The sooner he gets them trained on the Stinray the sooner they can start using them against the First Order.
The next time he sees Ben’s ugly mask Poe is going to make sure to rub his new fighters in the traitors face. "Yeah, so I did end up doing that whole Flaurion egg-carrier thing. Easily less creepy and gross than you, Ben, not even a contest. I'm a member of the imperial family now. My baby-daddies gave me star fighters as a push-present..."
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To the nonny from chapter one, I loved your comment so much that I included it in the fic. I hope you don't mind! Thank you again everyone for reading and I should hopefully have this up on AO3 eventually, probably after lots of editing and finding someone to beta it. I'll post the link here when I'm done.