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Sex Pollen Pre Relationship
Poe Dies Pre Relationship
Nightmare Early Relationship
Hogwarts AU Pre Relationship
Poe Almost Dies Pre Relationship
MoM AU First Night
Slightly Older Hogwarts AU
Post-TLJ
Bodyguard and Prince AU; overflow
Massage Pre Relationship
Oblivious Poe AU
Cyborg Poe AU
MoM AU Sex Pollen
FO Infiltration Sex Ring
TFLN
Soulmate Tattoo AU
Finn Marries Someone Else AU
Evil Finn AU; overflow: 1, 2
MoM AU Poe 10 Yrs Older
Vamp/Were AU
Missing for a Year/Telepathy AU
MoM AU Poe 'canon' updated
Dark Possessive AU
Married on Yavin AU
MoM AU Sexy Outfits
MoM AU Subway Sex
MoM AU with Melodies!Finn; overflow
MoM AU Photo-Op Kiss
Nearly Old Men AU
MoM AU Rule 63
Online Dating AU
MoM AU Poe Lost His In-Game Memories; overflow
Trans Poe AU
College Roommate AU
TIE Pilot/Prostitute AU
MoM AU Finn Returns from Port-Out
MoM AU Manipulative Masturbation Machine
Canon AU Manipulative Masturbation Machine
Shape Shifter AU; timeskip
FO Sexual Torture AU
MoM AU Finn Has a Boyfriend
Hades AU Finn Left Alone
MoM AU Apocalypse
MoM AU Poe Died in Canon
Canon AU Handjob in a Hospital (inspiration)
MoM AU Another Apocalypse
WWI Pen-Pal/Love Letters AU
Institutionalized Prostitution AU
MoM AU Body Swap
Post-TROS Victory Party

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What?

Just a few minutes ago, Poe was all smiles and carefree energy. Now he seemed nervous about something back home.

Finn followed Poe to the threshold of the kitchen, standing there silently for a moment with a clear look of confusion and worry. "I... have no idea." So far, not saying anything was getting pretty weird. Request? Demand? What did that mean? "Is it bad?"

"No- no!" He quickly reassured him. Great. Getting off to a good start so far. Poe gave an apologetic look and ran a hand through his hair.

"No, no, definitely not bad. It's good. It's - well, it's really good, as far as I'm concerned, I just - uh--" Cool. Great. Eloquent. Amazing.

Fuck.

He felt his face getting progressively warmer.

What was he so nervous about, anyway?

"I just don't want you to feel like you have to live up to something you haven't lived yet. You know? But on the other hand - I mean, why waste time while we have it--"

And now he was talking about wasting time? So, it was a good thing that happened back home that Poe didn't want Finn to feel obligated about but he also didn't want to waste time either. And he was blushing. Were they- Did they finally get together?

But surely Poe would know Finn wouldn't feel a sort of obligation about that. Wasn't his feelings about the two of them clear? The only reason he never acted was that he was waiting for Poe to do it first, considering the other's history. It was more his decision, Finn felt.

It didn't make much sense, though. Why was Poe so nervous?

"If it's as big of a deal as it seems, we could just... talk about it? Go from there?" His hand ended up on the back of his neck, starting to get nervous, too. Hopeful, though. He'd been waiting for Poe would come around for a while now, if he ever would.

"You don't have to tell me if you aren't sure," he added hastily, curious as hell.

Assuming Poe knew anything other than how to fly and how to blow things up was asking a lot of him, honestly.

Everything had been a lot more jumbled, when he was here last. But now it was like everything was incredibly clear, and he couldn't quite figure out why he hadn't just gone for it before. Now, though, there was that awkward gap again. But unlike last time, he now felt like those feelings had just been fated from the beginning.

It just...

He laughed again, self consciously, and rubbed the back of his head.

"It just, uh... I guess there's no romantic way to do it, huh?" Mostly to himself, but he finally pulled his eyes up to meet Finn's and grinned at him a little sheepishly. "I'll have to make that up to you later, but uh... yeah. I don't know exactly what to tell you, Finn. But we're uh - together. Back home." There was the slightest pause, and then hastily: "But like I said, I'm not - I know that it's not the same here, that things are different between places, and I mean - I know you'll catch up eventually, but I'm not gonna hold you to how things are there while we're here, I just gotta figure out how to readjust myself--"

When Poe murmured to himself about no romantic way, Finn's eyes got larger and his eyebrows moved higher. Wait, was he actually right?

Then Poe just... came out and confirmed it. They managed, against all odds, to be together back home. The entire concept of home was actually starting to sound way too good to be true. How did any of this happen to them? How did they get so lucky as to have all of that back there?

Didn't matter now. Finn was stunned, but a grin slowly started to grow as Poe rambled on. "No romantic way," he repeated, almost scoffing at the words. "You could have just asked me out."

The blush deepened, but it was more out of relief than embarrassment, and an answering grin slowly started creeping up Poe's lips.

"Well, I mean, in my defense I didn't have to, last time. It uh - it just sort of happened - there was yelling about 'stupid reckless pilot antics' involved, if I remember correctly." He wet his lips unconsciously.

"But uh, yeah. You want to give it a try while we're here?" He wet his lips again. "... Because I'd like to."

Stupid reckless pilot antics. Great. Poe was going to scare him to death in the near future. Could their romance really have started any other way, though? "That sounds about right.

"But yeah, Poe." His smile turned into something softer, a little less shocked with this pretty sweet turn of events. "I'd definitely like to."

Poe's smile only broadened, the nerves and embarrasment ebbing away. He stepped back over towards Finn, coming to a stop a couple feet away.

"Good." The smile crinkled at the edges of his eyes. "Because I have not gotten a chance to spent any time alone with you in weeks, and I think I should probably try to do things properly, this time. So let's go on a date."

Finn's smile came out again, unable to believe his luck right now. This morning, he'd woken up wondering if Poe would ever return, trying to talk himself out of getting his hopes up. Now, not only was Poe here, but he wanted something more, too.

It could all be temporary. One or both of them could port out tomorrow. The war could take a bad turn hours after Poe left. Anything could happen, and he'd be lying if he said this wasn't frightening.

But Finn reached out and took Poe's hand in his, anyway, squeezing it firmly like before. "Let's go on a date," he repeated happily, his laughter getting in the way. "Yeah, let's. Where do you want to go? Anywhere at all."

Poe squeezed back, smiling so hard it was starting to hurt his face.

"I've got a good idea for one, but it'll be a little unconventional. You'll need a warm jacket and we should probably pack a lunch."

He flashed a teasing grin. "Unless you really can't stand surprises."

Poe? Unconventional? Perish the thought. Though Finn had expected something more along the lines of a nice restaurant, he really liked this idea a lot better. Whatever it was.

In a bold act, he lifted their joined hands and kissed Poe's knuckles before releasing him. "I'll get a jacket." Excuse him while he walks away and to have a Moment... and look for that jacket.

"I'll make lunch," Poe decided, brimming with pleasure from just that little bit of contact.

He turned and immediately went to the kitchen, which- well. He had almost no food, because he'd been gone for two weeks. Great. Okay, take-out it was. Before Finn came back, he made a quick call to a local deli and ordered them some sandwiches and salad. He could pick it up on the way. Then he went and grabbed a blanket out of the closet.

Once he was set, he came and found Finn.

"Two questions. One, are you ready? And two, do you know where my carpet is?"

"Yes to both," Finn answered. He turned the corner dressed in a blue parka jacket with Poe's carpet tucked beneath one arm. "It was outside when you left, so-" He'd brought it in, not that it mattered now. It had just been for safe keeping.

"What about lunch?" he asked with a smile, handing over the carpet only to notice nothing in Poe's arms.

"Realised that I didn't have any food, so I put an order in. We'll pick it up on the way there." He grinned as he slid on his own jacket - leather, of course - and then took the carpet to step outside. He still had the blanket, too. That would come in handy, later.

He rolled the carpet out in front of the doorstep and then stepped on it, looking back to reach a hand out to Finn.

Finn was bursting to know where they were going but he wanted the surprise even more. It didn't really matter beyond his curiosity, though. They were going somewhere together. Like, together together. That was good enough for him.

So he gripped Poe's hand and got on the carpet like all the times before. Felt a little different now, though. "No crazy pilot antics, all right?"

Poe grinned at him, squeezing Finn's hand without letting go.

"I am absolutely not going to promise that," He said with a laugh, but then his expression turned warm and fond. "But don't worry. I'd never let anything happen to you." He gave Finn's hand another squeeze and then finally released it, gesturing for the man to take a seat with him as the carpet slowly rose. Once they were both secure, it sped up, and they were off into the sky.

Picking up the food was quick - a man ran out of the deli to meet them with a brown paper bag, and Poe quickly paid (his wallet had been in his jacket) and then took off again. A little while later they were approaching the coast, the glimmer of ocean on the far horizon.

"Not just me I'm worried about," Finn muttered before sitting on the carpet but he let the topic drop in favor of all this.

He hadn't really expected the ocean. Wasn't sure what to expect at all, to be fair. Whatever Poe's plan was going to end up being, this was already pretty magnificent. And his hand stayed gripped in Poe's the entire flight.

"It's beautiful from up here. Never seen the ocean like this before." Like this, meaning so many things. From this height, no. Feeling like he was floating rather than on a flying carpet, definitely not.

“I thought it might be something new to you,” Poe agreed, warmly. “But we aren’t there yet.”

They flew out past the beach and over the water, the sun warming them despite their height. After a few minutes a little rocky island appeared on the horizon, and as it grew closer, the cliffs that jutted up from the waves became more and more obvious. It wasn’t a big place - only a few acres across - but there was even a little grass and a few low bushes in amongst the rocks. And birds. A lot of birds.

He angled them down toward the little island.

“Okay spot for a picnic, don’t you think?”

"Okay!?" It was a little more than just okay. When Poe kept going across the ocean, he started to think they were just going to have their date in the sky. Which was fine by him with such an incredible view.

He hadn't expected an actual island. "It's amazing. How did you even find this?"

“We run drills out here when we’re testing new air craft,” Poe explained as they descended. “Use this little island as the marker point to flip and burn back the other way. It’s hard to spot but it’s pretty much right on the line for US to International waters.”

A few of the birds took off as they landed, but plenty of them just watched lazily from where they were sitting, unconcerned. There was a brisk wind and it was fairly chilly, despite the sun, but once they were on the ground Poe pulled out the blanket. “Come here, we’ll tuck in under this and it’ll keep us cozy.”

Poe literally just brought him out to an island in the middle of the ocean as a first date. He was still reeling from all this, knowing he'd have a hard time believing it after they left.

It was colder than he expected and far more beautiful. Such isolation apart from the wildlife... Did he mention that this was hard to believe?

After gawking up at the mass of birds, Finn smirked and wrapped the blanket around himself, cuddling up to his boyfriend and heat source. "Thought of everything, huh?"

"I may have spent the last few incredibly hectic weeks day dreaming of getting you alone on an island for a few minutes by myself," He admitted with a grin. "This wasn't the planet I had n mind, but... Actually, I think I was thinking about this even before I left, so. Well. Point is, I have taken the variables into account."

He snuggled up against Finn and tucked the blanket in underneath them before pulling over the paper bag full of lunch.

"Though probably going to have to go a bit slower than those fantasies had originally accounted for," He added with a laugh.

"Maybe." Normally, Finn would be pretty agreeable with Poe slowing about something. Normally. That context usually didn't include all of this.

He leaned against Poe, hesitant about getting more contact but craving it all the same. "I'm so glad you're back," he said in a bit too serious of a whisper, his eyes on the lunch but gaze much further away.

Right. He was here now. No time for that, no matter how overwhelmed Finn was about everything right now. He shook himself and dragged a little smile on his face. "What'd you order for us?"

Poe felt his heart clench painfully, and was trying to come up with a worthy reply before Finn pushed it all away and changed the topic.

“Just some sandwiches and salad,” he said absently, passing the bag over to Finn, his expression settling into a frown.

“But listen, I... I’m glad I’m back, to. I never would have left you if I’d been given the choice.”

"I know," he answered, actually knowing it in his bones. Finn could understand that Poe may rather be back home, fighting in the war with everyone else, especially if it was now as peaceful as it sounds. But Poe wasn't the type to pick and choose like that either.

"I know it's not your fault. It was just a long time, and a lot of people started assuming you weren't coming back..." Finn had even lost a little faith. He'd been trying to rationalize it with himself over the last few days. "You're here now, though. It doesn't matter. I'm just glad you're here."

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