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[meggie-jolly]

I finally finished another scene for the Malex Red, White and Royal Blue AU! This scene is inspired by an amazing trip to Paris I took at the beginning of October. I meant to finish writing this right after, but writers block hit and it took me way longer than planned. I actually went to a wine and cheese tasting at the restaurant I mention in the story. The people who organised the tasting are called We Taste Paris, they have a website and an instagram, and they put together an amazing experience for our group. You can find all the posts about this AU here. The tag list is at the end, let me know if you want to be added or removed. Read it on AO3 here.

Alex got out of the conference in Germany and they plan to spend some time together in Paris outside of the fundraiser. Michael is honestly not sure if he would prefer to see Alex privately before or after the public event with all the cameras and press. It will be damn near impossible to keep his hands of Alex after not seeing him for weeks and after what happened at the Polo match, but the idea of going to a public event right after he and Alex had alone time and preferably shared multiple orgasms is terrifying. What if someone can tell? Obviously they know better than to leave any marks, but… it seems risky either way. 

In the end their schedules decided  for them because Alex is asked to do another royal engagement in Paris to make up for Germany and he will be arriving just in time for the fundraiser to start. 

Michael very pointedly doesn't watch the entrance for the entire half hour he's at the venue before Alex arrives. When he finally does, Michael pretends not to notice him right away and waits a couple of minutes before walking over as if by accident to greet Alex. He might deserve a fucking Oscar for this performance, if you ask him. 

Michael and Alex shake hands and then do a sort of bro hug that Michael hopes comes of as casual and not like he kind of just wants to burry his head in the crook of Alex' neck and stay there for a few hours. He can feel Alex softly tugging on one of his curls and hopes no camera caught that. 

After that it’s a few hours of typical public appearances stuff. Lots of cameras, lots of fake laughs, lots of people who pretend to be more important than they are and no chance for Michael and Alex to exchange more than a few glances and one or two small talk phrases in passing. 

A few hours later they were finally free of the obligations and head into the city. 

“You said you wanted French cheese. I found someone who was willing to organize a private wine and cheese tasting for us. Interested?” 

Michael laughs. “Seriously? Yeah, of course. I can’t believe you organized a private wine tasting. Isobel will be so jealous."

A pleased smile forms on Alex's lips that makes something in Michael buzz in a way that should make him nervous, but instead just makes him smile back. 

Alex pulls out his phone and opens the navigation app. "It's a little more than a ten minute walk, do you mind?"

"Not at all, it'll be nice to see the city not through the window of a car." 

Alex nods and glances at their PPOs to get their ok as well and then he leads the way into one of the smaller side streets of Paris. The PPOs hang back a bit and it all feels achingly normal, so normal that Michael almost reaches out to take Alex's hand. 

Which would be stupid for so many reasons. Number one being, that they are not like that. They don't hold hands. They antagonize each other over text and sometimes they get each other off. Well, and apparently today they take a walk through a warm Parisian evening to have wine and cheese. Definitely no handholding. 

They take a wrong turn somewhere so it takes them a little longer than ten minutes, but eventually Alex leads them into a little courtyard that is decorated with lots of frogs and they meet a guy named Andre who leads them into a private room of a little restaurant named Roger la Grenouille that has even more frogs inside. He explains that the restaurant is famous for its frog legs. 

Once Andre is gone to get them their first round of wine and cheese Michael nudges Alex. "I'm really glad you didn't bring me here for frog legs." 

Alex chuckles "They're not that bad. I'm not exactly a fan, but they are better than oysters or other mussels." 

"Good to know. I've had oysters at a fancy dinner once, I thought I had learned to eat almost everything, but I really struggled with finishing those." 

"Why do they always serve the strangest things at the fanciest dinners? Who is actually impressed by these things?" 

"I wish I knew. Give me good greasy diner food over fancy dinner menus any day." 

Alex nods in agreement and they are laughing together when Andre comes back with a bottle of wine and a waitress with a tray of cheese and a basket of bread behind him. 

Andre tells them where the wine and cheese comes from and while Michael appreciates it, he isn't really in the right headspace to retain the information right now. So he just nods along and is glad when Andre steps out of the room discreetly and leaves them alone. 

The wine is great and the cheese even better. Michael and Alex savor each new combination Andre brings in and Michael feels like he could sit there all night, watching Alex become more and more relaxed and open.

Eventually they have sampled all the wine and cheese that Andre prepared for them and they agree to a quick picture with Andre and his partner for their business instagram before heading out. Their PPOs have been served cheese and bread as well and even get to take a bottle of wine with them to enjoy once they are of duty. 

Michael feels warm and tipsy and happy and he can't wait to get his hands on Alex back at the hotel. He wonders if Alex feels the same when he asks his PPO to get them a car instead of suggesting they walk back. 

Sitting in the back seat next to Alex without being allowed to touch him feels torturous, especially when Alex's hands keeps moving closer to his and eventually their fingers touch. 

The anticipation grows and grows and they are finally at Michael's hotel, they make it up to the room and Michael sinks to his knees in front of Alex almost as soon as the door closes behind them. He wants to kiss him, but getting his mouth n Alex' dick feels less risky right now for some reason. He isn't going to think about what a kiss would be risking. Instead he works on improving his blow job skills. Judging by Alex' reaction, he might be getting better. Not that Alex had seemed disappointed the last time. 

They make it to bed at some point and there is kissing and orgasms and Michael is blissed out and still happily wine drunk. It feels dangerously close to perfect and just so fucking French that he forgets that they aren't supposed to spend the night. Casual frenemies with benefits don't spend the night. 

But that night they do and he's not sure if it's all the wine, or the orgasms, or the fact that he get's to sleep in Alex' arms with Alex' face buried in his curls, but he can't remember the last time he slept so well. 

He wakes up in the morning and Alex is still asleep. Michael can't help but lay next to him and just watching him. He wants to trace every scar and map them out, try to take their pain away, but he can't, he can just watch and ignore the nagging feeling that he shouldn't be doing this. 

Alex wakes up and they have decadent French room service breakfast and Alex sings along to French songs on the radio that Michael can't understand but that still sends shivers down his spine. 

When Alex has to go, he leaves a bottle of the wine from last night they both liked best and Michael isn't sure he'll ever be able to drink it. But he wraps it in multiple layers of clothes onto his suitcase and hopes it will survive the trip back to the sates. 

By the time he lands he has a text from Jenna with a link to an article about the fundraiser that has a whole paragraph about him and Alex and their friendship. Jenna added a caption: 'At least you didn't fuck this one up. Good job I guess.'

There is another text from Isobel, who somehow found the Instagram post about him and Alex at the wine tasting and wrote: 'You went to a Parisian wine tasting without me?!'

It's weird to see the evidence of their time together like that, through the eyes of his friends, family and the public who see them as nothing more than friends or even forced allies. He supposes it will stay like that, articles about their 'bromance' friendship while they occasionally find the time to get each other off. He knows it's ridiculous, this is purely physical and that's not changing, ever, but he kind of already misses Alex. 

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[meggie-jolly]

Since Red, White and Royal Blue is everywhere and the first time I read it was when I was deep in the Roswell, New Mexico fandom, the vague Malex RW&RB AU that spawned in my brain back then has reared it’s head again and wants to be shared.

I won’t turn it into a full fic, I know myself, that won’t happen, but I’d like to share my headcanons and I might write some scenes or snippets.

The obvious choice would be making Alex, Alex, but in my head Alex Manes makes more sense as Prince Henry.

I could probably make Harland Manes the King or the unnamed father of Jesse, but I think Jesse get's to be King in this AU even though that is a scary thought. But Jesse can't get the roll of Cathrine, he doesn't deserve it

Alex is the fourth son, so not even the spare, but the spare of the spare of the spare. Jesse despises him for being gay but I think in this version the physical abuse is a little more subtle, he is the king after all. Still an abusive asshole though.

Alex still became a soldier in the Royal Air Force and he still lost his leg.

Liz is the daughter of the head chef in the palace and good friends with Alex. He often takes her along with him on trips, when he can.

Maria geht’s to take over Pez’ role of rich, eccentric best friend

Maria and Liz are the only people outside the Royal family and certain members of the staff that know that Alex is gay

I kind of want to include Kyle in this whole thing somehow, but I haven’t figured out how yet

Michael isn’t actually the first son, but part of this AU’s Whitehouse trio.

The president is actually Ann Evans. (I want to keep the President a women, that's the only reason I picked Ann over Dave) So Max and Isobel are the first children.

So basically, the pod squad is the White House Trio

All three of them were still found as children and adopted (I kind of would like to keep them being aliens, but I don't know how to make that work, so I guess they are human)

Michael was adopted by Walt Sanders who is now the head of security in the White House. He and Michael live in the White House as well

The Evanses treat Michael as a third child by now and he's just as important and popular in the eyes of the public as Isobel and Max

So basically Michael is Nora in this, which fits very well imo

I'm gonna keep adding on to this headcanon and I'd love to get questions about it to inspire me to get deeper into it.

You can find all the posts about this AU here.

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[meggie-jolly]

I have a new scene for the Malex RWRB AU for you. You can read it on AO3 if you'd like and I'd love go hear your suggestions what scene I should write next. I'm not promising I'll fill every request, but I'll try. You can find all the posts about this AU here. @infp-obsessing-over-everything suggested that I write the ring scene and here it is:

One of Alex former Air Force buddies flies private jets now and Alex hired him to bring Michael back home. Michael wasn’t looking forward to the combined lectures from Ann, Jenna and his dad when he’s back in the states, but he was ignoring that for now. Instead he tried to push his curls out of his face for the millionth time without success because the wind sweeping over the large open space of the airstrip was relentless. 

Michael wanted to kiss Alex good bye, but even though it’s a private airstrip, there are too many people around and they can’t risk it 

Alex pulled something out of the inside pocket of his jacked and reaches out to place it in Michael’s hand. 

“I want you to have this.” 

Michael turned and opened his hand to find Alex’ signet ring, the one with the Royal crest. “Alex… I can’t accept this…”

Alex closed Michael’s hand around the ring. 

“I want you to know that I’m in, Michael. I don’t look away. Please keep it.” 

Michael looked up into Alex’ eyes and saw nothing but sincerity there. So he unclasped the chain with the little piece of alien glass from around his neck and slid the ring onto it. When the ring reached the glass, it glimmered lightly and something about it felt right to Michael. 

He looked back up at Alex. “Thank you, I will take good care of it.”

Alex looked back at him, seeming a little lost and Michael couldn't help but wrap him into a tight hug. It's not the kiss he wanted, but it was probably already risking more than he should.

Alex hugged him back just as fiercely and Michael could hear him inhale deeply. Michael chuckled lightly and whispered "I already miss you." into Alex' ear before reluctantly stepping out of the embrace and then onto the plane. 

When the plane was already slowly rolling towards the runway and Alex was still standing a little of to the site watching, Michael reached out with his telekinesis and gave Alex a soft nudge as a last goodbye and he thought he could see the corners of Alex' mouth curl into a soft smile, but they were already too far apart again. 

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[meggie-jolly]

Seven Sentence Sunday

This is from the scene of the RNM RWRB AU that I'm currently working on. The scene is inspired by a trip I took at the beginning of October and I meant to finish writing it as soon as I got home, but then writers blog hit and I'm still not done with it. Hopefully I will be done soon, I have some more ideas for this AU and would love your input. But for now, have a tiny little snipet of the scene. Can you guess what scene in the book it corresponds to?

I think it's actually a little more than seven sentences, but who cares.

Once Andre is gone to get them their first round of wine and cheese Michael nudges Alex. "I'm really glad you didn't bring me here for frog legs."  Alex chuckles "They're not that bad. I'm not exactly a fan, but they are better than oysters or other mussels."  "Good to know. I've had oysters at a fancy dinner once, I thought I had learned to eat almost everything, but I really struggled with finishing those."  "Why do they always serve the strangest things at the fanciest dinners? Who is actually impressed by these things?"  "I wish I knew. Give me good greasy diner food over fancy dinner menus any day."  Alex nods in agreement and they are laughing together when Andre comes back with a bottle of wine and a waitress with a tray of cheese and a basket of bread behind him. 

You can find all the posts about this AU here.

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[meggie-jolly]

Should I somehow work Alex’ past emo aesthetic into the RNM RWRB AU? And if yes, how would that work in a way that Michael can know about it? I don’t think the palace would let Alex get away with eyeliner, chokers or black nail polish in public. I mean I guess there could be paparazzi pictures…

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[meggie-jolly]

I finished another scene for the RNM RWRB AU, this time the scene at the wedding where Alex dances with Isobel. I have also posted this scene as well as the previous one on AO3 which you can find here. You can find all the posts about this AU here.

Alex came over all princely and handsome with his hair perfectly styled even though it was still growing out of its military regulation cut. Michael wondered if the military really made such high ranking members of the royal family stick to the dress code like that, or if Alex had chosen to cut it. Maybe it had been a publicity stunt to make him look more normal and human. ‘Look at the fancy prince who is just like the rest of them.’ 

Michael couldn’t stand it. He couldn’t stand the whole concept and Alex’s stupid handsome face with the stupid little scar in his forehead that somehow made him look even more perfect.

Alex eyes slid over the three of them, without even meeting Michael's eyes and he gave him and Max a vague nod before he focused on Isobel. Coward. 

"Hello Isobel," he said and offered her his arm in a posh way that made Michael want to gag and Max look like he might be taking notes. "Do you know how to waltz?" Alex asked and Isobel almost looks offended. 

"Of course I do." 

"Good, I'm afraid I might be a bit rusty," Alex said with a bashful smile and a rueful little gesture to his right leg that felt like a gut punch to Michael. With all the fancy clothes and wedding pomp he hadn't even realized that this had to be Alex' first public event without his crutch. 

Michael had been shocked right along the rest of the world when the news about Alex getting injured and loosing his leg in active duty had come out. It had sparked controversy and debate in all directions. Pro military, anti military, expanding the war on terror vs. demilitarizing and the pros and cons of having royalty serve in active duty. It had given fodder to both royalists and people wanting to abolish the monarchy. 

Michael had mostly been pissed at how much the whole thing had distracted him from his finals. 

Alex lead Isobel away, saying "We might have to take this a bit slower than you're used to."

Isobel answer something about not minding, but Michael refused to pay attention. He still watched them walk away though, before taking a gulp of his champagne and turning back to Max. "What's that supposed to be about? Is he trying to show us up by wooing our sister?" 

Max raised an eyebrow. "How is that showing us up?" 

Michael rolled his eyes, not dignifying the question with an answer. Instead he scanned the dance floor, trying to find Alex and Isobel. It wasn’t hard, quite a few people were watching them and giving them more space than any other dancing couple. Alex looked uncomfortable and like he wanted to be anywhere else. Which was ridiculous, he was dancing with Isobel after all, he should be honored. 

“Do you think he actually likes her?”, Michael asked Max who shrugged in response. 

“I don’t know. It might be a courtesy or for diplomatic reasons, or…” 

In that moment a Royal photographer snapped a picture of Alex and Isobel and Michael snorted. The picture would show up in at least one or two magazines within a week and probably spark ridiculous dating rumors. As if Isobel would date someone like Prince Alex. She had standards. 

“He couldn’t even let his brother get the media attention during his own wedding? Typical.” 

Max started to respond to that with something but Michael waved him off and reached for the nearest champagne bottle instead. Champagne wasn’t his it s preferred drink, but right now he didn’t care as long as it got him drunk.

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[meggie-jolly]

I was watching some RNM episodes while doing housework and I came up with some things for the AU.

first of all, how could I forget about Charlie? Obviously she is perfect for the Amy roll.

also I decided to give Michael some of the foster care trauma from the show. He didn't get adopted by Sanders when the Evans' adopted Isobel and Max, he got adopted when he was around 12 or something after he got back to Roswell. Sanders found out about the religious freaks and by then he had some political connections though working with the Evans' and they pulled some strings so he could adopt Michael

I still want to get Kyle into the AU somehow and I still don't know how. Please tell me if you have any ideas.

You can find all the posts about this AU here.

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[meggie-jolly]

I know I said Michael, Max and Isobel would be human in the RWRB AU, but I kind of keep having ideas with them being aliens and I can't decide wether or not to have them be aliens or humans. So I'm asking Tumblr:

If you have no idea what this is about, check out all my previous posts about this AU.

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[meggie-jolly]

I’m currently working on one of the wedding scenes in my RNM RWRB AU, but I’m kind of having a hard time to find muse and motivation right now.

I don’t think the scene will go all the way to the cake-tastrophe, but mostly focus on Alex dancing with Isobel.

I hope I can post it at some point during the next few days. Until then, feel free to suggest what scene I should write next.

You can find all the posts about this AU here.

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[meggie-jolly]

I’m still working on the Malex/RNM Red, White and Royal Blue AU, but as you may have noticed the updates have become a little less frequent. Other story ideas are starting to creep in again or older WIPs that demand brain space.

I’m definitely writing at least a scene or two more before I might focus on something else for a bit, but I’m entirely sure I will come back to this AU even if I pause if for a while. Eventually my brain will randomly decide it’s time for a reread of the book, a rewatch of the movie or RNM or just that I definitely need to read fanfic for either of the fandoms right now and then inspiration for this AU will strike again.

If you don’t want to miss that or any updates leading up to it, you can interact with this post and I will tag you in any future posts about this AU.

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[meggie-jolly]

This was meant to be the start of the cake scene, but then I decided to include some of Michael's foster care trauma into it and then Alex' emo past and somehow this became a thing of it's own that I didn't want to add the cake scene on to. I will write the cake scene eventually. Read the scene on AO3. You can find all the posts about this AU here.

Michael remembered the first time he’d become aware of Prince Alex. He had probably seen him before somewhere on tv or something, but it hadn’t registered, he'd been too focused on his own problems in foster care and trying to find Isobel and Max again. 

It was the summer before he was adopted by Walt. He had been around 14 back then and was still with the religious freaks at that point. But at least he was in Roswell and went to school with Max and Isobel. 

Except during summer vacation. The Evans had been on a vacation/campaign trip through what seemed like half the states to Michael back then and his foster parents had decided to send him to some sort of Bible camp. 

But no matter how much he hated it, he had done his hat to keep his head down all summer in order to not have any of his bad behavior getting back to his foster parents. He couldn’t risk them sending him away and loosing Max and Isobel again. 

But during one of the Bible study sessions he just hadn’t been able to keep his mouth shot. He couldn’t even remember anymore what it had been about, just that it had something to do with denying science. He said something rude and ‘blasphemous’ and was send to some sort of time out cabin. The whole thing was ridiculous, everyone in that room was a teenager and their way to punish him was to lock him in a room and tell him to go pray about what he had said. 

It only served to make him feel even more superior to humans than he already did. 

Of course he could have unlocked the door in a heartbeat, but that would have only raised questions and lead to more trouble. So instead he searched to room for anything to occupy his mind. 

Hidden behind a shelf full of religious texts he found a gossip magazine. It was already a few months old and Michael couldn’t care less about the whatever half truths and complete fabrications the magazine was made up of, but it had to be more entertaining than books that all seemed to interpret the same Bible verses again and again without covering any new ground. 

So he had opened the magazine and started reading. 

He had no memory of what had been in the magazine, except for a spread on Prince Alex of Wales with a few paparazzi photos of him dressed in an emo like style with skinny jeans, a black band tee, black eyeliner, wearing a choker necklace and, possibly the most shocking thing, according to the magazine, appearing to have a septum piercing. 

Something about the pictures had fascinated Michael. There was one side by side with an official Royal portrait and Alex looked just so much happier and more in his element in the emo style than all dressed up and polished as a prince. Michael could remember thinking that, if even a prince of England could dare to not fit in and rebel, maybe there was a chance for him. 

Alex looked defiant but somehow comfortable in his own skin in the pictures. They didn’t look like the typical paparazzi pictures where the person in them is caught of guard or annoyed. Michael wondered if he’d agreed to let them take pictures. 

Something about the pictures of the rebellious prince had fascinated him and he had taken the magazine back to his bunk with him even though it probably could have gotten him into even more trouble. He took it back to his foster home with him and it even made the move to Walt’s house when he got him out of foster care a few months later. 

Whenever he’d felt like he didn’t belong somewhere, school, the Evans family, the whole damn planet or, later, politics, he had taken it out and found and odd sense of comfort in the prince that didn’t want to belong. 

That comfort stayed with him until he led Prince Alex for real first time at the Beijing Olympics and he learned that that rebel prince from the paparazzi pictures wasn’t real. The real Prince Alexander was just a boating and entitled cardboard cutout of an idealized prince. 

Sometimes he wondered what happened to the Emo version of Alex. Had it been the clichéd phase, or maybe even just a costume for some sort of party or something? Maybe he would have gotten along better with the fictional version of Alex. Could you kiss someone you never met and that never existed? 

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[meggie-jolly]

A few more notes on the Roswell, New Mexico Red, White & Royal Blue AU:

Flint would get to take Phillip’s role in the Royal family

Clay gets Cathrin’s roll

And Greg is Bea, I'm not sure about the drug problem yet

Their mom is the one who died of cancer. I think she still left Jesse before she died though

The Evans family as well as Walt and Michael are from New Mexico, not Texas.

Michael’s full name is Michael Guerin-Sanders (I might come up with a logical reason why he’s still named Guerin, or I might not, who knows, but I wanted to keep Guerin and a double name)

I don’t know who gets to take the roles of Shaan and Zahra or any of the other staff, but I’m open to suggestions

I don’t have a Liam for Michael to have his suppressed bi crisis with. Should I leave it out or make someone up? 

You can find all the posts about this AU here.

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[meggie-jolly]

I have a few little notes/updates/head cannons about my Roswell RWRB AU:

Michael slept with Maria once at some event they were all at. It definitely wasn’t to get Alex’ attention or because the press was more interested in Alex. Not at all. (/sarcasm) He prefers not to think about the whole thing now 

I think I'll give Dallas the roll of Zahra and Heath will be Shaan

Jenna is the secret service agent that's mostly assigned to Michael, so basically Amy/Cash

Does anyone have an idea for a character that could take up the Rafael Luna role in Michael's life? 

You can find all the posts about this AU here.

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[meggie-jolly]

I finally wrote a scene for the Roswell, New Mexico Red, White and Royal Blue AU. It's Michael coming out to Sanders and telling him about Alex. You can find the scene under the cut.

I don't really feel like I captured Sander's voice well to be honest, but I wanted to share it with you anyways. Maybe I'll edit it later and put it on AO3 once I have a scene or two more written. Feel free to let me know what scenes you would like to see me write.

You can find all the posts about this AU here.

"What's this meeting about Kid, we don't usually sit down so formal." Walt looked at him from across his desk in the cramped office he kept at the Whitehouse. Michael had never understood why he had such a small, somewhat overstuffed office that would have suited a struggling small business more than the head of the presidential secret service, but Walt wanted it this way.

Michael swallowed nervously. "I… I have to, um, talkt o you about something. I've... been figuring some things out recently and,.. well, I'm bi." He didn't quite manage to look at his dad while saying it and continued without giving him the chance to say anything. "I wanted to tell you because you're my dad and I want you to know and I probably have to tell Ann and Dave, because it might influence the campaign, but you should know first and…"

His Dad raised a hand to stop him before he could ramble on and then reached across the table to rest his hand on Michael's. "Michael, Michael stop. It's ok. Thank you for telling me. And remember, you don't have to tell anyone if you don't want to.”

"I know, but I'm not sure I want to hide this part of myself and I met someone…"

Walt gave Michael a look that only he could. His secret service look, the one that had Michael, Max and Isobel convinced he could read minds or at least see through walls when they were children. Their theory had been he was hiding a magic eyeball behind his eyepatch, like Mad Eye Moody. "Is this about the Prince?"

Michael almost fell out of his chair in shock. "Wh.. Prince?", he stammered. There was no way his dad already knew right?

Walt chuckled "Prince Alex of course. You've been sleeping with him, haven't you?"

Michael choked on his breath at his Dad's words. "You knew?", he managed to get out between two coughs. 

Walt leaned back and pulled a bottle of water out of his desk drawer. "No need to croak, kid. Of course I know. I'm the head of security and you are my son. I know everything going on around here. Especially when you leave the country and interact with people of international interest. You know I don’t trust the King.” 

“So… you’re okay with me being bi, but not with me… seeing Alex?” Michael’s voice was shakier than he cared to admit. He opened the bottle and took a swig, hoping it would help and sort if wishing it was Whiskey or something instead. 

“Well, you certainly choose one of the most complicated options, but no, I don’t care that it’s Alex. I care a little bit about what this will mean for all of us and our future in the White House, but most of all I care about you being happy, kid. I hope you know that. And I have seen that you are happy when you stare at your phone and I assume text him.”

Michael swallowed around the lump in his throat that formed at the words. “Thank you Dad.” 

Walt sighed. “Regardless, you will have to make a decision. This is not a secret that can be kept forever. You two have been very lucky so far. And when it comes out, it will have consequences for both of your countries. So you need to be sure you are serious about this. This can't be a fling." 

Michael wasn't sure what to say to that, he opened his mouth to answer… something, but his dad stopped him. "Don't answer now, you should take time to decide. Maybe talk to Alex, or Max and Isobel. And if you do decide to keep pursuing the relationship, you should probably tell Ann and Dave. If this comes out during the campaign, they need to have a plan what to do." 

It was Michael's turn to sigh. "Ok Dad, I'll think about it. Thank you for supporting me."

Walt smiled, "Of course kid, always. Now come here, you look like you could use a hug."

He stood up and walked around the table to envelop Michael in the kind of hug they hadn't shared in a long time. 

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[meggie-jolly]

For the Malex Red, White and Royal Blue AU:

I’m trying to write a scene where Michael comes out to Sanders as bi and tells him about Prince Alex. Since Sanders is the head of the White House security in this AU, should he already know about Michael’s relationship with Alex?

It would make sense, it’s his job to know things and I’m sure Michael’s security detail must have noticed something and might have reported it back. Plus it would work with canon Sanders. What do you think?

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[meggie-jolly]

I realised my post earlier today about Kyle getting a completely new role, the son of the candidate running against Ann and possibly having the Valentis be a former diplomats family who lived in the UK to give Kyle a childhood connection to Alex, contradicts an earlier post where I said I would give Kyle the role of Shaan.

I'm not sure which way to go, so I'm making another poll. The last one was very helpful.

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