On stupid AU's, lacking a clear vision and Irish Coffee ...

[rebelscumfather]

This is the stupidest idea you've ever had.

Don't dismiss me, you shit, I'm talking to you. Shut up and listen for a minute.

You have no idea where to put me, if anyone is going to talk to me, and you keep changing your mind about 'what I'm supposed to be.' As if it was up to you at all. Christ, the delusions of grandeur with you are something else ...

And let's get another thing straight. It's not 'too early' for an Irish Coffee. You can drink it anytime. With you behind the keys, I'm pretty sure I'm going to need booze early and often.

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[rebelscumfather]

You might not have noticed this about me, because you lack my observational prowess, but I hate being bored. Being stuck in the house with you is bound to make me crazy.

[dadimrighthere]

You were playing strip poker with Uncle Lando and the rest of the geriatrics last night.

While I was home.

How can you be bored already.

[rebelscumfather]

[His father adopts that thoughtful tilt to his head and can't help but feel that smug smile on his lips.]

Only one with pants on at the end of the night. I'd just like to point that out.

[But that's not the point ...]

That ended a good four or five hours ago. I'm not working this weekend and you're not going to Luke's.

[He doesn't need to elaborate on why that's a potential problem, does he?]

[dadimrighthere]

Can't you go bother Mom?

[You know he can't, Ben. It's election season at the senate. Now he kind of wishes he was being shunted off to Uncle Luke's this weekend. But nooooooo, Uncle Luke is tutoring some new girl who moved in.]

...Maybe I'll go spend the weekend at Hux's.

[rebelscumfather]

Can't you make any other friend?

If Holden Caulfield and the Hilter Youth had a snotty kid, I'm pretty we'd end up with Hux.

[dadimrighthere]

Wow, RUDE.

[Hux does like The Catcher in the Rye and Mein Kampf though. And Nietzsche. Hm. Maybe keep that to himself.]

What's wrong with the Catcher in the Rye, anyway? It's required in every Lit class ever.

[rebelscumfather]

It's pretentious, like most of the things you have to read in a lit class.

[You want to really disappoint your father, Ben? Tell him you want to study Liberal Arts when you get to college.]

[dadimrighthere]

Do you actually like anything anyone else recommends to you?

[Who's going to college? Joining the military maybe. or...well..he could see himself studying ancient Imperial History...]

[rebelscumfather]

When it's not something stupid, sure.

[He's got this undeserved reputation of being a contrarian. He has no idea where it came from. Also, you in the military, kid? Don't make him laugh.]