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Portraits Of A Political Family for nenya kanadka, by melliyna
Title: Portraits Of A Political Family
Recipient:nenya_kanadka
Fandom/s: White House RPF
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Fluff
Characters/Pairing: Bo Obama, Champ Biden (Gen)
Prompt: Bo Obama, Champ Biden. Fluff/friendship/adorable puppies. Slash between their humans is fine too but not a must.
Disclaimer: All television shows, movies, books, and other copyrighted material referred to in this work, and the characters, settings, and events thereof, are the properties of their respective owners. As this work is an interpretation of the original material and not for-profit, it constitutes fair use. Reference to real persons, places, or events are made in a fictional context, and are not intended to be libelous, defamatory, or in any way factual.
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nenya_kanadkaFandom/s: White House RPF
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Fluff
Characters/Pairing: Bo Obama, Champ Biden (Gen)
Prompt: Bo Obama, Champ Biden. Fluff/friendship/adorable puppies. Slash between their humans is fine too but not a must.
Disclaimer: All television shows, movies, books, and other copyrighted material referred to in this work, and the characters, settings, and events thereof, are the properties of their respective owners. As this work is an interpretation of the original material and not for-profit, it constitutes fair use. Reference to real persons, places, or events are made in a fictional context, and are not intended to be libelous, defamatory, or in any way factual.
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<b>Title:</b> Portraits Of A Political Family
<b>Recipient:</b> <user name=nenya_kanadka>
<b>Fandom/s:</b> White House RPF
<b>Rating:</b> PG-13
<b>Warnings:</b> Fluff
<b>Characters/Pairing:</b> Bo Obama, Champ Biden (Gen)
<b>Prompt:</b> <i> Bo Obama, Champ Biden. Fluff/friendship/adorable puppies. Slash between their humans is fine too but not a must</i>.
<b>Disclaimer:</b> All television shows, movies, books, and other copyrighted material referred to in this work, and the characters, settings, and events thereof, are the properties of their respective owners. As this work is an interpretation of the original material and not for-profit, it constitutes fair use. Reference to real persons, places, or events are made in a fictional context, and are not intended to be libelous, defamatory, or in any way factual.
<b>Author:</b> <user=”melliyna”>
<b>Notes:</b> To my twitter list for the hand holding you provided throughout (especially Trex, Sarken, Henry, Writeforwhiskey and Aliya)
<lj-cut text="Portraits Of A Political Family"
The Vice President has a puppy he can admit that he bought for him and okay, the grand-kids. It makes Jill grin to watch the way their personalities seem to fit together, in a kind of enthusiastic bundle of enthusiasm and running after trains in various ways. Champ comes with him to talk to kids, to make them (mostly) less nervous, to be cuddled when someone doesn't want to cuddle the Vice President (surprisingly, there are some among the voting public), to be held.
In grief, when they stood by each other, when Joe's Mom died. In pain and hope when meeting soldiers coming home, which leads to another burning memory of worry, remembered terror waiting for every email and a dog that knew when to excitedly jump up and down, when his owner couldn't quite do so). In joy, because Jill swears that dog knows the day they pass the healthcare bill, when Beau becomes Senator Biden and they all cry and in comfort. When the healthcare bill goes worse, when the death threats go up and one particularly bad time when a gaffe goes too far and she can see that Joe is genuinely terrified that he's not just lost his job, he's lost the President's respect. He's lost a friend.
Champ follows him around, trying to pet his owner because he knows that helps him feel better. Trying to fetch newspapers (the staff even start leaving the paper out so Champ can bring it in, instead of it being bought in on a tray). He even attempts to grab the remote away from him, when Joe starts flicking to the news channels that are still carrying the remarks pretty constantly. He's a political dog, he knows when the news cycle isn't being kind to his owners, when it is and what newspapers your owners really need to not read, least they set off a chain of events that ends with the Chief of Staff <i>quietly</i> yelling at the world (which somehow, is scarier than the usual run of bellowing).
He learned about the rule about Fox News in the first week, for Champ is a wise puppy.
The President of the United States bought a puppy for his two little girls. It takes him a while to admit that this strangely compelling ball of fluff with eyes is as much his companion as theirs. He think about how bizarre this is, that he has time to play with his daughters and their dog in a way he never had before this title, this position that sweeps you up in to it. He buys a book about the history of American Presidents and their pets and gets gently (and not so gently, though that was Rahm and likely expected) teased for it and hey, did you know that there was a US President who kept an alligator and Daddy, one President's kids got to ride a pony in the White House! (He decides to err on the side of not letting them know about the alligator) And apparently, Portuguese Water Dogs like the snow more than one may have supposed, which makes him smile. He's had a childhood shaped by the ocean and an adulthood that has been spent in the midst of Chicago and never quite lost that wonder at the snow and it's good to see, the way Bo seems that much more delighted when the snowflakes start falling.
It becomes a family joke, slowly that one day Bo is going to start talking and when he does, he'll outsmart them all (especially at cards).
When the days start to length and things get bad, there are times when Joe knows Barack just genuinely does not understand. It's not naivety, it's not that he hasn't played the political games or doesn't have a certain streak of ruthlessness but there's something that is fundamentally a part of the President of the United States that genuinely believes in dialogue, in compromise. In the fact that you can understand, comprehend and listen to that which you fundamentally disagree with or that which is different. And so of course he keeps trying and there are moments when literally, you can find him quietly patting Bo looking something between sad, disappointed and angry before he goes back out but even there, there's a part of him that is always leading and this is what the Presidency does to you.
There are certain things he probably shouldn't watch, but does.
The two puppies do go for walks together, sometimes though it's usually when their owners are having lunch together or when Michelle and Jill can snatch a moment for a talk and generally, they don't tangle in to each other, though there are moments of mutual irritation. And moments in which things don't entirely work out, times when both dogs have to work out a compromise and sometimes, it's messy. Sometimes it doesn't exactly work out (and sometimes, their owners can definitely make a wry joke that isn't a joke about tangled leads and metaphors for policy, government and both having been in the Senate, once upon a time that doesn't seem that so long ago). Sometimes they both look a bit apprehensive and sometimes it just ends in chasing sticks and the Secret Service trying not to smile, snicker or otherwise show any evidence of emotion. But they are at home here, in these grounds, in this building. Usually. There are times when it just isn't, usually involving times when newspapers get ripped or socks get shredded but it works out.
These two dogs are part of these families and thus, they seem to mirror them (trains, snow, politics, reaction to Glenn Beck - thankfully Rahm does not have a dog) throughout the term, through the public, private and the strange space in between. But they do not mirror the hate, the petty moments and the pain. These two, devoted and it is a humbling thing. Both the President and Vice-President hope this sense of being humbled never ever changes.
<i>If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. </i> (St Francis of Assisi)
<b>Recipient:</b> <user name=nenya_kanadka>
<b>Fandom/s:</b> White House RPF
<b>Rating:</b> PG-13
<b>Warnings:</b> Fluff
<b>Characters/Pairing:</b> Bo Obama, Champ Biden (Gen)
<b>Prompt:</b> <i> Bo Obama, Champ Biden. Fluff/friendship/adorable puppies. Slash between their humans is fine too but not a must</i>.
<b>Disclaimer:</b> All television shows, movies, books, and other copyrighted material referred to in this work, and the characters, settings, and events thereof, are the properties of their respective owners. As this work is an interpretation of the original material and not for-profit, it constitutes fair use. Reference to real persons, places, or events are made in a fictional context, and are not intended to be libelous, defamatory, or in any way factual.
<b>Author:</b> <user=”melliyna”>
<b>Notes:</b> To my twitter list for the hand holding you provided throughout (especially Trex, Sarken, Henry, Writeforwhiskey and Aliya)
<lj-cut text="Portraits Of A Political Family"
The Vice President has a puppy he can admit that he bought for him and okay, the grand-kids. It makes Jill grin to watch the way their personalities seem to fit together, in a kind of enthusiastic bundle of enthusiasm and running after trains in various ways. Champ comes with him to talk to kids, to make them (mostly) less nervous, to be cuddled when someone doesn't want to cuddle the Vice President (surprisingly, there are some among the voting public), to be held.
In grief, when they stood by each other, when Joe's Mom died. In pain and hope when meeting soldiers coming home, which leads to another burning memory of worry, remembered terror waiting for every email and a dog that knew when to excitedly jump up and down, when his owner couldn't quite do so). In joy, because Jill swears that dog knows the day they pass the healthcare bill, when Beau becomes Senator Biden and they all cry and in comfort. When the healthcare bill goes worse, when the death threats go up and one particularly bad time when a gaffe goes too far and she can see that Joe is genuinely terrified that he's not just lost his job, he's lost the President's respect. He's lost a friend.
Champ follows him around, trying to pet his owner because he knows that helps him feel better. Trying to fetch newspapers (the staff even start leaving the paper out so Champ can bring it in, instead of it being bought in on a tray). He even attempts to grab the remote away from him, when Joe starts flicking to the news channels that are still carrying the remarks pretty constantly. He's a political dog, he knows when the news cycle isn't being kind to his owners, when it is and what newspapers your owners really need to not read, least they set off a chain of events that ends with the Chief of Staff <i>quietly</i> yelling at the world (which somehow, is scarier than the usual run of bellowing).
He learned about the rule about Fox News in the first week, for Champ is a wise puppy.
The President of the United States bought a puppy for his two little girls. It takes him a while to admit that this strangely compelling ball of fluff with eyes is as much his companion as theirs. He think about how bizarre this is, that he has time to play with his daughters and their dog in a way he never had before this title, this position that sweeps you up in to it. He buys a book about the history of American Presidents and their pets and gets gently (and not so gently, though that was Rahm and likely expected) teased for it and hey, did you know that there was a US President who kept an alligator and Daddy, one President's kids got to ride a pony in the White House! (He decides to err on the side of not letting them know about the alligator) And apparently, Portuguese Water Dogs like the snow more than one may have supposed, which makes him smile. He's had a childhood shaped by the ocean and an adulthood that has been spent in the midst of Chicago and never quite lost that wonder at the snow and it's good to see, the way Bo seems that much more delighted when the snowflakes start falling.
It becomes a family joke, slowly that one day Bo is going to start talking and when he does, he'll outsmart them all (especially at cards).
When the days start to length and things get bad, there are times when Joe knows Barack just genuinely does not understand. It's not naivety, it's not that he hasn't played the political games or doesn't have a certain streak of ruthlessness but there's something that is fundamentally a part of the President of the United States that genuinely believes in dialogue, in compromise. In the fact that you can understand, comprehend and listen to that which you fundamentally disagree with or that which is different. And so of course he keeps trying and there are moments when literally, you can find him quietly patting Bo looking something between sad, disappointed and angry before he goes back out but even there, there's a part of him that is always leading and this is what the Presidency does to you.
There are certain things he probably shouldn't watch, but does.
The two puppies do go for walks together, sometimes though it's usually when their owners are having lunch together or when Michelle and Jill can snatch a moment for a talk and generally, they don't tangle in to each other, though there are moments of mutual irritation. And moments in which things don't entirely work out, times when both dogs have to work out a compromise and sometimes, it's messy. Sometimes it doesn't exactly work out (and sometimes, their owners can definitely make a wry joke that isn't a joke about tangled leads and metaphors for policy, government and both having been in the Senate, once upon a time that doesn't seem that so long ago). Sometimes they both look a bit apprehensive and sometimes it just ends in chasing sticks and the Secret Service trying not to smile, snicker or otherwise show any evidence of emotion. But they are at home here, in these grounds, in this building. Usually. There are times when it just isn't, usually involving times when newspapers get ripped or socks get shredded but it works out.
These two dogs are part of these families and thus, they seem to mirror them (trains, snow, politics, reaction to Glenn Beck - thankfully Rahm does not have a dog) throughout the term, through the public, private and the strange space in between. But they do not mirror the hate, the petty moments and the pain. These two, devoted and it is a humbling thing. Both the President and Vice-President hope this sense of being humbled never ever changes.
<i>If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. </i> (St Francis of Assisi)
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