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Serge & Lucia |EasilyAmused & ICanBeAnyone|

She rolled her eyes as he pointed out that she would have to get used to more than just door openings. "Oh no.. see my DAD goes to the White House, meanwhile we all do our best to keep Lu out of the public eye. Let's face it, Dad's cut out for the public, I on the other hand would need constant reminders we can't call reporters Stupid mother fuckers and kick them in the shins for blocking our way." She grinned and said as he slid into the drivers seat. It was hard to tell if she was teasing or not. She was mostly kidding, but as this morning had shown, she could have a short fuse when pressed personally.

They got back to the apartment and she let him do his thing, waiting in the tiny space that served as a kitchen until he gave the all clear. She then headed toward the bedroom having to remind herself she could no longer strip on the way. She closed the door leaving it slightly ajar as she stripped off the suit and slipped on a pair of clean yoga pants and an over sized college t-shirt. It was an outfit she used normally to run, but she probably wouldn't be doing much of that over the next few days. She heard him call out to her that she should take a nap. She grabbed a clean pair of socks from her dresser and opened her door. She leaned against the door frame slipping her socks on one at a time.

"Yeah... my adrenaline levels are through the roof right now. Sleep is not even close to a thought in my mind right now." She said as she padded back to the kitchen to pour herself a glass of water before she started rummaging in the fridge, throwing out almost everything she touched. She was agitated, and it was in every line of her body. "This whole situation sucks." She said as she slammed the fridge shut and leaned against the counter to look at him.

"Unfortunately I talk when I have emotions. Normally I would phone a friend, but in this case... what 5, maybe 6 people know what is going on, so I am afraid You're it today." She sighed softly.

"I am glad he found me, I really am. The whole dad thing kind of weirds me out on a normal level, but this... This is NUTS!" She said as she reached on top of the fridge and grabbed a couple of trash bags out of a box on the top. She walked to the couch and started shoving laundry in the trash bags for the laundromat tomorrow. "I mean I didn't ask for any of this. I was just fine, now... shit my biggest fear 4 hours ago was not finishing my degree, but right now in this moment, it doesn't really matter. My entire life is about to change, and none of it is my choice." She tied off the trash bag and drug it off the couch towards the wall next to the door. She still had another few bags worth of laundry.

"I am thrilled Erik is likely to win this election, sure, I promise you we have some political differences, but all in all he's a damn good choice, but fuck me! If it ever gets out my relation to him..." She shook her head in frustration. "I am at a loss. Do I finish this damn degree I poured tens of thousands of dollars I don't have into? If I do finish, can I deal with any employment I gain from this point out is either nepotism if it's government, or based on my political connections in the private sector? And then, Add in the fact that I am angry at him for being a politician, that just makes me mad at myself for being angry and selfish." She rubbed her face with one hand and looked at Serge. "Is hiding in Mexico an option? I mean what... a good decade or so and this will all blow over right?"

Serge & Lucia |EasilyAmused & ICanBeAnyone|

She blushed a little as he complimented her on telling Erik to 'knock em dead', but headed out the door with him. She grinned a little as he slowed his steps to match hers. She actually found something enjoyable about keeping him off balance. "I don't blame you. It's not really covered in any manual I know of, and you seem to be a pretty by the book kind of guy." She teased.

She waited for him to open the door and started talking about the schedule "I work from 4 to midnight, and possibly midnight to 8 if the next shift calls in, and that has been happening a lot, so figure on 4pm to 8 am, then I have class from 10 noon tomorrow. I plan on going to the laundromat after class. Get everything done at once so I can sleep before my evening class of 5 to 7, then I can actually get some solid sleep until the next day. I have a whole day off... well ok not a whole day because I am technically skipping a class, but I am taking a day because if I don't put in some work on my Masters Thesis, I will never get my degree." She moved towards the front seat and opened her own door. Erik had a point, if the press noticed anything different over the next week things could get interesting, this way she didn't appear any different than anyone entering or leaving the building.

"I have had some training in dealing with security, we are expected to know how to cooperate when VIP's fly in to a disaster zone for photo ops, so I will do my best to be cooperative. This should really be a fluff job. Download a good book, find a comfy booth and hunker down." She said as she slid into the SUV.

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Lucia felt immense relief that he seemed to 'get' her. She was glad that he agreed with the plan. She was wiling to try. It wasn't going to be easy. "Mom used to say the same thing. Lucia Guinevere, you get more and more like your father every day."

She turned her attention to the door as the woman came to tell him about his press conference. She was certainly glad those were his job not hers. She felt herself pale as he mentioned the press finding out about her. That would be her absolute nightmare. She was cool with having a father, but to have to try to figure out her new reality while dogged by reporters might be too much.

"No, I get it and believe me, being in the public eye is the last thing either of us wants for me." She said in complete agreement. She was able to be sweet and charming and quite a lovely person, but she might also end up as film at 11. It really was a coin flip.

She laughed as the guys vied to be the one chosen. She stood up and walked over to them and looked at each one in turn. She was generally a playful person so she decided to play. "Elias... honey, I'm sorry you just look so young. My schedule is crazy, and I can't be an effective person at midnight if I am worrying about keeping you out past your bed time." She knelt down and held her hand out to Buster, but didn't touch him because she knew better than to touch a working dog. "And you boy are adorable, but I work in food service... that's a no no for puppies."

She stood and moved next to Serge giving him a grin. "And you, my dear at least sort laundry... your folding skills may yet be tested, but for now I'll take it" she said with a laugh before walking back to Erik and wrapping him in a hug. "Go do your press conference, I'll take Serge home with me, feed him some three day old pizza and see if he can handle my schedule for a day or two." She said before stage whispering "Twenty bucks says he taps out after day two with no sleep. That good looking probably means he needs a full eight hours." She of course was teasing. She fully meant for Serge to hear her.

She moved away to gather her stuff and waited for Serge to be ready. As Erik was being escorted to his press conference she cleared her throat. "Hey... Dad." She said and waited for him to turn around. "Knock em dead."

She turned to Serge and waited for him to escort her out. She was ready to be gone. She was happy, but sad, and even a little angry, but she couldn't show it, at least not yet. She wasn't thrilled about the whole Bodyguard thing, but she understood the logic behind it. She would accept it as the gesture of a kind concerned father that it was.

"Serge, I do appreciate your willingness to spend the next few days with me. All joking aside, I do appreciate everything you have done today."

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Serge & Lucia |EasilyAmused & ICanBeAnyone|

@SinfulSkills Serge was saved. I woke up and had a better idea LOL Post has been edited.

Serge & Lucia |EasilyAmused & ICanBeAnyone|

@SinfulSkills Couldn't let Serge escape the awkward stuff LOL he has become the one she trusts.

Serge & Lucia |EasilyAmused & ICanBeAnyone|

As he mentioned driving a girl crazy with his habits she smiled and just seconds before he opened the door she whispered just loud enough for him to hear "If you fold laundry the same week it comes out of the dryer I might just ask my new old man if I can keep you." She was teasing him again... maybe. She drew a deep shaky breath and followed him through the door.

Her eyes were immediately drawn to Erik. All those times her mother told her she had her fathers eyes suddenly made sense. She had planned on asking if they were absolutely sure, but she no longer needed proof. All the proof was there in front of her. She knew those eyes... his eyes very well. She looked into them every morning. She looked at his outstretched hand. That didn't seem quite right. She stepped forward and gave him an awkward hug instead. "Call me Lu.. or if you want to use the name Mom did. Gwennie." She rolled her eyes. "Leave it to a librarian to saddle her kid with Lucia Guinevere."

She pulled out of the hug, and led them to sit down. There was a lot to talk about it seemed, she glanced nervously at Serge. She was scared out of her mind. This was an entirely new situation, and unfortunately Serge was the one person she had latched onto earlier today as a target for her nervous energy. She needed to make sure he was still near by. "So Ummm uh... Erik. Wow... where do we start? I promise I am usually a much better conversationalist, but I have had about..." She glanced at her watch "87 seconds to adapt to this new information, so I am for once, at a loss for words."

She opened her folio and pulled out a pen twisting it nervously in her hands. She needed to do something, and this really was all she could come up with for the moment. She glanced over at Serge once again before looking back at Erik. "So... ummm I guess what I really need to know is what is your ideal outcome from this meeting?"

Lucia was out of her depth. She didn't deal well with the personal, so she turned it professional. It was how she handled things. If she broke it down to pieces, and worked one step at a time she could make it through. "I do mean that personally, what kind of relationship are you looking for? Family dinners once a month? Phone calls on birthdays and a card on Christmas?" She twisted the pen in her hands as if itching to take notes. Maybe she should. When this meeting was over she was likely going to corner Serge and make him give her the Idiots guide to the care and feeding of fathers.

Erik reached over and put his hand over hers to still the nervous twisting. "How about we just take this one step at a time. I have been looking for you for a while, and I am really very glad my men were able to find you." He said quietly

Lucia nodded. "Yeah... I think I am glad too. I have to admit, until literally seconds before I walked through the door I had no idea who you were, or really that you even existed. Mom didn't say much, and I guess once I got old enough to understand she didn't want to talk about it, I didn't ask."

Lucia really had no idea what she was supposed to do in this situation. Part of her wanted to scream, to laugh, to cry. She was sure Erik was feeling the same. She looked at Serge, she was about to beg him for help, when a new idea hit her.

"Wait.. I'm... WE'RE going about this the wrong way." She flipped open her folio again and this time pulled out a copy of her resume and flipped it over for the blank back. "Dad, listen. Mom used to say I was just like you. We THINK... We Plan, and then only then we do we emote if time and situation allows. We've been trying to do this like NORMAL people. We aren't normal." She moved closer to Erik and placed the Folio on both their laps and started scribbling at the bottom of the page. She wrote in big bold letters "FATHER DAUGHTER RELATIONSHIP" She then circled it a couple of times emphasizing it's importance.

"Ok. We have an end goal. So now let's work the problem right? We know where we want to be, but now we need to figure out how to get there. Ok first problem..." She wrote a number 1 and scribbled strangers next to it. "We are virtually strangers, so we have to fix that. We fix that through time and communication."

She was becoming more and more animated and excited as she started talking this through. "Ok. So, you get my cell number I get yours... Voila I text you 'Looked good on CNN's camera, but ABC had a bad angle' You text back 'lol' etcetera etcetera so on and so forth. Ok. Communication solved. So moving on to time. Unfortunately I think that might be the one thing we are perilously short of, You are campaigning, traveling, and basically a very busy man. My schedule is not exactly forgiving, but we can work with that. It means unfortunately we will be spending time together when neither one of us is exactly at our best. However, if the psych classes I have taken tell us anything, that could actually be a good thing. Nothing builds or destroys relationships like adversity, and just ask Serge... I can be adverse to damn near everything when a little short on sleep." She was really rambling now. Erik could likely follow her because her mother did the speed talking thing when she got worked up, but she wasn't too sure about the other men in the room.

She kept scribbling on the paper in front of her. She was really excited about solving this particular problem in front of them. "Ok, see this is reasonable. We have a goal, we have obstacles, but we have a plan in place. We can do this. Right?"

Lucia looked over at Erik, who looked just as relieved as she felt that there was an answer to this. "Sorry. I've just kind of taken over here. I'm just not good with the touchy feely emotional crap. I tried... I did. I hugged and everything, but it's just not me, especially not in public." She gestured to the bodyguards.

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@SinfulSkills I had to LOL she admits that she finds Serge gorgeous, and he gets hung up mentally on the "pet rock" comment hehehehehehe He's so fun!