This is what Poe meant when he said there was never really any question of he and Ry being together. I thought it was pretty cute :)

Also I've been making serious use of some online Star Wars name generators.

I don't own Star Wars. Consider yourselves disclaimed.

YAVIN-4

15 YEARS OLD

Rymer was splayed out in the grass next to the A-Wing that had become theirs over the years. Her eyes were closed as she felt the warm, humid breeze flow over her skin, listening to the clanking of metal against metal as Poe worked on the ship's engine. It had been sputtering alarmingly on descent for the last week, and he wanted to find the problem and fix it before it killed them both.

Poe had noticed she'd been distracted most of the afternoon. She had been fine on the way to school that morning, riding behind him on the speeder she'd begged off of her mothers at the start of the school year. She'd laughed and chattered in his ear the whole ride, tangling her fingers with his as they strolled into the school, which had grown larger in the past four years and now had separate classrooms for each age group. They sat together through the day's lessons, only separating for the last hour so Rymer could tutor another student in Binary as a favor to their teacher. Poe had napped in the sunshine next to the speeder until she woke him with a gentle kick to his hip, but had deflected his attempts at conversation on the ride back. She'd laid out in the grass almost immediately as he worked on the ship's engine, and they'd spent the past two hours in comfortable silence.

As outgoing as Rymer was, Poe had to remind himself sometimes, it could take her a while to work through her thoughts and feelings. He just had to keep himself available until she was ready. He also liked to keep himself busy, so he delved back into his work, emerging an hour or so later with an ecstatic "Aha! Found you!"

Rymer opened her eyes for the first time, turning her head to look at him. "What's the diagnosis, doc?"

"Wiring on this modulator overheated and melted together. I know exactly where there's another back at the house." Tossing the hunk of metal and plastic towards the pile of tools, he peeled off his shirt and used it to wipe the sweat from his face and neck before sprawling onto his back in the grass next to Rymer, pillowing his head on her stomach with his eyes closed. He sighed contently when she began to run her fingers gently through his curls.

"Keysum Tharcary asked me on a date today." Her voice was quiet, and Poe cracked one eye open to check on her, but her face was calm and her nails still dragged along his scalp, so he let himself remain relaxed and closed his eye again.

"Isn't he the one you've been tutoring in Binary?"

"That's the one. Today was our last tutoring session and he said he wanted to thank me by taking me to a holovid."

"Yeah? How'd he take it when you turned him down?"

Her fingers stilled in his hair. "And just how do you know I did?"

Poe rolled his eyes behind his eyelids before sitting up to look at her, taking in her amused expression and raised eyebrow. He scooted closer until he was looming over her, covering her upper body with his own.

"Are you kidding me, Ry?" he asked, before cradling her jaw in his palm and leaning down to press his lips against hers for the first time. Rymer smiled into the kiss, arms coming to wrap around his shoulders as his lips moved gently against her own. He took his time kissing her slowly, letting his fingers drag down her cheek as he slipped his hand to her neck, holding her there against him. She was still smiling when he broke away, kissing her cheek before nuzzling his nose into the dimple there.

"That's how."

"Oh no," Tali all but moaned as she peeked through the window next to their front door. Kes and Delu looked up from the table where they were playing cards.

"What's wrong, honey?" Delu leaned over the back of her chair to see her wife.

"It's happened."

Delu and Kes exchanged a confused look. "What's happened?"

"It," she repeated.

It sank in for the other two parents simultaneously what she meant, and they dropped their cards in the scramble to reach the window. Delu whooped out a laugh while Kes ran a hand over his face in mock exasperation. Davlon wandered over to see what the fuss was about, and immediately started to make gagging noises before running back to the sitting room to resume his holovid.

Poe and Rymer were back from working on the A-Wing, but instead of coming in to join the rest of the family as they usually would, Poe had pressed her up against the side of the speeder and was kissing her thoroughly. Rymer had both hands in his dark curls as he squeezed her hips, and the adults only stopped watching when his lips began trailing down her throat.

"They are too young for this," Kes insisted, only half-serious as he resumed his seat and began to gather their fallen cards.

"Oh please, that is nothing compared to what I did with my first girlfriend," Delu snickered.

Kes's eyebrows raised. "And just what was that?"

Delu winked. "Wouldn't you like to know? Anyway, they're nearly sixteen, Kes. They're not children anymore. And besides, who else are we going to trust them with but each other?"

"Oh shut up, Delu," Tali snapped. "You're only okay right now because you won the pool."

"Okay with what?"

"What pool?"

Poe and Rymer stood in the threshold, fingers tangled together and faces still slightly flushed. As Tali and Kes stumbled over themselves trying to explain, Delu began to laugh in earnest.

Rymer's head tilted to the side with confusion. "Mama Delu, what are you guys talking about?"

Her mother managed to calm herself enough to walk over to the teenagers and hug them both tightly. "We're talking about me being the most okay with our not-so-little starfighters sucking face in the front yard because I'm the one who won the bet about when you'd finally get together."

The teens froze, looking at each other and then back at their parents. The sheer horror on their faces at having been caught finally won over Tali and Kes, and soon all three parents were laughing so hard they were crying. Poe and Rymer were both bright red by now, and Poe began walking backwards through the open door, pulling her along by the hand.

"Ry, maybe we should just...uh..."

"Yeah...yeah, I think you're right..."

Their parents only laughed harder as they ran for the speeder to make a temporary escape.