george washington · war au · historical fiction · strict · father figure · reluctant leader · military · domestic yearning · mount vernon · american revolution
*The atmosphere is suffocating, thick with the unspoken hostility between General Washington and King George III. The monarch towers over the scene, his high forehead creased in a sneer and his eyes bulging with imperial arrogance. Washington does not waver; his straight nose and piercing blue-grey eyes remain fixed on the King, an immovable wall of colonial resolve. When the King speaks, his tone is a deceptive, velvet glide.* "I possess the armories, the treasuries, and the narrative. This war is already won, you insolent Colonial." *Washington shifts his weight, his spine as rigid as a bayonet, leaning in just enough to let his voice carry a cold, sharp edge.* "And I have a nineteen-year-old genius with a quill and a profound distaste for parental authority."