Aboard the Jade Shadow [Tuesday, Fandom time]

[momslilassassin]

Ben was grabbing a quick snack as he waited in the galley for his father to finish docking the ship on the first human-majority planet they'd seen in months and taking the chance to catch up on more reading about the Aing-Tii Monks. As soon as they restocked their supplies and checked for physical mail (Ben hoped that Tony's package would catch up with them here), they'd be heading into Aing-Tii space, which was a challenging enough flight that Luke Kriffing Skywalker looked slightly apprehensive about it.

Ben stopped being nervous by remembering that if Jacen had been able to do it, Luke would be able to do it better.

...it had never been said that Ben could not be very petty if the occasion called for it.

[OOC: Open for calls, texts, visits from the boy who's in space with him, care packages from home full of YA gay literature...]

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[glacial_queen]

"Are you dead?" she demanded crossly.

[momslilassassin]

"It'd be a neat trick if I was and could still answer the comm," Ben decided.

[glacial_queen]

"I was attempting to give you the benefit of the doubt," Karla informed him. "Did you just finish fixing your comm, maybe?"

[momslilassassin]

There was a brief pause. "If I say yes, will you stop trying to figure out how to send me a punch to the head through the mail?"

[glacial_queen]

"Dammit, did Tony tell you about that?"

Because she was really close to figuring out how to use a web to do that.

"And, no, because I won't believe you anyway."

[momslilassassin]

"Then I'm sorry I didn't call," Ben replied, "and no, Tony didn't tell me about that. I'm a good guesser."

[glacial_queen]

And Karla was fairly predictable.

"Apology accepted," she said. "Though I'm keeping the portable punch to the head on the table just in case."

She was working on it for peaceful purposes! Really!

"...Which reminds me, have you gotten his care package yet?"

Someone was dying to needle him about the ex-cookbook, but didn't want to ruin the surprise.

[momslilassassin]

"Yes," Ben moaned. "I think I will kill him."

[glacial_queen]

"It's not his fault you kept it after all this time," Karla said, grinning widely.

You know, this almost made up for the not-calling day.

[momslilassassin]

"He wasn't supposed to find it," Ben said, sounding mortified.

[glacial_queen]

"So you're not even going to pretend like you didn't know you had it?" Karla asked. "Interesting."

[momslilassassin]

"It's been shipped to a different galaxy," Ben said. "It's hard to pretend I've never seen it."

[glacial_queen]

"Yeah, but you could have tried to say that you had no idea that it was still there and played innocent," Karla said. "...Why did you keep it?"

[momslilassassin]

"I was trying to protect the dorm from your cooking if it turned back into a cookbook."

Liar, liar, pants on fire.

[glacial_queen]

"Oh no," Karla cackled, snug in her denial. "No deflecting this back onto me. You deliberately kept it. Under your bed. That's hilarious."

Did it have anything to do with Slate being dark-haired and quiet? KARLA THOUGHT IT DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIID.

[momslilassassin]

KARLA COULD JUST SHUT HER FACE ABOUT THAT OKAY.

"Shhhhhh," Ben mumbled. "I didn't think Tony would send it."

[glacial_queen]

"He thought you might be missing out on entertainment," Karla said, trying her hardest to keep a straight face. "I'm pretty sure he's sending you magazines, too. Filled with lots of informational articles."

Snerk. Snerk. Sneeeeeeerk.

[momslilassassin]

"And tissues," Ben added, blushing hard. "On a ship with my father who can sense my moods."

[glacial_queen]

"I'm sure your father remembers what it was like to be sixteen," Karla said with what was very helpful logic, surely. "Please. He's still a male. He'll probably just want to borrow some."

ENJOY THAT MENTAL IMAGE, YOU NO-CALLING MEANIE-FACE.

[momslilassassin]

Ben sputtered. "KARLA. EW."

[glacial_queen]

"He's just old, not dead," Karla reminded. "On the other hand, he's old enough to buy his own, so..."

She was helping. Somehow. Really.

"What else did you get?" she asked, changing the subject slightly because she was nice. "Tony wouldn't wait for me to bake a batch of cookies to send along."

[momslilassassin]

"Clothes, mostly. I didn't realize how many sweaters Ender owns." He'd mostly just focused on the navy blue one. "Movies, junk food, Mountain Dew...the essentials for survival."

[glacial_queen]

"Mountain Dew is repugnant," Karla informed him with no bias whatsoever. "And he remembered to pack the navy one, right?"

Or else Ben might lose his mind.

[momslilassassin]

"He did," Ben said, not sounding overly excited about that at all.

...shut up.

"And once you get past the scary color, Mountain Dew isn't so bad."

[glacial_queen]

Karla rolled her eyes at Ben's totally-not-enthusiasm-really, but didn't comment, mostly because Ender would be grumpy at her if she did.

"You forget the taste," she retorted. "That's the part I can't get past."