Room 204 [morning]

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Prom had been fun and the evening after prom had been even more fun (Ben liked Ender in uniform, so sue him), but being fairly bright Fandom students who had been at the school for four years, both guys had remembered to put some clothing back on before falling asleep just in case.

Ben was curled into Ender now, sleeping in for once (so...past sun-up) and enjoying a weekend where he had nothing planned.

[OOC: You know the drill by now, folks! For the boy, then the visitor.]

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Ben leaned in to kiss her forehead. "Sorry, Val's brain."

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"You'd better be," Val muttered petulantly.

Pouting a little, too. Shh.

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Ben laughed and ruffled her hair. "Yeah, you're mine."

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Val scowled at him a moment longer. "Well, good. I wasn't going to run off and get you proof of paternity," she said. "And I'm not DNA testing myself."

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"I'd hope we'd be able to provide something more in the way of entertainment for the weekend than DNA tests," Ben replied. "On weekends like this, no one doubts the truth of what the kids say anyway."

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"You might want to," Val replied. "Someone could really mess with you one of these weekends. Especially if they know that most people on the island are familiar with the idea."

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Ben frowned thoughtfully. "An invasion of assassin kids? If they could get the portal to open here, it could end badly."

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Val nodded. "Just something to think about," she said. "Still, I'd rather go in expecting a horde of potential kids than armed to the teeth and ready to beat up on some pint-sized assassins."

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"We'd probably get a lot of tears from the half of the kids who haven't been trained in combat since they could walk," Ben agreed.

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"And a lot of angry looks from the half of the remaining set who don't really want to have to be trained in combat since they could walk," Val commented.

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"Is that where you'd fall?" Ben asked.

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Val shrugged one shoulder. "You never made me do it," she said.

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"Good," Ben said softly.

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"Like Ender said, there's always the chance, for anyone, that they might have to kill some day," she said, rubbing her thumb over the back of her other hand. "I just don't think I want to make it likely that I will."

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Ben sent a nudge of reassurance through the Force toward her. "So we spend most of our time in Ender's galaxy, then."

He wasn't optimistic that things would have changed for the better in his.

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Spoilers, she didn't say. Or think, really.

"Yes," Val said simply.

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"Do I miss it?" he asked quietly.

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"Sometimes," Val murmured, choosing honesty over platitudes. "But most of your life has been with us. I don't know if you'd fit back in there permanently any more."

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Ben was quiet for a moment as he digested that. "Home's with people, not places," he finally said.

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"Easy to say until you get terribly attached to a place," Val said wryly. "But I think that's true for us. For the most part."

She had been getting used to Lusitania.

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"We stay somewhere long enough to get attached?" Ben asked.

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She wasn't touching the real and most recent answer to that with a ten foot pole. "Well, the story goes that at one point, Ender had you and Aunt Valentine hopping onto the nearest available passenger flight whenever he got bored," she said. "Until passenger craft became more common, and then you made him buy a 'hunk of junk' you worked on for a long time and I am intimately familiar with. So..."

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Ben grinned. "Please tell me it flies better than the Falcon."

And wasn't as heavily armed...

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Val wiggled her hand, then rolled her eyes. "Completely different systems of physics, dad."

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Ben sighed. "Still no jumping to light speed, huh? That's depressing."