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 grinned at her. "I'm sorry," he said more sincerely to Ender. "Now fork over the pastries before Val withers away."

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"Oh, if you put it like that," Ender said dryly, but ponied up the bag and its delicious contents. "You two can fight it out."

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"You ate yours on the way back?" Ben asked, handing the bag to Val.

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"No, but I liberated mine from the bag in time," Ender said, holding up a baguette. "Save some scraps for me if you can."

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Val fished around the bag until she found a promising-looking pastry, and dug in. Strange portals made one hungry.

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Ben smiled at her. "You got my appetite."

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"Of all the things to inherit..." Ender said.

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"She got your hair," Ben noted.

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"Small favors," Ender said, smiling briefly.

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Ben smiled back, then reached out to ruffle Ender's hair. "Hers looks better, though."

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"Remember which one of us you're going to be sharing a bed with," Ender said, poking him in the side.

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Ben laughed. "Hopefully me," he said, "or we're a lot weirder than I'd ever imagined."

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"That was what I was trying to imply, yes," Ender said, poking him again.

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Ben rested his head briefly against Ender's shoulder and sent Val a sheepish smile.

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Val rolled her eyes. "If you make him sleep on the floor over my hair, we'll never hear the end of it," she said.

Then wrapped her arm around Ben's waist and dropped her head against his shoulder. So she had to keep reassuring herself that this time these incarnations of her parents actually wanted her around; there wasn't a crime in that as long as she didn't admit to it.

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Ben sent a wave of reassurance through to Force at her and wrapped one arm around her and one arm around Ender and tried not to dwell too long on the possibilities of this eventually being real.

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"Maybe not," Ender said, "But he might learn his lesson."

But he relaxed into Ben.

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Ben gave him a little squeeze.

"You just want all of the pillows."

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"And now you've uncovered my dastardly plot," Ender said with a little smile.

He still felt somewhat alien in this-- but for the first time, he also caught himself craving the... family of it. It felt mostly like he was grasping at bits of it he couldn't quite get.

Ben seemed to have figured out what the key was, though. Ender wondered what it meant that he was almost inclined to let him take the lead on it.

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Ben caught Ender's eyes and smiled softly in reply, trying to encourage him without words.

It was fleeting and not-exactly-real, but Ben was feeling the sense of calm he'd always wanted to associate with family, and he wanted Ender to feel like he belonged somewhere too.

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Ender let out a laugh that was more a breath than anything else. Laughing at himself, perhaps.

He reached out along Ben's back and touched Val's arm, and got a small smile from her, too. These poor two folks - stuck with him for years upon years.

"We should put on a movie when we're done eating," he said. He could only take so much of it until the weird blend of alienation and longing shoved his heart up his throat.

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"I won't suggest the car ones," Ben said, "though I'm sure they're considered classic cinema in Val's time."

Feeling slight self-conscious about doing it with Val curled into him, Ben kissed Ender on the cheek instead of on the mouth like he would've preferred and sent a pulse of his emotions--love, understanding, the slightest hint of being overwhelmed as well--through the Force toward him.

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Val gave that a theatrical shiver. "I have heard of these car movies," she said. "And I fled in terror."

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"I can grab something by Shakespeare," Ender noted. "Though I do have a few other films lying around, too."

Generally literature-based and philosophical ones.

His eyes flickered shut briefly and he gave Ben a squeeze at the by-now familiar burst of not-his-emotions. There was that, at least.

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Ben squeezed back and then smiled at Val. "Please tell me the Shakespeare obsession abates a bit."