Room 204 [afternoon]

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Ben didn't have classes on Wednesdays, so he normally went out on a nice long run before climbing the Rocky Bits (yes, for fun, and yes, without safety equipment), so it wasn't entirely unheard of for him to come home with a few scratches on his arms or legs.

Today, though, he was limping heavily and cursing under his breath about big sharp teeth and stupid kriffing bunnies.

He was a Skywalker. Of course something had tried to eat him.

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Ben smiled back. "You're not the only one," he murmured.

[endsthegame]

Ender leaned down and kissed him gently. "You bring me so much joy," he said. "Every day. Sometimes... I don't know what to do with it. Sometimes it puts me outside of myself like this - I just look at you and wonder how it is this fits into my life."

Apparently he felt like talking. For once.

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Ben tightened his arms around Ender to give him a fierce hug, finding himself at a loss for words.

"It's real, kreetle," he whispered softly.

[endsthegame]

"You don't owe me anniversaries," Ender murmured, wrapping his arms around Ben, too. "You do more than good on the ordinary days as it is."

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Ben buried his face against Ender's neck and breathed him in for a moment. "I'm going to love you as hard as I can for as long as you'll let me," he replied.

[endsthegame]

Ender snorted softly, but didn't move. "You're stubborn as hell," he murmured. "And I remember the reunion. There's no letting about it."

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Ben's hand drifted down to swat Ender's rear. "We've dodged that particular scenario, thank the Force. And not just because of my beard."

[endsthegame]

Ender laughed a little bit, reaching down to grip Ben's wrist to keep him from doing that again. "I had a hard time not thinking about that night for a long time," he admitted.

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"Oh yeah?" Ben replied, happy to let Ender take his wrist. He kissed Ender's neck softly. "Guilty pleasure or just guilty?"

[endsthegame]

Ender sighed. "The former," he admitted. "Just because I wasn't putting in requisition orders for tissues that summer..."

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Ben kissed a different spot on his neck. "I'm sure Tony would've sent you some..."

He took a moment to enjoy what he was doing before adding, "I thought about it too."

[endsthegame]

"I thought so," Ender said softly, tilting his head to encourage Ben in what he was doing. "But I avoided bringing it up."

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"Why?" Ben asked, nipping gently at Ender's jawline.

[endsthegame]

"I was trying to prevent us going anywhere," Ender said, making a soft little noise in enjoyment. "Admitting I was still thinking about you and I naked seemed counter-productive."

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Ben sucked a little noisily at the spot just under Ender's earlobe. "Wonder how the Maw would've changed if I'd just admitted to myself why it bothered me when Rolund was flirting with you," he murmured.

[endsthegame]

"I don't know," Ender replied. His voice broke halfway in and he reached up to tangle his fingers in Ben's hair. "Though I'm not sure it would have gone well if you'd tried to do something about it."

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Ben arched up against him in reply. "Because I was a little crazy at the time?"

[endsthegame]

"And because I would have turned you down." He kissed Ben to take any remaining sting out of that answer.

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"Mmmm," Ben replied. "That would have been a mistake. I'm astral." He sent a pulse of reassurance through the Force anyway, and held on a little tighter.

He didn't like the idea of not having Ender this way.

[endsthegame]

Ender snorted. Then shook his head, and murmured, "You did try, once."

He pressed a kiss to Ben's throat.

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"In my defense, you'd scared the poodoo out of me," Ben said, tilting his head a bit to encourage Ender with that sort of activity.

[endsthegame]

"Before that," Ender said, then got terribly distracted by all the skin for a moment.

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Ben groaned and scraped his nails along Ender's spine. "Sex pollen stuff doesn't count."

[endsthegame]

"Still not what I meant," Ender murmured, "But you made it pretty hard on me back then, too."

He'd totally left that open for Ben to make a joke. Be grateful, Ben.

He nipped down on Ben's neck.

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Ben laughed (because he was a dork) and slid one hand up Ender's leg. "When do you mean, then?"