Ender's Swingin' Bachelor Pad, Naboo [Wednesday, Fandom time]

[momslilassassin]

The nice thing about how time worked on Naboo was that even a few days away from Fandom meant that Ender and Ben had gotten almost a week to themselves to unwind.

Now the fridge was restocked, the rooms were prepared and the droid Ben had made was bustling industriously around getting rid of dust bunnies.

Ben and Ender were ready for their Fandom (and other universes!) invasion.

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Day One: Daytime [Lake Country]

[momslilassassin]

Stop by, say hello to your hosts, go swimming, make your own OCD threads...

That last one will be a theme.

Re: Day One: Daytime [Lake Country]

[glacial_queen]

"Kiss kiss!" Karla's holler was loud and enthusiastic. "Guys! Guys! We're here!"

In case they'd missed the memo or something.

"Come out and say hello or I'm going to help myself to whatever I can find in the kitchen!"

She mostly meant it as a threat to eat all of the ice cream. Everyone else likely took it another way entirely.

Re: Day One: Daytime [Lake Country]

[momslilassassin]

"Hi!" Ben said, racing out and giving her a giant hug. "Please don't cook for us!"

Re: Day One: Daytime [Lake Country]

[glacial_queen]

Karla laughed, squeezing him back tightly. "Who said anything about cooking?" she asked. "I was just going to help myself to whatever looks delicious!"

Though, now that he mentioned it...

Re: Day One: Daytime [Lake Country]

[momslilassassin]

"We got tons," Ben said. "It should hold you over for a day or two." He grinned. "They have candy here called nommi."

Re: Day One: Daytime [Lake Country]

[glacial_queen]

"Nommi?" she repeated, laughing. "You know we'll have to try some, don't you? And figure out some way to get it shipped to Kaeleer if that particular future ever comes true."

Re: Day One: Daytime [Lake Country]

[momslilassassin]

"Second shelf from the refrigerator unit," Ben told her, eyes twinkling. "The gummy things."

Re: Day One: Daytime [Lake Country]

[endsthegame]

"I'd advise you against that," Ender said, as he wandered out of the house with his hands stuck in his pockets. "Ben's a little trigger-happy."

Re: Day One: Daytime [Lake Country]

[glacial_queen]

"Ben wouldn't shoot me for stealing his ice cream!" Karla protested. "It's--wait, how rare is ice cream here?"

It didn't pay to be too hasty with the assumptions, after all.

"Kiss kiss, Ender. I see I'm going to have to spend a significant time out of doors to try to catch up to your tan." By which she meant 'to compete with Ben over who could get the most burned.'

Re: Day One: Daytime [Lake Country]

[endsthegame]

"Fairly rare," Ender said. His smile shot up a few notches. "And if you change your mind about that, we keep the sunblock in the kitchen. And in the living room. And near the back door..."

Re: Day One: Daytime [Lake Country]

[glacial_queen]

"I'll just have to be sneaky about stealing it, then!" Because in a house with the four of them, Ben would be completely flummoxed when it came to figuring out who'd made heavy inroads into the ice cream supplies.

"And in the guest rooms and each bathroom, I saw," Karla added, laughing. "How bright did Ben get before you started leaving it everywhere?"

Re: Day One: Daytime [Lake Country]

[wwiii]

It was days like this that Warren was thankful for Karla's ability to just vanish things. Because the amount of unnecessary crap that they'd packed... well, he didn't want to be the one carrying it.

And yes, that was one of the thoughts still going through his head as he surveyed their surroundings.

"I'm on a different planet," he said, not for the first time since he and Karla had arrived. "Right this very moment, we're on a different planet. Like, in a different galaxy."

Kaeleer was a different world, too, but this was different, okay?

Re: Day One: Daytime [Lake Country]

[momslilassassin]

Ben beamed at him. "You are," he confirmed. "And later we'll go experience cultural dancing!"

Twi'lek dancing girls.

Re: Day One: Daytime [Lake Country]

[wwiii]

"Culture!" Warren laughed, grinning right back at Ben. "I'm a big fan of culture!"

Look, his experience with culture back at the Hall had involved him putting on pretty princess make-up. He was itching to see what sort of multicultural experiences Naboo could offer. Preferably of the sort that would be as far removed from mastering how to apply kohl as possible.

Re: Day One: Daytime [Lake Country]

[momslilassassin]

"And drinks that are blue!"

Don't let him drink the blue ones, Warren.

Re: Day One: Daytime [Lake Country]

[wwiii]

Warren would let Ben drink them only on the condition that he could have a few for himself. Did they card in space? Did Warren care?

"And what's in the blue ones?"

... Space things, Warren. Space things.

Re: Day One: Daytime [Lake Country]

[glacial_queen]

SHUT UP SHE NEEDED ALL OF THOSE THINGS.

"Yup!" Karla said, beaming. "And Naboo is amazing. There are so many places to eat!"

Naboo was cool for other reasons, too, but Karla was really hungry, okay?

"You really never, ever been off-planet before? I was a freshman my first time. Ben took Ender and me out to Saturn--or was it Jupiter?--for lunch one day."

Re: Day One: Daytime [Lake Country]

[wwiii]

"Never," Warren confirmed. "Casual space travel isn't really a thing yet back home, and pretty much all of my travelling after starting school at Fandom was between different versions of Earth, and Kaeleer."

Rapture had been underwater, but Earth. That was about as far from the usual that he'd ever wandered.

"... You had lunch on Saturn?"

Warren was going to assume it was Saturn. The gravity on Jupiter would have been something worth making mention of, if that's where they'd gone. Maybe. Space travel wasn't exactly Warren's strongest subject, either.

Re: Day One: Daytime [Lake Country]

[glacial_queen]

"Next to," Karla corrected. "We had lunch in his spaceship and then I got to play in Zero-G. I banged my head."

And stories like these were why her friends were the awesomest.

"Bug him sometime. It's not like Ben'll turn down a chance to--Oh. Right. He'll be leaving in the fall, too."

Re: Day One: Daytime [Lake Country]

[wwiii]

That was met with a little wrinkle of Warren's nose. Right. The whole... people graduating and going their separate ways... thing.

"Well... you'll be headed back to the island in the fall, right? There's easy access to pretty much anywhere from the island, so long as you're persuasive enough with Portalocity. And with us having been in Kaeleer for the last few months, it's really not going to be all that different, right?"

Well, he'd be in Sunnydale with Tara, and that was going to be different, but it was Karla's melancholy that he was trying to battle here, and he'd worry about his own later.

Re: Day One: Daytime [Lake Country]

[endsthegame]

"And you're welcome here," Ender tossed in. He had a wry little smile on his face. "Make yourself at home."

Re: Day One: Daytime [Lake Country]

[wwiii]

"Hey, thanks," Warren replied, offering Ender a smile that barely managed to contain his excitement. "To both of you, for inviting us. I think Karla and I were about to go stir-crazy back at the Hall."

Where it had been lessons, lessons, lessons, without a pause to breathe in between. Well, except for sleep, of course. Warren could see the need for it, but he'd be lying if he said that he didn't want a vacation somewhere in there before traipsing off to Sunnydale, too.

Re: Day One: Daytime [Lake Country]

[endsthegame]

"I can only imagine," Ender said, though personally he'd probably have his head stuck in the books the whole time, had he been in Warren's position. "Hopefully the solitude here won't have the same effect. We're kind of alone out here."

Re: Day One: Daytime [Lake Country]

[wwiii]

"Alone, I'm used to," Warren noted, a wry little twist taking over his smile for an instant, and then it was gone. "A bit of quiet after spending so much time around the boyos is pretty welcome, too."

Re: Day One: Daytime [Lake Country]

[endsthegame]

Ender's mun had fallen asleep on this last night, whoops had been milling around the study, poking at his laptop and working on some emails as they came in.

He was up now, though, and heading towards the front.