Room 614, the Arms Hotel, Sunday morning

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It was positively decadent, sleeping on a soft mattress without worrying about mosquitoes, bickering teenagers, annoying co-workers, or potential planetary eradication...

So Ben was sleeping in today. Mmmm. Sleep.

[OOC: For Ender!]

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Ben started stroking his fingers through Ender's hair. "Even Naboo?"

[endsthegame]

"Naboo's nice," Ender murmured. "Peaceful. But it's a vacation."

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"So when you close your eyes and picture 20 years down the road, you see Lusitania?" Ben asked. "Piggies and Formics and amaranth with every meal?"

[endsthegame]

"I don't picture anything in particular when I close my eyes and think of twenty years down the road, besides you," Ender said. There was no particular sentimentality in his voice; that was just the way it was. "But there's something that speaks to me about Lusitania, I can't deny that."

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Ben kissed him between the eyes. "I just want you to be happy," he whispered.

[endsthegame]

Ender tilted his head up and kissed Ben firmly, thoroughly, until he needed the air.

"I love you," he said quietly. "Every single day since I was fifteen..."

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Ben smiled softly at him. "I love you too, Andrew."

[endsthegame]

"We'll figure something out," Ender said softly, "But right now I have you right here."

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Ben kissed him again. "I'm always here," he said, and in a show of great restraint, didn't add anything snarky about Novinha.

[endsthegame]

"True," Ender said, touching his cheek. "But it's been a long time since I had you without distractions."

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Ben chuckled softly. "Yeah. I've missed it too."

[endsthegame]

"Remember the early days we had in this hotel room?" Ender asked, with a chuckle.

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"Fondly," Ben said, grinning, "and with a twinge in my back that didn't used to be there."

[endsthegame]

Ender laughed softly. "Old man."

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"In my defense, that back's also gotten beaten up with a lightsaber a few times."

[endsthegame]

"Excuses," Ender said, pecking him gently on the mouth. "We made the most of it, though."

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"We really did," Ben agreed. "Made up for the dry spells in advance."

[endsthegame]

"Dry spells you were convinced we weren't going to have," Ender said fondly.

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"Well, I was young and optimistic," Ben teased back.

[endsthegame]

"Though I might have been a little pessimistic in my assumptions about how long they would last," Ender mused. "We even out."

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"We do," Ben said, kissing him again.

[endsthegame]

Ender smiled and kissed him back firmly, running his fingers through the scruff on Ben's jaw.

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Ben sighed happily against Ender's mouth. "Miss doing this where no one can hear."

[endsthegame]

"Well, then let's make out like teenagers," Ender teased, "Until we're rested."

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"I love how you think," Ben murmured, sucking on Ender's lower lip.