Fixer-Uppers [all day]

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Ben had completely rebuilt his datapad and it had been working perfectly right up until the moment he fired it up at Fixer-Uppers.

You'd find Ben cursing under his breath and trying to delete his way out of several hundred pop up ads offering assistance for various sexual ailments he didn't have.

"At least they could learn to spell," he grumbled under his breath.

Fixer-Uppers was open, and wondering if maybe Ben should have taken Holmes and Watson's course after all...

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[endsthegame]

"Only in a certain light, Jedi Skywalker," Ender returned. "I'm trying to make a few more rounds."

...To make sure something like Agio didn't sneak up on him again. That wasn't completely what people meant when they tried to encourage you to be social, Ender.

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"Good," Ben said, smiling. "You're at least as interesting as half of the students I've met."

[endsthegame]

"Half of them?" Ender asked. "I must be losing my touch; I used to be far less interesting than that."

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Ben flashed him a smile. "I might be a little biased."

[endsthegame]

"Well, that should give me about a 25% margin," Ender snarked, "But I'm still not sure where the other twenty percent came from. Remind me to do something really dull soon."

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"Sit in the common room and watch paint dry," Ben recommended.

[endsthegame]

"I'll pencil it in for Monday," Ender promised. "Let me see your datapad?"

He'd managed to get it to clear up last week...

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Ben handed it over. "I'm going to start worrying if my datapad likes you better than it likes me."

[endsthegame]

"Must be more interesting than you," Ender said, taking the pad and jabbing at it.

One by one, the pop-ups vanished.

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Ben stuck his tongue out. "This is getting annoying," he decided.

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"I hear pop-up ads have a history of leading to bloodshed," Ender said, passing the datapad back over.

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"One more enhancement ad and it'd be really temping to lose it," Ben grumbled.

[endsthegame]

"Feeling insecure?" Ender teased, though he was still frowning at the datapad.

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"No!" Ben protested.

There was a pause. "Not much," he amended.

[endsthegame]

"And now I'm wondering if I really hit a nerve," Ender said, eyebrows heading up towards his hairline.

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"It's just irritating," Ben said. "Normally I at least have some idea why a machine's not working."

[endsthegame]

"Maybe Rikku's tech just isn't interfacing correctly with the store," Ender suggested. "Though that still doesn't explain why I can shut it off and you can't."

He... was starting to feel like maybe he should talk to Jane.

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Ben nodded. "It's weird. I'm just glad it's not following me home."

[endsthegame]

"At least that means we know it's not getting into anything any of the customers drop off here," he mused. "That would've been a real problem."

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Ben nodded again. "An annoyance I can deal with, but I'd feel bad if it was something I was passing along to other people. I'm a better mechanic than that."

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"Thankfully so, or I'd get really nervous about you tooling around with that droid," Ender replied, finally glancing away from the datapad. "Though really, if this is the worst thing we have to deal with this week, it'll have been a quiet one."

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"It's been pretty uneventful," Ben agreed. "I needed the break. I feel like January has just sped by, though I couldn't tell you what I've been spending all of my time on."

[endsthegame]

"Dealing with Karla, Raven's death, viruses and new students," Ender ticked off. "Is this the island's way of saying you and I are due for a vacation?"

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"And the power going out," Ben added, making a face. "Where'd you want to go?"

[endsthegame]

"Somewhere with no drama," Ender said, "And copious time to read. I think that could be my 'dull thing'..."