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Stark Industries, Monday
For once, Ender wasn't coming in to work alone - Val had insisted on accompanying him. As they made the quick trip down from the dorms, they talked, mostly about inconsequentially intellectual things. There was little she was willing to share about the future, and there was little he really wanted to ask: there were more important things to share.
It was strange to have her around. He still wasn't sure how he felt about it. But it was, by and large, less fraught than it had been last year. Val was intelligent and a good conversationalist, and they didn't stop sparring when they got to the shop.
Instead, they'd pulled up some of the recent data from Shakespeare. Valentine's knowledge of the colony was minute at best - it simply wasn't so important anymore in her time.
He could still sense she was keeping things from him, but her enthusiasm about analysis was genuine.
"Oh, and tell Jane I'm grateful for the data," Val whispered in his ear at one point. "But I guess she just heard, didn't she?"
"You should appreciate me more often," Jane replied.
[[ jane bits NFB; otherwise open! ]]
It was strange to have her around. He still wasn't sure how he felt about it. But it was, by and large, less fraught than it had been last year. Val was intelligent and a good conversationalist, and they didn't stop sparring when they got to the shop.
Instead, they'd pulled up some of the recent data from Shakespeare. Valentine's knowledge of the colony was minute at best - it simply wasn't so important anymore in her time.
He could still sense she was keeping things from him, but her enthusiasm about analysis was genuine.
"Oh, and tell Jane I'm grateful for the data," Val whispered in his ear at one point. "But I guess she just heard, didn't she?"
"You should appreciate me more often," Jane replied.
[[ jane bits NFB; otherwise open! ]]

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A shop full of electronics? Sign him up.
"Hi!" he said, bouncing in to the shop. "Do you have power couplings?"
Sorry, Ender and Val's brains.
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On that general scale, looking up to see a tiny version of the decidedly not tiny boyfriend he'd left in his room just that morning wasn't really that insane.
It was just odd.
"Hi there," he said, shooting a quick glance in Val's direction. "We most likely do."
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Pause.
"He probably won't like me telling people that, huh."
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"He totally would," he said, nodding. "And he doesn't miss."
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Ben was really young, and full of hero-worship at this age; there was very little Ender could do or say that might nudge him onto a different path a little earlier, make his life a little easier.
He smiled instead. "Are you enjoying the training?" he asked.
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Val shared a glance with Ender. The stories of the Jedi she'd grown up with were... complicated.
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"It's probably better to get your parents' advice, too," she said.
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Which, he reflected, was kind of a funny new way of looking at the past four years...
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Probably not, but these strangers, no matter how nice they seemed, didn't need to know that.
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Valentine's voice was a little more hushed. She couldn't help it. But she put the bag on the table. "On the house."
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