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endsthegame) wrote in
fandomtownies2014-07-27 08:15 am
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The Beach, Sunday Morning
It wasn't, in the strictest sense of the word, really Ben's 24th birthday; relativistic space travel had a habit of making your age largely meaningless, a number rough to keep track of. After all, in an absolute sense, Ben was turning somewhere between a hundred and two hundred years old today, if not more, and that was assuming that it was still July 27th on their calendar, never mind any other number of factors that came into play when you crossed universes and space-time in all the ways they had.
So Ender felt that there was no real problem with having a party that wasn't, in the strictest sense of the word, a party. He'd gotten an ice cream cake the previous day and hidden it in Ben's moving mini-freezer-- the same freezer that he'd deposited on the beach just an hour ago by itself, trusting it to defend itself. (Ben had made it. Of course it would.)
He'd left some of Ben's friends some cordial messages mentioning the date last nighthandwavily but included no real imperative to be here, just a mention of the place and time. If that meant they'd have a quiet celebration with just the two of them and an ice cream cake, so be it. He wouldn't complain.
Now? Now he was back on the beach with a picnic blanket, waiting for Ben to come on by on his daily run.
[[ open. also to anyone who wants to use the beach, or wants to wish ben a happy birthday ]]
So Ender felt that there was no real problem with having a party that wasn't, in the strictest sense of the word, a party. He'd gotten an ice cream cake the previous day and hidden it in Ben's moving mini-freezer-- the same freezer that he'd deposited on the beach just an hour ago by itself, trusting it to defend itself. (Ben had made it. Of course it would.)
He'd left some of Ben's friends some cordial messages mentioning the date last night
Now? Now he was back on the beach with a picnic blanket, waiting for Ben to come on by on his daily run.
[[ open. also to anyone who wants to use the beach, or wants to wish ben a happy birthday ]]

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"Kreetle?" he said, coming to a stop.
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He reached for the freezer door.
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... and produced something staggeringly huge.
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He reached over and plucked a cherry off the giant cake.
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He spooned a little of the cake onto his own plate. "You and Val are the only people I'd do this for just to make you smile," he said. "Though that's planning, too, isn't it?"
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