Room 204, Sunday Evening

[glacial_queen]

After her visit to Tony's room, Karla had made good on her conversation with Ender from this morning. After her conversations with Ender and Warren about Topher, she couldn't just not apologize.

Knowing it was the right thing to do hadn't made it easy, though.

So she was now in front of the Room of Emo Repression (Now With Bonus Sex!), kicking the door. Her arms were full of several different varieties of ice cream, while a ridiculous number of toppings floated around her. There were even bananas and jars of 'real strawberry topping' so they could have fruit and call it healthy! And perched precariously on top of the ice cream containers was a DVD of meta for- The Last Unicorn.

What? It was a romantic, cartoon musical about unicorns! Exactly what she'd wanted! A happy, breezy, light-hearted movie to take her mind off of everything else.

"Kiss kiss!" she called, kicking the door again. "Let me in before I freeze or it melts!"

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[momslilassassin]

Ben put the sponge back into the bucket and gave the walls an appraising look. "There," he said to Ender. "Think we're okay?"

[endsthegame]

"I think if we're not okay now," Ender said, glancing towards the door, "It won't matter much in another... oh, three seconds."

[momslilassassin]

"Good point," Ben said, leaning in for a quick kiss before calling out, "Door's open!"

[glacial_queen]

"If I could open it, I wouldn't be kicking!" Karla called from the hallway.

...And then just walked through. Because she could.

"Are you're walls wet?" she asked, puzzled.

[endsthegame]

"You've got ice cream," Ender returned. "Put it on the desk before it melts, please?"

[momslilassassin]

"Or next to me," Ben said, also avoiding the question.

[glacial_queen]

"I'll put it on the desk where we can all reach it, thank you very much," Karla said, rolling her eyes at Ben. "I wasn't sure what everyone wanted, so I got a little bit of everything."

Or a lot a bit of everything. Look, Karla really needed ice cream right now, okay?

[endsthegame]

"I think that works out pretty well," Ender said. "Presuming Ben takes the time to taste it on its way down."

He nodded at the DVD container. "What did you get?"

Look, still not answering anything about those walls.

[momslilassassin]

"I take time to enjoy ice cream!" Ben said, reaching out to poke Ender in the shoulder. "Most of the time!"

When he wasn't being zapped from existence by Auditors, for instance.

[glacial_queen]

"Inhaling counts as enjoying," Karla informed Ender primly. Then she held up the DVD at him. "Look! Unicorns! I found one."

[endsthegame]

Ender shot Ben a semi-apologetic look. "I told her she could pick the movie."

[momslilassassin]

"With unicorns," Ben repeated, arching up his eyebrows. "I didn't know you were so interested in them."

[glacial_queen]

Did Ender really want to sit through the third car movie? Again?

"Who doesn't like unicorns?" Karla asked. "Everyone likes unicorns." And since Ben possibly didn't know yet, she added, "I just apologized to Topher. And Tony, kinda. I get ice cream and happy movies about unicorns. Romantic, cartoon, musical movies. With no lepers."

Because that last bit was important.

[endsthegame]

"So that's why I okayed the unicorns," Ender replied. "I only hope I won't come to regret this-- pass me the vanilla?"

Oh, Ender.

[momslilassassin]

"So the apology went okay?" he asked, waving the ice cream over to Ender with a nudge from the Force.

[glacial_queen]

Oh, Ender. So many jokes right there. So many.

Karla shrugged at Ben, busying herself with making the most epic sundae known to man. "Ask me again later, once I'm done sorting through everything," she said. "Right now, I'm not entirely sure. But at least it's done."

And considering how confused she was about how it had all gone from her end, she had no clue about how Tony and Topher felt about all of it. Ben should check in with the boys himself. And then maybe come tell her, too.

[endsthegame]

Ender took the ice cream and opened the jar, fishing for a spoon.

He was going to eat so very little of it.

"There is that," he agreed, "And so we owe you a movie night."

[momslilassassin]

"I'll save the car movie marathon for just Ender," Ben said, giving him a mischievous grin. "I know how much he loves them."

[glacial_queen]

"Blond Guy does have impressive abs," Karla agreed with a nod, trying not to snicker. Aloud, anyway.

"Besides, I was promised a happy movie about unicorns." And definitely had gotten a movie about unicorns. So that was...something, anyway. "We're going to watch it and maybe even sing along."

SO THERE, YOU GUYS. SO THERE.

[endsthegame]

"I'm not watching a single car movie again," Ender vowed. "I mean it, you hooligans."

Blond Guy's abs could only distract a man for so long.

"But feel free to put the DVD in the player."

[momslilassassin]

"It's a singing movie too?" Ben asked, making himself comfortable on Ender's bed.

[glacial_queen]

"A romantic musical cartoon about unicorns!" Karla chirped, determinedly cheerful, dammit. "I was very specific. This has a singing butterfly and a skeleton that drinks a lot and a tree that falls in love with a magician!"

Karla had been terribly, terribly misled by the saleperson who'd suggested this movie to her.

She put the DVD into the player and then took over Ben's bed, sprawling out comfortably. She'd brought the pillow Ender had given her for a gift last year and used it to prop up her arm while she ate her ice cream.

The movie's opening seemed to justify her purchase though; beautiful animation, a flute, a choir, even hunters that weren't going to catch any prey. Karla settled in, ready to watch a happy movie. "Oooh, I like this song!"

[endsthegame]

Ender leaned back, too, and if in the process his arm and leg brushed Ben's, he didn't see where it would be a problem.

He'd never heard of this movie before, so he was content to watch.

"Might be a little early to join in," he said.

[momslilassassin]

Ben viewed this change in their normal movie-watching as a good thing--much better than when Ender would leap from the bed and move when Ben touched him.

He leaned out to brush his hand through Ender's hair mostly because he could.

"I'm not sure I'm much of a singer on a non-helium planet anyway."

[glacial_queen]

"I could always call in a few bottles of wine," Karla said dryly. "That might help you get over your reticence to sing quite handily."

Or he'd end up doing gymnastics again and then Karla would get kicked out of the room.