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Amanda Chaffer was frowning, her eyebrows pushed together in concern. No humans for that long? And she thought she was lonely. When he finished she didn't say anything for a moment, just thinking how it must have been. "I am so sorry. I wish they;d left you alone, and found someone else. But nobody could do as well as you. Not just in war, but also in peace. You have amazing ideas Ender. That's why everyone wants you so bad." She tried to smile thinking about Aaron getting shot in the butt, but her face wouldn't lift. "You may be mean, but you aren't bad. You know if you told me to stop the car and let you go, I would? Without hesitation, I would do ti for you Ender. And the others, they would do just about anything for you, too. Not because you're a hero, just because you're you." She wasn't trying to flirt with him or anything. She wasn't even making it up to make him happy. Amanda was the type of person who said what she thought about people. If she didn't like you, she told you. In this case, she liked Ender better than just about anybody. Not just in a romantic way, though she liked him that way too, but she really just admired him. His strength, loyalty, and the way he knew when he did soemthing bad and tried to make up for it. How he let her hurt him just so she wouldn't get in trouble. She knew if a stranger asked for help he would do it, if they seemed sincere. She would have said more, but she didn't want to overload him with praise or something. He was also modest- he didn't even realize how good he was. He usually thought he was a monster or something for the bad things he did. But for every bad thing he did twenty good things, he just didn't see.

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Ender Wiggin looked back in the mirror to see her expression. To see if it was real or just saying words to ease the tension. "I know you would. let me go. That's why I am doing this. I trust only you. Maybe Will because I know him, I can even trust Aaron. Only because he's on your side and doe's what you say." he looked away from her face trying not to stare and continued to look out the window to look at the passing cars and passing people. "I thank you for the praise but I don't really think I am that good. Amanda you see what I am useful for but the world doe's not. They thing my fighting and strength will save them all. that make no sense. I can't save the world without other soldiers that believe in themselves and not just me!' he sighed frustrated and lowered his voice. "besides. My plan for a perfect world, would deem me the "war villain. not hero."

Ender realized he was ranting. "Ah I am ranting again." he smiled sheepishly looking back up at her. "besides on a more happy note and not all about me. How did you get so wonderful and great? " he said meaning her position and rank. "I am you were then but. When I saw you, not knowing who you were. You intimidated me. That's why I went for the other two first, I was still thinking how I was going to get past you. " ender thought and laughed at what he thought about, he spoke aloud. "actually you kicked my *butt*. They were easy, very easy. Nice job grabbing my shoulder except I almost blew your brains out in the end. What made you stop?"

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Amanda Chaffer listened to him rant. She didn't argue because she knew he wouldn't listen. When he mentioned her kicking his *butt* she laughed. It felt weird. Sure, she still laughed, but not the way Ender made her laugh. Loudly and without hesitation, like she couldn't control it. Around other people she was quiet these days. She had to look like a leader, which meant always being serious. When he asked what made her stop, she sighed. "I knew fighting you was pointless if you didn't know who I was. Really I just couldn't think straight, seeing you again. It was like out of nowhere I froze. When i first saw you I could not move, Will saw me. I'm surprised I could fight you at all. You should see me on a good day." She shrugged. "And then I just figured if I was gonna die at least you would be the last thing I saw." They were two-thirds of the way there, and she kind of wanted to slow down so they had more time. "So, you asked how I got so awesome? Well once I finished at Battle School, I was offered a position to work undercover with a team. Spy on enemies, find missing people, stuff like that. Capture you." She smiled. "My team I told you, Will, Brooke, Andrea, Aaron, Scarlett, and Ian. They're all really good at different things. Scarlett is a bada**, Aaron is well- Aaron. Will is really good with strategy, Ian is super techy, Brooke is the best sniper in history. Andrea is merciless. She does the dirty work, the mean stuff. And then you have me, the amazing Head Agent." She rolled her eyes. "I lead, but really we all do important stuff. It's like they are the puzzle pieces and I just put them together, you know?" The roads changed, turning into tall buildings. It was a huge military base, and they were going to the Main station, in the very center. She flashed her badge at a scanner and it let her into the base with a loud beep.

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Ender Wiggin looked out the window his eyes narrowing. He's never been to base. Just up in an aircraft. It was scary here, there's no way he could escape and there's not turning back. "I guess your fighting was just instinct." enders done that. so shocked his hands just mentally moved themselves fighting. Not very good No back flips or cool moves. But blocks and punches. Only super trains soldiers do that. Soldiers that work so hard their combats in their sleep. No rest; if you made it to an army, not a luanchie, in battle school you get that way. Ender watched her car slow down as she announced her name into a camper *hope that's okay* got accepted and the gates opened. She went through three others gates, probably for safety, then started to head towards a large building.

Within a few minuets she was stopped and getting out of the car, she got ender out and other men got in the vehicle and drove to park it where it should go. Some stared at him but mostly everyone was working too hard to notice ender. "You captured Ender Wiggin, your granted a pay raise and have been promoted. Your also get upgraded to the office with the window instead of the box office." he said sarcastically. His unique way of saying how corporate and cold this place was. People soon came up, full outfits, bullet proof outfits, filled with weapons and surrounded them, no him. They weaved between then separating ender from her. "no!" he complained. "stop. I am with her." one man responded. "Ender Wiggin you are coming with us." ender tried pushing his way through. "We will not hurt you." ender tried pushing through again but they blocked him. "yeah but nothings stopping me." he said barging through them. he finally made it to her and ran behind her and away from them his fists up in the air ready to fight.

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Amanda Chaffer took off Ender's handcuffs when they got out, not surprised when people started to approach. She smiled at his comment but didn't laugh, turning serious again. When they surrounded Ender she started to tell them to back off, but he was already barging through. He went behind her, ready to defend himself. But she simply held up her hand for the men to stop and they did. "Put your weapons at your sides, he isn't any threat." One of the men snorted. "Ender Wiggin, not a threat. What have you been smoking?" Amanda stepped forward so she was only inches away from the man. "if you dare question my judgement again I will personally have you fired so fast you'll literally be in flames. Not to mention such a bad review you won't be able to get any job better than garbage man. So why don't you do what you do best and go pretend to guard something?" The man looked furious, but he turned around and left. The remaining soldiers followed her and Ender quietly, not wanting to get in trouble. "This way," she murmured, walking through a metal door. The hallway led to an infirmary where her team were all passed out. Will had fresh bandages, and Aaron's legs were elevated so his butt didn't touch the mattress. "Medic, we need some attention for Mister Wiggin." A female medic hurried over, not looking Ender in the eyes as she fixed him up and gave him a pill for the pain. "No sleeping for the next two hours or so." She murmured, though she didn't sound firm about it, since Ender wouldn't be in bed for a while. When he was ready Amanda gestured for him to exit with her. The next room they entered was the office of the General, her boss. "General Pace, I've brought Ender Wiggin for you. He requests that I be present for any/all interrogation or meetings." Technically he hadn't, but she wanted to be with him.

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Ender Wiggin made a mental note to thank her for getting them away and then followed. He was patched up and then followed her to the commander. "Sit down." Pace said. Ender crossed his arms and eyebrow raising. "please." pace sighed. Graff would have refused but even pace followed. "Please sit." Ender finally sat and looked up at Amanda not looking back until he too sat down. Pace spoke first. 'Ender Wiggin we need you. Not because your a war hero, that means nothing. But you know most about Graff's old tactics and what happened back with the Buggers, you killed them all." he paused as if expecting ender to realized but his expression didn't change.. He just stared back. "Your smart and your tactic is what I need and we request you join us.. we do not force." ender finally spoke. "Oh yeah then what's their mission of attacking me for, her capturing me, and then guards almost taking me to you?" Pace sighed. "We couldn't loose you. You ran from Agent Hampton so we chased you and wanted to talk to you. You attacked." ender stood up getting annoyed. 'She was holding a weapon I wanted to get away. That's why I attacked. She attacked first, I just ran. her bullet hit my shoulder before my foot hit her stomach." pace too was getting annoyed but held it in unlike ender could.

"My bad, I would have done better. But I planned safety to you and it didn't go out well. Anyways. Would you like to stay in head quarters?" ender looked over at amanda. "where is she at?" he asked. pace responded. "at head quarters too." ender nodded. "fine, but I can't decide now. I need a look around and I need to know what you plan me to do." pace nodded and his face lit up. "Of course, of course. Tomorrow I will tell you my plans. We have nothing else for you to od so, go ahead and wander." ender was surprised. This company just wanted to ask him? he could wander around now. No paper work, signing in, getting an ID, showing him his room, keeping him here. He could just leave the building. He looked over at amanda on what to do next.

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Amanda Chaffer listened, knowing how careful General Pace was trying to be. Normally he was a lot more bossy, and not as polite. But he didn't want to ruin his chances of getting Ender. At the mention of Graff's tactics Amanda wanted to laugh. Graff's only tactic was to search for the perfect six-year-old to fight the war for him. Mission accomplished. When it was done, Amanda stood and looked at Ender. "You can rest for your concussion. Or I can show you around headquarters." She shrugged. "You're the legend, you choose." General Pace raised and eyebrow and she reminded herself not to be so casual. She turned and gave the General a respectful nod before leading Ender from the room. She used to have to salute the General, but technically she wasn't a soldier anymore, she was just an Agent that got to fight sometimes. She stopped once they were in the hallway, looking at Ender again. Se wouldn't have stared so much, but she hadn't seen him in forever. She wanted to make sure she didn't forget a single detail. If he was taken from her again, she wanted to remember every line in his face, the shape of every muscle. Not in a creepy way, but in the military it was a constant worry that you might lose someone. You had to hold on to memories with a vice grip. She ran her finger over her lip, the flesh there raw and torn. She could feel the edge where the healthy skin turned to damaged skin, and wished she didn't look so torn up. "If you want to get new clothes on we can get some for you. Much as I may enjoy it I doubt you wanna be shirtless all day." She grinned, but then an agent walked by and she stopped, straightening her back and acknowledging her fellow worker with a murmur. When the man passed she relaxed again, but her back still felt rigid. She couldn't remember the last time she slouched.

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Ender Wiggin exited the room and let the air he was holding in wash out. After relaxing he looked up at her. She mentioned getting clothes. He looked down forgetting that he was shirtless the whole time and then realized that's probably why Pace kept looking down at his hands. "I don't care where we go. Maybe showing me a room and clothes would suit me. " he said then looked over when the solider passed. She straightened up but he just stared back. The solider never made eyes contact with him yet alone look his way.

Ender looked over at her. "Lets fix you up. You have dried blood, probably a hurt nose, and your stomach might hurt too." he remembered hitting her gut when he thought she was a man. "Plus by the time we get back to the medical area you would probably have bitten your lip off." he smiled then frowned realizing that he shouldn't have noticed that. She would thin he studied her too much, weird. He pushed the thought away and tried to cover himself. "I just thought that...." ender found no way to save himself. "well, I think I'll find a place to stay look around, get cleaned up. I'll see you tomorrow? Show me the rest of your team so I can meet them again. Tell Will I said hi." ender smiled and held out his hand. A handshake was a start.

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Amanda Chaffer nodded and smiled. She went to shake his hand but then pulled him forward
and wrapped her other arm around him in a quick hug. Without another word she turned and
walked briskly away to get cleaned up.

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Amanda woke up early the next morning to get working. It was 05:45, the same time she'd been waking up since she was six. She stretched, wincing when her bruised stomach throbbed. Her room was small and plain, white walls, carpet, and bed covers. The only color was the dark red curtains. She'd been offered a bigger room before, but she never really cared about it since she was never home. There were no personal belongings, no photos or decorations. She just had clothes, health items, and an ipod. She walked into the little bathroom- that was her only request, a private bathroom- to shower and get ready. She brushed her hair, not bothering to straighten it. Just left the brown locks long and wavy. She put chapstick on her slowly healing lips and changed into her uniform. Once finished, Amanda walked out into the quiet hallway. Her office was small, with just one window. She checked in and sat down, waiting for what was sure to happen. Three, two, one, a knock on the door. "Come in, Will." She said, and sure enough the tall blonde ran in. "He shot me with a sleeping dart!" She smiled. "Yes he did. He says hi by the way. Sorry I had to tri-" She started to say 'trick you guys, but caught it. "Chase after him. He hit my nose and ran off. Panicked, i suppose." That was a huge lie, Ender never panicked, and WIll knew it. The boy narrowed his eyes but said nothing. "Come on," Amanda said, standing. "We're gonna talk with him. The whole team." She led the way to the cafeteria, A sector. The higher ranks ate there, below them were B and C sectors. She sat at her usual table, where Andrea and Ian were already waiting, looking expectant. Amanda and Will told them the exact details of what went down. At least, the lying version.

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Ender Wiggin woke up looking at an alarm clock he didn't know he had. At first he forgot where he was and why his alarm clock was one. He looked down to see a note near his bed. He read it. "You Idiot forgot what you were doing. Meet Amanda at Sector A. " Ender sighed remembering his concussion and going to sleep before he should have. Everything came flooding back and made him stand there to recap it all, confused again. Ender stood up and got dressed. he choose an under armor shirt black and then put on tan shorts. Once he was dressed he exited the place heading to sector A. His stomach hurt, she's got a good hit and it just now took him time to realize. When ender walked in he already out of place. it took him seconds to find them. The whole team. They all noticed him too and looked up. Brooke smiled and waved, Scarlett huffed and Aaron looked away. Will was smiling and Ian just looked like he was meeting an old friend. Ender worked with the kid back as two commanders in battle school.

Ender reached them and nodded his head acting more serious. Nothing like he was yesterday to Amanda, his version of relaxed. Aaron was the first to speak. "Care to sit? Hope your not running anywhere, anytime soon." ender looked up narrowing his eyes. he made a mental note to remember it was Aaron who started their enemy state again. "Would YOU care to sit?" ender asked emphasizing the word: you. Aaron narrowed his eyes and shook his head. "I didn't think so." ender sat down in front of Amanda next to Will and Brooke. Aaron would be standing for a while. "I am sorry guys for hitting you. I didn't realize who you were and Aaron. Sorry for hitting you there, I was aiming for your face but they look so similar." At firs tit was silent but he saw Brookes hand over her face and then little spurts of laughter come out of her mouth. Brooke started to crack up, she must be the fun laid back one of the group.