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Ethan meets Gabriel's eyes unflinchingly and then smirks "No, I don't have any better plans than that. I do have the coffee in the apartment though if you would be interested. I like my coffee strong though and not this watered down shit you get some places. I've been told that my coffee could hold up a spoon on it's own but that's just from people who like their coffee weak as they are." He laughs then and points toward the kitchen "I'll put some on if you'd like then you can be the judge."

Ethan shakes his head "I know the value of having someone like you as a friend more than a foe. You could easily kill me and I wouldn't even know what hit me. I on the other hand don't know how to do things silently like that. I like it loud and to make a show out of it which isn't a good thing." He pinches the bridge of his nose "And besides, I don't know shit about magical stuff so how would I even begin to know how to hex you?"

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Gabriel hesitated for a breath, surprised by Ethan’s willingness. His posture relaxed, the tension that had held him rigid beginning to melt from his shoulders. He stared at the offered hand for a moment before taking it—firm grip, but not aggressive. "Thank you," he said quietly, sincerity threading through his voice. "I didn’t expect you to say yes. Honestly, I thought you'd throw me out or hex me."

A pause. He met Ethan’s eyes. “You didn’t want to be my enemy, and I didn’t want to be yours. We just ended up there.” He released Ethan's hand and stepped back, casting a glance around the apartment. His expression is unreadable for a moment before he continues. "I don’t know what we do now." Gabriel’s eyes met Ethan’s again—steady, unflinching. "We start small. Maybe with coffee. Or silence. Or telling the truth, one piece at a time." He offered the faintest hint of a smile. "Unless you’ve got a better plan?"

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"The fact that you even asked suggests your CV vastly over-exaggerated your people skills when you got hired." Q remarked without looking up from where his laptop was resting on the kitchen table, doing his very best to not let his lips curl into a smile. It was certainly not an impressive 'best'.

"You don't get to come and stay at my house without paying some kind of price. And there's nothing else of yours that I want right now. I was surprised you even came with this. Do you wear it to sleep? It smells like-" He cut himself off, eyes flitting over to the agent as he pondered how much detail was too much. "Like you put it on in the evenings."

He pulled the collar up with both hands as his elbows rested on the table, only his eyes visible over the top of the material. "I'd bet my life that you don't want it back." He stated, words muffled through the claimed garment.

James looks over at Q and smirks with a cocked eyebrow "You're right, I don't want it back. It looks much better on you than it ever did on me in the first place but I will have to buy another to replace it because I do find it quite comfortable." He walks over to the table and sits down beside him, surveying the room and marking where the entrance and exits are before relaxing a bit "I just don't know what I will do without it though, my beloved hoodie." James laughs, putting his head down on the table.

"Hey, you're the one that extended the invite to come here. I didn't know that I was going to get robbed of my clothes for it but there you go." He looks at the other before his stomach growls "Would you like some breakfast Q? I can pick up the phone and call out for something if you want or I could possibly try and cook but that might not be very good for either of us." James then starts bouncing his leg up and down nervously as he waits for the other man to answer. There's just something about Q that makes him nervous but in a good way.

@hacker-codeq

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Pepper gives Tony a dirty look and then points to the kitchen "There's coffee in the pot all ready for you Tony." She shakes her head at him then turns to walk that way herself "Do you want anything to eat with it because we can order something if you do." Pepper then turns back to him as she stops walking "Did you get whatever it was fixed last night? I noticed that you never came to bed but didn't want to disturb you."

She looks at him for a few moments then shakes her head, walking back over to him and reaching out a hand to caress his cheek "How many nights has it been since you had a good rest Tony? You look like you're about to fall over in a stiff breeze." Pepper wraps her arms around him and pulls him in close "Is there anything that I can do to help you sleep?"

@lcstxsculx asked: ²⁾ “say that again, but take all the words bigger than two syllables out for me.” (Pepper & Tony Stark)

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He's tired, he's been up all night trying to get something just right on one of his suits. His hair is sticking up in every direction and he has bags under his eyes. He looks at her and pronounces one singular one like he's talking to a child, "Cof-fee."

It's basically what he said moments before just with a lot more words thrown in there, some incoherent, he was sure. But it all boiled down to him wanting some hot coffee and maybe a place to rest his head, maybe or maybe not on Pepper's lap.

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Gabriel looks at her for a moment then nods his head "That's alright, I just would have preferred talking to going for weapons that's all but you look as if you've been in a fight that didn't go so well for you even if you did walk away from it." He leans against the wall now his posture more relaxed and then tilts his head to the side as he makes his offer to her, an offer he hopes he doesn't regret "I would offer you a place to stay for a while if you want it. My home is protected by some of the strongest magic this world has ever seen."

Gabriel turns from the wall and begins walking in the direction that he was going in "I would welcome the company, no one seems to want to associate with me. Many are even afraid of me because my brother is so, well, mean." He chuckles and glances back over his shoulder at her "You will be safe there for as long as you wish to stay but it's up to you."

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Heart still thudding from a fight she'd only barely escaped... adrenaline burned in her veins like fire, and fear was the only reality for her in that moment. So, when she heard the stranger's approach, her panicked mind could only conclude one thing: it was one of them. They'd found her. The footfalls so similar. She reacted without thought, dagger --- still drawn from her frantic struggle for survival --- raised to the other's throat.

His words meant very little to Mahia. But, one thing was clear... he wasn't one of the Hunters. She didn't prevent him pushing her blade away. " I... I am sorry, " breaths still quick between words, " I thought... that you were someone else. "

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Margo was both hot and cold and just realized that when she awoke this morning. She hummed softly and could feel the back of her throat start to close up as she tries to speak. " okay if you think that's best..I just hate taking sick days off." She whines, hating how she felt but wanted to get up and not be vulnerable. " thanks loki, for being here for me." She lays back in her bed with a blanket draped over her shivering body as she gazed at him. " I do have some medicine in my cabinet in the bathroom. Everything I need just in case I feel like crap. You can bring me some of that and some orange juice from the fridge." She replied with a bit of a soft nasal voice. " could you stay with me for a awhile?"

"Okay, just let me call in for you and we'll get this show on the road so to speak." Loki gets out his cell phone and dials the number, waiting for someone to pick up and when they do he explains the situation to them and that Margo will not be coming in to work that day. He then hangs up the phone and gets up off the bed, starting into the bathroom to get the medicine out of the cabinet. Loki pours out some for her and takes it and the rest of the bottle into the bedroom for her to have later. He hands her the medicine "Okay, you take that and I'll go get the juice from the fridge for you." He walks into the kitchen and opens the fridge, having to dig through it a little to find the juice and pours her a cup then takes it to the bedroom and sets it on the table beside the bed. Loki looks at her "Pending any bad guys tearing up the city, I can stay here with you all day if you wish it."

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Ethan freezes in shock then pulls away from Axel to look in his face. He has been on the way to asking Axel the same thing but just hadn't found the right rings yet. Ethan looks to the bottle and smiles gently at Axel "You know I was going to ask you the same thing just hadn't found the right kind of ring yet." He leans in a kisses him tenderly on the lips before leaning back and nodding his head "Yes, I'll marry you Axel because your the only thing in this life that I can't live without." Ethan cocks an eyebrow at the other man "You still want me in the bedroom or would you rather go out and do something romantic tonight?"

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A loud moan escaped his lips as he grinded with him. “I always want all of you, every single part, the bedroom is more comfortable, I need to ask you something” he managed to say once Ethan had gotten off of his lap. Taking a few moments he helped him, leaning in he moved his hands to his chest, tearing open his top and placing kisses across his chest. “Marry me, will you marry me Ethan?” he whispered against his chin, he nodded towards a bottle of champagne wrapped in a blue ribbon across the top. Wrapped within the ribbon, are two silver rings with emerald jewels attached. It had been a question he had wanted to ask for a long time, now he had finally asked it, he felt a knot form in his chest as he waited for his answer.

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There was a humorless chuckle that left Bucky's lips, blue hues glancing up to Steve.

"Yeah.....yeah I figured that part out. Just never thought I'd hear it from you," he sighed, running his good hand over his face. He knew the advice was friendly of course, but something about it felt overwhelmingly final.

Steve looks at him then walks across the room to sit down beside him "I got a whole lot more cynical in the past few years since I got thawed out from the ice. I never thought I would hear those words coming from me either but you live and you learn Buck." He tilts his head with a sad expression coming over his face "You gotta watch out for people Buck most the time all they want to do is use you specifically us." Steve then tilts his head back and looks at the ceiling while pinching the bridge of his nose "Of course, I never really had a chance not to be an Avenger."

"What I'm saying is that we have to stick together Buck. We've been friends for a long time and I would hate for us to get torn apart just because we two men that are out of time, if you know what I mean." He gets up and starts to pace around the room. "I guess I'm just worried about how we're going to move forward in a time not our own and how it will effect us in the end." Steve then chuckles, glancing at Bucky "And you know I don't need to be bailed out of fights anymore."

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Anne laughed. She ran her fingers through Logan's hair, looking down at him fondly. She'd grown to care for him a great deal. A feeling she believed he returned - or so she hoped. "I'm glad you think so," she smiled. Her thumb brushed over his forehead. "So, how did the meeting with the Professor go?"

"Well, he wants me to be a part of the team permanently. I don't know if I can do that Anne. I mean, I know that I've stuck around here for a while but I might get the urge to leave tomorrow and I don't want anyone counting on me like that." Logan sighs then, his shoulders stiffening up "Then again, I feel like I owe it to the guy since he's letting me live in his house and eat his food, you know what I mean?" He then hums when she starts running her hands through his hair, not to let anyone know but that was one of the quickest ways to relax him. "I'll have to think on it since I have something worth sticking around for now."

@frombehindpaleeyes

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Another mishap through the Multiverse, another villain on hers and Stephen's toes and thrown through the Multiverse for the second time in only a few years was getting ridiculous. Some dangerous monster had gotten into their world and Shelby had been sucked in through the portal, through the multiverse until she tumbled into this one, though thankfully she landed on her feet. Sporting a split lip and a bruised eye, she watched as the portal behind her disappeared and she swallowed as she heard a familiar voice.

"Tony?" she whispered, cerulean hues wide in shock.

No...this wasn't her Tony. And she wasn't his Shelby.

"M....might be awhile...kind of got sucked through a portal and landed here," Shelby breathed after a moment, wincing as she breathed. Her ribs were most likely bruised. "You said I....died three years ago? How?"

Tony is still for a few moments until he bursts into action. He moves across the room in rapid strides towards a chair then he rolls it over in her direction. "There, that might help a little if you want to sit down after your little trip and I know getting you back home might be difficult but I'm not a genius for nothing." He then gets a sad look on his face "You were in a car accident with a drunk driver and he hit you head on. After all the battles we fought together that was the least violent way that you could go out I guess."

He looks at her then with a frown on his face "By the looks of things when you saw me I'd say that I'm the one that's not so alive where you came from so I would like the dish on that if you wouldn't mind telling me about it." Tony goes over to the nearest work bench and leans against it "That world must be in eternal darkness without me in it because you know I'm the light of everyone's life without me the sun doesn't shine." He laughs and cocks an eyebrow while tilting his head to the side "So was I a genius in your world or just have a regular IQ?"

Tony gets a tablet off the work bench and calls up the energy readings for the lab when Shelby had been dumped through the portal. "Well, the portal did have an energy signature when it opened but the moment it closed that signature disappeared so there's no tracing it. That's going to make things a whole lot harder in the long run." He puts the tablet back down and turns back to her "I don't guess you know how those kind of things work do you? If you did I could probably just build something and send you straight home with it."

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A darkly amused chuckle left the lips of the assassin. “That is the way for many kinds of individuals, I am. Very skilled individual, not simply in the art of murder but of other skills also, I may surprise you when it comes to learning your secrets” he laughed again, his eyes keenly watching the other. Lucien was very pleased indeed to have an apprentice of his own, he was still learning about the individual he had taken under his wing so to speak, for whilst their arrangement started as contractual, he was certain with time they would know each other very well indeed. The benefits of learning under one such as Lachance included much more than free coffee at the cafe, he intended to mould him into what he thought he could be, a true assassin.

Death chuckles and takes a sip of his hot coffee while look at the other man intently. This had started as a lark, he had wanted to do something that he already did only he wanted to get paid for it. He had to admit that he was a little greedy and liked the finer things in life, all things that you needed money for. He had come searching for one of the best to teach him and had heard of Lucien through one of the contacts he had made. Death was impressed to say the least and was willing to let this man have enough control over him to teach him the right ways to kill a man. He looks at Lucien then tilts his head to the side with a cocked eyebrow "Yes, I have noticed that but it is a great game to pick apart those lies right in front of the people who tell them especially when you know the truth of the matter at hand. That makes it so much more fun." Death then shrugs his shoulders. smirking "You should be careful if you come for my secrets Lucien because my secrets have secrets of their own plus you might find things that you really don't like."

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Eva moved towards Issac, looping her arms around his neck. She kissed him softly on the mouth, her lips lingering against his. "I missed you too," she replied. "Every time you go to work and leave me, I miss you."

She touched his cheek, her fingers gentle on his skin. "I didn't want to distract you, so I didn't ask for anything. But if your work is done..." She smiled at him. "Spending some time together in bed wouldn't be a bad idea..."

Issac leans his face into her touch then then smirks at her "My work is done for now and I will be allowed to have the night to myself like I always do. I think that we should go to the bedroom now and start having some fun with each other. The kind that doesn't involve clothes if you know what I mean." He chuckles at her then starts backing her towards the room they share "I want to get your clothes off of you and then make you moan my name all night long. This is what you get for not distracting me sooner."

Issac starts to take off her clothes slowly after they enter the bedroom, kissing every inch of skin that he can get to as he uncovers it. When he's done undressing her he picks her up and carries her over to the bed, putting her down in the middle of it and then takes his own clothes off slowly, giving her a show. He comes over to the bed and climbs in, crawling up her body until he gets to her lips and leaning down he gives her a passionate kiss "Anything special you want me to do for you tonight?"

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"No! I want to be the person that I was, Stephen, with living family and a man who loved me and friends who were alive and without all this...this!" She replied, staring at him in disbelief at what he was saying. "But I can't be that person again, so I can't be whatever and whoever I want. Trauma might have been character building for you, but I'm tired of rebuilding myself from rubble only for another wrecking ball to come along." She told him simply.

Stephen stares at her in shock, freezing in his movements around the room at this confession. He stays in place for a long moment, opening and closing his mouth, trying to come up with something to say that would make her at least feel a little bit better but he can find nothing "I'm sorry Wanda, that was cold of me. I should have thought about it more before I spoke but whenever have I done that. Consider me chastised." Stephen then walks over to her with a neutral expression on his face "I would give them back to you if I could Wanda because I know what it's like to be alone." He turns from her and walks over to one of the chairs in the room they are in "Would you like a drink of some sort or do you not want to be in the same room with me right now?"

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Death is silent for a moment a pained look on his face and in his eyes as he turns to Lucien and nods his head "Yes, they have and they have not told you. I understand what it's like to be betrayed and I will be here for you if you have need of me." He walks over to the other man cocking an eyebrow at him "I wouldn't be adverse to taking their souls for you if it hurts you to much. I know that sometimes people want their betrayers dead but I think you have your own way of dealing with things like these." Death smirks, tilting his head to the side "I know that trust is hard for people like us but one day I hope to earn yours. Trust is not the weakness that I once thought it to be but it can still be used against you by just about everyone." He chuckles and walks toward the window

Death looks out from the window and sees the rain coming down outside "I don't lie to friends Lucien because that would either get them or me hurt and what's the point in that? If I wanted to hurt someone I could do it without lying to them on top of it. You're not stupid and you would have known that I was feeding yo bullshit about this." He turns back to Lucien with a neutral expression on his face "Why would I want to have to remember a lie that I told you when I can barely remember what year it is sometimes? I have better things to do than lie to another like me, misunderstood and lonely."

Anonymous bared their pretty throat : “I wouldn’t lie to you.” (Death) @lcstxsculx

‘Strangely enough, I find myself believing that.’

Death had unravelled himself to be far more profound than the chilling tales had led him to assume. In an unexpected twist, an authentic connection had blossomed amidst the shadows. ( Both he and Death were kindred spirits—two solitary wanderers adrift in an unforgiving sea of suffering and isolation. Each bore a unique essence, their complexities veiled by a world quick to misunderstand and judge, painting them as villains in a story they never asked to star in. ) It was a heartening revelation to learn that Death was willing to grant him a chance to prove his worth, to reveal that beneath the surface of anguish and exile lay a being desperately fighting for acceptance and belonging. 

The burden of immortality weighed heavily on Lucien's soul, a relentless reminder that he had not chosen this existence, and the ache of it gnawed at him. Yet, Death bore no grudges against him, nor did he lament the fact that Lucien perpetually lingered in the fragile limbo between life and death itself.

‘I mean, trust isn't easy, but I know you’re not betraying me. It’s clear—others have, haven’t they? They’ve known all along.’

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Death waves his hand and the chains dissolve in smoke and he comes over to Jim, running a hand through his hair as he leans down to give him a gentle kiss "I will make sure that their souls suffer for this. I will make their sufferings worse than anything that's ever been seen in hell. They should not have touched you my darling." He scoops Jim up in his arms and starts walking towards the door to the room. Death halts when he hears the rest of what Jim has to say "They tortured you did they? And just what did they want to know about me Jim? I bet that most of it had to do with ways to kill me or weaken me. They still haven't learned after all these years that there will always be death." He cocks an eyebrow at the other man and smirks "Let's get you home so that we can both relax."

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He remained silent as his wounds healed, sewing themselves together until not even red splotches remained, only the bloodshed. It was for show, he had been one of Death’s reapers for a small while, it felt as if the skin on his face were a mere curtain, thinner than usual, especially after what he had suffered. “They attempted to break me under the assumption I would divulge your secrets dear, I gave them no such pleasure, I hope their screams continue to echo the halls in which their souls with never find peace.” Jim was certain they would suffer much more than he ever did, his eyes showed no form of emotion, they simply were.

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James glances at Q and nods his head "All the time but it's really intense when I get around you. I wanted to ask you the first day I saw you were we had met before but I didn't really have the time for it with everything that was happening." He cocks an eyebrow at the other man then "So, this person that you think you've met before, do they work here or did you meet them somewhere else and just thought that asking me about it would be a good idea?" James then goes around his desk to sit in the chair where he starts to move his leg up and down "Sorry, never could sit still. I'm told it's a sign of anxiety or some such."

He looks around Q's office, trying to find something that might tell him a little about the man that he's talking to but doesn't really find anything that would give him any clues into what kind of life the other man lead and that was fine it was none of his business anyway. James looks up at Q and smiles warmly at him "Well, it's nice to meet you which is why I came in here and not to the station at the entrance, even though I do like to know everyone I work with I tend to like to know the higher ups of each department more. I'm sorry if I made you uncomfortable by coming in your office without permission but if there's one thing you need to know about me it's that I love making trouble."

He tilts his head back and looks at the ceiling "Sometimes I think that this place is candy land and then other times it just pisses me off. Why would you invent something to help an agent and then it not really help? I know that some of the stuff that comes out of here is experimental but I don't want to get my ass blown off if it doesn't work you know." James then glances at him and shakes his head "I'm not trying to say that your not doing a good job because you are and I respect that all this technology comes out of your head but I gotta tell you a good old fashioned gun is sometimes the only thing that you need."

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It had pulled at them since the moment they'd first laid eyes on the photo in Bond's file, a completely unexplainable familiarity. Marcus, who had barely been communicative apart from the odd threat to kill everyone Q gave a shit about, had become pensive and glimpses into his thoughts were full of the agent they'd never even met. Only it felt like they had met him; like they'd know how it would feel to hold onto his hand through rainstorms or rest their head on his arm under the summer sun.

It was... Disorientating.

Ben had hesitated in the entrance to the office the day he saw Bond standing at his desk, probably waiting to give back the equipment that had been handed out in a rush in an effort to stop Silva. All of that had gone by too fast to really dwell on what was going on inside an already too busy mind. And he'd failed in his primary function. Not a good first impression - never good to look like an idiot when you're supposed to be one of the smartest people in the office.

He took a deep breath to steel himself and walked past the older man, setting his satchel at his desk and taking his coat off without even glancing at him. "If you want to return equipment, then there's a station for it at the entrance. As you have no active mission currently, I unfortunately don't have anything for-" That irresistible urge to glance up and meet those eyes; those eyes he should barely know, yet he could have picked them out of millions. How do I know you?

"Do you ever feel like you've met someone before but you can't remember where?" Q hears himself asking, hears Marcus asking, but doesn't resist. He wants to know the answer just as much.

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he knows how to make her blush. but, then again, it doesn't take much. young woman is brilliant yet so painfully inexperienced when it comes world outside of academia. her studies fill her days… her nights are filled by job at his club, by his attentions. still his breath is warm against her ear - making her feel dizzy with the promises that come dancing out. "I think I might be a little tired after three days." brunette jokes a little breathless. "how about all of sunday instead?"

The demon laughs and shakes his head as he pulls her back closer to him where she sits on his lap "Well, I wouldn't want to tire you out with just the kissing when there are other pleasurable things that can be explored. That would be a crime but I do agree that keeping the whole day Sunday set aside for kissing would be a good thing." Asmodeus looks at her then and leans his head forward to place little nibbling kisses to her neck as he reaches his hand around her to put it on her upper thigh close to her core "There are other things I want to do now besides just kiss and I think you already know that, don't you my dear?"

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Cuddling up with Logan was something Anne enjoyed immensely. He was warm, and he never failed to make her feel safe. They were watching a movie when he felt the need to press his face to the side of her neck. She groaned softly, tipping her head to the side as she felt him nip at her throat.

"Mmm," she hummed. "Yeah?" Her voice dropped to a low murmur. Though they were alone in the mansion's Rec Room, someone could walk in at any time. "Well, since dinner is over, we could go for dessert..."

He pulls back and looks into her eyes with a smirk "I think I can handle that. I mean I always did have a sweet tooth but not in here where one of the kids could walk in and see us. We're still in trouble with Chuck for the last time that happened." Logan chuckles, getting up off the couch and offering her a hand "Let's go to our room where we can do what we want and be as loud as we fucking want." His cock was already hard and waiting for some type of action so he reaches down and starts to stroke himself through his pants "Come on darlin, I've already started without you."

Logan starts walking towards the stairs with her hand in his and he's walking fast "You know your scent just keeps getting better and better the more turned on you get so I can tell how much you want this Anne." He chuckles and looks back over his shoulder at her "That's okay though, we're still in what everyone calls the honeymoon phase were we want to fuck like bunnies. Some people say that stops after a while but I call bullshit." Logan then walks up the steps and down the hall to their room. He opens the door and pushes her inside then going through the door himself and closing it.

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