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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Medic avoided his eyes. He focused on details of Heavy's collar with a dark expression. "For letting that schweinhund kill you." He sighed. "For charging him before he did so."/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Heavy stroked the doctor's back, his large hand passing over a spot of blood, still fresh enough to kiss a warm red spot onto his palm. Placing a kiss on Medic's forehead, he said in a low rumble, "We enjoy this now. We handle them, if they find us." Medic had a soft protest, interrupted by Heavy's softly insistent lips. He then surrendered into the kiss as if he knew it would be his very last./p