Wounded
Wesley tries to closer to Fred, but ends up wounding her.
Setting: Hyperion, after noon. Wesley's in his office, of course. Fred is on her laptop at the front desk and Cordy is at her desk. Angel is putting Connor down for a nap and Gunn was cleaning the weapons from the cabinet.
"Damn!" Gunn yells as he cut himself with a sword. Every one looked up and Fred ran over to him.
" Let me see" Fred said grabbing his hand.
"I should be fine, it's okay, really" Gunn pleaded.
"No, you're not fine. Cordy can you get the first aid kit" Fred said looking over to her.
"I'm on it" Cordy said getting up.
Cordy came back with the kit. Fred took the kit, opened it and took out a bandage.
"Gimme your hand" she said reaching for it, but Gunn pulled away.
"Gimme, I'm not going to hurt you" Fred explained and reluctantly her gave her his hand. Fred cleaned the cut and wrapped the bandage around.
"There all better" Fred said smiling. Gunn looked up at her and smiled also. They leaned in and he kissed her, just as Wesley came out of office. He looked up and saw them, then he turned right back around and headed into his office again.
"That's much better" Gunn said coming apart after their kiss.
"Good" Fred replied.
Fred helped Gunn up and he threw the rest of the weapons back in the cabinet and walked back to the front desk with Fred. Angel came down stairs and saw Gunn's wounded hand and ran over.
"What happened?" Angel asked approaching them.
"Oh, nothing, it's just a scratch" Gunn explained.
"Oh, okay" Angel said shrugging it off. "So what are we doing?" Angel asked.
"Nothing really, I'm just reading online" Fred explained.
"Oh, where's Wes?" Angel asked looking around.
"Umm, I think he's in his office" Fred said not looking away from the screen.
"Oh" Angel replied, heading toward Wes's office. He approached and knocked.
"Wesley?" Angel asked.
Wes didn't answer and Angel entered the room. Wes was sitting at his desk, with his back to the door, rubbing his temples. Angel closed the door, which caused Wes to turn around.
"Oh, Angel. I didn't hear you come in" Wesley said.
"So, how are you?" Angel asked.
"I...fine" Wesley stuttered out.
"Good. So what are we doing today?" Angel asked.
"Nothing, it's almost like a day off" Wes said looking down.
"Oh, okay. In that case, I'm going back to bed. Connor kept me up. Call me if you need me" Angel said as he walked out.
Wesley stayed in his office the entire day. He didn't even come out to eat. Cordelia knew why, but everyone else just thought he was busy.
Later that day:
Gunn and Fred were talking and laughing and Wesley could see and hear them. It was killing him to watch the love of his life, with some one else, his best friend.
"Haha" Fred laughed at Gunn's stupid jokes. Gunn looked down to his watch.
"Ooh, I better get going if I want to beat the traffic" Gunn said getting up to leave.
"Oh okay" Fred said getting up. She walked up to him and they kissed goodbye. Then Gunn left and Fred grabbed a book and headed to the courtyard.
At the end of the day Cordy headed home. Wesley was working, or reading in his office late, and Fred was reading in the courtyard. Wes's POV: `I wonder where Fred is? Maybe I should talk to her. She's probably reading, getting smarter and smarter every day.' Wesley got up and headed for the stairs, when he noticed the courtyard doors open a little. He went to close them when he saw some one, a shadow, moving in the room. He grabbed a sword and headed to the courtyard. The courtyard was dark and he couldn't see a thing. Fred heard him enter and turned to the doors. She thought Wesley knew it was her and headed towards him. He saw a figure walking towards him and thruster his sword into Fred's stomach, causing her to scream. At that moment Wesley realized it was Fred, pulled the sword back and tried to turn on some lights. Once he could see Fred, he ran to her and caught her, just in time. She looked up at him with tears in her eyes, holding her side. Wesley removed her hand
and saw the bloody gash. He pulled out a hanker chief and pressed it to her wound. He slowly placed her on the ground and ran inside to grab the first aid kit. He ran back out to Fred.
"Oh, Fred! I'm so sorry! I thought you were a robber or demon or...not you" Wesley explained putting pressure to her wound.
" I...was...just r-reading..." Fred said as Wesley put pressure to her gash. " Ahh, oh God" Fred screamed.
Wesley looked into her and eyes and almost began to cry himself. He lifted her up and brought back into the hotel. He placed her on the couch and went to wake Angel up. Angel already heard her scream, knew who it was, and was half way down the stairs.
" What happened?" Angel asked rushing over.
" I thought she was a stranger and I kind of..." Wes started as Angel lifted up the towel to see her cut. His eyes widened as he looked up at Wesley.
" You stabbed her?" Angel asked in shock.
" It was an accident, she was coming towards me and I thought... oh what have I done?" Wesley said.
" We need to get her to a hospital fast!" Angel yelled picking up Fred and carrying her out. Wesley followed them out to the car and got in the driver's seat. Fred started to moan and sweat. The pain was getting unbearable.
" Ssh, you'll be okay" Angel reassured Fred as he brushed hair from her face.
Wesley sped up and pulled into the hospital parking lot. Angel carried Fred into the ER, like he has done many times before.
" We need help!" Wesley yelled holding the doors for Angel.
" Okay, what happened?" a doctor asked.
" She was stabbed" Wesley explained helping to put her on a bed.
" Okay, we'll take care of her just wait outside" the doctor said.
" I`m going to call Gunn and Cordy" Angel said running to a phone.
"No, I don't want Gunn to know, not yet" Wesley said grabbing Angel's arm.
" Fine, but I'm calling Cordy" Angel said already dialing the number.
About 45 minutes later, Cordy arrived to find Wes and Angel in the waiting room. The doctors still hadn't come out yet.
"Hey I came as fast as I could" Cordy explained sitting next to Wes. " How is she?" Cordy asked as Wes looked up at her.
" They haven't told us yet, it's almost been an hour" Wesley explained almost ready to cry.
"Oh Wesley I'm sure she's fine, don't worry" Cordelia said holding his hand.
"I...I thought..." Wesley started to say just as the doctor came out.
"Angel?" the doctor asked.
"Yes" Angel said jumping up.
"Okay, she'll be fine, some internal bleeding, but she should be fine" the doctor said.
"Are you sure?" Wesley asked standing up.
"Yes. She's asleep now, but she should be awake by tomorrow" he explained.
"Can we stay with her tonight?" Cordy asked also butting in.
"Well, I'd advise you not to. She needs her rest"
"Well, can some one at least watch over her?" Angel asked.
"I suppose. One of you can stay" the doctor said.
"I will" Cordy said.
"No, I will" Wesley said.
"Well, I can't, you know too sunny" Angel added.
"You two can both stay if you'd like" the doctor said.
"Great" Cordy added following the doctor, Wes behind them.
The doctor showed them to her room and brought two chairs out. Wesley stared at Fred, and felt so bad for what he did. He sat down and held her hand. Cordy sat next to him and watched her sleep. Soon Cordy, herself, fell asleep, but Wesley stayed up all night.
By morning Fred was starting to wake up.
"Fred?" Wesley asked as she opened her eyes.
"Ahh. My side hurts" Fred said.
"It's okay, the doctors said you'd be okay" Wesley explained.
"Doctors? Where am I?" Fred asked.
"You're in the hospital. Don't you remember anything?" Wes asked hoping she didn't know he stabbed her.
" I remember reading and then you came out and ..." Fred said. Her eyes widened as she remembered he stabbed her.
"Fred?" Wesley asked.
"You...I remember now" Fred said.
"I didn't mean to...I thought you were... I'm so sorry" Wesley said putting his head down.
"Wesley, I know you didn't mean to" Fred explained trying to sit up. "Ah" Fred said as she sat up. Wesley looked up and tried to help her.
"No, I'm fine, just tired" Fred explained.
Suddenly Cordelia started to wake up and saw Fred up.
"Hey, Fred how are you?" Cordy asked getting up.
"Oh, fine, a little sore" Fred explained.
"Well, I'm going to talk to the doctors and ask them when you can go home" Cordy said walking out.
"So, Fred, are you okay? Really? You're not lying?" Wesley pleaded.
"Really, Wesley, I'm fine"
"Alright" Wesley agreed.
Cordy came back a few minutes later, with a worried look on her face.
"What, what is it?" Wesley asked as he stood up.
"Fred has to stay for a few more nights. They want her to get rest here"
"Is there something wrong?" Wesley asked.
"No, not now, but...but if..." Cordy started to but then couldn't and put her head down.
"But if what?" Wes asked impatiently now.
"If you stabbed her harder and drove it any farther into her, she would have died. That's what took so long yesterday. They had to save her. She almost died." Cordy said, breaking into tears.
Wesley looked at Fred. She had tears rolling down her face.
"Oh, Fred! I'm so sorry" Wes said almost crying himself. He walked over to Fred and rubbed his hand against her face, but she turned away, almost afraid of him. He looked at her in confusion. She looked back at him with fear in her eyes. She tried to sit up, but couldn't. Wesley tried to help her. Fred shrugged him off and sat back down. Cordy ran over and helped Fred up. Wesley left the room feeling so bad. He walked out to the front desk and saw Gunn talking to a nurse. He came up to Wes. Wesley thought he was going to kill him.
"Wes, man, where is she?" Gunn asked worried.
` I guess he doesn't know I did it' Wes thought.
"She's in the room down the hall, number 12" Wesley explained. Gunn ran down the hall and into her room. Fred looked up to see Gunn.
"Charles!" Fred said crying as he ran over and hugged her. "Ahh, easy, I'm not all better yet" Fred explained. Gunn looked at her and almost started to cry.
"Oh, are you okay? I was so worried" Gunn said.
"Yeah I'm fine, I know he didn't do it on purpose" Fred said unaware that Gunn didn't know that Wesley hurt her.
"Who? Who did this?" Gunn asked.
"Well, I know Wesley didn't mean to but...oh God you didn't know" Fred said.
"Wes did this?" Gunn said angered. "I'll kill him" Gunn said as he started out.
"No, it was an accident!" Fred yelled grabbing his arm. He shrugged her of and proceeded to the lobby. Wes had already left. Gunn went to the nurse and asked where he went. She had no idea. Gunn headed back to Fred's room.
"He's gone" Gunn stated.
"Oh thank God! Charles, don't hurt him. It was an accident" Fred explained.
"How is almost killing some one an accident?" Gunn asked angrily.
"He didn't see me and thought I was a robber or not me" Fred explained.
"I'm still going to kill him" Gunn said. "I'll be back later. Cordy watch over her okay?" Gunn ordered.
"Yeah, but you can't kill him, he didn't do it on purpose, Gunn!" Cordy yelled after him as he left her room.
Gunn sped down the streets of L.A., back to the hotel. He barged through the doors and headed for his office.
Back at the hospital.
"Cordy we have to leave" Fred said starting to get up.
"You can't" Cordy said.
"Yes!! I need to stop him" Fred said. Cordy could tell she cared for both Gunn and Wes and she needed to stop Gunn and she may be the only who could. Cordy helped her dress and sneak out of the hospital. They rushed to the hotel.
At the hotel.
Gunn ran into Wes's office and slammed the door. Wes looked up and saw him. He started to get up and tried to leave.
"What the hell? How could you do something like this?" Gunn yelled closing in on Wes.
"I...it was an accident" Wes explained backing away.
"So I've heard" Gunn said.
"You don't believe me" Wes said afraid for his life.
"NO, and I'm going to kill you. You almost killed her!!" He yelled. Then Gunn picked Wes up and threw him through the window in his office. Just then Cordy and Fred arrived.
"Where are they?" Fred asked just as Wes was tossed through the window. "Wesley!" Fred screamed as she ran towards him. He was unconscious. Gunn entered the lobby to see Fred by his side.
"So, you still feel for this guy?" Gunn asked approaching them. Fred took Wes's head in her lap and caressed his forehead.
"It was an accident, Charles" Fred said glaring at him with tears almost spilling over.
"He almost killed you!" Gunn yelled.
"He didn't mean to" Fred yelled back. Then she grabbed her side. "Ahh! Damn it Charles don't make me yell!" Fred screamed. Gunn rushed to her side and knelt next to her.
"I'm sorry, I just got so upset when the doctors said you almost died." Gunn said understanding Wes didn't mean to do it and it was all an accident. Fred then looked up in horror at Gunn. He looked at her with confusion.
"What, what's wrong?" Gunn asked.
"He's not breathing!" Fred said horrified.
"Oh my God, I killed him" Gunn said staring at his friend.
To be continued.
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Wesley tries to closer to Fred, but ends up wounding her.
Setting: Hyperion, after noon. Wesley's in his office, of course. Fred is on her laptop at the front desk and Cordy is at her desk. Angel is putting Connor down for a nap and Gunn was cleaning the weapons from the cabinet.
"Damn!" Gunn yells as he cut himself with a sword. Every one looked up and Fred ran over to him.
" Let me see" Fred said grabbing his hand.
"I should be fine, it's okay, really" Gunn pleaded.
"No, you're not fine. Cordy can you get the first aid kit" Fred said looking over to her.
"I'm on it" Cordy said getting up.
Cordy came back with the kit. Fred took the kit, opened it and took out a bandage.
"Gimme your hand" she said reaching for it, but Gunn pulled away.
"Gimme, I'm not going to hurt you" Fred explained and reluctantly her gave her his hand. Fred cleaned the cut and wrapped the bandage around.
"There all better" Fred said smiling. Gunn looked up at her and smiled also. They leaned in and he kissed her, just as Wesley came out of office. He looked up and saw them, then he turned right back around and headed into his office again.
"That's much better" Gunn said coming apart after their kiss.
"Good" Fred replied.
Fred helped Gunn up and he threw the rest of the weapons back in the cabinet and walked back to the front desk with Fred. Angel came down stairs and saw Gunn's wounded hand and ran over.
"What happened?" Angel asked approaching them.
"Oh, nothing, it's just a scratch" Gunn explained.
"Oh, okay" Angel said shrugging it off. "So what are we doing?" Angel asked.
"Nothing really, I'm just reading online" Fred explained.
"Oh, where's Wes?" Angel asked looking around.
"Umm, I think he's in his office" Fred said not looking away from the screen.
"Oh" Angel replied, heading toward Wes's office. He approached and knocked.
"Wesley?" Angel asked.
Wes didn't answer and Angel entered the room. Wes was sitting at his desk, with his back to the door, rubbing his temples. Angel closed the door, which caused Wes to turn around.
"Oh, Angel. I didn't hear you come in" Wesley said.
"So, how are you?" Angel asked.
"I...fine" Wesley stuttered out.
"Good. So what are we doing today?" Angel asked.
"Nothing, it's almost like a day off" Wes said looking down.
"Oh, okay. In that case, I'm going back to bed. Connor kept me up. Call me if you need me" Angel said as he walked out.
Wesley stayed in his office the entire day. He didn't even come out to eat. Cordelia knew why, but everyone else just thought he was busy.
Later that day:
Gunn and Fred were talking and laughing and Wesley could see and hear them. It was killing him to watch the love of his life, with some one else, his best friend.
"Haha" Fred laughed at Gunn's stupid jokes. Gunn looked down to his watch.
"Ooh, I better get going if I want to beat the traffic" Gunn said getting up to leave.
"Oh okay" Fred said getting up. She walked up to him and they kissed goodbye. Then Gunn left and Fred grabbed a book and headed to the courtyard.
At the end of the day Cordy headed home. Wesley was working, or reading in his office late, and Fred was reading in the courtyard. Wes's POV: `I wonder where Fred is? Maybe I should talk to her. She's probably reading, getting smarter and smarter every day.' Wesley got up and headed for the stairs, when he noticed the courtyard doors open a little. He went to close them when he saw some one, a shadow, moving in the room. He grabbed a sword and headed to the courtyard. The courtyard was dark and he couldn't see a thing. Fred heard him enter and turned to the doors. She thought Wesley knew it was her and headed towards him. He saw a figure walking towards him and thruster his sword into Fred's stomach, causing her to scream. At that moment Wesley realized it was Fred, pulled the sword back and tried to turn on some lights. Once he could see Fred, he ran to her and caught her, just in time. She looked up at him with tears in her eyes, holding her side. Wesley removed her hand
and saw the bloody gash. He pulled out a hanker chief and pressed it to her wound. He slowly placed her on the ground and ran inside to grab the first aid kit. He ran back out to Fred.
"Oh, Fred! I'm so sorry! I thought you were a robber or demon or...not you" Wesley explained putting pressure to her wound.
" I...was...just r-reading..." Fred said as Wesley put pressure to her gash. " Ahh, oh God" Fred screamed.
Wesley looked into her and eyes and almost began to cry himself. He lifted her up and brought back into the hotel. He placed her on the couch and went to wake Angel up. Angel already heard her scream, knew who it was, and was half way down the stairs.
" What happened?" Angel asked rushing over.
" I thought she was a stranger and I kind of..." Wes started as Angel lifted up the towel to see her cut. His eyes widened as he looked up at Wesley.
" You stabbed her?" Angel asked in shock.
" It was an accident, she was coming towards me and I thought... oh what have I done?" Wesley said.
" We need to get her to a hospital fast!" Angel yelled picking up Fred and carrying her out. Wesley followed them out to the car and got in the driver's seat. Fred started to moan and sweat. The pain was getting unbearable.
" Ssh, you'll be okay" Angel reassured Fred as he brushed hair from her face.
Wesley sped up and pulled into the hospital parking lot. Angel carried Fred into the ER, like he has done many times before.
" We need help!" Wesley yelled holding the doors for Angel.
" Okay, what happened?" a doctor asked.
" She was stabbed" Wesley explained helping to put her on a bed.
" Okay, we'll take care of her just wait outside" the doctor said.
" I`m going to call Gunn and Cordy" Angel said running to a phone.
"No, I don't want Gunn to know, not yet" Wesley said grabbing Angel's arm.
" Fine, but I'm calling Cordy" Angel said already dialing the number.
About 45 minutes later, Cordy arrived to find Wes and Angel in the waiting room. The doctors still hadn't come out yet.
"Hey I came as fast as I could" Cordy explained sitting next to Wes. " How is she?" Cordy asked as Wes looked up at her.
" They haven't told us yet, it's almost been an hour" Wesley explained almost ready to cry.
"Oh Wesley I'm sure she's fine, don't worry" Cordelia said holding his hand.
"I...I thought..." Wesley started to say just as the doctor came out.
"Angel?" the doctor asked.
"Yes" Angel said jumping up.
"Okay, she'll be fine, some internal bleeding, but she should be fine" the doctor said.
"Are you sure?" Wesley asked standing up.
"Yes. She's asleep now, but she should be awake by tomorrow" he explained.
"Can we stay with her tonight?" Cordy asked also butting in.
"Well, I'd advise you not to. She needs her rest"
"Well, can some one at least watch over her?" Angel asked.
"I suppose. One of you can stay" the doctor said.
"I will" Cordy said.
"No, I will" Wesley said.
"Well, I can't, you know too sunny" Angel added.
"You two can both stay if you'd like" the doctor said.
"Great" Cordy added following the doctor, Wes behind them.
The doctor showed them to her room and brought two chairs out. Wesley stared at Fred, and felt so bad for what he did. He sat down and held her hand. Cordy sat next to him and watched her sleep. Soon Cordy, herself, fell asleep, but Wesley stayed up all night.
By morning Fred was starting to wake up.
"Fred?" Wesley asked as she opened her eyes.
"Ahh. My side hurts" Fred said.
"It's okay, the doctors said you'd be okay" Wesley explained.
"Doctors? Where am I?" Fred asked.
"You're in the hospital. Don't you remember anything?" Wes asked hoping she didn't know he stabbed her.
" I remember reading and then you came out and ..." Fred said. Her eyes widened as she remembered he stabbed her.
"Fred?" Wesley asked.
"You...I remember now" Fred said.
"I didn't mean to...I thought you were... I'm so sorry" Wesley said putting his head down.
"Wesley, I know you didn't mean to" Fred explained trying to sit up. "Ah" Fred said as she sat up. Wesley looked up and tried to help her.
"No, I'm fine, just tired" Fred explained.
Suddenly Cordelia started to wake up and saw Fred up.
"Hey, Fred how are you?" Cordy asked getting up.
"Oh, fine, a little sore" Fred explained.
"Well, I'm going to talk to the doctors and ask them when you can go home" Cordy said walking out.
"So, Fred, are you okay? Really? You're not lying?" Wesley pleaded.
"Really, Wesley, I'm fine"
"Alright" Wesley agreed.
Cordy came back a few minutes later, with a worried look on her face.
"What, what is it?" Wesley asked as he stood up.
"Fred has to stay for a few more nights. They want her to get rest here"
"Is there something wrong?" Wesley asked.
"No, not now, but...but if..." Cordy started to but then couldn't and put her head down.
"But if what?" Wes asked impatiently now.
"If you stabbed her harder and drove it any farther into her, she would have died. That's what took so long yesterday. They had to save her. She almost died." Cordy said, breaking into tears.
Wesley looked at Fred. She had tears rolling down her face.
"Oh, Fred! I'm so sorry" Wes said almost crying himself. He walked over to Fred and rubbed his hand against her face, but she turned away, almost afraid of him. He looked at her in confusion. She looked back at him with fear in her eyes. She tried to sit up, but couldn't. Wesley tried to help her. Fred shrugged him off and sat back down. Cordy ran over and helped Fred up. Wesley left the room feeling so bad. He walked out to the front desk and saw Gunn talking to a nurse. He came up to Wes. Wesley thought he was going to kill him.
"Wes, man, where is she?" Gunn asked worried.
` I guess he doesn't know I did it' Wes thought.
"She's in the room down the hall, number 12" Wesley explained. Gunn ran down the hall and into her room. Fred looked up to see Gunn.
"Charles!" Fred said crying as he ran over and hugged her. "Ahh, easy, I'm not all better yet" Fred explained. Gunn looked at her and almost started to cry.
"Oh, are you okay? I was so worried" Gunn said.
"Yeah I'm fine, I know he didn't do it on purpose" Fred said unaware that Gunn didn't know that Wesley hurt her.
"Who? Who did this?" Gunn asked.
"Well, I know Wesley didn't mean to but...oh God you didn't know" Fred said.
"Wes did this?" Gunn said angered. "I'll kill him" Gunn said as he started out.
"No, it was an accident!" Fred yelled grabbing his arm. He shrugged her of and proceeded to the lobby. Wes had already left. Gunn went to the nurse and asked where he went. She had no idea. Gunn headed back to Fred's room.
"He's gone" Gunn stated.
"Oh thank God! Charles, don't hurt him. It was an accident" Fred explained.
"How is almost killing some one an accident?" Gunn asked angrily.
"He didn't see me and thought I was a robber or not me" Fred explained.
"I'm still going to kill him" Gunn said. "I'll be back later. Cordy watch over her okay?" Gunn ordered.
"Yeah, but you can't kill him, he didn't do it on purpose, Gunn!" Cordy yelled after him as he left her room.
Gunn sped down the streets of L.A., back to the hotel. He barged through the doors and headed for his office.
Back at the hospital.
"Cordy we have to leave" Fred said starting to get up.
"You can't" Cordy said.
"Yes!! I need to stop him" Fred said. Cordy could tell she cared for both Gunn and Wes and she needed to stop Gunn and she may be the only who could. Cordy helped her dress and sneak out of the hospital. They rushed to the hotel.
At the hotel.
Gunn ran into Wes's office and slammed the door. Wes looked up and saw him. He started to get up and tried to leave.
"What the hell? How could you do something like this?" Gunn yelled closing in on Wes.
"I...it was an accident" Wes explained backing away.
"So I've heard" Gunn said.
"You don't believe me" Wes said afraid for his life.
"NO, and I'm going to kill you. You almost killed her!!" He yelled. Then Gunn picked Wes up and threw him through the window in his office. Just then Cordy and Fred arrived.
"Where are they?" Fred asked just as Wes was tossed through the window. "Wesley!" Fred screamed as she ran towards him. He was unconscious. Gunn entered the lobby to see Fred by his side.
"So, you still feel for this guy?" Gunn asked approaching them. Fred took Wes's head in her lap and caressed his forehead.
"It was an accident, Charles" Fred said glaring at him with tears almost spilling over.
"He almost killed you!" Gunn yelled.
"He didn't mean to" Fred yelled back. Then she grabbed her side. "Ahh! Damn it Charles don't make me yell!" Fred screamed. Gunn rushed to her side and knelt next to her.
"I'm sorry, I just got so upset when the doctors said you almost died." Gunn said understanding Wes didn't mean to do it and it was all an accident. Fred then looked up in horror at Gunn. He looked at her with confusion.
"What, what's wrong?" Gunn asked.
"He's not breathing!" Fred said horrified.
"Oh my God, I killed him" Gunn said staring at his friend.
To be continued.
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