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div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"11supth/sup Grade/span/div
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div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;""We need to help her! " Jess cried, pulling against Steve's protective arm. There was still time to save her!/span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;""Jessica. Alexa and Clint are hurt. You have medical training, so I need to you stay here and help them." Cap swung his shield onto his back, worry permeating his tone. Wither is was worry for Barton and Rhaul, or Melanie, Jess couldn't tell./span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"The captain took off running, back towards the building. A huge explosion shook the forested area. /span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"No! He couldn't let her get hurt! He wouldn't allow himself to lose another friend. Steve pushed, running faster and farther./span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"It took hours. The bomb had gone off early in the morning. 2 hours later, all of the other Avengers had joined them in the search, even pepper was there, and she brought food and Coffee./span/div
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div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; padding: 0cm;"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; padding: 0cm;"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"They couldn't find her. Volunteers joined them, and still, they couldn't find her. All they could do was /span/div
div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; padding: 0cm;"span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt;"worry. And worry they did./span/div
div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; padding: 0cm;"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
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div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"Captain America flings rubble, sweat and tear mingling together as they fall to the ground. Falling, dripping away. Just like his hope./span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"Iron man melt rebar and metal blocking his path, burning it, melting it, red hot, white hot fire, while red hot, white hot anger boils away inside./span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"Hulk smashes. And smashes. Bruce Smashes too. He smashes away the concrete, till it represents his heart. Broken./span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"Natasha waits, sewing skin, cleaning blood, holding limp hands. She waits for her Clint, her first ever friend, and Alexa, her enemy turned trainee. And she thinks. Ponders about the girl she barely knew, but who went through just as much pain and hurt as anyone in the red room could./span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"Aidan sits by himself. He only ever had two friends, and now they both have left him. Nobody knew him as well as she did, and nobody cared as much as Logan. And now they're both gone? He can't handle it anymore./span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"It's all too much for them to handle. They can't think, they stare dumbly at the wall./span/div
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div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; padding: 0cm;"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"12 hours later, and she is still not found./span/div
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div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"Steve Rogers, the Star Spangled Man With A Plan, can't run, can't speak, can't breathe./span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"He wants to shut his eyes, clench his fist, and curl into a ball./span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"Yet all is can do is stare. Stare at the broken bloody mangled nightmare mess before him./span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"But instead, he reaches down, and with gentle tender arms, he lifts the limp body of his friend into his arms, and cradles her. People watch and stare, camera's rolling and lightbulbs flashing, capturing image upon image of the Captain and his fallen comrade./span/div
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div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"The Avengers and Beta Force follow behind, joined as one./span/div
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div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"Bruce knows a hospital will do no good for his young friend. He's unsure if she'll get through this unscarred, unchanged. She might never heal, but right now, his priority is keeping her alive./span/div
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div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"Alexa and jess are the only ones who look at her. Jess immediately kicks into first aid gear, inserting IV, cleaning wounds and sewing skin./span/div
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div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; padding: 0cm;"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; padding: 0cm;"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"Alexa takes one look, then dry heaves into a paper bag. /span/div
div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; padding: 0cm;"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; padding: 0cm;"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"She just can't./span/div
div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; padding: 0cm;"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
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div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"Bruce gets her settled in the med bay, conveniently located next to his room and close to Steve's./span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"Rachel doesn't leave her room for a week, not even to get food. At night, when everyone is asleep, /span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"Alexa said she could hear her speaking to herself or crying./span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"Barton and Jess shot bows for hours, stopping occasionally for food and then to check on Mel./span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"Tony helped Bruce watch Melanie, changing the IV bag and checking her vitals, which allowed Bruce to get at least some rest and a little bit of food./span/div
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div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"After a 2 weeks she still hadn't woken up. Bruce decided it would be safe to move her out of the med bay and into the nearby empty room. After all, it would be easier to keep an eye on her./span/div
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div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"But he knew that the team needed to see her in a more natural place, not somewhere that looked like a hospital./span/div
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div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"Everyone was itching to do something, so Pepper suggested they paint the room, decorate it somehow. At least it would keep them busy./span/div
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div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" At least it would distract them./span/div
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div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"11supth/sup Grade/span/div
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div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;""We need to help her! " Jess cried, pulling against Steve's protective arm. There was still time to save her!/span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;""Jessica. Alexa and Clint are hurt. You have medical training, so I need to you stay here and help them." Cap swung his shield onto his back, worry permeating his tone. Wither is was worry for Barton and Rhaul, or Melanie, Jess couldn't tell./span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"The captain took off running, back towards the building. A huge explosion shook the forested area. /span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"No! He couldn't let her get hurt! He wouldn't allow himself to lose another friend. Steve pushed, running faster and farther./span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"It took hours. The bomb had gone off early in the morning. 2 hours later, all of the other Avengers had joined them in the search, even pepper was there, and she brought food and Coffee./span/div
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div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; padding: 0cm;"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; padding: 0cm;"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"They couldn't find her. Volunteers joined them, and still, they couldn't find her. All they could do was /span/div
div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; padding: 0cm;"span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt;"worry. And worry they did./span/div
div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; padding: 0cm;"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
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div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
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div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"Captain America flings rubble, sweat and tear mingling together as they fall to the ground. Falling, dripping away. Just like his hope./span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"Iron man melt rebar and metal blocking his path, burning it, melting it, red hot, white hot fire, while red hot, white hot anger boils away inside./span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"Hulk smashes. And smashes. Bruce Smashes too. He smashes away the concrete, till it represents his heart. Broken./span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"Natasha waits, sewing skin, cleaning blood, holding limp hands. She waits for her Clint, her first ever friend, and Alexa, her enemy turned trainee. And she thinks. Ponders about the girl she barely knew, but who went through just as much pain and hurt as anyone in the red room could./span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"Aidan sits by himself. He only ever had two friends, and now they both have left him. Nobody knew him as well as she did, and nobody cared as much as Logan. And now they're both gone? He can't handle it anymore./span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"It's all too much for them to handle. They can't think, they stare dumbly at the wall./span/div
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div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; padding: 0cm;"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"12 hours later, and she is still not found./span/div
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div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"Steve Rogers, the Star Spangled Man With A Plan, can't run, can't speak, can't breathe./span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"He wants to shut his eyes, clench his fist, and curl into a ball./span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"Yet all is can do is stare. Stare at the broken bloody mangled nightmare mess before him./span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"But instead, he reaches down, and with gentle tender arms, he lifts the limp body of his friend into his arms, and cradles her. People watch and stare, camera's rolling and lightbulbs flashing, capturing image upon image of the Captain and his fallen comrade./span/div
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div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"The Avengers and Beta Force follow behind, joined as one./span/div
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div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"Bruce knows a hospital will do no good for his young friend. He's unsure if she'll get through this unscarred, unchanged. She might never heal, but right now, his priority is keeping her alive./span/div
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div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"Alexa and jess are the only ones who look at her. Jess immediately kicks into first aid gear, inserting IV, cleaning wounds and sewing skin./span/div
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div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; padding: 0cm;"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; padding: 0cm;"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"Alexa takes one look, then dry heaves into a paper bag. /span/div
div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; padding: 0cm;"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; padding: 0cm;"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"She just can't./span/div
div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; padding: 0cm;"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
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div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"Bruce gets her settled in the med bay, conveniently located next to his room and close to Steve's./span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"Rachel doesn't leave her room for a week, not even to get food. At night, when everyone is asleep, /span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"Alexa said she could hear her speaking to herself or crying./span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;" /span/div
div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"Barton and Jess shot bows for hours, stopping occasionally for food and then to check on Mel./span/div
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div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"Tony helped Bruce watch Melanie, changing the IV bag and checking her vitals, which allowed Bruce to get at least some rest and a little bit of food./span/div
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div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"After a 2 weeks she still hadn't woken up. Bruce decided it would be safe to move her out of the med bay and into the nearby empty room. After all, it would be easier to keep an eye on her./span/div
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div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"But he knew that the team needed to see her in a more natural place, not somewhere that looked like a hospital./span/div
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div class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"Everyone was itching to do something, so Pepper suggested they paint the room, decorate it somehow. At least it would keep them busy./span/div
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