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WARNINGS: Talk of torture, Child Abuse, Sexually abuse and Rape in this chapter.
Chapter Twenty One: Family.
Emily sighed heavily preparing herself for what was about to happen as she placed her hand on the door handle to the interview room at Savannah police station.
JJ had been recovering well from the physical effects of the torture she had endured and Dr. Marsh had thought that now was the best time for JJ to undergo the operation on her hand to help repair the nerve damage and help her hand heal quicker.
JJ had been nervous about having the procedure done at first not wanting to be placed under the anaesthetics for the same reason that Reid had refused drugs of any kind all together when first admitted to the hospital.
Fear of waking up in an unknown room and fear of not knowing what was going to happen in that room.
However with Emily's encouragement and Dr. Marshes reassurance that they would not put JJ to sleep until she had seen the room she was to be operated on in with Emily by her side, JJ had slowly come around to the idea knowing that having this operation would help her get the use of her other hand back and help her heal quicker.
JJ fell asleep with Emily right by her side holding her hand and looking into her eyes tell her that when she woke up again they would be back in JJ's hospital room and she would still be with her like she was right now.
Emily and Dr. Marsh had decided not to mention that Emily would not be able to stay through the procedure, even though they knew the blonde probably already knew this, they decided it was best not to alert her to the fact just in case it caused her to panic.
Upon leaving JJ in Dr. Marsh's hands in the operating theatre and promising to be back in time for when the operation would be over, which would be roughly three hours Emily had set off to find Hotch wanting to get an update on our the interviews with both Sara and Charles were going.
Emily had heard from Garcia a few nights ago while JJ had been asleep, that they had wrapped up the interview process with Charles but they were having trouble getting anything out of Sara.
They had enough to charge her, more than enough, but being part of the BAU take down they had to evaluate her behaviour to make a report on why she did what she did.
Although they had some idea from information Garcia had dough up on her as to why Sara had done what she had done and how she was connected to it all they still needed to interview her and get the information from her personally to make the report.
The problem was Sara was insisting she would only talk to the female agent on the team.
They had tried interviewing her with female members of the police force at the station to get nothing from her.
Strauss had tried to interview her with still the same result, nothing.
All the guys on the team, expect Reid, had interviewed her as well still getting nothing.
The only ones to yet try were Emily, Garcia and JJ, for obvious reasons JJ could not be doing the interview, Garcia was not trained in handling these types of interviews with her line for work, which just left Emily.
When Emily had found Hotch for an update and got all the relevant information from him she had agreed to interview Sara as long as she would be back at the hospital in time for when JJ was to wake up after her operation.
Emily knew this interview was going to be one of the toughest interview she had ever and probably would ever have to conduct, she was nervous.
Pushing the door open Emily stalked through into the room trying to put as much confidence into her steps as she could, this was going to be a hard interview to conduct, especially without giving into her urge to rip this women's head off for everything she had done to her girlfriend and friend.
"I heard you wanted to talk to the female agent on our team. So talk." Emily said walking around the table where Sara was sat hand cuffed and taking a seat opposite the woman she only just over two weeks ago shot in the arm.
Looking at her Emily could see her arm was in a sling still, she looked tired and un-kept, even though she still had that confidence about her. Right now Emily wanted to pull her gun out and shoot her again, somewhere that would hurt more, but doing that would cause her to stoup to her level, and Emily Prentiss was nothing like this woman.
"There's more than one female agent on your team, who said I meant you?" Sara replied cockily.
"Agent Garcia does not deal with these types of interviews and agent Jareau is currently undergoing an operation to try and fix the nerve damage you and your partner in crime caused to her hand. So that means you're stuck with me." Emily replied, shuffling papers from the folder she brought in with her, she refused to look at Sara, although she was sure that the woman could hear the anger in her voice while she spoke about JJ.
"Maybe after her operation little Jenny could come have a chat with me, I spent so long with her I miss her now." Sara replied with a wicked smile watching how Emily's shoulders tensed at the nickname Sara used for JJ.
"That is not going to happen. You will never set eyes on her again. Just so we are clear to you she is Agent Jareau, or Jennifer only." Emily replied cuttingly, she refused to let this woman taunt her and her girlfriend, Emily knew the weight that nickname held over her girlfriend.
"Whoa! Calm down, it was just a suggestion." Sara replied chuckling, she loved how easy it was to rile Emily up, she could use the two agents relationship to her advantage and she knew it.
"Well here's another suggestion. Do not mention Agent Jareau unless you are asked something about her. The same goes for Dr. Reid." Emily said lifting her head to look Sara directly in the eyes, unblinking.
"Boy scout! Now he was fun to play with." Sara said a light to her eyes.
Emily was disgusted by the site, this woman really did just think of her girlfriend and friend as a toy, a play thing, for her to toss around and spit back out when she was finished with.
She had no remorse.
She was the alpha in the duo that she had established with Charles.
Charles may have made the first kill, he may have come up the premise for what it was they have done over the years, but Sara was obviously the in-force.
The one who Charles met after that first year.
The one that changed the MO of the kills so drastically to turn a trophy kill into a torture parade.
She was more in control than any of them thought, they had thought she didn't want to talk to anyone to save herself in a non-effective way, but now Emily could see that was not the case.
She wanted to continue the torture, bringing Emily and her team mates into it.
Knowing they had to hear about the sick things that happened to their team mates to help close this case down and there was very little they could do about it to stop her, as if they wanted to keep her in prison for the length of time they were hoping, in Emily's case until she was dead, they would need as much information as possible to make that happen.
"What kind of 'games' did you play with Dr. Reid." Emily asked, knowing she need to control this conversation rather than letting Sara have control over it fully.
She couldn't be blind sighted by who and what it was that they were talking about right now as hard as that was going to be.
She was going to have to compartmentalise as best she could.
She needed to close all those little boxes in her mind and keep to the task at hand, she had to not let this woman faze her, not let the brutality of what happened to her girlfriend and friend get to her.
She had to do it for them, so that she and her team could send these sick people to prison and never have to see them again as long as they live.
"Why don't you ask him?" Sara replied with a smile.
"I'm asking you right now." Emily countered.
"I don't know if I should say. Its personal to me and the boy scout, we had a lot of fun playing them, don't wanna go letting others know so they can steal our memories." Sara replied trying to act thoughtful.
"I can assure you Dr. Reid and Agent Jareau did not have fun playing your 'games'." Emily replied simply but surely.
"Are you sure of that?" Sara asked mockingly.
"Yes." Emily said.
"Really though? I mean Jenny never told you of her family till recently did she? What if she kept more from you? What if she secretly loves to be hurt and to play like we did with her?" Sara replied smirking as she watched Emily's eyes narrow in anger at her.
"She may not have told me everything, but I know her, more than you will ever know, more than you claim to know her. Answer my question." Emily demanded after defencing her relationship with her girlfriend, not that she needed to, she could see what Sara was trying to do.
"It was a nail you know?" Sara said with a smile after a long pause.
"In her hand, a big rusty one. We had to give her an injection to stop her from getting blood poising from it. Strange as it sounds I never wanted to kill her, not her body anyway, just her mind." Sara continued before Emily had the chance to cut in.
Sara wanted to shock Emily, to throw her off her game.
From the looks of Emily's facial expression she had managed to do so.
Emily was finding it hard to compartmentalise this interview, she knew they were getting to where they needed to be, but she couldn't stop the anger she was feeling.
She was angry at Sara for hurting JJ, she was angry at her for her lack or remorse or care in the way she spoke about what they had done to JJ and Reid.
She was angry this just seemed like a massive game to Sara.
"You hammered a nail in her hand repeatedly?" Emily asked for clarification, trying to control her anger.
"Yeah. She loved it she knew at that stage that she deserved what she had coming to her. She knew that she was filth and that she needed to suffer the way she made her own mother suffer. The way she made her whole family suffer. She did those cute little screams when it went it. I think it actually hurt her more when we made the scout pull it out again." Sara said with a laugh, enjoying the memory in her mind and Emily's discomfort
Emily felt a sickness rise in her stomach as she listened to the words Sara spat at.
It was obvious Sara really did believe what she said, but why?
Emily had an idea of what it was that caused the damage to JJ's hand but she had no idea that Reid had been there when it happened, that he had been forced to pull it out just so they could hammer it back in again.
No wonder he felt so guilty all the time, even though Emily knew none of this was his fault she couldn't help but feel a little bit of anger at him for it, he could have refused, but what would they have done if he had?
Was him doing this the lesser of two evils?
"He thought he was protecting her by doing it you know, such a nice boy, he tried to take it out as gently as possible, but the slower he went the more it hurt her. I told him if he did I would stop playing with her for a few hours. I did. I'm always true to my word. I just failed to mention I would stop playing with her so that Charles could." Sara said with giggle at the end, as though she was a child retelling the best story on earth which only made Emily feel even sicker.
"Charles wanted her to know how her mother felt when she was conceived, he told me the first time he played with her how tight she was. I wasn't there to hear her screams that day, had an errand to run, but oh I bet they were delicious. She screamed well for me to when I whipped her and burnt her but not like she did for him. Almost made me jealous, I wanted to get those scream out of her, reduce her to a trembling crying mess like he did. He truly is a gifted man." Sara said in awe.
Emily wanted to scream herself.
She wanted to take the chair that she was sat on and beat Sara to death with it.
She couldn't though, she wanted to so badly but she couldn't.
Taking a few deep breaths she tried to push the building rage she felt back down and focused on why she was here.
"Why?" Emily asked simply, it was the only thing she could think to say right now.
"Why is he gifted?" Sara asked confused.
"No, why did you do this? Why hurt all those women? Why hurt Dr. Reid? Why hurt Agent Jareau the way you did? You both brutalised and tortured her much more than any of the previous victims and Dr. Reid. This was personal to you. So why?" Emily asked.
"That devil child took Donnie away from me." Sara replied with ease.
"No he did that himself the moment he shot Sandra Collins. This is something else. Something bigger and more personal. What did he pay more attention to her than you or something?" Emily asked mockingly, even though she felt disgusted by the thought of him paying any kind of attention to JJ what so ever.
"She shouldn't have even been born, she was lucky to even be alive. He gave her what she deserved." Sara said with ease as though she had said that sentence time and time again.
"She was a child, no child deserves to go through what she did regardless of how they came about in the first place." Emily replied with conviction.
Emily just couldn't understand how Sara could think this way, how anyone could think this way, just because someone is born from a bad circumstance it does not make them bad themselves, they have no control over the way in which they are brought to existence.
"She needed to be reminded of what she was, what she is. A devil child, born from sin, born in sin. She wasn't planned nor wanted, she was forced upon her family and they had to suffer through her existence." Sara said simply.
"That wasn't her fault, she had no control over the circumstances that led to her birth, she was an innocent in what happened just like her mother, just like your baby." Emily said pulling out the information Garcia had found from the file and sliding it across the table to Sara.
"I don't have a baby." Sara insisted not even at the piece of paper in front of her.
"No you don't. But you could have. We read your medical files, we know you had a miscarriage not long after Donald was taken into custody ten years ago." Emily said pointedly looking down to the file in front of Sara before looking back up to her again to gage her reaction.
"Then you know that she is the reason my baby died!" Sara replied angrily.
"No she isn't. Agent Jareau didn't force you to take the amount of drugs you were taking, you did that all on your own. Your body couldn't cope with the amount of drugs you were pumping into your system and neither could your baby." Emily said firmly.
"Stop lying! It was her fault, she destroyed my life! She shouldn't have even been born, if she wasn't she wouldn't have been able to kill my baby, to take Donnie's future, to ruin Michael, he was like a father to me, he was going to be my father in law until she got in the way!" Sara spat in anger.
"It would be so much easier for you if that was true wouldn't it? But it's not. Michael ruined himself by covering for Donald the way he did, Donald threw away his future away when he pulled out that gun, your baby died when you decided to become a drug addict rather than deal with everything else that was going on around you. These were choices each of you had and each of you made. They were you're choices and your choices alone. It's always easier to blame someone else than it is to face the truth." Emily said standing.
"Where are you going? We haven't finished talking." Sara asked confused.
"Yes we have. The BAU has finished interviewing you now, we know all we need to know. Charles Tyln did what he did to restore his power from the trophy kill he claimed as his own 17 years ago. You helped him because you needed to take you anger out on others that had experienced something similar to yourself and as it was easier to blame someone else for what you did to your baby your anger came out fully Jennifer because you an her are more similar than you want us to realise." Emily said collecting the papers from the file and walking towards the door.
"I'm nothing like her at all!" Sara insisted with anger.
"You both spent your lives trying to apologise to those around you for something that you had no control over. The way in which you were conceived. What happened to Agent Jareau's Mother also happened to your own didn't it?" Emily asked as she reached the door, already knowing the answer.
"I've never told anyone that, not even Donnie, how did you know?" Sara asked shocked.
"You're behaviour speaks volumes even when you're words don't." Emily simply said.
"You hate her so much because unlike you she managed to keep her innocence, she managed to keep a light about her that you couldn't. She is what you could have been, what you wanted to be before everything got too much and it was just easier to get high and forget everything and everyone. I'm sorry that that happened to you no child deserves to be treated or made to feel bad over something they had no control over." Emily said, it was the truth, she did feel sorry for Sara in a small way, but at the same time she wanted her to suffer.
Sara knew what JJ was going through when they were both younger and even though she knew how it felt she did nothing at all to help her, she made the choice to make things worse for her.
Just like she made the choice to depend on drug.
Just like she made the choice to do everything she did to those other woman, to Reid and to JJ.
"She isn't so innocent anymore, we made sure of that. I had great fun in breaking her apart. Have fun trying to fit the pieces back together Agent Prentiss." Sara replied smugly, she didn't care that Emily knew about her and her past, she had done what she set out to do, she made Jennifer suffer for everything just like she promised Donnie years ago.
"I won't need to. You didn't break her. You tried hard to, all of you did, when she was younger and when you took her to those caves. That's why you both hurt her so much, you tried to destroy her but you couldn't, do you know why?" Emily said turning back around to look Sara in the eyes.
"Because she feels everything. All the good and all the bad. She lets it all in even though it scares her to do so. So when you had her down in the cave, even though she was terrified she hung on to those good feelings she had felt. She hung onto friendship and love and her trust in me and my team. She trusted that we would find her and that we would be there for her no matter what. She held onto her family, the family that she made for herself." Emily continued.
"In this family we protect each other fiercely. We don't always admit it to each other but we love one another so deeply that nothing can break us apart. Not even you. You won't be seeing any of us ever again, so I want you to know something. I need you to know that in trying to break us apart you only made us stronger than ever. So just remember that while you are alone in you cell in prison rotting away, with your bitterness, your spite and your hatred, that we have each other and that you failed." Emily finished smiling as she turned around to open the door leaving the interview room with a slam to the door behind her.
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Emily smiled gently as she watched her girlfriends eyes slowly flutter open, the anaesthetic from the operation wearing off bringing her out of her sleep.
Dr. Marsh had told Emily after she returned from the station that the operation had gone very well and she was confident that practice JJ would regain full motor functions in her hand. She had told Emily that JJ would no longer need to wear a cast, but her hand would need to stay dressed and bandaged for at least a further two weeks still the operation wound area had healed.
"Hey beautiful." Emily said as she got up from the chair she had been sitting in next to JJ's bed to crouch down in front of her girlfriend and softly stroke her hand through JJ's hair.
Emily stayed crouched down next to the bed and watched as JJ slowly lifted her hand up that was now bandaged rather than in a cast and looked at it.
She watched as JJ smiled at seeing her hand out of the cast before looking to Emily who smiled back at her. Slowly JJ lifted her hand further to brush her fingers of her bandaged hand slowly along Emily's cheek.
Emily smiled wider before lifting her own hand to catch JJ's, bringing it to her lips to softly kiss before taking her hand in her own.
"How are you feeling?" She asked quietly.
"Good." JJ replied softly.
"Good." Emily repeated.
"Won't be long till we have you beating us all at darts again now bullseye." Morgan said from the doorway where he had been stood watching.
Hearing the voice startled JJ causing her hand to tighten around Emily's slightly, as Emily stood bending down to kiss JJ on the forehead before taking a seat on the bed right next to where her head was knowing that JJ preferred her to be close when the boys were around.
Even though JJ was making great progress in talking and being more confident around everybody in general she was still never nervous of the men in the group or any man that entered her room.
Emily always made sure she was close by when the boys were in the room just in case JJ became frightened and began to panic.
The closer Emily was to her the less likelihood there was of a panic attack and as well as that Emily would be able to pick up on an approaching panic attack much quicker if she was closer.
She would be able to see any changes in the blondes breathing easier, when her breathing became fast and short it was a sign a panic attack was on the way.
She would be able to feel if her girlfriend began to tremble which was another sign of an approaching panic attack.
"Jayje could beat you any day Morgan, you kinda suck." Emily joked as Morgan walked across the room to the take the seat Emily had been sat in besides JJ's bed beforehand.
"Hey! I'll have you know I'm getting better, isn't that right blondie?" Morgan said jokingly being offended by Emily who was not paying attention to him as she was helping JJ sit up on the bed next to her.
"Sure you are Morgan." Emily replied as though congratulating a child while she and JJ made themselves comfortable on the bed, Emily sitting leaning against the headboard as JJ sat leaning against Emily's chest both her hands holding onto Emily's arm that was wrapped securely around her stomach.
Morgan couldn't help but smile at the pair, they looked so natural together.
Emily knew exactly what JJ needed without having to be told and JJ felt so at peace with Emily her confidence grew day by day.
"Your girlfriend is so mean to me. Make her stop." Morgan sulked talking to JJ who smiled before leaning back into her girlfriend further.
"That your way of saying you're taking her side?" Morgan asked laughing as JJ smirked at him.
"I'll make sure to remember that." Morgan joked while smiling to let JJ know he wasn't being serious, it made him happy seeing her like this.
This was the most laid back she had been around him since she had woken up.
He would take a smirking yet quiet JJ any day over a screaming and crying JJ.
He was glad she seemed more at ease around him, even though he knew that that was mainly down to Emily.
He could see how close JJ was sitting in front of her, he could see Emily's fingers gently stroking JJ's stomach while JJ held onto her arm tightly securing her in place.
He could also see that even though her eyes still showed a small amount of fear while she looked at him, it was less than he had seen times before, she was less afraid of him and that made him happy.
"All joking aside, I'm glad you're operation went well JJ. Reckon I can get a fist bump?" Morgan asked holding a fisted hand out towards the blonde.
Both he and Emily watched as JJ eyed his fisted hand before letting go of Emily's arm with her bandaged hand and slowly with deep concentration on her face circled her hand into a loose fist before gently bumping it with Morgan's.
"How about a high five?" He said with a smile, lifting a hand up in the air slightly.
JJ eyed him before shaking her head her bandaged hand going back to Emily's arm as Emily kissed the back of her head pulling her in a little closer.
"I'll give you a high five." Emily said raising an eyebrow in his direction as a challenge.
"No way! For your information I wasn't going to do a hard slap anyway." Morgan said dropping his hand back down before chuckling causing Emily to laugh as well.
It was one of Morgan's known jokes to ask for a high five and slap the persons hand really hard.
Emily catching on to this trick pretty fast had starting trying to hit him back harder after he did it to her the first time.
"Chicken." Emily said after her laughter died down.
"You scare me Prentiss. You are a terrifying woman." Morgan joked, only half serious.
"Only to those that need to be kept in line." Emily joked back, the light-heartedness of the conversation and the peace that filled the room at the moment making her forget about her earlier interview with Sara.
She was with her family now, she had the girl of her dreams wrapped up in arms as the man she viewed as a brother was entertaining the both of them.
This was what family was about, being comfortable with one another.
"You can keep me in line any day princess." Morgan joked.
"I've told you to stop calling me that Derek." Emily replied her eyes narrowing.
"Aw, come on it suits you. Don't you agree with me JJ?" Morgan asked turning to the blonde for help.
Morgan watched as JJ turned slightly in Emily's arms to face her girlfriend, her one hand coming back up to gently trace Emily's face deep in thought.
"She's my prince." JJ replied softly still concentrating on Emily's face her fingers ghosting gently over her girlfriends lips as they turned upwards into a smile.
Morgan smiled watching the interaction.
This was the first time he had heard JJ speak since awaking from the coma, to his knowledge he was the first man she had spoken in front of.
"And you're my princess." Emily replied repeating the words they had spoken to each other the night before JJ had been taken, the night of their roof top date.
"So, Prince Emily it is then." Morgan said laughing as the two agents turned to look at him in surprize the both of them obviously having forgotten he was in the room with them.
JJ smiled shyly at him before cuddling into Emily's side burrowing her head into Emily's shoulder as Emily brought her hands up to JJ's back one of them running up and down her spine softly.
"I can see you two are getting all 'love bird' like as Garcia would call it, again, so I'll be heading off soon. But before I go I was hoping to talk to you about something JJ?" Morgan said posing the end of his sentence as a question to draw the blonde's attention.
He waited until JJ stopped hiding in Emily's shoulder and turned to look at him, while still being in her girlfriends embrace, before looking up to notice Emily's attention was on him as well now, wondering what it was he was going to ask.
"I think Reid is struggling with what happened to both of you, even though he won't ask I think he really wants to talk to you about it. I think it will help him make sense of everything a little more, I think it will help you make sense of things a little more as well. You don't have to decide anything now, I just thought I would put the idea out there." Morgan said, quickly adding the last sentence when he noticed JJ's eyes, which had been trained on him, go almost distant and faraway.
"I miss him." JJ whispered softly, after a pause.
"Spence." She added after a moment to confirm who she was talking about.
"I don't know if I can talk to him about everything that happened yet." JJ said quietly pulling herself out of Emily's embrace to turn and look at her so she was talking more to Emily while answering Morgan.
"That's okay baby, you don't have to do anything you don't want to." Emily assured her gently cupping JJ's cheek with one hand while the other was still running up and down her back.
"Prentiss is right, we aren't going to make you do anything you don't want to do. It's okay to say no to this if you don't feel you are ready. Reid may not be ready himself yet either. I'm sure he would like to see you even if he isn't ready to talk about what happened yet." Morgan said watching his friend closely hoping he had said the right thing and wasn't about to cause her to have another panic attack.
"I would like to see him." JJ said turning to Morgan before quickly turning back to Emily again, she felt nervous about admitting that she wanted to see him again and looking into Emily's eyes always made her feel safe.
Her eyes were always soft and gentle.
Always loving.
Always so distinctly Emily.
"Garcia is with him now, would you like me to ring them and see if they are free to come over now for a while?" Morgan suggested gently not wanting to push her but knowing that visiting JJ would make Reid's day.
Reid had been wanting to visit JJ again ever since she woke from her coma.
Morgan and Garcia had been trying excuse after excuse as to why he shouldn't though knowing that seeing his friend the way she was at first would only heighten his guilt that they had yet been able to talk him out of feeling.
Morgan had a feeling only JJ would be able to make him believe that what happened was in no way his fault which is why he had suggested this in the first place.
He thought broaching the subject with JJ and Emily first would be wise.
He was pretty sure that Reid would jump at the idea of being able to see the blonde and he didn't want to get Reid's hopes up or for him to become upset again if she was still not ready for that.
He watched as JJ looked out the window deep in thought before turning back to look at him then back to Emily nervously.
"Do you think…maybe…do you think we could go outside when we see each other?" JJ asked timidly, her eyes showing fearing at what the reaction to her question would be.
JJ had yet to be outside of the hospital room she was in other than to go to the operating theatre.
She hated being cooped up inside.
At times it was almost suffocating.
She had to look all around the room just to make sure the doors and windows were still open.
She had to check that she wasn't locked in.
She was worried that feeling of being trapped would become worse if her and Reid were in the same room.
She was worried it would cause her to remember being trapped down in the caves and that she would panic.
She was hoping the fresh air and the openness of being outside in the hospital gardens would help relax her mind and Reid's.
"I don't see that being a problem, but how about we check with Dr. Marsh first, just to make sure you're physically ready to be moved to a chair and ready to be outside." Emily said with a smile both her hands coming to rest on JJ's sides her thumps stoking up and down gently.
"Why don't I go find her and ask while you find something a little warmer for bullseye's here to wear?" Morgan asked with a smile as he stood from the hospital chair and stretched.
Emily looked at JJ who nodded with a smile, she smiled back to her girlfriend before turning back to Morgan who was waiting by the door expectantly.
"Sounds good, when you find her can you ask her to come see us so we know whether to join you guys outside or not?" Emily asked him.
"Sure." Morgan confirmed before walking out the hospital room.
"See you later Prince Prentiss and Princess Jareau!" He called back from the hallway he was walking down causing them both to smile again as Emily rolled her eyes at her friends antics.
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