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Chapter 3- Lonely Heart
"So next one is starting then", Buffy said as they watched it come on-screen.
"So, more of Team Angel then I guess", Willow said.
Angel sat alone in his office as Doyle came in and turned on the lights, making Angel blink while he suggested going out to involve with people, since it was Friday night, so they should enjoy the nightlife instead of sitting in the dark like some kind of- "Some kind of vampire?" Angel asked but Doyle said he meant Slacker, and asked him to come on, so the three could have a night of fun. Angel said if Doyle wanted to ask Cordelia out, he could do it himself.
"Busted", Dawn said as all laughed.
"Yeah, but he isn't wrong about all 3 needing some fun by themselves", Tara said, and everyone agreed with that too.
Doyle said he'd no idea if she liked him, and asked Angel to put in a word for him about how great of a guy he was.
"Yeah sure, even though he has known her for 3 years and you for only a week", Giles pointed out the irony, making everyone chuckle again.
Angel pointed out he barely knew him and Doyle said that made it easier, before requesting not to reveal his half-Demon nature to her as women could be tricky about that.
"Well, who knows in Cordelia's case?" Xander said.
"She was pretty shallow when we knew her", Dawn said. "But people change."
"She was changing before she left", Buffy said. "Now we're going to see it."
Cordelia walked in, saying they were in, Doyle walking next to her, as she said it was the calling cards for people to reach them, and Doyle agreed it was a good idea, since there was no signal folks could shine in the sky to get their attention.
Everyone chuckled again as Willow said. "Looks like they see the similarities with Batman too."
Angel wondered why their number was next to a butterfly, and Doyle said it was a bird before correcting to an owl, but Cordelia said it was angel, and Doyle found it brilliant since it was obvious but clever too.
"I think it is both obvious and clever", Tara said. "So Doyle is right, in spite of his crush."
Cordy lightly tapped Doyle's chest with the back of her hand, making him double over in pain as she told him not to be a baby as she barely hit him. Doyle moaned and kicked the desk, falling back as he threw the cards up, Angel helping him as a dance club was shown.
"So he's having a vision then", Willow realized.
When Doyle recovered, he said he saw a bar which was stuck in the 80s, but got no faces, only a feeling that something would happen, and Angel said they were going out after all.
"Got his wish then, just not in the way he expected", Buffy said.
At a nightclub called D'Oblique, a girl with long blonde hair sat unhappily when a dark haired guy arrived, sitting next to her, and introduced themselves to each other. He was Kevin and she was Sharon, and they started chatting, with him giving strange looks.
"Anyone feeling something off?" Xander asked and everyone nodded. "Good to know I'm not the only one."
Kevin and Sharon talked at a table, saying how they thought they would meet someone special, also talking about Ken and Barbie, and she was impressed by him.
"Smooth talker", Xander snorted.
"Jealous?" Willow asked as everyone chuckled.
Angel, Cordelia and Doyle arrived and split up, with Cordelia handing Angel some calling cards. Angel walked to the bartender, asking if he'd seen anything unusual, and he said it was early and the hot women didn't mosey until 11:00. Cordelia handed a bunch of people their calling cards, before Doyle pulled her away, telling her they needed to stay below radar as their service might make people think of the V-word. Cordelia thought he meant Vampire but he corrected 'Vigilante', and there were laws against that, so they needed more casual chat, including 'minions from hell getting ya down?'
"Hi, I'm Xander Harris, are minions from Hell chasing you and getting you down?" Xander joked as everyone laughed.
"When it comes to supernatural, we are the law", Buffy said. "Not them."
"Yes, but in LA, the supernatural and real world mesh a lot more than they did at Sunnydale", Giles pointed, and everyone conceded.
Cordelia said she was an actress, so she could tell people's stories just by looking at them. She pointed at a dancing guy and said he had a Peter Pan complex and was a mama's boy, then pointed at a blonde girl and said she was a self-absorbed closet-dud, and then pointed at Sharon leaving with Kevin, saying she was rich to snag the Calvin Klein model she was leaving with.
"I think that's the trouble Doyle was warned about", Dawn said.
"And they just left", Buffy groaned.
Cordelia asked how Angel was, and he was standing by the bar, a guy walking away shaking his head as Angel promised he wasn't hitting on him.
All chuckled as Xander said. "So he's faring even worse."
A blonde girl asked Angel if he was okay, saying he looked bad, but also very nice, and decided to have her drink. He thanked her, and she asked for thinking if he looked bad or good, and he asked her to choose, introducing himself as Angel, and she introduced herself as Kate.
"Wait, I think I know her", Buffy said.
"From where?" Willow asked.
"Right, I remember now!" Buffy said. "But I won't tell you who she is."
"Why?" Dawn asked.
"Spoiler", Buffy smirked
"You're evil", Dawn told her as she gave a fake innocent smile.
Kate inquired if he came here a lot, and Angel said it was his first time, and she said she preferred cool bars, but couldn't get into them, and Angel said he was looking for someone to rescue. Kate stared in disbelief, saying it was the strangest line she'd heard all night, while Angel said it wasn't one, and that he wasn't good at talking.
"We can see that", Tara said, everyone chuckling.
"Guess broody guys aren't as cool as they look", Willow said.
"Now you realize that?" Xander asked.
Kate said she didn't need rescuing and had given up on her knight in shining armor, and didn't expect to find one here among the international house of posers. Angel said people could surprise, and she said she sounded like a hypocrite since she ragged on this place while coming almost every night, as it was this or home alone in the dark. Angel said he wouldn't want that.
"But that's all you have", Buffy said sadly.
Kate asked his occupation, and he said he was a veterinarian, and Kate said how a man who loved animals could be trusted.
"Yes, mostly", Buffy said. "Though the joke he isn't one."
Doyle asked Cordelia if she had all figured out, but she said she didn't get him, due to his visions, and he said they were messages from higher powers as his gift. Cordelia said if those were her gifts, she'd return them due to the headaches.
"Wouldn't say I'd blame either of them", Willow said.
She then said he did a thing with his face, surprising him while she added his visions were lame due to being vague, self-destructing tapes with a dossier would be better.
Everyone chuckled as Xander said. "You'd get those if this was Mission: Impossible and Doyle Tom Cruise."
A blonde guy arrived with the calling card, asking if Cordelia was passing them, and he asked if he could ring Cordelia for a date. Doyle said she minded, but Cordelia said this was a business card to offer services to people in need. He said he needed some service, asking if she charged by the hour.
"So he's a sleaze", Xander snarled as everyone glared at him.
Doyle said she was with him but she said she wasn't as the blonde guy insulted him. Kate told Angel she had a hard time trusting people, especially since in a place like this no one would reveal their true colors, and she didn't get what they were looking for. Angel asked what she was looking for and said it depended on how much she had, but realized she came off as a drunken slut, but it was better than hypocrite so she was moving up.
"She doesn't seem to be the most social person herself", Giles said.
Angel said she was too hard on herself, and again asked what she was looking for and she said she was trying to make a connection, though it was harder now. Angel said he had no idea what he was looking for and Kate asked if he'd like to go somewhere quieter. Angel said he needed to stay.
"Trouble's gone though, so you don't need to stay either", Dawn said.
Doyle tried to pacify the situation as another guy arrived, and the blonde guy said Cordy was a hooker while her pimp was giving him a hard time.
"And you got that how?" Willow asked, speaking for everyone, who were angry.
Cordelia wanted to fight but Doyle stopped her, saying violence wouldn't solve a thing, and head-butted the blonde guy, saying things were festive. The three started fighting.
"Imagine if he had his spiky face when he head-butted him", Xander said and all cringed at how painful it would be.
The other guy punched Doyle and the previous one grabbed him but was elbowed and tossed away, while the other one punched Doyle again. The bartender arrived to break it up but was punched away. Angel came up and grabbed the chair away from the blond guy as he got ready to hit Doyle with it. He used the chair to block the blond guy's punches, then broke his nose.
"Owww", Dawn repeated what Cordelia had said as it looked painful.
Angel was attacked by the other guy but threw him into the wall. Both guys went up against Angel but he held them off easily. Then he and Doyle threw them into a pile and the bartender stepped between them as Cordelia said the two jerks started it.
"Yeah they did, and got what they deserved", Buffy said, everyone enjoying their beat down.
They tried to protest but the bartender ushered them out, saying they made a nuisance every time.
"Considering they punched even him, I doubt he'd take their side", Xander said.
A starry-eyes girl walked to Angel and Doyle, asking if Angel was okay. Doyle thought she was talking to him and replied but then saw she was talking to Angel and walked off with Cordelia, while Angel asked if she was okay, and she said it was up to him to find out, standing away.
"Poor Doyle", Buffy said.
"And she knows how to flirt", Xander pointed out.
"Take some pointers", Tara said as Xander sputtered, all laughing at him again.
Angel started talking with the girl, as Kate watched dejected and then walked out, Angel watching her leave as he chatted with the girl.
"Guess she wanted something more", Tara said.
"Yeah, but I doubt it would really work out", Willow said.
"No it wouldn't", Buffy said firmly.
"You still won't tell us what you know?" Dawn asked.
"Nope", Buffy said.
"I am thinking it will be more exciting when we see it for ourselves", Giles said.
"He gets it", Buffy told Dawn.
Sharon and Kevin lay in bed together, having made love, though she didn't look happy, and sat up, with Kevin saying he'd just want to hold her, and wrapped his arms around her.
"What will he do, bear hug her to death?" Xander asked.
"No idea, let's watch", Buffy told him.
At the bar, Angel said he still didn't believe Doyle's vision was to break up a bar fight. Angel asked if anyone here needed help, and Cordelia said everyone. Angel said the socializing was brutal, as nothing was like this when he went to bars, and Doyle said he only went to taverns in small towns where all knew each other, and Cordelia said dating was easier in high school as there was a lot in common, including being monster food every other week.
"You're in the world of grown-ups now", Tara said, and everyone felt it hit home, since their struggles looked very real and adult in comparison to the ones the group had in high school.
Doyle said all were strangers with secrets in the big city and the bartender arriving, saying the place was shutting down. Cordelia said the single life would be very hard on Angel, as now he can't sleep without being perfectly happy and going evil and killing, and Angel said he appreciated her perspective. Cordelia joked how the last thing she wanted was to come to office to see she worked for a homicidal maniac now, and they got up and left.
"She is brutally honest", Giles said.
"She thinks it, she says it", Buffy described Cordelia.
Sharon sat on the edge of the bed, with Kevin looking dead.
Everyone looked shocked as Dawn asked. "So she's the big bad."
"Looks like it", Buffy said.
Cordelia looked up stuff on a computer while Doyle looked through papers, as Doyle was whacked, and Angel spelled D'Oblique for Cordelia, with Doyle doing it instead. Angel asked how he'd picked up computer skills, and Cordelia said he downloaded pictures of naked women.
"I don't think he appreciates that", Buffy said.
"Who would?" Xander asked.
Doyle noted they had 2 hits, one was a Heather Nolan who had gone missing last month after visiting the bar, and the second was a badly mutilated body of a Martin Haber, and he had last been seen at the bar with a female companion.
"So the girl has been doing this stuff for quite a while", Tara noted.
Angel said there must be more disappearances, and asked them to use the library downstairs, while Angel decided to go to the bar to see if he could meet a killer.
"Maybe you could", Xander shrugged.
Angel ran into Kate near the nightclub and apologized for last night before warning her to not go in as it might not be safe, and she said she had a trust problem, which he wasn't helping. Angel replied he was going in there too, and she said she could go wherever she wanted while he could go to hell. She walked into the bar as Angel said. "Been there, done that."
"Yeah, guess the phrase won't work here", Xander said.
Kate walked to the bar, sitting next to a blonde girl chatting with a guy, as Angel arrived, sitting further down, the two looking at each other for a moment before she turned away.
"As long as there is no trouble, she's safe", Willow said.
"But she won't like him in that case", Tara pointed out.
Kate said to the blonde next to her some guys had problems, and the blonde turned around, revealing herself to be Sharon, now a glamorous chick before turning back to her date.
"She's changed her look completely", Dawn said.
"Probably to avert suspicion from herself in case people describe her", Willow suggested.
She chatted up her date, who said how he was a geek with a geek toy gang back in the day and couldn't get a date, while she told him high school was over now.
"It's just toys, right?" Buffy asked and all nodded. "Good."
Kate looked to Angel who sipped a coke while a guy arrived, asking the bartender about Kevin who said he didn't show, and the guy said he didn't show up to work or answer calls, making the bartender mention the girl he'd hooked up with, and Angel asked who it was.
"Let's just hope she gets caught soon", Giles said.
At Angel's office, Cordy and Doyle looked through books with Doyle pointing at a flesh eating Demon, and Cordelia said they were disgusting, saying how one wore a wreath of intestines, but Doyle pointed out some could be really nice too given the opportunity, but Cordelia said slime aside, they didn't have much going on.
"Well, she has yet to meet Clem", Buffy said.
"He's fun and all that, but he's not good looking either", Willow pointed out.
"Yeah, but she'd like him", Buffy said.
The bartender told Angel it was Sharon, a regular, and the guy said how Kevin was scraping at the barrel's bottom, with Angel asking where he could find Sharon. The bartender replied she's here with another guy called Screech, and turned to look at her, but she was gone, with Angel inquiring more about her, and the guy said it was 'Richler', with Angel leaving as he looked her up in the phone book. Kate watched him from her seat in the bar as Angel found Sharon's name, ripped off the page and left.
"So she's onto him", Tara noted.
"More to her than meets the eye then", Willow said.
Sharon and Screech lay in bed staring at the ceiling, with Screech apologizing about his performance as Sharon asked him to roll over, and he did as she cuddled behind him, with Angel running down the street.
"Anyone remember that Kevin wanted to hold her before?" Xander asked. "And now she's cuddling."
"Yeah, it's really off", Buffy agreed, all knowing there was something that didn't add up so far.
Then suddenly a reptile creature emerged Sharon's chest and started burrowing into Screech's back who screamed.
"Oh!" Buffy said, everyone groaning. "So she's a literal snake. Sort of."
"Looks like it", Dawn muttered.
"Even I did not expect that", Giles said.
Angel burst through the apartment door, realizing he got in, and looked around, finding Sharon lying dead like a week-old corpse.
"So she's the dead one now", Tara noted.
Angel turned to see the tail end of the reptile burrowing into Screech's back as he put on his sweater.
"I get it now", Giles said as all turned to him. "This reptile demon is going from body to body, possessing people and then leaving them behind. It is called a Burrower."
"So the Burrower first took over Kevin, then Sharon and now Screech", Xander summed up.
"It has killed many people already, it needs to be stopped quickly", Buffy said.
Screech commented how Angel wasn't human while Angel replied Screech himself was off the evolutionary chart, and asked him to stop, but Screech said he would when he found the right body to stay with, and there was nothing wrong with this one yet. "But it won't last. I already know it's not the one I can live in." "Well, then it'll have to be the one you die in", Angel replied.
"Hopefully", Dawn said.
Screech attacked as Angel punched him back but Screech blocked the next blow and elbowed Angel down, then slid him into the wall. Angel got up, vamping out, and dodged Screech's blow, punching him. Screech blocked the next one and punched Angel, pushing him into a wall. The two continued fighting, struggling with each other before Angel slammed Screech into the wall and kneed him but was slammed into the bookshelf.
"They seem equally strong so far", Buffy said.
"Which makes the fight harder", Willow added.
Screech threw Angel across the room, shattering a lamp, and when Angel looked up, Screech was gone.
"Oh no!" Tara said, everyone disappointed Screech hadn't been caught this time.
"Now he'll kill more", Dawn groaned.
Suddenly, Kate burst in as Angel got up, turning to face her with his normal face.
All sighed in relief.
Angel asked why she was here before she noticed the body, and cocked her gun at Angel, revealing a police badge.
"So she's a cop?" Willow asked, voicing everyone's surprise and Buffy nodded. "And that's what you were holding out on us?"
"Thought it'd be more exciting if you found out on your own", Buffy said.
"Yeah, guess you're right", Dawn said.
"Well, it was pretty surprising without knowing, so thanks for not telling", Xander said, Buffy smiling.
"But Angel has been caught with a body now", Giles reminded and the light atmosphere plummeted.
"By a cop of all people", Tara added.
Kate said she'd been tracking Angel since last night, while Angel said he was after the guy too, Kate asking if he was an investigator too, and Angel saying he was more or less. When Kate asked for his license, he said that was the less part.
"I mean, he started like a week ago", Willow said.
"She doesn't know that", Tara pointed out.
Kate accused Angel of being behind it all, asking how he got them to trust him, and Angel said the killer gave them hope of loneliness ending. Kate still didn't trust him and started handcuffing him, when he apologized. She asked if he was confessing but he said for this. He kicked back, knocking her down and sprinted for the open window. She got up and shot four times as he dove headfirst out the window to land on the hood of a car parked below, setting off its alarm. He rolled off and ran off down the street as Kate watched from the window.
"I think he just made himself a fugitive from the law", Xander said.
"Yeah, he did, and the only way to get back in their good graces is to find the real killer", Buffy said.
Cordelia and Doyle arrived at her apartment, Doyle commenting on the mess, with Cordelia telling him not to start, when Doyle picked a bra and held it to his chest with Cordelia taking it away impatiently, sarcastically saying how she wore bras and had girlie parts in high school.
"I think he wants to try it on", Dawn said, making everyone laugh.
Doyle said her living like this meant she lived in the moment, then stepped on a dirty cereal bowl, calling her disgusting.
All laughed again as Buffy said. "Should have expected that when you entered the house."
"It's like when Ross went into Cheryl's apartment, just not as bad", Dawn pointed out, all agreeing.
There was a knock on the door as Cordelia opened to see Angel, Doyle reminding her that Vamps needed to be invited. Cordelia jokingly asked Angel to promise he won't turn evil before inviting him in.
Everyone chuckled as Buffy said. "Same old Cordy."
Angel then informed the two Kate was a cop and now thought he was the killer before he looked around at Cordelia's apartment, asking if she lived here, and Cordelia indignantly made some excuses.
"Well, you can offer her a better place", Willow reminded. "Yours."
Angel said it was a Burrower which eviscerated the victim moving from body to body, and could only do it after the exchange of fluids, to Cordelia's disgust.
"Ewww", everyone in the room went, repeating Cordelia's gesture, while Giles took off his glasses and cleaned them.
Angel asked them to find a weakness while he'll look for it, as it would still be trying to make a connection, like lonely people did.
"And he knows how it feels", Buffy said sadly.
"It's a lonely life for him, Cordelia and Doyle are all he's got for now", Tara said.
"Touched" by Vast played as Screech talked to another woman, Kate investigated Angel's office, and Angel looked around the nightclub for Screech. Screech ended up sleeping with the other woman and the Burrower came out of his chest, entering the girl, who was then shown with an evil smirk.
"And another one goes down", Willow said sadly. "This thing is just sick and twisted, alongside lonely."
Angel returned to Cordelia's apartment, finding her and Doyle slumped over asleep.
"They look so cute, don't they?" Dawn asked, making everyone chuckle.
They woke as Angel said he would recognize it if he saw it somewhere, and Cordelia said it was a Talamour having been around since the dawn of time, with a weakness for fire, just like Angel.
"It's been around for that long, didn't expect that", Giles said.
Cordelia and Doyle described it before Angel said he'd need Kate's help to find it because she'd been tracking it a lot longer than them.
"So, call the cop trying to catch you, great plan", Xander said sarcastically.
"If she's a good cop, it is", Willow said.
Kate got a call from Angel, saying he'd help her find the killer, and asked her to meet him at the bar at 7:00, saying she could come wired and covered by sharpshooters to feel safe, and if she still thought he was the killer after that, she could arrest him.
"Not a bad offer", Buffy said. "She should take it."
"She looks like she just might", Tara said.
Kate sat at the bar, telling him to let her know if Angel came, while a guy sat next to her, chatting her up.
"It has to be him!" Dawn said. "Must be!"
The bartender said Angel was in the alley and they walked out, Kate drawing her gun while handing the bartender a card, and was about to call for backup when the bartender knocked her out with a wine bottle.
"It's him!" Dawn said, all alarmed now. "Oh no!"
He pulled up her jacket and ripped her T-shirt to the middle, the reptile popping out when a board to the head threw him off, Angel helping Kate.
Everyone sighed in relief as Willow said. "Now the burrower is getting burrowed 6 feet deep."
All looked at her weirdly as she asked. "Too corny?"
They nodded as she muttered. "I am losing my charm."
"Not to me", Tara said as they smiled at each other.
The bartender slammed a keg down on them as Angel pulled Kate out of harm's way, then kicked and punched the bartender, looking at the flap of loose skin where the board had hit him. "I guess you're done with that body."
"All bodies", Buffy said.
The bartender slammed Angel into the fence as he slammed his head back in the others face, then held on to the fence and swung up his legs and wrapped them around the bartender's neck. Kate stared as he twisted his body throwing the bartender to the floor. Getting up between Angel's legs the bartender lifted him up and slammed him into the wall, then tossed him through the door into a storage room. Angel caught the doorframe to keep from falling backwards down the stair behind him, but the bartender threw Kate into him. They tumbled down the stairs, Angel trying to cushion Kate's fall, as the bartender slammed the door shut.
"And he escapes again", Xander groaned.
"Not for too long though", Buffy said.
Angel and Kate decided to follow, as the bartender tried to push the flap back into place, before walking to a young blonde, trying to act cool, but his disgusting condition made her leave, and the same happened with another girl while Angel tried to break the door.
"No skin, no charm", Buffy quipped.
Angel helped Kate up while the bartender tried to chat up another girl, and Angel decided to go out through the window, Kate pointing out it was 30 feet up. Angel pulled out his grappling gun.
"Vampire Batman to the rescue", Dawn said, making everyone laugh.
He aimed it at an angled support beam next to the window. He triggered the release and the hook shot up and wrapped itself around the beam, Kate getting curious. Angel gave the rope a good pull and the beam came crashing down.
"Epic fail", Dawn said with a face palm as all groaned.
They looked at each other, then Kate bent down and pulled a hold-out gun out of her boot. She shot the lock of the door and they hurried out.
"She couldn't have done that earlier?" Tara asked.
"Maybe she wanted him to look like an idiot", Xander said.
The bartender stumbled to the front, a girl gasping at how his skin was peeling off from patches of his face, Angel and Kate splitting up.
"Now he has no game at all", Willow said.
The bartender dragged a blonde girl into an alley, when Angel launched himself feet first into him, knocking him away. The girl ran. Angel flipped the bartender over a crate and kicked him. They fought, but even though the guy was falling apart he was still stronger than Angel, not even feeling it when Angel threw him into the wall.
"Come on Angel", Buffy said.
He grabbed Angel and tried to force his head into the burning barrel. Angel managed to spin away and threw the bartender back into the alley. He got right back up and they kept fighting. The bartender pretty much cleaned the floor with Angel. He threw Angel again towards the burning barrel and ran to jump on top of Angel laying on the ground. Angel used his foot to catapult him over his head. The bartender overturned the burning barrel and caught fire. Now a living torch he stumbled towards an Angel that was desperately trying to move, but was too beat to more then watch him coming.
"Do something!" Willow said.
Kate arrived, shooting the bartender as he stumbled to the ground, as Angel collapsed finally.
Everyone released a breath they didn't realize they had been holding.
Later, a fire truck, ambulance and police car arrived, the body being wheeled away as Kate said it must be the bartender.
"So now the Burrower ruined the bartender's good name", Tara said, all feeling bad for him.
Kate said she never thanked him for saving her life, but he said saving his was a good start, and she told him she searched his place illegally, as a way to start fresh with no secrets, joking he did weird stuff for a veterinarian.
Everyone chuckled as Dawn said. "So now he has an ally in the law."
Buffy frowned though, wondering what exactly had happened which had lead Kate from being friends with Angel to being willing to kill him.
Angel gave her his card, her asking if it was a lobster on it.
Everyone burst out laughing.
Angel walked off, while Kate was called by a superior for a chat, and when she turned around, Angel was gone, and Kate turned back to the guy.
"And now he's being Batman again", Dawn said, making everyone laugh.
Angel walked down the road to his office, telling Cordelia and Doyle they could go for a night out due to all they had done. Cordelia said they could go home instead, and Doyle told him to sit in the dark alone, both leaving, and Angel breathed a sigh of relief, sitting down at his desk as the lights went off, Cordelia and Doyle walking out.
Everyone chuckled again as Dawn said. "So the Burrower is killed, Angel had a friend in the police department, and the day is saved."
Xander added. "And no more night outs for these three."
"Or maybe a lot more", Buffy said, coming to the next recording.
"Guess so", Willow said, deciding they should watch at least 2 more before they got too tired.
So we end 'Lonely Heart' and next up is…..SPIKE! AND OZ! Oh yeah!
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