Lucy winced as she landed the Axel jump barely being able to keep her balance for a split second before stumbling and almost falling to the cold hard ice. She could feel Aquarius glaring daggers at her back.
They had been practicing that move almost the whole training session now and she didn't seem to be making much progress. Needless to say her coach had been beginning to feel a little irritated. Well it wasn't like it needed much trying to get Aquarius angry. Lucy seemed to be achieving that just by being near her.
Lucy had always prided herself for being a relatively fast learner so she shouldn't be taking that much to get a move right. She didn't know what was wrong with her on that day but she just couldn't do it! It frustrated her to no ends. And more importantly she did not want to manage with her equally frustrated coach.
"Just. What. Do you think. You're doing." Lucy winced once again. Aquarius made a point to emphasize each word but kept her tone low. That wasn't good. She almost wished the woman was yelling at her.
"It's not like you haven't executed similar moves! I just don't get it. All day it's like you have your head in the clouds! "
"I'm sorry…"
"No, that's not the point! That's a move you really have to know!" the older woman scoffed "You know what? Forget it. We're done for today."
"What? But I still haven't-"
"Yeah, yeah I know. If it's an off day for you it's no use staying here. It's a big waste of time for both of us. You can do some stamina training or something, I don't care." Aquarius moved to the edges of the rink and Lucy followed her after a brief moment of hesitation.
"Next time I expect you to execute that without having to touch the ice. Understood?"
"Yes ma'am."
The two started undoing their skates in silence.
"You know, I'm really wondering which idiot was your previous teacher. You're not terrible yourself but you really lack in some practical departments."
Lucy felt her heart jump out of her chest. There it was. She couldn't have avoided that topic forever. "Oh, umm. You see the thing is…" she stumbled with her words. "I didn't really have a skating teacher."
"WHAT?" Aquarius turned to look at her with wide eyes "Are you serious?"
"Yeah, I mostly learned on my own. Mom helped me at first but then… Well I practiced on my own with a little help of the owner of the local rink. He didn't give me full lessons but he helped me with whatever I needed."
"Wait, are you saying Jude couldn't afford to get you a skating teacher?"
"He… wasn't really fond of the idea of me following my mother's footsteps. He even forbade me from skating." Lucy laughed awkwardly. She had gone to great lengths to sneak past him and train whenever she could.
"Oh my- Oh, he's so dead! That absolute moron forbade Layla's daughter from skating! Just you wait I'll-"
At that moment a ringtone sounded through the rink and Aquarius frantically searched her handbag to pull out her phone. Lucy tried not to look so relieved at the interruption.
"What?" She answered the phone angrily. "YOU DID WHAT?"
Lucy almost felt bad for the person calling. The woman wasn't in her best mood at the moment. At least it wasn't directed at her anymore.
"You unbelievable little- Okay, just stay where you are I'm coming." She finished the call while spouting not so kind words at the black screen of the cellphone.
"I have to go." She turned to Lucy "Something came up."
The blonde sighed in relief. That phone call was her savior!
"This isn't over yet, you know." Aquarius said, reading Lucy's mind, before she left the room in a hurry.
That was a very tiring day… But at least she was done with practice earlier than expected! Now she could go home, have a nice warm bath, take a long nap and-
"Hey Lucy!"
"WHAT THE-" The girl in question screamed in surprise as bright pink head sprouted seemingly out of nowhere. "NATSU?"
"Well yeah, it's me, are you having memory problems from that age?"
"I know it's you idiot! Will you ever stop doing that?"
"Do what?" Natsu asked blinking innocently.
"Oh you know exactly what I mean." Lucy squinted at him "Why can't you go into a room like a normal person."
"I did come in like a normal person! But the crazy lady was here and I think she still keeps a grudge on me."
"That's ridiculous, she doesn't- wait no, you may have a point…"
"See!" Natsu grinned in triumph.
"Wait, how long were you hiding?"
"Hmm, not sure. I was done with practice early and I came to see how you were doing."
Lucy felt her heart jump inside her chest.
Had he heard about Lucy's dad? Did he know who she was? She didn't want that! She didn't want him to treat her differently…
"You didn't hear anything… weird?" she asked cautiously.
"Weird? No, not really. I was too far away to hear what you were talking about if that's what you meant."
Lucy sighed in relief "It wasn't anything serious anyway."
"Though, I was here long enough to see you fail in the Axel jump" he smirked.
"I'm working on that!" Lucy exclaimed glaring at her companion "I'll have it down in no time, you just caught me on a bad day." She defended herself.
"Hey, don't worry about it! Everyone has their bad days. I remember when I first started skating I had a huge problem with it! Gildarts was ready to give up on me!"
"Really? I found that pretty easy, it was one of the first moves I mastered."
"I salute you for that. I still struggle with that stuff."
"Oh, I know!" Natsu's whole face brightened up "We could practice together tomorrow!I could help you with that!"
"Really?"
"Yeah, why not? I don't have practice with Gildarts anyway."
"Thanks." Lucy smiled at him gratefully. "I really appreciate it."
Lucy picked up her backpack and slid it on her left shoulder adjusting the strap so that it wouldn't slide off "Well I should get going now. I'll see you later."
"Okay, bye!" Natsu waved at her excitedly.
Lucy moved to exit the rink but before she even took one step forward she felt a hand grabbing her by the shoulder and turning her around forcibly.
"NO WAIT!"
Lucy looked at her fellow skater quizzing. "Okay?"
"Ahh I can't believe I almost forgot! It's your fault you know!" he pointed at Lucy accusatory
"What? How is it my fault I have no idea what you're talking about!" Lucy furrowed her eyebrows.
"The reason I came to see you!" Natsu exclaimed excitedly "Come on, I need to show you something." He grabbed her by the arm and started pulling her towards the exit.
"Hey, hey, you can't just drag me like that! You didn't even ask if I had anything else to do!" Lucy pulled back at Natsu's arm and pulled both of them to a halt.
The boy turned to her with a blank expression as if contemplating something before asking "Do you have anything else to do?"
"No…"
"Why are you making this complicated then?" Natsu looked at her judgingly "Weirdo."
"Hey, we've been through this before!"
"Yeah well you don't seem to have stopped proving me right."
"You know what, I think something just came up."
"Nooo wait Lucy I didn't mean it!"
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In the end Lucy caved in to Natsu's pleas and let her new friend drag her through the building before stopping in front of a wooden door somewhere in the second floor.
"Wait, wait!" Lucy stopped the boy before he could turn the door handle to let them in.
"What?"
She pointed at the sign that hanged in the center of the door that read 'staff only' "Are you sure we can go in there?"
"Lucy?"
"Yeah."
"You're part of Fairy Tail now, you're basically the staff."
"Oh…"
"Besides we put the sign there." He stepped into the room while opening his arms widely. "Welcome to our hideout!"
Lucy carefully stepped inside and was immediately greeted with an explosion of colors.
The small roomed was crumped with two brown and one blue single seat sofaswith a huge TV screen on the center of the room. On a first notice the room was pretty messy. There were clothes lying around on the floor and small everyday things like some headphones and plushies. And was that a mini fridge on the corner? However it didn't look bad. It had sort of a lived in feeling to it. It was comforting.
Lucy eyes were immediately drawn to the tall bright red bookshelf that took up one of the walls of the room. It was filled with books, CDs, figurines and trophies. Lucy smiled subconsciously as she came closer and browsed through the shelves recognizing a few titles.
"So what do you think?"
"That's amazing!" she turned at her companion with a huge grin. "What is this room?"
"Oh it's our little hideout. We come here to relax and hang out in between practice. You can come here anytime you want!"
"Really?"
"Yeah sure, I wouldn't have brought you there otherwise!"
Lucy felt the corners of her mouth twitch up "Thanks, I'll take you on that offer."
Natsu flashed a bright smile in response. "Hey you wanna play some games?"
"Games?"
The boy gestured to the TV at the end of the room and Lucy noticed for the first time a small gaming device being plugged into it.
"It has mostly old games but I think those are the best. So what do you say?" Natsu looked at her with wide expectant eyes.
"Ah, I'm not sure…"
"Please!"
Lucy could only hold her rink mate's puppy dog eyes for three seconds before caving in. Seriously it should be illegal for a grown up man to be this cute "Okay fine! I guess I can stay for a few games…"
"Yessss!" Natsu ran to the game console fumbling with a few CDs lost in his own world while Lucy moved awkwardly to one of the couches trying not to regret her decision. A few games wouldn't hurt would they?
"Ah, that's right!" Natsu exclaimed as he turned sharply to the other occupant of the room "I should probably let you chose" he said as he held up several game cases that Lucy didn't recognize. "So, what do you wanna play first?"
"No, it's okay you choose. I… don't really know any of them."
Natsu looked puzzled before holding up one of the games again "Come on you don't even know Tekken?"
"Sorry, no. I haven't really played any video games." She really couldn't, not with her father thinking they were a massive waste of time.
Natsu looked at her scandalized with his mouth open wide and a hand clutching his heart. "You've seriously never played? Oh man I can't believe this we have to fix that immediately." He quickly popped a cd into the console and flopped into the couch next to Lucy.
"Prepare to be amazed, that's my favorite game of all time." He said as he handed Lucy a controller. "I won't be going easy on you just because you're a newbie you know!"
"I wasn't expecting anything less." Lucy smiled before turning back to the screen.
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"NO NO NO NO! AHH DAMN IT!"
A large K.O appeared at the TV screen and a video of the finishing blow replayed after it.
Natsu glared at Lucy through his eyelashes "You cheated!"
"Hey, I didn't cheat! It's not my fault I have natural talent!"
"You definitely lied! No way you were playing for the first time!"
"You're just grumpy because I'm better than you!" Lucy smirked.
"What? Hah, I was just going easy on you cause you were new."
"What happened to 'I won't be going easy on you just because you're a newbie you know!' " Lucy did a poor imitation of her fellow skater only to have a pillow thrown at her general direction.
"Shut up, don't get stuck in the past!"
"It was literally an hour ago."
"Shh, the past. I demand a rematch!"
"What again? This is our 10th round! Just admit I'm better than you."
"Never…" whispered Natsu in a low tone that sent Lucy into a fit of giggles.
"Seriously though, let's take a break I'm getting a bit tired"
"Fine! This isn't over!"
Natsu went to turn off the TV and console while sending her fake glares and Lucy curled up in her couch. This was surprisingly very fun. She could really get used to this she thought and a faint smile found its way to her face.
Of course she should have known better to expect a moment of calmness in this rink… To say Lucy was surprised when she felt a sudden weight in her lap would be a huge understatement. It didn't help that when her eyes immediately shot down she locked eyes with a small blue cat.
They stared at each other for less than a second before Lucy's mind processed the situation and she let out a surprised shriek startling the cat. Lucy stood up from the couch and jumped behind it in a speed she didn't know she was capable of as soon as the cat had left her lap. She didn't know if that was made clear enough but the cat was blue! Blue! She wasn't a cat expert but she knew that wasn't in the very least natural!
"What, what is it?" Natsu got up alarmed as he tried to locate the reason for Lucy's screams.
In response she mutely pointed to the small animal which was now looking at her almost with confusion as she tried to calm her racing heart from the surprise. The boy's eyes followed to where her finger was pointing and broke into a soft smile.
"Oh hey buddy! I didn't know you were awake."
Lucy stared in astonishment as the cat mewed at the pink haired boy and went to rub it's head in his leg as Natsu petted it softly.
"You know the cat?"
"What? Of course I should know him, it's my cat!"
Lucy continued to stare at the duo in bewilderment. "Your… cat." She said slowly.
"Ah that's right! I haven't introduced you two yet." He picked up the cat and turned to her direction. "Lucy this is Happy, Happy this is Lucy! She may seem a bit weird but you get used to her." He said stage whispering the last part.
"Hey, you- wait are pets even allowed in the building?"
Natsu theatrically gasped and pulled Happy closer to his chest "Pet! Happy's not a pet he's my friend! And he's technically allowed as long as he doesn't bother anyone."
"Technically? So he's- you know what, I don't care at this point…"
Natsu shot her a smile that slowly turned into a frown "Wait what got you scared before? Don't tell me it was Happy?"
Lucy bit her lip and looked away from the other skater.
"It was!" he said in delight "Oh man this is golden, Happy's harmless! Well unless you're a pillow he really likes to destroy those."
"Shut up I wasn't scared, I was just startled! You don't see a blue cat pop out of nowhere every day! Wait we've overlooked that for too long. Why the hell is your cat blue?"
"Ah yes…" Natsu rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly "You see he had a bit of an accident."
"Yes?" Lucy prompted him
"So I was mixing some colors to paint my room when Happy was just a kitten. When I took my eyes of him for a few minutes he managed to fall right into a full bucket of blue paint."
Lucy stared at him in disbelief "Are you kidding me, shouldn't it have come off?"
"Yeah that's the problem… you see I was kind of experimenting with some chemicals and the paint turned out to be permanent."
"Experimenting- why would you be experimenting with paint? You really shouldn't be trusted with another living being."
"Hey Happy's okay with it, right buddy?"
The cat mewed loudly as if agreeing and Lucy sighed in defeat flopping back into the couch. "Ah I give up…"
It wasn't long before she felt something bump against her leg and looked down to see the cat once again by her side. She hesitated for a second before slowly petting his head. Lucy smiled unconsciously as Happy relaxed into her hand and purred softly.
"Wow, he really likes you." Lucy turned to see Natsu looking to the scene in amusement. "It takes some time for him to warm up to strangers. It took him about a month to even sit within ten meters of Laxus. He still doesn't like him that much."
"Wait, Laxus? As in Laxus Dreyar, one of the worldwide top figure skaters?"
"Well I wouldn't call him one of the top anymore, he's retired."
"That's not the point! How do you know Laxus?"
"He's the grandson of the owner of Fairy Tail." Natsu said like it was an obvious thing.
Lucy's eyes widened "Are you serious right now?"
"Ohhh right, most people don't know that. He used to train here but then he left us to form his own little group. Said we would be holding him back. You're lucky you didn't meet him then, he was a bit of an asshole. The console is his by the way, he left it behind and we conveniently forgot to give it back."
"Wow, it's amazing!"
"Did you hear anything I said?
"Fairy Tail is so amazing!" Lucy continued unbothered "Wait do you know any of the other skaters!"
"Hmm, what do you mean?"
"I've heard about so many incredible figure skaters have their training rink in Fairy Tail! Ohhh do you know Titania? She's so cool I wanna be able to skate like her one day!"
"You won't be saying that once you meet her." Mumbled Natsu
"What?"
"Nothing nothing, I said you'll meet her soon."
"Really?" a huge smile lighted up Lucy's face. "Oh how about Fullbuster, is he still here after… you know."
"Oh the ice princess? Yeah unfortunately you'll be seeing him soon too."
"And the Salamander?"
"What?" Natsu chocked out.
"I haven't really been keeping up with men's figure skating but I heard the Salamander is in this rink? I saw his performance once and he was so cool!"
"Really, you think he's cool?"
"Of course, have you seen his skating? He's on fire every time he enters the ice!"
"Well today's your lucky day!" Natsu smirked at her.
"Hmm, what do you mean?"
"The Salamander is right here!" He spread his arms wide proudly.
Lucy's smile fell from her face. "You? You're the-"
"Yep, Natsu Dragneel, the Salamander. That's me!"
"Wait, you're a pro skater?"
"Yeah of course I am! What did you think?"
"I don't know, certainly not being a national famous skater!" Lucy exclaimed flustered "Sorry… I- uh, you weren't what I was expecting."
"Wow Lucy you really know how to talk to people. I'm not the cool guy you were expecting?" He said with a teasing smile.
"Oh my god, forget everything I said earlier." Lucy hid her now blushing face behind her hands while Natsu exploded into fits of laughter.
They ended up talking for hours from Natsu's experiences and encounters at competitions ("I swear Lucy he showed up with black eyeshadow and lipstick, he looked like a Tanuki, and danced as the evil witch putting a spell to his ex-girlfriend! I think I saw him cry on the ice…") to arguing whether vanilla or chocolate ice cream was better. Talking with Natsu was easy, it felt like they were best friends for ages and the conversation never flopped always having something to comment on.
"Hey Natsu can I ask you something?"
"Yeah, shoot."
"Why pink hair? I mean it doesn't look bad but it's an interesting choice of color."
"Ah yeah, that… You see Luce when you want to dye your hair you should always check the time limit for the dye to set in."
"No!"
"Yes! It was supposed to be red to match with my skating outfit! Gray teased me for days after that."
Lucy didn't notice how much time had passed talking until Levy called to see where she had disappeared.
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It had been a couple of days since Gray last saw the weird blue haired woman and stopped to help her. He still has no idea why he did that. He should have just minded his own business and gone his way but no! His stupid mouth has to open up and blurt out the first thing that came to his mind. After realizing what he'd done he had pressed his lips in a tight line panicking inwardly and wished Juvia hadn't heard him. Of course luck was never on his side when it came to her.
To make things worse apparently Mira was passing by and saw the whole scene and now she wouldn't stop teasing him. As if she didn't have enough teasing material before. She never failed to inform him every time he finished his individual practice that Juvia was in the public rink and Gray always walked away silently cursing the white haired woman. It wasn't that he didn't like Juvia. Sure she was a bit weird and their first encounter wasn't exactly normal but he didn't hold anything against her. It was more that he had no idea how to act with her.
Gray was lost in his thoughts when he realized he was nearing the reception desk and quickened his pace. He wasn't in the mood for Mira's teasing remarks at the moment. However it wasn't the receptionist he found waiting.
"Gildarts?"
The man looked up from his phone and smiled at him "Hey kiddo! Long time no see! I was waiting for you."
"What do you want?" he asked suspicious.
"What I'm not allowed to miss my cute little student?"
"You literally took Natsu and I for dinner last week."
"Ah you're no fun anymore, I miss when you were all respectful to me when I first started coaching you. Tell me how are you, how the leg going?"
"Good? There's still some time before I can start official training. But you knew that already."
Gildarts hummed in agreement "Good, good… So how's Juvia doing?"
"Good-wait! How do you know about this?" Gray squinted his eyes to the other man.
"Oh, a little bird told me you were voluntary helping a sweet woman with her skating." He said grinning
"Mira…" Gray grumbled
"They grow up so fast… you already have your own student. And it's a cute girl nonetheless." He wiped a fake tear out of his eyes.
"She's not- Look I don't know what she told you but they were all lies."
"Oh so you didn't give a lesson to this Juvia girl?"
"No! Yes. That's not- Okay I did but that was a one-time thing!" he fumbled with his words. The man's grin grew out even more.
"Or go on an ice cream date with her?"
"It wasn't a date!" Gray spluttered embarrassed but the older wasn't finished.
"And you didn't go completely out of your way to give her tips?"
"What the hell, is she just giving you reports on my life now?"
"Ah so you don't deny it!" he exclaimed in triumph.
"No, I- Fine believe whatever you want I don't care! I won't be helping her anymore that was it."
"Gray I think you should be her teacher." Gildarts said in a serious tone the teasing smile having been erased and his former student looked at him in bewilderment.
"Are you joking?"
"No, I'm being completely serious. Gray I know this past few months have been difficult for you and I understand but I feel like you've been distanced from us, from your friends." Gray frowned but before he could talk back the man continued "Mira told me you've been livelier these past few days, I really think taking on that girl as a student would help you out."
"But-"
"No buts, here me out first! It wouldn't have to interfere with your own training. Just a few hours a week. You will have some social interaction and I believe teaching someone can benefit with your own skating skills."
"I don't know Gildarts I have so much going on and…"
His former coach placed a reassuring hand on his shoulder "I know kid, believe me. But I really think this can do you good, I wouldn't suggest it otherwise. Promise me you'll think about it?"
"I- yeah okay. I promise." Gray agreed reluctantly.
"Great!" the smile reappeared on his face "Now excuse me I have to go pick up my cute daughter for dinner!"
"Does Cana know about it?"
"Nope!" he said excited as he walked to the exit door "Don't forget your promise!"
Gray waved at him until the man disappeared and he dropped his hand down in defeat. What had he gotten himself into?
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After his talk with Gildarts Gray went straight to his house the man's words circling around his head. He tried to distract himself by binge watching series but after realizing he had no idea what happened in the last three episodes because he was zoning out he gave up. He somehow managed to fall asleep without many problems and had put the whole situation in the back of his head the next morning. Well that was until later that afternoon.
"Gray~" the man in question visibly stiffened as he heard his name being called out by a certain receptionist. This wouldn't be good. Couldn't he just go home one day without any interruptions? Please?
He slowly turned around and forced a smile at his friend "Hey Mira… I was just going home." He tried dropping a hint to be left alone but obviously that wasn't in the woman's plans.
She smiled at him sweetly from behind the counter and rested her head on her clasped hands. "Can you do me a small favor?"
"Uh, sure what is it?"
"It's time to close down the rink and I have to go lock the upper floor down. Would you mind going in the main rink and seeing if anyone's still there?" she threw something at his direction that Gray caught instinctively realizing it was the rink's keys when he opened his palm "Lock it too."
"Close down?" Gray furrowed his eyebrows confused "I didn't stay that late didn't I, there's still half an hour to go."
"Ah, something came up and I have to leave, I can't just keep the place open. Now go make sure no one's getting locked inside." She smiled again and lightly pushed him to down to the direction of the main rink.
Gray adjusted the straps on his backpack and started moving eager to get done with this as soon as possible. He had a bad feeling about this. Once he reached the metal doors separating the public rink with the corridor he poked his head inside.
He was ready to shout for everyone inside to start leaving before he noticed a single figure in the middle of the ice. Gray felt his words die inside his throat. Of course. Why else would Mira make him go all this way!
Unconsciously he tried to blend in with the background and felt his gaze being drawn to the blue haired woman. She seemed to still be practicing what he had taught her and he felt a strange feeling of pride washing over him as he noticed her improvement. Oh no he was already getting into a teacher mode!
After a few more seconds of staring at her Gray snapped out of his daze remembering the reason he was sent here. Though he was pretty damn sure the reason was different than what he first thought.
"Excuse me we will be closing down now if you could please-" Gray let his sentence fade out as Juvia locked gazes with him her lips forming an O shape.
She moved her arm up and waved shyly at him from the middle of the rink. "Hello!"
"Uh, hey Juvia I didn't know you were here today… Sorry we're closing down in a few minutes."
"Oh sorry Juvia lost track of time!" she said as she skated towards the edge of the rink trying to take her skates out as soon as possible.
"Ah no you're good don't worry. We're just closing a bit sooner today."
Gray watched as the girl returned the skates to the stand and got her backpack. She stepped outside the door and Gray fumbled with the keys for a second trying to find the right one.
"So how's your practice going?" he heard himself asking before he could realize it. Stupid mouth of his…
"Oh, umm it's going good?"
"Are you asking me?" Gray said amused.
"No! It's good! It's just that Juvia can't really judge for herself."
"Yeah…Well if you practice enough you're sure to get better at it. You could get in a group too if you want to improve faster."
Juvia noticeably winced at his words "Juvia can't. She doesn't really have a lot of free time." Gray wondered if the hint of sadness in her voice was his imagination but he couldn't process it enough before she shot him a bright smile and continued "Juvia is really happy she got to have that one lesson with you! She'll be going now, it was nice seeing you again."
Suddenly all Gildarts had said passed through his mind as he looked at the blue haired woman in front of him. She seemed to genuinely enjoy skating.
"Hey are you still up for those lessons?" he asked before he could change his mind."
"What?" Juvia looked at him with wide eyes.
"You said before you wanted me to teach you, have you changed your mind?"
"NO! Of course not! But you said before-"
"Yeah, I know what I said but I thought about it. So what do you say?"
"Yes of course!" a huge smile appeared on her face "But how much should Juvia pay you?"
Gray chocked on air. He hadn't thought about that "Pay?"
"Yeah isn't that natural?"
"No nope we're not doing that. I'd feel bad taking money from you I've never taught anyone before."
"But-"
"Nope, I'm not changing my mind on this. Ah we should probably meet up and discuss this more seriously. Do you have time tomorrow?"
Juvia nodded frantically, seemingly still in shock by the whole situation.
"Okay, cool. I, uh… I'll see you on the rink tomorrow then." Gray turned on his heels and walked away as fast as he could before he could see her response. If he had stayed any longer he was sure to make a fool of himself.
He passed the reception throwing the keys into Mira's desk and bolting out of the building. It wasn't until he was lying on his couch at home when he fully realized what had happened. Surprisingly he didn't find himself regretting it.
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