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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="e15d1f446d1a94df607b40665c5e595e"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Author's note: thanks for reading! Chapter 1 is posted, for now, only to see if enough people will read it if I decide to continue the story! So make sure you comment and vote so chapter 2 can be posted!/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="558c886b0fb066fec3c8ea1fc3039498"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"I would also like to make a point that I am British and writing a fanfiction set in America, so some things will probably be wrong in this chapter and future ones. I will do my best to be correct, but I can't always help it. Feel free to correct me, though./span/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="a30c8191b243d40c346ed393bde6b11f"It was my first day working with Shield. With my medical knowledge, it was deemed that I would be a helpful addition. My job was to help the agents physically and mentally. After a mission, I would help in the medical bay and patch the team up, and be there as someone to talk to if need be. /p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="e15d1f446d1a94df607b40665c5e595e"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Author's note: thanks for reading! Chapter 1 is posted, for now, only to see if enough people will read it if I decide to continue the story! So make sure you comment and vote so chapter 2 can be posted!/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="558c886b0fb066fec3c8ea1fc3039498"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"I would also like to make a point that I am British and writing a fanfiction set in America, so some things will probably be wrong in this chapter and future ones. I will do my best to be correct, but I can't always help it. Feel free to correct me, though./span/p
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