(A/N: This is the last chapter. It's the most cheesy, bad chapter ever, but I happen to love it. What can I say, I like cheese. Plus the title sucks big time.)
Chapter 31 – Names
A few minutes later, Remus whispered, "What're we going to call the babies?"
"Don't know."
Remus sighed and said sarcastically, "You're helpful."
/Well do you have any suggestions, Mr Intelligence?/
/Just because I'm intelligent doesn't mean I know what I want to call my babies!/
Sirius smiled and nuzzled into Remus' chest. He murmured, "Come on, there must be something you wanted to call them ... do you want two boys, two girls or one of each?"
"One of each. I've always wanted a little girl, but two ... that makes me shudder. As does two boys. They'd probably both turn out like you ..."
Sirius laughed. "Girls love their dads more anyway."
"True. Every girl I know loves her dad more than her mum."
"Well let's hope for that then."
They sat still for what felt like a long while, holding hands. Sirius asked, "So what are we going to call them?"
"I don't know!" Remus whined, looking at his watch. His heart jolted as he realised they had been there over an hour and a half already. Sirius leant into him and said, "If ... if there is a girl ... can we please call her Cassiopeia?"
Remus looked down at Sirius. "After the constellation?"
Sirius blushed. "In ... in my family someone's always been named after a star or constellation. It's one of the few traditions I actually like, and ... well, I like the name. If you don't like it –"
Remus smiled and shushed him. "Don't. It's a beautiful name. And we could call her Cassy for short ..."
Sirius smiled and looked up at Remus. "I thought that. What would you want to call her?"
"Don't know ..." Remus replied, not looking at Sirius. The animagus shook his head slightly and forced Remus to look into his eyes. He sighed. "You'll laugh."
"I won't," Sirius protested softly, burrowing closer to Remus and nuzzling into his neck. Remus sighed. "OK, OK, stop it! You're tickling!"
Sirius licked Remus' neck, causing him to shiver agreeably. The werewolf pushed him off and murmured, "Lilia."
Sirius melted. "That's adorable!"
Remus frowned, trying to find sarcasm in Sirius' words. Sirius grinned. "It's so sweet and innocent ..."
Remus asked, "Are you feeling OK?"
Sirius nodded and snuggled up close again; Remus put his arm around Sirius' shoulders. Suddenly, Chris burst into the room again, looking more excited than before. If that was possible. She slumped in the chair next to Remus and squeaked, "Congratulations, you're officially parents. You've got a daughter, and the other little one's coming!"
Sirius blinked at her for a moment. Remus swallowed hard. Sirius said weakly, "That's good, right?"
She laughed and leant over to give them both a kiss on the cheek. "I'll go back and see how things are going."
She rushed out again, giggling. Remus looked at Sirius and he stared back, his eyes slightly glazed. Remus gave him a shake. "Hey! Back to the land of the living, Siri."
"Hmm? Oh, sorry, I was just thinking ..."
Remus smiled and leant into Sirius for a hug. Sirius slid his arms around the werewolf and closed his eyes, leaning his head against Remus'. He cuddled him close and whispered, "I love you."
"I love you too."
"So which name are we going to choose?"
Remus sighed, bordering on getting annoyed. He had only just finished saying that he had no idea when the door to the corridor opened and James looked in. He grinned when he saw them and came in, sitting beside them. "Hello! How's things?"
Sirius released Remus and replied, "We've got a daughter."
James' grin widened. "Great! Chosen a name yet?"
Sirius scowled. James held up his hands. "Don't bite, Padfoot, it was a simple enough question! I'll take it as a no, shall I?"
Remus sighed, "We've narrowed it down to two. It all depends on whether we get a son or a daughter next ..."
Sirius muttered, "I hope it's a boy. And if it is, I really hope Blade has a name because I damn well can't think of one ..."
"OK, so what names have you got?" James asked. "Let's see if I like 'em."
Remus opened his mouth to reply when Chris came back once more. Remus felt every muscle tense as he realised how grave she looked. Sirius whimpered, then coughed as thought to clear his throat. He asked, "Everything is OK, right Chris?"
She sat down. She was biting her lip, tears shining in her eyes. Sirius closed his eyes, trying not to panic. After all they had been through something had gone wrong ... Remus growled. "Just tell us whatever's wrong!"
Chris's face broke into a grin. "You've got a son to go with your daughter! They're both healthy and absolutely gorgeous and the looks on your faces then were priceless!"
Sirius opened his eyes again and turned to Remus. He hugged the werewolf fiercely, snuggling into his shoulder. Remus muttered over his shoulder, "Don't you ever do that to us again, Christine Skeeter! That was horrible!"
Sirius gave a bark of laughter, pulling back to kiss Remus. The werewolf pulled back after a moment and murmured, "We'd better go and see them."
Sirius pushed open the door and looked around. Blade was asleep, lying flat out on the bed. Sirius went in and walked quietly over to her, sitting on the chair at her bedside. He reached over and stroked her long black hair. He whispered, "Thank you."
Remus sat down on the bed and took her hand. "We shouldn't wake her ..."
"We'll tell her how much in her debt we are when she wakes up. She needs to rest right now," Sirius replied, running the backs of his fingers down her cheek. Remus bent to kiss her cheek, then they both stood and walked over to the opposite end of the room, where there were two cots. Remus took a deep breath and looked into one of them. His face split into a smile. He murmured to Sirius, "Pick her up ..."
"Why can't you? And how did you know this one's the girl anyway?" the animagus protested, bending to pick up the baby girl. As he cradled her in his arm Remus walked up beside him and looked down at her tiny face. As they both looked down at her, she opened her eyes. They were dark but brilliant blue, although a section of her right eye was gold.
Sirius smiled as Remus stroked her cheek with one gentle finger and she fought one arm out of the blankets she was wrapped in to grab his finger. He glanced up at Sirius as she did so and their eyes met for a second. Remus murmured, "She's beautiful."
"She gets that from you, Remmie."
Remus chuckled, shaking his head and blushing. Sirius still couldn't believe how small the baby was; he was able to fit her onto the lower half of his arm, with her feet cradled in his hand and her head resting in the crook of his elbow. Remus said quietly, "She has your eyes. They're almost exactly the same."
Sirius grinned, looking up at Remus. The werewolf looked up too. Sirius kissed him gently. Remus slid his arms around him, so that the baby was almost squashed between them. Sirius pulled back and whispered, "What's her name going to be then?"
"You decide. I don't care; it doesn't matter anyway. She'll still be our little girl whatever her name is."
"Cassiopeia Lilia sounds better than the other way around, doesn't it?" Sirius replied, looking into Remus' face to make sure it was OK. Remus grinned. "Yeah, it does."
He looked back down at their daughter. He bent slightly and murmured, "Hello, Cassy."
She yawned at him. Sirius said, "Here, you hold her a minute. I'll get our son, OK?"
He passed Cassy over to Remus, who cuddled her close, murmuring softly to her as she closed her eyes again and seemed to go back to sleep. Sirius picked up the other baby and brought him over to where Remus was standing, still holding their sleeping daughter. Whispering so as not to wake her, he asked, "Are you going to be able to bear to put her down?"
Remus grinned and looked over at their son. He was wriggling in Sirius' arms much more, reaching up towards his face with tiny fingers. Sirius grinned down at him, leaning further towards him. This turned out to be a rather painful mistake, as his hair fell into his face from behind his ears, bringing it into the reach of the baby, who grabbed it and pulled.
Sirius winced, bending further to stop the pain, powerless to pull out of his grip because both his hands were full. Remus bit his lip, trying not to grin. The animagus hissed, "Remus, help!"
The werewolf gently put Cassy back into the cot. For a moment, she whimpered, her forehead creasing into a frown, then she relaxed back into peaceful sleep. Then Remus walked over and pulled Sirius' hair away from their son. He tucked it back behind his ears and murmured, "Weren't you saying the other day you needed a haircut?"
"Stop it! I like it this long ..."
Remus shook his head and looked down at the little boy, who had stopped squirming to watch his parents argue good-naturedly. Remus noticed that his eyes, unlike his sisters' were dark chocolate brown, the same colour Remus' had been before the bite had turned them amber-gold. He was just about to tell Sirius when Blade interrupted him. "Oh, hello. Beautiful, aren't they?"
They both turned and smiled at her almost guiltily. Remus replied, "Yeah. They are."
He walked over to where she was sitting up in the bed and sat down. Sirius tried to put the baby down, but he started to cry. Sirius stopped for a second, then picked him back up and snuggled him close, rocking gently. Remus smiled over at him. He muttered to Blade, "I never would have thought he'd do that ..."
She smiled. "I suppose babies bring out the best in people."
He grinned, nodding in agreement. After a moment, he said, "We both want to thank you for carrying our children and having them and everything ... we owe so much to you ..."
"You owe me nothing."
"We feel that we do. It's not something anyone could do," Remus paused, then asked uncomfortably, "You aren't upset that we want them both, are you?"
"Well ... I've been thinking. I don't want them to be separated either, but nor do I want to stay apart from them ... I was thinking of ... of moving into the village near your house. We went to look at a house there – my husband and I, I mean."
"For a second there, I thought you meant you and the twins before they were born ..."
Blade smiled. "Cute thought ... anyway, then I would be close by if you ever needed a babysitter quick, or any help at all ..."
"And you could come see them whenever you like ..."
Blade ginned. Sirius looked over at them. "What're you plotting, sitting over there with your heads together?"
"Blade wants to come and live in the village, so we don't have to split up our children and she can be near them. God, that sounds good. 'Our children' ..."
Sirius laughed and looked down at the small baby cradled in his arms. He said, "I don't think I could ever have let you have either of them ..."
"It's all right. I wouldn't argue over splitting them for the world, now. I'll be close to them anyway, so I don't really mind so much."
Sirius nodded and went back to fussing over the baby, and Remus turned to Blade. He said, "When we were waiting we were discussing names and we were wondering what you want to call him."
"Theodore. Theo for short. We were going to call our son Theo, my husband and I. And Theodore means God's gift ... and he is like a gift from God, isn't he ..."
Sirius walked over and sat down on the bedside. Blade reached out for their son and took him. Suddenly a tear rolled down the woman's face. Sirius frowned and asked what the matter was. She whispered, "I was so worried when I heard You Know Who had taken you away ... I thought you were going to die, both of you. I don't know what I would have done if he had killed you ... I mean, I ... I kept thinking about the children and ... it brought me to tears to think about it ..."
Sirius hugged her as tightly as he could without crushing Theo. "We're both fine, Blade."
When he released her, she sobbed, "But if you hadn't been – "
"Blade, please don't start going on about what could have or might have been. What matters right now is our future, with these two children. Right?" Sirius said firmly. Remus raised his eyebrows. /That was poetic./
/Don't start!/
/Do you know something? Babies make you cute, Siri./
The animagus blushed and gave Remus a gentle punch on the arm. Then he asked Blade, "Do you mind if we let our friends traipse in to see Cassy and Theo?"
She shook her head and passed Theo to Remus. She grinned, "I'll just lie here inconspicuously and let you both do the talking."
Sirius paused at the door and looked back at the cot with Cassy in it. He walked over and picked her up, then came and sat by the bed again. Blade asked, "What? What's wrong?"
"Nothing. I just ... want to be alone with your four right now, is it a crime?"
Remus grinned, pulling the chair over until it was right up against the bed. "No it isn't a crime. It's just about the sweetest thing you've said all day."
Sirius blushed, looking down at Cassy. She had woken up when he walked across the room, and had been gurgling up at him. After a moment, she sneezed then yawned. Sirius smiled down at her. Cassy blinked and shut her eyes and went to sleep again. Sirius looked over at Remus.
/This makes everything sort of worth it, doesn't it./
/Mm. I'm glad we did this./
/Me too. I think ... apart from the thought that Voldemort was going to kill Lilly and James – not to mention Harry – the thought that we were going to be parents was what kept me going. It stopped me from ... curling up, stopping fighting, letting myself give up and just die. I'd never have told him, but sometimes I thought that death would bet he only way out of there ... the only was to stop the pain ... I don't know if I could have taken that much torture if I hadn't had this to, well, look forward to I suppose .../
Remus furiously blinked back tears, and when one rolled down his cheek he immediately and roughly wiped it away. Crying wasn't going to erase what had happened to them both; nothing could do that. Besides, Remus wasn't sure he wanted to. He wanted to remember how fiercely protective of his friends and Remus himself Sirius had been.
He smiled over at the animagus and replied, /Nothing like that is ever going to happen again. Ever. He's gone. We're going to go home and look after Cassy and Theo./
Sirius grinned and whispered, "You're right. As always."
They were interrupted any further conversation by James and Lilly, carrying Harry, pushed open the door and came in to look at the new babies.
1 month later
Sirius looked out of the back door at Remus, who was sitting with Cassy and Theo in the back garden. He was sitting on a blanket and leaning back against a tree, out of the sun, reading one of his books. The babies were lying on their backs on the blanket, pulling Remus' bookmark to pieces between them, looks of deep concentration on their faces. It wasn't particularly hard as the bookmark was simply a strip of weaving with a tasselled end. Remus hadn't noticed. Sirius crept out of the door and across the garden, determined not to disturb either of them for the moment. When he within two paces of the blanket he stopped and said, "Remus, look at the babies."
The werewolf looked up at Sirius, frowning. He opened his mouth to ask how he had got so close, but Sirius gestured at the children and Remus yelped as he saw what they was doing to his bookmark. He said firmly and quite angrily, "No, Cassy! No, Theo!"
They both stopped, Theo letting go of the piece of weaving but Cassy holding on. They looked up at him with suddenly teary eyes. Remus gently pulled the now useless bookmark from Cassy's strong baby-grip and held it up, a look of shock painted over his face. Cassy sniffled; Remus had never really got angry with her before. She burst into tears, unable to understand why her Daddy was angry with her. And, of course, once one baby starts crying they all start. Such is the way of things.
Sirius sat down and scooped her up into his arms, making soft soothing noises. He cradled her in one arm while trying to calm down his son without picking him up. After a moment, he murmured, "Don't cry, it's OK, I'll get him another. It's OK, Daddy's not angry."
Remus looked over at Theo, then at Sirius, down at Cassy and back to Theo. He shuffled around until he was next to Sirius and picked up Theo. He whispered to them both, "Shh, baby, I'm not mad. I was just surprised."
Cassy squirmed in Sirius grip, not crying any more but just whimpering. Theo had also calmed down a little, but tears still leaked from his huge chocolate eyes. Cassy pushed away from Sirius, holding out her arms to Remus. They swapped babies and Remus cuddled her close. "Daddy isn't angry with you. Not with either of you."
Sirius slid his free arm around Remus' shoulders and murmured, "I will get you another one if it bothers you so much."
Remus laughed, looking down at Cassy as she settled, gripping his t-shirt in one hand and leaning her head on his chest. He looked over at Theo and saw that he wasn't crying any more. He was staring up at them both, still looking vaguely upset. Remus leant over and murmured, "I'm sorry I shouted at you."
After a moment, when the boy shut his eyes he said to Sirius, "I just didn't expect them to be able to destroy it like that. You must be very clever mustn't you?"
He lifted Cassy slightly and kissed her forehead, then glanced over at Theo. He decided not to risk waking him up by kissing him too. Sirius grinned and said, "They take after you. Course they'll be clever."
Remus laughed, leaning against Sirius. "I still can't believe they're almost a month old. It seems like they've always been here, yet it feels like they were only born yesterday."
"Apart from the little detail that they've both got a lot heavier. Have you tried holding them both at the same time recently?" Sirius replied, laughter in his voice. He looked down at Theo and said, "Not that we mind."
Remus smiled. "Babies really do make you cute."
Sirius blushed, nuzzling into Remus hair. After a moment he asked, "Remus, will you still love me when I'm old and ugly."
"You'll never be ugly, Sirius. And even if you were, I'd still love you. I'll love you forever. So long as you'll always love me, and you won't suddenly decide I'm a stupid old werewolf and leave me."
Sirius kissed Remus' cheek and murmured, "I will always love you. Nothing in the world can change that. Nothing."
"Promise?"
"I promise," Sirius reassured him, lying his head down on Remus' shoulder and closing his eyes. "Remmie?"
"Mm?" the werewolf said, turning his attention to Cassy who was reaching dangerously close to Sirius' hair and trying to grab it. He shifted her weight around so he could hold her with one arm while picking up the battered bookmark and waving it over her head to distract her. Sirius, hearing their daughter giggling, opened his eyes and grinned down at her. He glanced at Theo, but he was still asleep in the crook of Sirius' arm.
Remus asked, "What were you going to say?"
"What? Oh, yeah. I was going to say that James said that Lilly told him to invite us to dinner whenever so can we go?"
Remus laughed. "Of course. You can go over later and tell him. And we can ask Blade to baby-sit, since she's settled in the house now."
Sirius smiled. Blade had moved into a small cottage in the nearby village two weeks ago. He and Remus had moved her things inside while she sat in the unruly back garden entertaining their children.
He looked down at Cassy, who had caught hold of the end of the bookmark and was sucking on it. He pulled it out of her mouth quickly, telling her 'no' firmly but not angrily. He sighed. "I don't think I could manage even a few days looking after them on my own ... they are way too much work ..."
Sirius laughed and told him, "You'll never have to look after them on your own. I'm not going anywhere without any of you."
Remus smiled, "Can I bring them to watch you practice soon? Show them how good their daddy is on a broomstick?"
"You know you can."
Remus smiled and snuggled up to Sirius, who slid his arm around him and kissed him gently. He murmured, "Would you ever marry me?"
"Of course I would. You know I would."
Sirius let go of him and pulled a small, velvet covered box from his pocket, with difficulty because he had to be careful not to jog Theo or fall over. Remus blinked at it for a moment, then Sirius opened it, again with difficulty because he had to do it with one hand, and revealed a thick gold band with three small diamonds set in a diagonal on it. Remus swallowed hard. Sirius asked, "Do you want to get married then?"
Remus looked up at Sirius, unable to speak and barely able to breathe. Sirius continued, "I mean, I know it's not technically a marriage, it's a ... oh, what do they call it? Civil union or same-sex-union or whatever it is – that's not important. Well do you want to? Because I do. I want to make you mine and nobody else's."
Remus swallowed hard and replied, "I'm already yours and nobody else's."
"I know. And I know that you don't think it matters, but I still want to. I want the whole world to know how much I love you. I want us to be a real family, Remus."
Remus felt tears welling in his eyes, but he blinked them away. He didn't want to cry because the love of his life was asking him to marry him. "We already are a real family –"
"You know, if I didn't know you better, Remmie, I'd say you were trying to wriggle out of answering."
"Siri, you know I'll marry you, or same-sex-union you or whatever the hell they call it. Because I love you too and there's nothing I want more than to have everyone see you with a ring on your finger and think 'Oh, that's Sirius Black, property of Remus Lupin'. Or whatever our surname will be when we get same-sex-unioned."
Sirius laughed out loud, tugging the ring from the box. He said, "Now if you can just wriggle your left hand out from under Cassy ..."
They both laughed and Remus juggled their daughter onto his other arm so that Sirius could slide the gold ring onto the third finger of his left hand. Sirius leant over, threading his fingers between Remus' as he did so, and kissed him chastely. A moment after their lips met, Cassy started to cry. And of course, when one starts, the other joins in ...
They parted, reluctantly, and Remus said, "I think we're going to get interrupted a lot more often."
"I'll put a lock on our door as soon as I can buy one."
Remus laughed and got to his feet, taking Theo from Sirius before he walked into the house to give them their bottles. Sirius sat under the tree for a while, staring up at the ever-changing pattern of light and shadow between the leaves. He sighed and stood, folding the blanket and picking up it, Remus' book and the ruined bookmark before he went inside.
He put the things away quickly once back in the house and then went into the lounge where Remus and the children were. Theo was already full and fast asleep on the couch next to Remus and Cassy had just finished her bottle and was being rocked to sleep. Sirius sat down beside Remus and looked down at Cassy. Remus said, "I thought you'd stay outside for a while."
"I was lonely. I missed you – all three of you."
Remus smiled over at Sirius and kissed him gently. "You don't have to be lonely, you know that."
"I know. I love you so much ..."
"I love you more."
"No you don't."
"Yes I do."
"Not you don't."
"Yes I do."
Suddenly Cassy giggled sleepily up at them, and they both stopped arguing to look down at her. Sirius commented, "She's right. I suppose it is funny us arguing over something like who loves who more."
"Yeah, because we all know I love you more –"
Sirius grabbed Remus and kissed him fiercely. When they parted, Remus blushed and said, "OK, OK, you win. Look, I have to take Cassy and Theo to bed now. Don't move."
Sirius froze as Remus stood, taking what he said ridiculously seriously. The werewolf shook his head, laughing, and took their children upstairs. When he returned he sat back in his old place and told Sirius, "You can move now."
Sirius immediately wrapped his arms around Remus and pulled him into a series of long kisses, before he trailed butterfly kisses down his neck. Remus murmured, "I'm glad we're getting married."
Between kissed, Sirius replied, "Me too."
"I want to get married at the end of the summer, just when the leaves are changing colour."
"Where?"
"I don't care! All that matters is that we're getting married."
"OK, so can we get married by Elvis in the Chapel of Love in Las Vegas?"
"What, you think because I've chosen you to be my mate I'm going to sink that low? You must be joking! I do have standards, Sirius! OK, they might be low standards, but they are not that low!"
Sirius cuffed him lightly around the head. "Why do you always go to sarcasm first?"
"Why do you always drive me to it?"
"Would you prefer to walk?"
Remus snorted with laughter. "Why do I find you're really bad humour funny?"
"I don't know, maybe because you love me?" Sirius replied sweetly, kissing Remus' cheek. The werewolf laughed again. He sighed deeply. "No, not even love can make what you just said funny. I think I must have a warped sense of humour."
"Mate, I've known that for a long time ..."
"Why do you always go to scathing comments first?"
They looked at each other and them burst out laughing, unable to stop for a long while. When they finally did stop, Remus said, "At the edge of a wood or a forest or something, close to the full moon."
"What?"
"That's where I want to get married. Or whatever. At the back end of summer at the edge of a wood when it's near the full moon."
"Why?"
"I don't know. I just always imagined that."
"Your wish is my command. We'll get married when and wherever you want. You can have anything you want," Sirius smiled and pulled Remus close to him. The werewolf nuzzled into Sirius' neck, closing his eyes and he smelt his familiar scent. He sighed deeply and murmured, "I've got everything I want already. I love you."
"I love you too, mate."
Remus kissed Sirius' neck and then pushed him down onto the couch until they were lying side by side, crushed together because the couch was barely wide enough. Remus forced his head beneath Sirius' chin and slid his arms around the animagus. Sirius cuddled him close and shut his own eyes, forgetting everything as they lay together in the soothing silence of their home.
Finally, after all the pain they had been through, they had reached the light at the end of the tunnel. Remus snuggled closer into Sirius and murmured, "Everything's right."
Sirius murmured back, "Of course it is. We're together in our home and our babies are asleep upstairs. We love each other. And there's plenty of time before they wake up again for ... naughty things ..."
Remus chuckled softly as Sirius' hands crept lower, stroking his hip. He murmured, "We shouldn't ..."
"We can be quiet ..." Sirius whispered back, kissing Remus' neck and jerking his hips closer. Remus moaned softly, squirming. Suddenly he pulled Sirius on top of him. He smiled and replied in a low voice, "You're right, we can be quiet and we have plenty of time. So go on, get on with it, Siri, or Cassy might wake up. You know what a light sleeper she is ..."
The animagus laughed softly and kissed his werewolf before they both sank into the pure bliss of making love to each other.
(A/N: I'm not going to cry, I'm not going to cry ... OK, I'm going to cry. ::cries::
I can't believe it's finished ... I never thought I'd actually finish it. Oh, well ... I loved writing this fic, I really did. And I'm really sorry the last chapter has been so incredibly cheesy. It couldn't've been cheesier if I'd stuck a slab of Gorgonzola in there ... Never mind, I'm happy with it.
Oh, and by the way, a bit of the credit here has to go to Kynny ... the idea of Blade moving house to be near the babies is her idea ... hope she doesn't mind me using it! I just thought it was in infinitely better idea than my original one ... and I've re-written this ending about three times now, so I hope you like it!
I might write a sequel. I have a vague (but quite bad) idea, so a sequel is on the cards. Look out for it! Now, however, I would really like to thank some people.
First off to Captain Hawk – my best buddy ever. Thank you so much for beta-ing this. I couldn't've done it without you. I'd probably have given up long ago without you and my friends. Also thanks to you for letting me base a character (very shakily) off you. Jorja Hawk, if anyone cares. Thanks for the same reason to Fire Breathing Ferret and Tsunami for Sarah Hardy and Cassandra Webb (in that order).
And to the rest of my friends, including those above and – but not limited to – Aranel, Laymisse and K-Servo. Without you I'd gladly go bonkers. Unless I already am bonkers ... or you've sent me bonkers ... anyway, for whatever reasons, thanks! (And thanks Aranel and FBF for introducing me to in the first place. What would I have done without you?)
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