Drunken Dilemma

A BB/Rae Fic


September 18th



"Hello?" Raven asked aloud, looking around a dark corridor.

As she reached the end, looking around, she gasped as she looked up.

The old library. The open-hand statue that had since been demolished when she became the Portal on her 16th birthday.

Everything.

Suddenly a voice echoed around the large room, a female voice.

"Ah, the memories. While I was in another universe… You, my… alternate-reality-equivalent… were facing an apocalypse… that she couldn't endure…" the voice echoed, as Raven looked around to try to spot who it was.

Suddenly, from out of the open-handed statue, jumped a woman dressed in all black, with a black hairdo much like Raven's, only much shorter. No hood, or anything. She looked up at Raven, bright red eyes. No, not the kind of Demon red eyes Raven has. Naturally red. Red pupils.

She had two swords in both hands. One glowing with symbols imprints on the steel emitting a reddish orange glow, and another with a skull at the top, which was icy cold.

Suddenly, the woman tossed the sword at Raven, who caught it in surprise.

"What's this?" Raven asked.

"A sword," the strange woman said with a smirk.

"More specifically," she continued, "the sword I killed your Father with."

Raven gasped, and dropped the sword in shock. As the sword clattered to the ground, the woman simply looked with distaste at the ground.

"Oh, don't do that to the sword… Pick it up." She said, spinning her own sword on the tip.

"… You… killed him…?" Raven managed to say, bending down and picking up the sword.

"My brother's daughter was here during… well… let's just say when your Father turned everyone to stone, their souls were burning in an eternal flame… Well, eternal until you defeated him and took back your world… Which really tarnished his reputation. So, I decided to torture him." The woman continued.

"T-Torture? Him?" Raven asked.

"Yes…" she replied, sneering, then taking her fingertip and running it down her sword, "It's so satisfying to hear pure evil beg for mercy…"

But then she looked up at Raven with a very serious look.

"I brought him to his knees, broke his will. Made him beg. When someone gets an interdimensional demon begging them… you can be sure that-" she began, before Raven interrupted her abruptly.

"He… begged you?" she asked with a long pause, as the woman shook her head with a smirk.

"The reason you fell to him so quickly is because you begged him to stop. That's why I could kill your Father when he begged me. Begging means giving into the will of another, meaning their will overpowers all you possess… Your Father never meant to repay Slade at all. He knew that ever since you begged him to stop at the very start, you were bound to come eventually. He just sent Slade to give you the message, and then gave Slade the illusion that he would be able to force you back…"

After that long explanation was given, Raven mustered up a simple response.

"Th… thank you. That's a huge weight off my shoulders… I mean… I can't even descr-" she began, but the woman cut her off.

"I know."

As Raven began to walk away with the sword in hand, the woman spoke up one last time.

"Only 5 more years until your vows," she said, with a very big grin.

Raven paused for a second, and turned around. But before she could get a single line out… she woke up.

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"Vows?" she asked aloud, lying on her left side in bed.

She opened her eyes, and immediately the feeling of disappointment radiating in her after realizing it was all a dream.

But as the sun shone in, suddenly a glare caught her eye, and nearly blinded her.

She covered her eyes, and as soon as the sun glared on it, she moved to where it wasn't glaring.

She sat up, as her eyes widened at the sight of what was on her bedside.

It was the sword.

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September 18th

"I'm not wearing that," Raven muttered bitterly, after Starfire dragged her to her room to show her something.

The rest of the team already knew about how her leotard had busted, and even though she got a new one, Starfire was the only one of the team stuck on that subject.

"Please, it is a nice gown!" Starfire pleaded, holding it up.

"No." Raven bitterly replied.

"It is blue!" she continued coaxingly.

"I don't care what color it is, I'm not wearing it." Raven hastily answered, not changing her mind any time soon.

"Ohh…" Starfire grumbled in a bit of frustration at her friend's stubbornness.

"Alright… just… give it to me. I'm not promising I'll wear it though," Raven muttered, only agreeing to take it because of friendship.

Starfire exclaimed in joy, flying up, and then quickly floated over and gave Raven the 'gift'.

"I am so overjoyed that you have changed your brain, friend!"

"Mind, Starfire," Raven muttered, in an attempt to help her say it correctly.

"Oh…" Starfire began, waving and floating out of the room, "So that is where I up-messed the saying…"

Raven would have smirked if not for her emotional suppression, as she began to sit back on her bed and contemplate the whole situation.

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"Alright, I know we gotta do our thing and all," Cyborg began in front of the rest of the team, minus Raven, "but shouldn't we have someone here for Raven?"

Robin glared and replied, "Aren't you the one that was worried about being 2 down anyway?"

Beast Boy laughed in the background, and replied, "Dude, that sounded just like what Rav-" but was cut short, realizing this wasn't the time to be laughing.

"Shall I stay?" Starfire asked, as the two looked at her.

"Uh… no offense Star, but… you're kinda hyper," Cyborg muttered.

"So…?" Starfire asked, confused.

"So… maybe she needs someone calmer right now," Robin began, looking at her.

Then they all diverted their gaze to Beast Boy, who looked around.

"Huh? I'm not gonna miss out on the action, am I?" Beast Boy groaned.

"Beast Boy… you're the father, you might as well be there for her," Robin said seriously.

"But we don't know if I'm the father!" Beast Boy replied, earning even stronger glares.

"Man, you slept with her, and the next day, she's pregnant! How much more proof do you need?" Cyborg told him, thinking Beast Boy's answer was just plain unbelievable.

"I… don't know…-" Beast Boy began, turning away, but Robin quickly cut in.

"What? If you're the f-" Robin began, getting more serious by the second, but Beast Boy quickly turned around, his voice raising.

"I don't know how this happened! I mean we're just friends, and she doesn't even like me!" he shouted.

"Maybe there's something else to it we're not seeing?" Cyborg asked in all seriousness, as Beast Boy's eyes widened.

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"Beast Boy…" Robin began with a softer yet still serious tone, "not everyone that gets drunk does what… you and her did."

"What, are you saying I WANTED to? I never wanted this!" Beast Boy shouted once more.

"Sure, we know you didn't want to get her pregnant but… did you want to… you know…" Cyborg began, but Robin quickly butted in as Cyborg wasn't getting to the point.

"Have sex with her?"

Cyborg nodded quickly and muttered, "Yeah, that."

Beast Boy hesitated for a second, and began walking off towards Raven's room, as the other 3 Titans looking at him in their own ways of concern.

"Fine, you guys win, I'll go be with her. Take care of the villains." Beast Boy grumbled and began to walk off.

"That's not who we're trying to take care of." Robin said, his eyes following him out.

As Beast Boy left and the other Titans stood behind, Cyborg started up the conversation again.

"So, what are we going to do?"

Robin turned to him, as Starfire looked away, with a reply that made the situation seem even more gloomy.

"I don't know."

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"Uh… Raven… they told me to come watch over you…" Beast Boy began, entering her room since the door was wide open. But he was met with 2 angry eyes and an extended hand.

"OUT OF MY ROOM!" Raven had shouted, and thrust him out with her powers. She quickly locked the door, as Beast Boy sat where the wall met the floor, eyes bugged out.

A minute of just staring, thinking, and he stood up and turned away.

Then he walked away from the main room and Raven's room, and went to the nearby elevator. He took it down all the way to the bottom level, and into the garage.

Cyborg was working on the security system for the garage, so the garage door was wide open. As sparks flew out of the device on the wall and Cyborg had his face near it for precision, Beast Boy got on his goggles, his helmet, his gloves, and his keys to his Moped. He got on, and turned the ignition, propping it up with his right leg. But as soon as it started, the radio turned on.

It was the 'Stairway to Heaven' by Metallica, and as the drum solo and piano solo began, Cyborg turned in curiosity after suddenly hearing the music.

"B? What are you doin'? You're supposed to be with-" Cyborg began, staring at him in confusion. But Beast Boy didn't even acknowledge him. He revved up the engine, and floored it out of the garage down the grassy rocky hills of the island. Then two boosters came out of the back hub of his rear wheel, sending him flying up over the bay and towards downtown, specifically, the Pizza parlor.

The loud engine, the boosters, and the wind howling around him still didn't fade out the music.

"There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold… and she's buying the Stairway to Heaven…"

Beast Boy tried to ignore to song as it continued, and he began his descent down towards the shoreline.

"If the stores are all closed, with a word she can get what she came for."

But suddenly, in the middle of the descent, the engine sputtered all of a sudden, gittering Beast Boy and the bike in mid-air, now coming out of the clouds.

"No, no…" Beast Boy whispered, banging the side of the gas tank with his hand. He forgot that the boosters burned up a lot of the gas and if he didn't have enough it would run out.

Suddenly the engine died, and Beast Boy shrieked with an "Ayhh!". He started jamming buttons on the screen and banging on the engine under his seat.

"Start, start, come on!" Beast Boy continued, apparently forgetting he could just turn into an animal that could fly.

"Start! Don't do this to me!" Beast Boy shouted, but looked back up over the handlebars to see the pavement seconds away.

A news-van was standing there, reporting on something near the bay, but suddenly on camera, right as the news person was talking with the 'JC5' imprinted microphone, suddenly their van in the distance got hit by something and the entire back up blasted apart, and something or someone could be seen impacting the pavement.

Nearby people gasped in shock on live TV, and the cameraman worked to get a better shot.

Miraculously, the bike that hit the van had just now cut back on, and a guitar solo was going on. Then, lyrics, as Cyborg was listening to the TV in the background, still working on the garage door.

"There's a song playing on it!" the cameraman shouted.

"And if you listen very hard…" the song continued in its final verse, causing Cyborg the turn around with one wide human eye, realizing that was the song Beast Boy had on with he blasted out of the place.

"The tune will come to you at last."

Robin was flipping channels, as Starfire proceeded to make some Glorb, though not a peppy as usual. But as soon as Robin landed on channel 5, he dropped his hot chocolate he was sitting, and also let the plate with his steak fall on the floor.

"It's one of the Titans! It's Beast Boy of the Teen Titans!"

Cyborg was running now back up to the main level, as he heard someone shouting.

"NO!!!!!!!!" he heard a ear-piecing heart-stopping scream and the sounds of objects crashing.

Cyborg ran up even faster, running into Raven's room now despite just now hearing Starfire in the main room shout "Beast Boy!!"

He walked in to see all of Raven's gothly decorations and books scattered, and asked, "What is it?"

Raven was simply staring no responsively at the screen in shock, not moving one bit. Just a ghostly stare.

Cyborg waved his hand in front of her, and then turned to the TV himself.

Then Cyborg stood there over all the books and decorations, now his eyes widened and mouth gaped at the news.

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"Huh?" Beast Boy stammered, waking up in a hospital bed. All he remembered was the engine dying, and then crashing onto the ground.

But instead of a 'Where am I?' or 'What happened?', Beast Boy thought a different thought.

"Gah! I'm an idiot! Why didn't I just fly off the thing?!"

He looked around the room, his muscles weak and the whole place smelling like rubber doctor gloves and fruity applesauce meals.

But it didn't make sense. The Titans weren't there. He always imagined if he got seriously hurt they would be there waiting for him to wake up, but still nothing.

But suddenly, rendering all he just thought a complete misconception, Cyborg burst in, looking out of breath and in a big huge rush.

"Oh, B! Raven was having some pains so we rushed her to the hospital!"

"Pains?" Beast Boy asked hoarsely.

"Yeah, they think she's having it right now!"

"What?!" Beast Boy said loudly, "She's only like, 1 week in!"

"Yeah, they say she might stay overnight-" Cyborg began with a sudden change in tone, but suddenly Beast Boy found his vision fading out like the end of a movie scene, and Cyborg's voice drifting away.

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Then he woke up. Same bed, same hospital. Cyborg was at the door talking to Robin, as he finished the sentence, "Just to make sure he's ok."

"I knew there something more to it than a drink…" Robin muttered after talking to someone on his communicator, as they both looked over towards Beast Boy and then to his side.

It wasn't until Starfire flew over and started talking that Beast Boy glanced beside him, curious as to what they were looking at beside him. He still hadn't put two and two together until after he saw what, or rather, who it was.

Raven, sitting there on a chair, reading a book. It wasn't like that wasn't normal for her. Sitting and reading a book, that is, but her demeanor was different.

"Raven?" Beast Boy asked, trying to conjure up some kind of response.

"What?" she replied hastily and a bit coldly, giving Beast Boy the hint she was either pissed at him for wrecking and getting hurt, dissatisfied by the fact he didn't just fly off to avoid hitting the cement at 40 MPH, or just having mood swings. Even though Raven was part demon, Beast Boy still considered her sudden shift in demeanor mood swings, just more extreme and more hidden due to her nature.

Of course he never considered this understanding of her body signals anything more than a friend knowing another friend, but it was starting to seem more like the connection that only one member of the team, Cyborg, even considered a possibility.

"Uh… I'm sorry," Beast Boy apologized, but immediately her demeanor changed.

"Don't be." She replied, lowering her book and looking at him a bit more… caringly than before. She then looked back at her book, as Beast Boy was a bit surprised.

Usually in normal circumstances, that 'Don't be' would be followed by no eye contact, no movement, and no emotion. But soon he realized the 'normal' Raven he knew might have been just outward. Sure, he never thought of Raven as the type of 'tough outside, soft inside' type. In all honesty, he thought she was just the opposite, considering she was probably the least masculine demon to ever exist, at least in outward appearances. That, and the fact her emotions and personality were so tough and cold all-around, made Beast Boy think that she was the 'soft outside, tough inside' type. Though he didn't fully understand the saying itself, his understanding of it was what made the saying useful for him.

But even though her demeanor had changed, he still felt awkward. This is the same girl that slapped him around, yelled at him, got supremely annoyed at him almost all the time… but as he was thinking of more things about her that implied she hated him, or at least disliked him, he realized one thing that could have deeper meaning.

"Got heartbroken at him", he had thought, referring to when he called her creepy and then the whole ordeal with the evil dragon ensued, but then he had another thought.

"Wait, if she hated me so much, why would she care what I think?" Beast Boy thought, staring at the ceiling

He then looked sideways at her, and thought, "Does she really like me?"

Though he meant 'like' as in, not dislike, not as in 'love', Raven peered up at him.

"Oh man, did she read my mind?" he thought in a bit of a panic.

Raven just stared, and asked, "What?"

Beast Boy thought, he was already in a hospital, so if this backfired, what was the worst that could happen? Plus, he wanted to find out how exactly she would respond to such an unexpected statement.

"You look beautiful today, Raven."

Raven's eyes widened a bit and her demeanor got a bit tense, but she quickly regained her composure and replied.

"Well I wish I could say the same for you…" she answered sarcastically and continued reading her book.

Beast Boy smirked, half at the fact it didn't backfire, half at the fact he saw her demeanor change. Her shoulders heightened a bit. Her face looked surprised, but not pissed. Normally if he tried something like that, he'd get a slap and a "I'm not your fan girl," remark or some equivalent. But this time, it wasn't. This time, she froze before the sarcastic remark. And she actually had to get herself back in composure.

Then he decided to throw another one at her to see where that one went. Whether he meant it or not, his purpose was to see how she'd react.

"Raven…" he began, reaching out and pulled the book down from her face.

Raven looked at him in surprise at her book being pulled down out of eye-sight, as Beast Boy smirked.

"I love you." He told her smoothly, as the Titans couldn't help but turn and be nosy.

Then, the same short reaction. Eyes wide, tense.

"I… uh…" Raven began, then peered towards Cyborg, Robin, and Starfire at the doorway, giving them a 'help me out here' look, though all she got back were wide smirks.

"Well… that's… I mean, you know… I-… I…" Raven stammered, now a bit jittery.

But as soon as she took notice of the fact she was trembling, she dropped her book and stood up, rushing out of the door.

All four of her teammates stared at her in disbelief as she sat down on a bench outside, holding her head in her hands in stress.

"Stay with him, I'll go talk to her," Robin muttered, as Cyborg and Starfire both looked to object, seeing as though he wasn't the most emotional leader in their category, but Robin quickly looked behind them as Starfire was about to speak first.

"Trust me, I can handle it," Robin said, as the two looked uncertain, but nodded.

Robin walked off as the other two turned back towards the room, and Raven looked to her right and sighed before pressing her hands against her face, though this time her deep blue eyes were uncovered, showing her deep in thought.

Robin sat down next to her, and immediately Raven thrust off the bench and away, still covering her face, looking away.

"Listen, Raven, just calm down," Robin began with a low tone, reaching his hand out.

"No! I don't want to calm down." She told him assertively.

"Listen, the only reason you're-" Robin tried to begin, but Raven was obviously on a different subject.

"Why was I even shaking?"

"You were nervous. That's all."

"What?"

"You've never been nervous?" Robin asked in surprise.

"… Not… really."

Robin just stared, unsure of what to say. But then he found it.

"… You two need to open up more," he told her sternly but still calmly.

"No, I mean, we're not made for each other!" she asserted, turning to him.

"Who said you were?" Robin asked.

Robin had interrogated around 100 or more criminals in his career, and he knew in interrogation slang, this counted as 'nailing' someone. Raven stopped the discussion dead-on, with the look of 'realization' in her eyes. Robin's career taught him this was when the 'criminal' realizes they're screwed and the police have caught them… but he knew this was anything but that.

"I don't know what to tell him…" Raven muttered and turned away again, as Robin kept his stern stare.

"Tell him you love him."

Raven then turned back around swiftly and stared.

"But… I… don't…" Raven began, as Robin closed the distance between him and her and stared straight into her eyes.

"Yes you do. Raven… I talked to the bar manager. He said you only had 2 drinks that were really strong, so it gave you the allusion you were drunk."

"What does that mean?" she asked.

"It means… you and Beast Boy really weren't drunk that night. You just thought you were."

"Wait…" Raven began, but Robin didn't let up.

"Raven… that means what you and Beast Boy did… wasn't anything from the bar. It was both of you… making love. Now I know this sounds weird coming from a friend, but I think it's time that-" Robin continued on, but this time it was Raven's turn to interrupt him.

"Robin… I know now."

Robin eyes widened a bit at the sight he just witnessed. Cyborg also just simply glanced over at the two, and then back at Beast Boy. But the sight he saw called for a double-take, so he did one, and his one human eye widened just as much if not more than Robin's masked eyes were doing.

Raven was smiling. And not a forced smile like before the world was ending, or the freaky smile and laugh when her emotions were running a-muck inside her head. This one was a real, natural smile.

She then pushed past him, past Cyborg and Starfire, and then back into the room.

She walked straight to his bedside, and whispered slightly, "Beast Boy…"

Beast Boy turned with a "Hm"?, as Raven looked at him with watery eyes.

"Raven? If she didn't look and sound like her I wouldn't believe it was her…" Beast Boy thought, as Raven's demeanor had completely flipped the opposite of what he knew it as for the past several years in the Teen Titans.

"I… I lov-" Raven began, but suddenly all of it came together for Beast Boy. He remembered the bedroom, the hotel, and everything… and it all replayed for him.

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7 days ago

September 11th

"-I love how you come up with this shit, Benny," one of the hotel people was telling his friend who had pointed out how the Titans looked drunk, and the door shut all the way on the elevator carrying Beast Boy and Raven up to the 4th floor.

"So… what do you get when you cross an animal and a pack of… dozers?" Beast Boy stammered, cracking up before the lame joke was even thought up, as Raven rolled her eyes.

"Roadkill?"

"Hey, you stole the answer!" Beast Boy said loudly, wobbling.

"Come on, you're drunk but you're not that drunk," Raven muttered, helping him stand with her arms. She sounded no less drunk than him, but her composure was much better.

"After all this time I never thought of you as anyone that was nice to me…" Beast Boy began, as Raven slapped him upside the head.

"Shut up and stop acting drunk. You had as much as I did and I'm not acting like an idiotic," Raven replied, completely missing the fact she just misused the word 'idiotic'.

Finally the elevator ride was over, and they stepped out and made their way down the hall.

"Cameras? I know the robbery rate is high here but still…" Raven muttered after noticing a camera inside the room they were about to stay in.

"Hey, you know, Raven, since I'm Mr. Beast here, I should of opened the door for you," Beast Boy said jokingly, as Raven glared at him.

"As if, girly man." Raven replied, as Beast Boy grinned.

"Girly man, huh?" Beast Boy chuckled, and then closed the distance between he and her before she realized what was going on.

"Wow, this place looks spiffy. When exactly did the fire happ-" she began, but turned around to find herself in a liplock with Beast Boy. His intent, but definitely not hers. But all awkward social interpretations and the like aside… one thought crossed her mind that all her sober selves would have been slapping her for, that she said aloud and would be echoed throughout the tower's living room in a few days.

"Mm… you're a good kisser…" she thought aloud, as Beast Boy looked mixed between surprise and ego.

Beast Boy reached down and took off Raven's undergarments, as the pair laid out on the bed. Raven was still surprised, eyes wide, but Beast Boy was definitely going for it all. Though there was one key difference. His 'Beast' side was beginning to get the best of him.

It all went on, as articles of clothing came off, and unprotected sex began.

But many floors under, the hotel staff at the entrance were still arguing about if they were drunk.

"Look, I'll turn on the cameras and you can see it for yourself," Benny told his skeptical friend, and brought up the camera in Beast Boy and Raven's rented room on his computer screen.

But both of the staff's eyes widened at the side, and their hearts raced.

"The Titans are doing the wild thing!" Benny said loudly, as the guy behind him simultaneously added to that.

"And in our hotel!"

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After at least an hour of intercourse, the two stopped and began panting.

"You're… the girl, Raven… not me."

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It all came back to him now. There was no blurry vision, no feeling of imbalance, just the illusion he was drunk… and she seemed like her normal sarcastic sober self in the elevator, minus the trippy voice and grammar slip-ups.

"I know, Raven…" Beast Boy began.

"And I love you too."

Even though Raven was going for it first, Beast Boy leaned in and struck first… with a kiss.

"Oh Beast Boy…" Raven whispered, and the two began to make out.

But suddenly, the door slammed shut in both Robin and Cyborg's face, as Starfire was absent now for some reason, and Cyborg peered in the window.

One of the privacy sheets then flew up and covered the window, causing Cyborg to sigh.

"Oh well! Time for the security cameras." Cyborg exclaimed, and dashed off towards the watching room.

"Wait," Robin began softly, but once turning and seeing Cyborg running off, he ran behind him shouting, "Cyborg!"

Starfire just arrived back with a big huge slushy cup filled with ice and mustard, slurping it with a straw, but then realized the door was closed and nobody was near.

"Friends?" she asked, but turned to see Robin running after Cyborg and rounding the corner out of her sight.

"Eep!" she shrieked, dropping the 'mustard slushy' and flying off behind her friends.

"Wait, who are we chasing?" Starfire asked, as Robin and Cyborg's loud back-and-forth exchange echoed all the way back to where they were once before.

"Cyborg! He's going to try to blackmail them again!" Robin began the exchange loudly.

"Not yet!"

"This is Raven we're talking about here!"

"So what?"

"Do you want to get killed?!"

One final reply from Cyborg was shouted before they got out of sound range, and that remark was a true Cyborg response.

"Maybe!"

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Author's Notes:

Sorry it took so long to update! Between moving, schoolwork, an out-of-state vacation, heavy chores around the house, my computer messing up and running slow, and my internet not working correctly, it's been a long time since I've been able to update this fic... I actually had Chapter 9 ready for almost half a year now, but couldn't get it on the site because of everything else... so I hope you enjoy this chapter and the many more to come..

And also, if you didn't notice, I tried to make sure that you guys know the reason Raven is being OC in this story at ALL is because of the events IN the story, so I'm not just writing her OC for no reason, I'm writing her slightly OC because of how the story is. So please, don't tell me she's OC, I know she is a little bit, but she's neccesarily OC... : D

But to even be able to tell me she's OC, you need to ... (dun dun dun! cliche line incoming)

Review please!

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