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Sam ignored him while he removed rolls out of the oven. "Kevin you did not miss anything major. Kuryiel and Castiel did most of the talking. We were there watching the show. I did enjoy meeting the last archangel. She was one serious woman but hot to look at."

Dean rolled his eyes. "Oh, you would like the feisty dominant type. I can hear the whip cracking and you saying "Yes Mistress" to her commands."

Kuryiel burst out laughing with Kevin joining her in tow. Castiel looked at Dean in distaste. Sam glowered at Dean and pointed his serving spoon at him. "You know I will get you back for that bro."

Dean grinned. "I'll be waiting."

Castiel patiently waited for the laughter to end. "Kuryiel, I will follow up with Raziel later this evening to get the names of the lower rank angels. It will take the rest of the night working on finding their locations."

"Great. We also need to talk to the fallen angels for their assistance. It does not hurt to look at all avenues." Kuryiel set silverware on the table for everyone.

"I agree, I will visit a few fallen angels nearby before it gets too late in the evening." Castiel zapped out of the kitchen.


Chapter 3

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Later that night the guys went to bed and Kuryiel stayed up waiting for Castiel. She sat back relaxed watching a movie on TV. Feeling thirsty, she reached over to the side of the sofa table grabbing her drink to take a sip. She heard a flutter of wings. Castiel stood on the left side of the sofa. She turned her head towards him. "Well did you get some names from Raziel?"

Castiel walked to the sofa and sat down next to her. "Yes. He gave me a few names of angels he contacts on a regular basis. The only ones he really trusts."

"Good, it's a start." She grabbed the remote changing the channel when the movie was showing ending credits on the TV screen. She looked over at Castiel and noticed how close he was sitting next to her. She can feel the material of his trench coat against her blue fleece pajama bottoms. Her mind recalled about the way he was looking at her this morning and it was all she can do not to show any type of expression at the kitchen table. Kevin noticed Castiel's stare so now everyone is aware that Cas was looking at her as a woman. She had a strong urge to lean on him but she did not want to take a chance of being rejected. She settled for this moment of simply sitting next to him. Appearing on the screen was a drama TV show that did not hold her interest at all. She was lost in her thoughts about Castiel.

He was also having a hard time focusing on watching TV. Cas felt so aware of the woman sitting next to him. He noticed her sleepwear when he appeared on the side of the sofa. Castiel tried not to recall the slight sheerness of her tank top and how the pajama pants hugged her hips and legs. He was surprised by his own actions of scanning her body frame up to her very pretty face. Things were too quiet so he opened his mouth to speak. "You mentioned to Dean that you spent your time wisely doing things like Martial Arts and studying humanity. What things do you like to do for fun?"

"That's a good question Cas. Is it alright I call you Cas?" She asked wondering if he would feel more comfortable being called his nickname.

Castiel gave her a small smile. "No, I don't mind. It was Dean that gave me this nickname."

She turned the TV volume down a bit. "Well, I like to draw and paint. There are times I use charcoal to make drawings as well. I don't have a preference of art styles but it will be something that compels me to put my vision on paper or canvas. I also enjoy dancing. Once in a very blue moon I go to dance clubs and events just to get on the floor. I have traveled to about every place on this planet so I have a taste of adventure. Sometimes I wait a hundred years or so to stop by a few countries to see how humanity progressed. There are some places I am still disappointed when I visit because there are governments that are power hungry and keep people suppressed in poverty.

Castiel was astonished by her answer. "When you visited these places were you visible to everyone on your trips?" He wondered if any angels seen her by accident.

She replied. "Sometimes and from the expression on your face the answer is no. I was cloaked from all angels. Not even Cupid and his little brigade saw me here." She chuckled.

Castiel looked relieved. He asked one last question. "Were you around me the times when I was on earth?

Kuryiel wanted to say no. He would not appreciate being spied on instead she answered truthfully. "Yes. I have been around you undetected. She quickly added "I wanted to get to know you and what type of angel you are. She put her right hand on top of his left. "I was not judging your character or the orders that you had to carry out that were unpleasant."

Castiel quickly looked down at her hand on his. He felt the power radiating from her hand. It caused a tingling sensation up his arm and toward the center of his chest. He tried his best to ignore the sensations focusing on the conversation.

Kuryiel noticed Castiel's reaction and she purposely cloaked her energy just in case it made him feel uncomfortable. When she saw the look of relief on his face, it acknowledged her actions to be correct. She also remembered Raguel reaction of being startled when she shook her hand in greeting. Kuryiel realized she had to be careful if she touched other angels since humans cannot detect this kind of energy

"My apologies Cas, I was not aware my energy was streaming out of my skin. I will keep control of it for now on."

"It's alright. You are correct that you need to keep this kind of energy suppressed. We don't want to attract the wrong attention from rogue angels." He glanced down at her hand that is still on top of his. He felt her fingers wrap around the side palm of his hand. Castiel now felt tingling in his body which had nothing to do with her energy. It was the fact she was touching him and he did not know how to respond to her at that moment. He glanced back to the TV absorbing the feeling of being touched.

Kuryiel watched Castiel's reaction waiting to see if he will say something or move his hand away. Instead, he sat there appearing to look like he is watching TV with a stoic expression. She felt his pulse race "He's not used to physical affection." Her thoughts echoed smiling to herself that. She broke the tension out of the room by asking. "Do you want to watch a movie?" She released his hand and grabbed the remote.

Castiel replied. "Yes I would like that." He added. "I am now accustomed to watching TV thanks to Dean and Sam encouragement. It's like taking mental break from the world. Sometimes I have to figure out the story in the movie of why the characters act the way they do." He became quiet realizing he was rambling in front of her.

Kuryiel found a channel with a good drama and sat back on the sofa. She planted her socked feet on the coffee table to relax. Kuryiel gave a quick sideways glance when she saw Castiel sitting back on the sofa relaxing as well. Twenty five minutes into the movie Kuryiel's started to feel sleepy. She was trying to stay awake by focusing on the scenes in the movie. Eventually, her eyelids felt so heavy she wanted to close them for just a minute.

Castiel turned to look at Kuryiel to make a comment about the characters in the movie and saw she her eyes were closed in sleep. Her breathing was deep. He turned his body toward Kuryiel to watch her sleep. She looked so sweet and vulnerable with her long dark hair fanned across her cheekbones and neck. Castiel studied the fine features of her face still felt amazed that God made her in this image of beauty. He gazed fixedly taking in her high forehead, her slight arched dark thin eyebrows, long eyelashes that lay delicately on her cheeks, a cute button nose, high sculpted cheekbones and down to her full pink lips that looked very soft. Castiel looked slowly down her neck to other areas below that are partly revealing and others showing curves and softness. He became aware that he was breathing a little hard and his body was responding from staring so intensely at her. Recently, Sam asked Castiel what he thought of her and he gave Sam a vague response. He did not want to admit to Sam and even himself that he was very attracted to her. Castiel felt it was not appropriate to feel this way about Kuryiel. Right now, the mission is more important than being distracted by physical attraction for this angel. Plus he has to work with Kuryiel to locate angels and get this campaign solidly off the ground.

The angel's colt blue eyes were on her for a long while enjoying being in her presence. He got up from the sofa and walked to the closet. He removed a soft navy fleece blanket from the top shelf. Castiel set the blanket on the coffee table. He turned back and noticed she repositioned herself to lie completely on the sofa. Castiel draped the blanket over Kuryiel's sleeping body. He walked to the straight back chair that was next to the sofa and sat down. He stared at her the remaining of the night while the TV was playing softly in the background.

The next morning, Kuryiel stirred under the blankets and slowly sat up. She stretched her arms yawning. She was a little startled that she was still on the sofa. The TV was still on showing the morning news of today's highlights. Feeling a little groggy, she got up and noticed Castiel was not in the open area. Kuryiel headed toward the shower room to get refreshed for her day.

Sam sat at the table surfing online and eating a toasted bagel with cream cheese, while Kevin sat next to him getting reacquainted with his school books. Kuryiel walked in wearing a half buttoned white shirt, green tank top, skinny jeans with black loafers. Sam looked up. "Good morning Kuryiel." He resumed his typing.

Kevin mumbled "Good morning." he continued to read his book.

Kuryiel walked past them to the fridge and took out orange juice. She grabbed bagel from the small bag on the counter. "Where are Dean and Castiel?" She asked.

They are outside working on Dean's baby. She's getting a tune up." Sam took a bite from his half eaten bagel.

"It's funny that men can get paternal with an object but act tough and manly around people." She used a knife to put cream cheese on the top side of her bagel.

"Yeah, guys are flawed like that. You might meet some soft manner ones but Dean would consider them a little too girly to hang around. The only exception is Cas. He is not tough and manly but he can be one serious pissed off angel when someone crosses him. Mostly, he has a gentle side to him. I think it has changed Dean in a way that he does not have to be cold and hard all the time."

Kuryiel set her bagel down on her plate. "Castiel can bring the best out of people. I watched him over several years off and on during my earth journeys."

"You have been watching him? I am surprised that he did not detect you in his presence." Sam asked surprised.

"Well, I observed a lot of angels that were on earth. I was not allowed to contact them because of what I am. The years I was on earth, I did learn that some angels were influencing people with no good intentions. There were a few times I had to secretly intervene by resetting humans on the right path. I even did it for you guys when you died multiple times. You were not meant to die at an earlier time. In the scheme of things, you had very important tasks to fulfill which affecting everyone's outcome. When the apocalypse started there were two choices that would form you and Dean's destiny. One choice was either letting the play of the apocalypse continue until the curtains come down and several million people die or..." She paused taking a sip of her orange juice. "The second choice was to stop the horrendous play and cause another ripple of events to unfold that would be just as catastrophic."

Kuryiel became silent for thirty seconds watching Sam understand the seriousness of what conspired. She finally continued. "The whole point is that you can stop one major event but it will create another major event in order to balance the universe. You guys chose to save humans from massacre and the destruction of earth. The result was massive carnage of angels that started fighting a civil war and when Cas became..."

She did not want to finish the comment since it was still hard for her to accept the deadly actions he took. She decided not to finish her sentence. "The road of Fate wants its due payment and changed everyone's destiny. It's unfortunate that we angels cannot reproduce our species."

Sam listened intently to Kuryiel's words. He was astonished that there were plans for the Winchester brothers and how they chose to play it out decided the fate of humans and angels. Sam looked forlorn about all the events that happened. "Kuryiel, we had no idea that our choice would affect the lives of angels."

Kuryiel leaned over and place her hand on Sam's. "It's not entirely your fault what happened to the angels. You had no idea how your choice would affect everyone. You were only trying to save Earth from being destroyed by Lucifer and Michael. Castiel knew there were risks of changing fate but he also had no idea of what the outcome would be from it. Please don't punish yourself."

Dean and Castiel walked in the kitchen looking a bit dirty and greasy from working on the car. "Hey Sammy did you fix anything for brunch? I am starving man."

Sam pointed at the bagels. "Naw bro help yourself to some bagels. The cream cheese is in the fridge." He watched Kuryiel finish eating and felt relieved the subject is closed for discussion.

Kevin was so engrossed in their conversation at the table that he forgot he had a book in his hand. "This is pretty deep stuff Kuryiel. Were all the tablets placed on earth were emergency orders when something goes wrong?"

"Yes they were and I am afraid there are more tablets out there if needed. We do not need to worry as long as the current prophet like you does not have compulsions to locate tablets." Kuryiel stood up and put her plate in the sink.

Castiel stood next to the fridge. "Everyone we need to meet a couple of angels today. Get yourself ready in one hour." He walked out of the kitchen.

"Wow he is a hurry to get things done." said Dean while chewing on his bagel taking a swig of beer.

"I agree with Cas to get things done soon as possible. We have to locate several angels to help us locate others to recruit. It's going to take time to accomplish this. Right now, we are at square one." She crossed her arms and leaned her hip on the counter.

Dean handed Kuryiel his plate. "Well let's get ready for our trip." He walked out of the kitchen.

Sam closed his laptop. "Do you want to stop by a diner on the way back? I really don't feel like cooking."

"Sure we can do that. I have a craving for something greasy." She smiled thinking of food and being around people. Kuryiel walked up to Kevin and placed her hand on his shoulder. "Kevin you are coming with us this time. You need to get away from here for a while."

"Ok. Let me change into jeans and a shirt." He looked down at his old T-shirt and sweatpants. Kuryiel nodded in agreement. "I'll be back in a few minutes." Kevin walked out of the kitchen.

Fifteen minutes later everyone met in the library ready to leave. Dean and Sam stood next to Castiel while Kevin stood next to Kuryiel. "The angels we will meet today are Laylah and Miniel."

"Good. I have seen them before so I will recognize them when I meet them." Kuryiel smiled.

Castiel was perplexed by her comment. "Have you observed them in the past?"

"Yes I have observed them in the past since they are frequently here on earth protecting humans." She acknowledged.

Dean looked at both of them. "What is their purpose with people?"

Castiel replied. "Laylah oversees and protects childbirth. Miniel is part of Cupid's brigade and his task is to induce love in people."

Dean's eyebrows raised in interest. "Man, there must be several angels here doing all kinds of things behind the scenes."

"You can't imagine how many were working here undetected to assist and protect the human race. Not all angels were soldiers like me." Castiel sincerely admitted.

Kevin gazed fascinated at Castiel. "I am really interested in knowing how many angels exist out here. There are some listed in books but there has to be more angels that are still unknown that have a purpose here."

"There are several thousand angels not recorded in any history or biblical texts all over the world. When we have time Kevin I will sit down with you and we can discuss about the angels that no one knows that exist. We will be visiting some of them in the immediate future."

Kevin looked animated with excitement. "I can't wait. Maybe I can write a book about this. Though, it might be hard to get it published because I will not have any backup documentation of these unknown angels."

Dean was getting impatient. "Alright you two. Let's get out of here it's getting later by the minute."

Everyone disappeared from the bunker and instantly appeared in a flower garden at next to a small stone cottage. There was a young looking man kneeling in front of a flower bed planting bulbs into the soil. He used the back of his hand to brush his auburn hair away from his doe shaped hazel eyes. He looked very exotic with distinct masculine features with strong jawline along with full lips. He lifted his head to look up at the new visitors that are walking towards him. "Good afternoon." He gave a welcoming smile to everyone as he stood up wearing a white tunic shirt and pants with dark leather sandals.

"Hello Miniel. Thank you for inviting us. You know the Winchester brothers." Castiel directed his hand towards Dean and Sam.

"Oh yeah they were one of my projects a time or two." Miniel laughed at Dean's expression of horror. "Believe it or not, I have helped enhance your feelings in umm...certain emotional situations. Dean you look as though you have been violated." He said in humor. "You're not so cool and distant as you like to display to everyone."

"Can we not talk about this right now?" Dean was looking very uncomfortable.

Castiel ignored Dean's complaint. "This is Kevin our current prophet and this is Kuryiel."

"Kuryiel? I never heard of an angel with your name." Miniel looked startled.

"I have not as well." Everyone instantly turned their heads in alarm to the voice behind them. There was a woman approaching the group wearing a long flowing flower pattern skirt and a peasant blouse with puffed sleeves. Her sandaled feet moved quietly toward Dean and Sam.

Dean smiled at the very petite woman admiring her beauty of her long wavy brown hair, her oval brown eyes, pixie facial features and a glorious smile.

"I did not mean to startle everyone. Hello Castiel." She walked up to him and placed her hand on his shoulder.

"It's good to see you again Laylah. Thank you for give us your time from your busy schedule." Castiel inclined his head to her in respect.

Kuryiel walked up to Laylah and shook her hand. "It's nice to meet you."

"It's strange that we have not heard about you and I know all the angels that are still alive." Laylah proclaimed.

"I was kept secret as a last resort to protect Heaven. I am finally glad that I am now able to interact with my angel siblings." She gently squeezed Laylah's hand.

"Ok I guess we are done with the introductions so let's get down to business." Dean interjected.

Kuryiel nodded her head. "Dean's right we need your help with re-claiming heaven from Metatron."

Laylah guided everyone out to the left side of the garden. "Why don't we all take a seat in the gazebo? I have refreshments so we can be comfortable there."

"Good idea. Thanks." Dean nudged Kevin to move as they all walked to the gazebo to sit down.

Kuryiel explained to Miniel and Laylah about the mission and their importance of helping. "Please spread the word to the angels you interact with. We have to assemble everybody to protect the souls when the battle starts."

"Miniel and I are more than happy to help. It was fortunate that we were on earth accomplishing our tasks when the fall happened. Miniel will also inform Cupid of what is required of him. Do you wish to meet him so you can discuss the mission in person?"

Kuryiel was about to say yes until she saw the alarmed expressions of Dean, Sam and even Castiel's face. All three spoke up at once and said. "No!"

Castiel try to rectify his action by adding. "Um it will be better if you can tell him. I trust that you will give a detailed report of what he needs to do."

Dean and Sam shuddered in disgust remembering the chubby naked angel hugging them in greeting and with affection. "Please tell him yourself. That angel is too intense for me." Dean complained in a wary tone.

"I understand. Cupid can get a bit too affectionate and emotional." Miniel smiled knowing they were trying to be polite.

"You think? It would be great if you can ask him to put some clothes on. This is the twenty first century and the Garden of Eden is long gone from this place." Dean gave a sour expression and shuddered again.

Laylah rose from the bench. "I have to get back to my task. Kuryiel it was great to meet you. I hope you will have time to venture with me so we can get to know each other."

Kuryiel also stood up. "I will look forward to spending time with you. Take care." Laylah zapped out of the gazebo.

Castiel looked at Miniel. "I will follow up with you in a couple of days."

Everyone gathered together to leave. Kuryiel waved at Miniel. "I will see you soon brother so have fun with your flowers."

Miniel nodded his head in farewell. Kuryiel touched Kevin and zapped out of the garden.

Everyone appeared in front of Dean's car at the bunker. Well let's go get some food people." Dean opened his car door and got in. They drove to the closest diner in town. The waitress seated everyone at the second booth the left side of the diner. Kevin got up. "I need to wash my hands. Could someone order a coke for me?"

"I got you man." Sam waved his hand and looked at the menu.

Kuryiel asked Dean. "What is really good here?"

Dean grinned and pointed at an item listed in the second page on the menu. "They have an awesome pepper jack powerhouse burger with bacon. I get this once in a while when I am starved."

"Alright I am ordering that with some cheese fries." She looked across the table at Castiel as he pretend to be interested in the menu. "Okay Cas, what are you going to order? Whatever you get I am going to eat it."

Dean treed not to look outraged listening to Kuryiel. "Hey you can't get first dibs on his food. He normally gives me what he orders."

"Okay why don't we flip a coin to see who is going to get Cas's plate of food." She leaned over sneering at Dean.

"Great I have two hungry kids sitting at the table fighting over Cas's food he has not ordered yet." Sam rolled his eyes.

"Shut up Sam!" Kuryiel and Dean said at the same time. Sam held his hands up in surrender and let those two haggle it out.

"I agree Sam. This is ridiculous." Castiel shook his head and continued to look at the menu.

"Flip a coin lady. Heads for me." Dean said looking confident he is going to win.

When the quarter landed on the back of Kuryiel's left hand, she instantly slapped her right hand on top of it. Dean leaned over to look directly at the result. When she removed her right hand he scowled in disappointment. The shiny quarter was displaying North Carolina 1789 First Flight. " Well I guess I get to help myself to Cas's plate." She chuckled and Dean sat back in the booth with his arms crossed glaring at woman angel.

She felt a little guilty of acting so greedy about the food. "Why don't we just split the food on Cas's plate? That way, no one feels slighted. Okay?" She smiled at him.

Dean's face softened giving an appreciative look. "Hey that's fine with me." His stomach was growling.

Kevin returned from the bathroom and took a seat next to Kuryiel. "Did you guys order yet?"

Soon as Kuryiel said no the waitress walked up to the table with her pad and pencil. She was freckled a stocky young woman with frizzy hair pinned back in a bun. "Are you ready?"

Everyone ordered what they wanted and handed the menus to the waitress. The stocky lady walked away to submit the ticket to the short-order cook.

Castiel looked at Kuryiel wondering what she is thinking as she stared out of the window of the diner. Sam and Dean were bickering about the music Dean was playing in his car. "Can we please get a break from your old rock music collection? I really get tired of listening to the same songs."

"Okay. Find me a new rock band that I may like and buy the CD." Dean said with reason.

"Oh come on that's going to cost money." Sam complained. "It's too expensive to buy a handful of CD's for you to listen to and most likely I can't get a full refund if you don't want them. That's not going to work. When we get back home why don't we sit at the laptop and look up some songs on YouTube. If you like something I can burn a CD for you."

Dean wanted to give Sam a hard time but he relented. "That's a good idea. We'll do that when we get back."

Sam sighed in relief. Cas looked back at Kuryiel and she was still staring out of the window deep in thought. Castiel wanted to reach over and touch her hand with his but he did not want to attract everyone's attention. He knew they would pick on him unmercifully and extremely embarrass him in the process. Plus he was surprised by his own thoughts of wanting to touch her. He turned his eyes away from her turning his head towards Sam and Dean focusing on their conversation.

Kevin looked across the table noticing Castiel staring at Kuryiel for a while and then instantly turned his head to Sam trying to listen to the guys working out the music issue. Kevin smiled to himself nudging Kuryiel. She broke out of her thoughts and looked at Kevin quizzically. Kevin angled his head toward hers to say in a low voice. "Guess who was staring at you a moment ago?"

Kuryiel kept a straight face. "The guy in the trench coat?" Knowing Castiel was not paying attention.

Kevin chuckled. "Yes. I think he has a crush on you. This is the third time I caught him doing this."

"The third time?" Her eyebrows raised in question. She only recalled first incident of Castiel staring at her in the kitchen.

"Oh yeah." Kevin excitedly said. "You would not know this." He whispered in her ear. "This morning I woke up at 5:30 AM and could not go back to sleep. I left my bedroom going to watch some TV. I saw him sitting in the hardback chair watching you sleep on the sofa. I walked back to my room to sort out my school books instead. When I left my room to have breakfast at 8:00 AM he was still sitting there watching you sleep. You should have seen the look on his face. The guy so was engrossed like he was watching the best movie flick in his own private theatre."

Kuryiel was shocked to hear what Kevin said. Her body started tingling and it made her squirm a little thinking how Castiel watched her sleep all night.

Castiel felt the atmosphere change as he glanced over at Kuryiel and Kevin. Kuryiel looked flushed in the face trying not to look into Castiel's eyes and Kevin did the same. He knew Kevin told her something and now he wondered if it was about him.

The waitress brought a tray of food and set each plate in front of everyone. Kuryiel moved her beverage aside to make room for her big burger and fries. Everyone started to dig in their food. Castiel briefly told the group he has to take off for a little while and zapped out of the booth.

"What's his problem?" Dean asked munching on his chicken sandwich.

"I guess he had to do something real quick." Kuryiel interjected. "He will be back soon."

Right when Kuryiel and Dean divided Castiel's food. He instantly reappeared startling Dean. "Cas you know I really hate that. Can you at least appear in the front of the diner, that way you will not give me a heart attack." Dean snarled.

"Sorry Dean." He pushed his plate toward the angry man after Kuryiel took half of the food.

"So what is next?" Sam asked Castiel after he placed his napkin on his empty plate.

"Kuryiel and I will make a small trip to meet some fallen angels. I hope they can help give us some names and locations of intact angels."

"You know what? I am surprised we have not run into any demons since Kuryiel arrived here. Things are too quiet and I don't trust Crowley. It feels like the calm before a huge crap storm." Dean looked concerned.

"Hopefully we bought some time before they find out about our lady angel here." Sam looked at Kuryiel. "Sooner or later Crowley is going to know about her. He might consider her as a threat. I would not put it past Crowley that he already worked a deal with Metatron bargaining for souls."

"I have a feeling we will run into him soon." Kuryiel predicted. "Dean's right. Things are too quiet so it's only a matter of time that he will find out about me and hunt me down."

Dean finished the last bite of his food. "Well until then, we will be extra careful by keeping your identity under wraps. Cas you will need to make sure all angels keep their mouths shut about Kuryiel being an angel. On our end, we will give everyone else the impression that she just a human rookie hunter in training."

Castiel looked at Dean with a serious expression. "I agree. I will have a conversation with the angels we already spoke to. Kuryiel are you ready to meet a few fallen angels in a few minutes?"

"Sure I am ready. Let me know when you are ready to zap out of here." She pushed her plate away from her.

Kuryiel and Castiel nodded at each other and zapped out of the diner.

Dean eyes glowered upwards toward the ceiling. "You're welcome Kuryiel." He said under his breath feeling annoyed she did not even bother paying for her own meal. Dean fished out his wallet and dropped a couple of twenty dollar bills on the table. "Let's get out of here."

To Be Continued

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