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h3 id="work" class="landmark heading" style="border-width: 0px 0px 0.25em; border-image: initial; outline: 0px; font-weight: 500; font-style: inherit; font-size: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0.125em; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 0; word-break: break-word; opacity: 0; height: 0px; clear: both; color: transparent; box-shadow: none; border-color: initial initial #333333 initial; border-style: initial initial double initial;"Chapter Text/h3
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13.7592px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; box-shadow: none;"If you want some one shots from this saga that I've written but decided not to upload cause they would make this fic more all over the place than it already is, please let me know. I can publish them separately./p
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blockquote class="userstuff" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0.643em; padding: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; box-shadow: none;"
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13.7592px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; box-shadow: none;"I'm happy to finally end this fic and truthfully say I'm in a better place now and it's time to put this wacky saga to bed./p
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h3 id="work" class="landmark heading" style="border-width: 0px 0px 0.25em; border-image: initial; outline: 0px; font-weight: 500; font-style: inherit; font-size: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0.125em; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 0; word-break: break-word; opacity: 0; height: 0px; clear: both; color: transparent; box-shadow: none; border-color: initial initial #333333 initial; border-style: initial initial double initial;"Chapter Text/h3
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13.7592px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; box-shadow: none;"Crystal threw a glass at the wall. No one reacted. She'd been on edge ever since she returned from the hospital and the other Titans did not find him./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13.7592px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; box-shadow: none;"He moved closer to her and held her in a tender embrace, "I honestly don't know what I would've ever done without you."/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13.7592px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; box-shadow: none;"She smiled, "is that your way of asking me to come with you?"/p
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h3 class="heading" style="border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-style: inherit; font-size: 1.286em; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0.5375em 0px; padding: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1; word-break: break-word; background: transparent; box-shadow: none; border-style: initial initial solid initial;"Notes:/h3
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13.7592px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; box-shadow: none;"If you want some one shots from this saga that I've written but decided not to upload cause they would make this fic more all over the place than it already is, please let me know. I can publish them separately./p
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