The screen faded back in to show the outside of the clinic at Mideel. Cid, Yuffie, the doctor, the nurse and even the missing dog stood around talking.

Cid asked the doctor to tell them the truth, about whether Cloud would be alright or not. The doctor reiterated that he had Mako poisoning, that mako-drenched knowledge (whatever that meant) had been infused into his head.

"That doctor sounds like a quack," Genesis said flatly.

"So do Hojo and Hollander at times, but look what they've come up with," Angeal rebutted darkly.

Sephiroth grit his teeth, but still said nothing as the conversation on the screen moved on.

The doctor said it was a miracle Cloud survived – that no normal human would.

Sephiroth didn't like that phrasing… like he was somehow saying Cloud was less than human.

Cid mentioned that it wasn't a surprise, seeing as Cloud had fallen into the Lifestream.

The doctor finally seemed to realize that he'd not been the most… supportive of doctors and told them to not give up hope.

Cid commented that hope was all they had left now.

As soon as he finished speaking, the door to the clinic opened and Tifa walked out. Cid asked if she was okay, to which she responded that she was and apologized for worrying everyone.

"It was justified," Angeal said.

"She didn't worry anyone more than finding Cloud did," Genesis said.

Sephiroth agreed with a nod of his head. They both had valid points.

Then Tifa said she had something she wanted to say to them. Instead of just blurting it out, she turned around and walked back inside. The nurse and doctor (and presumably everyone else) began to follow her. The screen faded out and back into the inside of the clinic where Tifa informed everyone that she only cared about Cloud and helping him at the moment. Despite protests (that were rather supportive and token at best, quickly turning into outright support), she informed everyone that she would remain there.

"Rather short-sighted of her," Genesis said.

Angeal looked a little annoyed at that, but Sephiroth beat him to the punch, speaking up calmly.

"Is it?"

"How is it not?" the red-head asked. "The world is ending and all she can think about is a crush?"

Angeal shook his head. "It's precisely the world ending that makes it an understandable and arguably selfless decision. We don't know how long they have until that Meteor crashes down. It could be minutes – although I doubt it with how the game plays – or it could be weeks."

"It should be minutes with how large and close that thing appears," Genesis said, but his heart didn't seem to be in it. The other two didn't spare him a glance.

"I believe I understand the point Angeal is attempting to make," Sephiroth said. "She has a finite amount of time left. As far as I know, they do not know how to stop Meteor from falling. They do not know how to stop… Game Sephiroth's plan or even find him. They do not know how to stop Jenova. She can either run around with the rest of the crew, pretending they can do something, or she can stay with the only other survivor from her childhood home and be with him in his final days." He paused and took a deep breath, closing his eyes for a moment before looking back at a very quiet Genesis.

"If you found Angeal in Cloud's situation, with a finite amount of time left to spend with him, would you leave?"

Genesis didn't answer for several seconds. When he did he let out a long breath. "It would be different for me. I am a first class SOLDIER. I would likely be needed somewhere and my missing presence would undoubtedly be felt. Especially with Angeal out of commission."

Sephiroth had to give him that. "Perhaps," he said with a nod, "but would it be an easy decision?"

Again, Genesis didn't answer for a while. When he finally did, he didn't look back at his silver-haired friend. "You too."

Sephiroth blinked. "Excuse me?"

Genesis took a deep breath, then glanced over at him, annoyed. "You used Angeal as an example. Why do you leave yourself out?"

That strange warmth bubbled in Sephiroth's chest again and suddenly the game and all the information it presented didn't feel quite so… heavy. On the other side of Genesis, Angeal beamed. For a moment, he almost looked like Zachary – Zack. The boy wished to be called Zack.

"I… will need time to… get used to the idea," he finally said. "It is not a… concept I am used to."

"You'd better get used to it," Angeal said, that cheesy grin still spread across his face. Sephiroth wondered if Zack had picked it up from him, or if it had been the other way around. "You're our friend. Remember that, Sephiroth."

Against his will, his cheeks heated and didn't know why he felt embarrassed but so happy at the same time. So he looked away, and nodded.

"Noted. I will… try."

Genesis snorted. "Good. Angeal?" He gestured to the television.

The brunet nodded and the scene continued, showing Cid and Yuffie telling Tifa to look after Cloud and informing her that they'd be heading back to the Highwind.

The scene cut directly to the bridge of the airship (after fading out and then back in again). Up front, Barrett asked what they were going to do. No one answered and so he asked again, more insistently. He pointed out that they couldn't wait for Cloud to get better. It seemed no one could answer him there either.

Then Cait Sith walked forward, saying he had some news from ShinRa.

Barrett accused him of being a spy.

Sephiroth frowned. "I am confused. Was this not already known?"

"They have to know," Genesis confirmed. "Ripples form on the water's surface. The wandering soul knows no rest…"

Cait Sith confirmed that he'd already told them. Then he said that 'Gyahahah and Kyahahah' are up to something.

"I suppose he means Scarlet and Heidegger," Angeal mused. "That is how the game has portrayed their laughs in the past."

Sephiroth and Genesis both nodded, both still a little confused that Barrett seemed to have forgotten that Cait Sith was actually a spy.

Then the doll/robot/puppet asked if they wanted to eavesdrop.

"Of course they want to!" Genesis said, throwing his hands up for the umpteenth time that night. "What an utterly ridiculous question!" He shook his head. "The real question here is whose side you are really on, Reeve Tuesti! Do you even know?"

"We don't have solid proof that Cait Sith is Tuesti yet, Genesis," Angeal sighed.

"I'm willing to bet on it, I'm sure enough."

"I'm not betting on it," the brunet countered.

"Also proof enough, for me, that you also think it's Tuesti," Genesis grinned.

"Who else could it be?" Sephiroth asked. "We know it isn't Scarlett, Heidegger, Rufus ShinRa, Hojo, or Palmer. Process of elimination dictates it must be Tuesti." He paused. "Unless you think he's one of the Turks…?"

They all looked at each other for several seconds, then shook their heads almost as one. Definitely not a Turk.

"Until proven otherwise I'm going to assume it's Tuesti," Genesis declared haughtily.

Angeal just rolled his eyes but didn't argue further.

The screen faded out and then back in again to the ShinRa board room. Rufus ShinRa walked in, turned towards the camera and brushed his hair away from his face. (Sephiroth was pretty sure that was what the strange movement signified in any case – that wasn't the first movement that had confused them and wouldn't be the last, he suspected.)

In the back of the room sat Palmer and Heidegger. Hojo was nowhere in sight. On the other side of the room stood Tuesti.

"Wait," Angeal said, sitting forward and frowning at the television screen. "That can't be right… Scarlett at least has to know that Cait Sith – and thus Tuesti – rescued Tifa and Barrett! Why is he still there and not arrested?"

Sephiroth frowned and thought back. "Cait Sith was supposedly in disguise," he said slowly. "And we don't know what he took Scarlet out with. Perhaps she was too drugged to correctly identify him?"

"Or he could claim his little extension has gone rogue," Genesis said. "It isn't like Scarlet's don't do that often enough."

"True," Angeal replied, but he didn't look convinced. He still continued forward with the scene.

To Rufus' credit, they were trying to figure out ways to destroy Meteor – likely to save their own skins, but Sephiroth couldn't really blame them for that. He also said something about a barrier around the Northern Crater… which answered quite a few of Sephiroth's questions and brought up even more.

He decided not to voice them at the moment, instead focusing on the scene.

They spoke of gathering huge materia and ramming it into Meteor. Scarlet herself came in on the side, still dressed in that ridiculous evening gown, stating that they'd already gathered materia from two reactors so far and were looking at all the others in each sector. Apparently, all of the huge materia together would create a force 330 times higher than a normal materia…

"WHAT?!" Genesis yelled. "With how close that thing is to the planet, it would do more harm than good! The kind of energy that would create could very well destroy Gaia as much as – if not more so – than Meteor!"

"What are they thinking?" Angeal asked angrily.

"That they let the Meteor crash and they die, or they do something about it," Sephiroth replied. He could relate, even if he felt their response was not the smartest or best idea they could have come up with.

"That does not excuse their stupidity!" Genesis shrieked. "And why aren't the Weapons doing anything about that Meteor! Shouldn't they be protecting the planet?!"

He… had a very good point.

"Besides! You don't waste precious, one-of-a-kind materia like that!"

And there was the Genesis that Sephiroth knew. He sighed. Angeal actually put his head in his hand, shaking it the whole while.

"Do you not agree?!"

Angeal, apparently, figured this was not a battle they needed to fight. "No, we do," he placated. "We're just as disgusted by their stupidity and recklessness as you are."

Genesis firmly nodded his head in righteous fury. "Good," he said, before turning back to glare at the screen. Continuing with the dialogue, it told them (in blue text, this time) that the two huge materia they hadn't picked up were in Corel and Fort Condor.

Then they said they had already dispatched their troops to Corel.

What.

Genesis must have finally hit his limit for the night because he burst out laughing. Angeal and Sephiroth turned to stare at him. After a couple of seconds he managed to calm down.

"They… they dispatched their troops to Corel, which is halfway across the world instead of Fort Condor which is literally less than a full day's transport away?!" He shook his head, bursting into laughter again. "I… I can't."

Angeal bit his lip. "I'm going to suggest stopping again—"

But before he could get further, Genesis waved his hand. "No, no. It's fine. Please, continue with this insanity."

"Game stupidity?" Sephiroth asked, which set off another bout of laughter from his red-haired friend. Angeal shot a dirty look in his direction.

"That is so utterly accurate!" Genesis cackled. "Game stupidity! Worse than Game insanity!"

Their larger friend rolled his eyes and turned back to the television. "I'm continuing," he said.

Fortunately, the screen faded out and then back in to Barrett yelling about Corel, asking what else ShinRa can do to it.

"Completely wipe it from the face of the planet?" Angeal said dryly.

"Destroy the entire planet," Genesis said with a scoff. "That seems to be about what they're doing right now. "Dreams of the morrow hath the shattered soul. Pride is lost, Wings stripped away, the end is nigh…"

In the game, Nanaki spoke of the huge materia and how their smaller materia should react when nearby. How he knew that, Sephiroth had no idea, but game insanity and all.

Barrett insisted they couldn't let ShinRa get their hands on the huge materia… which seemed rather a given to Sephiroth. Then he said he wanted them to show Cloud 'when' he got back. That was… rather optimistic to Sephiroth, but also very… what was the word, nice? Thoughtful? Supportive? Friendly? Hmm… he'd have to think on it.

Fortunately (or unfortunately as the case may be), Cait Sith thought along the same lines, saying Barrett really wanted Cloud back, no matter what he said before. Barrett turned away and folded his arms, then turned back and told him to 'shut his face'.

"And the turncoat calls it," Genesis said, sounding more amused than he had for a while.

Sephiroth glanced between him and the screen for a moment, thoughtful. He supposed he could see a proud person like Barrett not wanting to admit such feelings… although it seemed rather pointless to pretend they didn't exist in Sephiroth's opinion. Not when doing so would not get him punished… and he pushed that thought away. Now was not the time.

Then Barrett said that every team needed a leader… but that he wasn't it. That surprised Sephiroth.

"Oh, look! Character growth!" Genesis said wryly.

No one seemed to know who should be the leader, so Barrett turned to Cid. Cid who… happened to be asleep.

"Why is he sleeping on his own bridge!" Genesis yelled at the television. "He is not leader material either!"

True…

If anyone, Sephiroth would have chosen Vincent.

Now that he thought about it, it was probably a good thing Yuffie wasn't there at the moment.

Of course, Cid said he wouldn't do it, but they managed to convince him by pointing out that he was in charge of the ship, so why not everyone else too.

"Well, he doesn't have terrible reasoning," Angeal said.

Genesis snorted, but said nothing more.

On the screen, Cid seemed moved by the words, enough so that he agreed. Angeal walked Cid off of the Bridge and to the operation's room.

Once he reached the end of the catwalk, Barrett stopped him, telling him they needed to go to the Corel Reactor.

"Are we sure that Barrett doesn't want to be in charge?" Genesis asked, deadpan.

Sephiroth chuckled once, but the comment managed to put a small smile on his face.

They finally got Cid to the Operations Room and he spoke to the man in there. Once the menu popped up, Angeal turned to look at his friends.

"Well, now that we do not have Tifa, Cloud or Aeris, who should we have in the party?" He tried to keep the tone light, but Sephiroth could tell he was straining, especially over the words.

"We still haven't completely gotten Yuffie's stats to the other's level and we did just buy her a new weapon, so I vote for her," Genesis said lazily.

Sephiroth raised an eyebrow, almost amused. "Perhaps Barrett? Isn't he really in charge after all?"

That got a small chuckle and smile from the other two.

"Why not?" Angeal asked, choosing him.

They spent the next several minutes going over all of the materia, weapons and armor. Then they restored their mp/hp (although how a random airship worker could do that Sephiroth had no idea) and saved the game.

Then they headed back to the bridge and spoke to the helmsman (now level 6?), which took them to the world map.

By following the small dot in the corner, they could head directly over to Corel.

From Mideel.

Without stopping.

"Where are they getting fuel and supplies?" Sephiroth asked. "Would it not take…" he did several quick calculations in his head, "upwards of thirteen hours to make a direct trip?"

"I have no clue," Genesis said, sounding mildly tired and extremely annoyed.

"We have to find that mountain path again, correct?" Angeal asked, likely feeling that the navigation in the airship was rather stranger than simply walking or driving judging from his annoyed expression.

It didn't take them too long to find where they needed to go, running with Cid up the mountain leading from what had to be New Corel to the Corel Reactor, fighting the odd fight every now and then. Genesis grumbled under his breath about the ridiculousness of the significantly easier fights, and how the game was absurd for pointlessly making them fight at all. Sephiroth could see his point. It was, after all, a video game.

Angeal commented back that they should just take this for the progress they'd made in the game. That the fights did make it more interactive and gave them some control over the party's growth. He seemed to find it amusing that anyone, no matter who it was, could take said monsters out in one physical hit.

"I will grant you that the fights are slowing us down a lot, though. How are we supposed to get there before ShinRa does?" Angeal asked.

"Well, we do have their airship," Genesis pointed out, perhaps a little too gleefully. "They'd either need to take another airship – and I doubt they have one faster than the Highwind if their main airship builder also happens to have been working on a rocket for the last several years – or a helicopter, which would get them there, but would take time."

Angeal glanced over at his friend, one eyebrow raised in puzzled amusement. "You're going to explain the game now?"

Genesis paused on the bridge to the reactor and looked over at Angeal. "If something in this game can be explained by actual logic, I will find it, if only to save what is left of my sanity."

The larger SOLDIER snorted and turned back to the game, as did Genesis.

Who promptly ran into another battle, of course.

And then they had another battle once they reached the entry to the reactor, seeing as it was guarded. It wasn't a difficult fight, though not an instant win as they'd been up to that point, even if it took a little longer than any of them would like to finish off the red-clad infantry.

The fight finished, and Barrett commented that they were safe for now.

"Well, that's tempting fate," Genesis said, as Angeal clicked the button for the next part.

And then they heard what was undoubtedly a train whistle.

"Of course," Genesis muttered.

AVALANCHE panicked and got out of a very slow-moving train leaving the reactor. Did they put trains in reactors these days? Or was that supposed to be a unique thing to Corel?

"Well, it seemed they got there first after all," the resident thespian said.

"Or they simply called in an order, if there were already personnel in the vicinity," Sephiroth pointed out.

"It would have taken several PHS calls in a chain, but we know ShinRa has those set up," Angeal said.

Genesis harrumphed.

Then the characters yelled about how they needed to stop that train and the huge materia.

After the train was no longer visible on screen.

"Now you want to stop it," Genesis said to the screen. "What about before? When it was right there!"

Then Cid spoke up about how he could do something and who did they think he was. They ran inside the reactor and then came out with a much smaller train – having only one car.

Genesis put a hand to the bridge of his nose. "The ridiculousness…" he muttered.

The screen faded out and back in again to a close up of Cid standing in front of the driver's seat in the head of a train. Barrett began yelling at him, asking how he could drive the vehicle.

"Is a train that different from an airship or plane?" Sephiroth wondered. The other two SOLDIERS shrugged.

Of course, then Cid said he didn't know.

"What?!" the three SOLDIERS asked, right along with Barrett.

Then Cid said not to worry, that they only had to alternate between the leavers – left and right – to somehow make the train go… faster? That it would take about ten minutes to catch up with the train…

"Where is he getting this from?" Genesis asked, hand outspread and palm up as he gestured at the screen.

Then a timer appeared. "I have control again," Angeal said.

"Oh, you have got to be kidding me," Genesis muttered. "Dreams of the marrow hath the shattered soul."

They moved the levers back and forth – not as easy as it sounds as the controller did not seem to want to take their directions – before FINALLY catching up with the other train… on a train track that hadn't even been there before.

"Where did that second track come from?" Angeal asked.

Sephiroth didn't know in the slightest and Genesis seemed too disgusted to answer.

It only got worse when Cid said that 'now' they could jump.

What.

Barrett and Yuffie literally jumped into Cid, who then jumped onto the opposing train.

"I don't think that is how trains work," Sephiroth said.

"That's what you focus on?" Genesis asked, incredulous. "They just left a fully running train on a track with no driver to stop it…"

Angeal cleared his throat a little sheepishly. "I was actually wondering how they jumped that far from a moving train without enhancements…"

Silence as the screen faded back into Cid on the back of the train.

"Pride is lost… Wings stripped away… The end is nigh," Genesis said despairingly. "This is beyond insanity and madness and stupidity and I will have to invent a new word to encapsulate the utter ridiculousness this supposed medium of entertainment deigns to present as acceptable. I am not amused at this!"

Funny, Sephiroth didn't think this reached the insanity/stupidity levels of the Weapon attack on Junon…

Then they had to fight one battle per car. It was fortunate that they seemed to still have nine minutes to fight, then. Especially as these were not nearly as fast as the battles they'd just gone through. And they had status ailments. It was a good thing Genesis had equipped the party with anti-status ailment equipment, but no one could fully defend against everything. Every SOLDIER knew that.

The third cart in, they fought what looked more like a giant battle suit for one of Wutai's anti-SOLDIER monsters, with an enormous sword in one hand…

That was… not an easy battle, but they made it and Yuffie leveled up. So there was that.

They healed the party up (with potions and remedies, as if those alone could account for every ailment in the world…) and moved on.

The next boss looked like a giant, mechanical eagle.

Heh. It wasn't the most ridiculous thing he'd seen in the game.

"Do you think that's one of Scarlet's?" he found himself asking.

Genesis shrugged. "I'd like to say that there's no other logical explanation, but this game…"

They fell into a moment of uncomfortable silence.

""Let's just assume it's Scarlet's, unless the game states otherwise," Angeal suggested a little too brightly. "It's not exactly a leap to think of Scarlet making these kinds of monstrosities."

The other two nodded, if only for the sake of their sanity.

Then Genesis held out his hand in front of Angeal without even looking away from the screen. "Mind if I take the controller for a bit? I have had a thought and would like to try something."

Angeal sagged a little in relief. "Thanks, Gen."

The red-head took over the fight. Genesis's 'thought' apparently was to have Yuffie steal a couple of times (he claimed that if the game had any logic at all, the little thief would be able to steal better, materia ability or not) to see if they could get anything. After a couple of tries, they managed to steal a warrior bangle. Until that point, Sephiroth had thought it a waste of time.

They were down to three and a half minutes when they finally finished that battle. Then they had to fight the driver of the train… which wasn't anything notable, really.

After that, the members of their group argued about what to do next and how much trouble they were in. It took far too many seconds in Sephiroth's opinion and they had a little under three minutes to move the levers in the same direction simultaneously to slow the train down.

"You're right, Sephiroth," Angeal muttered, "that can't be how trains work."

The instructions were different, but still fairly rudimentary. They continued to do as told, but instead of slowing down as promised, the train seemed to speed up. The characters even commented on it. Which went beyond ridiculous. Why would that speed it up? Unless, Cid really didn't know what he was doing?

"Perhaps…" Genesis trailed off, and messed with the buttons on the controller.

The train seemed to speed up more.

"Genesis?" Angeal prompted.

"I suspect the game may be messing with us. And I'd prefer if there are no remarks or comments suggesting or related to 'anticipating the game' or I shall be forced to test the aerodynamics of the television." Genesis threatened.

The other two wisely kept quiet as Genesis kept with the simple instructions (game insanity) and the train stopped at supposedly just the right time, despite them having over a minute left on the timer.

"It always stops at one – or just in time," Genesis muttered. "And even if they stopped this one, there's still the other train they jumped from and the missing magical second track."

They never did find out what happened to that second train...

And it seemed they had stopped the train from crashing into New Corel as Sephiroth had taken to calling it. At least they received the item 'Huge Materia' for their troubles.

In quite the turnaround, the people of New Corel seemed to now be very impressed with their group, even though it included Barrett still.

"Ah, the fickle whims of fame," the red-head said. "The wind sails over the water's surface, quietly but surely."

The townspeople forgave Barrett and then spoke of digging a tunnel so deep Meteor couldn't get to them. Honestly, that seemed a little too optimistic in Sephiroth's book, but it was a better plan than anything ShinRa had come up with so far in his opinion.

Genesis just snorted and Angeal shook his head.

Then they gave the party an Ultima Materia.

"What the actual—"

"Genesis," Angeal cut in sharply.

"How could a town like that have an Ultima Materia?!" the thespian asked, gesturing angrily at the screen.

"From the well," the dark-haired man said nonchalantly.

Genesis' shoulders tensed. "Of all the—"

"At the next save point," Sephiroth cut in smoothly, "I say we leave it here and go… let off some steam. Genesis was right about Mideel being a break of sorts, but this..."

The other two paused and turned to look at him, although Genesis' face was still red.

"What did you have in mind?" Angeal asked slowly.

"A spar," Sephiroth said simply.

The other two paused and glanced at each other.

"The last time we used the training rooms for one of our usual spars, they garnished our pay for eight months..." Genesis pointed out, still a little huffy.

Sephiroth directed his gaze deliberately at the television screen before looking back. "I have found that I don't particularly care for some of ShinRa's… policies," he said, raising one eyebrow pointedly.

More blinking. Sephiroth frowned. Was he really known to be that much of a stickler for rules? Granted, it had worked to his advantage earlier, when the scientists didn't argue with his demand that they leave the labs in accordance with protocol, but he wasn't that bad… was he?

Then Genesis smiled something sly and definitely approving. Angeal just looked amused.

"I'm for it!" Genesis said.

"Why not?" Angeal asked.

"Honor?" the red-head shot back.

The larger SOLDIER just sent him an unimpressed deadpan.

"We ought to find a save point first," Sephiroth reminded. Of the two, the Silver General could only see Angeal's expression. His eyes narrowed, but then both he and Genesis – almost simultaneously – turned back to the game.

Where they found out that they could stay for free at what passed for the local inn. And by 'stay for free' the game meant 'you will stay for free,' as the scene faded out to the music that played whenever they slept.

Once they awoke again, they exited into New Corel.

"Before we save it, we should probably ask around… in case there are other… treasures they are willing to give us," Genesis commented. "If they're grateful enough to give us an Ultima, then there might be other 'gifts' the townsfolk wish to impart us with."

"And why can't we do that after taking a break?" Angeal sighed, but after a few moments staring Genesis down, he relented. Sephiroth went around, speaking to people in general. They all seemed extremely worried about Meteor – unsurprisingly. One person said they'd give them 'Catastrophe', a memento from her husband.

Sephiroth was pretty sure that wasn't a materia. Judging from Genesis' frown, he didn't think so either. Looking at it in the menu only showed a bag that normally meant a regular item.

"What is it?" Genesis asked grumpily.

"Why do you think we know?" Angeal returned, his own puzzled frown on his face.

"Perhaps we will find out later?" Sephiroth pointed out.

Angeal just sighed and nodded while Genesis sunk back in the couch, pouting again.

No one else really had anything for them, of value or otherwise, so they left the town and found themselves on the world map.

Sephiroth couldn't help but feel relieved. "Good," he said, hand extended, "Let me have the controller. I'll equip the Ultima materia on Yuffie and save the game, you go grab your swords. Meet me at the elevator."

"Dressed like this?" Genesis asked, gesturing to his t-shirt, although he sounded more shocked than upset as he handed it over and stood alongside Angeal.

Sephiroth thought for a second, then dismissed the question and shrugged as he finished navigating the menu to the equipment screen. The other two hesitated by the open door, awaiting his response.

"I very much do not care at the moment," was all he could bring himself to say.

The pair exchanged a glance and then shrugged, walking out without any further words. Sephiroth tugged on his coat while the game saved. Then he, with rather more relief and justification than he should probably feel, shut the television and game station down.

Sixty seconds later, the apartment stood empty.

xXx

AN: Yes, they FINALLY got a break. :)

Looks like while I'm still getting my house together after the move and with in-laws coming by soon, updates are still going to be every other week. Sorry, guys.

On the bright side, I have an awesome Beta who is just as dedicated as I am to making sure this fic is top quality. More dedicated even. Thanks, Imagination7413!

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