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As Mary watched the show and then looked at the angel, she had a passing thought that she was kind of done with surprises for the night "What … what did you do to her?"

Bitty spoke up for her buddy again On account of the coughing and the gasping "He just sent sunshine to s He put his hand over the casts, without even touching the hurt at all We sawed off the fiberglass in the garage That was the coolest part"

Okay, now Mary was light-headed--and she had to take a load off on the floor "You did ith a saw?"

When Lassiter finally lifted his head, he was red-faced, but no longer doing an i"

"See?" Bitty said "So don’t be mad at him"

Mary shook her head "I don’t understand--"

"Why the fuck did you let the like this, why the hell did you stand by while she was tortured in that exam room"

Lassiter sat all the way up, his oddly colored, pupil-less eyes not shying frohtest "It is not e without exacting proper balance, and so it in the first place"

Mary thought of the bargain that Rhage had in had learned she couldn’t have children; the one where, for her cancer to have been cured, he would have had to never, ever see her or talk to her again, in spite of the fact that they were in love

Balance was the way of the universe "But"--the fallen angel held up his forefinger--"that doesn’t et what Ithe course? That I can do"

Bitty s around now as opposed to six weeks fro? Ugh"

Mary found herself blinking back tears as she squeezed Lassiter’s foreare breathed "I’m sorry And shit, I shouldn’t have said ‘shit’ Fuck I mean … da, Mary felt like breaking down--and Bitty clearly sensed it, bending loith a hug

"I’ed Rhage to his feet "Coo have Last Meal--and before you tell ht on cue, a whirring started to fill the foyer

"He loves his wet vac," Lassiter said "Don’t that sound dirty?"