[Beau]

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[attr="class","AudenHidden"]a close connection

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Beau

Belle wanted badly to spend her time with Gambit. Even after eight years, the way that he acted still made her heart happy. He was playful and spontaneous, choosing to literally go out and hang out after getting beat up. It was hopeful thinking that he was doing these things because it was her, but he didn't know who it was.

"Maple trees?" She'd beam, squeezing his hand and looking over to him with the most excitement that was possible. The fact that he wanted to take her somewhere that reminded them both of home, which was something that they both seemed to be lacking. As they walked, Belle would look towards him and ask a touchy subject. "Do you... Go home often? Do you have a reason to go home?" Belle would wait a second, before leaning a bit to the side to make it obvious that she didn't want to pry. "You don't have to answer of course, if you don't want to." Realizing that it may be too much, Belle would start talking again. "For me, I don't. The only person that I cared about left there, but still, I love the way that those memories make me feel. The cold of the snow, the fall leaves that seem to just drift down. Summer nights with them... Watching the stars." They'd think about it a bit too much, before coughing and realizing that they for sure over-shared. "Sorry uh, we can just stay quiet until we get there."

Notes

↭ Blue dress.

Gambit,Beau,

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[Gambit]

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[attr="class","beta"]

^{"What do we have if we don't believe it tonight,"}

_{"Just look happy as we're standing here~"}

^{"Face to face but we don't see eye to eye,"}

_{"What a beautiful lie~"}

Gambit looked up at the sky for a moment when she asked about home, as if we were simply happily watching the clouds as they walked. In truth, he was surprised by the kick to the chest he felt at the random question. Internally he wasn't sure how he felt about his birthplace. He both loved it and despised it all at once.
"Nah, I haven't been back since I came to Japan." He answered, tip-toeing around the fact that he simply couldn't, not unless he had the means to smuggle himself over, which took far more money than he ever hoped to have.

Besides, even if he did manage it he was sure he'd just get killed anyway. Besides his shit family, there was another in Canada that actually deserved to kill him, if they were even alive themselves. To Gambit, Canada was a Schrodinger's box he was too scared to ever open.
"No, I used to but... not really anymore." He glanced back to Belle and smiled despite his thoughts getting a tad dark for a moment, though hearing her talk of good things soon soothed him a little even if it hurt a bit too. Most of his memories of before Japan were fuzzy and more fact than memory, but the good ones he still had were similar. It was one of the reasons the place they were headed to made him feel so... anchored.

~~~~~~~~~

As they reached Gambit's little treasure spot, he led Belle onto a narrow foot-street running between small family-run shops and older apartment buildings. Although the street itself seemed old and it's inhabitants on the lower end of the class system, it lacked the typical graffiti and signs of crime like similar areas, and the buildings seemed surprisingly well taken care of and loved despite their age. Lining the street were maple trees, shorter and more slender than their Canadian cousins, but sporting the same fall colors in their intricate leaves. The golden canopy they created over the street made it seem almost like it's own little world, showering gold leaves down over the few food stalls set up to feed the people out enjoying the weather or going about their day.

"Welcome to the Golden Road!" He beamed as he presented her with the spot, quite happy of his little find. He had stumbled across it a few years ago after an especially shitty day, but a few hours here and a free crepe from a really nice stall owner and he had felt the best he had in years. Since then he came quite often to the point that a few locals greeted him as they passed, it was the closest to home he had found.

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Beau ,

[Beau]

[attr="class","AudenContain"]

[attr="class","AudenHidden"]a close connection

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Beau

So he hadn't been back, why? Why had he never been back? The realization of that knowledge kept her going for a bit, as she tried to make out reasons as to why he wouldn't come back to Canada. She supposed it had something to do with his parents. He had never really went into detail, but the way he was and the way they all came to his house gave her the impression that they weren't the type of family that were close-knit in the right ways.

The second was them. That either meant that he hated them, or he was scared to confront them again. The fact that it was felt hanging in the air kind of scared Beau to their core, but they would make no obvious mention or remarks with their words or their features to indicate such a thing. "I see, well..." She'd pause, thinking about her next words carefully. "Maybe one day you'll have a reason to go back."

----

As they got to the location, Belle's eyes opened up in wonderment. She looked at the trees, watching some spare leaves fall down beside them. She squeezed his hand tightly, half worried that he would vanish and half to remember that he was right there beside her. "It's beautiful..." Her words were soft, half of it feeling like she was in some type of trance. She was back home, back beside Dekker, and nothing of the past had ever gone wrong. Of course, that's what it truly felt like to her.

She would take her hand and rub at her eyes, as she really didn't want to cry but she felt her eyes getting wet. "Ah, I needed this." With a small embarrassed chuckle at her own crying, she'd look at Gambit in the eyes, as genuinely as she could. "I think I needed you, too." She'd take a moment, realize how cheesy that sounded, and promptly look away and up at a random tree. "I-I mean how about them crepes?"

Notes

↭ Blue dress.

Beau,Gambit,

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[Gambit]

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[attr="class","beta"]

^{"Blood on my shirt, rose in my hand,"}

_{"You're looking at me like you don't know who I am~"}

^{"Blood on my shirt, heart in my hand,"}

_{"Still beating...~"}

Gambit grinned as Belle seemed to like the spot, but he did notice it also seemed to make her a little sad too. However he was caught off-guard a little as she mentioned needing him, but although his expression seemed a little bewildered, he was surprised to feel himself blush from the comment. It wasn't the kind he was used to, and it threw him a little out of sorts. She was sweet, and it hurt a little for a reason he couldn't figure out.

A little flustered from his own reaction, and forgetting personal bubbles were a thing for normal people, he scooped his arm around her lower back and gave her a gentle squeeze to try and comfort her before steering her towards the Crepe stand. When they reached it, the older woman behind the stall smiled at them and greeted Gambit, handing him a green Crepe with white and brown filling without him needing to order. Then she winked at him and looked to Belle warmly, offering 'Gami's cute friend' one on the house. Despite being a small stand, she offered an assortment from coffee fillings to cheesecakes and fruit.

"Shima has the best crapes around~ I help her experiment with fillings." Gambit chuckled, looking down to his favorite Crepe currently, a mix of expresso and melon fillings. Both flavors he had helped her come up with, though of course she typically sold them separately. He simply enjoyed the odd combo himself. Although not the smartest man, he was well aware Shima just used the experiments and help as an excuse to give him free crepes likely out of pity, but he didn't really care and instead accepted the charity with grace. Besides, with her age she could use the help so it evened out.

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Beau,

[Beau]

[attr="class","AudenContain"]

[attr="class","AudenHidden"]a close connection

[attr="class","AudenBody"]

Beau

It seemed that they both felt a heavy air between them. Perhaps it was because of what Belle said, but things felt heavy between them. That was of course before she felt an arm around her. Looking over to Gambit, her whole body lit up like a firework. "I-I-" she tried to stutter something out, but they were already both walking to the crepe stand.

With her face as red as a tomato, she did a curt bow to the crepe owner, but kept her eyes on Gambit until he and the owner spoke to her. "Oh um... I'll take..." She'd look through the options before one stood out to her. "Peach filling please." A memory came back to her. She remember her and Gambit pulling off peaches from her parent's peach tree and then chucking the pits of them at each other in the yard. A smile came onto her face, looking around the stall and having her eyes land on one of the pits. Without really any words, she'd just look back to Gambit in happiness; even if he didn't know it, so many things were starting to make her happy again.

As she waited for hers, without really much thought, she would lean over and bite into Gambit's crepe. With the filling getting on her face and even in her hair, she would look up to Gambit at just giggle at the mess that she was. "-Ummy." Belle would say with a mouth half full.

Notes

↭ Blue dress.

Beau,Gambit,

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[Gambit]

[attr="class","alpha"]

[attr="class","beta"]

^{"It's alive, like a parasite inside of me,"}

_{"And it feeds of the trauma of what used to be~"}

^{"But there's no shred of evidence 'cause I don't bleed,"}

_{"From this monster made of memories~"}

Gambit felt her happiness as if it were contagious when she smiled at him like that, and yet something tugged sharply at him from inside. It was like the happiness came hand in hand with sorrow, but he was too scared to think about where the sorrow came from, and so he tried to ignore it and push it away. He was torn between enjoying being around Belle, and also hating that doing so made him feel so unsure and mixed up inside.

He smirked mischievously when she stole a bite of his crepe, responding by gently wiping a bit of whip-cream off of her bangs and casually licking it off his finger with a swipe of his tongue.
"Very~" He mused happily, turning to look back towards the street as Shima handed Belle a pink crepe with peach and creme filling. Although his chest remained hollow even as his head was happy, he was still enjoying himself. His eyes hadn't been this close to normal in a long time, and he hadn't seen a single horror since the night before.

But then why did it feel like the more he enjoyed himself, the more on edge he was? His shoulders had become tense, and something in him felt like a loaded spring. This wasn't his life, hadn't been for a long time, and it was slowly getting to him. He was also aware the longer he was around Belle the more likely she would learn more about him, and the fun would likely end there. Although he had no issue with his life-style, he wasn't blind to how normies viewed people like him, either.

Normally he wasn't this interested in Normies to begin with, but something about Belle was different. However, he wasn't sure if he saw that as a good thing. The last thing he wanted was to risk getting attached to another person again. He had spent the last eight years surrounding himself with human garbage for exactly that reason, and here he was risking it all for a normie. Internally, a part of him wanted to scream. Yet when he spoke he still at least sounded happy and calm.
"Wanna check out the shops?~"

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Beau,

[Beau]

[attr="class","AudenContain"]

[attr="class","AudenHidden"]a close connection

[attr="class","AudenBody"]

Beau

Belle didn't even realize that she had gotten anything on her face or hair. In reality, she was too drawn in to Gambit's mannerisms that the reality of the situation hadn't really dawned on her yet. As much as she was getting cozy beside him, reminiscing about times past, he assumed she was some stranger that had just decided to get close to him on a whim. Taking a moment to realize that, she came to the conclusion that it probably came off a bit creepy.

All of that doubt was wiped away, literally, as she felt him take off the excess toppings that were sprinkled throughout her face and hair. "Oh, did I-" before she could really finish her thought, she'd watch with baited breath as he licked it off with ease. "-uh, sorry. I didn't think to ask." Getting a bit self conscious in the moment, she'd look for any reflective surface to check herself out with; was it that obvious that he was able to notice it? Fucking klutz.

With her own crepe in hand, she would motion it closer to him, just to make sure that he could try hers out too. "Shops?" For a moment, she'd forgotten that there was more to this street than maple trees and crepes. Before she went to move in any direction, Belle scanned the area around her for somewhere interesting to go. Even if he knew this place as one of his favorites, it'd be fun to not fully let him lead her around like some lost puppy. At least back in their past, Beau was always the one taking charge of situations; having it be reversed now made them a bit uncomfortable, but it was only natural that their dynamic would change with time.

"There!" Belle would point out with her non-creped hand. Where her finger led to was a small little souvenir shop, though she wasn't able to discern more than that due to its distance. "Maybe we can get something to remember today?" Wait, why was today even worth remembering for Gambit? The fact that he had some crazy chick beside him that randomly wanted to be his friend? After a moment of thought, she'd use a hand to pat on his shoulder. "T-To new friendships, and stuff!" After all, Canadians had to stay together, right?

Notes

↭ Blue dress.

Beau,Gambit,

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[Gambit]

[attr="class","alpha"]

[attr="class","beta"]

^{"Feels like everyone I care about,"}

_{"Gets hurt the most~"}

^{"So if you wanna stay around,"}

_{"Don't get too close~"}

Gambit smiled and took a bite from her crepe without much thought, though perhaps a bit more graceful than Belle and not covering himself with it in the process. However an odd expression crossed his face for a brief moment as he tasted the peach. Even though he liked it and adored fruit in general there was something bitter-sweet about it, and as they moved off he quietly took a bite of his melon crepe to distract himself from it.

"That sounds awesome~" He chirped in reply and followed her gaze, happy at the idea of getting something to remember today. Even when his life returned to normal after this, the idea of having something from it made him feel a little better. He had a few similar items stashed away safe like a blackbird, and they were all he considered to be his actual possessions. They were probably the only things in his life he wouldn't cast away if told to.

As he followed her to the shop he was studying her with a confused-but-content look, still finding her enthusiasm towards him unfounded but enjoying it regardless. As they entered the store he forced his gaze away from her to once more distract himself from his thoughts, instead looking around at the little souvenirs and handy items displayed on various shelves and racks.
"How 'bout we each pick something for the other, then? I can pay of course~" He mused, winking at Belle before skipping off down a narrow aisle. The least he could do was give her something nice before it eventually ended.

Almost immediately he was like a kid in a toy store, wandering around and investigating something here and there with a grin. Besides his short-attention span, he wanted to find something good for Belle. Key-words about their day together repeated in his mind as he slowly combed through the items, until he paused and cocked his head to the side looking at a simple charm necklace. Peach. His eyes lit up as he noticed one of them sported a B, and his choice was made.

For a moment he wondered if it was too silly, but in the end he decided it was cute enough to pass regardless. Plus, he knew it would look very pretty on Belle. With a satisfied grin he snuck around to the tills to buy it before wandering off to the side, staying by the tills to wait for Belle to pay for what she found if she wanted him to. Since the hag's aid had been kind enough to at least leave him with hush money in his pocket, it was one of the rare occasions that Gambit had money. Despite it being a rare occurrence, he wasn't very attached to money to begin with, and would always trade it in a heartbeat for a new treasure~

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Beau ,

[Beau]

[attr="class","AudenContain"]

[attr="class","AudenHidden"]a close connection

[attr="class","AudenBody"]

Beau

She was happy that he agreed to the idea of it. Maybe it was weird to get something as a souvenir for a small little outing like this, but she felt like it could be a core memory between the two of them, no matter what happened next. It was times like this that she wished she could have done the same thing with Dekker, but they'd never really went anywhere like this together.

As they entered and Gambit's words caught her off guard. "F-For each other?" A pause, before she would look over to him with a blush. Her gaze stayed, because that felt like something you'd do as a couple. "I-I guess so..." Her hands would fidget around her crepe, before taking a big bite to shut herself up. After a second, there was a nod of confirmation at his request.

As he left, she tried to think about what would be good for a gift for him. What on earth would she get him? She knew everything under the sun about Dede, but nothing about Gambit. "What on earth should I do..." There was a bit of panic, as she didn't remember the last time she had gotten someone a gift that she actually cared about.

With some thought, Belle found something that she thought would work well. Looking at some of the charms, she wasn't sure what would really fit him. Looking at one, there was a cute melon necklace that had letters on it. There were gold accents on it, which Belle just chuckled at. Reaching for the one with the D, she hesitated and instead went to grab the one with a G. With another hesitation, she would grab both anyways and go to pay. Seeing Gambit, she would quickly turn and pay before he could, just so that he couldn't see that she had bought both.

Joining him after, she would keep them in a bag, smiling at him. "I-I wanted it to be a surprise, so... I'll wait and we can exchange it when we get outside." She would wait for him to pay and then go outside and sit on a bench. Getting excited, Belle would stand when she saw Gambit again, bow, and then sit back down. "Um, here." She would curl up her hand around the necklace, intending to drop it in his hand. The catch? It was the one with the D, not the G.

Notes

↭ Blue dress.

Beau,Gambit,

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[Gambit]

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^{"Not to ruin the mood,"}

_{"But I think we're doomed~"}

^{"When out the ruins something bloomed,"}

_{"All I wanted was you~"}

Gambit joined Belle outside, giving a little smile as she did a cute little bow when he approached. He sat fairly close beside her on the bench and leaned forward to offer his hand as she held hers out, a goofy smile appearing on his face as he saw the melon necklace fall into his palm. Being the dumbass that he was, he missed the fact that his old initial was on the necklace, too caught up in how much he liked it to realize she should only know his new one.

"I fucking love it~" He quickly closed his hand over the melon necklace and brought it close to his chest for a moment before gleefully sitting it safely in his lap so he could give her his gift in return. He carefully fished the peach necklace out of his pocket and held out his hand with his fist closed around it to drop it in her palm as she had done to him. A part of him enjoyed the fact that they had both seemed to have the same idea, and it made him feel a little less like a duck in a chicken coop.

"Seems great minds think alike~" He mused with a chuckle as he gave her the necklace and took a bite of his crepe, his free hand returning almost immediately to pick up the necklace she gave him from his lap as if scared of loosing it. 

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Beau,

[Beau]

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Beau

God, he was so handsome. Getting a bit giddy as she gave him the gift, she also didn't catch that she gave him the wrong one and was more happy with the fact that he liked it. "I'm glad, I thought it would be a good contrast to your eyes." It also showed that she paid attention to the flavor he got, but that wasn't as important.

She would put her hands out and look down to the necklace. Her cheeks got red at the thought that went into the necklace. A peach, it made her want to cry a little bit. With her initial on it, she'd thumb it gently and smile down to it. "It's beautiful. Do you mind?" She would open the necklace and then turn around for him to help her put it on for her. "It's easier when someone else does it. I hope it's okay I want to wear it now." It was nervous to ask him to do things like this, and she only hoped that he had wanted her to wear it right now.

Whether or not he helps her or not, she would turn back around, flip her hair (which smelt of rose petals and cinnamon), and look back to him. "I'll cherish this forever." She'd gulp, before leaning over closer to him. She was close enough that if she leaned a bit closer she could kiss him. With a bold movement, she would break that distance and kiss him on the cheek, and right after take a big bite of his crepe. "Mm, still such a good flavor!"

Notes

↭ Blue dress.

Beau,Gambit,

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[Gambit]

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^{"I was a good guy,"}

_{"But I was the worst type~"}

^{"Give me an inch, man,"}

_{"And I'll take a mile~"}

Gambit felt his cheeks flush a little when she seemed to like her gift as much as he liked hers, happy he had succeeded in at least giving her something special. He slid to sit sideways on the bench and face her as she requested he put it on her, easily slipping into the habit of doing what he was told to, but being happy to do it as well. He bit the corner of his crepe and dangled it from his mouth casually to free up both hands before leaning forward and gently looping the necklace around her neck.

As he was trying to be careful not to catch her hair in it, he was oblivious to how close he was or that his hand was brushing her neck as he fastened the clasp together. He pulled away satisfied with his work and transferred his crepe back to his hand a moment before Belle turned and suddenly leaned in close to him. He blinked in surprise but remained still as she drew close, distracted by a pleasant nostalgic smell as he looked curiously into her dark blue eyes.

Without warning, her left eye became white in his mind's eye, and as she kissed his cheek he felt like he'd been punched in the chest. For a few heartbeats he forgot how to breathe, the magenta glow flaring to swallow the natural red of his eyes as he tried to silently fight back a sudden wave of fear that brought a new tension to his shoulders.

His expression however remained somewhere between happy and deeply confused as he looked at her with a smile when she playfully stole another bite of his crepe. He was feeling so mixed up inside, but because he was trying to look normal in front of Belle, he didn't realize the full effect the memory had had on him, nor that one of his cheeks was now wet from his emotions getting the better of him.

"It's one of my favorites, currently~" He responded, trying to play it cool as if he didn't suddenly feel like he was dying inside. Still, as much as it hurt him on some level he didn't understand, the nostalgic smell also made him feel a pleasantly warm inside. He was so confused he wasn't sure if he'd even know anymore what direction was up or down if someone asked him. He wanted to both flee and move closer to Belle all at once, and ended up trapped in limbo instead. "I've always liked coffee and fruit.. even though it sounds bad together, ha~"

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Beau ,

[Beau]

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Beau

The kiss had an impact that she wasn't expecting. He looked so confused, and in those moments she realized that maybe he hadn't been kissed like this since they broke up. Wait, did they break up? She assumed so, but that wasn't something she was ever able to confirm. "I think it is good together, and if you like it, that's all that matters!"

She wouldn't make any other movements for a while, but gasped a bit as she saw that he was crying a little. Moving her hand over, she'd wipe the tears away, her hand lingering on his cheek a bit more than she wanted it to. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done that. I just... I really wanted to." It was selfish if her to do something like that without any warning, especially when she was just a stranger to him. "I... That wasn't cool of me." Moving her hand away off of his cheek, she would look down and start to beat herself up a bit at all of it. That wasn't right at all, to just kiss someone like that. Regardless of the fact that she knew who he was, Belle was a stranger to him.

Feeling like she'd done something wrong, she would hesitate to do anything more in the situation. "I can go if that's better. I stepped over the line."

Notes

↭ Blue dress.

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[Gambit]

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^{"Here's my confession,"}

_{"I've got a death wish~"}

^{"I'm in the fast lane,"}

_{"Addicted to excess~"}

Gambit was confused for a moment when she brushed his cheek before he noticed why and his face flushed as he realized he hadn't been playing it so cool after all.
"No it's okay-" He quickly assured her, a little lost but not wanting to hurt her feelings either after she had been so kind to him. "I'm sorry..! I'm just.." He felt at a loss, honestly not even knowing himself why something like that had effected him that way. He had never had that happen before, even though things far more intimate than a simple kiss on the cheek were quite common for him.

"Maybe I'm just a bit mixed up from last night is all." He finished, his own best guess at the weirdness he was experiencing. He flashed her a smile as if to try and show her he was fine before playfully nudging her shoulder when she looked down. "I didn't mean to make you feel bad, I'm sorry.. I'm just a bit of a airhead, It's ok I promise~ You could do whatever you wanted, I wouldn't mind, It's fine~"

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Beau ,

[Beau]

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Beau

"You don't need to be sorry." Belle smiled at him, not wanting him to feel bad for something that she did. "You, well, you don't really know me and me doing that isn't okay..." She'd trail off, torn between just telling him who they really were right now. It hurt to see him in pain, or being so confused.

When he said that she could do whatever she wanted, it was Belle's turn to cry. "Don't say that..." Her face looked pained, and she could see her vision as getting blurry. "I would never do anything that you didn't like, I never have, I hope." She meant in the past too, but she knew that he wouldn't understand. "Your opinion is just as important, which is why I'm so sorry for not respecting it."

She would move to wipe her tears away, sniffling a bit as she did. "Don't be down on yourself like that. You're worth so much." He meant so much to them that it was breaking their heart to hear that they were okay with whatever she did. How many people had touched him or used him for him to be so okay with that? When her tears stopped, she would look to him with reddened eyes. "Can I hug you? I want you to feel safe and know I won't do anything you don't want anymore, or ever again."

Notes

↭ Blue dress.

Beau,Gambit,

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