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acof is now on ao3!!! i’ll also be posting drabbles and hcs abt the trio <333 along with maybe some tfs stuff. it’s posted the same as it is on here, but the chapters are song names instead of numbers <333

act one summary: 2005, Newham, London. 13 years before the disastrous bullet train incident, Michael (Tangerine) and Toby (Lemon) Davies commit their first kill, accidentally-on-purpose murder their adoptive abusive father, making it out to be a suicide, but someone else saw it. Ashley 'ratgirl' Edwards, and the three form an unlikely friendship. However, kids like them don't get good things.

act two summary: 2018, central London. a few months before the disastrous bullet train incident, Tangerine and Lemon get reunited with Ashley, after becoming assassins, and her being a hairdresser. However, once again, people like them don't get good things, people know about who they are, and all great things must come to an end.

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a couple of fruits (epilogue)

a/n: it's all over </3 thank you for all the lovely support over the past months, it's very difficult to say goodbye to this group of characters, but i hope you all like it <333 also, just to avoid confusion, the first half is interviews, the second is narrative, it's set after the events of bullet train, also the interviews go in order of mention

The following files are classified under executive order. They have been transcribed for ease of comprehending. They are highly classified, containing information about the rat project, with links to the Shinkansen incident. The following contains interviews with Mya Smith, Edward ‘Ted’ Green and Bethany Edwards, respectively.

I: Good afternoon Miss Smith, just sit here please. State your name and connection with the affiliated.

S: Mya smith. I went to highschool with them. 

I: Were you friends with them?

S: The twins, yeah, i guess i was, Michael more than Toby. Weren’t friends with ratgirl though.

I: Ratgirl?

S: The one in the middle, Ashley, she was a bitch and a half.

I: What makes you say that?

S: NNever liked her.

I: So no actual reasoning? S: God forbid I don’t bloody like someone. Heard she died though, sad. 

I: Yes, she did. Were you in attendance at the funeral? S: Was I fuck. No, I was in Turkey, proper nice. I: I’ll keep that in mind. So, you don’t have any idea on where the twins could be?

S: Not a clue, heard they were in town a bit ago, but, don’t really care.

I: Alright. Well, thank you for coming in.

S: Yeah, whatever mate.

END.

I: Good afternoon Mr Green, just sit here please. State your name and connection with the affiliated.

G: You alright mate? I: I’m fine, thank you for asking. Will you answer the question please? G: Uh, alright yeah. My name’s Ted Green, used to be mates with the twins. Before Michael smashed my fucking head in.

I: Sorry? G: In year 11, we were 16 or something, at a house party, lobbed a bottle of Smirnoff icee at my head. Never saw him, his brother, or that weird girl again after that night. People said they moved away, but, I don��t got a fucking clue.

I: By weird girl, do you mean Ashley Edwards? G: Think that was her name… Yeah, fucking hell did you hear about her dying? I: I’ve been made aware. Do you know anything about the twins? G: Nah, like I said, haven’t seen them since school. 

I: Alright, thank you for coming in.

G: Safe.

END.

I: Good afternoon miss, sit here please. State your name and connection with the affiliated.

E: What is this place?

I: I understand you’re startled, it is a very reasonable response, especially for someone as young as yourself. You are here because we want to ask you about these people on the photo here.

E: What about them?

I: How do you know them?

E: Why should i tell you?

I: Miss. You need to co-operate. This is important information that we need.

E: Ash worked at the same hair salon i did.

I: And the other two?

E: Her boyfriend and his brother, surely you already know this.

I: We want to know what you know.

E: No.

I: No? E: Your aura is throwing me off.

I: What do you mean? E: You have like a ‘I’m going to keep you here until you talk’ kind of vibe.

I: I promise you that’s not what we’re here to do. Now, please co-operate with us.

E: Us? I: Me and my associates.

E: The people behind that mirror? And, how are you getting these photos? I took that one, of Ash with the bag. On our way to the theatre.

I: It would be easier if you let me ask the questions.

E: I’m not doing this.

I: You have to. You need to comply.

E: Don’t touch me!

[DISRUPTED END. RECORDING DEVICE DESTROYED.]

Beth jumped up from the chair, unsure of what to do, pushing the recording device off the table and sprinting for the door, this was all too much for her, Ash had only died a few months back, she wasn’t ready to talk about it, especially with people she didn’t know.

She pushed open the door and ran through them, into the office building she had been first brought into, and began sprinting for the stairs. Tears were welled up in her eyes, she was overwhelmed, upset, and scared. Beth proceeded to make it down the stairwell and onto the ground floor, ignoring the intrusive stares of the workers, she pushed open the doors and was back on the streets of london, panting and breathing heavily, noticing a sleek black van pull up in front of her eyes.

There wasn’t any waiting around to see who would get out, and instead she ran to a familiar place she had spent many hours the past couple weeks.

St Marks church, an old building in Newham, the borough that the trio had grown up in. Beth had stopped running; and instead was gliding her fingertips across the bushes that lined the pathways, before she found what she was looking for, and knelt down in front of it, brushing some dirt off the tombstone. 

‘Here lies Ashley Edwards and Michael davies. 

1989-2019.’

A simple transcription, a symbol of the lack of love ever shown to either of them. Beth sighed and picked at her nails, before a small sound caught her attention, her head flicked up, to see whatever it was.

A few metres away, a white rat was picking at some rubbish someone had left, an orange peel. Or, if you were a person who believed in signs, like Beth was, it was a Tangerine.

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A couple of fruits (act 2 finale)

A/N: gif credits to @monstergifpacks guys this was DEVASTATING to write omigosh, but i hope y'all love it, as it's the last part, it's quite long, and the epilogue will be out tomorrow hopefully- that is set after bullet train, anyway beth is in this part so i'm happy

TW: smoking, strong language, violence, angst

By the time the twins had set off, Ash was already at the hair salon. Unaware of the price on her head, she stood in the break room, smoking a cigarette as her and Beth got a few dyes ready for today’s client.

“Dad got arrested again last night,” Beth started on, shrugging, it wasn’t a rare occurrence, and seeing as she didn’t have a mum in the picture, she’d usually go and stay with Ashley, her aunt. “Robbery, don’t know when he’ll be out, i mean i didn’t even know he was done in until i got home.”

Ash nodded slightly, remembering seeing Beth run in the streets by the apartments the night before, and she spoke up, “You coming to mine? There’s always room for you.”

“You sure?” Beth responded after a moment, glancing up from the bowl, and at Ashley. she could see how her eyes glistened, it was different to that empty look they once had, it seemed to Beth that since the twins had come back into Ash's life, she had gotten her spark back, a newfound sense of life that replaced her once dull and empty dark eyes.

"Course i am." She nodded, passing Beth the now finished dye, taking a long drag as she watched the teenager walk back into the store.

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"Jesus fucking Christ Lem, you recently diagnosed as fucking asthmatic or something?" Tangerine practically barked out at his brother as the two ran down the streets of London, there was no regard for the disheveled state that he looked, he was just purely focused on finding his girlfriend before someone else did. "Nah bruv- i'm checking the reward!" He yelled back, flicking through his phone as he typed and ran, London was rife with assassins, gangsters and members of mobs, so it was arguably the worst place to be when you were under attack. However, Ashley couldn't help it, it's not like she knew. "Oh fuck fuck fuck-" Lemon continued, groaning as he pocketed his phone, "Doubled- the reward fucking doubled mate, 400 thousand quid on her head and she'd got no clue." "Shit! Why's it gone up?" Tangerine bit his lip in annoyance and continued on his way to the hair salon.

"Dunno, probably a second party who also thinks she should be dead. My guess it's someone who doesn't think we're... you're," He corrected himself before continuing, "Focused enough on your job." "Bullshit, mate. Fucking bullshit." Tangerine shook his head before turning a corner, and the two of them practically falling into the hair salon because of the rush they were in, and were met by prying eyes. "Uhhh, hi?" Beth raised an eyebrow, looking up at them from the client she was working on, confused on why they had just randomly showed up there. "Beth, apologies, didn't realise it was busy." Tangerine started, straightening up his appearance and nudging Lemon to do the same, "We were just wondering where Ash is."

"Right- well she's either in the break room, just down the hall, or outside in the back." She shrugged slightly, pointing in the direction, before turning back to what she was doing.

The twins didn't waste a second, sprinting off into the back, their rushed demeanour returning as they called out for Ashley in the break room, but when there was no sight of her and no answer, they pushed open the back door, sighing in relief when she was stood there, smoking, and completely unharmed. She turned around in confusion. "Tan? Lem? Why are you here? Is something wrong?" She gave them a confused look, glancing from her bestfriend to her boyfriend, waiting for a response.

But that's when it happened. Moments before the twins could explain or pull her inside, she gasped harshly, a sharp feeling piercing through her chest, causing her to fall to the floor from the shock.

Ashley Edwards had been shot.

Lemon didn't waste a second thinking what to do, pulling out his own weapon, his gun Lucille, and trying to locate where the shooter was. Meanwhile, Tangerine swiftly picked up Ashley, bringing her inside and onto the floor, yelling at Beth to call an ambulance. "Ashley!?... Fuck- Ash?! You gotta stay with me, doll." Tangerine repeated over and over, grabbing a towel from the counter and pressing it down onto her wound. He was fighting back tears in his eyes, not sure what to do. He had always been so certain about anything and everything, but for the first time in his life, he was stuck.

Ashley was gasping for breath, as Tangerine held her head up, shushing her. "Don't. Don't speak, it'll- just don't, okay?" He used to be so composed and ready, he wasn't anymore, he was lost to words.

In this moment, they weren't their usual selves, two rough and tough adults who had been through hell and back, it was like living through the night they got separated all over again.

She raised her hand slowly, placing it on his chest, sighing before she started speaking. "Look after Beth, please. I love you, Michael... So much." "No-no, don't start that, don't fucking say goodbye- we're gonna get help. You just have to stay. You can't go..." He whispered that last part, holding her hand there as the light in her eyes slowly flickered away, it was ironic; she had only just got her spark back, and now it was going to be taken away forever.

"Help is coming- okay?" Tangerine told her, even if he was not certain of it himself, his voice was cracking and he couldn't stop the tears from running down his cheek as he lifted Ashley closer to him, gently resting his forehead against his as the realisation hit him. She was going to die, and he couldn't do anything about it, he couldn't save her. So he kissed her one last time and whispered.

"I fucking love you."

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The funeral was quiet, held in a local church near the estate they grew up on, with only a few guests. Tangerine, Lemon, Beth, Ashley's aunt, Rachel- Ash's friend who had owned the chippy, and a few of Ash's regular clients. There was nine people. Ashley had lived and died in a city where she was disliked by almost everyone, just for being herself.

Lemon and Tangerine didn't do a speech, they physically couldn't, because of their job, they were restricted to sit at the back and not talk to the other guests, they couldn't have their identity compromised.

It broke them both as they listened to Beth's speech, the only one at the funeral. Her voice cracked as she spoke. Beth's dad was Ash's cousin, it made so much sense why Ash felt responsible to look after her. But she was gone now, and there was no one to do that.

Ashley's words rang through Tangerine's head as he sat listening, words she had said to him years prior, when they were teens sat on the metal staircase.

"I want to make it out of here, out of this dump, and prove to everyone that i won't end up being some alcoholic screw up like everyone else."

She would never break the cycle, never get out of London for good, she died without reaching her dream, one she could never ever complete.

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3 weeks had passed. It was awful, both of the twins blaming themselves for Ash's death, Beth staying in the guest room and rarely leaving it. Tangerine smoking more, Lemon joking much less. The world seemed to be missing something, but only to those three people.

Beth had the penthouse to herself, it wasn't like she was doing anything though, just sitting there, watching all the films Ashley used to talk about. The twins were on a private flight to Japan, some job on a bullet train.

Tangerine stood in front of the mirror, one of his hands gripping the sink whilst the other slightly pulled at the button up he was wearing, revealing a tattoo on the last place Ash had touched him, a small rat.

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A couple of fruits (act 2, part 6)

A/N: okay so this is like...much later than i anticipated. to recap- the three have been reunited, it's been a month or so. a guy broke into ash's apartment, he knows something about her past that the twins don't. the three of them are now at the twin's apartment, celebrating their birthday. anyway, like acof is back YAYZ!!! but also bullet train fandom please come home i miss you TW: cigs/ strong language. everyday couple of fruits stuff

To the surprise of absolutely no one, the peace that the trio experienced was extremely short lived, as Lemon received a blunt phone call, the Thomas and friends theme tune blaring from his pocket as he did so.

"Fucking hell mate-" Tangerine sighed, rubbing his temple as he shot a glare at his brother. "Think i've gotta take this one bruv. " Lemon shrugged before walking back inside the apartment, leaving the couple sat on the stairs, but Ash just smiled and nudged Tangerine. "It's probably just the girl from his date, wishing him a happy birthday or something," She gave him a look, as if to tell him to stop worrying, even though it was a habit both of them had. "Anyway, do you want some more of this cake? Not like we have anyone else to give it to, except Beth, i'll probably take her a slice." "Nah, i ain't hungry." He shook his head in response, and she rested hers on his shoulder as he lit another cigarette, lifting it up to his lips to take a drag. "You're built like a stick or something- honest. Skinniest fucker in London." Ash shrugged, slightly poking fun at him as he declined the cake, resting her head on his shoulder as she turned to look out at the street. There was three teenagers, Beth amongst them, running down one of the main roads, a bag of drinks in one of their hands, probably from the off-license that didn't care about ID's, it made her smile, they reminded Ashley of her own trio.

"Ain't that?" Tangerine started before Ash cut him off.

"Beth? Yeah, it is, with her mates from school. Reminds me of us lot, before..." Her sentence faded off, not wanting to think about the night on which they were all separated, because they were back now, and nothing would change that, right?

"Mmh, fucking louder than us though." He muttered as he took a drag of the cigarette, before Ash took it and had her own puff of it, with a snort of laughter, before even that faded off into silence.

The silence was peaceful, very different to the conversation on the phone that Lemon was having, hushed in his room. "What the fuck mate?" Lemon huffed after a long pause, he couldn't believe what the person on the other end of the call was telling him. "Ain't no way in hell i'm doing that, not for any amount of money." "200 thousand pounds, Mr Lemon, it's a lot of money, for you and your brother. The job only has positives, it'll help you focus on your work, no faltering, the money is a lot too, you could buy anything." The voice crackled from his phone, but their words were as clear as day. "Just think about it." The call ended with a blunt beep, and Lemon sighed, not before putting his phone back in his pocket. "Fucking diesel." He mumbled before walking back outside, and joining the others.

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Ashley left quite early in the morning, with a slice of the cake pocketed in her bag, obviously, and went to work, leaving the twins alone, where they found themself in the kitchen Tangerine was leaning against the counter, smoking a cigarette whilst lemon tapped absentmindedly on the table. "What was that phonecall all about?" Tangerine asked bluntly, turning to stare at his brother with a raised eyebrow. It was clear he wasn't pissing around this morning.

"Just some scammer bruv, nothing important." Lemon proceeded to lie through his teeth, Tangerine couldn't know the truth, he'd go mental, so the next best idea seemed to be acting like the call never even happened at all. Tangerine raised an eyebrow at him, he clearly wasn't convinced by his brother's lie. "Sounded like a job, to me." Then, he took another drag from his cigarette whilst never breaking eye contact.

"Sounds like you're fucking deaf then." He brushed his brother off, adjusting how he was sat, going to turn on the TV in the hopes of distracting Tangerine and changing the subject, which obviously wouldn't work with him, "Y'know, there's some new sh-" "Who is it?" Tangerine cut him off quickly, Lemon knew exactly what he meant by the question. Before he would answer, he left a good few seconds of silence, fiddling with the remote, trying to think of the best way to say it, how would it not cause his brother to have a first class crash out? But, after a few moments, he just decided to say it straight. "Ashley, they specifically want us to kill Ashley Edwards. £200,000 reward. I turned it down, and now there's a price on her head for anyone who will do it. It's not even just because she knows us either, turns out when she was in that school whilst we were training and shit, she proper attacked some girl, who happens to have a well dodgy father. The guy who broke in to her apartment, and Ash killed? Was him, and he knew guys, who are now dead angry at her, and want her dead more then ever," Lemon sighed quietly and looked away, the news was fucking awful to both of them.

"Twat!" Tangerine yelled after a few excruciatingly long ticks of the clock, pushing off from the counter quickly, not bothering to put away his coffee, just grabbing his blazer from the chair and his phone off the counter, he was going to find whoever the hell was trying to kill Ashley, and fucking quickly.

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Young Bob, Joyce and Jim Hopper

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i cant believe ladybug gets this all to himself im sick

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Since the first proper teaser for season 5 is dropping later today, I want to talk about Patty Newby and how I imagine they could bring her into the main series.

So, the gang would want to find any and all info they can on Henry, to defeat Vecna, so they’d want to go to the lab for clues. But not the 1987 lab, no they’d need the 1983 lab.

So they’d go to the upside down and find his files in Hawkins lab, and one of his files would mention Patty because of the catwalk incident + she was a ‘weakness’ of his

So they’d learn her name (along with other Henry details)

Then they would go to Hawkins high, find the old 1959 yearbook and find a picture of Patty, then eleven would find her in the void

Here we’d see older Patty, maybe she’s a singer in vegas like she wanted, and she’s singing ‘dream a little dream of me’, but I think it would be cool if this scene was a parallel to Henry and Patty’s mum in the attic scene in tfs. Where in the series, Patty is on a little stage in the void, she’s singing and eleven goes up to her, then Patty suddenly grabs her hand or something to show the memories, could be a nice little parallel AJSHD

Anyway- so Eleven goes into her memories, and starts seeing flashes of her time with Henry, we’d get a little montage of tfs based things, ending with the catwalk.

Then it ends with eleven knowing what happened and having vital information about Henrys life and weaknesses AND Patty coming into the show without making it forced/ she never gets any time with the main gang, but her presence was there in the series

(Plus she’d probably be ✨ mentioned ✨ again later to Vecna in an attempt to make him remember his life before)

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Henry x Patty ship names:

Creelby - Romantic

Henpat - Platonic

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twas the bestest day everrr

Finally getting around to posting some of the stuff I noticed at TFS on July 5!! (West end ver, front row!!)

These should hopefully be in order of the actual show: ⚠️ SPOILERS AHEAD!!! ⚠️

- In Patty’s intro scene she did the melvalds dance to the music before getting interrupted by her dad

- In ‘Photo day’, Kenny (ensemble character) motioned to Charles to hit Henry with the paper from the slingshot and he did it and it actually hit him HELP

- In Henry and Patty’s first meeting scene, when Henry is talking about his cipher and getting embarrassed about it, etc etc, when Patty goes ‘that’s the coolest thing I’ve ever heard!’ He opens the cipher and shoves it right in her face LMAOO and she starts trying to read it and looks really excited/ interested about it, then while she’s reading henry goes ‘i like your lipstick!!!’ And then gets all embarrassed again and goes to walk away before Patty puts her hand out for the handshake HELP it’s so silly

- Kenny and Robbie (two ensemble characters) did a piggyback of the stage when Joyce says ‘if you’re just here to make out in some high school musical, you should leave now!’ Robbie went ‘let’s go!!’ and Kenny jumped on his back and they left LMAOOO at stage door Jake Mavis (who plays Robbie) said (and I quote) ‘perfect for pride’…I know what you are. 🤨🏳️‍🌈

- Bob meowed when Joyce said to be ‘sexy’ then when she said ‘but also scary’ he full on screamed SO loudly AHAHAH

- In ‘auditions’, Karen fully picked up bob when they kiss and Ted went ‘Karen…PUT HIM DOWN KAREN- KAREN??’ Then when she dropped him she went ‘GIVE HIM THE PART!!!’ To Sue LMAOO

- Henry kissed prancer on the head before killing him in ‘liquor store’

- Patty’s mum was og cast!! And after she sung at the end of the dream sequence, Patty was calling after her going ‘no mom! No! Mama? Wait!’ GONNA CRY

- SHADOW PATTY!??!? Omg I loved July 5th’s so much, she was so more screamy then before and I’ve never noticed the beckoning thing she does to Henry while leading him to the lockers

- Henry and Patty held hands during Patty’s ‘what if it’s not a mistake’ monologue, (like this)

- Then both of them nodded to each other multiple times before kissing and Patty put her hand on Henry’s face THEN said kiss me and waited for Henry to nod again before they kissed STOPP I CANTTTT DEAL WITH THEMMM ARGHH :(((

- They also dance together in the background of melvalds which is adorable, it’s happened every time I’ve gone, even with the ogs, but I have to mention it every time cus It’s just so cute EEE

- In the attic sequence, Hopper (after cutting his arm on the door) went ‘I feel kinda dizzy…why??? I’VE GOT GLASS IN MY ARM JOYCE!?’ Very silly

- Henry’s birthday is September 7th!! It says it in the Henry is 7 video! (I’m yet to find a pic of this as no one has managed to get the top top of the screen in frame which is where it is ughhh, lowkey gonna have to try get it myself next time I go cus I NEED to show you guys, it’s written as: ‘Birth date: Sept 7’ in cursive LMAO (also funny how his birthday is the DAY BEFORE he gets banished to the upside down…)

- Brenners FACE when Henry hugged his leg after being made to kill the rat LMAOOOO bro was like 😟

- Brenner grabbed Henry’s face when shouting at him, then pushed him down onto the floor. He also kept hitting him in the stomach in a teasing way LMAO

- In the scene where Brenner is forcing Henry to make contact with the mind flayer, Patty was hyperventilating :( then when Henry broke out of the mind flayer’s grasp, there was a really sudden switch between flayed henry and normal henry, where the second he broke out of it, it was like he had just woken up or something. He was looking around like he didn’t know where he was, and was looking at his hands before looking at Patty, walking over to her, crouching next to her and going ‘why are you crying’ :((

- While going through the ceiling Brenner went ‘DO IT YOU LITTLE SHIT’ to Henry HELP

- In Joyce and Henry’s talk, when Henry says ‘you think you have control, but it’s BULLSHIT’ he absolutely SCREAMS bullshit at her LMAO it’s honestly a jumpscare it’s so loud

- Henry tried to hug Patty on the catwalk before she pushed him and said ‘Patty please’ as he did this, then when Brenner grabs Patty to rip the wings off her, Henry broke out of the mind flayers grasp for a sec and went ‘NO PATTY’ and tried to reach out to her before going back to being taken over by the mindflayer

- When Patty was falling off the catwalk, she tried to grab onto the side + reached up at the last bit :(

That’s all for now HEHE if I remember anything else I’ll add it in :>

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teen!fruit twins comic <333

cutesy asf comic panel made by my iconic pookie @katkandi of the trio in act 1

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melvalds hangout today! even if i'm 90% don hates me with a burning passion... let me know if you're going! <333

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Jopper sillies :>

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i have one!!! https://discord.gg/DHfqrpG9

do any stranger things the first shadow discord servers exist? if so.. 🫶 let me in my qualifications are that i love henry lore and creelby

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Redraw of an old drawing I did half a year ago

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everyone look at this AMAZING artwork by my pookie!!!!!!!!

‘This is bigger then us, it isn’t the end…it’s just the beginning’