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  He was woken by a shout. "Laff! Do you have any bandages? Blazas hurt." A voice said above him. He was about to sit up, but stopped as another, more accented voice spoke. "An' why would I help yous?"
/ooh, something dramatics happening/ he thought, deciding to stay still and see what happened.
"Please, just help him. I'll go to jail, I'll do whatever you want. Just please, I... I don't want him to die too."
"Oh, foolish child. I don't care about Blaza. In fact..."
He heard a whir, then a startled "eep!".
"I still need yous, but Blaza... 'e knows you didn't shoot Meme, doesn't 'e?"
/wait, how does he know?/
"I-I thought you- how do you know I didn't-"
"It doesn't matter. What does matter is that I can't leave anyone else who knows alive..."
He froze. Was this it? Was his decision to stay and listen in going to be the death of him?
The last thing he heard was a scream...

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"Blaza!"
Dinos exited roar pulled the teen from his thoughts. He quickly ran up to greet his friend, who swiftly engulfed him in a hug.
"I thought you were dead! What happened?" He questioned, his tone turning to worry.
"Y'know... being too close to exploding houses... I'd rather not talk about it." Blaza said, mostly joking.
Dino shifted nervously. "I'm sorry I wasn't there, I would've gone in to get you out of there but I left after planting the bomb... I didn't want to stick around."
"It's fine!" Blaza assured. "I wouldn't want to stay either if I'd had a choice." He smiled.
"Hey uh... can I ask you something?" Dino asked, suddenly lowering his voice.
"Uh... sure"
"What happened to Socks?"
The question caught Blaza off guard. He... he wasn't even sure if he knew the answer to that.
"I don't know." He said truthfully.
Dino seemed disappointed. "Oh."
Blaza remembered what Socks had told him. "I did kill Meme. He begged me to."
He... he believed him. Socks had no reason to lie, he couldn't have known about the bomb, and if he had, he could've saved himself. Blazas trust wouldn't help him. So, taking that into consideration, the real enemy is the guy who shot Meme, not Socks. If everyone kept believing Socks was the enemy, then the real killer would still be out there, and still cause problems...
He was the only one who knew. He had to tell someone, and Dino was conveniently right there as he made that decision.
"Hey Dino?"
"Yep?"
"Do you really think it's Socks?"
"No." Dino answered without hesitation.
(Did you expect some climactic thing? Well too bad)
"Oh. Well good, because it wasn't him." Blaza chuckled, a little amused. He should've known Dino would say that, he never believed anything Woolf agreed with. And he never really hid his opinions either, whether he intended to or not he'd speak his mind.
"I'll explain when we get home." Blaza added as the two headed toward the military base.

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MY COD, CAN I GO ONE DAY WITHOUT FORGETTING TO UPDATE THIS-

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