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Tatus about all the ass he was gonna have to kiss to get out of this I apologized again, but every ti of a deal

I didn’t realize ere at lanced up at the door and saw my house number

“Thank you,” I said

“Well, you’re just lucky I like you” He s it at as a joke, but it faltered, and the sincerity of his state this, he looked uncomfortable, and aardlypattedhimself “Stay out of trouble”

After he walked away, I went into the trailer All the lights were off, except for a small one above the kitchen sink, and Lazlo sat in the dark at the dining rooone to bed, and he waited up for o?” Lazlo asked, his voice devoid of any emotion I expected him to be ive anything away

“It went,” I shrugged

“So you saw your brother?”

“Yeah, I saw him”

In a sudden e display of euilt caer

Lazlo got up and rushed over tome close, and I let hi h to speak, he led me over to the couch He held my hand when I sat next to him, and I told him all about how they treated Max, about the vials of blood and how skeletal he’d become I told him how vibrant and smart and quirky Max had been before, and how I’d always done everything I could to take care of him

And then I told him how badly it hurt to know that I had failed so completely, despite all my best efforts

Lazlo put his arht, and I kneould be I would ht, even if it killed me I would not let Max live and die like that, like a scared aniot ready quickly I had to find both Blue and Tatu this work I wasn’t even sure if it was possible, but I had to try I found Blue first, since I needed him more

As I went over my plan, he kept his face even, and I wasn’t sure what he thought When he finished, he nodded once, al to do this?” I asked,I needed hi

“Yeah,” Blue nodded again “Doctors take an oath First do no hared a ti, before the sun started to rise Most people would be asleep then, and it would h, if I didn’t know that Tatu he’d even have any part of it

Telling Tatum was much harder than Blue In a weird way, Blue and I always see And I was never exactly sure avelength Tatuht him just before he went out to make his rounds around the periht