Paw Patrol: Separate Ways

(S-2) Chapter 10 "Vent"

(Disclaimer: Mature Language)

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There was a silence in the room as Marshall looked at his friend with shock in his eyes.

"K-Katie? What-what're you doing here?" The Dalmatian asked.

Katie walked up to the pup and laid her first aid kit next to him.

"I always come here on occasion to visit my aunt, she barely has family visit her and I'm the only one who stops by from time to time." Katie explained as she took out essential items to help patch up Marshall.

"I didn't know you had family out here." Marshall said as he winced at the pain.

"Yeah...but wh-what are you doing here? Aren't you and the others supposed to be back in Adventure Bay?" Katie asked as she rubbed alcohol on Marshall's wounds to disinfect it.

"Ow! Jeez! We were...we were looking for Chase, all of us were." Marshall winced at the immense pain.

"What about Ryder and the others?" Katie asked as she placed the cloth on the side and began to examine the wounds.

"Sa-safe house." Marshall began to explain. "Shortly after Chase left, we had a ru-run-in with the FBI, apparently they needed to find Chase so Ryder convinced them that we can help." Katie paid full attention to the Dalmatian's explanation.

Katie examined the wounds and realized that they weren't too bad, except for the bite that Chase caused.

"Who did this to you?" Katie asked as she placed some bandages on the scratches that the pup received.

Marshall sighed as he had to tell the truth one way or another.

"The same pup we've been trying to look for..." Marshall answered as he lowered his ears.

"Chase...attacked you?" Katie asked as she gestured for Marshall to see his paw. "Why would he do that?"

"I-I don't know..." Marshall winced at the the pain that he received in his paw.

There was some silence between the two until Katie decided to speak up.

"He told me that he was doing this to protect you and the others..." Katie finished cleaning Marshall's paw. "Had I known he was—."

Marshall cut the girl off. "Wait, he told you? What do you mean he told you?" The Dalmatian asked, trying to piece it together.

"I ran into him the day he left...we took the train here." Katie answered truthfully as she finished wrapping up Marshall's paw.

"Wh-you lied to us? Lied to Ryder? Why?" Marshall asked as Katie stood back, with a guilty look on her face.

Marshall couldn't believe it, he was furious and that's something Marshall is rarely.

"I lied because—."

Marshall cut the girl off yet again. "We could've stopped him from going on this whole charade! Why didn't you tell us?! We're your friends! How come you didn't—?"

"Because I believed in his cause!" Katie yelled out.

"Hi-his cause?!" Marshall yelled back.

"I believed that he could do this, end whatever he was going through because he wanted to keep you all safe!" Katie answered.

"Keep us safe? Keep us safe?! Look what he did to me!" Marshall had tears coming out at this point. "He attacked and almost killed me...the pup I thought of as a brother almost killed me. He was going to do it too, I saw it in his eyes!" Marshall cried out. "Had I just been some random stray that went into the wrong place at the wrong time, he wouldn't have been so merciful!" Marshall lowered his head on the table. "I mean, I tried helping him but he repaid that with a bite and some scratches."