A/N: Welcome to chapter one of my drabble song series for the awesome movie that is Big Hero 6! This chapter's song is by Faith Hill and is her song'There You Will Be'.
Anyhow, Big Hero 6 was such a good movie that I ended up crying 5 minutes before the movie actually began and since I never cry, it scared the living daylights out of my twin. Back to the point, I decided to write this story the moment I heard the line that opens this story. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I OWN NOTHING!
"Tadashi is here." An increase in the boy's heart rate was detected in reaction to this statement, and Baymax's first instinct as always was to check for a possible solution to this.
"Tadashi is here." The robot repeated once more, as if hoping that if he repeated this enough times then the boy would calm down.
After a piece, Hiro took in a deep and shaky breath and let it out again suddenly, and for a moment his heart rate began to return to normal. Once his heart rate fell into its normal pattern, the robot began taking a few steps towards the boy in front of him, holding out his marshmallow like hand with the intentions to attempt to comfort the boy with a hug. Before he could however, the human looked up at him and spoke in a bitter and cold tone.
"Tadashi is gone..." The boy spat at him, running his hands down his tired face as a hopeless look over took his almond eyes.
A tense quiet between the two followed this statement, though a million loud thoughts ran through both of their heads. For Hiro, they were both sad and happy thoughts of his beloved brother, the one who was the topic of this 'conversation' between human and robot. For said robot, his 'thoughts' were scannings of his surroundings, as well as that one sentence he had repeated twice now verbally.
'Tadashi is here. He is still present here in this room.' He thought as his robotic eyes scanned the area a few times over and finally landed on the divider wall that concealed the older brother's side of the room. 'Tadashi's living space and personal belongings are still in this room. His research notes and thoughts are beyond that wall as well. Surely Hiro knows this as well. Why would he say that he is not here?'
His eyes returned down to Hiro, who was still staring up at him as a certain pain fill his golden brown eyes... They were the same eyes that Tadashi had... And they carried a look of pain that Baymax was in fact familiar with. It wasn't a physical pain that the robot could pick up on his scanners, but it was one that anyone, robots included, were capable of seeing upon first glance. He was also able to see the way the boy clenched his fists tightly in reaction to this pain, and by now Baymax had figured that it was a way of somehow dulling or at least dealing with the pain. Out of a reaction in his programing, the marshmallow shaped robot took a step closer to the human boy, stopping only when one of the boy's fists suddenly unclenched and tossed itself up in his dark black hair and tangled itself in the locks. Baymax had seen this same action several times before when the boy's older brother would get frustrated or tired during his earlier tests...
"He is here." Baymax could see his creator now, standing right there in the room with the two now.
"Tadashi is dead..." The younger brother sounded deflated now, slowly sinking to his knees and burying his face in his hands as he faught against the tears that threatened to spill from his eyes. "And I couldn't do anything to save him..."
That had been the statement that made Baymax see everything clearly now. Tadashi was still here, and he could see him now. He saw his thoughts in the notes still scattered about his bedroom desk, he saw him behind the wall, in the divided bedroom through the personal belongings that had been left behind by him. The older brother was still there in the photos he kept of him and his family during happier days... Even through his legacy at the college and his want to help people seemed to be present somehow. Yes, that was also present...
Looking at Hiro once more, Baymax finally was close enough to pull him into a hug. He pulled the smaller one close to him, and held him there in an awkward little hug, silently listening to the sounds of the boy's broken sobs against his plastic skin.
"Your brother is here..." He lowered in voice to a whisper and ran his hand through Hiro's hair gently.
"H-how...?" His voice shook, looking up at the robot's odd face with tear filled eyes.
"I can see him here... In this room..." With a final swipe, he looked down at Hiro again, who was now looking both confused and hopeful. "I can see your brother in you..."
