Each member of the gang took turns visiting the hospital. The nurses got antsy when big groups invaded, plus Tadashi's room was pretty small. Hiro (and Baymax with him) was there essentially every waking hour. Cass gave up on dragging him home every evening after she caught the hospital called at 2 AM to informer that the nurses had just finished their rounds and Hiro was asleep in the chair beside Tadashi. He'd climbed out the window and snuck passed the night clerk at the hospital. Instead, Cass packed Hiro meals and let him spend most of his time with Tadashi. She called the university and explained the situation to the dean of engineering. He promised to hold Hiro's spot, but it was up to Hiro to make up the missed course work. Honey made sure there were always flowers on the table by Tadashi's bed. Fred left a stack of comics for Hiro to read. Every time he visited he brought more. The first two times GoGo visited, Hiro was sound asleep in his chair. The third time she, she dumped a pile of books in his lap and drug another chair over.
"Wake up. You're getting way far behind in your classes," She ordered. Hiro just blinked at her. "Come on sleepy head. I haven't been going to extra lectures just for the fun of it. I'd much rather have been working on my bike than sitting through The Basics of Integrated Systems. We're going to get you at least partly caught up," GoGo said more gently.
Hiro picked up the papers that had fallen off his lap and looked at them. A complex circuit was drawn and labeled in GoGo's neat, easy to read handwriting. "What is this?" he asked.
"I'm an Industrial Engineering major, so some of the stuff was a bit out of my realm of expertise. I just copied it straight from the board. Thank God Professor Ibar talks slow," GoGo explained.
Hiro shuffled through the papers. There was an almost full notebook and the textbook was highlighted with noted in the margins. "You've been going to my class?" Hiro asked. The look of shock on his face made GoGo chuckle.
"Not all of them. Just the ones I remembered you talking about not being bored in. Can't let you flunk out. Tadashi would be pissed," She smiled. Her eyes flickered Tadashi and back to Hiro. "About half this stuff is in my short hand, so I'm going to have to explain it to you. Ready?"
"Yeah. Thanks GoGo," Hiro nodded.
Wasabi took one look at Hiro the first time he visited and turned around and walked back out the door. He returned an hour later and threw a backpack at Hiro. "You are a mess little dude," Wasabi explained, pulling up a chair beside Hiro. Hiro dug through the bag and snickered- travel pillow, blankets, mouthwash, travel comb, protein bars, packets of Propel Powder, and a bottle of ibuprofen. "Thanks Wasabi. You know I can go home," Hiro teased.
"Yeah, I know that. The question is do you and judging by the way you look right now the answer is no," Wasabi fired back.
"I'm not that bad," Hiro replied, defensively. Then he caught sight of his reflection in Tadashi's window and grimaced. One side of his hair was plastered to his face from where he'd been sleeping with his head don Tadashi's bed. The other sad was sticking out at odd angles. His shirt was wrinkled. There were dark circles under his eyes and he looked general tired and sick. "So I haven't been home for a couple days. It's not a big deal," Hiro sighed.
"I know you're not going home. We all do and we get it. If our schedules and the nurses would let us, we'd stay up here with you," Wasabi said.
"You guys are doing a ton," Hiro assured him.
"I just wish we could do more. I guess I'm just really glad that you've got Baymax," Wasabi sighed.
Baymax refused to leave Hiro alone at the hospital no matter how many times Hiro insisted that he should go home with Aunt Cass. Hiro and Tadashi needed Baymax more and Cass agreed. While Hiro spent his days in the hospital doing school work or tinkering with one of his bots, Baymax kept busy. He was constantly scanning, keeping eye on his two charges. He'd remind Hiro to eat and drink. Most of the time Hiro would just grunt in reply and go back to whatever he'd been doing, so Baymax would fill a glass of water and add the flavor powder that Wasabi had brought or unwrap a protein bar and sit it next to Hiro's hand. When Hiro was asleep, Baymax would occasionally wander down the hall and talk to the nurses. At first they saw the big puffy robot as a kind of nuisance, but he earned his keep pretty quickly. The second week there, Baymax found his way into the children's wing of the hospital. Needless to say, the kids loved Baymax. By the time a frantic Hiro and the nurses tracked the robot down, Baymax was in a waiting room telling stories to around twenty sick kids. When it came time for medicine, even the reluctant ones would take their meds with limited complaining if Baymax was the one giving them.
Honey brought Hiro a Lego Kit, Star Wars or something. Hiro left it sitting on the bedside table. When he came back from a bathroom break, Baymax had half the packages open and was sitting on the floor surrounded by piles of Lego parts.
"You need the instruction book," Hiro told Baymax. Baymax just blinked. Hiro shook his head with a smile and dug out the packet of notes GoGo had left that morning. He was going to owe her big time when this was over. It took Baymax an hour to finish the space ship. He was quite proud of himself. Hiro set the ship on the window sill. Aunt Cass saw it and brought Hiro a tub of old Legos from home. That kept Baymax entertained when he wasn't talking to the nurses about the benefit of name brand antibiotic cream compared to the generic ones.
Aunt Cass visited early, ran the café during the day, and spent her evenings in the hospital, stumbling home exhausted after dark. Life settled into a kind of routine.