Kale and Sage heard their sister sneeze loudly from upstairs in her room. Rue had caught a bad cold. From being in the rain late at night, Kale suspected. Yes, he had known she was out. She had told him when he had bumped into her.

He wondered how much of her frail body can take the training, transforming and fighting. He grabbed her the noddle soup he had made from the sneezing, coughing and feverish girl. Apparently, Jake is also sick meaning Rue wasn't the only on to get infected you would say. He knocked on her door, "Come in." Came his sisters weak voice.

Kale entered her room, she coughed into her arm sleeve. Kale sighed, "You just had to go fighting, didn't you?" He asked her. She nodded, Kale's eyes turned to a golden beaded chain on his sisters neck. "Where did you get that?" he asked her, "Grandpa," she coughed (she had been accustomed to calling Luong Lao Shi this) "asked me to guard it." She finished.

Kale looked at his sister, then handed her the soup which was on a plate with crackers. "Thanks," she thanked him, her nose stuffy. Kale nodded, sitting next to his sister. "Your dumb sometimes." he laughed, looking at her. She looked at him, questionably. "You got sick, it's your fault." he chuckled. She rolled her green eyes.

"It's kinda is, stupid fur." She told him, laughing a bit. "I remember that time when your hair got stuck on a fence." He told her. A picture of little Rue, around 6 or 5, trying to get her hair out of a fence. "Oh yeah? I remember when Sage stuck his lollipop in your hair." She told him. "Oh yes, he told me it was revenge of the lollipops from breaking his brothers and sisters." He smiled.

"Remember that one time Sage and you ate soap." He told her, "It was a dare." She replied casaully. "Right..." Said Kale skeptically. "Remember that one time when mom nearly blew the house down when she forgot to turn off the stove and she lit a flame to light incense?" Rue asked him, Kale smiled.

He remembered that clearly, "Mom was always making silly little mistakes." He told her, Rue nodded in agreement with her older brother. "Remember when dad turned all of my soccer uniform shirts pink?" He asked her, Rue let out a girlish giggled.

"Remember when mom decided that she was going to collect socks? I swore I have never seen a drawer so full!" She exclaimed, sounding stuffy. "I remember when she used to threaten to throw out our toys if we didn't pick them up." He replied. "I remember that one time she fell asleep in my bed next to me while reading a story while I was still lying there waiting for her to read the rest." Rue muttered.

"I remember how she nearly knocked almost everyone on their feet at Disney Land running to the ride." Kale chuckled. "Or how she seemed to get super upset when I broke my ankle from tripping in a store and I was happy with the fact they gave me a free gift card and I bought tons of stuff but she was still yelling." She smiled a bit.

Kale remembered hugging her as she sat with her broken leg with a Mickey Mouse ears hat on her head with a toothless grin. They both smiled as they continued sharing memories of the past. Rue sneezed, wiping her nose, she said, "I remember when mom got really sick and her hair decided to defy gravity and her nose was beet red." She laughed a bit at the picture of her almost identical mother with her dark curls sticking up and a pale face and red nose that even covered the freckles.

"Hey, remember when Sage cried about how Pluto has to live in a dog house, while Goofy, also a dog, gets to drive around a play goof with Mickey?" Kale asked, Rue nodded. "He's so silly at times," she said, "He gets it from mom." Kale said, Rue nodded with a small smile. "I can remember ever feature of her, maybe it's because you look just like her but then again, I do have a sharp memory." Kale said, Rue looked at her older brother.

"Can you tell me about times that I won't remember?" She asked her brother. Kale smiled at his younger sister, taking a cracker from her bowl of soup(which caused her to pout) he started first with her birth. "I was so excited, I didn't know what gender you guys were. So imagine my excitement when I found out I had both a baby brother and sister. I remember cradling you and you "talking" to Sage which was just gurgles." He said, Rue smiled, setting the bowl and plate down, she cuddle with her brother as he told her memories he had.

They sat, huddled in covers, leaning on one anther with a box of tissues at bay for Rue. Kale noticed that his sister seemed to hang on to every word he said. Her green eyes sparked with interest. "And I... I remember the night mom died." Kale said, shifting a bit. Rue listened to him.

"I remember mom pushing me out of the house, handing Sage to dad. She ran back to get you, handing you to me. You were only five at the time. She tripped and well.. You should know what happened." He told her sadly. Rue nodded, "But, we spread her ashes where she wanted to be spread, on a mountain." He said, Rue nodded. The image of spreading her mothers ashes in the mountains of Colorado clear in her head.

"You should get some rest. Don't want you missing another day of school," he pinched her nose, which made Rue scowl. "Oh, and eat that soup, it's still warm." He told her. She nodded. "And for christ sake's, next time you read, please get the books off the bed." He said, as he made books fall as he got up. Rue smiled a bit when her brother closed the door.

Kale walked into the living room, he glanced at a photo of the whole family. His parents were next to each other, Kale was in the middle while Sage and Rue were at his side. Both had toothless grins with their front teeth missing, adding to their cuteness level. He smiled before jumping on the couch to watch T.V.