Hello everyone, I'm sorry that I haven't updated since January but I have been so busy with work, things in my personal live and my MacBook deciding not to work at the worst time when Apple have decided to close their stores so no genius bar to take it too. Luckily, I know someone who works on the genius bar in one of my local apple stores and they've managed to sort the MacBook out and were able to retrieve this chapter which went missing.

I'm also so grateful for the reviews that I not only receive for this fanfiction but also my other one Levels of Tragedy and I love reading them. If you have any more one-shot ideas, please keep sending them to me via a direct message or as a comment and I will add them to the list.

Idea by Helena (BacktotheBay) : Can you please do a one shot where a fire starts in Kyle's bedroom and brax has to rescue him

For this Kyle is in his final year of school so he is 18 and came to the decision that Casey will be two years older than him.

Chapter 36 – Fire Hazard

Sunday (10:23pm) …

Summer Bay – Braxton House – Living Room

"You're late!" Brax says as soon as Kyle walks through the front door.

Rolling his eyes, Kyle stands in the doorway: "So?"

"It's a school night and you are meant to be home by half 9 at the latest." Heath reminds his baby brother as he joins the other two Braxtons on the sofa.

"Do I look like I care?" Kyle asks them as he points at his face.

"Kyle, it doesn't matter if you care as at the end of the day, I'm the adult and you are the child." Brax states to him.

"Really as last time I checked; I was 18 meaning I'm technically an adult in the eyes of the law."

"When you live in this house you are meant to follow the rules." Brax goes on to say "Anyway, it's late get to bed and I'll deal with you in the morning."

"FINE!" Kyle shouts and then storms out the room. A slam of a door indicating he was in his bedroom.

"Was I ever that bad?" Casey asks his brothers.

"Well you had your moments, but you certainly weren't as bad as Kyle that's for sure." Heath laughs.

"That's good to know I think." Casey states.

With that the brothers go back to the game they were watching.

(6:42am) Next day…

Summer Bay – Braxton House – Dining Room

Flinging his backpack on the sofa, Kyle wanders over to the table and sits down.

"We need to talk about last night." Brax tells his brother as he places a plate in front of Kyle.

"No, we really don't" Kyle retorted.

"Yes, we do. Firstly, where were you last night?"

Kyle stays silent as he just eats his toast.

"Don't make me ask you again."

"I was with my mates."

"Well I didn't think you were on your own. I meant where were you as in place."

"Funny not. If you must know I was at Matt's place with the guys."

"So, if I call Matt's parents, they will say you were there?"

"How would they? Matt's mum left again, and his dad was at work as always."

"Why doesn't that surprise me? Look Kyle, at the end of the day I don't mind you being with your friends, but it was a school night and you agreed to be home by half 9 on a school night."

"I lost track of time so shoot me." Kyle says as he stands up and puts his plate in the sink then walks over to his school bag.

Watching his brother put the textbook that was on the living room table in has bag and then tie his school tie, Brax wondered: "What happened to you Kyle? You used to be the one I never had to worry about but over the last year I don't know what happened, but you certainly aren't the kid who first came to live with us."

Kyle grabs his backpack and heads towards the door, before leaving for school he throws over his shoulder: "News flash Brax, I grew up!"

Brax just watches as Kyle leaves. Sighing he says to himself: "Oh, don't I know it!"

(12:03pm) 5 hours and 21 minutes later…

Summer Bay – Summer Bay High – Lockers

Kyle walked over to his locker and put his stuff back inside it then slammed the door shut. Turning around, he says to his friends: "Brax was on my case again this morning."

"What for this time?" Rocco asks him.

"Well the usual."

"No surprise there then." Aden says as he grabs his bag from above his locker "If it helps Morag was on my case last night too."

"Ugh, don't know which I would prefer." Kyle says causing them all to laugh "Anyway let's go grab lunch."

(12:35pm) 32 minutes later…

Summer Bay – Stewart's Point

"I'm so happy we don't have to be back till last lesson." Kyle says as he pulls a lighter and a packet of cigarettes out of his bag.

They all agree as Kyle starts passing the stuff around.

"What do you think Brax would do if he knew you smoked?" Matt quizzes his friend.

"I honestly couldn't care less what he would do." Kyle answered him "Besides the others have done much worse than smoking when you think about."

"True, I know my dad wouldn't care either way." Matt replied.

"Sally would ground me for ever." Rocco threw into the conversation.

They all then turned to look at Aden.

"Roman might have a talk with me about the dangers of smoking but Morag would more than likely kill me." Aden says.

With that they all go back to smoking and eating their lunch.

(4:41pm) 4 hours and 6 minutes later…

Summer Bay – Braxton House – Kyle's Bedroom

Kyle had just got home after going to the Surf Club to play some pool with his friends. He had been happy to see that no one was home, so he went straight to his bedroom and decided to have another smoke to take the edge of ready for when Brax gets home.

Feeling a bit tired, Kyle stubbed his cigarette out and placed it in the bin. Then walked over to his bed and quickly fell asleep.

What Kyle didn't realise was that when he threw the cigarette into the bin, he hadn't completely put it out. Meaning that the paper that was already in the bin had started to catch fire.

(5:19pm) 38 minutes later…

Summer Bay – Braxton House – Garden

Brax had just arrived home and decided to take the BBQ stuff straight into the garden.

Placing everything on the table and taking the earphones out that he had in he was suddenly made aware of the sound of the fire alarm coming from within the house. Then out of the corner of his eye he could see flames through Kyle's window.

Dropping everything Brax quickly runs into the house shouting for Kyle.

(5:25pm) 6 minutes later…

Summer Bay – Braxton House – Kyle's Bedroom

Brax doesn't bother to knock instead he just rushes straight into his brother's bedroom.

Once in the room he notices the flames coming from the bin and the room full of smoke. There on the bed he noticed Kyle not moving.

"KYLE!" Brax yells as he rushes over to the bed and tries to wake Kyle up.

All of sudden he starts to stir and Brax picks him up and runs outside.

(5:30pm) 5 minutes later…

Summer Bay – Braxton House – Path in front of house

Putting Kyle down Brax quickly pulls out his phone to ring for a fire engine when Heath and Casey pull up to the house.

Rushing over, Heath goes straight to Kyle who was currently coughing on the ground: "What's going on?"

"His bedroom is on fire that's what's going on!" Brax yells after hanging up the phone "Casey come with me."

"Where we going?" Casey quickly asks as he follows his brother.

"To try and put the fire out!" Brax says then yells to Heath "Get Rachel!"

With that the two Braxtons disappeared into the house while Heath ran to get Rachel. Leaving Kyle on his own.

Watching his brothers go off in different directions, Kyle thinks to himself: What have I done? Brax is going to kill me when he finds out what I've been up to.

(5:37pm) 7 minutes later…

Kyle is still coughing when Heath reappears with Rachel.

Kneeling down, Rachel looks at Kyle and says: "Have you got any burns that I can't see?"

"N no. Jus just a co cough." Kyle says as he coughs again.

"I need you to take a deep breath just so I can check your lungs."

Kyle does as instructed just as Brax and Casey reappear after managing to put the fire out.

"The cough that you currently have is what we expect to see in someone who has smoke inhalation. So as soon as the ambulance gets here, we can get you on oxygen. Right now, I need you to keep taking deep breathes." Rachel explains to him turning to face the brothers "Did they say how long the ambulance would be?"

Brax answers: "No they didn't."

"Ok I'm going to ring them again just keep an eye on him while I go grab my phone." Rachel says as she gets up and quickly runs back into her house.

Watching the doctor disappear, Kyle looks up at Brax and says: "Br Brax, I'm sor sorry."

Bending down, Brax knowing why he was sorry after seeing the contents of the bin once they put the fire out but decides to play dumb asks: "Why?"

"I wa was smo smoke smoking. I mus must not ha have put the cigar cigarette out prop properly."

Heath looks at his brothers and then asked: "Are you serious?"

Kyle just responds with a nod of his which in turn makes the coughing worse.

"WHAT WERE YOU PLAYING AT?!" Heath just yells at his brother not realising that now was probably not the best time to do so.

"I w was ju just ex experi experimenting like most pe people my age." Kyle says as he tries to take in more air but finding it hard to do so.

Brax watches Kyle closely and notices how hard he was finding it to do a simple task like breathing: "Casey go and get Rachel NOW!"

Casey hears the desperation in his brother's voice and quickly runs off to grab the doctor who was still looking for her phone.

"Kyle, you need to slow your breathing down like Rachel said but make sure your taking deep breathes." Brax reminds him.

"I I'm try trying to, but it is isn't hel help helping." Kyle says as he starts to claw at his throat.

Out of nowhere Rachel appears just as the sound of sirens echo from the distance.

"He's getting worse." Brax tells her just as the ambulance pulls up beside them.

Watching the paramedics running over to them, Rachel shouts: "18-year-old male, suffering from smoke inhalation. He was fine a couple of minutes ago other than a slight cough however his breathing has started to deteriorate."

The paramedics quickly start helping Kyle and load him into the ambulance with both Rachel and Brax jumping in as well.

As the ambulance leaves both Casey and Heath just stand there with no idea what to do.

(6:06pm) 29 minutes later…

Summer Bay – Yabbie Creek – Hospital – Resus

After the ambulance had arrived at the hospital, Kyle had been rushed straight through to resus and Brax was left to stand in corridor.

Noticing how low Kyle's oxygen stats where, Rachel turned to her patient and said: "Kyle, you need to slow your breathing down as it will help."

Kyle tries to do what she says but it doesn't seem to work as his oxygen stats continue to decrease.

"Julia, I need you to turn the oxygen up to 100%." Rachel tells the young nurse who was assisting her.

The nurse quickly hooks Kyle up the oxygen and does exactly what she was told. Julia then proceeds to place an IV into Kyle's arm.

(6:51pm) 45 minutes later…

Summer Bay – Yabbie Creek – Hospital – Waiting Room

By now all three of the Braxtons were sat in the waiting room, waiting to hear anything on how Kyle was doing.

"I still can't believe he's smoking." Heath says calmly to no one in particular.

"Well believe it Heath." Casey tells him "Once we got the fire out there was a cigarette in the bin, obviously the idiot hadn't put it out properly so when he put it in there it set the paper on fire."

"What I don't understand is why he felt the need to start smoking in the first place." Brax throws into the conversation.

"You heard him Brax. He was experimenting." Casey reminds them of what Kyle had struggled to say earlier.

"Yeah well I don't like what is happening to him and I'm certainly not happy that he has had to learn the hard way that smoking can be dangerous. As by the state of his room, that fire started well before I got home." Brax thinks about the damage however that is suddenly interrupted by the door opening and Rachel entering the room.

Before she gets a million questions thrown at her, Rachel explains: "Kyle is doing much better now. We have him on an oxygen and he is currently been settled into a room."

"So, he's going to be ok?" Heath asks her.

"We will no more in the morning, however I can't see why he won't make a full recovery."

"So, no lasting damage?" Brax continues to question his neighbour.

"No there shouldn't be. However, to be on the safe side we are going to keep him in for 48 hours just to keep an eye on him, but he should be fine to leave by then." Rachel tells them just her pager goes off "Look I have to go as I'm needed with another patient, but you can see him now as long as you go easy on him, as I think he know what he did was wrong."

With that they all say thank you and follow Rachel out the room but heading off in a different direction to find their brother.

(7:28pm) 37 minutes later…

Summer Bay – Yabbie Creek – Hospital – Kyle's Room

"I really hope you've learned a lesson from this Kyle." Brax tells his brother in hopes that the next part will sink in "Because if I hadn't come home when I did, the outcome might have been much worse."

Grabbing the oxygen mask and pulling it off his face, Kyle replies with: "I'm sorry Brax. I never meant for anything like this to happen. I promise that I have learnt my lesson and won't do anything like this again."

"Good." They all say at the same time.

"Look Kyle, we just want our little brother back not this new person as we don't really like him very much." Casey states.

Heath decided to join in the conversation: "Yeah, what Casey said. We miss the responsible Kyle who didn't cause anything us any stress or worry. So, can we please have him back."

"Okay, I guess I was just sick of being the one who never had any fun and I just wanted to change that but I can see now that I went the wrong way around that and I promise I'll go back to the old me." Kyle tells them as his eyes start to close.

"Just make sure you do." Brax tells him "Now put the mask back as you aren't meant to take it off and get some rest."

With that Kyle puts the mask back on his face and quickly falls asleep leaving his brothers to watch over him.