AN: I feel a little guilty just basing this off of the movie but I love the movie 😊 Hope you guys enjoy this chapter, it was a lot of fun to write.

Chapter Three – Burned Hands

Hiro felt his breath catch in his throat several times as the planned time for the memorial to come to an end approached. He didn't want to be here despite the love and respect he was finding for his brother. Tadashi had seemed to walk right back from the afterlife and Hiro wanted to make up for lost time with his brother. Hiro tried to avoid the others as he attempted to figure out how to get back to make sure that Tadashi was okay.

As he stood outside the building, he heard a voice behind him and his eyes widened. "Pretty good memorial for someone living," Fred commented and Hiro turned back to him slowly. His jaw dropped and he tried to laugh and uncomfortably shake his head. His brother had a reason for not wanting his friends to know he was alive and Hiro needed to figure that out.

"What do you mean?" he asked as he nervously shivered. Hiro looked from side to side, "He's not alive. Tadashi died. We're remembering him today, that's…"

"I went to your house," Fred stated and Hiro paled. Fred studied him and saw that Hiro looked as if he had been backed into a corner. It was more than obvious that Hiro wasn't making the decisions about the reveal of Tadashi being alive and Fred had to admit that had it happened in his family, he would have done the same thing. "Tell me that your aunt knows."

"Aunt Cass," Hiro said nervously, "I don't know what you're…"

"I won't tell," Fred said before shrugging, "As dumb as it is that the two of you don't want anyone to know, that's your decision but I think that the two of you should talk to others. Just…wherever it has been…he's not normal. I mean, it's super cool if he gets control over it but…"

"The darkness, right?" Hiro asked with a sigh and Fred raised an eyebrow. "I don't know what he's been through but the burn can be healed over time and I'm sure that the trauma won't be with him forever. He's alive and he's battling through whatever he's going through. I mean, that's all we can ask for."

"I'm talking about the powers," Fred stated and Hiro looked at him confused. "Ah, maybe I shouldn't have said anything. He might not have wanted you to know but you wouldn't judge him for it. I mean, it's not really normal but hey, a lot of the stuff that we've been doing recently can't be considered as normal."

Hiro stared at him not knowing what he was talking about. Tadashi had seemed different but the things that Fred were saying were even more different than he had expected. He looked around. He didn't want to have to tell Aunt Cass everything but if Tadashi needed some help then he needed his support system, Baymax had taught him that and so, in some way, Tadashi had taught Baymax that.

Hiro saw her and gestured that he was going back to their house and she came over to him.

"I know you want to go home," she told him, "but I have to stay here a little longer," she tried to explain and Hiro hesitated, taking a step back. "Let me know what's going on, okay?" Cass winked and Hiro nodded before running to the house. He needed to see his brother. He needed to find out what was going on.

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Tadashi tried to slow his breathing as he sat on the stairs running his fingers through his hair and letting the baseball cap rest in his lap. He hadn't meant for that to happen but he had a hard time controlling it. He didn't want anyone to know about it and he wasn't sure how long Fred would keep it a secret. He wasn't sure how much longer Fred would keep his being alive a secret. He felt a pressure in his chest. It had been nearly two hours and he still wasn't ready to see anyone.

He took a deep breath in before putting a hand on the wall, "Damn it" he cursed and then pulled back as he realized that there was an imprint of his hand on the wall. He needed to find something to cover it, something to hide it, paint or something.

As he looked around, he heard the door open and then close extremely quickly.

"H-Hey," Hiro said as he looked at his brother. Tadashi pushed his back to the wall just over the spot where there was the burn. He looked panicked and this worried Hiro more. "What is it?" he panicked. "Tadashi, come on, tell me, what is it?" he asked and Tadashi looked around feeling more uncomfortable.

"It's nothing. Come on, it's nothing, it's really nothing," he said and Hiro paused.

He opened his mouth as if to argue with his older brother but he didn't want to argue right now. He wanted to be happy that his brother was there despite how he looked now, despite how he was acting. "Oh," Hiro said as he sank to the floor and Tadashi looked at him panicked. "Whatever it is, I won't run away. I'm too grateful that we get to be together again to get scared so…"

"I burned the wall," Tadashi admitted. He waited in the silence that seemed to wrap around him. This moment would define their relationship as brothers and how Hiro would act around him. After how long he had fought to get back to them, he could be shunned before he could really get his life settled.

"What?" Hiro asked with a weak chuckle, "You…"

Tadashi moved away from the wall and Hiro froze to see his handprint there. He blinked hard. It was definitely a hand print. Had Tadashi done something to his hand, was that what he was hiding from him? His brother was being super weird and his return and now his weird behavior was making it difficult for Hiro to remain calm. Tadashi's return was a good thing. It was a very good thing.

"Listen, ten minutes and…and I'll show you," Tadashi said quickly and Hiro nodded. "The garage, we can go down there, right?"

"Yeah," Hiro said slowly. "We can go down there."

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Hiro looked at Tadashi carefully as he stood with Baymax right behind him in case there was something that they needed him for. He wanted to give Tadashi the right to speak first. Sometimes, before the accident, he hadn't wanted to hear what Tadashi was going to say to him but his brother took care of him, he had been there for him and only wanted good in his life. Hiro regretted all the times that he didn't listen. Their relationship was too important to waste the moments together.

"So," he said as Tadashi closed his eyes and pointed to a box.

"I'm still learning to gain control of it," Tadashi told him and Hiro frowned. He wasn't too sure what his brother was saying but he nodded. Tadashi put out a hand and Hiro's jaw dropped as fire seemed to come from his hand. He saw Tadashi rub his hands together and whisper a few words which he wasn't able to hear and then there was electricity around the box.

Hiro took a step back, bumping into Baymax as he did that. He looked between the ash on the ground and Tadashi who had his head hung and eyes closed, waiting for a reaction.

"That was…" he said before going over to Tadashi and wrapped his arms around him in a brotherly hug. He laughed, "That was awesome," he decided to tell him and the older brother raised an eyebrow.

"It was?" he asked and Hiro nodded.

"Is that what you're scared of showing everyone? Thinking people will believe you're an outcast?" Hiro asked and Tadashi laughed before shrugging. He took a couple of steps back and Hiro watched him.

"In part," Tadashi whispered before wrapping his arms around Hiro, wanting to make sure his little brother was safe and healthy. He had wanted to keep him alive and safe and happy because they were brothers but it was more than familial obligation, they were friends. Hopefully that would remain the case.

"In part?" Hiro asked and Tadashi turned.

"Hiro. I'm not ready to tell you everything," Tadashi said as he walked towards a chair. "One day, when I've sorted it all out in my head that I'm beginning to make sense of it, I'll probably bore you with the story. I mean, that's probably gonna annoy you but…"

"It won't annoy me," Hiro said as he moved closer to his hero.

"Have you ever felt that the world is ready to corrupt you and you have this anger inside of you that's threatening to take over you without you being able to stop it? Something that will make you turn against everything that you thought was right? Something that haunts you to even think of as a possibility let alone a certainty?" he asked and Hiro pulled a chair up right alongside him as Baymax waddled forwards.

"I can't imagine what you've been through," Hiro said, "but we're brothers. I'm not going to let anything stop that or change that, it can't change that anyway. We're brothers. Tell me if there's anything that I can help with, okay?" he asked and Tadashi nodded before closing his eyes.

"Sometimes I slip into him without….without any clue of what's triggering it," Tadashi told him and Hiro felt his unease grow inside of him. What was happening? Was this like that comic book character, The Hulk? Hiro was about to ask but heard a sound above them.

"Oh my god, there you boys are," Cass said as she entered and went over to Tadashi, throwing her arms around him again. "It's good to have you home," she joked before feeling how cold his body was. "Maybe you shouldn't be out of bed, honey" she told her nephew.

"Yeah, than-" Tadashi said as he tried to stand up but slipped a little. Hiro eyed him nervously but Cass caught him.

"We need to get you back to bed and then when you're ready, we'll have to figure out how to legally bring you back to life," she told him and Tadashi laughed. Hiro though had become very troubled. Who was Tadashi afraid of slipping into?

End of Chapter Three

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