A/N: Hi, hope you're enjoying the story so far and thank you so much if you've actually stuck with this until chapter 9! Means a lot. I'm just asking if you're reading this, to possibly favourite this story, follow it or leave it a review because I've had little to no interaction at all. It would be much appreciated so then I'd know that people are enjoying the story and where I can improve. Thank you in advance! Anyway, this will be the last chapter of my own ramblings and after this we'll be following the film once more. Enjoy :)

Four days later, Rena was back by Tadashi's bedside with Hiro. He was sleeping in his chair, and Rena was playing a pointless flash game on her phone, bored out of her mind. For a second she debated waking Hiro, but decided it was best to let him sleep. Neither of them slept that often anymore, so she let him take advantage of the few minutes of sleep that he was able to grab. Actually, she was pretty tired herself, come to think of it. She curled up in the chair in an attempt to make herself as comfortable as possible. She sleepily traced the side of Tadashi's snoozing face, almost absent-mindedly. Her eyes were just slipping shut when she noticed something that made her sit bolt upright, almost slipping off the chair entirely. All thoughts of sleep long forgotten, she stared unblinkingly at Tadashi's hand. No, it couldn't have been. She was just tired. She sighed slowly, rubbing her eyes. However, she didn't feel as tired anymore. Her eyes stayed fixed on the index finger of Tadashi's left hand. Then it happened again.

It twitched.

She threw herself onto her knees, barely breathing. Taking a hold of his hand in hers, she leaned forward and brushed his hair out of his eyes.

'Dash?' She murmured gently, 'Dash can you hear me?'

As she said this, he stirred slightly, groaning so softly that she barely heard it above the machines. Her heart was hammering in her throat and her breathing was becoming more and more rapid. She could scarcely believe if - after almost a month of waiting for her big brother to wake up -

Tadashi's eyes flickered open.

'Hey.' He croaked softly, weakly.

She clamped her hand over her mouth to muffle the scream that rose in her throat.

'Holy shit. HOLY SHIT!'

'Language.' Tadashi scolded softly. She stared at him in disbelief before his face broke into a smile. She was already smiling, she felt as though her face was going to split into two.

'I can't believe it. I can't believe you're alive. I- Wow. Are you hurting?'

'No, nowhere in particular.' He straightened up slightly, wincing as his back cracked loudly. His face split into a grin when he saw Hiro.

'Don't wake him yet.' Rena said, 'I don't want him to see this.'

'Wha-?'

She punched him, hard. Tadashi yelped and grabbed his arm, wincing in pain and the surprise attack.

'What were you thinking, you fucking idiot?!' She whisper-yelled at her older brother, happiness being replaced by anger. 'Running into a fire like that? How could you, how could you leave us there? You promised you'd take care of him, you promised! You promised you'd always be there, that you'd never leave us!' Her voice cracked and she swiped the tears away that were rapidly forming in her eyes. 'You could have been killed! And yet, knowing this, you ran into a fire with no thought to what was gonna happen to the people you left behind! He cried himself to sleep every. Single. Night.' She pointed at Hiro, who was still snoring soundly. 'It got bad Dash. Really bad. I-...I-'

But she couldn't finish, a lump had risen in her throat and she sank to her knees. She looked Tadashi in the eye, who looked positively scandalised at the shocking turn of events.

'Promise me,' she whispered to him, her eyes meeting his, 'you'll never do that again.'

He opened his mouth and she shook her head. 'I don't want an apology. I want you to promise that you'll never be such a massive bonehead ever again, and that you won't leave us like that. I don't need an apology, I need you to stick around, alright?'

He looked at her in the eye and whispered 'I promise.'

She nodded and for a second just stood there, awkwardly looking at him.

'Sorry. You scared me.'

He shook his head, grinning. He stretched his arms out and hugged her, tight. Rena sighed into his shoulder, happy at last. She pulled away from him and pulled the chair closer to the bed. She looked up at Tadashi, awake and it really hit her.

'Oh god, I'd best call Aunt Cass, and Honey, Wasabi, Gogo, Fred, and we'd best wake Hiro and-...' She trailed off as she glanced again at Tadashi. His face had drained of colour and there were tears prickling in his eyes. She sprang to her feet, panicked.

'What is it? Are you hurt? Do I need to call a doctor? 'Dashi?' She chanced a glance over at Hiro, still out like a light. She didn't want to wake him if Tadashi was gonna be dragged away by a team of medics.

He shook his head, as though in disbelief. He threw the covers back and she suddenly understood. He stared at the space where his leg should be and his face crumpled. He buried his face in his hands and started sobbing, his shoulders shaking. She stood rooted to the floor for a second, she hadn't seen Tadashi cry like that in a long time. She stepped towards the bed, gently pulling back the covers before gingerly sitting next to him on the bed. She raised her arm and he sunk into her. She clamped her mouth together to stop her from crying herself. She took his hand and squeezed it tightly.

'I know.' She whispered gently. 'I know.' She wanted to offer him more words, but none would come. Somehow though, she knew that being there was almost enough. Almost

They stayed like that for a while, only moving when his eyes were dry and his hands had stopped shaking.

'Hiro's already started planning on a badass new prosthetic, you know. And I've already updated Baymax with further medical assistance for amputees, so he'll be able to help. It's gonna be alright.'

He nodded, taking in a deep breath. He slid the thickest book out of the pile on his bedside table, a mischievous grin spreading across his face. He took it in his hand and extended his arm out towards his brother. There was a loud THUNK noise as the book made contact with his arm, and Hiro yelped, suddenly wide awake.

'OW! What was that for? You-' he looked up and stopped suddenly. His eyes widened and he ran a hand through his hair slowly.

'Sup.' Said Tadashi, grinning hugely. Before he could get another word out, Hiro sprang forward and launched himself at his older brother. The latter yelped as Hiro hugged him tightly, accidentally elbowing him as he did so. Rena watched, grinning. As she did so, she noticed that tadashi's huge smile did not quite reach his eyes. She shot him a concerned look and he shook his head shortly. Not now.

Hiro pulled away from Tadashi after a couple of minutes, and beamed hugely.

'Oi, give my my hat back!' Tadashi teased, before reaching it over and yanking it off of Hiro's head.

'Who says it's yours? Finders keepers!' Hiro retorted, stealing it back.

'OI! Respect your elders!'

Rena shook her head, exasperated. At least things were back to normal.

'Hey, I hate to break up this happy reunion, but we'd best be calling Aunt Cass and tell her the AWFUL news that someone's finally decided to wake up.' She pulled out her phone as she said this, dialling Aunt Cass's number and putting the phone on speaker. She thrust the phone to Tadashi who took it and held it close to his mouth. It rang twice before Cass picked up.

'Hey, what's up? Everything alright?'

'Hey Aunt Cass.' Tadashi said simply.

There was a scream and the sound of something smashing. 'TADASHI?'

A week and a half later, Tadashi had been cleared by his doctors to go home. At first, he was given a wheelchair but decided that he hated it after using it for half an hour. After much debate, he'd finally settled on a pair of crutches supplied by the hospital. Hiro hadn't started work on his prosthetic yet, insisting that he wanted Tadashi to weigh in on how it was gonna be made. They'd agreed to start working on it when Tadashi got home.

Cass pulled into the cafe on the evening that he was cleared, positively buzzing. They were having a party to welcome him home, and planning it had kept her preoccupied for the last three days straight. It wasn't going to be a particularly large gathering, just their small family and Tadashi's friends. She helped him out of the car carefully, finally leaving him alone to get to the cafe after he'd insisted that he was fine and didn't need her help. Admittedly, he was still rather slow on his feet but he could manage it on his own, he did not need the constant help from those around him.

Rena was a little ahead of Tadashi in the short walk to the cafe. She was chatting animatedly to her friends about a new album that had just been released. They reached the cafe, where they all made a beeline to the upstairs. She followed them happily, already smelling the delicious food that her Aunt Cass had cooked up. She was halfway up the stairs when she noticed that Tadashi had not followed her up. She turned and saw him at the bottom, awkwardly trying to figure out how to get up the first step. She thundered back down the stairs and took one of his crutches from him; tucking it under her arm and grabbing him by the waist with her other. Her cast had been taken off a few days earlier, and she was suddenly extremely grateful for the lucky coincidence. Tadashi put his arm hesitantly around her shoulder.

'I know you don't like being helped but we're gonna get through this together, alright?'

He nodded. 'Uhh, how are we gonna do this?'

'I don't know.'

They looked at each other and burst out laughing despite themselves.

'OK, OK. I think, if I step up one, I can kinda haul you up at the same time as you hopping up one? Hang on.'

She placed the crutch she was holding gently at the foot of the stairs and grabbed onto the banister. 'I'll come back down for it when we're up there. And that's where it's gonna go by the way, if you misbehave.'

Tadashi snorted. 'Right let's do this already - I'm starving.'

It took them a surprisingly short amount of time. Rena was glad when they got to the top, she was out of breath from pulling Tadashi up the stairs. They sat at the top and high-fived in victory. Rena ran back down and threw him his crutch. Tadashi pulled himself up and they made their way over to the table.

'Sorry.' Tadashi said, grimacing slightly as they all looked at him in sympathy.

'Nothing to worry about sweetie!' Said Aunt Cass, pulling up a chair for him, 'nothing at all!'

Rena sat down opposite Tadashi and grabbed the plate of chicken wings. She tucked in and everyone quickly followed her lead. After a few minutes, the air was full of the buzz of conversation, and it was like nothing had ever happened in the first place.

Rena punched the air triumphantly. 'HA! Take that!'

Hiro scoffed and threw the wii remote to Fred, who had eagerly stretched his hand out for it.

'You're going DOWN!' He stood and strode over to where Rena was standing by the TV. 'Not to brag, but I'm somewhat of a master at this game.'

'Nah uh.' Tadashi said, grinning. 'She is the undefeated champion at Mario Kart. I suppose she has to be good at something, really.' He ducked as a cushion went spinning towards his face. 'Missed me.'

'Whatever.' She said, rolling her eyes. She turned back to the screen for the countdown, remembering to hold down the button in order to get a boost at the beginning. They set off, she was already winning. She fired a green shell behind her, and it hit Fred as he zoomed up behind her. Smirking, she drifted round the corner and avoided a banana that he had fired in front of her. For the next couple of minutes, she drifted and dodged her way around the track until -

'NOOOOOOO!'

'Undefeated champion.' She said, smirking at Fred's dismayed face.

'Told you.' Said Tadashi, laughing from where he was sat on the sofa.

'Yeah yeah whatever.' Fred grumbled, sitting back down where he was on the floor.

'Anyone else up for a game?' Asked Rena, grinning. Everyone shook their heads and she turned off the TV, laughing.

'Everyone get in!' Exclaimed Honey-lemon, extending her phone out. They all gathered around and she snapped a photo. Rena sat back down, extending her legs out in front of her and leaning back against the sofa. She had missed this.

'I can't believe classes start in a week.' Said Hiro suddenly.

'Well you'd better believe it buddy!' Tadashi replied, reaching over and ruffling his hair, making it stand up even more than it already was.

'You better hadn't do that at school!' He grumbled, failing to flatten down his angry mop.

'Why?' Rena teased, 'does big man Hiro need to look as fit as possible to get all the birds?'

'I'm gonna pretend that you didn't say that.' Hiro retorted as everyone fell about laughing.

'Everyone's at least 5 years older than him, I don't think he needs to worry about that. He's not cool enough to be nonced on.' Gogo said snarkily, grinning at his outrage.

'OK, if everyone could stop bullying me now!' Hiro exclaimed, but he was laughing.

'It's not bullying!' Said Tadashi in mock outrage, 'it's... it's...'

'Character building!' Rena filled in for him, nodding solemnly. Hiro snorted and she seized his wrist.

'We just want what's best for you!' She pouted, staring at his eyes, as intense as she could possibly make it.

Hiro snorted. 'Now you sound like Tadashi trying to convince me to go to nerd school.'

'Watch what you're calling that school!' Said Wasabi from the corner, 'remember you go there now, nerd.'

Hiro scowled, 'bold of you to assume that I'll ever sign up for any classes now!'

'Oh yes you will!' Tadashi said, throwing a pillow hard at his head. It missed and smacked Gogo on the arm, who seized it and launched it as hard as she could back at Tadashi. It hit him square in the face, because it was Gogo and it was never gonna miss. Rena howled with laughter, the rest of them quickly joining in. It was then that Fred stood, bearing a pillow over his head.

'PILLOW FIGHT!'