I've decided to give it a few more chapters.
Hiro tilted his head, "ow ow ow, Aunt Cass stop." She reluctantly let go, rubbing his ear he looked at the gang sitting or standing behind her. "Well, did we catch him?"
Honey Lemon stepped forward. "Sorry Hiro, Brains and I couldn't catch him." She took a step back.
"It's ok, i know you guys tried your hardest." He took in a deep breath, "I wanted to say i'm sorry to all of you. What i did yesterday was stupid, and childish. I should never have just left Wasabi and Honey Lemon either, that was rude, and unthoughtful. I was just so mad at Krei, and i thought i could take him by myself."
Everyone exchanged an uneasy glance behind Aunt Cass, and even she threw a glance over her shoulder before saying, "Um… Hiro you've been asleep for, how long has it been Wasabi?"
"Three days, five hours, and 15 minutes." He added from his leaning position, leaning against the wall behind him.
Hiro nearly flipped. "Three days?! What about Graduation?"
"The people who run the school delayed it for a few days because of the Krei attack. It's scheduled for tomorrow. It's at the tech building." Honey lemon added.
"That's great, lets just hope Krei doesn't attack it. Maybe it will actually work out this time."
"Well now that you're awake, how about we go get some pizza on me?" Her reply was a course of yea's from the whole crew, except Gogo who sat with her head drooping. Everyone filed out of the waiting room except Gogo, but Hiro stopped and him being the last one, no one noticed.
"You coming Gogo, it's been awhile since my Aunt offered pizza to us all. The last time was when Tadashi…" He trailed off, trying to cheer her up and ending up just making himself sad.
"What did you mean when you said my brother said that there was nothing i could have done. Because when i look back at it, there was a lot i could have done to save him."
Hiro sat in the seat next to her, "I don't know, all i know is that is what he told me, and that you have been thinking about it too much recently and that it's making you sad. Apparently, when you die you go to this place, almost like a meeting room. My parents were there, as well as Tadashi, they said if you would have been there too if you would have landed an inch to the right."
"What else did they tell you?"
"They gave me a choice, because my condition wasn't bad enough for me to die without choice. The choice was to stay with them, and live out eternity watching over everyone. Or to come back and live the rest of my life here, than go meet them again when i die. Obviously i chose here, but it wasn't easy."
Gogo's hands clenched into fists and turned white at the knuckles, "I love you Hiro, you know that right?"
Hiro pulled her into an awkward hug, because of the arm rests it was hard to make it a real hug, but he still tried. "Yes i do Gogo, and i love you too. Now come on, lets go get some pizza. I'm starving."
He went to stand but Gogo grabbed his wrist, she stood too. "Before we go, i wanted to give you this." She unclenched one of her fists and in it was the bullet that was lodged in Hiros chest, on a long chain. She put it around his neck, it fell just low enough for it to rest over the wound. "I measured it out so it would rest where you got shot, i thought it would be cool to have a reminder of the day you almost died. Maybe as a good luck charm."
"Thanks, you didn't have to do this." He pulled her into a real hug.
"It was no problem really."
He pulled back and held it in his hand, "A good luck charm and a promise."
"A promise?" Gogo questioned and they moved toward the door, hand in hand.
"A promise, that as long as i have the option, i will never leave you."
Gogo could feel tears daming up behind her eyes, but she didn't let any of them fall. "Hiro…"
"Don't you 'Hiro' me. You know i mean it, and i know that you can take it. I also know that if you did want me to say that, i would already be on the floor, but no regretting it."
A single tear made it past her defences. "Hiro are you trying to make me cry?"
"No, i just wanted to make things seem a little sappy." He smiled at her, trying to make it look like an obvious joke.
Gogo gave a weak laugh and returned the smile, "well you did a really good job." A car honk interrupted her. "I think the group has run out of patients, we should go join them." The door hissed open, the cold night air blew in and filled the room.
"Ya…" Hiro trailed off as they walked up to Wasabis van and got in. The van quickly started and they were off to the pizza place.
"Ow, watch it." Krei exclaimed as Abigail hit a sensitive spot on his arm. "That kid dug deep."
"Sorry," She gave him an apologetic look, "I have a doctorate in particle physics, not in medicine." She examined her handy work. Not much but a quick butterfly tie and wrapped in gauze encase it started to bleed more.
"I know you're trying, and i'm sorry. It just really hurt." He gave a quick laugh to hide the pain.
"Look, i know this is his fault, but please stop. You got even, there is no point in going after his friends tomorrow. You never know, they might have snapped just as much as him with him gone."
"No, no no they're the sane ones. He went crazy." He tried to stand, but quickly fell back into his chair with a grunt.
"You in no condition to fight. You don't have control of the micro bots and you can barely stand."
"Maybe you're right."
"I know i am, lets just disappear. We did it once we can do it again, but this time permanent. New names, new identities."
He looked at the clock hanging on the wall just above her, "it's getting late, we should worry about this tomorrow."
"Ok, lets get some rest." She took him by the arm and led him to their bed, mainly because he could barely stand. They lay together in their bed waiting for the blackness of sleep to take them.
But a few hours later, the man rises from the bed, carefully as to not wake his sleeping wife. He crossed the room like a shadow, his act had worked it's wonders on her, but in the end it was only an act. He opened a box that had been left alone for almost two full years, inside was a red and white kabuki mask, and hidden in the band, the transmitter to control the micro bots. He turned it over and pulled the little chip out, he looked at it in his hand, thought it was hard to see in the blackness. He moved for the door, but stopped in its frame. He looked back at his sleeping wife, "i'm sorry, i have to do this." He whispered into the darkness, before disappearing through the door, cutting a path through the small house till he made it to the garage, where he would be spending the rest of the night augmenting the chip.
Th3Ph4nt0miz3r: Thanks for the input, even if you were the only one to comment.