Kathleen looked nervously at the container before her. She adjusted her gloves and safety goggles. "Honey, you sure this is a good idea?"

"Liquid nitrogen is totally acceptable in the culinary world!"

"But… Can't it freeze your flesh?"

"Not if you're careful!"

"O-Okay…" She picked up the container. Okay… easy does it…

She carefully poured it into the stand mixer before her as the contents instantly changed. She moved it away blowing the smoke away turning the mixer off. She and Honey looked in before grinning.

"And we have ice cream!"

"Ice cream?"

They looked to see Fred poking his head in.

"One shows up…" Kathleen started.

"I like ice cream." Hiro poked his head in as did Tadashi.

"And I like ice cream."

"They all show up." Honey finished.

Everyone else that was in the lab looked over to the two.

"Oh boy… Doesn't help that it's the warm season huh?" Kathleen asked looking to everyone.

"Nope!"

"And it probably doesn't help that it's homemade?" Honey added.

"Yep…" Kathleen took a head count of everyone in the lab. "Hm… I'm gonna have to make more if everyone wants in."

"We can wait!"

"First dibs!" Hiro called.

Kathleen giggled. "Alright, Honey, let's jam."

The two got to work, mixing more vats of ice cream till they were sure they had enough for everyone.

"Alright! I got chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry!" Kathleen called as she started filling bowls.

There was a stampede as everyone rushed over.

"AWAY MY TALL MINION!" Hiro yelled as Baymax lifted him up over the crowd.

Baymax made his through the crowd with ease, setting Hiro down by Kathleen.

"Thank you!"

"And for you… Chocolate." Kathleen grinned handing him a bowl.

"Thank you~" He said, grabbing a spoon. "Just what the doctor ordered."

"Amen to that." said one of the students.

"Yep. Least the teach ain't here-"

"Kit Kat~"

Kathleen looked to see Toshio was behind her, giving puppy dog eyes.

"Can I please get some for Lancy?"

Kathleen giggled and handed her a bowl. "Of course. Hope strawberry's alright."

"It's perfect! Thank you!" She hopped over the crowd, heading to Lance's office.

"... What a jump." Kathleen said after a moment.

"This is why it's impressive when she can knock Baymax off his feet." Hiro commented between bites of ice cream.

Kathleen nodded, looking to everyone. "Well…?" she asked.

Everyone gave positive responses. "Dude, this needs to be a thing!"

"Best ice cream yet!"

"Makes that cafe place look bad."

Hiro gave the person who said that a look of death before grabbing a cherry and flinging it at them.

"Please don't disrespect the Lucky Cat Cafe." Kathleen gave a gentle look to Hiro before looking to the student. "Truth be told some of the recipes I learned were from the owner, she shared them with my mother so… I learned them and just added my own touches. I give credit to Cass Hamada for giving me good recipes to work with."

"O-Oh… Sorry."

Hiro nodded giving her a grateful look… Before it turned into a puppy eyed look holding up his now empty bowl. "More?"

Kathleen giggled, getting him another scoop. "There ya go." She smiled.

"Thanks Kat." He grinned. "With this kind of stuff… Heh I'd say you'd be a shoe in next show case… If you wanted to try it."

"I'm not sure." Kathleen hummed in thought. "Kind of hard to impress with just cooking stuff cause if I remember correctly to get admission… you really need to knock the crowd's socks off."

"You'll think of something… Rome wasn't built in a day... " And neither were the microbots…

"Least I know I got support." She looked to Hiro and their friends. "You guys have been awesome."

"Hey… Anything for our Kit Kat… C'mere!" Fred pulled her in messing up her hair.

"Ack! I'm under attack!" she squeaked, trying to pull away. "HALP!"

"Baymax sick 'em!"

Baymax waddled over, picking up Fred.

"You are free."

Kathleen hurried over to Honey, using her as a shield.

"He messed up my hair."

Honey held up one of her chem balls. "Freddy~"

"RUN!"

Fred booked it… only to be stopped in his tracks by pink goop.

"GACK!"

Honey grinned. "Works everytime~"

"Curses…" Fred sighed. "Bested again."

Tadashi grinned, nuzzling her. "That's Honey for you."

Honey giggled. "Taka…."

Everyone looked at the two, grinning.

"Oooo…"

"... I think we just summoned the mocking…"

"Indeed we have…"

Fred snickered. "Love on the battle field."

Tadashi rolled his eyes hugging Honey. "Mein! Mock someone else!"

"But there is no one else!"

Tadashi pointed to Hiro. "He's young and probably not a bachelor anymore. Bug him!"

"TRAITOR!"

Fred looked over to Hiro.

"Oh yeah…" he eyed Kathleen.

Kathleen held her ground, crossing her arms.

"One word out of your mouth and no more free sweets for you."

Fred gave a look of horror. "You wouldn't!"

She smirked. "I would."

"You've been hanging around Gogo too much!"

WHACK!

"And THAT's for that Fred." Gogo smirked putting an arm around Kathleen's shoulders. "Kit Kat's on MY side now."

Kathleen giggled. "Woman up!"

Fred faked passing out. "There's two of them… I can't… Go on… Living…!"

"Well blimey, I think you slayed Fredzilla." Tadashi laughed as everyone else joined in.

Fred looked up. "There is no slaying Fredzilla!"

"Do I sense a challenge?" Kathleen asked.

"... No?"

"Well I remember he screamed like a girl during Tadashi's showcase… Lessee…. I think we still have some duct tape around here-"

Fred booked it. "NOT AGAIN!"

"And that's why the duct tape never runs out here."

"That was quite the run considering he got free of Honey's little sticky bomb."

Honey hummed in thought. "Wonder if I should've used the ice one…"

"Eh… mercy this time." Kathleen shrugged.

"True… Come my protege! We have chemicals to mix!"

"YES!"

Tadashi chuckled watching the two girls get right back to work.

"Look at her… she's really starting to shine our little Kit Kat."

Hiro smiled leaning against his brother a little. "All thanks to SFIT… And our little team of nerds…"

Tadashi nodded. "She's looking a lot better than she was about a month ago… she's got a confident look in her eyes now."

"She's getting better and better… She isn't stuttering as much either…"

"She's growing up…" Tadashi looked at his brother, ruffling his hair a little. "And she has you to thank for a lot of things… you really changed her world."

Hiro chuckled a bit. "Just want to see her happy… And I want to see her shine… I think she has a future that just opened up for her… And I think she's finally seeing it too…"

"And that's just what she needed Hiro…"

He looked over to Kathleen. She was focused but had a big grin on her face as she watched Honey show her a formula.

Hiro smiled. "She's got herself a good mentor too in the chemistry department…"

"Yep and a good group of friends to support her."

"Yup… So…" Hiro gave his brother a smirk. "Since you can…. You gonna marry Honey-"

WACK!

"How about we keep out of my love life?"

"You're in mine!"

"Least I don't ask you stuff like that."

Hiro held out his hand. "Hiro Hamada have we met?"

Tadashi shook his head. "So you do admit to liking Kit Kat."

Hiro blushed a bit. He pulled Tadashi away. "So maybe I do and maybe when we went for our flight Baymax blurted out to all of San Fransokyo that we're attracted to one another!"

Tadashi grinned. "Called it."

Hiro's jaw dropped. "I was that obvious!?"

"Kat was obvious from the get go… and you, I wasn't sure until I had Baymax take a look for me. He confirmed my suspicions."

"... So… Think I got a chance?"

"Bro… Have you not seen the way she looks at you?" Tadashi glanced over to Kathleen. "She's been giving that kind of look since you graduated high school. She blushed a lot at any compliment you gave her… she just never says anything."

Hiro turned a little red remembering all of their time spent together. He swore he felt his heartbeat pick up as he thought back. "Y-Yeah… You got a point there…"

"But the choice to tell her is yours… just don't expect her to… it's nerve wracking."

"I'll give her time… Right now I don't mind being her wingman…"

"And that's fine, take it nice and slow. After all, that's her style."

Hiro nodded watching her. "Yup… Though mark my words she's gonna be going here eventually. Even if I have to conveniently get some of the judges delayed so no one that's super tough is there…Okay probably not that far but… She really wants to go here… I think she'd do great…"

"Well this is sounding familiar." Tadashi looked to Hiro.

Hiro chuckled a bit. "It does, doesn't it?"

"Just… don't go charging into a fire. Kay?"

"Dude my suit is partially fire resistant for a reason." Hiro shoved him a bit. "I should be saying that to you."

"Fire can't exactly touch me anymore."

"Yeah I guess with certain girls you're so hot you're already on fire-"

WACK!

"And poor choice of words."

Hiro rubbed his head. "What the heck do you do, use special finger weights so your knuckles give more of a punch!?"

"I have some secrets I will never say." Tadashi smirked.

"I'll find out your secrets." Hiro vowed giving a bit of an evil look. "I always do."

Tadashi ruffled his hair.

"Yeah yeah, just don't hurt your brain."

"Who graduated first!?"

"Oh shut up."

Hiro rolled his eyes hugging him. "I missed this banter."

Tadashi hugged him back. "Missed this too."

Everything's looking up…

oooooo

"Has anyone seen Kit Kat today?" Honey asked looking around the lab. "I tried texting her but she isn't answering."

"Nope." Gogo sped by on her bike. "Haven't seen her."

Hiro looked up from where he and Tadashi were pinning a squirming Kokoro down as they tried to get a new chip in. "Haven't seen her since Sunday!"

"Hm… odd… she's generally good about messaging."

"Hello?"

They all looked to the entrance of the lab to see a group of young girls walking in.

"Can we help you?" Wasabi asked.

One of them nodded. "Are you Kathleen's friends?"

"Yep, her nerd herd as it were." Tadashi added dodging a punch that hit Hiro instead. "Oh that's gonna leave a mark."

"Traitor…" Hiro muttered. "But yeah that's us… Why?"

"Well… we're just here to pass on a message. She's sick."

Everyone looked to each other before looking to the girls concerned.

"Sick? With what?" Gogo asked.

"Bronchitis."

They all cringed. That was not good. "Oh boy…." Hiro murmured. "How bad? She at home or at the doctor or what?"

"She's at home thankfully." The girl sighed in relief. "My papa got her fixed up enough to be able to be home… just came on out of no where… he said it was mainly stressed induced based on questions he had asked her."

"Oh no…"

"She's been working like crazy…"

Hiro felt a pang of guilt. I encouraged her to do all this stuff for the showcase… Oh man...

"She should be okay by the big show csae thing though she is a little worried…"

One of them looked to Hiro. "Hiro, right?"

Hiro nodded. "Yep…"

"She just wanted to let you know not to worry too much and not blame yourself for any of this. She said it, not me."

"Man she has my number…." Hiro rubbed the back of his neck sighing. "I'm still gonna see her when I get a chance to…. Maybe pull Baymax along for the ride…"

"I'm sure she'd like that." The girls all gave a bow. "That's all we got to share."

"Thanks for stopping by…" Tadashi gave a bow of his own as Hiro quickly copied him. "Take care now."

"Yeah…."

They nodded and headed off.

"That one in the glasses is cute… Too bad he's too old for Kit Kat."

"She likes 'em young and reckless."

Everyone in the lab looked to each other worried.

"She seemed in perfect health… and I didn't see signs of stress either." Honey murmurred.

"Kat… Hides a lot of stuff… Really big stuff when she needs to…" Hiro spoke up. "Like her stress levels… She'll bottle it up but it'll come out in bursts until she's either borderline freaking out, or something triggers it…. But I've never seen her get sick from it before… That's… That's really big…"

"Maybe you should go see her now." Tadashi suggested, finally get Kokoro to shut off.

Hiro nodded. "Yeah I will… Make sure no one gets impaled by anything since I'm borrowing our medic bot…"

Tadashi fired off a salute. "Done deal."

Hiro nodded before collecting Baymax and heading out.

oooooo

"Kathleen?" Irene called quietly looking in on her daughter. "You have a visitor…"

Kathleen looked up. "Hm?"

"A handsome young man… And a marshmallow…"

Kathleen giggled, coughing a little. "Intrude…"

She stepped aside opening the door as Hiro made his way in, Baymax having to squeeze through the doorway a little. "Hey there Kat…"

She smiled a little. "Hey…" She sounded hoarse as she spoke.

Hiro winced a bit as he sat down on the edge of her bed. "How you holding up? We got the school girl tribunal dropping in on us."

"Okay I guess." she coughed a little. "Just coughing every five minutes…"

"Geeze…" Hiro winced. "Sorry…"

Baymax scanned her. "You've not taken your medication yet… I recommend doing so… It may alleviate the coughing for now."

Kathleen groaned a little. "I'll put up with it… I want to get better…"

The nursebot patted her head. "You will be alright."

Kathleen smiled a little. "Thanks Baymax…"

"You are welcome."

Hiro took her hand squeezing it gently. "You need us to do anything we're on it. Food runs, hugs… Borrowing Baymax as a cushion… You name it… You got it…"

She squeezed back, giggling. "Just glad you're here… feels weird not being at the lab…"

"I know that feeling… But you'll get back to it soon… And when you win that showcase you'll be practically living there."

"That's the hope." Kathleen broke into a coughing fit. "Mgh…"

Baymax rubbed her back to help ease her breathing. "Does anything hurt?"

"Just my chest… only a little though…"

Hiro shook his head. "Kat he doesn't operate on "a little"-"

"On a scale of one to ten how would you rate your pain?"

Kathleen looked at the chart, looking the faces.

"I'd probably match to an 8."

Baymax nodded before going through his treatment database. "Recommended treatment, mild pain relievers and cough syrup."

Hiro cringed. "Oh… That just sucks…"

"Woman up…" Kathleen muttered. "I'll take the medicine…"

"Good girl." Baymax patted her head.

Hiro shrugged. "Hey least your not hiding… I did that once… He followed me. Without spilling any of it."

"That's impressive…"

"Yeah… Let's go with that." Hiro said as Baymax administered the medicine. I feel ya Kat… I do…

Kathleen took the medicine, cringing a bit at the taste of the syrup, but feeling some relief after a few minutes.

"Okay… I say it's down to a 3…"

"Good."

"You want us to go just say the word… And if you wanna keep 8 boy here feel free."

Kathleen nodded. "Noted…" She held Hiro's hand.

Hiro held hers. "Want an update on the insanity level?"

"Yes please… Kokoro being a problem child again?"

"Yeah…" He brought his free hand to his face feeling a fresh bruise. "Takashi and I were holding him down because we needed to put in a new chip to refine his fighting skills… And his people skills when he got loose and swung. Takashi ducked… It hit me."

Kathleen winced. "Ouch…"

"Yeeeaaah…" He cringed. "It didn't kill me at least."

"Hate for that to happen… when I get back I'll talk with him about not hitting his daddy… or people in general."

"You're a good robot mom."

Kathleen giggled. "He just seems to like me."

Hiro chuckled. "Kind of how Baymax was all huggy with Honey Lemon when Tadashi was working on him."

Baymax lowered his head a bit in what could be seen as embarrassment.

"Aww… It's okay Baymax." Kathleen patted one of his arms.

"I did not mean to play "favorites."... But it was a long time ago…"

Hiro shook his head. "Diagnosis:... Embarrassment."

"... As they say… No comment from the peanut gallery."

Kathleen threw her head back laughing. "O-Oh my gosh!"

Hiro rolled his eyes chuckling. "Oh he's got some sass now."

"Just comes with being alive." Kathleen smiled, her laughter dying down due to some coughs. "He's still awesome though…"

Baymax ruffled her hair a bit. "Thank you."

Hiro smiled. "Glad you're gonna be okay… You sure you don't want me to get you anything? Feed the rabbit? Something?" Give me a chance to be useful please.

"Johanna has been a little lonely over there… could you bring her over? She's in her cage over there."

Hiro gave a salute before heading over and carefully retrieving the rabbit. "Wow… She's really soft… Haven't seen her in awhile…" He held her close before bringing her back over to Kathleen. "Here ya go… Right to your mommy."

The rabbit hopped out of Hiro's arms into Kathleen's cuddling close to her.

Kathleen smiled petting her. "Hey girl… sorry… just haven't had the strength to get out of bed… just fall right over…"

Johanna nuzzled her, looking at her with what seemed to be sympathy.

"I'll be okay…" She coughed a little.

Johanna laid her head on Kathleen's arm closing her eyes as she relaxed.

"You will Kat…. Promise…"

She nodded. "I really want to go to SFIT Hiro… Guess all the worry just finally got to me…"

"I know that feeling…" He gave her a look of empathy. "It's a hard school to get into and you still got highschool stuff to deal with too… I'm sorry… I'm really sorry…"

"Not your fault…"

"I still feel bad… Blame the Hamada genes, we're incredibly sympathetic… And at times probably a little pathetic…"

"And submit to the "man cold." Baymax chimed.

Kathleen giggled, looking to Johanna. "Hey… go get 'im." she whispered as she grabbed her phone.

Johanna perked up before hopping over to Hiro crawling onto his lap. He picked her up holding her… Before said rabbit scurried onto his shoulders. "H-Hey!" He yelped before she wound up on his head cuddling it.

Kathleen quickly snapped a picture. "She still likes you."

Hiro chuckled. "And I still like her. Silly bunny…"

Baymax looked at Johanna. "Hairy baby."

Johanna looked at Baymax leaning over a little sniffing him curious.

"Very hairy baby." Hiro agreed bringing her back into his arms. "... Wanna hold her?"

Baymax held out his arms for the rabbit.

Hiro carefully handed her over as Johanna looked up at the robot curiously.

Baymax patted her head, sitting down.

The rabbit let out a happy sigh closing her eyes nuzzling.

"And seems she likes Baymax too."

"Anyone nice to me and willing to love her is always good in her book."

Hiro smiled. "Well she's a good judge of character…" He looked to Kathleen brushing some hair out of her face. "Really hope you feel better soon…"

"Me too…" She looked at him, reaching a hand up. "Wouldn't mind a hug."

Hiro smiled bringing her into an embrace. "Can do."

She hugged him back, resting her head on his shoulder. "Warm…"

Hiro leaned back holding her, resting his head against hers. "I gotcha…"

"You're the best…"

"I try…" He hummed a little stroking her hair.

She closed her eyes relaxing into his arms.

"That's it…"

They were like this for a few moments and it wasn't long before Kathleen was out like a light.

"Her body is still recovering…" Baymax said as he set Johanna on the bed with her. "She is still suffering from exhaustion."

Hiro nodded carefully lying her down beside her rabbit. "She's had it rough…"

"She should recover in a few days as long as she gets enough rest and liquids."

"Right…"

Kathleen curled up under the blankets, Johanna curling up beside her. Baymax put a hand on Hiro's shoulder.

"We should let her rest."

Hiro nodded getting up. "Right… We'll call in to check in on her tomorrow."

Baymax nodded. "Right."

Hiro lead the way out bidding goodbye to Kathleen's folks as he did.

Just keep strong Kat…