"Honey, have you even packed anything for the trip with the boys yet?" Laura Hardy asked as she wrapped her arms around her beloved husband who was currently situated in front of the TV on the couch. "You know you only have 3 days leftmmMmmm…"

Fenton had turned his body forty-five degrees to meet his petite, blond haired wife in a mid-air kiss to stop her worries. He then broke the kiss before pulling his wife over to his side of the couch to embrace her in his arms.

Both of them were breathless by the time they were snuggling on the couch.

"Well I am the master of quick packing."

"Why not pack earlier so you wouldn't have to worry about packing later?" Laura asked as she mindlessly flipped through the channels.

"Well… If I were to pack now, I would have to get up wouldn't I?" Fenton said as he pretended to get up, but Laura pulled him back down to the couch.

"Well as you said, you are the master of quick packing, so let's leave the packing to later."

"Exactly my thoughts dear." Fenton smiled before pulling Laura back into his arms to watch the news.

Their faces turned from content to shock to horror.

"Fenton… The boys!"

"I'm on it Laura." Fenton said as he leapt off the couch.

"Frank, let me help you dig us out." Joe said with his arms crossed.

His head pounded like no tomorrow, but that didn't disable him physically. Frank was being such a butt about everything.

"I said no 20 minutes ago, I said no 10 minutes ago, I said no 5 minutes ago, and I said no 1 minute ago so you know my answer by now." Frank said gruffly.

He was in no mood to argue with his younger brother. Although outwardly he seemed unreasonable to Joe, inwardly he was struck with worry, worry that they wouldn't be found, worry that Joe was more hurt than he was saying so, worry he would fail their parents on keeping Joe safe. It was just so much pressure that was put on his shoulders, and Joe just didn't seem to understand.

"That's it Frank! Stop ignoring me with this 20 minutes whatever stuff. We're never going to get out if you continue to dig alone because one, you are going to soon get tired, and 2, I'm small so I can fit into a hole and dig way better than you can."

"SHUT UP, okay? SHUT UP!" Frank yelled all of sudden as the room rumbled for a second.

Joe jumped. He'd never seen Frank so raveled. His brother's features didn't lighten any bit seeing the section he was digging was partially filled due to the slight rumble.

He was really hurt that his brother of all people would show such hatred towards him. The worst part was that Frank continued to dig his escape hole instead of saying something to him to explain his outburst.

Joe turned around facing the other side of the wall. He didn't want Frank to know how hurt he was. Instead of sitting still, his anger took his better judgment and he stormed to the window on the other side of the cabin and he begun to dig.

"What are you doing?" Frank asked angrily.

"What do you think I'm doing? You're the smart one." Joe muttered as a huge mound of snow was released into the cabin.

"Be careful before you do something stupid and our cabin gets filled with snow."

"So that's what you think of me huh?" Joe said with resentment that held a hint of how much that statement wounded him.

Frank realized what he said must have sounded like and started walking towards Joe who was stiff and unrelenting.

"Joe, that wasn't what I meant…"

"Then what did you mean? That I'm too stupid to dig a hole? That you're always smarter than me at everything? That every time I try to do something to please Mom and Dad, you always bring home something much bigger for them to be proud of?" Joe started listing off in a hurt voice, and once he started he just couldn't stop the things he's been thinking about for all the years of his life. "That I'm impulsive and you're the person who thinks things through and makes all the right decisions? That Mom and Dad love YOU the most and I'm just the mess up second child in the lime light…" Joe said lastly, and he couldn't say anymore.

Joe took a deep breath and sat with his knees drawn to his chest. He put his head on his arms that were crossed on top of his knees, with his head facing away from Frank because he just couldn't face the embarrassment of what he just said. The second worst thing about his predicament was that his head was pounding mercilessly.

Frank stood shocked. He never knew Joe felt this way. He'd always thought Joe was happy with his life, and he knows Joe is so wrong about how Mom and Dad love him more than Joe.

"Joe…" Frank said as he placed his hand on Joe's elbow.

Joe shoved Frank's hand away, but before Frank took his hand away, he could feel Joe shuddering and his small, continuous hiccups.

He thought through his words carefully before saying anything to his little brother.

"Joe… today must be the crappiest day of my life, but the best would be that I get to spend some time with you, even though we're stuck under I don't know how many feet of snow." Frank was relieved when he heard Joe chuckle a little. "Well… JOE! I was so worried about you today. Everyday I worry about you and you have no idea, because without you, our family would not be so happy, so bright, and we would be so sad to loose what you bring to us. Mom and Dad love us both just the same."

Frank had tears rolling down his face.

"I appreciate how you always try to lighten things up even though everything was so stressful, because you have no idea how stressful it is to be me. We live in such a dangerous situation with Dad being a detective and all. I just have to worry so much for you, for mom, for our friends. If it weren't you, I would have white hair by now."

Joe turned his head around, feeling so low.

"I'm sorry." Joe said in a whisper.

"No, I'm sorry. I'm sorry for making you feel like you were dumb or that your ideas don't count." Frank said as he enveloped his brother.

"Frank, thank you." Joe said as he hugged his brother back.

"What do you have to thank me for? I'm your big brother. I would do anything for you."

"Just… thank you for everything Frank and I do appreciate you too, even though I might not show it sometimes."

Joe let go of Frank and moved towards his semi-hole.

"Come on Frank, let's work together and get out of here." Joe said as Frank kneeled next to him to try to claw their way to freedom.

A/N: OKay you might be thinking... boy this chapter sucks, or this is too short, or too many grammer mistakes or... I never wanna read this story ever again! But yah see, I wrote this in 2 hours, and it's the beginning of the next day and I really wanted to update for you people so PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REVIEW! And yah thanks for everyone who are telling me that they have suggestions and stuff, so you can give them in the reviews if you like, but yah I totally have an idea of what to write, I've just been busy, so if you just really really have something you want to suggest then suggest it! THANK YOU!

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