Author's Note: What's up, cupcakes! I'm sure everyone was wondering if Jordan was ok and you shall find out in this chapter! I hope you cupcakes are liking the story so far! If so, that would mean alot. I do not own Inside Out. I just own the story.

" NO! "

Joy pressed buttons, pulled levers, and twisted dials.

The whole Headquarters was dark, the Personality Islands were dimmed to a dull gray, a flashing red light was going on and off in Headquarters, the monitor was pitch black.

" NO! NO, NO, NO! " Joy pounded on the console, desperate to see what had happened.

Nothing worked.

Joy threw his cap off and ran his fingers through his hair, breathing heavily, sweat pouring off his face. This was all his fault.

Sadness fell to his knees and cried, his glasses slipping off his nose. Disgust was staring at the monitor in sheer shock. Fear was hugging himself, shaking like crazy and muttering " We died...We died...We totally died..." Anger took one look at the black monitor and growled, his head starting to flame up.

" YOU! "

Joy turned around only to be pinned against the console by a furious Anger.

" THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT! IF YOU'D HAVE JUST LISTENED TO US, JORDAN WOULDN'T HAVE GOTTEN THAT IDEA STUCK IN HIS HEAD AND WOULD BE BACK HOME WITH CHARLOTTE- SAFE! "

Joy stared at him, shaking all over " I... I-I'm sorry- "

Anger pushed him up against the console harder " DON'T APOLOGIZE TO ME! APOLOGIZE TO JORDAN! BUT CAN YA' DO THAT?! NO! BECAUSE JORDAN COULD BE DEAD! AND IT'LL BE BECAUSE OF YOU! "

Without another word, Anger's head burst into flames. Anger roared in rage, his cap crumbling to ashes.

When he was done with his fit of rage, he breathed heavily before glaring a vicious glare at Joy and stomped upstairs, the echo of a slamming door being heard throughout Headquarters.

Joy stared off into space. Anger was right. This really was his fault... Because of him, Jordan could be dead...

He could be dead all because of one selfish, yellow emotion... Joy...

Joy fell to the ground and on his side, hugging himself. He didn't deserve to be Jordan's lead emotion... Instead, he was Jordan's downfall...

" W-w...What h-h-h-h-have I d-d-d-done?... "

Roger sat at the table, drinking his afternoon coffee while watching Food Network. He had just sent Leona off and thanked her for babysitting Charlotte.

Charlotte sat on the couch, looking out the window, awaiting her older brother.

" Lottie, where did you say Jordan was going off to? " Roger asked, checking his watch.

" We went with his weird friends. It was early in the morning when they left... "

" He's been gone for that long...? He should've been here ages ago..."

" D-Daddy, you don't think anything happened to Jordy, r-right? " she asked, a slight quiver in her voice.

" N-no... I think he just forgot about the time again... " Roger replied with uncertainty in his voice.

" T-then why are police walking u-up to our d-d-door? "

Roger bolted out of his seat and ran to the window, peeking out through the blinds " Police? What are the police doing at my front door? "

Roger ran over to the front door and snatched the door open, coming face to face with two male police officers.

" Officers! W-what are you doing here...? Is there a problem? " he asked, fiddling around with his fingers.

" Are you Roger Olivero? " One of the police officers asked.

" Y-yes... Now, can you tell me what's going on- "

" Father of Jordan Olivero? " The second police officer asked.

" Yes, I'm his father... What happened? Did he steal something? "

The police officers glanced at each other before looking back at Roger with faint sympathy in their eyes.

" Your son has been in an accident... "

Roger stiffened " A-accident...? "

" Apparently, your son was at the abandoned skateboarding rink when his 3 friends arrived. They say that they tried to stop him before he slipped off the top of the ramp down to the ground..." The first police officer began.

" We know that your son has severe injuries to the head while his left arm is broken... He has been transported to the San Francisco Local Hospital. I recommend you get there as soon as possible. " The second officer finished.

Roger nodded before running inside the house. He quickly grabbed his keys and took Charlotte's hand, who had been watching through the window.

" Daddy! Is Jordan alright? Is he in trouble? " she asked while he set her in the car.

" J-Jordan is going to be fine! Don't worry! " he yelled before starting the car and taking off down the road.

Sadness stared at the ground with tears running down his face. He had been like this for 10 whole minutes...

And there was still no sign of life from Jordan...

Sadness looked up and stared at Joy's hunched figure. He knew Joy felt terrible about it...And it broke his heart even more when he saw Joy like this... So heartbroken and afraid...

Sadness sniffed and pushed his glasses up, moving his gaze from Joy to the blinking red light. There was something about it that he couldn't pinpoint...Yet it was right on the tip of his tongue...

If Jordan was really dead...then shouldn't the light not be on...? Shouldn't the Personality Islands be crumbling down to the Memory Dump? Shouldn't the Emotions vanish in thin air?

With a flicker of hope in his heart, Sadness got up and ran to the Mind Manuals. He knew he read somewhere in a manual where a person was not dead...but in a coma...

" Memory For Speech...no... Mind Over Matter...no... Coordination...no..." he whispered as he frantically searched for the manual he was looking for.

It wasn't long before he found one that was titled " Thought And Consciousness ".

" Thought And Consciousness...! " Sadness whispered before flipping through the pages and coming to a stop.

" It's not very rare when a person's emotions have to endure with worrying about death and actually going through it. Different scenarios occur when the person is either dead or is simply in a comatose state... When a person is in a comatose state, their Personality Islands dim instead of falling into the Memory Dump, the console is unresponsive, and the only source of life in Headquarters is a single blinking red...light! "

A smile spread across Sadness' face before he bolted up and ran to his comrades " Guys! Guys! Jordan's not dead! He's not dead! " he cried with genuine relief.

Disgust looked up from having his head in his hands, Fear looked over his shoulder at Sadness, Anger came running down the stairs, while Joy turned his head slightly towards Sadness.

" Jordan's...not dead? " Anger asked, his eyes widening.

" No, he's not. He's just...in a coma... " Sadness said, sighing in relief.

Disgust breathed out the breath he had been holding and ran his fingers through his hair " He's ok... "

" It's better than being dead... " Fear's lips twitched into a small smile.

Anger turned his head and glared at Joy, who was staring at them with wide eyes " Yeah, well this still doesn't change the fact that it's Joy's fault we're in this mess! Some emotion... " he spat out in hatred.

Joy flinched when he heard those words and turned his head away from his co-workers, too ashamed to show his face.

Disgust shook his head at Joy before turning to Sadness " Sadness, is there any way we can wake Jordan up? Anything at all? " he asked, grabbing Sadness' shoulders.

Sadness shook his head and looked down " The manual didn't say... I guess we have to wait until Jordan wakes up on his own-"

Anger threw his cap down and paced around Headquarters " BUT THAT COULD TAKE FOREVER! Jordan has to wake up NOW! "

Fear gulped and walked towards Anger, putting a shaky hand on his shoulder " H-he...He'll open his eyes...in his own time... " he whispered.

Anger stared up at Fear, his breathing slowing down. With a shaky breath he nodded " Yeah... in his own time..."

Roger ran through the hallways with Charlotte in his arms, breathing heavily.

He has to be alive... He can't be dead... He can't be...

Roger pushed through the doors of room A113 and widened his eyes in shock.

There was Jordan, unconscious with bandages around his head and a cast on his left arm. The heart monitor was beeping at a normal rate while IV was inserted in the back of his hand.

His 3 friends, Damon, Stevie and Elijah were all sitting next to him. Damon's shoulders were shaking and he had his head in his hands. Stevie patted him on the back while Elijah was staring at Jordan's heart monitor.

" Come on, Damon... It wasn't your fault... " Stevie whispered, rubbing soothing circles in Damon's back.

" I- I could've stopped him... I shouldn't have grabbed him, I-I shouldn't have used force... " Damon choked out, tears slipping off his nose onto the floor.

Charlotte gasped and wiggled in her father's grip " JORDAN! " she cried, beating her father's arms.

Damon, Stevie and Elijah jumped and turned around only to see Charlotte run to the bed, reach up and hold one of Jordan's hands. Charlotte shook it gently " J-Jordan? Jordy, are you ok? "

Roger looked at the three boys who accompanied Jordan " What happened to my son...? "

Damon looked up at him. Roger saw that his eyes were red and puffy.

" It-it's my fault, sir... " He whispered, another tear slipping out of his eye.

Stevie looked at Roger and shook his head " No, don't listen to him, Mister Olivero, sir... It really isn't his fault... We all tried to help Jordan, but-"

Roger held a hand up and Stevie closed his mouth, gulping.

" It's none of your faults...I'm sure you 3 did everything you could to help him... " he whispered, turning his gaze to Jordan.

Charlotte's tears began to fall out as she gently shook Jordan's arm " Daddy, make Jordan get up... He's scaring me... He needs to come home and read me "Charlotte's Web" again... And where's his cap? He loves his cap! Put his cap on! " (1) she cried, desperately trying to Jordan to wake up.

Roger sighed, walked over to Charlotte and picked her up " Honey, let's leave Jordan to rest... "

" But I wanna stay with him! I don't wanna go! Put me down! " Charlotte grabbed onto the covers and cried.

Roger unlatched her hands from the covers and walked out the doors, Charlotte screaming and kicking all the way.

Damon had started to cry harder when he saw how heartbroken Charlotte was. Elijah looked at him and wrapped an arm around his shoulder while Stevie allowed a tear to fall from his face.

" Come on, Jordan...you're gonna make it... I know you are... " he whispered.

Joy laid hunched in the corner of Headquarters, shaking and sweating.

Tears were threatening to spill out but he held it in, believing that he didn't deserve to be crying right now, for this was all his fault.

Joy flinched when he heard soft footsteps coming towards him. Had Anger come to beat him up again? He was waiting for it. He deserved it.

Joy looked up when a felt a hand on his shoulder.

It was Sadness.

Sadness looked down and did a small smile " Are you alright? " he whispered.

Joy looked away, not wanting to show his face to anybody.

Sadness sighed and sat down next to him " Joy, please answer... "

Joy shook his head, hugging himself tighter " Please... just leave me alone... " he whispered, burying his face in his knees.

Sadness frowned and scooted closer to Joy " I'm sorry Joy, but that's not an option for me... We're friends-no ,bros- a-and brothers look out for each other. "

Joy's hands clenched into fist and he glared at Sadness, who shrunk away.

" Sadness, don't you get it? This is all my fault! If I'd have just listened to you and the others, Jordan wouldn't be in this stupid coma inside that stupid hospital and would be back home listening to AC/DC! Ugh! Why are you even talking to me right now?! You're supposed to be hating me! The others do! Why can't you?! " he cried.

Sadness looked down and whispered, tugging at a curl " Because I'm your brother... "

Joy widened his eyes. He really couldn't believe Sadness had actually said that, even at a time like this.

Joy looked down. He noticed that his vision was getting blurry. He shook his head, his breathing increasing.

Sadness wrapped an arm around Joy and smiled " It's ok, Joy... It's really ok to do it... "

Joy let out a small sob before bursting into tears and covering his face with his hands.

Sadness patted his shoulder and smiled, allowing the sobbing Joy to lean into him.

For the first time in his life... Joy experienced what it felt like to have a brother. A brother who was always there for him when his friends deserted him...

Sadness.

Author's Note: Wow... I enjoyed typing this chapter, I really did. I saw Joy and Sadness in the movie " Inside Out " as sisters and I made Jordan's Joy and Sadness brothers. After all, they were the first two emotions to appear.

If anyone is wondering why the story's getting so feely and sad, do not worry. The story will get back to its humorous glam! I just wanted this story to have a little drama in it... after all... It is emotional! XD

Kay' I'm going to bed now...

P.S I ran out of cookies for you cupcakes... I'll have some the next chapter...