Author's Note: I originally wanted Fred to try stalling for a bit, but then he told me that he wouldn't last two minutes under questioning. Might as well start the explosions before the fuel builds up too much. Also, I'm sorry for the wait. Researching for this fic was hard and I have six courses to worry about. Don't forget to read the notes at the end, either. They're important!

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Where r u? Go Go's text read.

Fred looked at his phone and sighed. Lying to her wouldn't be smart. If drama was going to happen, he might as well get it over with before someone got hurt.

Hospital. He responded. In waiting room.

Getting into the ambulance was easy. Watching Hiro breathe through a mask was easy, too. Letting everyone know what was going on would be the hard part. Questions would be asked, answers would be demanded, and Fred wasn't sure how the others would handle hearing that Tada –

His throat tightened and he coughed a few times.

Where did that come from? Fred thought. It's not like I don't know that Tada –

Throat tightening again.

All of this because Tada –

Now his eyes felt hot. He blinked a few times before it got worse.

"Baymax?" Baymax looked at him. "Do you think you could check up on…Hiro? Just to be sure he's okay?"

He's gonna need you. Fred thought. He's gonna need you like back then…

"I will do so," Baymax said and waddled away.

Now Go Go was less likely to throw something if the wrong thing was said. Hiro having his best friend at his side was a bonus.

Which meant Fred was going to have to deal with this by himself…

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"Fred, what happened? Where's Hiro?" Honey Lemon jumped the question on him as soon as she sees him in the waiting room. By that time, Fred had familiarized himself with the pallet of colors splattered on the wall.

Large blobs of blues and yellows and reds like a child was the one painting. A carousel with streamers on top, traced over the blues and yellows with no distinction. A hot air balloon drifting away from the mess. An elephant balancing on a large ball with a strange look on its face. Fred thought it looked uncomfortable and wondered how the artist could get away with something like that for a waiting room setting.

"Freddie?" Honey Lemon repeated, "What happened with Hiro?"

Fred gulped and tried not to look frantically around for any sign of Tada…him. Behind Honey Lemon, Fred saw Wasabi and Go Go. Wasabi was gripping onto Go Go's shoulder tightly while she stomped her way over.

Wasabi was looking more at Go Go than Fred as they came over to him, like she would vanish if he took his eyes off her for a moment.

"Umm, guys?" Fred spoke slowly and rubbed the back of his neck, "Remember why we started Big Hero 6 again?"

Wasabi's eyes widened, and he grabbed Fred by the collar, "Who was it?! High Voltage? Baron von Steamer?! YAMA?!"

"No, no, no," Fred pulled Wasabi's hands off and stepped back, "none of them know – I mean, Yama does, but he hasn't really done anything yet – and he's not injured…physically. More like…"

Fred held out his arms to each side, as if weighing two objects on a scale.

"Fred," Go Go spoke quietly, "What. Happened. To. Hiro?"

"He…" Fred pulled away from Wasabi and looked down, "he…"

"He what?!"

He bit his lip and tried talking. His throat felt tight and he stopped. He swallowed and opened his mouth again, but his throat felt even tighter. He swallowed again and suddenly felt his eyes becoming hot and wet.

"..s..ive…" He finally whispered, his voice barely rumbling.

"What?" Wasabi placed a hand on his shoulder, but Fred shrugged it off.

"…e's alive..."

"Who's alive, Freddie?" Honey Lemon's voice went up a pitch, "Who?"

"TADASHI'S ALIVE!" Fred covered his mouth and bit down as hard as he could. He couldn't take it back, his face was becoming wet with tears, his throat hurt, and Tadashi was alive. His body shook and he began sobbing.

Tadashi was alive, and Fred wanted to run as far away as he could.

"Fred?" Go Go sounded frightened," You're – you're not joking, right? Because it's not funny. Do you hear me? IT'S NOT FUNNY!"

Fred shook his head and closed his eyes, more tears coming out. He choked down a sob and wiped his eyes roughly with his right sleeve.

"And Hiro?" Honey Lemon whispered frantically, "Does he know?"

"…yeah…he didn't take it well…"

Fred heard a soft gasp! and choked. He was starting to feel like he was in a scene from his comics, where things seem like they're looking up until something dreadful happens. Like rummaging through wreckage, hoping against hope that whoever you're looking for underneath the mess is still there and breathing. Like in Death in the Family, Batman was so broken when he found Jason's corpse and denied that he came back as the Red Hood. No. More than that. He refused to see Jason as nothing more than a copy.

That's what Fred was going through right now. He couldn't believe that Tadashi was standing in front of them. He should be gone. There was no way that anyone could have survived that explosion.

But Callaghan did, Fred thought, Callaghan survived the explosion. But…why didn't he say anything back on the island? Did he think Tadashi was gone, too?

Why was his heart beating so fast? Why was he crying? Why was he having a hard time breathing? Why was something that should have felt good felt even worse than Tadashi's death? Why –

SLAP!

Go Go's breathing was hitched, fast and uneven. She sounded like she was wheezing a little.

"…I deserved that…" Tadashi muttered weakly.

SLAP!

"I deserved that, too…" Tadashi sounded pained, like it hurt to move his mouth to talk.

More movement and quick shuffling. Fred forced his eyes open and saw Wasabi restraining Go Go, her teeth bared and tears streaming down her face.

"YOU BASTARD!" She screamed. "HOW COULD YOU DIE AND THEN POP UP OUT OF NOWHERE LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED?!"

"Go Go, let him explain himself!" Wasabi pulled her to the opposite side of the hall.

"HE RAN INTO A BURNING BUILDING AND LEFT US BEHIND!" Go Go continued, pushing herself against the wall and fighting Wasabi's grip. "YOU LEFT US WITHOUT EVEN THINKING!"

"M'sorry…" Tadashi mumbled.

"YOU'RE SORRY?! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT YOU PUT US ALL THROUGH?!"

"Miss?" Fred heard a new voice speaking up; older and feminine. She sounded calm, but firm.

"YOU JUST HAD TO PLAY THE HERO, DIDN'T YOU?!" Go Go spat, "YOU JUST HAD TO PLAY FIREFIGHTER WHEN IT LOOKED HOPELESS! IT DIDN'T MATTER THAT YOUR OWN BROTHER WAS RIGHT THERE WATCHING IT HAPPEN –"

"Miss?" The new voice grew louder. Fred looked around and saw a stout woman in blue scrubs making her way around a large desk. Go Go broke out of Wasabi's grip and grabbed the front of Tadashi's shirt, pressing her face against his so closely that Fred thought that they were going to kiss.

Go Go started chuckling darkly, "And you know what else? You know the guy you were trying to save? Robert Callaghan?"

Tadashi looked down and mumbled something. Fred wasn't sure what it was.

"Dead?" Go Go said scoffed, "He didn't die in that fire. CALLAGHAN WAS THE ONE WHO –"

The scrub woman had made her way over to Go Go and tapped her from behind, speaking sharply, "Miss!"

Go Go froze at the touch.

"Miss, I'm going to have to ask you to leave, you're making a scene. People are trying to do their jobs," she said calmly. Go Go looked between her and Tadashi and stormed out.

"We're really sorry," Honey Lemon bowed her head slightly, "Go Go's just reacting badly to…"

"She can come back when she calms down," the woman nodded, "I'm glad she had the sense to leave on her own instead of having security carry her out."

"She…" Wasabi started, but the nurse held up a hand.

"If she wants to vent, she needs to do it outside the premises."

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The room was scanned as he walked in. Three lifeforms detected. One was lying down. Two heartrates going at different paces; one was steady, the other slightly above average. Scanning complete. Visuals recognized Cassidy Hamada and an unregistered man wearing a white lab coat. Baymax stared at the figure lying on the bed, one hand cradled by Aunt Cass. Facial recognition commenced showed Hiro Hamada.

"Hello, Hiro," Baymax said. Hiro did not respond, and Baymax decided to stay in the room and wait until he woke up. He began to make his way into the doorway until his body was jammed in-between the framing, "Oh no."

Aunt Cass's heartrate went up several notches before decreasing as she looked up.

"Baymax," she whispered. Baymax observed that she was frowning, a common trait among people who are sad or worried.

"Aunt Cass," he greeted.

The man in white, whom Baymax recognized as Phillip Hoffman according to the nametag, was frowning too. Perhaps he was also sad. Yet his heartrate was normal. Were the frown and narrowed eyebrows in agitation, then? The expression was directed at Baymax, so he would have to assume that it was because he was possibly intruding.

"What are you?" Doctor Hoffman asked.

Baymax held up one hand and rotated it in a circle once in greeting, "Hello. I am Baymax."

"He's ours," Aunt Cass suddenly spoke up, "He belongs to Hiro."

Doctor Phillip Hoffman looked at her with an open mouth, "H-he what?"

"I am Hiro's Healthcare Companion," Baymax said. He activated the screen where his chest was located, feeling power flowing into the area, "I am responsible for his physical and emotional: well-being. I will scan him now."

Doctor Phillip Hoffman began walking toward him, waving his hands in the air, "There's no need for tha –"

"Scan complete."

Doctor Phillip Hoffman let his hands drop to his sides and shook his head.

Baymax began to upload his findings onto the chart on his chest, "Hiro's heartrate is –"

"He's fine, Baymax, the doctor says he just needs rest," Aunt Cass spoke quietly.

"He's staying overnight for observation," Doctor Phillip Hoffman added.

"I have over ten thousand medical procedures downloaded into my databanks, yet I do not have the information on Hiro's illness."

Doctor Phillip Hoffman looked at Aunt Cass. Baymax saw the smile on her face and believed it to be a positive outcome. Doctor Phillip Hoffman looked at him and took a deep breath, before speaking,

"Your creator, Hiro, just went through post-traumatic shock from seeing someone he thought was dead –"

"Tadashi," Baymax responded.

"Please don't say the name, it might trigger another panic attack," Doctor Phillip Hoffman spoke quickly, "Since he hasn't woken up yet, we don't think it would be a good idea to send him home. The hospital will want to make sure that he isn't suffering from anything dangerous, so we're going to have to keep him here overnight."

"I am familiar with: panic attacks and: shock. But usually they are caused by physical ailments such as: blood loss or: increased heartrates."

"Sometimes, it can be caused by something in the brain," Doctor Phillip Hoffman explained, "The brain recognizes something from a bad memory, maybe connected to a scary event, it sends signals to the body. It's telling the body that it needs to get away from whatever the brain is registering because it is recognized as a threat. If the body stays there for too long, it's going to react and start shutting down because it can't handle the processed information."

"What Doctor Hoffman is trying to say, Baymax, is…Hiro is scared," Aunt Cass added, "He doesn't know how to handle…this…with…You-Know-Who being…back. On the surface…he knows that this could be a good thing. But…"

Aunt Cass pressed Hiro's hand against her forehead and bit her lip. Her heartrate was rising a little. When she spoke against, her voice was barely registered by Baymax's auditory functions.

"But, subconsciously, Hiro can't process it. He's…unable to…register…him as…a good thing. He will think about the…the accident and…"

"I understand, Aunt Cass," Baymax walked over to her and wrapped his arms around her body, "Hiro is my patient. I will help him however I can."

"Actually, he's my patient," Doctor Phillip Hoffman corrected him.

"Doctor," Aunt Cass looked at him with what Baymax registered as pleading eyes, "Baymax is…Hiro's security blanket. He saved his life! I already went through so much when it happened and I thought I was going to lose Hiro, too. And then, Baymax suddenly appears and Hiro starts acting like himself again. And then we thought Baymax was gone, too, and I was afraid Hiro was going to pull away again. Please, Doctor Hoffman, let Baymax stay with Hiro!"

"Alright, alright, I approve," Doctor Phillip Hoffman spoke gently, "Sometimes, we have therapy dogs for patients. We can have Baymax registered in the system as…whatever we can categorize him as and he can stay with Hiro."

"Thank you!" Aunt Cass smiled. Baymax felt the screen on his chest turn off and his body slowly sag.

"Aunt Cass, I must ask you to return home," he said, calculating the next shift in functioning protocols to occur within five minutes, "I will need my charging station before I lose all power to my body."

"Um…" Aunt Cass frowned, "I…didn't drive here…guess I'll call Wasabi and asked him to pick me up."

"You do not need to do that, scanners indicate: Wasabi is in the building."

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Aunt Cass came rushing down the hall, looking over her shoulder every three seconds, like she expected a phantom to creep from behind.

"Wasabi," she called, "Can you drive me back to the café? I need to grab Baymax's charger."

"Um…sure, Aunt Cass," Wasabi shrugged and followed her down the hall. Fred could make out the next words, "How's Hiro doing?"

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It was at least thirty minutes before Aunt Cass and Wasabi returned with the charger, Tadashi followed them close behind before Wasabi look back at him and shook his head. Tadashi stared as the two walked down the hall. A few moments later, he scampered after them, scrambling up the stairwell just in time to see Aunt Cass go through a door that lead to the third floor.

"Wait!" He called out, seeing Baymax swaying back and forth on his feet while a harried-looking doctor with curly brown hair and a shaven face slung one large arm over his shoulder.

"I am Healthcare, you're Personal Baymax," Baymax slurred. Tadashi pinched the bridge of his nose. Unbelievable. He should fix that glitch soon before someone got hurt.

"Sorry for the wait," Aunt Cass slung Baymax's other arm over her shoulder and guided him over to the charging station Wasabi just positioned onto the ground. Both feet connected to the red surface and Baymax slowly started inflating again.

"I had to drag him out before he damaged something," the doctor groaned, "Why does he do that?"

"It's a glitch," Tadashi spoke softly. He tried not to flinch when all eyes were staring at him, "I was working on his movements and making him move like a human and…that happened."

"Hello Tadashi," the doctor and Aunt Cass started shushing Baymax, "I am afraid you must leave."

"Huh?"

"Tadashi, in order for Hiro to recover, you must not see him for a while," Baymax said.

"W-what?!"

"Hiro has suffered from: traumatic shock. Causes of traumatic shock are often stressful scenarios that may remind a person of memories or occurrences they do not want to remember."

Wasabi winced, "That is harsh."

"If Hiro sees Tadashi again, it might result in another: panic attack."

"No…" Tadashi said weakly. He clenched his fist and pounded at Baymax, "NO!"

"Tadashi!" Aunt Cass shushed him and pulled him towards the stairwell, "Please, just go. I'll meet you back at the café. Please."

"Come on, man," Wasabi wrapped an arm around his shoulder and guided him away, "the gang's meeting up at Fred's place. Emergency meeting."

"Meeting?"

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"This is where he lives?" Tadashi whispered as he walked into Fred's bedroom. Fred felt like he was punched in the gut; it just occurred to him that Tadashi never knew about his house at all before. Another regret to add to his list, he supposed.

"Welcome to mi casa!" Fred put on a false smile, "I've been told it's not French, so I don't really know what it means."

"It means my house in Spanish," Honey Lemon sighed.

"You live here?!" Tadashi repeated.

"Believe me, dude, we were all pretty shocked," Wasabi groaned, "There was this weird picture of Fred and my brain still hates my eyes for seeing it."

"Yeah…" Honey Lemon nodded, "But, after what happened earlier, it wasn't much in comparison."

Tadashi stopped looking at Fred's bed and stared at Honey Lemon with a curious expression, "What happened earlier?"

"Nonononononono!" Fred waved his hands in front of Honey Lemon, "Too much too soon, HL, too much too soon!"

He saw Wasabi look at Go Go nervously out of the corner of his eye. They both looked resigned. This was not how to keep a secret ID a secret!

"Man…we might as well get the fireworks out of the way before anything else happens…" Wasabi sighed.

"We got to tell him about Big Hero 6, Freddie," Honey Lemon said quietly.

"What's Big Hero 6?" Tadashi looked at Fred now.

Fred bit his lip and looked towards Honey Lemon. She shrugged and looked at Go Go. Go Go looked at Wasabi and Wasabi looked back at Fred and said, "This was your idea. I think you should be the one to tell him."

"But this wasn't my idea to tell him!"

"Fred," Go Go looked at him, "Please. No one else wants to and you're the only one crazy enough to say it."

"Tell me what?" Tadashi asked.

"Ehehehe…" Fred chuckled nervously, "Well…since we took down the person we thought had killed you…I thought the city needed us to continue. And that's how Big Hero 6 got its name…"

"Wait, what?"

"We've been fighting crime with –"

"MY BABY BROTHER'S BEEN FIGHTING CRIME AND YOU LET HIM?!"

Honey Lemon flinched and inched closer to Tadashi, "It wasn't supposed to be a full-time thing, Tadashi. We were trying to stop Callaghan and get closure –"

"What does Callaghan have to do with this?"

Honey Lemon stopped and looked towards Wasabi, "Do you want to take this…?"

Wasabi sighed and looked directly into Tadashi's eyes, "Callaghan started the fire. He wanted the microbots for himself."

Fred knew that everyone in the room was expecting Tadashi to take it badly. The soft chuckling startled him, though. Tadashi stopped chuckling as soon as he began, a smile on his face that didn't reach his eyes.

Tadashi shook his head ruefully, "Very funny. Professor Callaghan: a villain."

He chuckled softly again, "You really had me going there for a second. That look and, and –"

Fred flinched when Tadashi began howling with laughter, "Oh my God! It-it really – ha ha ha – looked like you guys were being serious! Callaghan wouldn't do something like that –"

"He would, and he did!" Go Go snapped. Tadashi stopped laughing abruptly and looked at her with wide eyes, "Wanna know something else? Hiro told him you 'died' trying to save him and Callaghan said that it was your fault it happened."

Fred gulped, he saw Tadashi clenching and unclenching his fists. He could feel his heart pounding in his chest. Even Go Go started looking a little nervous as Tadashi began glaring at her. Tadashi never glared. He frowned. This was glaring. He wasn't disappointed or mildly irritated, Fred was starting to think this was what Tadashi Hamada really looked like when someone got on his nerves.

"That's not funny anymore," Tadashi said in a cold voice, "Stop goofing around and tell me the truth!"

"The truth? The TRUTH?!" Go Go exploded, "THE TRUTH IS CALLAGHAN TRIED TO KILL US! Baymax has recordings on his chip! We can show you tomorrow if that'll get through your thick skull!"

"Excuse me for taking this in as best as I can!" Tadashi shouted back, "Excuse me for going from seeing my little brother get sent to the hospital because he saw me and then being told that I can't even check up on him to hearing something that…that…STUPID AND RIDICULOUS! You don't know Callaghan like I do! He would never hurt anyone – how dare you say something like –"

"LIKE WHAT, TADASHI! LIKE HOW HE WASN'T THE COOL GRANDPA OR DAD OR UNCLE FIGURE YOU THOUGHT HE WAS?! AND WHERE DO YOU GET OFF BEING OFFENDED BY THIS?! YOU JUST SHOW UP LIKE NOTHING'S HAPPENED AND YOU JUST ASSUME THAT WE'RE LYING!"

"Look, I don't know how to explain what happened, all right?! One minute, I'm in front of the building and the next –"

"I DON'T CARE HOW IT HAPPENED!" Go Go screamed, "I CARE WHETHER OR NOT YOU THINK WE'RE LIARS –"

"Both of you, SHUT UP!"

Fred didn't realize how loud he was until he noticed the echoes bouncing off the walls. He felt everyone looking at him. His head was pounding, Honey Lemon and Wasabi were clinging to each other for comfort, Baymax wasn't around to help, and Heathcliff wasn't around to conveniently distract everyone out of nowhere. Why couldn't Go Go and Tadashi handle this like they usually would? Why couldn't Tadashi listen to her? Why couldn't Go Go stay calm and Go Go-ish without being scary?

Why did Fred have to be the one to fix this? He was the only other 'kid' in the ground after Hiro…

What would Hiro do? He thought. He could see that gap-toothed smile of his in front of him. Fred could hear Hiro say something like…like…

Look for a new angle…

Guess Fred Frederickson the IV was going to become un-Freddie-ish right now…

"We are not going to be at each other's throats! We're not going to wallow around like Captain Fancy when he's in the hands of an awful writer – and if you ask me who Captain Fancy is, Tadashi, I'm going to go Fredzilla on you! – and we're not going to be walking on eggshells over this. We are going to talk about this without screaming anymore, Go Go!"

Go Go flinched, as though she were slapped or doused with icy water.

Fred continued, "Right now, Hiro is in the hospital, Big Hero 6 is down one member for a while, and this isn't going to be the end of the world."

He pointed to Tadashi, who had the decency to at least look at him without cowering away like Go Go did just a moment ago.

"Tadashi, you have my permission to crash here for as long as it takes to fix this."

He pointed to Honey Lemon.

"Honey Lemon, you make sure Aunt Cass is doing alright. Check up on her, talk to her, anything! She can't be left alone!"

Fred took a deep breath and pointed to Go Go. She was going to be the toughest one to handle, but Fred knew her. Go Go wouldn't attack him. No matter what people thought of her, Fred knew Go Go was good. That's why they were friends, after all…

"Go Go, you're not going to attack Tadashi whenever he's in the same room as you. Find a picture of him and tape it onto a punching bag if you want. Scratch that, that's probably going to make it worse.

He finally pointed to Wasabi.

"Wasabi, you're on the first shift of Hiro Watch. Got it?"

He frowned when no one spoke up.

"I said, got it?" Fred glared.

Everyone nodded, and he sighed. His head was still pounding.

"And…how about we just tell Tadashi what happened without threatening him?" He looked at Go Go worriedly. Fred stared when he saw her raise her hand in the air like a preschooler waiting to be called on.

"I'll go," Go Go spoke up, her voice hoarse and uneven, "I want to make sure he's alright."

"Huh?"

"I wanna go check up on Hiro right now."

"But I just –"

"Please, Fred!" She looked at him, desperate and tired. Fred backed away, trying to understand where this imposter had come from. Go Go would never let herself be this emotional in front of anyone, "I need to see him, too! Because I think I'm going to break something if I don't!"

Fred took it in, breathed in and nodded slowly and paced across the room, trying not to let his body shake, "Fine, you can go with Wasabi, then."

Go Go took one look at Tadashi, and the sight just made her start sobbing this time. She pulled him into a hug and cried into his shoulder.

"I'm sorry…" Go Go sobbed, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry…"

"I'm sorry, too," Tadashi whispered, holding her tighter, "I wasn't kidding when I said I deserved being hit, earlier. I…God, I'm such an idiot…"

"Go Go, I wouldn't believe it if I were in his shoes," Wasabi walked over and wrapped his arms around them, "You know how crazy it sounds?!"

Fred and Honey Lemon joined in the hug a moment later, the last anchors of support taking hold and steadying everyone in the embrace.

"We all looked up to Callaghan, Go Go, I couldn't believe my eyes!" Honey Lemon added, "It was like he was a different person…"

"He can't…he wouldn't…" Tadashi tried, and buried his face into Go Go's neck, shaking like a leaf. Fred wished he could block out Tadashi's sobs. It was more than just a selfless and thoughtless decision to risk his life that night. Callaghan must have meant so much to Tadashi, more than the others could have imagined.

"He would," Honey Lemon whispered, "he did and now he's in jail for his crimes."

"Why would he steal Hiro's microbots?" Tadashi whispered, like it would make everything he just heard not true.

"Revenge," Go Go whispered, "You know Krei? The business guy who tried to buy Hiro's bots? He was Callaghan's target over something that happened a few years ago. An accident…his daughter was sucked into a portal…"

"Until Hiro and Baymax got her out," Wasabi added.

They all stayed in the hug for another minute before Wasabi pulled away.

"Gotta check on the kiddo," he nodded to Go Go, "Let's go."

"In a minute," Go Go muttered. She looked at Tadashi again as she pulled away, "…I…I…I really wish I was wrong. About…Callaghan. He was my favorite teacher, too."

Tadashi rubbed the back of his neck, his eyes red, puffy and wet, "I wish I could have handled that better…"

"I keep you updated," Go Go said before she walked out the door.

"I'm going to see Aunt Cass, now," Honey Lemon added, "I'll-I'll make her some tea."

"How long was I gone for?" Tadashi asked Fred as Honey Lemon walked out of the room.

Fred sighed and looked down, "About two…maybe three months. There was the first month when everything happened, then school and Big Hero 6 and lots of things I'm still trying to wrap my head around. Like…like this new show I'm getting into. I want to know when the network's finally going to let it continue airing in the U.S."

Tadashi raised an eyebrow.

Fred shrugged, "Just saying."

"What show was it…?"

"I know for a fact that it was developed in the U.S., I just don't know why other countries are getting to see it while we don't! You hungry? I'm hungry. I'll call Heathcliff, see if we can get some pizza."

"Heathcliff? That butler guy?"

"Mhmm!" Fred nodded, "Come on, we gotta find him. Heathcliff knows where the phone is."

"Since when did you become a leader?" Tadashi stared at him wide-eyed.

Fred smiled ruefully, "Since I realized this city needed some heroes, I guess."

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"…dn't go…"

"Hiro."

"dn't leve me…"

"You are having a bad dream, Hiro."

"Quiet…Biy-max…lemme sleep…"

Let him sleep. Let him forget. Let him not think about that moment. That moment. What moment? The moment everything went dark. The moment he can't place his finger on. Moment.

Moment.

Moment.

Warmth. He felt warmth, like Aunt Cass's hugs.

Last hug.

It was a bed, but it wasn't his bed.

"Hiro."

Why was Baymax here if this wasn't his room? Wha –

The light. It's too much. Eyes closed again and he tried slipping back under again.

Beep!

Dear God, he didn't like the sound of that.

Beep!

It was an alarm clock. Probably an alarm clock.

Beep!

Someone turn it off, dammit! He was trying to sleep!

Beep!

Hiro wanted to sigh, but he was too tired. His brain wasn't connecting to his body, his body wasn't connected to his brain. His heart was beating a little faster…

Beep! Beep! Beep!

He didn't feel pain, but he felt discomfort. Something up his nose. A nose ring?

"Are you alright, Hiro?"

I wish I was, Baymax. Something feels weird. Where am I?

Beep!

Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep.

His legs felt bare and Hiro wanted to cover himself. But there was something already doing that. A blanket. Thin and barely there. For a moment, Hiro thought he was wearing a dress.

Still wearing my underwear. That's good.

He tried opening his eyes again.

Beep!

Still too bright.

What…where…?

Gown. He was wearing a hospital gown.

Beep!

That explained why his back felt bare…

Beep!

He tried opening his eyes a third time.

Beep!

He winced, but it didn't feel as intense after a few moments.

An unfamiliar ceiling.

But he was wearing a hospital gown.

Can I sit up?

Beep!

No. Head spinning. Feel sick. Great.

"Hiro?"

Hiro cracked a small smile. His voice was dry, "Hey Baymax."

"Hello, Hiro."

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Author's Note: When will the U.S. finally get to see more episodes of Big Hero 6?! I mean, come on! It's been airing in every other country except for this one?! What gives?!

Now for stuff about the scenes…Do you want to know how hard it is to research shock treatment of the psychological kind? Very. Hard. No matter how specific I am, I cannot go beyond the initial attack because there are few sites explaining how it works afterwards when the event is triggered…and that's when I realized that I should be looking into PTSD instead.

Hiro's initial shock would require a blanket securely wrapped around him, along with the oxygen mask. The treatment for afterwards, I am still having a hard time looking it up. One aspect is keeping the patient away from any potential triggers, as Baymax just explained. Staying overnight is part of procedure to make sure he isn't suffering from something worse than a panic attack like Broken Heart Syndrome – yes, it is real, a doctor told me this while at a clinic for unrelated reasons – or anything bad.

Secretaries do wear scrubs. Looked that up as well. Also checked blankets, too, since I wanted to be sure they were thin things.

Baymax has got to have one of the hardest and blandest POVs ever. He is a calculating machine, making obvious observations, and I hated writing from his perspective. I love him as a character and want to hug him, but man, is he difficult to write in an interesting manner. No way he could have good prose.

Also, as Fred explained, the gang isn't going to be bursting into tears in almost everything scene. Hiro, their youngest friend, was just taken to the hospital, so tensions were already high. Adding Tadashi was going to make it even more so, considering canon. My goal is to avoid having them whine all the time, the worst is over now. His little thought process about how to handle the situation was inspired by Faery Heroes by Silently Watches. Check it out if you're a Harry Potter fan. Be warned, though, it has some bashing, but it is in tolerable doses in my opinion.

Also; Go Go slapping him and Tadashi's response was based from Deadpool (2016). I don't want to portray her as violent like some people might, but in this scenario, I think that would have been her initial response. Had to leave out the crotch kicking, though, too early for a joke. And I apologize for Go Go's abrasiveness. She really didn't want to hurt Tadashi and I had to hug her and Tadashi and tell them that they would heal.

Which is why I added her hugging and apologizing afterwards so she didn't come off like a bitch.

A sporking of Twilight inspired Hiro's POV. The sporker was criticizing how easily Belle woke up despite her injuries and referenced how they reacted to waking up for injuries that were not as critical. I had to wing it, since Hiro's issue was psychological in nature. Mostly trying to figure out what happened.

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