A/N: There will be a bit of a break between this chapter and the next one, work has been giving me no time to write at all. I hope you like the chapter!
Tina managed to make record time on the road, stopping as little as possible during the road trip, just trying to make it to her parent's restaurant before dinner. Luckily, she made it a few solid hours beforehand, parking in the street outside and entering Bob's Burgers, luggage in tow.
"Hey!" Louise called out, shaking her right hand rapidly.
"What are you doing?" Tina asked, eyes moving from her sister, to the boy laying in the fetal position on the floor, clutching his face, back to the blood smeared on Louise's knuckles.
"Logan," Louise spat his name like it tasted bad, "keeps deciding to test my patience." Tina just shook her head and slipped back into the kitchen to hug her father tightly, leaving her sister to fend for herself.
"How was the drive, Tina?" Bob asked her, patting her back gently. Tina slapped on an apron and smiled at him, grabbing a spatula and saving some bacon that was currently burning on the grill, telling the uneventful tales of her drive.
"How's Mom doing?" she ended her stories by asking.
"Better." Bob confided. "We're hoping she can come home tomorrow for the party. But you know how she is."
"She's a fighter," they said together, chuckling.
"Hey you two, stop with the bonding it's work time!" Louise joked, peering through the order window, wiping her hand on a dish towel. "We have a regular, a special, and someone wants the Beets Me, do we have the stuff for that?"
The family worked through the dinner rush flawlessly, Tina jumping back into the day-to-day, grilling and, eventually, switching with Louise to work behind the counter. As soon as the last customer left, Louise switched the sign in the door from Open to Closed, untying her apron and smiling at her family.
"So. Who's gonna help with cleanup?"