Chapter 18 Progress

Mrs. Knight ended up sleeping in Katie's room that night. The moment she wakes up she is aware of the silence in the house and the empty spot next to her. She jumps up with wide eyes and sprints towards her own bedroom. She gasps when she finds her bed empty and made.

She runs through the hall and down the stairs, already panicking. Where was the baby and where was Carlos? Why was it so quiet?

But she stops dead in her tracks when she finds her small family sitting around the dinner table in silence. Katie throws her a smile and silently motions towards her left. Jennifer looks in amazement at Carlos still holding the baby in his arms. The little girl looks completely content with one finger in her mouth and her eyes curiously staring at everything going on around her.

"Hey, mom." Kendall tells her suddenly, kissing her on the cheek while he walks towards the table and puts down an extra plate.

"Good morning, Mrs. Knight. You want some pancakes?" Logan asks her. She turns around in still slight shock at her other two 'sons' standing at the stove. James is squeezing out fresh orange juice while Logan is throwing pancakes into the air and letting them drop back into the frying pan.

"What is all of this?" She quietly asks when she finally finds her voice.

Kendall shrugs with a smile. "We just wanted to make breakfast for a change. We didn't wake you, did we? Because we tried to be extra quiet." She shakes her head, while swallowing the lump in her throat.

"Good. So, sit down." He tells her and playfully shoves her towards the table. She looks around in wonder at these actions. Katie shoots her a smile.

"I know, it's weird, right? I didn't even know Logan could cook." She grins. Jennifer smiles and shoots another look towards Carlos, who gently bounces the baby in his lap, making her giggle slightly.

"Amazing, isn't it?" Kendall whispers in her ear all of a sudden. "We came down here and he was already sitting there, giving her a bottle." He tells her and she looks up in disbelief. "So weird the kind of effect that baby has on him. Maybe we should keep her or adopt. It could help." Jennifer playfully swats her son and he walks away chuckling.

She watches the baby, completely shocked that this is the same baby handed to her just yesterday. She always knew Carlos was good with children, but this was just… She didn't have a word for it. The baby looked so content in his arms, so calm, peaceful. It seemed he radiated something, a certain warmth. He had always been good with giving people hugs to make them feel better. He could make you feel so much better in a matter of seconds.

She hadn't been surprised to hear how he had sung to those children when they were taken. How he had tried everything to keep them from getting hurt and had tried to cheer them up. When he came back to them, she thought he would never be capable of doing that again. With the way he shied away from all of them when they tried to get too close, she knew it would be a long process. But sitting here, she had to admit; step-by-step the real Carlos was revealing himself to them again. He was still in there and even though he was still a scared little boy, the young adult was trying hard to climb back out.

"Mom?" She snaps out of her thoughts and looks up to find everyone staring at her in concern.

"Hm? Oh, sorry. I guess I got lost there for a moment." Kendall frowns at her, but smiles nonetheless.

"I asked if you want syrup on your pancakes." He repeats to her.

"Oh, uh, sure." She sends him a smile and he walks off with her plate.

About an hour and a half later everyone is done eating and getting dressed and ready for the day. James is in the upstairs bathroom, while Logan and Kendall are getting dressed.

Mrs. Knight and Katie are downstairs cleaning up, while Carlos is sitting on the couch with Lucy, silently watching TV.

When Logan finishes getting dressed, he starts to clean up his room a little. He never likes leaving a mess. As he puts a textbook back on his bookshelf he notices something odd. Right in the middle there is an empty spot. Right where his medical encyclopedia should be. He frowns and walks out of the room and straight into Kendall's. He scrunches up his nose at the pigsty he call's Kendall's room.

Kendall is in the middle of throwing clothes through his room, looking for something. Logan knocks on the open door, making Kendall look at him.

"You know, I'm not surprised you've lost something. I mean, how can you ever find anything in this mess?" He says with a raised eyebrow when he eyes an empty clothes hamper in the corner. "Why do you even have that in here? It's not like you ever use it."

Kendall rolls his eyes and goes back to throwing clothes through his room. "What are you looking for anyway?"

"My favorite hockey jersey. You know, the one from Minnesota Wild with my name on it?" Kendall explains, groaning as he again can't see it. "I can't find it anywhere."

"Weren't you looking for that yesterday, too?" Logan asks him.

"Yes, Logan, nice of you to pay attention."

"Well sorry." Logan huffs, holding his hands up in mock surrender. "You know, maybe the shirt got tired of all this mess and walked out." He jokes with a smile.

Kendall glares at him. "Why did you come in here, Logan?"

"Oh, right. I was cleaning my room. You know, that's when you actually pick stuff up from the floor instead of throwing them onto it." Kendall glares again. "Anyway. I was cleaning up some of my books and I noticed my medical encyclopedia is gone."

"What do you mean it's gone? That book is seriously big, how do you lose that?" Kendall asks him from the floor, now on his knees and looking through his closet.

"That's my point, I couldn't have lost it. I think somebody may have taken it." Logan states. Kendall sits on his knees for a moment and looks at Logan.

"Who would take your medical encyclopedia?" He asks with confusion.

"The same person who probably took your mom's favorite book, Katie's leather jacket, James' lucky comb and your favorite jersey." Logan answers after crossing his arms over his chest with a smile and a knowing look. Kendall frowns.

"I don't understand." He states.

"Let's just wait until James finishes his shower, I think I can show you."

"Speaking of the devil." Kendall smirks as he motions his head to the hallway. Logan turns around and is met with James, fully dressed and drying his hair with a towel.

"Hey guys, what's up?" He tells them with a smile, flipping his hair and checking himself in a handheld mirror with a smug smile.

Kendall and Logan smirk and shake their heads. Kendall stands up and walks towards his door.

"Dude, what happened to your room? Did you clean?" James suddenly asks as he eyes Kendall's room. Kendall shares a look with Logan, who shrugs in return.

"No, James. Logan here thinks he knows where all of our stuff went." Kendall tells his tall friend.

"What stuff?" James asks as he checks himself in the mirror again.

"My mom's book, Katie's leather jacket, my favorite jersey, Logan's medical encyclopedia and your lucky comb." James looks up with wide eyes.

"You know where my lucky comb is?" He says as he looks at Logan. "Tell me!" he yells dramatically, grabbing Logan's shirt. Logan raises his eyebrows and grabs James hands to put them down.

"Yes, I do. Now I'm not sure about this, but I can't find any other explanation, so follow me." He says as he walks out of the room and motions the other two to follow. They shoot each other a confused look, but both shrug as they follow Logan.

"Wait!" He says as he suddenly stops walking and holds one finger in the air. The other two eye him curiously. He turns towards them. "Is everyone still downstairs?" He asks.

"Uh, don't know. I'll check." Kendall says as he heads for the banister. He peers over it when the doorbell rings. He watches his mom open and sees a strange woman. "Yep, they're all busy. I think Lucy's mom's here though." He announces as he walks back towards his friends.

"Hm, that means we don't have a lot of time. Come on." Logan tells them as he starts to walk again. The two tall friends follow their brainiac to, Carlos' room?

"Uh, Logan, what are we doing here?" James asks, looking a little uneasy.

"Well, if I'm right, we should be able to find our stuff in here." He tells them and they both look even more confused. Logan steps inside and looks around.

"Logan, why would our stuff be in here?" Kendall asks as the other two follow inside. But Logan keeps walking around and then heads for the curtain under the bed. He shoves it aside slightly, getting on his knees and crawls inside halfway.

After a few seconds he crawls back out, a smile on his face.

"I was right." The other two look confused. He sighs. "Come take a look." He motions for them to come over and holds the curtain aside. They share a look, but walk over and get on their knees and under the curtain.

There underneath Carlos' bed they stare in amazement at all the items stored up.

Indeed there they see Jennifer Knight's favorite Fabio book, Katie's loved leather jacket, James' lucky comb, Logan's medical encyclopedia and Kendall jersey, which is folded underneath a pillow. There are pictures scattered around and even stuffed animals. All of the pictures are of the boys and Carlos when they were growing up.

"He's been gathering all this stuff all this time?" James says, breaking the shocked silence.

"Where did he even find these stuffed animals? This was mine when I was like 7." Kendall mentions as he holds a stuffed blue elephant.

"My guess is he wanted to have something to remind him of us. Meaning he actually misses us." Logan explains as he eyes a picture of the four of them completely drenched in James' pool when they were about 8. James holds a bucket, which he used to dump more water on Logan, who is screaming of the cold. Kendall is tickling Carlos, who is giggling full force as he tries to stop Kendall.

He smiles softly at the memory it brings up. Carlos was so happy then, so carefree.

"I just can't believe he's been hiding this all in here. I was so upset about losing my lucky comb, but now that I know where it is and why… I don't really feel the need for it anymore." James says with a smile. Kendall squeezes his shoulder.

"This is just so…" Kendall starts, but he stops midsentence with mouth agape. The other two stare at him in confusion.

"Kendall, what…" Logan starts to ask, but when he notices Kendall is staring at something behind him, he comes face to face with Carlos.

"Carlos, we were just… uh.." James tries, but he can't think of anything to say. He shoots Kendall a pleading look to come up with a plan. But Kendall looks just as lost at the somewhat hurt look in their friends' eyes. Just then, Carlos turns around to walk away.

"No, Carlos, wait!" Logan shouts as he scrambles to his feet, but Carlos is already out the door. He stands and leans his arm on a wall to his right. He closes his eyes for a moment, dropping his head. "God, that was so stupid! I can't believe we did that…" He mumbles. "Stupid, stupid… he was just starting to trust us…"

The other two look confused and get up from under the bed, walking up to Logan.

"Logan, what are you talking about? What was stupid?" James asks him, Kendall nodding in agreement; just as curious to find out what just happened.

"Don't you guys see? He gathered all that stuff in there to be close to us, he feels safe in there. Well, felt safe. Now we ruined it." He explains, but the guys look more confused. "Guys, this is the place he spends all his time in. He surrounded himself with our things to feel safe, to be able to sleep, I'm guessing. But we just barged in here and touched everything. This is his private secret place. A place he can hide in when he feels bad. W shouldn't have come in here, now that he knows we know about it, he'll never feel safe again. He'll think we'll just step in whenever we want now." Logan rambles.

"But we won't do that. We'll leave him alone." Kendall tells him.

"I know that, but he doesn't. He doesn't trust us, remember? At least not fully and now we're probably back to square one." He rubs a hand over his face. "I should have known this was a bad idea. How could I not see this coming?"

"Logan, calm down. You're not making any sense anymore." Kendall tells him as he puts a hand on his shoulder. "Look, let's just go downstairs. Maybe it won't be so bad. Who knows, maybe now that he knows we know where our stuff went, he'll feel more comfortable around us. Especially when we leave it all here."

Logan looks at him and Kendall can clearly see he doesn't believe him.

"Come on, let's go play some video games." Kendall offers with a smile. Logan doesn't smile back, but he nods slightly. Kendall puts his arm around his and James' shoulder and leads them downstairs. In their passing, they don't notice the pair of eyes watching them from the bathroom.

Half an hour later the three 'young men' are sitting on the couch, shouting in an active game of Zombie Wars 3 (a/n don't know if it exists, but it does now).

"Oh, I totally shot you!" Logan shouts as he watches one of James' men go down.

"Dude!" James shouts back with a scowl. "You're supposed to shoot the zombies!"

"I know. But this is more fun!" Logan tells him with a smirk as he tries to go after another one of James' men.

Katie is sitting on the ground in front of the couch, pouting slightly that she couldn't play. But she's soon rooting for Logan as he tries to kill off both James and Kendall, making the game much more fun to watch.

Mrs. Knight is sitting at the dinner table, reading a book. She rolls her eyes once in a while at the 'maturity' the 18 year olds are displaying. But she can't help but smirk as well. She eyes them from the table ever so often and when she looks over again, her eyes widen a little. She watches as Carlos shuffles into the room as quiet as ever.

Thankfully she's used to it by now, or he would have had her jump every time. He was so quiet every single time as he walked into a room, no one would notice until he was already in front of them. But now she watches as he quietly walks over to the couch, where the boys are shouting still.

"Boys? Boys!" She shouts, but they hardly hear her. Katie hears her though and she looks up, following her gaze. When she sees Carlos, she immediately tries to get the boys to notice as well.

"Guys. Guys!" She shouts.

"Oh, foul, foul!" James shouts as he points at the screen.

"James, you can't make any fouls in this game. If I wasn't allowed to shoot anyone other than zombies, why would I be able to shoot you as well?" Logan answers smugly, yelling in victory when he shoots James' last man standing.

"Dude, that was totally uncalled for!" James shouts, turning his head towards Logan, when he notices another figure next to the couch. He stops talking and just eyes Carlos standing there, fumbling with his shirt.

"Hahaha, this is the best game ever!" Logan shouts while laughing out loud.

"Hey Carlos." James calmly says with a small smile, making Logan and Kendall stop the game and turn around as well. They watch Carlos become more nervous when he realizes they're all watching him. He bites his lip, but then stretches his trembling hands out to James. James watches with wide eyes at the comb in his hands.

He looks at the other guys, who motion for him to take it. He gently reaches out and grabs the comb, making sure he touches the boys' hands while he does. Carlos flinches ever so slightly, but the doesn't move away. Nor does he look into his eyes.

"Uh, thanks Carlos. You didn't have to give this back, though. You can keep it if you want." He smiles. "Or do you think I need it?" He adds, suddenly looking a little worried. Carlos doesn't respond, but he does look up at James for a moment, before looking away again. "Oh my god, you do. How bad is it?" He whispers in shock and lifts his hands to his hair, feeling around for anything to be out of place.

Suddenly no longer trusting it, he leaps off of the couch and heads upstairs to look in the mirror.

The others stare after him in confusion, not understanding why Carlos would give him the comb. He didn't just want to give it back, because then where was their stuff? Suddenly Katie notices something.

"Oh my god… he's smiling." She says, a small smile forming on her own lips. The others follow her gaze and catch the upper corners of Carlos' lips turned upwards. "You did it on purpose.." She realizes. The others frown in confusion.

"Guys, he gave James the comb, because he knew how he would react. He just wanted to mess with him. He's playing a joke on him.." Katie tells them with an excited look. Kendall and Logan share a weary look. But when they look closer they too recognize an old familiar looking smile on Carlos' face. A smile of mischief, one he used very often before, usually during a prank.

They start to smile as they hear James cursing and shouting upstairs. He comes running down furiously.

"I looked in the mirror and my hair is perfect. There is nothing wrong with it!" He looks around and notices all the excited faces. "What? Why are you so happy?"

"Dude, you are so predictable." Kendall tells him, clapping his shoulder with his right hand. James shoots him a confused look. "Carlos was just messing with you."

James stands silent for a moment, staring at Carlos. "You did that on purpose?" He just sees Carlos' grin growing and tries hard not to let a smile of his own through. "Well that just hurts. I mean, I can't believe you would turn on your partner in crime like that." He says as he fakes a sniffle, putting his nose in the air. "I mean, if you really wanted to play a prank on someone, you would just dump this smoothie on Kendall." He announces as he suddenly pulls a smoothie out of thin air and dumps it on Kendall's head.

Kendall's mouth forms a silent 'oh' as the smoothie drips down his face. The others snicker and even Carlos stares with slight amusement shining in his eyes.

Kendall lifts his hands and brushes off some smoothie, sending a glare towards James. He just grins.

"What's wrong, Kendall? I thought you liked pink smoothies." He tells him and shrieks when Kendall throws himself off of the couch and lunges for James. But James has already run out of the way.

Jennifer Knight rolls her eyes in amusement and quickly heads out of the kitchen when the boys run over. James is on one end of the table while Kendall stands at the other.

"What's the matter James? You look scared." Kendall says with an evil grin.

"I am not scared. Because I know you'll never catch me. I have longer legs." He says with a wink. Kendall scowls and reaches for James again, but he just runs off again.

Just then, Kendall eyes a bowl on the table. He starts to grin widely as James' grin fades. "Oh Jamie?" He calls out in a singsong voice. "Catch." He says before dipping his hand inside the bowl and flinging something towards James.

James has just enough time to duck with a loud girlish shriek. When he looks back up, he sees the chocolate pudding dripping down the kitchen cabinet behind him.

"Dude, you threw pudding at me." He exclaims. "More importantly, there is a whole bowl of pudding on the dinner table and we didn't know about it?" Kendall just grins and grabs the bowl in his arms, dipping his hand in again. He slowly starts to walk around the table, while James walks backwards the other way.

"Mmm, you should taste it James. It's really good." Kendall tells him with an evil glint in his eyes after putting one finger in his mouth and putting his hand in the bowl.

"You know what, I'm not really in the mood for pudding." James says with a nervous laugh.

"That fully white V-neck says you are." Kendall retorts.

"Kendall, you wouldn't dare. This is my lucky V-neck, you know that!" James shouts, but Kendall keeps walking. "Kendall, please. Those kind of stains will never come out, so do.." He ducks again as Kendall flings pudding towards him.

A loud shout behind him makes James and Kendall both snicker. They look and see Logan now with pudding sliding down his face.

"Oh, this means war!" He shouts and runs over to the kitchen. Katie goes to stand on top of the couch.

"Food fight!" She yells, pounding her fist into the air. Jennifer Knight's mouth opens in shock.

"Katie!" She shouts and pulls her daughter off of the couch. They duck onto the floor. She scowls at her, but Katie just shrugs.

"Oh come on, mom. He's having fun." She says and motions to someone beside the couch. Jennifer looks up to see Carlos staring wide-eyed at the commotion going on inside the kitchen. A small smile is on his face and every time food hits someone, it seems to grow. Jennifer shakes her head in amusement and decides not to stop anyone.

Kendall is still flinging the pudding at the other guys, while James crawls onto the floor while he tries to find other food to throw. Logan has gone straight for the line of fire while he opens the cabinets in search of a weapon of his own.

"Aha!" He suddenly shouts as he finds something. He closes the cabinet again, his shirt already covered in pudding, his eyes wild. Kendall grins when he sees the 'weapon' in Logan's hands. A full bag of flour is being pulled open right away. "Now I've got you." He announces and starts to walk towards Kendall in a menacing way.

"Oh yeah, take this!" Kendall shouts as he throws pudding towards Logan. Suddenly both guys yell when they are hit by… grapes? "Dude, why are you throwing grapes?" Kendall asks James with a chuckle, as he eyes them from behind a tray, while throwing grapes at both Kendall and Logan.

"Hey, it's all I could find, alright?" James argues and both guys now target James as well again. Pudding, grapes and flour are thrown through the air, some missing and some hitting the intended targets.

James is just about to move back when his grapes are almost gone, when Logan grabs a handful of flour.

"What's the matter James? No more ammo?" He asks as he slowly walks forward.

"Now Logan, we can talk about this. I mean, we're friends, right?" James laughs nervously, while Logan grins. Kendall soon joins him. "Oh, you're ganging up on me now? Oh that is just great. And here I thought we were all friends." The guys share an amused look.

"Ready?" Kendall asks quietly and Logan nods. "Now!"

They both throw flour and pudding through the air, just as James ducks. They watch as if in slow motion how both substances hit… Carlos. Straight in his face.

Their eyes widen and they gasp. Nobody says a word for a while. Carlos stands in front of them, face covered in flour and chocolate pudding dripping from his hair. His eyes are squeezed shut and his mouth is tightly closed. He coughs suddenly and they wince as they see the flour escaping his mouth. He coughs again and dips his head down.

"Carlos, I am so sorry… " Kendall starts as he reaches out for him. But Logan stops him when Carlos suddenly lifts a hand towards his face. He rubs some flower and pudding from his eyes and flings it away. Then he brings his now pudding covered hand towards his mouth and tastes it.

Everyone watches in silence as Carlos slowly smiles.

"It's good, right? I told you it was, James." Kendall mentions with a huge smile, breaking the silence. Then Carlos starts to slowly walk past them. They frown and watch him. The guys share a look.

"Uh, Carlos? Where are you going?" Logan asks.

"What is he doing?" James quietly asks, the other two just shrug. They watch him walk into the kitchen and towards the faucet. They curiously try to peek at what he's doing, but can't see it.

This is how they never see the next part coming. All three boys yell out when they are suddenly struck by freezing cold water. They have closed their eyes at once and when they open them, they find Carlos smirking with the faucet water hose in his hands.

They all grin immediately, not wanting to ruin the moment by standing still at this huge breakthrough.

"Oh, you did not just do that!" Kendall yells and the food fight starts again. This time between all four guys.

Katie and Jennifer Knight cheer them on from behind the couch, tears in their eyes from the so familiar looking display they thought they'd never get to see again.

James shrieks again as all three other boys target him, completely ruining his lucky white V-neck. He wants to yell in anger, but a single sound makes him change his mind. A loud giggle suddenly seems to erupt inside the kitchen. He looks up in a daze, not even ducking at the flour and pudding thrown his way.

The other two stop in confusion when James doesn't fight back. They go to ask what's going on, when they too hear the sound. They look at the counter and watch as Carlos stands there, holding the faucet hose in his hands, completely covered in pudding and flour and giggling like a small child.

It brings tears to their eyes and they can't help but start to laugh right along with him. It's so infectious, they can't help themselves. That sound is the sweetest thing they have ever heard. Soon everyone is laughing with tears rolling down their faces, holding their stomachs from the pain.

An hour later after all laughter has subdued, Jennifer Knight has ordered all four boys to clean up the kitchen and themselves. She herself tries to recover from the shock at what just happened. She heads upstairs to put away her book and when she comes back down, the kitchen is clean and three boys are lying on the couch, watching TV. They look exhausted, but completely content.

"Carlos didn't come back down?" She asks them and they all shake their heads with some sadness. She sighs and is about to walk back into the kitchen when she sees a familiar figure shuffling over to the couch.

He seems nervous as he stops to stand beside the couch. He seems even smaller now; his helmet perched on top of his head, racecar pajamas on his body and a teddy bear that Katie once gave him, in his arms. His eyes look slightly frightened and she seems to recognize a small cry for help.

She feels dubious. She wants to hug him, just gather him up in her arms and soothe him, tell him everything will be okay. But she doesn't want to push him away. She needs to be patient, wait for him to come to her. So she just shoots the boys a look, before walking off towards the kitchen. All the while keeping a secret eye on the scene at the couch.

The three boys look up with a smile, but they fade when they see how scared Carlos looks. They share a quick look. What happened to the laughing teen they had the food fight with? He was hardly upstairs for half an hour. What could have possibly happened in that short mount of time? They watch as he tightly clutches the small teddy bear in his arms and he reminds them of the six-year-old version of him.

"Carlos, what's wrong, buddy? Did something happen?" Kendall asks immediately, his eyes filled with concern. Carlos looks nervous and the guys can tell immediately that he is feeling more and more anxious standing there.

"Uh, Carlos, you want to sit down?" James offers. Carlos looks like he can't decide. He eyes the couch, but then glances back up the stairs. "Come on, bud. We'll keep you safe." He says and pats a spot on the couch between himself and Logan. They watch, as Carlos seems to struggle with himself on what to do.

"It's okay, Carlitos. We're right here." Logan softly adds. Carlos blinks and makes a decision.

They watch in shock as he slowly moves to sit on the couch. But instead of going for the spot between James and Logan, he moves towards Kendall and sends an almost pleading look his way. Kendall quickly scrambles his legs off of the coffee table and moves aside to make room for the Latino. He shoots a look of disbelief towards his two friends as Carlos slowly goes to sit between him and James.

Logan looks slightly hurt for a moment, but then notices that Carlos tries very hard not to touch James either. He just leans in closer to Kendall, who looks a little helpless. Logan shoots him an assuring smile and motions for him to hold Carlos.

Kendall gulps and carefully moves his arm around Carlos. He can fee the boy stiffen immediately. But as quickly as he did, he loosens up and leans into Kendall. Kendall is still in slight shock, but he knows he needs to be strong right now. He just pulls the smaller boy against him, holding him, protecting him.

Within minutes he notices the small boy's breathing has slowed down. He looks and finds Carlos with his head on his chest, sleeping soundly. The other two guys watch in amazement, tears in their eyes to match his own. He gulps and smiles at them. He remembers it, too. This was what had always happened before, before Carlos was taken. Whenever he had had a nightmare or felt sad, he had always turned towards Kendall and fell asleep in his arms. Just like this. So much progress in one day… he knew Carlos was in there and slowly, but surely he was making his way back to the surface…

A/N Wow, that took a long time to write. Sorry about that, guys! I love this story, but I've got so many story ideas in my head, I couldn't find the inspiration for this one. Besides that I've had a lot of stuff on my mind lately. But here it is, the new chapter

By the way, loved the WWDOP, go team blue! And how about the new episode? Loved the new song. Can't wait to fully hear it on the album. Also hope that the next episode won't take so long to air. Three weeks every single time is just too much. I don't have the patience for it ;)

And: the whole thing with 2 kool 2 spell kool right, that is just messed up! Why would someone do something like that? Just glad to hear she's okay

Thank you all for the support on this story, love all the reviews and how much you all love the fluffiness of Carlos in this one I am definitely considering doing requests for Carlos angst now. I already put one up for general angst and drama, but I have noticed I would much rather focus on Carlos angst/drama/whumpage. There's just not enough of it on here! And when it is, he acts like a child. Especially when he's sick. So, I want to write my own version of that. Let me know what you think of that!

Thanks again everyone, love you all, you keep me writing and your reviews often brighten up my day

Love, Baxxie