Till I'm Gone SHORT: Escape
Melanie-March
Chapter 16.5
Tadashi missed. Absolutely, utterly missed.
He couldn't believe it at first, but the door clicking shut behind him confirmed the horrible truth: He'd miscalculated Hiro's angle of escape and his brother just barely skidded past him and out the door.
Turning to face the door in question, he glared at it for a moment, as if silently scolding it for providing Hiro with an escape to begin with. Then, sighing heavily, he opened the door and stepped out into the hall. He had a limited window of opportunity to catch Hiro and a lot of ground to cover. Knowing his brother, he would be at least down the hall by now.
Freedom! Fresh air and windows lining the hallways! Had anything ever been more beautiful to Hiro? Jamming his hands into the deep pocket of his jeans, the adolescent attempted a casual walk to the elevator. All he needed was fifteen minutes to stretch his legs and then, he'd go right back to his room, he promised himself.
Yeah, right.
Fifteen minutes? That was waaaaay too short, and he knew that all too well. Maybe twenty or thirty would do, but a mere fifteen? Nah, that was hardly worth the trouble he'd gone through escaping.
"HIROOOOOOOOO!" The shout of his name that echoed down the hallway startled the teen and he risked a glance over his shoulder... only to find Tadashi barreling after him like a large Great Dane.
"Ack!" He cried as Tadashi neared (bringing with him a doctor and two nurses), and he began to run. It appeared as though playtime was over.
"HIRO, GET BACK HERE AND GET INTO BED!" Tadashi shouted behind him, his voice wailing. "HIROOOOOOOOO!"
"You gotta be kidding me!" Hiro whined to himself as he dodged the hands of hospital staff (for, by now, most everyone realized he was an escapee). Sliding around a corner and ditching the elevator idea, he scanned his surroundings for a stairwell.
No, no, no, no, no! Nearing a dead end with no stairs in sight, Hiro was close to admitting defeat. Tadashi was so close... he could feel the elder Hamada barely missing grabbing his jacket each time he reached out.
Hiro suddenly turned left and Tadashi slammed into the wall his younger brother had narrowly avoided. "DAMN!" He shouted as the door to the stairwell closed. Kid was fast... but he needed more than speed on his side to escape Tadashi.
Wasting no time, Tadashi followed Hiro into the stairwell and descended, chasing furiously after that taunting body that kept just out of his grasp.
Eventually, though, he became tired of chasing, and decided to end this little game, even if it put him in bed beside Hiro (he didn't think he would mind the pain of they were beside one another anyway). He vaulted himself over the railing and landed square on his feet in front of the 12 year old, who had been five steps from the freedom that the ground floor provided.
Hiro rammed into Tadashi's chest and they both let out an "oof!" As the force pushed them against the wall. Tadashi's arms immediately encased his younger sibling in a crushing hug.
"Got... got you..." he panted, exhaling as he rested against the wall.
Hiro pouted up at him and Tadashi smirked. Yeah, Tadashi had missed. Unfortunately, though, he rarely LOST.
END.
Author's Note: Hey y'all, Melanie-March here! So, Sora-san and I were talking and we really wanted something as a sort of alternative to the "Hiro dove for the door. Tadashi dove for him. Tadashi won." scene in chapter 16 of Till I'm Gone. She requested I write something with only "Tadashi missed." as my prompt, and this little comic relief of an extra was born! I hope you all enjoyed it, because I did. This is a wonderful fanfic and I hope to be able to construct more of these little extras for Sora-san. Happy reading!
- Melanie