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And now, as promised, this story will continue.

"WAIT!"

Everyone present looked up at the orange and white flyer, his face plates twisted into a look of horror.

"Cody didn't die, did he?!... OW!" Blades cried out, as a certain red mech struck him across the back of his helm. "Heatwave, what was that for?"

"Have scraplets eaten into your processor?" The mech exclaimed, not waiting for an answer before he continued. "Of course Cody didn't die! He's still here; Kade just took him upstairs."

"Who's callin' my name?"

All the bots, and humans looked towards the elevator, and saw the red-headed fireman strutting over; a confident smirk on his face. However, he suddenly stopped when he saw the sad look in his family's eyes.

"What'd I miss?" He asked seriously, as he walked over to his father.

"Nothing much." Chief Burns replied, his voice cracking as he wiped a hand across his eyes. "We were just telling the bots about the time that Cody had an appendicitis."

Kade immediately turned his head to the side, and brought the back of his hand up to his mouth. He coughed a little, before turning back to his family.

"Kade?" Heat wave said gently, kneeling and reaching a hand out to his partner.

"Why are you telling them about that." He asked, clenching his jaw; the confidence he held earlier completely gone, as he ignored the mech.

The grey-haired police chief put a hand on his sons' shoulder. "They're a part of this family too." He said gently. "They have a right to know."

"Why do they have a sudden interest in the past?" Kade blurted harshly, his eyes narrowing at the bots.

Everyone was a little taken back by the fireman's outburst. "Kade, you don't have to tell..." Dani began, but was quickly cut off by her brother's partner.

"No, Dani." Heatwave interjected. "We're sorry for digging into something that is obviously painful for all of you. You don't have to tell us any more if you don't want to."

The Burns family looked at each other in silence, having a silent conversation that filled the air with tension so thick that even the bots could feel its weight.

"Fine." Kade said aloud, wiping his hand across his face. "Where did you guys get to?"

Charlie Burns gazed at his son proudly, as a small smile graced his saddened features. "Up to the part where I left with the nurse."

The red-head took a deep breath. "The calm before the storm." He muttered.

Kade jumped out of his seat and shouted out into the empty waiting room. "AHHHH! I feel so useless!"

"Kade, there's noth..."

"Don't tell me that there's nothing we can do Graham!" The young fireman roared at his younger brother. "We're trained to help people and save lives, and we can't even save Cody's!"

The young engineer's jaw was slack, but he quickly shut it and stared wide-eyed at his oldest sibling; and for a moment, his emotions over ruled logic. He stood and grasped his brother's shoulders.
"We're trained to save people, yes." Graham exclaimed, his voice increasing in volume as he went. "But we aren't trained to operate on people!"

Both Dani and Kade stared at their brother; the outburst so different from the normal, soft-spoken Graham that they knew.

"You think that you're the only one that feels useless!?" He continued, throwing his hands into the air. "At least you caught it! Dani and I were dead asleep; Cody might be dead already if it weren't for you!"

All of their eyes widened at the severity of the statement that had just come from the engineer's mouth.

Cody, their little innocent 5 year-old brother, who was being rushed into an emergency surgery as they stood there and fought. They would have woken up to a dead brother, had Kade not had the bad habit of midnight snacking.

Tears poured down Grahams face, as he stared at the carpeted floor, before collapsing onto his knees.

Kades mouth hung open as ha watched his brother begin to sob with heaving gasps. He quickly dropped to his knees and wrapped his arms around the shaking form.

"I'm sorry Graham." The fireman said softly, as he ran his fingers through the sandy-blond hair. "You're absolutly right, but Cody's gonna pull through." He chuckled a little and the smallest of smiles graced his lips. "He's a Burns, and we're too tough to go down like this."

"Mom wasn't." The engineer sobbed, as he grasped onto his older brother.

This struck a chord in all of them. They looked back and remembered their mother; she had died of cancer when Cody was only 3 years-old.
She did 6 months after she was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer.

"But Cody will be." Kade whispered, holding his brother tighter.