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A/N: And hello my wonderful readers! So here we are. We have another chapter, I'm updating on time two times in a row! It's a MIRACLE! Also, while we're at it, I loved writing this chapter. It's focusing mostly on Wo Fat, but I promise you're gonna love the end. It's typical Rowan-chaos so I hope it makes you laugh. As always don't forget to leave a review or drop a fav and a follow and I'll do my best to see you guys next week!

Chapter 403

"I know you don't get it, but I mean… you went on a more than two-week long vacation with your sister and you didn't even think to bring me," Jian said and Wo Fat sighed heavily.

Their conversation had been on loop since he had picked up the phone. He kept trying explain to Jian what had happened, but they kept looping back to this point.

That he had gone on what she was calling a vacation, a two week one, and hadn't informed her or invited her along.

"Yes, except it wasn't really a vacation…"

He kept hoping that sooner or later she'd get that. That this hadn't been a vacation or him, it had been a full blow Rowan-situation that needed tending to. This was almost as bad as the Japan situation. Not in the sense that Rowan was about to die, but in the sense that he was literally on the precipice of losing her.

"You went on a whale watching trip," she reminded him.

That's true. He had done that. He had done touristy stuff, but that was because Rowan was getting overwhelmed with the two brothers and her husband hovering, and he couldn't keep waiting at the hotel for her to come back. Sooner or later he'd get so antsy that he'd start trailing her for surveillance and if she figured out he was trailing her—which she would—it would not have ended well for him.

That and his nephew asked him to come and how could he say no to him?

"I know but… I… you don't like flying."

"Your sister has portal powers."

Wo Fat began to massage his brow with his one free hand. "I know but…"

"Are you getting it now are you still trying to say that you don't understand why I'm mad?"

"No, I do… I just… I don't know how to make this better. I honestly didn't treat this like a vacation. I wasn't there to have fun. I was there to make sure Rowan crazy family didn't try to steal her."

"And Steven wasn't good enough?" she asked and they both paused before she sighed. "I don't know why I asked that, I know how you feel about Steven."

"He's utterly useless Jian," he said with as much sincerity as he could manage because it was true.

"Yes, as I said, I know how you feel about Steven… but Wo… this could have been a chance to see me, and you… you completely forgot about me… again."

Wo Fat bit back the desire to curse. "I know, I didn't mean to…"

"Are you always going to forget about me if your sister has some kind of emergency?"

"I mean… I want to say no…"

"Except your track record won't back that up."

Yes, his track record. His track record of forgetting Jian in favour of Ro was as bad as Steve's record of abusing his immunity and means against Ro.

"Now you can't even get time off to come see me!" she cried. "And I haven't seen you in months Wo!"

"I know. I know. I didn't… I didn't mean to! Honestly it's just…"

He never should have sent her those whale watching pictures. He should have known she'd ask where he saw the whales, and then why he was in Canada, and everything else that went with it.

He realized, the second she started asking questions, however, that he should have invited her. This was exactly what he had told her he wouldn't do, but he couldn't help it.

Con called them blinders. The both of them had them where Rowan was involved. They'd forget about the other things in their lives the second she needed them, or was with them. Like nothing else mattered.

But he had a girlfriend, a girlfriend he should be serious about. But, just like Jian was worried about, he didn't seem to have it in him to juggle them both. Which was stupid, he should have been more than capable.

"I don't love Rowan more than you," he said interrupting Jian's rant.

"I didn't say that," Jian said carefully. And maybe she hadn't yet, but she was working up to it.

"No I know, I just… okay, I'm going to level with you," he said. He then looked around. He was completely alone in that stairwell but he still lowered his voice in case his CIA coworkers were listening. "I panicked, okay? Trevor actually managed to get her on that plane and I panicked."

"Yes I know that, but what I don't understand is why. I mean I get that he tried to kidnap her but Steve neutralized the situation…"

"No, Rowan saved herself, both Con and Steve were behind, had she not woken up on the plane we wouldn't have gotten her back."

Except that wasn't true, cause he was pretty sure she could jump from Canada back to Hawaii. She had jumped them from Spain to Russia once. It was just, a drugged Rowan was a Rowan that couldn't jump right, so there was no guarantee.

"He… Trevor's her brother," he whispered and then waited. Waited for Jian to get it.

"Okay?"

"Like… her real brother."

"No he isn't. Her real brother is in an alternate reality."

That was true too.

"I know but… I guess… this is going to seem silly."

"Oh! Wo! Were you worried that she'd meet her real brother and decide she doesn't need you anymore?"

"Yes," Wo muttered bitterly. Mainly because he was certain that it could still happen. Though he was grateful that he didn't have to say it out loud because Jian just got it.

She was a lot like Rowan like that, she just understood what was going on with him without him having to say it. Wonderful, because he was not good at verbalizing his emotions.

"That is so silly!" Jian cried. "Wo, Rowan loves you, that's not going to change if she becomes friends with Trevor. You're her brother, that's not going to change."

"Right, well that's all well and good, but I was worried, and I just…" "—You forgot about me." "… I did, I'm sorry."

"That's alright, you can just make it up to me."

"Oh boy."

See, this was going to be an issue. Not because he didn't want to make it up to her, or that it would cost a lot, but because he would have to think about what he was going to do next. It had to be an amazing experience or she wouldn't be happy. Okay not true, but if he didn't wow her he'd feel worse.

"Don't worry, I'm sure you can come up with something fun for us to do," she said and he sighed once more. "Do you have to go?"

Wo Fat was literally standing in a stairwell, having begged off the second he saw her calling him. They had been arguing over text, but when he stopped responding, because his superiors were talking to him, she had called.

Kono was currently covering for him, but he knew that even she could only cover for so long.

"Yeah I gotta go, is that okay?"

"Yeah it's fine," she said, even though he was sure that it wasn't. He had upset her and he wasn't there to hug her. That was not good. "Thank you for explaining it to me."

"You're welcome… uh… I miss you."

He didn't like admitting that in places where people could easily hear him, but he knew he wouldn't get away with it now, especially after upsetting her like that.

"Miss you too. See you soon, hopefully."

As per usual, once he hung up the phone he felt empty. He was used to this sort of feeling, he got it all the time after leaving Rowan. He actually did miss Jian. Hearing her voice and not being able to go see her, reminded him that he had no only managed to cultivate feelings for not one but two siblings, but he had cultivated real romantic ones for a real female.

People had been telling him for years that it wouldn't be possible. Him being a sociopath and all.

It still amazed him that it had happened.

Still, with the phone hung up, he snuck back into the office area, and immediately went looking for Kono.

As soon as he found her, he noted that she was no longer on the phone. Well, the conversation with the bosses was clearly done.

"Anything happen while I was gone?" he asked as he came to sit beside her.

"We got our marching orders."

"Yeah, where are we heading?"

"LA," she said and Wo Fat nodded. Sounded about right, the ports there made it an easy place to start an operation.

Girls were almost always shipped out from a port town, he had told them, before they sent them to Nevada, that a port town the best place to start. Cut them off at the start and move out from there, but Kono was determined to go to Nevada first because that was where the girls on Hawaii were being sent to.

Wo Fat had realized that she was particularly emotional about that so he stopped arguing after that.

"When do we leave?"

"Tonight, so start packing."

Wo Fat nodded to her. Their team comprised of cops and special agents already in the area. There were a few that wanted to come with them. It occurred to him to ask who, out of the people who was with them now, were going to be coming with them, but honestly Wo Fat didn't care.

Instead he leant in to Kono's shoulder and whispered: "Thanks for covering me, by the way."

"Any time. I hope Jian's not too mad at you."

He talked through a lot of relationship stuff with Kono. Normally he'd ask Rowan, or Steve, but the two of them were dysfunctional and, after Adam visited once, he realized that Kono was in a healthier relationship.

He had always known that Adam had married a cop. Never realized it was Kono until he started working with her. She had laughed about that, about how oblivious Wo was, but if it didn't pertain to his job or his sister he didn't care.

Either way, since learning of Kono's relationship, he started going to her for relationship advice.

"She says I have to make it up to her."

Kono smiled at him. "Well, we have a whole plane ride to think of something to wow her with. You message Ro and ask her if she'll pop you to Japan."

"Don't think I can get away with more days off, not after Canada."

"You don't need to take more than one day off, Wo. Besides, I can totally cover for you… for one day. It better just be one day. More then that and they'll definitely get suspicious."

That was the other thing about Kono he liked. The loyalty. It seemed to be something uniquely similar to all the Five-0's that Steven had collected. They were all fiercely loyal.

Now that Wo Fat had earned it, Kono had become his staunchest supporter, much like Rowan had.

It was strange, having friends, and people he knew he could trust no matter what. He was still getting used to it, but he was definitely grateful.

Though right now he was mostly grateful for the relationship advice.

H5O-H5O-H5O-H5O

They landed in LA twenty four hours after Wo Fat had ended the call with Jian.

He was sure to send out three texts. One to Ro, one to Con and one to Jian, all with the same information, which was where he had been sent and that he had arrived safely.

Con had been excited. He was working near-bye and had asked if he wanted him to swing by once he was done before heading back to Hawaii. Wo Fat told him to play it by ear, and if Ro didn't have an emergency having him come by for a visit would be fun.

Jian sent him a text back saying to pick up a cute souvenir for her. Which was another added pressure.

Ro sent him a text thanking him for telling her and to try and have fun. Then, as he was drafting a text o ask her to send him to Japan in a few days' time, she sent him a text saying: "Is Jian mad at you?"

Great.

She had checked his strings and saw that he and Jian were arguing. Which was weird, cause he didn't think it was that bad.

At that point he knew he'd have to explain it to her, and it wouldn't work over text. So he just told her he'd call her when he was done work.

Which he did.

He explained the whole fight. Told her he owed Jian a favour and asked if she'd be okay to throw him to Japan when the time came.

Rowan had just blown a raspberry at him and said: "Course. Just tell me when."

Then she apologized for the argument as if it were her fault.

It wasn't.

But it was nice of her to apologize anyway.

Wo Fat got his day off three days later. The night before he had messaged Jian and asked if she'd be available and she was, and then he called his sister and woke her up by accident.

She was still perfectly fine with throwing him, not so fine with him waking her up. Which was weird because LA was three hours behind Hawaii and she shouldn't have been in bed.

He simply apologized, told her to go back to sleep and then called McGarrett.

"What's wrong with my sister?" he had asked the second McGarrett had picked up. He didn't need strings to know that something was wrong. She was either upset and depressed or sick, so which was it? He noted right away that it sounded like Steve was out and not with Rowan which annoyed him.

"She's not feeling well," Steve had told him. "We think it's food poisoning."

So his sister was sick and they didn't know what was wrong? They were just working off of guesswork?

"And why aren't you home with her?"

"I have a case, Wo!" Steve cried. "I wanted to stay home but after Canada I'm not allowed to take any time off."

Yeah, Wo understood that. Couldn't really get mad at him for that when Wo was in the same boat.

"I've got Nahele with her, if he calls and tells me she's gotten worse and he needs me, I'm gonna fake an injury and go to her. Maybe I won't even fake the injury, maybe' I'll actually get myself really hurt so they Governor can't argue. The point is I got a plan, so calm yourself."

Wo Fat had to commend McGarrett for that one. Still he told McGarrett to keep him posted on Rowan and whether or not she was okay, he even told McGarrett to be careful on his case. That had confused McGarrett but he had said the same back to Wo and then the call was over.

Cue to the following morning, when Rowan was woken up early to pull Wo Fat to Hawaii.

They were standing in the McGarrett homestead kitchen. Steve was leaning against one of the counters in what had to be his PJs. Navy blue board shorts and a white tank top. He was carefully sipping on his coffee, his eyes staring straight ahead pretending that he wasn't interested in what was going on between the two siblings.

Rowan, he knew, was in PJs, because he had been with her when she bought that pair. A pair of light pink lacy/silky baby dolls. She had bought them in Paris but wore them when in Spain as it was the only place where it had been hot to do so.

He noted, however, that she wasn't really well. She was pale and not her usual perky self. Maybe he'd message Steve after this to see if he felt the same. If he did he'd recommend taking her to a doctor, if he didn't he was going to text Con and tell him to get his butt back to Hawaii and get her to a doctor ASAP.

"Ro," he said struggling not to whine in front of Steven. "You were supposed to throw me to Japan!"

"Yes I know," she said immediately moving to smooth out and wrinkles he had missed and messing with his hair. He didn't have hair that needed a lot of styling, it was short enough to just be left alone. Yet there she was, attempting to set it.

"Ro stop it."

"I'm just making sure that you're presentable. It's my fault you and her are arguing and I want to do my part to make sure that everything goes okay."

"Then send me to Japan. You're going to make me late. You know how much Jian appreciates punctuality."

Rowan shot him a scowl and reached out for the bag he brought with him. "Let me see."

"It's not for you."

"Well, no duh!" she cried. "I need to make sure it's good enough."

Wo Fat had spent four days trying to figure out what to bring back from LA for Jian. He and Kono had done a lot of research but eventually he had settled on an Oscar replica he had engraved with her name and "Best Doctor" as well as a little bottle of LA sand with a few little shells and cute charms in it.

Still she got the bag from him and took out the two things. "Aw cute!" she had cried. "I should have got myself one when I was there."

"I'll pick one up for you."

"And the sand too?"

"Yes, now send me to Japan!" he cried but Rowan was immediately distracted by Nahele pounding down the stairs.

"Hey mom! What's for breakfast?" he asked and then paused. "Oh hey Uncle Oz!"

He moved in to hug him, which Wo Fat had no trouble accepting. Nahele was much like Ro in that sense, he didn't feel a bit of hesitance in hugging either of them.

"I haven't made anything specific, but I think you're old enough to make toaster waffles if you'd like."

"No doubt!" he said moving towards the fridge.

"Ro, can I go now?" he asked, trying very hard not to whine.

Rowan rolled her eyes. He was starting to feel like Rowan liked to be the center of his attention, so the fact that Jian was at the center of this one was probably making her jealous.

"Yes," she said with a bit of a pout. "Sorry for caring."

As she moved to the door, Wo followed her. "Yes, and I'm very grateful that you care, but I did promise Jian a lot of my time today, and you've made me late."

"I know, I know, I'm sorry," she said reaching for the door. He felt the static hiss through the kitchen as she opened the portal. "God forbid I want to see my brother to make sure he's presentable on such an important occasion."

"I just spent a whole two weeks with you," he said. Rowan shot a scowl at him and for the first time he wondered if Rowan didn't like sharing his attention.

She kept saying she was supportive of his relationship with Jian, but what if she was lying?

The door opened and Jian was there immediately. "You're late," she said reaching a hand out to him.

Wo Fat put a hand out, not to take her hand but to pause her, which just made Jian frown.

"Thank you," he said to Rowan. "I appreciate all you do for me. I will still need you to help me get back to LA."

Rowan's scowl darkened. "No shit, Wo."

"Right," he said finally taking Jian's hand. He cross the threshold and then stopped. He turned around and quickly stopped her from shutting the door. "You played down how sick you were yesterday, please try to rest today."

"Who… how did… did you call Steven?"

"I did. Please rest today, I'm worried you might be running yourself ragged with all the void stuff and the drama with your new family."

"Oh I'm fine," she said with a wave of her hand. "You two have fun."

And then she just shut the door in his face.

Just like that.

He turned to Jian who was staring up at him passively and he knew right away he was in trouble.

"She uh… she took me to Hawaii before opening the door to here."

He hoped she'd understand that that meant that he had no control over the fact that he was late. He was at the mercy of the one who controlled the strings and that was his rather fickle sister.

"And what exactly were you two doing?"

"She wanted to make sure I was presentable and that the souvenirs were appropriate."

He then handed her the bag. Jian took it happily and then oohed and aahed over what was inside. So at least he had done well on that end.

"Well how very nice of her to do quality control," she said with a smile and then she sobered right up. "Next time inform her that it's not necessary, and for now on, it's a straight shot to me."

He nodded, knowing full well if he did do that, there was a good chance his sister was going to ignore him if she so felt like it. But he'd try.

"I've got a day planned for us," he said offering a hand out to her that she took right away. "I… I hope you don't mind, I did it with Rowan first. I thought it might be fun to go just you and me and make it more romantic."

Jian's eyes lit up and right away Wo Fat knew that he had picked the right course of action.

They'd be spending the day shopping in the fashion district. He'd buy her whatever she wanted, they'd go for dinner, then they'd get to come home for face masks and movies. Then, unlike the night with his day with his sister, it would end with him having sex with his girlfriend, not out on a boat that's on fire in the middle of the Osaka Bay.

He opened the door with the intent to usher his beautiful girlfriend out like the gentleman he was, but the second the door opened a person was revealed to be on the other side.

Wo Fat recognized him, of course, and he was very confused as to why he was at this apartment when him and his sister were not on talking terms, but the answer to his unasked question came when the man punched him.

Wo Fat didn't have a chance to block, which meant that the hit got him square in the jaw. It hit him so hard that he slammed into the door he had just open and then collapsed to the ground.

He hit the floor to Jian screaming for him. Then that devolved into just screaming. The world was going black in front of his very eyes despite the panic that was taking over. He thought about his sister and her portal powers and how, out of all the times in the world he would want her to use them, now would be it.

But then the black took over entirely, just the static began to hiss in his ears.

H5O-H5O-H5O-H5O

He couldn't have been out for long.

But when he did finally wake up there was nothing but chaos. He could feel it, the actual chaos. He was certain his hair was going grey just by being around it, which meant that chaos was being created by one person and that was his sister.

He managed to roll off of his back and towards the sound of anger and electricity. He squinted his eyes but he could very clearly see his sister across from him.

"How fucking dare you!" she was screaming. "After everything I've done for you, you have the absolute gall, to come here and knock my brother sideways? Who do you think you are? Don't you know who I am?"

Hatachi was on the ground before her and Ro was doing that orange shocky thing. Literal sparks were flying off of her in her anger. He was staring at her like she was a monster, and at that moment she kind of looked the part.

"Ro… Rowan…" Jian seemed to be saying. She was crouched by the kitchen counter, clearly too afraid to move away from there. She kept trying to reach out for her but with every single word Rowan was sending those electric sparks out into the air which made Jian pull back.

Wo Fat forced himself to his feet. He teetered for a bit but kept his footing and reached out for his sister. He took a hold of her arm and send that pulse of calm through himself and into her and right away the sparks went away, the glow left Rowan's eyes and her hair stopped doing the floatie-under-water thing.

Rowan's powers might have deflated immediately, but the anger did not deflate. She turned accusatory eyes to Wo Fat. "Did you just turn me off?"

"You're scaring Jian," he said in lieu of an answer. Mainly because it was obvious that he had turned her powers off. He let her go and put a hand to his head which was pounding. "God I think I have a concussion."

Rowan turned back around a hissing sound coming from her mouth and for somewhere inside her. Wo Fat reached out once again and that fizz went away.

"Stop doing that!" Rowan cried but he wouldn't let her go.

Jian crossed to Wo Fat, tears in her eyes as her hand reached for his face.

She was trying to assess the damage. "I'm okay," he said but he could see that she knew that that wasn't true.

He was getting too old for this shit.

He was leaning into her touch, he wanted to wrap her up in a proper hug but with his grip on Rowan he couldn't. Instead one of his hands snaked around her waist to tug her to his side.

"I can't let her go… if I let her go she'll… she'll go back…"

"You never told me you were her off button," Jian whispered and then sniffed as her fingers traced the part of his head that was in agony. "You're going to have a terrible bruise."

"I don't care… are… are you okay?"

Jian nodded and then finally Wo Fat focused in on Hatachi who was locked in place by Rowan's seething anger and icy glare.

He seemed too afraid to move, and, with one look at Rowan he could see why.

For starters her nostrils were flaring. She seemed to be exhaling these growling huffs. For fuck sake she looked possessed.

"Okay I need you to calm down."

She turned to him, that anger ever more apparent now that she was faced him. "The strings didn't tell me you were in trouble until he literally hit you."

And that explained why she was freaking out.

Her strings were supposed to warn her. She hadn't gotten the warning in time.

"I understand, but this… this is not how you deal with that. I will deal with that."

"I should have killed him," Rowan growled. Then she turned onto Hatachi and said: "Should have just popped you straight to the center of the earth."

"Can you even do that? I mean you haven't been there before," Wo Fat said and Rowan shot him another glare.

He knew right away she was going to bitch at him after this for forgetting about the whole solidarity pack they had but his head was hurting too much to really care about that at that point.

"Okay, can I let you go? Huh? Can I let you go and have you not go crazy? Can I trust you with that?"

Rowan's eyes had turned back to Hatachi where she continued to glare at him. He sighed and then said, to no one in particular: "Right, I can't trust her with that."

Rowan ripped her arm out of Wo Fat's grasp and then that frightening glare was back on him. "Fine, you want to deal with it yourself. I'll stop. There happy?"

Wo Fat nodded. "Immensely. Why don't you call McGarrett, hmm? He's not here, so I'm assuming you jumped without him and knowing him he's freaking out. Con keeps saying he'll figure out how to portal one day to get to you, and I don't want today to be that day. So… call him?"

He offered her his phone and she snatched it out of his hands and then turned around stormed towards the balcony, no doubt to call McGarrett.

He knew she was doing that so they wouldn't be privy to the conversation, mostly because he was going to be arguing with her. But he knew she wasn't about to go outside though. That would be asking too much.

Wo Fat turned, must have teetered a bit because Jian took the spot that Ro had vacated and pressed to his side helping to steady him.

"What are we going to do about him?" she asked.

Hatachi was slowly trying to inch away from them and Wo Fat was letting him.

He would have been going for the door if Wo Fat and Jian weren't in the way, and he was trying to avoid Ro, leaving him stuck in the middle by their couch.

What was Wo going to do?

Normally he'd've shot him by now.

He had been knocked down, that was a blow to his pride. But Hatachi had threatened first Jian and then Ro with a knife. These were all offences that normally Wo Fat didn't let stand.

He had literally killed people for less.

But he knew that Jian would not be okay with him killing her brother, no matter how much Wo's pride was bruised.

So what was he going to do?

Before either could suggest anything there was a pop and when Wo Fat turned around he found that Rowan had brought in back up, in the form of Con.

He had come in facing the balcony, in just his white shirt and black jeans. So he had not been prepared for this at all.

"Yo! What the hell, Rowan?" he cried turning around to face her. "I was literally in the process of making food! You better hope my rental doesn't catch fire!"

Rowan just pointed in Wo Fat's direction and Con turned. He took in Wo Fat with a very exaggerated up and down and he knew then that whatever was going on with his face was a lot worse then Ro and Jian were letting on. "Whoa, what happened to you?"

"I'm fine," he tried to say but Rowan cut him off to point at Hatachi.

"He attacked him. Knocked him out. I got here and Wo was on the ground and he was going at Jian with a knife that he then threw at me!"

Oh god, was all of that true? Was that what happened when he went down? Damn no wonder Rowan was so mad.

The problem was none of that were good things to tell Con.

Con's eyes turned to Hatachi and Wo Fat put a hand out. "No. Con. I'm fine. It's fine. Okay? I'm dealing with it so don't… No… No!"

But Con's eyes had narrowed in that challenging way, and Hatachi was closer to Con then Wo Fat. So it wasn't entirely surprising when Con lunged for him and the boy very wisely sprinted away from him.

"Oh shit," Wo cried and then started forward, he managed to get a hold of Con, before he could get his hands on Hatachi, but he was unstable and Con was moving so they both went down. Hatachi kept running until Ro got in his way.

"Fuck."

Wo was up again, rushing to get to Rowan to stop her from whatever void attack she was gearing up for, which must have been big. He reached her just as she whipped her hand forward. An orange shield had appeared, she was clearly about to pulse it Hatachi to stop him from running, but Wo had gotten a hold of her arm and it disappeared with a pop.

"Hey!" Rowan had cried, but Wo Fat hadn't let her go. He managed to get a hold of the back of Con's white shirt as he rushed past the two of them to get at Hatachi who was now standing there with his back against the glass door t the balcony. While the grip had jerked Con to a stop, Wo Fat was still so unbalanced that he went down again. This time, taking both his sister and his brother with him.

Then it became a struggle of trying to keep both of them from getting free to get at Hatachi.

The boy had been smart enough to rush past them, and Wo didn't care. He could find the boy no matter where he hid, right now he had to calm his siblings down before they did something drastic.

This left Wo struggling to keep Con on the ground, because if he got his hands on Hatachi he'd break his neck. He was also struggling to keep a hold on Ro to keep her from using her powers. What it actually looked like was three people grunting, crying out and basically wrestling one another in a tangle on the floor.

They only stopped when there was a sickening bang and when they all turned Jian was standing over Hatachi, frying pan in her tight-two handed grip. Hatachi was at her feet, down for the count and Jian, well she looked angrier than Wo Fat had ever seen her.

Rowan was the first to recover. "Whoa! Way to go Jian."

Her angry, weepy eyes turned up to the three of them. "You three are… you're… useless!" she hollered. She threw the frying pan down, stepped over her brother and then stormed to their bedroom. She slammed the door shut behind her and then three siblings were left in the living room in the tangle of limbs they had gotten themselves into while they were wrestling.

"What did we do?" Con cried.

Wo had no idea, and his head hurt too much to figure it out too.