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You fumble with the remote, switching through the channels in search of something--anything interesting. Anything that wasn't what was previously on to be honest, lately all the news could talk about was the fire and the loss of Professor Callaghan and student Tadashi Hamada. You did not want to think about that thank you very much. Finally settling on a news report about six new superheroes of all things, you go back to what you were doing which was giving the kitchen a much needed scrubbing. After the news of Tadashi's death you shut down, not even managing to go to his funeral. Looking back on it now you figured that was for the best considering you hadn't yet been introduced to his aunt and little brother. Shaking yourself out of those thoughts before it became too much you aggressively scrub at the counter attempting to remove the crust that adorned it. Luckily for your sanity the kitchen was the last room to clean.
"Ew." you say to no one in particular, except maybe the cat that was making it increasingly difficult to clean the kitchen. The news story finished and switched to something else, and although it wasn't what the news had been obsessing over it did hit a little too close to home. You switch off the television and resume cleaning in a almost stifling silence, left alone with your thoughts and a very unhelpful cat.
Your house was so clean you could practically see little sparkles like the ones in cartoons and all you had to do is hang back up the pictures. You had an assortment of photos, a few of your cat as a kitten, some of your family and friends, and some of Tadashi. Some of the photos of Tadashi included you and some were just him. You even had one of him, his aunt and his brother. You debated putting that one back up as it was slightly weird to have a photo of people you had never met. Tadashi was the one who had put it up in the first place. Your riveting debate with yourself is cut short by the doorbell and you place the photo with the rest.
You open the door and your eyes go wide with shock, although you had never met Hiro in person you certainly recognized him from the pictures and videos Tadashi would show you.
"Are you Y/N?"
"Oh! Uh yes... please come in Hiro." You stumble over your words, mind rushing with questions on why he was here. Your eyes widen even further on seeing the giant marshmallow of a robot behind him.
"Baymax?" You realize that you are blocking the both of them from entering and quickly move aside, fingers worrying at the small necklace Tadashi had gifted you. "Oh! Sorry. Uhm. I didn't expect you."
"Baymax showed me the videos you and Tadashi had made." Hiro replies gently picking up one of the photos of you and Tadashi that you had already put back. You both smiled at the camera, eyes lit up by the sun. Your nose was scrunched and your arms thrown around him and his hair was ruffled from the breeze.
"You were his girlfriend?" Hiro asks quietly.
"I was." You pause and glance at him still holding the photo "That picture was taken at the beach, he loved to take me there."
"Why didn't he tell me about you?" He asks more to himself than you. You could tell he was struggling with thoughts about his brother lying to him.
"He was going to tell you after you got into SFIT." You say, your voice cracking. "I thought that you were having a hard enough time without having to deal with making room in your family for me."
"Tadashi was reluctant to agree with your choice." Baymax says causing you to startle, you had almost forgotten that he was there.
His torso began to light up and you and Tadashi come into view.
"Hiro was at another bot fight last night." Tadashi said working on what seemed to be one of Baymax's arms.
"I could tell." You laughed gently, placing your hands on his shoulders. "You fix Baymax a lot more aggressively when he does." The two of you stayed like that for a bit before you spoke again. "Do you want to talk about it Dashi?" You moved your hands forward, clasping them together and leaning against his back, pressing a kiss to his cheek. He put the tools down and turned towards you so you were standing between his legs, kissing your cheek in return.
"I'm worried for him you know? i can't protect him forever and once he gets older there will be real consequences for his actions."
"He graduated high school at thirteen. He wants to keep learning and be challenged and bot fighting is what's scratching that itch." You smiled fondly "I remember you being the same way in high school although luckily I was horrible enough at math that tutoring me kept you from bot fighting."
"I don't think I would have ever turned to bot fighting. Even without you to ground me."
"Of course you wouldn't have, you had Hiro to take care of. You had to step into a father figure role and you weren't able to do anything reckless when you had had him depending on you."
"So I have two options, get someone for him to tutor or have a kid and die forcing him to grow up." You laughed lightly at that.
"Or you could find something else to challenge him in a not illegal way." You paused, prompting him to figure it out himself. "Something that is similar to the things he enjoys about bot fighting?"
"You're a genius Y/N, thank you!" Tadashi exclaimed, pulling you down to his lap for a proper kiss. You smiled into it before pulling away.
"Being a genius is your job. I just know teenagers."
"Even more of a reason for me to introduce you to him."
"After." You smiled brushing the hair out of his eyes.
"After he gets in to SFIT?"
"It be a bit too much for this big transition to happen and him needing to accept me into the family." You paused. "After he settles."
"You could help him settle! He'll see you anyways because you're here most of the time."
"Okay." You agree. "After he gets into SFIT."
He kissed you again before you maneuvered yourself out out of your grasp.
"Go talk to him!" You said pulling him up by his hands.
"My lab is a mess." He said in reply gesturing to the pieces of Baymax strewn about.
"I'll clean it." you shrugged. "I've got nothing else to do, my big test was yesterday."
"Okay. I love you."
"I love you too." He smiled and kissed you again before leaving.
You began to clean when something on Baymax caught your eye.
"Oh! How long have you been recording?" You said to the robot. You smiled into the camera and spoke again. "Now don't tell Dashi this but i went to go see Hiro bot fight a couple times. He's got all this talent he just needs to focus it. I'm sure he'll love it here, there's all these resources for him to draw from and teachers that will be happy to teach him."
Feeling around the camera you frowned, "Now where is that off button?" You evidently found it as the picture froze.
Hiro breaks the silence that had settled after the recording. "You came to watch me bot fight? How did you even find me?"
"There's only so many illegal bot fights. It wasn't too hard to find the one you fought at." The silence grew and you speak again. "Would you like anything? I have tea and little cookies? Dashi's favorite." You quietly add "We can talk if you would like."
"The little cookies sound good are they the chocolate ones?"
"Yes." You smile faintly and invite him and Baymax to the living room.
"Tea can be very hot and dangerous. I shall accompany you." Baymax states shuffling past you to the kitchen. Your faint smile grows at the memory that caused Tadashi to program that phrase and you follow after.
Returning to the living room with the tea and cookies you see Hiro looking at the pictures you had spread out. Setting the tray down on the table you sit next to him, smiling at the photo he holds. It's Tadashi and a little girl about a year old, he was lying on the couch and holding her gently, one hand resting carefully on her back and the early morning light softly illuminating their faces. She was still asleep and clutching to his shirt, her pacifier that had been gently clipped to her light yellow onesie resting on his shoulder. He was pressing a kiss to the top of her head and his free hand was entwined with yours.
"Who's the baby?" Hiro asks quietly and you smile at him.
"She's my cousin. I babysit her when my aunts have date nights." He places the picture back on the table and picks up another, the one of him, Tadashi, and his aunt. "That was Dashi's." You explain.
"Oh." Hiro replies and lowers it back to the table, choosing a different one to hold. "And this one?"
You explain the story behind that photo too, and than another and another until you run out of pictures. Both you and Hiro are smiling at the end of your stories and he helps you find places to put them all.
"You should come see Aunt Cass!" Hiro says excitedly. "She would love you."
"Are you sure she wouldn't be upset that she didn't know I was dating Tadashi?" You question adjusting the picture frame of a photo of your cat when you first found her.
"I think that she would be upset that Tadashi never told her but not upset at you."
"I'm the one who insisted on it."
"Trust me that wont really register."
"Okay." You smile at him already feeling like he was your own little brother.
"Great let's go!"
"Oh! Uh now?"
"When else?"
"I suppose we can go now I just need to put away the tea and-"
"Okay okay." Hiro cuts you off "Just hurry up!"