A/N: Alrighty, so here's a Fred and Tadashi centric oneshot. It's kind of a direct continuation of Thirty Days Since My Last. Basically, this and that oneshot deals with my personal headcanon of what Fred was going to confess during the "sharing" session Baymax initiated before Callaghan threw a car at them and interrupted them.

I want to also take a quick moment and share that I will be stepping out of writing Big Hero 6 fanfiction for awhile. I don't know when I'll be back to Reclamations but I need some time to regroup, refocus, and find motivation again. The last few weeks have been hard for me when it comes to Big Hero 6. I still love the fandom and the movie. It's just that I haven't been as inspired to write for it as of late and I don't want to be throwing half-assed stories out just because. I want to take some time and write something for the fandom (and the Scientist AU) that I can really be proud of and have some confidence in. I don't know when that will be but I thank you for your understanding.

Three Years and a Handful of Months

Tadashi mechanically banged his head against his desk. Somewhere in the back of his mind he knew he needed to stop because leaving his lab and going home for the night with a big red mark on his forehead wasn't exactly at the top of his list. There were just some things that he had to get out of his system though. His frustration over his latest, stupid project for example. Beating his head against something just seemed like the best way to go about it.

"I don't think knocking yourself on the head is going to do your amnesia any favors man." Fred laughed as he waltzed into the lab. S.H.I.E.L.D.'s grade A security at work right there. Then again when his genius little brother thought it was cool to break codes for kicks and giggles and then proceed to tell all their friends what the latest codes were, there wasn't much security could do.

Tadashi pulled his head up off the desk to wave at Fred. "Hey Fred." he said tiredly.

"Hasn't GoGo gotten on you in the past about beating your head against things?" Fred asked as he leaned up against the side of Tadashi's desk.

"Yes but GoGo's not here to threaten me to stop." muttered Tadashi.

"New project going that well huh?"

"Bug after bug after bug in the coding. I set one parameter and three more decide to do their own thing. It's like a mutating bacteria on Plague Inc and I have to keep spending points to devolve it." Tadashi groaned. He sat up and waved his hands at the computer in front of him.

"Just do us a favor and don't set it on fire okay?" teased Fred.

"Can I drown it instead?" Tadashi asked with a mock hopefulness in his voice. Fred snorted before dissolving into a massive laughing fit, bent over double and everything. Tadashi rolled his eyes. "Glad you think it's funny." he said, goodnaturedly.

"I'm sorry." Fred finally said as he got himself under control. "I'm sure you'll get it eventually. You always do. Remember the time when you were working on Baymax and the speakers blew?"

Tadashi's eyebrows furrowed as he racked his brain for the memory. He remembered the story he'd been told about the incident. The incident itself was still kind of murky. "Broad outline, yes. Small details, no." Tadashi told Fred after a moment.

"Well even though you couldn't hear anything all that well, I told you the same thing then. You'll figure it out."

"Yeah, I'm sure you're right." Tadashi sighed as he scrubbed at his face tiredly. He could hear GoGo's advice in his ears. He needed to take a break. He'd been looking at the project for too long as it was already. Tadashi pushed himself away from his laptop. He closed the lid and turned to face Fred. "Let's go do something Fred." he said suddenly.

"I'm game!" Fred agreed. He nodded his head enthusiastically.

Tadashi stood up and stretched. "Let's go grab a drink from Rick's." Tadashi suggested as the bar down the street popped into his head.

"You can, but I won't."

Tadashi quirked an eyebrow. "Not feeling it tonight?"

"I just don't drink anymore." Fred shrugged.

"What prompted that choice?" asked Tadashi. He distinctly remembered Fred being his go to drinking buddy before the accident.

"Honey Lemon mostly after a string of very poor life decisions. It was bad for awhile." Fred told him. Tadashi was taken aback by the tightness in Fred's voice. The look on his face was dark, as though he were lost in some bad dream that he couldn't wake up from. That and the fact that Fred had shoved one hand into his jean pocket and seemed to clutching something there. Fred also seemed to have lost the ability to look Tadashi in the eye.

"Fred?" he prompted worriedly. There were few and far times that Tadashi had seen Fred look so upset. Tadashi reached out tentatively. Fred snapped out of it, physically shaking himself from whatever dark thoughts had invaded his conscious.

"I pulled myself together though and got help." Fred assured him with pride. He pulled his hand out of his pocket and held up a large coin. Tadashi recognized it. A sobriety token. Tadashi's throat swelled shut. What exactly did you say about that sort of thing? "It's my three year medallion but I've been sober for a little longer than that."

"That's great Fred." Tadashi told him with a weak smile. He meant it. The words just sounded so lame to him and incredibly hollow. However, Fred didn't seem to mind. He flipped the coin into the air and caught it again before tucking it back in his pocket.

"Just... uh... if you could do me a favor and not tell Hiro about it? That would be great." Fred requested sheepishly. "I mean, I'm pretty open about it. It's just that..."

"You didn't want Hiro to worry about it?" finished Tadashi.

Fred nodded, "Yeah, at one point I was going to tell him on day thirty actually. Got the words half way out of my mouth even."

"Why'd you stop then?" Tadashi shot Fred a curious look. "Usually if you're going to say something you just say it."

A grin spread across Fred's face. "Yokai threw a car at our head."

Tadashi blinked. Fred's words registered in his brain. With a groan, Tadashi buried his head in his hands. "You've got to be kidding me."

"Nope!" Fred assured him with tangible excitement in his voice. "So one car lobbed at our heads, a high speed chase, and a swim in the ocean later it kinda slipped my mind. I was more excited about the fact that we were going to be Superheroes and I totally forgot about it."

"Of course you did," sighed Tadashi.

"It wasn't until Hiro left that evening that I remembered that I was going to tell him about my sobriety. After that, everyone just kinda agreed that Hiro probably didn't need to know about it. He was dealing with a lot of other things."

"You were looking after him." Tadashi said quietly.

"Well duh! Kid genius is your little bro. Someone had to keep an eye on him, right?"

"Yeah, guess you're right. I have a lot to thank you for. All of you." Tadashi smiled a little.

Fred just shrugged, "Nah. Don't worry about it. We all knew you'd have done it for us."

For a moment Tadashi didn't say anything. He didn't know what to say. There was no way that anyone else in the world had better friends than he did. That was for certain. "How about we get some pizza?" Tadashi offered as he finally finished pulling on his coat.

"Now that I could get behind!" Fred told him as he pumped his hand through the air.

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Tony18: Yes, Tadashi would totally have fun with making new memories. I think he's definitely the kind of person that would look more to the future rather than bury himself in the past. Reconnecting with everyone is just as important to him as trying to recover the memories he originally lost.

Ember Neutron: I love the idea that Aunt Cass is in on the whole Superhero thing. I love the ideas of how she found out about it even more. There's a plot bunny jumping around in my head about how Aunt Cass came to find out and I think no less than twenty four cookies were consumed as Hiro and Co. told her all about how Big Hero 6 came to be.