One week later

It was the day that Joe Jonas was to come back home, well, back to the tour bus at least, they were all still on tour and had about two weeks to go before setting somewhere for a while. Frankie hadn't left the hospital and had stayed with Joe the whole week he was in there, Kevin and Nick came in when they weren't busy with fans and singing stuff and their parents came in to see him and Frankie as much as possible. Today, all the family was in the hospital room helping Joe get ready to go home. As everyone ran round trying to find all of Joe's stuff, he just sat on the bed with one of his eyebrow raised. "I can help.." He tried saying that about twenty times before giving up all together, they wouldn't listen to him even if he yelled it. He knew that they were protecting him for whatever they think would happen, but he wasn't on death's bed and he was feeling pretty fine, except for being tired and a little sorr.

"Mom!" Joe said, when things clamed down a bit and his things were together and were taken out to the car by Nick.

"What Joe, what's wrong honey?"

"Nothing wrong, stop fussing me please. I could have helped you guys you know.."

"We could do it, not a problem for us Joseph."

Joe sighed, he didn't need to be treated like a three year old. All he really wanted to do was to get back on stage and entertain his million's of fans once again, to sing the songs he loves and to be with his brothers non stop. Over the past week, he had gotten so much fan mail, cards and gifts from people all over the world that the hospital room's walls might of bursted at any second. No one had heard any news from the man that had shot Joe though, and quite frankly, to everyone, that was a good thing. As they say, no news is good news.

"Yo, bro.." Nick called out as he came back into the room, ready to carry out more of Joe's stuff to the car.

"What?" Joe and Kevin replied at the same time.

"Fine.. bro's then. Has Frankie been acting weird to anybody else lately?" He asked, knowing Frankie wasn't around as had fallen asleep in the backseat of the car, waiting for someone apart from Nick to come out, possibly Joe.

"No.. he's been staying with me all week and nothing's changed in his attitude.. he's still a cheeky sod to me, why? What have you observed Nicholas?"

"He's always happy and pulling faces at everyone right.. when he does come back to the tour bus sometimes with Mom and Dad when your asleep, he goes into his bed and stays there until morning or when he get's to see you next, he barely eats in the tour bus too.." Nick said quietly, looking as though he was choosing his words very carefully, which he was.

"He misses me when he's not near me?" Joe laughs then straightens his face when he realized it was a serious question as it was no time for joking around, but it was hard, he was a jokester and loved making people laugh, trying to lighten the moods of things.

"Maybe your right, maybe he is just missing you.."

"Dude, I was joking Nick.. maybe he just gets tired, it is a long way from the hospital to the tour bus you know, get's longer each day when you guys move, the kid's just exhausted from travelling, first time on tour with us.. remember."

"Kevin? What do you think?" Nick always liked asking Kevin for a second opinion, Joe was always joking around and Nick never knew if he was serious or not anymore.

"The kid's fine Joseph, just leave him alone for a bit, he'll go back to being normal Frankie when Joe gets back."

"Whatever guys, see you soon." And with that, Nick picked up the last bag and walked out, he knew something was up with his only younger brother and was going to find out what it was, no matter what anyone else says.

Joe motioned for Kevin to help him up off the bed and out of there before his mother made him use a wheelchair, which he hated cause it made him seem weak and not capable of doing things himself. Kevin nodded, as he understood his brother, as he walked over to Joe, stuck his arm around Joe's shoulders and helped him up and into a standing position. "You okay there bro?" He asked, just to make sure he wasn't hurting his stomach or anything, which had a huge blue and black bruise all over it which looked painful and probably was but Joe was strong and didn't show weakness. Joe nodded his head lightly and kept walking out of the hospital with the assistance of his older brother.

"Thank you so much Kevin." Joe whispered, looking at Kevin.

"No problem little Joseph." Kevin replied, giving his brother a small smile as Joe hated being called Joseph, the only times he liked it was when fans were chanting it or someone was talking to him as a joke, which made him laugh, which was also rare cause Joe has learnt how to keep a straight face unlike his brothers. Well, Frankie can keep a straight face and that's another reason why Joe thinks he is going to be just like him.

Joe and Kevin reached the rental car to take them back to the tour bus and Joe got in the back and sat on the seat next to Frankie who was still fast asleep even though Kevin and Nick were outside arguing about what is the best song was from Kelly Clarkson.

"Hey little man, wake up." Joe whispered in Frankie's ear, he was tired and didn't have enough strength anymore to talk loudy, that was also another thing that Joe missed at that point. As he shut his eyes, Frankie opened his and stared at Joe.

"Joe?" He mumbled, rubbing his eyes and yawning.

"Yo?" Joe opened his eyes and looked at his youngest brother.

"I am so sorry Joe.. for all of this." Frankie whispered, looking like he was about to cry but he wasn't, that was just the sad face that Kevin had taught him to let him get anything he wanted from their mom and dad. He had said sorry to Joe every hour of everyday, and Joe always told him it was fine and that it wasn't his fault whatsoever, because he felt so bad looking at that poor kid, and also because it was true and it wasn't Frankie's fault.

"I am here, aren't I Frank the Tank? Isn't that all that counts?" Joe gave Frankie one of his famous smiles and hugged his brother carefully, trying not to hurt his stomach area. That hug burned up all of his remaining energy and made him slightly dizzy. Just as they broke the hug and Joe lay his head back against the seat, Kevin and Nick opened the doors and piled into the car, Kevin sitting next to Frankie on the left of the car and Nick next to Joe on the right side of the car. Denise and Paul SR also hopped in, made sure all boys were belted up, which they were, and ready to roll then started the car and drove in the direction of the tour bus which was about four miles ahead, being protected by body gaurds.

Joe, Kevin, Nick and Frankie sat there in silence for about seven minutes before Nick decided to speek up. "Guess who's joining us on tour Joe?"

"Oooh I know!" Frankie said, laughing and waving his hand around.

"Shhh!" Everyone said at the same time, knowing that any second Frankie would of said who it was, so they had to stop him.

"Who is it?" Joe said, becoming more and more awake, he liked the sound of their excited voices so it must be someone cool .

"Hannah.." Nick started to say.

"MONTANA!" Frankie yelled loudly and pounded the air with his clenched fists, making his dad slow down a bit to calm down then he started going normal pace again as it was a busy road.

Joe's eyes widened, he was now fully awake and he did like sound of the next few weeks, he had always crushed on Hannah and he was the only one out of the brothers who knew that she really was Miley Cryus. She had told him when they both met up the year before, he bumped into Miley and she was putting her Hannah wig on just before a show they were going to sing at. After a five minute explaination from Miley, his crushings on her grew bigger, she was really pretty too him whether she was Hannah or Miley. As Joe sat in the car, the brothers and mother just stared at his grin, wating for some sort of spoken reply but got nothing.

"Um.. Joe? Anyone alive in there?" Nick said, reaching over and waving his hand in front of Joe's face. It did the trick and he snapped out of it.

"Ahh what. Yeah. Hannah Montana, that's super!" He grinned even more and thought of all the things they could do together, fun wise that is.

"Joe has a crush on Hannah.." Kevin whispered to Frankie which made him laugh hard out.

"Hannah and Joseph, sitting in a tree, K.I.S.S.I.N.G!" Frankie smiled innocently at Joe as he started to make kissy faces at him as all three of Joe's brothers started making fun of him.

Whether Joe or the boys knew it or not, Joe would not be seeing Miley/Hannah and would not get to tell her that he likes her.. so stayed tuned for next time

Authors note: Oh, and sorry it was short, I didn't have a writer's spirit today I guess. Longer next time I hope.