A/N :Heyy, Merry Christmas to all those celebrating it. I know that I said this was complete in the last chapter, but I had an idea of how to make it a two-shot story. I'll be honest, I'm not sure how good it is. It's also quite a bit longer than I first planned it to be But, I thought I may as well. Review if you like it, and if you want request a story, I'm open to ideas/prompts/requests. Thanks!

Timeline: Let say at some point after the Jo/Kendall break up.

Waking up first thing in the morning was never something most enjoyed happening. The Palmwoods was the kind of place that didn't really wake up until about ten in the morning, and even that was the earliest. Logan had found a small joy in the fact he could sleep late close to everyday at the Palmwoods and no one said a thing about it. However it was Monday and Logan and the others did actually have to be in the studio very soon. Logan was sure of it, as the smart one he'd ensure of it. Slowly opening his eyes, the teen glanced to the clock beside his bed, groaning lightly as he noticed the time. It was too early and he'd gone to sleep too late.

Big Time Rush lived in the one apartment, but it had four bedrooms, one for Mama Knight, one for Katie Knight, one that Carlos and James shared, and then the room Logan shared with Kendall. It wasn't something new. Or something he didn't like, in fact Logan was glad to be sharing a room with one of his closest friends. They'd shared rooms before, and since he was an only child he was happy for the constant company that his roommate provided.

It was very clear that the room belonged to Logan and Kendall, much like Carlos and James' room did. It was very them, as Mrs. Knight liked to say. Logan had medical journals piled high, and Kendall had hockey books and equipment everywhere on his side of the room. Overall the room was spacious and kept fairly tidy, Logan's side anyway, Kendall's not as much and even less so right now.

However, as Logan sat up in his bed and looked over to his roommate's bed he noticed it was in fact empty. To add to this, Logan didn't even look as though it had been slept in, it was perfectly made and there wasn't the usual "Kendall mess" surrounding it. Logan cast his mind back trying to see if he remembered hearing Kendall go to bed, however Logan was a pretty heavy sleeper so even if Kendall had gone to bed, he wouldn't have been woken up by it. However the fact that his friend mightn't have gone to bed didn't surprise him too much. It wasn't the first time it had happened since coming to California. And it was hardly surprising considering the past few days the boys of Big Time Rush had been having.

It had pretty much been the worst four days they'd had since coming to Los Angeles. It had all started late thursday evening with one terrible phone call which had lead to Mrs. Knight leaving early on the Friday morning for Minnesota. The outcome for that looked pretty bleak. The cousin to Mrs. knight had pretty much been sick all her life, but had taken a turn for the worse. Logan couldn't help but feel annoyed that another bad thing was happening to the amazing family of three known as the Knights. It had broken his, Carlos and James' heart slightly, watching their friend, Kendall take the news, yet another death in the family. For a brief moment they had seen their leader on the very verge of not keeping it together but as fleeting as it had come it had gone. As always Kendall the least likely to ever break down out of the four of them.

However the day and the rest of the weekend had gotten steadily worse from there. Katie had woken up on the Friday morning, very clearly under the weather, which had left Kendall in a panic. The resident doctor-to-be, Logan had quickly deduced that it was nothing more than a bad flu, and with bed rest, medicine and a bit of calm she'd be better in a matter of days. It was nothing that Kendall had to worry too much over. Sure they all had to make sure it didn't worse, but Logan knew it would have to get worse before it got better, which it did.

Logan, Carlos and James had pretty much expected what happened next. It had in no way been a surprise, since it happened every time someone got sick. Kendall went from being a normal big brother, to Superhero brother, a guy who would move mountains if he had to. A guy who would happily hand over his soul to see the person better. Disregarding personal health, hygiene or work commitments. It had been odd for Logan, as well as the others to see Kendall like that again. All three boys had noted they hadn't seen that side of Kendall since before becoming a band and moving to California to be famous. Since coming to Hollywood, they lived at a hotel with plenty of people that would help them out. Their record company covered most costs, the work his mother did was scarce. She was home, so it wasn't up to Kendall to be the one to ensure everything was in place. It was a very sudden reminder to Logan that unlike them, Kendall was the most adult of them all.

Ever since his father had died when Katie had been under a year old Kendall had grown up at twice the rate of the rest of them. Sure, in school he was still Kendall, the boy who was always getting into trouble. The coolest and most popular kid. The one who stood up for anyone being picked on. The very youngest team captain of the ice hockey team. When he got home, Kendall was the best brother he could be to his sister, and the best helper to his mother. It didn't always work out, Kendall had always been a child first, and even the best of children weren't perfectly behaved all the time. Most of the residents of the Palmwoods would never know of the Kendall that was most mature of all of them. To them it was a normality. However seeing that Kendall here had reminded Logan of the fact that Kendall had never really had it easy.

Realisation struck that his unofficial brother was probably bored and exhausted, Logan dragged himself out of bed. Still not happy at the hour, but knowing if it were him, he'd ignore his own sleep to help. It was time to return the favour. The teen walked tiredly from his bedroom, yawning and stretching as he walked. His feet dragging slightly, and his eyes closed tightly as they adjust the new amount of light that the corridor had. He stopped walking as soon as Kendall was in his line of view. He felt his heart sink at the sight of one of his closest friends. Kendall was a sight. His blonde hair was sticking out at all ends, his clothes rumbled, dirty and lived in. He had a very tired look about him, one that Logan hated seeing, and one he'd seen too many times. It was the look that said he could collapse due exhaustion at any point. What Logan didn't expect - but was also not surprised - to see was James already sitting at the counter talking quietly to Kendall, as Kendall was cleaning the dishes from the previous night.

Logan wondered what they could be talking about since James was making large gestures, clearly explaining something to the exhausted blonde, Logan had to admit he was interested. It was James was doing most of the talking from what he could see, Kendall did just seem happy with the company. He smiled every so often, gave light short laughs when James did and added little words to the conversation, but it really was James carrying the entire conversation. It wasn't the first time he'd seen James do such a thing. They had all managed the art of keeping a person's mind off something they didn't want to talk about. James was just the best at it.

It had always appeared to Logan that people just assumed that all James carried about was his appearance it was a pretty big part of he was but James also cared about his friends, a lot. A lot more than he would ever actually say. He would like any of them do absolutely anything for the other. It wasn't something that people saw that side of James, the side of him that was sitting at the table with Kendall. After all it was the side of James that really only the people who actually lived in apartment 2J really knew about,. It wasn't something James had ever thought important enough to show unless someone needed it, not to mention it was always fairly subtle. It would be hours later generally that Logan realised that James had made his day better by being the caring side of himself. It was why they all knew that when it came to talking your mind off something James was the best.

Smiling to himself, Logan realised that his friends were really the best possible friends any person could ask for. He knew he'd never ever want to replace them. Not even if he was offered all the money in the world. Which was why Big Time Reality had over all been something everyone was pretty keen to forget. Logan took a small breath, smiled and then stepped into the main room. As soon as he stepped into view Logan received the usual greetings from James who said Logan looked a state and a very small brief smile from Kendall - which wasn't the usual greeting. Logan didn't even bother acknowledging what James had said, instead he let his gaze settle upon his tall green eyed friend who was suddenly very interested in the dishes he was washing. Clearly Kendall realised that unlike James, at this point Logan was going to be questioning him. He knew neither Carlos or James would approve but someone had to at least try.

"Hows Katie doing?" Logan asked taking a seat next to James, he wondered if James had bothered to ask how the youngest Knight was doing, since he'd clearly just been there to make him feel better. Logan assumed not. But then it was James' way of improving someone's mood and Logan was completely okay with that.

"Better, only woke up three times during the night, which is an improvement, she was however sick each time which is never good. The first time was all over the bathroom floor, she had tried to get there herself while I was tidying my mom's room, what a mess. I've tidied it up, but the smell hasn't quite gone yet" Kendall replied putting away another handful of dishes, he'd piled beside him as he cleaned and dried. It was surprising to James that they had gone through so many dishes. He assumed that most of them were Kendall's attempts to get Katie to eat something. It didn't really explain all the plates, since Kendall had also barely eaten. Either that or James just figured that he'd never really payed that much attention when Mama Knight washed up.

"Dude, why don't you just use the dishwasher like normal people?" James' question slipped out before he could stop it. James had been up for a little while now, despite the fact it was six-thirty in the morning. Mainly because it had just come to a point where he'd awoken and been unable to sleep. Unlike Logan, James wasn't that heavy a sleeper, he did however sleep a lot, but it was hard for him to sleep when one of his best friends was looking after his sick little sister. James was pretty sure he already knew the answer to his question it wasn't the first time any of them had stumbled upon a Knight washing dishes by hand despite the dishwasher they stood in front of, but it had slipped out.

"It's therapeutic. Plus, my mom and I always used to do it together back in Minnesota, I think you also forget that whenever my mom worked I had to take care of Katie, and that meant dinner, I didn't know how to work a dishwasher so I had to do them by hand" Kendall answered without looking up from the plate he had been currently cleaning. It annoyed both James and Logan hearing Kendall reply such a question with an answer in a tone of voice as if it was the most normal thing in the world. Like it was completely normal for a young boy who would've been about eight or nine the first time they'd been left alone with a young child to feed and clean up after.

"That's good, that Katie is doing better." Carlos said appearing at the other end of the room, wearing his helmet and yawning loudly. James was the only one of the four boys who knew for sure that Carlos didn't actually sleep in the thing. Maybe the odd night here and there but not every night. He just put it on in the morning. No one had known when Carlos had come into the room, but Logan assumed it was much like how he had done mere moments before.

It was James who first noticed that Kendall looked annoyed, that he looked more annoyed at himself than anyone else. It was clear he didn't like being the reason that none of them had managed to sleep in late, or even to a slightly more reasonable time. He tended to forget that Katie was as much their sister as she was to Kendall. Not often but on mornings following weekends like the one that had passed, it tended to slip his mind.

"I'm sorry I woke all of you up. I didn't mean to. It's been over three days, you guys should go back to bed and catch up on lost sleep. My mom will not be pleased with me if you all end up having a serious lack of sleep on my watch." Kendall said in a slightly apologetic tone. Finishing off washing the last of the glasses and beginning to dry them, watching as Carlos took the seat next to Logan. Carlos, Logan and James shared a look, they didn't know what to say to Kendall. It was pretty clear that their blonde friend was the most tired of all of them. Logan half thought that Kendall hadn't slept at all the past few days. James couldn't believe that he was apologising, and Carlos was taken aback that Kendall was worried about Mama Knight giving him into trouble for them. None of them cold understand why Kendall would say something like that.

"We will, when you do." Logan said, his two friends on either side of him nodding too. They were friends, and this was a time when friends were really very necessary. It also appeared to be the only thing that they could say about it, and none of the three really wanted to address the issue of Mama Knight.

From the distant bedroom, there was a small call of Kendall's name. Kendall put the glass down and then left the room. Without another word to his friends, he just headed straight to Katie's room, knowing that she was calling for him, and that he really needed to be there for her more than his three closest friends needed him. The three other boys were left sitting at the kitchen counter watching silently as the youngest of the four walked back to his sister's room. For more brother duties that Katie needed him for. It showed the true strength of Kendall, that despite his lack of sleep he would still keep going until he literally couldn't anymore.

"I think we should definitely try harder in the Keep Kendall going plan. It's been three days, Kendall has barely eaten, barely slept and hasn't hung out with us for longer than however long lunch, breakfast and dinner are." James said sighing. It was hard to keep focused on the singing, the dancing and enjoying the pool when the unofficial leader of the group had dropped absolutely everything to look after his sister. It was a trait the boys had somewhat forgotten about since coming to Hollywood. When they had been back in Minnesota, if Katie had gotten sick and Mama Knight had been unable to watch her it would be left to Kendall, and that was literally the only reason he would ever use any of his paid holidays. He would keep his holidays and use them only when Katie, Mama Knight or any of them was sick. Here, they didn't have to bother with that at all so they'd forgotten what it was like. Logan figured it was also the stress of losing another family that had made Kendall completely revert back to his Minnesota ways.

"It's going fine James. There isn't much else we can do." Logan said sighing slightly. Knowing that it really was true that they could do nothing else without the plan being found out by Kendall, the whole idea of the plan was for him to not know what they were doing at all.

"I know. I know. I just didn't think we'd ever need the plan here. You know" James nodded. James had been the first to note the distinct change in Kendall as soon as his sister had been declared sick. It reminded him of the boy who'd work in snow, ice and hale all so there would be extra money in the family. The boy who'd spent four plus weeks working non stop, that winter before they'd moved. Where the smile of the blonde didn't reach the eyes due to the exhaustion that had been clearly evident with each passing day.

"I think we all forgot that Kendall was an adult half the time in Minnesota. Kendall was still as immature as us, up until his mom needed him to not be. Here he doesn't need to adult Kendall at all. Well, not until now." Carlos added, agreeing with James. He loved how Kendall was very family orientated. How he would do anything for them and how it was the same with his friends, after all they were in Hollywood because it had been clear they would've gone. But Carlos (and the others) hated with a deep passion that Kendall always took care of himself last. As if he didn't matter as much as everyone else. If he didn't put himself last, Carlos was sure they would've never needed to create a Keep Kendall going plan in the first place.

"It's superhero Kendall." Logan muttered, and the two beside him nodded.

All three began to get breakfast for themselves and Kendall. While also wondering how on earth to explain to Gustavo and Kelly why Kendall would not be joining them that day. As much as it would be a long day for them, they knew it would be just a long for their friend.

Unlike Minnesota the weather outside in L.A. was almost always sunny. It was warm and the air tended to be pretty humid. It wasn't always the best, but it beat the cold of Minnesota. What the boy had had to put up with before every single day. But it meant as three of the four boys of Big Time Rush stood outside the famous Palmwoods hotel they all needed to wear sunglasses. Today more than ever, since none of them had slept an awful lot over the past few days and they didn't want to appear too tired to the rest of the residents.

Arriving and getting to the studio was the easiest part of the teens day. It had been getting all the members to go to work on that day that had been hard, and it was pretty clear that they'd lost. Carlos, James and Logan had all tried to persuade Kendall to come to work with them, but he had sharply told them no, before getting something together for Katie. With only three members currently walking into Rocque Records that very morning they were pretty much certain that there would be yelling, chair throwing and overall anger at the loss of another day. Since out of the goodness of his heart, and after a face off between Kendall and Gustavo, Gustavo had let the boys have Friday off. After all a family member of Kendall's was dying and the match off with Gustavo had been the only admission from the teen that something was wrong the entire time since it had happened. The only admission that he maybe wasn't handling it as well as he said and portrayed that he was. But this time, only James, Logan and Carlos were actually turning up at Rocque Rocks and all three were scared of what was to come.

Kelly, the assistant to Gustavo was standing in the main area of the studio waiting for the boys or dogs to appear. She had expected to see all four of the boys bounce in with their usual smiles and readiness to get to work. A readiness that was gone after about ten minutes into an intense dance or harmony session. What she didn't expect to see were only three boys, all of whom looked pretty much exhausted. She closed here eyes and reopened them, really hoping she was dreaming, but Kelly wasn't. She realised only three boys would be there that day. Her mind was buzzing trying to put together what exactly was going on. She really hoped she could quickly get to the bottom of this before Gustavo appeared and noticed the lack of a fourth dog.

"Guys! Where is Kendall?" Kelly said, the urgency clear in her voice. She was waiting for him to pop up and scare her, or to come running in claiming to have slept in late, but she could tell straight away from the way the boys held themselves that neither was going to happen. Logan, Carlos and James had expected the question. Of course they would ask. After all it was Kendall that they'd wanted in the first place. He had been the one with the fire. Big Time Rush was so much more than that now, but it was what they got from her tone of voice. Even though Kelly was really only just concerned about Kendall.

"DOGS!" Gustavo yelled as he walked out his office, just as Carlos had been about to explain to Kelly where the blonde teen was. He looked at the three boys and then to Kelly. He was clearly doing a good job at appearing calm, because all the boys were half expecting an earthquake or steam out the ears, but nothing, just yelling at the very top of his voice "Where. Is. KENDALL?"

"Katie's sick" Carlos blurted out, before taking a step back. Generally if this ever happened, as brave as he knew he could be he tended to cower slightly behind Kendall. It wasn't that he was afraid, just more that he had no idea how to handle Gustavo when he was angry therefore he chose to not. Let Kendall do all of that since he could do it a lot better than the rest of them.

"And?" Gustavo yelled, elongating the word as he yelled it at the boys. It was bad enough in his eyes that they'd lost the Friday, he just didn't expect them to be down a member because one of the dog's sister was sick. He expected them to just get someone else to look after her. Kelly was in the same line of thought as her boss. She didn't understand why four smart and friendly boys like them couldn't find someone to cover for them. Although the fact that the youngest Knight was sick explained the overall tiredness of the group.

"Yeah, what has that got to do with Kendall not being here? Could you guys not just get someone to look after her for you today." Kelly asked, in a much softer and nicer tone than Gustavo, but still clear that she was very interested in why. The three boys exchanged a glance unsure as to how to approach the subject. It wasn't like they could just tell them everything, James and Carlos were both pretty certain that they'd think it stupid and Logan was pretty sure that they'd want them to drag Kendall there. Even if everyone knew in the room that it wouldn't work. People knew that trying to get a Knight to back down was not an easy or generally possible thing to do.

"Kendall doesn't trust anyone else with Katie while she's sick. It's been like that since Minnesota. Since she was born" Logan said. "It'll just be for today, and maybe tomorrow. Look, you guys might not think it's a good excuse but, we will not help you in dragging Kendall here." and with that said, the three boys nodded in unison.

"Fine. We'll just do a half day then. And not bother tomorrow. But he better be here on Wednesday or I am sending him back to Minnesota." Gustavo said, obviously not meaning what he said, but saying it forcefully all the same. So the dogs would think he meant it. Which they clearly did. As all three practically jumped over each other into the dance studio to learn their new dance. All three hoping desperately that Katie would get better very soon.

By the time the three boys got back to the Palmwoods, they were all completely exhausted even more so than before. Too tired to even bother heading upstairs to get something to eat, they instead headed straight to the deck chairs by the pool. Sure all of them felt a little bad that they hadn't really thought about Kendall or Katie in the past few hours. Katie was like a sister to them all, and Kendall a brother, but with the lack of sleep over the weekend and Mr. X making them work twice as hard, all three couldn't find the extra energy. It was Carlos who felt the worse about not at least going to see how Kendall was doing. If Katie had gotten worse they were sure that Kendall, or someone would've called. But if something had happened to Kendall no one would know. But he couldn't do much else, Carlos like the other two was just too tired.

Stretching out on the chairs, the three boys were asleep in minutes. It had been a very hard few days for everyone that lived in apartment 2J, and with the warm autumn sun shining down upon them, it was pretty obvious that they would've fallen asleep, and for once the only noise was that of people talking and playing in the pool. Not of a kid being sick, or yelling out to their friend. Or there friend whispering simple words to get it to stop. As much as they were surrounded by chaos, it was soothing to them.

They didn't realise that up in the apartment Kendall had set out lunch for them, since Logan had texted him about the half day he thought he'd do something nice for his friends. Once he'd gotten Katie back to sleep, he'd spent the rest of the morning, tiding and cleaning. Helping hide Tyler, and making lunch for him, his friends and his sister. When they didn't show, Kendall would never say but it had actually made him feel incredibly alone. When they never showed, he half considered calling, but he hardly wanted to worry them. Kendall just figured that they had gone out for lunch to avoid the house, or had fallen asleep somewhere. He did however leave out what he made for lunch just in case they turned up. He then continued to tidy up around the table, only to be stopped by the sounds of his sister coughing. Giving a small sigh, and hoping that he didn't collapse due to exhaustion yet, he headed to his sister's room.

"What are you guys doing? Logan?" A voice said, a few hours after Logan, Carlos and James had fallen asleep poolside. Logan who'd been slowly waking up opened his eyes, to look up at the voice. Camille. Well, since he hadn't really spoken to her in the past few days and the way she was currently staring at him, he knew he was in a spot of bother. Sitting up, he looked over and saw that Carlos and James were also waking up.

"Sleeping, that's what we were doing. Not any more though" Logan said rubbing his eyes and glancing at his watch. He spared a glance up towards where the apartment was, if they were that tired that they'd sleep that long, he hardly wanted to think about his friend who was up un the apartment. As the one who'd slept the least over the past few days, Logan knew that it wouldn't be too surprising if he had passed out. Looking round at his friends he knew they were all thinking the same thing and all secretly hoping, praying that Kendall was all right. Was still all right.

"Where have you guys been these past few days? No one has seen you, and where's Kendall, and Katie?" Camille had a lot of questions for the three boys she was staring at. She didn't understand where they'd been, or where the two Knights were. She'd not heard or seen any of them since Thursday and while she hadn't been hugely worried, it had annoyed her that no one had come to her. That no one had bothered to see if she wanted to know what was going on. Not to mention to Palmwoods was pretty boring without the four hockey players and Katie. However, she noticed the way the three boys glanced at each other, as if having a silent conversation about how to answer the questions. It made her all the more curious, and was a helpful reminder that the Big Time Rush boys really were like family to one another.

"Well, Mama Knight's cousin who's been sick for a while took a turn for the worse on Thursday night. She has about two weeks left." Carlos started. Knowing that when it came to friends like Camille they didn't have to avoid any details. She was after all also close friends with Kendall and Katie, as well as a on/off girlfriend to Logan.

"Me, Carlos and Logan all went to bed and Kendall stayed up with his mom, you know Kendall being Kendall. And his mom got a flight out early Friday. He drove her to the airport and was back by the time we were waking up." James continued. He wasn't sure if Camille quite knew what he meant by Kendall being Kendall. That Kendall wasn't really something that Kendall needed to be like in L.A. Apart from a few times with Katie or with Jo, but not lately. It was much more a Minnesota thing. Here he was still the one who almost always kept them on the right path being the leader, but it was the side of Kendall that was comforting and the shoulder to cry on, which they needed considerably less in L.A.

"So, we were having breakfast when all of sudden we hear Katie calling out for Kendall. Turns out, Katie has the flu. It's pretty bad but it's clearing up, she's getting better. So we spent most of the weekend helping Kendall look after Katie, but we technically had work today. Kendall as you can see, didn't go. He's upstairs with Katie" Logan concluded. Thinking they'd pretty much covered the entire basis. Camille had to admit she was fairly surprised that Kendall would be that dedicated to it. She would've happily watched over Katie for him. She knew how to handle sick children.

"Okay, so that explains everything but the fact that Kendall didn't just get someone else to look after Katie. Like me, or Buddha Bob." Camille countered taking a seat on the edge of Logan's deck lounger.

"That's just Kendall being Kendall." Logan said. He knew that it probably wouldn't be a good idea to really expand too much on it to Camille. It was hard to understand what the boys meant unless they'd seen Kendall in Minnesota. The guy he'd been there. But the three guys realised that they'd have to do some explaining considering Camille wouldn't take that as an answer most likely.

"Kendall doesn't like anyone else taking care of Katie when she's sick. He's protective of her, and he doesn't trust anyone apart from his mom with her. He trusts us too, but he'd never ask us for help." James explained. "Kendall doesn't like asking for help, ever. Especially not in matters regarding his family, which actually includes us. He'll happily get us to ask for help, but when it comes to asking for help for himself, he just won't. Not until the last moments"

"Back in Minnesota, during the winter months, well really from the end of October to January. Kendall would spend half the week working at the local supermarket, and the other half playing hockey, being the captain. Any spare time he did have was split between us and his family. He was happy, Kendall's a happy guy but it didn't always reach his eyes because of how exhausted he was sometimes. He was an adult in Minnesota." Carlos said, remembering the many times they'd looked after Katie while both Kendall and his mom worked. Or the times, that he would come home about four, and they'd all sit around as Kendall made dinner for Katie and worked on homework due weeks prior and of course play a lot of video games or indoor hockey which mama Knight hated really.

Camille felt instantly bad for ever having thought anything bad about the eldest Knight. She realised that while she'd been out in Hollywood living the dream she had, that her friend Kendall had been working so hard to keep his family going. She knew it wasn't a huge difference, but she could hardly imagine how hard it was to juggle. She hadn't seen the mature Kendall they were talking of. The Kendall she knew was just about as immature as his friends. Had a smile that made the girl's hearts skip beats, a smile that reached the perfect green eyes.

"That must have been pretty hard for him" Camille said quietly, she was glad that the four boys were out in L.A. Life was dull without them, and clearly they were all slightly better off in L.A. than in Minnesota, not matter how much they'd loved it.

"The hardest part was for us, I mean Kendall doesn't ask for help for anything when it comes to himself. He'll ask people to help us, or tell us to ask for help, but he doesn't. We watched our friend basically begin to fade away. So we came up with the Keep Kendall going plan. Since were weren't going to just watch our friend become a twig we could snap in half." Logan said. "We never thought we'd ever have to use it out here." Logan added motioning to the fact they were at the Palmwoods in Hollywood.

"We should go do that plan" Carlos blurted out, it was almost four in the afternoon and they hadn't been to see how Kendall was doing. They'd all been so tired, they'd forgotten about Kendall, and now was the time to go see how he was doing, suggest they take over while he got a bit of rest. The other three boys nodded and gathered up their stuff. They feared what might await them, but they were also very pleased to be going to see their friend.

"I'm coming with, I want to see this side of Kendall and this plan of yours" Camille said, leaving no room for arguments and the four of them, headed straight for apartment 2J. All curious as to what they would find.

Kendall had just finally managed to get Katie back to sleep. She'd woken up feeling better, slightly less warm and coughing less, but she'd still managed to bring up everything she'd eaten. He was just glad she'd managed to make it to the bathroom - not the bowl, but at least the bathroom - before she had brought it all up. He cleaned her up quickly, got her changed and put her back to bed. It was almost four in the afternoon, and over the past weekend he'd slept close to about four, maybe five hours. Which considering it had been about four and a half days and about four nights for him. Including the Thursday and Friday. It meant he felt pretty much dead on his feet. He felt like he was back in Minnesota and he was home after a very long day of work, and knowing he wouldn't be able to go straight to bed.

The phone was ringing, and this broke Kendall from his slight trance. He had been singing Katie to sleep, and then had just sat watching. He got up and went to get the phone. Unlike himself, Katie was a pretty heavy sleeper. She could sleep through almost anything if she was tired enough and he was sure right now she was. He picked up the phone, and then got the news. His mum's cousin had just passed. Kendall just said okay, asked his mum if he wanted them to get to Minnesota, to which she said no and then reminded him to take care of Katie and she'd be home at the end of the week. Putting the phone down on the dining room table, Kendall took a seat. The table still had the food he'd set out for lunch. But Kendall was in no way hungry. He sighed, feeling his eyes slowly close as he sat in the peaceful silence. It had been just as he was doing that, his mind reminded him of what needed to be done. His mind felt numb at this point, he was going through the motions but they meant little. Now his mom's cousin. He really was heading to the point of not being able to take much more of it. But he had things to, and he had to get them done before the return of his friends.

Although Katie had made it to the bathroom, she had not entirely made it to the toilet bowl. There was vomit a little everywhere. Wondering why on earth his sister of all people had to be sick, Kendall began cleaning up. He wanted to be the one sick, not here. It wasn't until he'd finished that he took a seat on the floor with his back against the wall, squeezed between the toilet and the bath that he let his eyes close, falling asleep before he could even register that he was falling asleep. The lack of sleep had finally gotten to him. Thankfully he'd sat down and hadn't just collapsed, since alone and in a bathroom, it could've ended badly.

Mere minutes after, the three other members of Big Time Rush, and their friend Camille walked quietly into the apartment. All four glanced around the apartment and registered that it was completely silent. They couldn't hear any voices, no whimpering or coughing or even the shuffling of feet. It was as if the room had been frozen. It was Camille who found this least odd, since she had never lived with any of the boys and therefore didn't know that silence like this was generally not a good sound. She saw the table of food, her mouth dropped slightly. Kendall had made lunch, but it look completely untouched. She'd always thought Kendall would be smart enough to remember to eat.

"Why would Kendall make himself a huge lunch, but then not eat it?" Camille asked looking at the three boys who were also at the table. Logan glanced to James then Carlos, they all knew what had happened, and they all felt terrible. It was clear that they knew Kendall had made them lunch expecting company, but they hadn't come. Even though Kendall would never say that, it was what he'd done, the jester was clear, they would've done the same.

"He didn't make it for himself, he made it for us all. it's what I would've done had it been me" James shook his head, he felt terrible. If only they'd found the stupid strength to go up to the room.

"I texted him to say we only had a half day at the studio, and he must have made lunch" Logan walked round the side of the table to the Kitchen.

"But we fell asleep, we were just so tired." Carlos exclaimed in a loud whisper. He felt awful. In reality they all did.

"The bin is empty, so I don't think he ate." Logan muttered standing back up straight and looking at his friends with a clearly upset expression. Logan looked around the room. As did the rest of them, generally they would just call out to the friend they couldn't see but considering that Katie was sick, they realised that it would be a very very bad idea to do such a thing.

"I'll check the bedrooms" James said, leaving the room and heading to where everyone slept. Carlos had picked up the phone which was on the table and looked at the last caller before setting it back in it's place. He saw that mama Knight had been the last one to call. James came back into the room and shook his head. "Not in mine and Carlos, yours and his, his mother's or in Katie's. Katie's asleep, and his guitar is in there, so he's probably put her to sleep lately."

"Mama Knight called about fifteen minutes ago. I checked." Carlos said. They all shared a look, and Camille was utterly confused. She didn't understand what that meant. She knew the cousin was sick, but she had two weeks as they said.

"Mama Knight would only call from Minnesota at this time if it was bad news. It's four here, but about sixish then. Which is when she has dinner with her sister's." Logan explained seeing the look on Camille's face.

"So, where is Kendall?" Camille asked, as Logan began walking to the bathroom. It was an odd place for his friend to maybe be, but there really wasn't anywhere else that he could be. He opened the door and sigh in relief when he saw the familiar set of legs stretched on the floor.

"Passed out on the bathroom floor." Logan replied, as soon as he'd said it, he walked towards Kendall, who's head was slumped forward, the blonde hair obscuring his face. He was holding onto a dirty cloth with one hand and with the other a can of closed air freshener. Logan heard his two other friends walk into the room, he didn't glance round his eyes were fixated on his friend.

"He looks dead, Logie, do something." Carlos' voice was quiet, almost begging. He hated seeing Kendall like that. He had hated it back in Minnesota and he hated it now. He knew that Kendall wasn't dead, but their friend was just so still that it was hard to not think the absolute worse. Logan didn't know what to do. He just took a step forward and shook Kendall's shoulder.

"Kenny. Kendall, wake up man." Logan said, not really wanting to wake up his friend but knowing he had to. They had to at least get Kendall to the couch so he could sleep a little better. He shook his friend's shoulder again. This seemed to awake the sleep figure, slowly he raised his head and all three felt themselves relax slightly as the green eyes of the boy stared back at them. Confusion on his face, and exhaustion clear, but they were all glad that he was awake.

"Kendall, come on lets get you to the couch. You can sleep there" Logan who'd been crouched at Kendall's level stood up slowly. Waiting for Kendall to follow suit.

"Logie, I can't go back to sleep." Carlos, Logan and James all exchange a worried glance as he said this. "I gotta get ready for work. I'll get fired, I need to go. What would my dad think if I got fired. Mama would be upset." They all realised that in this half asleep state their friend thought he was back in Minnesota. Slowly Kendall got to his feet and unsteadily took a seat forward.

"Kendall, we're not in Minnesota anymore, you don't work at the supermarket anymore. And your dad would be proud any way, even if you did get fired." James said to Kendall as calmly as he could manage, taking a step towards the boy to help him steady himself, and James knew that with the extra support he was providing it would be easier to get him to go to the couch to sleep.

"Yeah, Kenny, Remember we live in L.A, Hollywood. You don't work" Carlos added, as he stepped out the room, realising Camille was standing by herself at the end of the kitchen, who'd silently watched the exchange. There was no point saying that technically the whole being a band thing was work, but it was a different kind of work.

"Carlitos, James, Logie, I don't understand, whats going on? I've worked since I was fourteen. Sold my stuff to have money when I was younger. Why wouldn't I work now?" Kendall said, looking at his three friends as they walked him across to the couch. They all shared a glance. "I need to be the dad to Katie, and the man works to provide for his family."

"Because here in L.A. you don't need to. You just need to be the awesome big brother that you are. Go to sleep Kendall." Logan said. As James put him down on the couch and they all watched as he curled up and fell asleep almost straight away. All eyes moved from Kendall to the resident genius of the group. "He was just confused." Logan muttered. Taking a long breath, he couldn't believe what had just happened. Letting out a small sigh he looked to his friends "I had completely forgotten that Kendall had been working since he was fourteen. It must have just felt like one of those times from back in Minnesota when he worked so much that the exhaustion felt the same, so it didn't register in his mind that he was no longer in Minnesota."

"He sold his stuff to have money?" The sound of Camille's voice filled the room when Logan stopped talking. She couldn't quite understand it. Here he was seeing Kendall in a completely different light. No longer the carefree teen who's troubles were only girl problems. Here he was clearly so tired he couldn't remember where he was. Who had worked since she'd decided she wanted to be an actress and who acted like the father his sister didn't have.

"He was twelve at the time, Katie wanted a new bike since hers had gotten crushed under a car the year before. Bikes are expensive and mama Knight was having problems some money problems. Kendall would've shoveled driveways, but he'd broken his arm and nose due to hockey so he couldn't, so he sold almost half of everything he could sell so she'd get the bike." James said. "He told us about it, because he needed help getting his stuff to the place where he could sell them, and then getting the bike."

"First time we all realised Kendall had a father mode. Or as we liked to call it then, Superhero mode." Carlos added staring down at his friend. "But Superhero Kendall needs help sometimes even if he doesn't ask for it."

"You guys are Superheroes too." Camille said, which got all three to look round to her, shaking their heads as they did so. No. They all seemed to want to say. "Not in the same way as Kendall, but without you guys, and Logan can back me up here, without you guys making sure that Kendall was okay, making sure he ate, slept, everything, then he would've probably worked himself to the ground." Camille nodded at them all.

"She's right." Logan said. "You remember the night we came up with the plan. He came in looking as though he would just collapse on the ground. Like he was carrying the weight of the world, and he just couldn't support it anymore." The two others nodded. Logan pull one of the chairs over so he could sit down, Carlos and James following suit. "He'd been working non-stop, it had snowed all the previous day, and on that day. He was home early, but it was clear that had he been at work any longer he would've just collapsed."

"Yeah, he went to his room and came back in a short-sleeved t-shirt and dry jeans. The t-shirt looked as though it was about to fall off. I thought I was going to break him with a hug. But, he ate a sandwich, sat down and worked on his homework, stuff we'd literally done like weeks before." James sighed. "It was horrible."

"I, we, were just so worried about him, and he wasn't doing anything about it. Nothing, I think I was persuaded I was about to lose one of my closest friends." Carlos added, in an unusually small voice.

The two other boys nodded in agreement. And for the second time in their lives they all decided that no matter what came up in their lives, they would always help one another. That no matter how hard things got for Kendall they'd always be there to make sure he was okay. After all even superheroes need to be saved or helped every so often. And they hated seeing Kendall like this. They hated when his smile didn't reach the eyes, or when the boy was acting like an adult.

"I guess coming to Hollywood has been a really good thing for Kendall. For all of you. The best move of your Keep Kendall going plan to date." Camille finished with a smile.

"I guess it was."