Heartache • Tk Twin Sister (A Fox 911 Lone Star/ Fox 911 Fanfic)

Chapter 6

"Memorize what it sounded like when your dad gets home. Remember the footsteps, remember the words said .And all your little brother's favorite songs
I just realized everything I have
is someday gonna be gone"

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"Dad has been quiet, huh?" I question Tk as we watched Dad climb up the ladder to get the kitten out of the tree.

"umm, yeah, I guess, I don't know." Tk stuttered over his own words

"You guess?"

Tk stayed silent for a few more seconds before I looked at him full of accusation. He side-eyes me before reaching up to scratch his shoulder.

Liar

"What?" I poke the side of his stomach, causing him to squirm.

"What, What?"

Seriously? I can see the guilt spilling out from his hands. "You have a tell Tk, it's not hard to see it either. You should probably work on that." I walked away and to the ladder to grab the brown and white kitten, but not before I heard Tk mutter something.

"I do not have a tell."

I roll my eyes at my brother and grab the kitten from my dad and softly started petting his head. I walked over to the old lady and handed her the kitten. She meowed and licked the old lady's hand.

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"I should get a cat. Should I get a cat?" I asked my team as we walked back to the engine. "I could name it Gumbo, or Meow!" My team looked back at me in confusion. I shrugged my shoulders and grabbed the handle to pull my body up to the seats.

My brother usually followed after me to sit next to me but I was surprised when I saw Marjan sit next to me. I didn't mind sitting next to Marj, but now I know something is up with my dad and Tk.

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"Hey, are you just gonna stand up there and clean the spot over and over or are you gonna clean?" Judd yelled up at me as we cleaned the engine. "What are you looking at up there?"

I stood still and silent as I tried to hear what my brother and dad were talking about. It was impossible to hear anything from here but Judd was not making it any easier. "What are they talking about up there? They have been up there for an hour and a half. I've lived with both of them, and neither of them is that interesting. Should I go up there? Im going up there." I climbed down off the truck and started to make my way up there.

"Raya, come on" Judd yelled

"I thought he said to leave him alone unless it's an emergency?" Mateo called out. Judd, Mateo, Marjan, and Paul all started following me up the stairs.

"Im his child, Mateo, everything I do calls for an emergency." We all walked up the stairs and turned the corner to the Captain's office. Cap saw us first and by his reaction, I could tell that no emergency was greater than his emergency. Tk then saw us a few seconds after and immediately stood up and walked behind my dads and his desk.

I didn't bother knocking because he knew we were coming. I opened the door and could feel the tension rising.

"Everything okay? Cause it just seems that if you didn't want anyone in here, then Tk should be cleaning the engine with us." I said as a matter of factly. Tk rolled his eyes at me and looked down at our dad. Judd put a hand on my shoulder to relax me and then dropped into the chair in front of me. Tk and my dad both have a regretful faces on, and it was almost enough for me to call off the whole thing and tell everyone to walk out, but I didn't.

I should've though.

"I was gonna tell you guys earlier but I wanted to focus on the team and building up this firehouse." I looked up at Tk, but he could bare to look at me.

What the hell

I should walk out now.

"What's going on Cap?" Paul broke the moment of silence.

More moments of uncomfortable silence, yet the silence was more comfortable than what he told us.

"A couple of months ago I went to the doctor for this cough that I've had for a while." He looks at me "They did a CT scan on my lungs."

The room went silent.

Judd seemed to understand what he was getting at cause he brought his hand up to his forehead and shook his head. "Damn"

It seemed to click into Marjan and Pauls's heads next cause their eyes filled with sorrow.

I looked around the room at my family. It should have clicked by then, so why didn't it? Why did I force him to say something that caused him so much pain?

"They found tumors in my lungs." Pain immediately shoots up in my heart.

oh

"lung cancer" I whispered and my head falls to my chest at his silent confirmation.

"He caught it early, which is good." Tk's voice reached my ears.

"Tk's been going with me to chemo"

'Tk'

'Months'

"Months?" I quote his words back to him. My dad and Tk looked back up at me confused

"Months, how many months? how long have you known?" I look at Dad and then Tk "How long have you known?" I can tell that however long it is it's months more than it should.

"I found out about a week before we left New York. Tk found out about 2 weeks ago." Dad spoke out in a regretful tone

"wow," Marjan and Mateo said at the same time.

The silence became too loud for my ears and I stood up tall and walked out of the room.

I started down the stairs when Tks voice pulled me out of my thoughts. I continued down the stairs and back to the engine. I grabbed the microfiber towel and started cleaning the outside of the engine. The rest of the team started walking back down the stairs and to the kitchen. Judd stayed back and watched over Tk because the last time we had an argument I had no shame in knocking him out.

"Raya, talk to me. I know you're mad, but you need-" I held up my hand to him to cut him off, but remained silent. Tk picked up a towel from the bucket and began joining me.

I didn't say anything for a few minutes.

I couldn't.

I want, no need to process this without punching anyone.

A few more minutes went by before I paused and dropped my hand from the engine. Tk noticed because he stopped too. He walked over to me and grabbed the towel from my hand.

"I'm not mad" I turned to face the honor wall for the men that the 126 lost before we got here. I slid down the engine and sat on the floor. Judd finally walked into the kitchen after seeing that no boxing match would be breaking out in the firehouse.

Tk looked down at me and then joined me down on the floor. I pulled my knees up to my chest and rested my head on them.

I looked up to the honor wall and a tear dripped down my cheek. "I can't add him up there. It will break me Tk."

Tk nodded in agreeance

"I've been so lost in my pain that I didn't even realize that Dad was in pain."

A few tears fell off my cheek and onto my knees.

"I was supposed to go first"

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A/N this chapter is so bad and confusing, sorry.

I start school tmr 😐🙄 but I actually am kinda excited cause I'm a senior so I get to do all the fun things.

ALSO I AM SO SORRY THAT I DIDNT POST THIS EARLIER, I GOT SOME BAD NEWS BUT THEN THE BAD NEWS TURNED TO GOOD NEWS. its confusing. Also I was watching survivor.