One Miracle for Tintin
Tintin grit his teeth. Dammit, Captain...
He swiped at his face with his sleeve. One miracle for me, mon amour.
His knees buckled and he collapsed to the ground in front of the gravestone. Please don't be dead.
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Here is the update for the recent missing persons case.
Captain Archibald Haddock, retired sea captain, has gone missing at sea in the Atlantic.
He had gone out six weeks ago along on the naval ship Loki to San Theodoros to assist General Alcazar in the civil war raging on there.
The ship last docked in Florida and was due to arrive in Cuba five weeks ago but never docked.
The ship crew was discovered ten miles off the shore in life boats, but Haddock was no where to be found.
The government police in San Theodoros, Cuba, Florida, and Brussels are collaborating together in attempt to find the missing Captain, but to no avail so far.
Haddock was announced missing two weeks ago and is presumed dead.
Tintin turned the radio off. Shut up. He thought, his eyes red and puffy from crying. His dear Captain was missing. Tintin felt so mad at himself for letting him go alone. He slammed his fists against his bedroom wall, sinking slowly, his face scrunching up as he began to cry again.
"Why?!" He shouted at no one in particular. "Why had I let him go?! WHY?!" He screamed. "Why did it have to be him?! Why Archie?!" He curled up into a ball. His sides heaved as he sobbed.
Tintin had been like this ever since Thomson and Thompson called him two and a half weeks ago informing him on the situation. He had initially gone into a rage at the two Interpol agents, shouting why weren't they doing anything more to find Haddock. Then when they had announced Haddock and presumed dead, he had fallen into a great grieving state and had been like that ever since.
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Everything was happening so fast. Chang and flown in from London to stay with Tintin until his condition got better or the Captain was found. Bianca was staying at Marlinspike Hall too, mothering Tintin and Chang. The two boys needed it.
Interpol was working hard trying to find the Captain and the ship, and was sending out multiple search parties, on sea and in the air. Reporters flooded Marlinspike quite frequently, and were kindly turned away by Nestor and Bianca. Chang would always be with Tintin, clinging to him like a child trying to calm their sibling down. Tintin would go into fits of rage and then collapse to the floor in a fetal position, crying his eyes out.
A doctor had come by at one point to check on Tintin and had determined that he was battling severe depression and told the other occupants of Marlinspike to watch over him closely.