The Marlinspike chronicles – Volume three – the final

Chapter one

The shock of the past few days still hadn't set in properly and to be honest it scared him more than anything. He'd lost four years, four years of his life to a coma after an accident he felt had only happened a few days ago. Forget adventure this was something he thought was a practical joke until he saw the captain's grave face against the dim hospital walls. The nurse said he was doing great with his physiotherapy but that wouldn't really change anything. He still wouldn't be able to walk again and it was that exact thought that was killing him. He thought he could conquer the world but this time the world fought back, leaving him helpless as the tears began to fall down his sweet face again.

The world had changed a lot in the years he had been away. At the year 2016 Scotland was now independent of the United Kingdom and the coalition government had been pushed out of power in 2014 regarding a bitter big cover up in the House of Lords. All of this was just too much for him to bear.

He stared deeply into the mirror and looked dastardly at his bizarre hair style. After being in the coma he had aged four years his hair had grown right down to his waist making him look like the equivalent of Russell brand just with ginger hair instead. The captain's life had also changed those past four years as he was now engaged to be married.

The captain bent to meet tintin's line of vision and he stared into the recesses of Tintin's confused mind.

"How are you doing?" he asked

"I'm not sure, I just well …"

"It's not the end of the world Tintin"

Tintin turned to face the Captain and looked directly at him with his feared eyes.

"I'm scared Captain and frankly there's nothing left for me to do but stay here and grow old"

"Don't say that! You've still got a long life ahead of you and you should live it to the full"

"I just feel as if I'm restricted, trapped"

"Just wait and see Tintin, you can never know what the future will hold. Good things come to those that wait, remember"

Tintin smiled and nodded his head silently.

"Then I'll wait"

Please read and review. Sorry it's taken so long and this is going to be a happy fanfiction with some humour and maybe a bit of romance.