AN: I do not own the Thunderbirds. Sorry I had to repost this but did something screwy to it so I had to fix it.
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Brains stood in the doorway of Jeff's office watching his employer. Jeff was standing by the window overlooking the compound; he was clutching a picture frame tightly. Jeff watched Virgil as he left the house in a hurry, running towards the beach, he sighed.
"M-Mr. Tracy?" Brains asked. Jeff turned and gave him a reassuring smile.
"Yes Brains?"
"Sir, I f-finished with the t-tests."
"That's great Brains. What did you find?" Jeff asked as he sat down at his desk. He set down the picture frame revealing it to be of his children when they were young. Brains remained standing shifting nervously. Jeff continued to stare at him patiently.
"S-sir I'm not sure h-how to tell you this b-but the accident w-wasn't a a-accident."
"What do you mean?"
"Well it a-appears that the b-break in the wires was not n-natural." Jeff frowned at Brains and stood up.
"Not natural?"
"There is a s-substance that I can't i-identify on the area of the b-break. It w-weakened the s-structure causing the w-wires to break." Jeff stared unbelieving at Brains as the man shifted nervously once more.
"Are you telling me that someone sabotaged the rescue wires."
"It a-appears that way Mr. Tracy." Brains handed Jeff the folder that contained his findings. Jeff flipped through it his face darkening with each page.
"This has to be wrong Brains." Brains shook his head.
"I r-redid the tests s-several times Mr. Tracy. The r-results were the s-same."
"Someone caused my children to fall." Jeff turned away from Brains and looked out the windows.
"Do the tests again Brains. They have to be wrong."
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Scott glared at the offensive device that woke him. His vid-phone showed that he had an incoming call from Thunderbird 5 and Scott was sorely tempted to ignore it and call his brother back later. He sighed because he knew that would result in a revenge that he would rather not think about. John maybe the quietist of the Tracy siblings but he sure as hell could be evil when you least expect it.
He decided to go the easy route.
"My God John someone better be dying. Its," He looked at his clock "0530 hrs in the morning." John smiled at his brother's sleepy greeting.
"I'm bored Scott and thought I would share the experience." Scott stared at his brother blinking owlishly.
"God I hate you." John laughed.
"No you don't you love me. Now wake up I want to know what's going on, on Tracy Island." Scott sat up in his bed rubbing his eyes.
"Honestly, I envy you and your peace and quiet. Between Dad spending all his time brooding in his office, Virgil's guilt tripping, Jessie breaking her own rules, and Gordon is bored and you know what that means." John raised an eyebrow, shaking his head.
"I think your overreacting. Now what's going on?" Scott snorted and stood. He began pacing in front of his vid-phone running his hand through his hair making it stand on end.
"Believe me when I tell you I'm not, John. I can honestly say that I haven't seen Dad longer than 10 minutes. However when I do, lets just say he's not the most pleasant person to deal with."
"Can you blame him? After what happened to the dynamic duo, how do you expect him to act?" Scott threw his hands up in frustration.
"I understand him being upset, John I get that, really. But he knows something. I tried talking to him last night, he was distracted and angry."
"I think what's making you angry is that whatever Dad does know he's not telling you and you, big brother, have issues about not being in the loop." John replied dryly smirking as Scott's face reddened slightly.
"That's not it at al-"
"So what were you babbling earlier about our siblings." Scott's shoulders slumped slightly in defeat as he rubbed his face. He looked out his balcony window watching as the sun began peaking over the horizon. John leaned forward staring at him concerned.
"Scott? Is something wrong with Gordon or Jessie? Some complication?" Scott looked back at his younger brother and shook his head.
"No, they're fine. Other than driving me crazy. Someone gave Gordon a damn bell that he keeps ringing. I swear I'm going to shove that thing down his throat. Jessie keeps walking around on her leg, despite the fact that its not healed. I understand that she is frustrated with the fact that she can't use crutches because of her broken wrist but she should know better."
"So overall the duo is acting like themselves. That doesn't explain the look of defeat, Scott. " Scott sighed and sat down on his bed and placed his head in his hands.
"Virgil thinks it's his fault. Nothing I say to him seems to change his mind." John gave him a small smile.
"That's not your fault Scott. Virgil has always felt things strongly and with everything that's happened its not surprising that he feels guilty, just give him time." Scott shook his head.
"He gets worse everyday. Hardly anyone sees him and he won't even stay in the room with Jessie or Gordon any longer than he has to. I'm running out of ideas, Johnny."
"Just be there for him, Scott. Just be yourself and he'll realize that he is not at fault."
"I don't think it will be that simple." Scott answered giving John a tired smile. Scott took a deep breath and released it slowly.
"So Space case, anything interesting going on in the heavens." John glared at him briefly.
"Its quiet up here, Flyboy. Although I think Brains may need to take a look at the systems on the next personnel transfer." Scott's brow furrowed
"Brains? Why?"
"Something's up with the environmental controls. It's a little warm up here, but its bearable." Scott snorted
"That heap of junk you call a 'bird failing on you, little brother." John rolled his eyes.
"God you really need to grow up"
"I can't help it someone woke me up at the ass crack of dawn."
"I love you too Scott."
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Jessie peaked her head out of her room and looked both ways before deeming it was safe enough for her to venture out. Leaning heavily against the hallway wall, she limped towards Gordon's room. She almost made it.
"Mind telling me what your doing?" Jessie jumped in the air with a scream, whipping her head around to glare at Scott who despite the fact that he had scared his sister did not look happy.
"I'm checking on Gordon." She replied shortly. Scott scowled at her.
" I seem to remember discussing the fact that me and Virgil would take care of Gordon." Jessie opened her mouth to reply but Scott raised his hand cutting her off.
"No I don't want to hear it, your suppose to be in your bed Jessie"
"Jesus Scott. What the hell is up your ass?" Scott grabbed her arms making her face him.
"Your leg is not going to heal properly unless you take care of yourself yet every time I turn around your walking around on it." Jessie tried telling herself that her brother was stressed and concerned but she was sick of being mother hened and she was defiantly sick of Scott thinking he could tell her what to do.
"What the hell would you know about it? I'm an RN Scott, not some kid, I think I know what the hell I'm doing, so back off." Scott's eyes darkened and his face turned red.
"Are you sure about that because all I see is a spoiled brat, who can't take care of herself let alone anyone else." Jessie pulled herself out of his grip and stumbled away from him. Neither had noticed that their voices were getting louder or that they had gained an audience as Virgil watched them quietly from his bedroom doorway.
"Fuck You Scott!!" Jessie yelled. She turned away from him and limped towards Gordon's room.
"Don't you walk away from me when I'm talking to you damn it!" Scott reached out and grabbed her jerking her around to face him.
"See this is exactly what I'm talking about. You're just acting like a child-" Virgil stepped forward seeing that tempers were getting the best of his siblings.
"Scott maybe you should just let her go."
"- God you don't listen to anyone, if you want to be treated like an adult act like one."
"Your not my father I don't have to listen to you-"
"-You don't listen to anyone, that's the whole point!"
"Come on you guys, knock it off "Virgil stated loudly stepping next to them as they continued glaring at each other and arguing.
"Well by all means Scott when you have a certification in something other than being able to comfort someone when they die then you can tell me what to do when something like this happens again"
"You won't be using your fancy degree if you're permanently grounded."
"Stop It! You Are Both Acting Like Children!!" Virgil shouted to be heard. Jessie whipped her head in his direction
"Shut up Virgil. You have no room to talk. You can't even visit Gordon and the only time you even talked to me since last week was to drug me up last night. Kind of hard to make amends for dropping us that way isn't it." She spat out. Virgil gasped and took a quick step back as Jessie stared at him wide eyed.
"Oh God Virgil I'm sorry I didn't mean it." Virgil shook his head and retreated into his room shutting the door. Scott glared at his sister.
"Your not in control of yourself why would I let you take care of someone else." Jessie slapped Scott in the face.
"What the hell is going on in here?!" Jeff demanded walking up to them.
"Nothing." Scott answered still staring at Jessie, who was now struggling to not cry.
"That did not look like nothing to me. I want to know what is going on and now Scott." Scott looked up to see his father staring at him intently.
"So would I. But nobody seems to want to be in a sharing mood, do they." Jeff frowned at his son.
"What's that suppose to mean?"
"You know something and your not telling us. Damn it Dad I-we deserve to know what's going on. How can we do our jo-"
"Mr. Tracy, I'm sorry to interrupt but Mr. Alan is on the phone." Kyrano stated quietly as he joined the trio in the hall. Jeff nodded in his direction.
"Thank you Kyrano," He turned back to Scott ", as of now there is nothing that you need to know Scott. However we will talk about this later." And with that Jeff strode towards his office. Kyrano gave Scott and Jessie a bow before also leaving. Scott turned his attention back to his sister; she looked up to him tears filling her eyes.
"I have to do something, Scott, I can't just…I'm sorry," she covered her face with her hands and sobbed "Oh god Virgil." Scott pulled her into his arms and kissed the top of her head as she continued to cry.