CHAPTER 2

Scott quickly showered and changed then headed to the plane. He felt more awake and relaxed after his shower and was getting more excited by the minute to be with Laura again. As he walked up the plane he was surprised by his father ducking under the wing with a pack slung over his shoulder and a bottle in his other hand. Kyrano was right behind him with a picnic basket and an ice chest on a wheeled dolly.

"What's up?" Scott questioned

Jeff pulled the plane hatch open to reveal other supplies had already been loaded and slung the pack from over his shoulder into the plane. Then stepped out of the way to allow Kyrano to load the things he had before he answered his son.

"You're not going to get a honeymoon staying here on Tracy Island." Jeff started to explain. "Here's all the camping gear you could possible need and enough food for three days. I'm told that Laura's grandfather left her an island between here and where she is now and that it's very deserted." Jeff paused long enough to place the bottle of champagne from his hand to Scott's hands. "Or you know enough geography to find a place of your choosing."

"But we're already short handed," Scott weakly protested in surprise.

"Gordon and Brains will be home in about two hours. We'll be just fine."

Scott holds the bottle of champagne in his hands as a smile grows on his face. "Thanks Dad."

For the next three days Tracy Island was buzzed mid afternoon each day by a familiar plane with questionable pilotage. But all else was mostly quiet only two rescues in the three days.

On the morning of the forth day Scott's voice came over the radio announcing Laura would be making her first landing.

Jeff held his breath as the plane circled the landing area for a fourth time before coming down with a triple bounce and taxied safely to a parking spot. When no one got out of the plane after a while Jeff approached and opened the hatch to hear two people giggling in the cockpit.

"Hi Dad," Scott poked his head around the corner from the passenger seat with a warm relaxed smile on his face. "We're home."

"Thanks for letting us have a vacation," Laura added as she hesitantly pushed a few buttons. "Okay let's get the blocks in place and see if I can do that right" she added as she unstrapped herself and started to get out of the plane.

Scott teasingly squeezed ahead of her and climbed out of the plane just ahead of her then turned and swept her off her feet and spun her around.

Jeff silently grabbed the blocks from the rack and handed them to the other Tracy brothers who had dared to get close to the plane now that it was stopped.

"You two looked like you enjoyed yourselves," Gordon commented with a note of hesitance in his voice.

"Yea we did!" Scott responded absently as he carried his bride from the hanger bay toward the living quarters.

"What did you guy's do for three days?' Alan asked as he started to follow them but his father grabbed him by the shoulder and held him back.

"That's not a question one should ask a couple returning from their honeymoon son." Jeff spoke fatherly.

The newlyweds settled in then Laura checked her e-mail while Scott started their Laundry.

"The hospital units will be delivered next week, I'll need to go to the village and make sure everything is ready." Laura announced to Scott as she sat on the table in the laundry room with her laptop in her lap.

"We'll get you there tomorrow." Scott replied

"The foundation is sending a team to assemble it for us." Laura continued to read her mail.

"That'll be nice," Scott commented as he loaded the sorted clothes into multiple washing machines. "I'll sit down with Dad later and work out the details for your communications stations here on the island so you can get the foundation president off your back."

"Fat chance," Laura scoffed,

"Well at least you can tell him you're married now so he'll quit bugging you about finding someone to share your life with." Scott commented as he turned the washing machines on then turned and rested against one.

"What and let him think he's won?" Laura scoffed again. "He'll just find something else to pester me about. He seems to have appointed himself my father."

"You're not ashamed to let them know about us are you?" Scott questioned.

Laura paused and looked up at him then off in space. Scott knew her well enough to understand that she just hadn't thought about the subject before. After a moment she moved her eyes in his direction with out moving her head.

"No I'm not ashamed of you. A little nervous maybe, I've never wanted anyone I worked with to know anything about my personal life, outside my qualifications as a Doctor." Laura paused again in thought. "I guess we should make some kind of an announcement, I just don't know if I like the idea of doing so with an e-mail, At least not to these guys. What's proper in these maters?"

"I haven't a clue," Scott admitted, "I'll get a wire off to Lady P right away to inquire on that subject." Both Laura and Scott burst into laughter as they each remembered how Lady Penelope tried to run their wedding.

"As far as the People in the Village go, there are still cultural taboos I need to better understand yet. I don't want to make a big announcement just to let them know the reason I don't live near the hospital is because I live with my husband. Is that okay?" Laura offered when she finally got composure.

"That's fine with me. " Scott answered, "After all, you just met all those people a few days before we got married."

"As far as the Foundation goes," Laura continued thinking out loud, "I'm going to be expected to make an actual appearance at the quarterly foundation meeting in London in three months. How do you feel about making an announcement then?"

"I don't know that's a long time, maybe we should do something before then," Scott Questioned.

Laura set her computer down and put her arms around Scott, "What ever you want to do let's do it. I'm not ashamed of you I just don't like dealing with the Foundation on anything other than a professional level especially with Aunt Karin on the Board. Any fear I have of announcing our marriage is just a fear of compromising your cover with the Thunderbirds."

When Onaha walked in with other laundry in need of washing she found the two newlyweds locked in a passionate embrace and decided her load could wait till later.

Scott was awoken the next morning by incoherent mutterings coming from the window. As he blinked the sleep out of his eyes Scott instinctively swept his hand across the bed to confirm that his wife was no longed in bed with him. He then rolled over to see Laura sitting at the window with her laptop in her lap typing like the wind.

"What cha doin," Scott asked as he rolled over in bed to get a better view of his wife.

"Answering my e-mail," Laura answered followed by more incoherent mutterings.

"What's wrong?" Scott asked finally realizing that Laura was cussing in some language or combination of several languages.

"Some nut case is trying to get rich by claiming that he represents me in a copyright infringement case." Laura muttered angrily as she continued to type, "Now I have to get the Lawyer from the Mikealson foundation to file a counter suit and then get Thurman to provide the signed documents in a way to keep him from being arrested for practicing Law with out a license and all this so they can go ahead with an art showing and auction that was arranged three years ago and has already been postponed five times. And it's all probably going to blow up again and require both of me to go to London and deal with this personally." Laura grumbled on and on as she typed each keystroke getting more and more aggressive.

"You might want to ease up on that computer or you're going to break it." Scott counseled with a giggle in his voice. "Any one who didn't know you would be thinking you were ready for a rubber room listening to you talk about the both of you like you do."

"I am ready for the rubber room," Laura growled as she continued to type but her keystrokes were lightening up a little.

"Is there any reason LauraLynn couldn't just have an accident and never be heard from again?" Scott asked thinking that should be the best way to deal with things.

Laura's hands froze in mid keystroke and she turned to stare at Scott. There was a moment of silence as Scott inwardly laughed at his wife.

"With you're grandfather gone is there any reason to Keep LauraLynn around?" Scott questioned.

"But how do I do that without a body."

"People are declared legally dead all the time just because they can't be found. It takes a few years but for you that shouldn't be a problem just stop showing up." Scott chatted on as he sat up in bed and smiled at his wife.

Just then the chime on Laura's computer announced another e-mail had just arrived and she turned her attention to it.

"That works," Laura said after a thoughtful response to what she read. "They have everything under control I'll just let them take care of things."

Laura then playfully tackled Scott and the two of them wrestled together until an alert sounded and Scott had to run for the launch silos.