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cathrl thanks and i will certainly take your advice for future stories but this was just something to get rid of the writers block that was plaguing me
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Alan and his brothers were sitting in Faith's hospital room waiting for the doctors to tell them what was wrong with her and they weren't speaking at all. Alan didn't know it but his brothers had texted their dad and him and his wife, Lady Penelope, were on their way in fact here they were. Five minutes of silence later and they entered.
"Ah Mr and Mrs Tracy how are you?" Alan said sarcastically.
"Alan," Jeff sounded relieved but Alan couldn't care less.
"Oh great I'm about to be babied again ain't I!"
"Alan we just care about you I don't get why you hate it so much!" Scott argued.
Alan glared at them and said,"You can't just treat me like a five year old because that was the last time you spent time with me!"
"That's not true!" John said forcefully.
"Oh yeah? What's my favourite colour? Or my favourite band? Can you answer any of those?" Alan asked.
"Alan, I know we don't know those things about you but we know so many other things about you things that will always stay the same like your first word was 'Scott'." Virgil smiled.
"And the first time you ever went to school and went to the toilet you went looking for one of us and ended up attached to my side for the rest of the day." Gordon laughed.
Alan managed a small smile at that, "So why do you never spend time with me anymore?"
"Because we were so busy thinking about international rescue and how it could change peoples' lives we forgot about how our family was affected by it." Scott said while looking at his hands as though they were the most interesting thing in the world.
"And then once international rescue was started you had started acting out…"
Alan cut John off, "And why do you think I act out maybe it's because hm." He pretended to think, "Hm maybe because it was the only way anyone would pay me any attention! Did you ever think of that?"
Jeff sighed, "No we didn't." Alan glared at him for a minute and then crossed his arms over his chest and turned away from his family, "Alan that doesn't mean we don't love you."
Alan muttered something that no one understood, "What was that?"
"I said did any of you ever think about the real reason I wanted to be on the island. And I'll give you a clue it has nothing to do with IR. You know what I'll just tell you, you'll never get it, it's because I wanted to spend time with my family. I mean I feel like the people you rescue spend more time with you than me."
All his family hung their heads in shame but Alan chose to ignore it until Lady Penelope spoke, "Alan there is something you should know, while you have been on the run your family haven't been on a single rescue and haven't been eating properly."
Alan looked overwhelmed all he could manage was, "Why?"
"Just because you don't fly one of the machines doesn't mean you aren't a part of IR, you're the heart and soul." Scott said.
"How?"
"Alan I started this organisation so no one else would have to go through what you went through miss out on what you missed out on." Jeff gave Alan a shaky smile.
"And we can fly the machines and do whatever it takes to save lives because we can remember what your cries sounded like when you were told mum was dead and how you didn't speak for months and how you decided to grow up so much after it." Virgil gave a sad smile.
Alan sighed had he been going about this all wrong? Was he really that thick? Or could his family have been more obvious? Alan had no answers so he did the only thing he could do, he cried. Ten years of rage, pain and anger flooded out of him in a mere couple of minutes. And as his brothers pulled him closer to them Alan could finally let go of the past and look forward to the future.
After a couple of minutes Jeff spoke, "Alan I want you to come home."
Alan shook his head, "I can't leave Faith."
Jeff and Lady Penelope smiled, "Me and Penny have been thinking about that we both agree that having another child would be wonderful but a baby would be too much hassle with IR so we were thinking about adoption and well Faith seems the perfect age. What do you think, would you boys like a little sister?"
Alan looked shocked, "You want to adopt Faith?"
"Yes. We had hoped to get a girl and Faith seems to be about the right age and you already seem close."
Alan smiled, "I'll have to ask Faith but I think she'll say yes."
And when he asked her she, even though she was nervous at first, said yes so a family of six who had become a family of seven became a family of eight.
