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Alan lay in the infirmary. His brothers had just left the island in their respectable ships, and here he was sitting there all alone, feeling weak because he could do nothing to help. With a perhaps beyond damaged leg. Though Alan wasn't thinking of himself now.
Flashback.
Alan lay back among the pillows, his leg was now in considerable pain, but in typical Alan fashion he wouldn't say anything about it. He didn't want to seem weak in front of his indestructible brothers.
As if the thought about his brothers had conjured one up. Gordon walked into the infirmary.
Almost immediately he was by Alan's side.
The red head took a seat beside the bed that Alan was lying in. "Well I think the only reason you did this is so you could miss out on your turn on '5." Gordon joked in typical Gordon fashion. It was what he did when anyone in his family was hurt. Tried to make it better with his sense of humour.
But Alan stayed silent. He really wasn't in the mood for talking to Gordon, even if he was the brother he was normally closest to.
Gordon seemed to realise this, and so changed tactics. "Alan, please talk to me." He begged.
"Wow. Please." Alan thought, none of his brothers ever said please, unless they were desperate. Alan still couldn't say anything though, if he did he knew that all of his feelings would pour out.
Thankfully at that moment the klaxon went off and Gordon, with one final glance at his brother, ran off.
End Flashback.
Alan sighed and sat up straight. He really needed to work on hiding his feelings, otherwise he would blurt out everything to one of his brothers before the week was up.
And that really wasn't an option.
***** 5,4,3,2,1 *****
"Thunderbird 1 to thunderbird 2, we've reached the danger zone. What's your E.T.A Virge?" Scott asked.
"35 minutes Scott. We'll see you there." Virgil replied.
"F.A.B Scott out." And with that Scott ended the call.
He then landed the giant silver rocket with practiced ease.
"So.. What do we do now?" Gordon queried.
"About the rescue or Alan?" Asked Scott with an amused glance thrown over his shoulder.
Gordon flushed and coughed out "Um.. the rescue of course!"
Gordon was a terrible liar, Scott decided.
Scott turned around and raised an eyebrow. "Hmm?"
Gordon sighed. Why was Scott so..so..Big brotherish?
"Fine. I'm worried about him. Ok?" Gordon admitted.
"So am I Gordy, but we have to concentrate on this mission, otherwise something could go wrong." Scott trailed off.
Gordon sighed. He knew he had to concentrate. Hurricanes were a sore point in their family. Last year a hurricane had taken place in Thailand. Long story short, it had been a busy week of rescues and none of them were ready for another.
Gordon and Alan still had the scars.
Gordon shook his head. There was no need to think about the past now. He had to focus on this mission. He would worry about Alan later. As for that disastrous rescue.. he didn't ever want to think about it again. Ever.
"Gordoooon.." Gordon snapped out his thoughts to realise that Scott had been talking to him. Well shouting would have been better word to describe it.
"Huh? Sorry Scott, bit preoccupied here." Gordon said.
"Exactly! Gordon CONCENTRATE!" Scott shouted.
"Jeez when did Scott get so touchy?" Gordon thought silently. He knew better than to speak out loud. He may be the one brother who pushed boundaries as far as they could go, but not this time. Scott seemed on edge.
"In fact I'm worried, maybe its time for ME to do some big brothering." Gordon thought.
"Hey Scott, you ok?" Gordon asked.
Scott looked shocked. "Me? Yeah, sure I'm fine." He said quickly.
Gordon hid a smile. And people thought HE was a bad liar.
"Scott.." He started.
Scott interrupted. "Right! Enough questions. Suit up and i'll set up mobile control." And with that Scott left.
Gordon stared morosely at his eldest brother's retreating form. Being the eldest brother for 26 years had helped him to learn how to get out of sticky situations. Usually by landing one of his brothers in trouble while he was at it.
"Oh well." Gordon thought. "I'll get Johnny to talk to him later, he can get us to talk. He'd be a great agony aunt." Gordon chuckled. Now THAT was an idea!
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Five hours later and the boys returned to the Island. Cold, wet and very hungry.
"Well they're boys, what do you expect?" Onaha thought as she watched them shovel food into their mouths ,at a rate probably not humanly possible. Well for most people anyway.
"Is it good boys?" She asked.
"Wongferfuill!" Virgil said. Because of the beam on his face, Onaha decided to take the incoherent speech as a compliment.
She smiled at them before turning to Jeff,who sat at the head of the table. He also was eating fast. But not in the hoovering way that his sons were. He too hadn't eaten, having been watching the rescue from his office. He hadn't been able to leave.
Not after last time.
Jeff noticed Onaha's normally bright smile turning into a slight frown as she turned to him.
Jeff was immediately on edge. It wasn't normal for Onaha to not have a smile on her face. The only time she didn't was when someone she loved was ill or a rescue went bad.
"Whats wrong?" He immediately asked. Big mistake. Almost at once all of his sons stopped inhaling their food and stared at him as though he had grown three heads.
Onaha noticed this. "Perhaps we could talk somewhere else?" She lightly suggested.
"Nuh-uh Onaha you wanna talk, you talk to all of us." Said Gordon.
Onaha took a deep breath. "I was just wondering if maybe Mr Tracy could speak to Alan." At the mention of their little brother's name all of the Tracy brothers sat up straight and focused their attention on the motherly house keeper.
"Alan?" John asked.
"Yes. I went into the infirmary with some food for him. He wouldn't take it!" It was funny how Onaha made not taking food sound like murder. Well to her it was as bad as.
"What do you mean, wouldn't take it?" This concerned Jeff. It was almost unheard of that Tracy brothers refused food. When they did, then the whole family knew something was wrong.
Well now the whole family knew. Not so good for the closest knit, overprotective family that you will meet.
"He just stared at the wall! He didn't say anything! Well he said he didn't want anything. I left the tray, because I thought he would change his mind. But I went in earlier and he hadn't touched it! He was just staring at the wall again. Mr Tracy, can you please talk to him?" Onaha practically begged.
"Even better Onaha, we'll ALL talk to him." Scott said.
"No Scott, if he want's to talk, then he won't open up in front of all of you. It's better if I go on my own." Jeff stated firmly. "Thanks for informing me." He added to Onaha as he rose from his chair.
"Wait dad." John spoke up. "Can I go see him? I mean I haven't seen the kid in person for two months." John had a pleading look in his eyes.
This once Jeff decided to bend the rules.
"Ok John, but then you'll have to leave so we can talk." The Tracy patriarch then left the room.
John nodded at his fathers retreating form. Shot an apologetic look at his brothers, then mirrored his fathers actions and walked out the room.
As he followed his dad's footsteps to the infirmary, John had a mini battle going on in his head. What should he say to his little brother? Should he talk about the rescue? Make pointless talk, just to distract his little brother from his thoughts.
Would Alan even listen to him?
"Ready?" Jeff asked, his hand resting on the infirmary door.
John thought about the question deeply. Was he ready to face his little brother? He normally wasn't used to talking to his injured brothers. No injuries were ever so bad that he had to come down from his 'bird. This thought terrified him. What if he made things worse?
"John." His fathers words took him out of his thoughts.
Jeff was staring at his second eldest. "You want to go through with this? You could come back with one of your brothers later."
Half of John's mind won the battle that was ongoing in his brain. He opened his mouth and said.
"I'm ready. Lets go face hurricane Alan."
So guys that's the end of this chapter. I know I haven't updated in a while, but in my defence I have important exams coming up. But I've passed one so far! Fingers crossed i'll pass all of the others..
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