Ending of Chapter 8

"Gordon what's going on down there?"

"I don't know yet Scott. I am trying to find Virgil and John at the moment."

Gordon walked into the next room and found them both lying down on the ground. Gordon walked over to Virgil he looked a bit blue in the gills. Gordon put his two fingers on his neck to check for a pulse. Gordon reached over to John and did the same.

Gordon yelled into his watch. "Scott!"

"What's going on Gordon?"

"I am getting no pulse from Virgil or John. They are both turning blue."

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Brother vs. Brother

Chapter 9

Gordon kneeled down by his two brothers who were getting bluer by the minute. Scott was giving directions to Gordon was he watched in horror. He just continued on to stared at John and Virgil. It was the first time he has ever seen his brothers like this. Yeah, he has seen his fair share of his brothers getting hurt with broken bones, concussions, punctured lungs, but never lifeless.

Gordon stood in such shock as he was almost lifeless himself. He could hear in the distance you could here a small set of feet heading in his direction. As they got louder and louder, Gordon looked behind him and saw that it was Brains coming in to the boiler room to where they were. As soon as Gordon realized of what his brothers would do for him if he was in their position. They wouldn't leave him there to die with no effort to save them. They would have done everything in order to save him.

Now realizing that there is a lot more he could do, Gordon started checking the pulses again on Virgil and then John. While Brains quickly looked over John and then looked at Gordon. Gordon lifted his head from Virgil and looked back at Brains.

Brains took out the instrument that was in his pocket and started clicking a few buttons." Do-o you smell that?"

Gordon, who was bewildered at what Brains was saying, started to lose his composure "Why does that matter? I got two of my brothers on the floor as if you haven't noticed!"

Brains ignored the comment and started to walk around the room with a theory in his mind. "That smell is of coals being used. It depends on what type of a flame they use." Brains stopped in the middle of the room and looked down directly at his instrument. His theory was right. He ran back to where Gordon was helping his brothers at. He looked Gordon right in the eyes before kneeling down to get John. "Gordon, we need to get Virgil and John out of here now!"

"What's going on Brains?"

"N-no questions right now just get y-yourself, and them, out of here."

Gordon kneeled over to grabbed Virgil's shoulder and lifted him up off the ground. Gordon put one of Virgil's arms around his neck and then slid him over his shoulder. Gordon quickly fell down as he got Virgil load of weight on him. Then feeling a bit light headed, Gordon turned to brains, "Man I don't know what up this headache. It's making the room spin."

"Try your best to get out, Gordon."

Gordon tried once again to pick his brother up and this time it worked. He carried Virgil out as Brains half dragged John along. They exit the boiler room and then as they turned around the corner the reached the stretchers. Gordon lifted Virgil on to one while he turned around and helped Brains lifting John up on the other. They started running through the massive submarine, going through room by room, until they were finally reached the port hole on the top to get out. There was Scott standing at the top manhole, frantic as ever from Gordon not answering him. Scott saw his red-headed hair brother popping out of port hole and ran over towards his brother to give a verbal lashing. Before he could get a full sentence out, Gordon shut him up.

"Help me out here! I know I got a lot to explain." Before he knew it, Alan was on his knees behind pulling up the stretcher with Virgil on it. When Scott noticed what was going on, he went on with Gordon's orders and helped lift up Virgil out of the submarine.  Then as followed along with John on the stretcher, then last but not least, Brains. Scott glanced at Virgil and John, and then looked at Gordon, who was not looking so good him self.

Scott placed a hand on Gordon's shoulders and looked directly into his eyes and distinctively but softly, "What the hell happened down there Gordo? You don't look well yourself?'

Brains interrupted before Gordon could answer, "Give him some r-room" Brains reached down at the emergency kit and pulled out two oxygen masks and placed them on Virgil and John. "Gordon will feel fine once he gets some fr-fresh air. I think we need to get John and V-Virgil back into my lab to see the extent of the damage."

Now being back at home in the infirmary of the Tracy house hold laid lay John and Virgil, along with their big brother, to watch over them until the next relief came through. Grandma came in to see how her two grandsons were doing; Scott looked up at her from the book that he was reading. He stood up and gave her a kiss on the cheek.

"How are they doing?" She asked as she walked over to their cots to make sure they were comfortable. She made every effort to make sure that even when are still sleeping that they were comfortable in anyway every way possible.

"Man those two really knows how to give us a good scare. They both got good strong pulses now. Brains think that they should be wakening up soon." As the tall handsome man walked over to his grandmother to comfort her, he surrounded her body with his arms and gave her a big bear hug.

"Well If I know better those two boys there will be hungry when they wake up, I'd better go and cook some soup for …." As the words were fading out as she left the room and headed straight for the kitchen.

Scott sat down in the chair across the room and picked up his book and began reading once where he left off.

Feeling all warm and content as he lay there in bed and didn't want to wake up, he turned over in his bed and cuddled with the nice warm blanket. He put his large hand underneath the pillow and tucked it closer to him as he tried to fall back asleep. Only though he couldn't go back to sleep, he had grown so accustom to having an occasional beep or the wresting of machine against machine but the silence, ironic enough he wasn't used to. Once again he turned around doing a full 180. He opened his eyes and then closed them again to the harsh light. He opened them again but all he could see was a blur. He closed his eyes once again to keep the room from spinning around and to ease his pounding headache. A few more minutes more trying once again to see, he slowly opened his eyes. The blur was still there was first which was slowly going away. He just concentrated what was in front of him. All he could make out at first was a dark green blanket. Then as the image began to clear up, it turned out that he was looking directly at Virgil. Scott glanced up from his book and noticed that John finally was up.

"Hey welcome to have you back in the living John!" As Scott did a half crack smile at his brother.

John looked at his brother and wondered what the hell he was talking about. "What do you mean land of the living? Why am I down here? What happened?"

Before John could get out anymore questions Scott stood up and walked over to him and sat down at the end of his bed and looked deeply in to his eyes. "You scared us good. Yes, Brains told us that you two might not remember what happened due to memory loss, but once Virgil awakens I'll tell you both what happened. ALL I got to say right is carbon monoxide poisoning."

"What?" As John sat straight up in his bed.

While being in the middle Atlantic, going at 50 knots, on the bridge of the USS Continental Audra was on the video-phone to New York.

"This is the USS operator how I may place your call."

"Can I have the offices of Jameson and Johnson, or Jameson Johnson, attorney at law?"

"Who is directing this call?"

"First class captain of the third line WASP patrol, this is Audra De Le Knox." She said it with pride and dignity, and waited a few minutes while the woman looked up the number in her computer. Finally the woman was replaced by a mild looking man in his late 30's. He looked up from his paper work and smiled as in pleased to see her.

With a smile on his square face, "Good afternoon Ms. Knox."

"I hope your having one too Jameson. How are your children?"

"Growing like weeds, can't keep up with them. I see you got the fax I sent you about your mother's will."

"Yes, I did. What is this about that you are unable to find my mothers will. It's been three months. It's in her file that she had a will made out seven years ago. You're telling me that no one is able to locate it and that possibly it doesn't exist. I hired you years ago as my attorney, and are one of the best paid ones in the world, and yet you're able to tell me that you can't find a simple pile of papers."

"Ms. Knox we are very sorry, but it's not like you need the money if there is any from the will. We are using every resource that we have to find it. Why are you so determined to find it?"

"I just need to know what is in that will. I know my mother too well to be my friend but more of an enemy. You know that saying keep your friends close but your enemies closer."

"Yeah, I know it all to well."

"It's in that will that worries me. My mother has tried every time in my life to stop me from becoming who I am."

Her lawyer laughed at her. "You can only be who you want to be not someone else who they created for you."

"Yeah but I know how my mother really is," She looked at him in a cold stare.

He just stared back into her eyes, "It will be okay, I'll let u know if there is anything else that comes in A.S.A.P."

With the glow of her warmth rushing back to her checks, she smiled "Thank you." She turned away from the video-phone and walked out onto the deck just to stare at the wonders of the sea.

Seeing the bright glimmer of light sneaking through the cracks of his eyelids he quickly realized he was in bed. He grabbed the covers and pulled them over his head. Being uncomfortable he turned over on to his stomach to go back to sleep. Scott and John turned their heads towards the rattling sound of the movement. They both noticed that Virgil finally stirred around but didn't want to wake up yet. Scott just smiled at Virgil, and then whispered just loud enough for John to hear "Typical Virgil never wants to get out of bed." John just smiled. Scott placed the bookmark in his book and set the book down on the table next to him. Scott looked at John as he placed his finger over his lips and started tip toeing over to Virgil's bed. The blanket being lose from the rattling of Virgil, Scott leaned over the bottom of his bed and grabbed a good hold of the covers. He waited a few minutes to make sure that Virgil didn't sense anything or at least wasn't going to blind side kick him. On the count of three, Scott started to pull the covers but Virgil sat up and grabbed the covers, pulling back. Scott gave a few good efforts to shake the covers lose but to no avail. He gave up for his brother's sake and allowed him to have the covers back. Virgil just lifted up his feet tucked in the covers underneath him. Then grab a fits full of covers as he placed it over his head.

John just looked up at Scott who just shrugged his shoulders and then said, "Man we thought Alan was the baby of the family, look who's acting like one."

Without another word, a pillow went flying through the air and blind-sided John. Both John and Scott looked at Virgil who looked like he hadn't moved at all during the attack. John looked at the door when he heard small foot steps coming from the hallway. It was their grandmother walking in with two bowls of soup. She placed a bowl at John's side table and one at Virgil. Scott looked at her. Before he could get out 'where's mine', she placed her hands on her hips, "Scott you're not the one who's injured. Soup will be good for them." She turned around and noticed that John was awake. She walked over and gave John a kiss on the cheek, "It's nice seeing you again. Your color is much better now. I think Scott is getting lazy around here and you need to get on him for it."

John smiled at her comment. "Yeah sure grandma. I'll make sure he does everything around here, clean the house top to bottom." She smiled at him and left the room. John grabbed the bowl of soup that was on the table but then quickly placed it back down. John grabbed the pillow which was right behind him and placed it on his lap. He wanted to sit up straight so he moved back towards the headboard. Now using the pillow as table he grabbed the bowl on placed it on top. He picked up the spoon and sipped it. He knew that Scott wasn't going to have any and Virgil was a light sleeper. So he made sure that the noises were loud. By humming, and sipping, and then saying "This is good!"

Virgil finally woke up as Scott stared at his brother with a annoyed face. He did not like to get disturbed from his sleep. Virgil looked over at John to see what the motion was all about. He had every inch of his hazelnut brown hair going every where possible. He looked to his table and grabs the bowl and started eating it. Virgil looked up and stuck his tongue at Scott as he noticed that he didn't have a bowl. He took in a full big bite before he swallowed and then was able to ask "Hey what happened to us down there in the submarine?" He quick stuffed his nose in the bowl to wait for an answer.

Scott made a face because seeing them eat only made him hungrier. "Well from what Brains told us from when he was down there and when he got you back to the house that both of you two got a severe case of Carbon Monoxide poisoning. Gordon got slightly affected from it but he is doing fine now. You two had it so bad to where it slowed down your heart to make it appear that both of you were dead. Brains saw the heater down in the boiler room and ran a quick test."

John just stopped from eating for a second while he listened to what Scott was saying. "So that's why I felt so light head after being in that room for a while and why I can't remember much after that."

Scott stood up and walked closer to John. John knew what he was after and just held is bowl close to him and stuck out his tongue. Virgil smiled, and then took in another mouth full. "Hey you only wish that you were at the girl's house to make you a bowl of soup like grandma made us." Scott looked at his younger brother, Virgil and thought carefully at what he said.

Still with a question expression on his face, he perked up "Which one?" He said with a half witted smile.

Virgil looked back up at Scott "What do you mean you don't know which one? I mean the one who you kissed the other day when we were on that rescue."

John looked up from an empty bowl and he gained interest in what he heard. He nodded his head at Scott. "You and your women, I'm surprised you're not color coding them for us to keep them straight. But boy, Dad will grill you if he ever found that out about that girl you kissed. So how was she?"

Scott had a huge smile on his face looked down at the floor and lifted his head back up to regain composer. "She was smart, beautiful, and the softest lips I have kissed before. But you do know that none of this can be told to dad now. Can I have your Scouts Honor?"

Both Virgil and John replied at the same time, "Scouts honor!" as they both placed both of their hands in a salute as they used to when there were kids.

Scott walked up at next to John and placed his hand in his back pocket to reach for his wallet, "I used the imaging recorder to get a picture of her. I was able to cut it and put it in my wallet." Scott got out the wallet and opened it. He pointed to the picture he wants to show him. "See that's her. She's a beauty."

John jaw dropped ten feet to the ground when he saw who it was. It was Audra. He looked back at him in shock and then saw his bowl. He picked up his bowl and threw it at Scott. Scott ducked the flying bowl what was coming towards him. He looked behind his shoulder at the same time as "What the hell?"  

Before he could look back, John was getting out of bed and leaping on him before he got a chance to react. Scott wasn't prepared to be tackled by John and fell straight for the floor. John quickly got on his knees and punched Scott in his right cheek. Scott did not like that too much to where he turned John over on his back and punched him in the same way.

Meanwhile Virgil was shocked from what happened. Quiet John, who they don't see to often, was in an all out brawl with Scott. He pulled himself out of bed over to side of the room. At first he was trying to get a hold of Scott to pull him off of John but it was too late. They turned over again. He kept trying to get a hold of someone to pull off. They were knocking things left and right making so much clatter to where everyone was coming in from the lounge, except Alan. Finally Gordon helped Virgil peel off John from Scott who was out of breath and trying to sake both of them off. Scott trying to get his breath in looked up at John and said "What did I do?"

John still trying to attack Scott, yelled out "You son of a bitch. What do you mean what did you do? You always get the girls with no problem. What you don't have enough to where you have to take mine!?"

Meanwhile back on the USS Continental, Audra hadn't moved anywhere. She was still staring at the same spot from before. One of her mates walked up to her and asked what was wrong. She

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looked at him and stared back into the sea. She always like the sea it always calmed her, she paused a minute and he started to walk way.

"I'm afraid of losing everyone that I have grown to love. It's hard to believe that when I first joined with the air force I only did it to get the approval of my mother. Hopefully that she would love me for it. And then when they discover that I could swim them also invited me to be in the WASP pilot team as well. Who would have thought that I would be a captain by now? After my mother died, I thought about quitting because I did it only for her but I found myself instead. I found myself that I enjoy flying around the world and helping people. I know that there are better people of me out there who do the same thing as I can." She looked up at her mate who stopped to listen to her. He turned around and came in to give her a big hug.

"We are lucky to have you here Audra."

Another one of her mates walked up with a piece of paper in hand. It was a fax from her attorney, saying that they found the will.

**What does that will that has Audra is so worried about. Will it be good news or bad? Will the Brothers be able to figure out their differences? Stay tuned. The heat is about to turn up.