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Bitter Sweet
Chapter 14
Hope!
Scott ran into the infirmary after reading Alan's suicide note, stopping short after seeing Alan's comatose body on the bed. Turning his head in shame, he failed to cover his sobs as he berated himself for failing as a brother, as a protector, as a would-be-lover. Tears leaked out of his eyes as he stepped up to the side of the bed.
"Alan, Allie, no matter what you think, I will always love you. I could never ever hate you, you are my brother, and I do return your feelings. So please Alan wake up and let me tell you, let me tell you that John and I love you so very much. Please don't leave us; I don't think I could make it. Don't let Mullion win, don't let him rule your life, don't let him take you away from our family." cried Scott as he broke down next to the bed, putting his head on the side
Walking into the room shortly after Scott ran in was John with a grim look on his face. 'Oh Alan! Baby brother you didn't have to face this alone. Scott and I will do any thing to keep you safe. Please Alan, please!' John mentally cried.
Pulling up a chair next to Alan's bed, John sat down. Reaching out to Scott he beckoned him to sit with him. Scott looked up and wiped uselessly at the tears on his face before settling in John's lap.
"He'll make it Scott, I know he will. He has to! Our family can't take any more deaths. Plus, we won't let him die. We will make him see that we love him." John said as he reached out to take Alan's hand, bringing it to his lips and bowing his head over it.
Scott sat in John's lap, holding on to the only reassurance he had left. Reaching out he covered his brothers joined hands and placed a light kiss on the knuckles of each.
"Please Alan….."
"Come back to us….."
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The Lounge (Jeff, Virgil, Gordon, and Tin-Tin)
Sitting on the long couch with Gordon and Virgil beside her, Tin-Tin looked at the oldest Tracy in the room. His face has grown to look ten years older then he really was. Despair and fear setting into his posture.
"Mr. Tracy is there any news on Alan's condition?" asked Tin-Tin with a look of desperation on her face.
"He is still in his catatonic state. After he woke up I think the stress, the pain, and the loneliness he felt made his mind retreat to a place where it could be safe, or thought was safe. Hence the regression to when he was 7 years old." Virgil said in reply for his father. "But I think that the shock of the regression was too much and it put him in a coma."
"Do we know if he'll wake up any time soon? Or will he be like this for the rest of my…. His life?" Tin-Tin asked in a sorrowed voice
"We don't know Tin-Tin. I really wish we knew, but we don't." Replied Jeff Tracy the sorrow and despair showing in every word he said.
Gordon sat with his head down looking at his lap, his hands fiddling with the hem of his shirt idly, trying to think of a way to help Alan. Looking up and at his father Gordon asked,
"Dad, where is Brains? I heard him muttering about something that might help Alan."
"He is in his lab, working on a machine that will help Alan, while he is in his coma. Something about tapping into his subconscious to see his dreams." said his father.
"Like seeing into his dreams is going to help him. How's that going to help him?" Tin-Tin muttered.
Looking at Tin-Tin Jeff shrugged "I don't really have a clue, but Brains and Fermat think it will work. So I am with him."
"Dad, what did Alan say to you in his suicide note?" asked Virgil suddenly, before turning his head in shame. "Sorry, I shouldn't have asked."
Raising his hand in an 'it's okay' manner, "No, it is okay. He wrote saying that he was sorry that he wasn't as strong and brave as a Tracy should be. And to please forgive him for falling in love with Scott and John." Jeff said as he looked at his family and Tin-Tin.
"WHAT?!" Tin-Tin's shout practically echoed in the dead silent room.
"He thought he wasn't Tracy enough to stand this. He thought I would hate him if I found out that he is gay, but he couldn't be more wrong. I love my sons, Scott and John are gay, I really don't mind. It is a way of life; I can't force them to change. Plus I am not as old fashioned as many think; I have many friends that are gay." Jeff said.
Tin-Tin sat here with a wide eyed look on her face, digesting what she just learned. The man she has been obsessing over is gay.
"I got that too, but to me he said that he was sorry for letting me down and for taking mother way from me. Saying that had he been more careful that day; mother wouldn't have had to get caught in the avalanche. Also that he was sorry for making me move to a different school in the middle of my senior year of High school." Gordon said as he looked at his father.
"Me too, he kept apologizing for destroying my paintings years ago, when he was a kid. For not helping clean up the messes he had cause while playing with my paint and for being a bad brother. Does he think we thought so little of him? It made me hurt just to think that." Virgil said as he too looked up to his father's face tears threatening to fall down his cheeks.
"You're okay that he is GAY!!" yelled out Tin-Tin suddenly with a disgusted look on her face.
Everyone in the room looked at her in shock. Her out burst was so out of character. The redness of her normal tan face and the look of pure disgust in her eyes made the Tracy's take a second look at her.
"What's wrong with it? I can't change him and I don't particularly want to try." said Jeff Tracy with a look of anger creeping on to his face.
"But it is immoral! You're Christian, you pray to god and you don't mind that your sons are fucking each other! Doesn't the bible say to kill the homosexuals and stuff!" Tin-Tin shouted.
"Look, I may be Christian but I have a very open mind, some of the best people in this world are gay, lesbians, or bisexuals. It is not my place to tell them who they can love. Tin-Tin why are you so mad? Do you have anything against Homosexuals?" Jeff rose from his chair steadily, worried at Tin-Tin's strange change of character.
"It is sick, that is what it is. There should be only one type of lover, and that is between a man and a woman. It is unbecoming to see guys or girls kissing each other. Not including mothers and fathers kissing there kids. Forgive me Mr. Tracy, but it is disgusting! I love Alan, he should be with me!" Stated Tin-tin her face purple with anger and embarrassment
Jeff, Virgil, and Gordon just stood there for a moment just looking at her in shock and wonder. The Tin-Tin they knew was very open minded and was okay with a lot of things in the world, but this Tin-tin in front of them was a stranger.
Gordon moved to get up, but was stopped as Brains and Fermat ran into the room. Breathing heavily and with wide grins they tried to catch their breaths.
"Wwee…..WWee… We did it!" Shouted Brains in excitement
Virgil and Gordon looked at him like he grew a second head, while Jeff gave Tin-Tin a look that sent chills down her back.
"What Brains? What did you finish?" Virgil asked with his head cocked to the side in curiosity.
"I… I…. I finished the machine thhh thhaa that will allow us to send two people into Alan's mmmmmm...miii…. subconscious to see and hold a conversation with him." Brains grinned widely at the collected audience, obviously pleased with his work.
Gordon looked at him in disbelief and asked, "How do you know it will work?"
"Kyrano and Fermat volunteered to test it out. And it works; both of them were able to talk to me in my dreams." Said Brains as his stutter disappeared in his excitement.
"That's great, who are the two that we are going to send?" Virgil fairly babbled the questions as he leaped to give the two resident geniuses a hug.
"I think Scott and John should be the ones to do it." Jeff spoke steadily for the first time since hearing the news, his tone broking no room for argument.
TBC
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