DISCLAIMER

"Come Alan. We´re here." John touched my shoulder and I shot straight up, startled. "Sorry," John said apologetically.

"Doesn´t matter." I grabbed the keys out of my suitcase and together we shifted all our stuff over to my car. I sat behind the wheel and waited until John took his place after he locked his car.

I raced out of the parking lot toward the highway. "Okay, what's the plan?" Asked my brother.

"James and I talked about where we could hide in case my family would come after me. I told you that, didn´t I? Well. A few days before James death we talk about it again. James said to me, 'Who knows, maybe we need it sooner than you think." He looked at me sadly and I thought it had to do with the family problems that we both had. But maybe he was trying to tell me that I had come look for him."

"Where do you want to start?" He went on. Sadness clearly audible in his voice but I ignored it. It didn´t need to be told again and again.

"I have a list standing in my iPad. He's in my second backpack. Can you just get it, please? "

He was rumbling behind me for a few seconds. "Got it."

"Okay, in documents, open `Fun Vacation Places.´ in excel. There is a list of addresses and code names. Those are the places we go to."

"How did James actually put his death in scene?"

"With money, anything is possible. Bribe a few people off, then disappear. Believe me once you're gone, fake passport and you tell no one where you are, you won´t be found if you don´t want to be found."

"Alan, I know what you said in the hospital but have you thought about this seriously? Do you really wanted to take a different name and disappear without a word?"

I threw him one of my spare passports from the glove box "You seriously want the truth?" I asked. "I've learned that sometimes it's better to keep silent than to tell others what you feel. Because it hurt badly when you come to know that they hear you but can´t understand the pain your feeling."

"I understand..."

'No, you'll never understand until it happens to you." I decided to change the subject. "Have you found it?"

John understood that I didn´t want to talk about it and went on wit hit. "Yeah. There are really way to many addresses and names on there. How do you want to visit them all? Most of them are oversea."

"Some are fake. When we sit down for lunch or something I need a map so we can see the route."

"We have been lucky in London but all over England people are looking for you. Your picture is scattered everywhere and even MI-6 and the FBI are on the case. We can´t just sit somewhere to talk."

I stopped at an ATM. "I know a place where we´re save, and now we are going to leave London anyway it may not be a bad idea to take some cash with us." With the engine still running I took the maximum amount from my account. "Now Dad knows that I am a free man. I don´t know if he's happy I´m free or angry that I didn´t come home."

"Trust me. He´ll kill me first." Said John when he came back from his cash withdrawal. I looked at him while I instituted the GPS. "He was furious that I had left you there alone." He explained. "In his eyes you're still his little boy who has to grow up and is helpless when you are assigned on your own. If he finds out that I'm with you on a trip around the world looking for a supposedly dead boy wanted by the Mafia. No. I won´t survive this adventure."

"I'll protect you. I'm not a kid anymore and helpless I've never been."

"But he doesn´t know that."

"Then it's a nice surprise for them when we´re home." We drove on a long road with no-one near us for miles. Time to show John what I designed. I pulled the wheel back, pressed a red button on the stick. By the doors clapped the little wings out. The trunk transformed until jets became visible. I gave a yank on the steering wheel back and we went up into the air.

"O My God." Muttered John. His eyes widened in surprise.

"Nope. Just James and Alan. "I chuckled. A private joke between James and me.

"How?" Stammered the astronaut looking out of the window. We´re making height, fast.

"I told you I was good at engineering. James has his connections in other countries who provided for various plans. Which I joined with my knowledge of Lady P's car and the Thunderbirds, and voila. My beauty. Wanna learn how to drive her? "

"You bet." Sounded excited. "You know. Dad is really crazy if he doesn´t accept you and James for the Thunderbirds, as far as I've heard you´re going to be great assets for the team. Our team and the brainiac´s."

"We have often heard we´re a great team on our own. Not by the Thunderbirds but our own, so we´ll see what happens. James always said that we aren´t a team. We´re half people who together are one. One is nothing without the other half." I felt the tears welling up at the thought that I almost lost James. I ... we need to find him quickly.

John saw that I was trying hard to keep the tears in and caused a distraction. "How does it work?"

I showed him all the buttons and told their goal."Uhm. Red is for flying, blue for underwater, green on the water and yellow for a normal car. Pulling the wheel to you is up, push forward is down. " Telling all about the engine something came up in my mind. "John do you still have your TB-watch on?"

"Yes. Why? " Sounded questioningly.

"This allows them to track us. Can you take the Wheel from me, just follow the GPS. I just making a small adjustment."

Hesitating John gave his watch to me. The car I put on autopilot and crawled into the backseat. John sat behind the wheel and turned the buttons again so he was in charge. "What are you going to do? You don´t destroy it,right? "

"Not at all." I put my laptop and began to search the blueprint in Brains program. It wasn´t difficult to find, and soon I had changed the watch. "I've changed the stopwatch. If you start it your the watch gives a signal to Thunderbird 5. Which can track us. If you turn off the stopwatch the signal stops directly. John, I trust you and I understand that you want home to know where we are. But if I see you've put it on without my permission this partnership terminates direct and I chase James on my own. You can always ask me, I think you have noticed that I'm not stupid. Please don´t try to outsmart me. This is only in case of emergency and sometimes as reassurance. Got it?"

John put the watch on. "Absolutely."

"You´ve got a cellphone on you?"

"I do. It's in my backpack. Is there a GPS on it too?"

"Yes, but that's not the point. I want to call Sandy and maybe even call home. Let them know I'm okay."

John looked at me gratefully. "That would be great. They´re really worried about you."

I dialed the number for Sandy on John's Iphone. "John!" Came out the other side. "Is everything all right. Is Alan okay? You've found him right? "

"Alan's okay." I said with a smile.

"Thank God. Don´t you ever do this again Tracy. I'm too young to turn gray. Is everything all right? Got everything for your diabetes? Is John treating you okay? "

"Alan has almost everything he needs." I said still in the third person. "Alan just misses his girlfriend big time."

"Bring James home then you don´t miss him anymore." Was there playing.

"Haha, I mean you, me Amor. I miss you. Listen, this is really important. I love you and will do anything to protect you. Therefore, I must disappear for a while. I know too much and I´m afraid that the people are behind James are now after me. I'm going to call home and ask them to take you and Mark to the island. There you´re safe till this is over. "

"But."

"Sandy, I love you more than I love any other woman in this whole wide world. If anything happens to you I´ll never, ever forgive myself. Make sure you're safe. I let, as often as is safe, hear from me. Promise me you'll stay safe. Just promise me."

"I promise. Please come home soon. With James. You´re also safe on the island."

"Once I´ve got James, I´ll come home. Hey, love you."

"Love you more."

'Impossible. Bye my princess. " I blew a kiss through the Phone.

"Bye my prince." Sounded sad. "Please, come back safe."

"I´ll do my best." I promised and hung up. Laying my head against the door. Smiling. There were only three people who could make me smile when I felt bad. And I loved her so much. I loved them all so much.

I´m starting on another story soon. Just finishing up the dutch version before I translate it.

happy Christmas! XD