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Fuel
Alan kicked back in his hospital bed. Nurse Laverne finally managed to kick his family out to get food claiming she was going to give him a bed bath. Instead she waited till they were gone they left the room winking as she left. Alan loved his family. They'd just gone into overdrive, something he wasn't used to and certainly did want to partake in. He pushed the covers down from where his dad had tucked them up around his neck and made himself comfy. There was a tv in the corner, the remote was right beside him. He should probably be resting but he could watch tv now and sleep through his dad and brothers' over protectiveness. Right now that was sounding better by the minute. He grabbed the remote and flicked the tv on settling back into the pillows prepared to flick through the channels. That's when he saw it. Pepper Dylan had been following 'Al' for a while now but Alan went into a state of panic when he saw the report. It looked like a rerun but Alan couldn't be sure. Since when did reporters wear brightly coloured shirts. Purple and orange were defiantly not his colour. He listened as it basically told everyone how he and his friends were a danger to society and needed to be locked away. Just last week this guy was singing his praise!
He turned the tv off and flung himself into bed when he heard the door knock. As far as everyone else was concerned, he was asleep.
"Alan, i know you're not asleep." He hear John call in a sing song voice. Alan groaned as sat up to look at him wincing at the pain in his head.
"What?" Alan moaned staring at his older brother.
"I was wondering," John began. " If dad and Scott were a little bit, i donno,"
"over bearing, annoying, treating me like a child?" Alan cut in looking at John in a don't mock me sort of way.
"Yeah. You want me to talk to them about it?"
"Nah, they'll learn eventually. What's up with the news?" Alan asked pretending not to know. He wanted to see if he could still trust John."
"Um ... okay don't freak out but Pepper Dylan, you know the guy covering the street racing story? Yeah well he found out it was you." John said waiting for Alan to freak out. Nothing. Not even a raised eyebrow.
"You knew." John sighed
"Saw the news. Dad's got it covered right?" Alan asked.
"Nah he said he was going to let you face this all alone. Of course he's got it covered." John said jumping onto the bed beside Alan.
"Yah know when i was unconcious?" Alan started slightly doubting what he was about to do.
"Yeah." John replied putting his arm across his younger brothers shoulders. much like Lucille did.
"ihadadreamaboutmum." Alan gushed out.
"What?" John said confused. He did not understand a word his brother just said.
"I had a dream about mum." Alan said looking carefully at his brother. John smiled and nodded at him encouraging him to talk. And Alan did. He told John everything. John smiled as he realised most of the stories were one he, his brothers or dad told, but there was no need for Alan to know that right now.
John launched into another story about their mum, not realising the rest of his family standing outside the room. They all smiled recognising the story, laughing at their dad's expence. Sometime the man was clueless.
Lt. Arbuckle sat across from Sean Dylan.
" Here's the thing mate. I'm really friendly with this judge who's also real friendly with Jeff Tracy. We found some weed in your car. Right now your looking at 2 years. But if you testify you gave Pepper Dylan the information we can cut it down to, i donno, six months?"
"but that kid was a street racer!"
"Actually, we have no proof of that," Kip chipped in. "We couldn't identify the face in the Video and no ones come forward to say it was him. Right now it's you and your cousin against the world."
Sean Dylan looked up.
"I gave the information to Pepper Dylan my cousin."
"Great well send you over to lock up. Thanks for the help." Kip called out happily skipping along the corridor after Lt. Arbuckle who had just run out of he room. They were going to get to arrest Pepper Dylan. Sometime Kip loved his job.
"What do you mean i'm fired. I got that information from a valid source. No he told me he had permission. That's not my problem. The kids fine no ones hurt so what if he's in the papers." Pepper Dylan had just been told he had lost his job. The paper realised what he did was illegal and issued a formal apology to Alan and the rest of the Tracys. He growled and snapped his phone shut turned around only to be face to face with two police men.
"Pepper Dylan. Your under arrest, you have the right to remain silent ..." Lt. Arbuckle snapped the cuffs onto Dylan whilst Kip pulled funny faces at him trying to gload him into throwing a punch. Sadily this Dylan was a lot more stunned than his older cousin so the arrest was quiet. This meant less paper work but a lot less fun in Kip opinion. He skipped to the car holding the door open as Lt. Arbuckle dipped Dylan into the back seat.
"Wave goodbye to your career Mr. Dylan, no one wants to hire someone who's done time." Kip shutting the door not waiting for a reply. He high fived his partner.
"Shotgun." Lt. Arbuckle called.
"No fair i was caught up in the high five." Kip moaned.
Alan started to fall asleep. the rest of his family had arrived, at the end of John's story and continued with other stories from when he was younger. Some seemed to include his mum others didn't. What surprised him the most was when his dad joined in. He told a really funny one of when Gordon tried to trade Alan in for a puppy and was almost successful had it not been for Lucille's sharp eye and the fact he wasn't strong enough to hold onto the puppy. Alan smiled at his dad. John had gone quietly around his family when Alan was listening to stories and whispered to be a little more carefree with Alan and it had seemed to work. They treated him more like an adult and not like a piece of glass. Jeff had no idea how big a deal treating Alan as an adult was. Alan smiled as he looked up and saw Thom and Max stroll into the room. He thanked them for his new haircut and smiled as they made fun of his brothers.
Lucille smiled down on her family. They were going to be just fine.
Tadaa. i think im just about done a little something set two/3 years in the future i think. maybe. Review and let me know.