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Scott sat with lifeless eyes in the plastic chair. "This isn´t real. Tomorrow morning, I wake up and I'll pick you up from school and then I ask you to tell me what´s going on in your life. After that I'll take you to Disney land. Then when we get back on Tracy Island, I take you for a ride in Thunderbird 1. You can watch during the missions, you can come with me and help command and control on the scene but safe in my arms. All I have to do is wake up. When I wake up everything will be fine. I just need to wake up. Come on Scott. Wake up. Damn it!"
A chair was kicked away and landed against a wall. Tears running down my oldest brothers face while he was standing there, just standing there.
Two blond boys walked through New York. Six year old me, and twenty-one year old John. A photographer ran after them. "Mr. Tracy, Mr. Tracy. A photo please. A moment please. What is your comment on Gordon's participation in the Olympics next year? Do you think he has a chance so soon after his tragic accident? Do you believe the gossip that your dad bought him a ticket into the team."
Little me buried my face in John´s shirt. It looked like I was scared of the man. John tightened his grip on me and turned around. "Leave us alone, please."
The photographer ignored John's request and went after the six year old. "Alan you just got six year old a week ago. How do you feel about celebrating your birthday without your mother, again? Do you miss her? Is it true that Scott Tracy is taking care of you more than your father? There are rumors that Jeff can´t even look at you…"
John cut the man of by putting the toddler on the ground. "Alan how about you go inside the toy store and pick out a present. I'll be right there after I talked with this man."
When the toddler was inside the always calm John turned around and hit the photographer right against his nose. "IF YOU EVER COME CLOSE TO ALAN AGAIN. IT WILL BE WORSE THAN THAN A BROKEN NOSE." He yelled and pulled the photographer on his feet. "You're lucky that Scott isn´t there. What are you thinking. He's SIX! And you're asking him if he misses his dead mother and if his dad hates him? Don´t you have any dignity?" John let the photographer loose, turned on his heals and went inside after the child.
The hospital room was empty, none of my brothers or dad were there with me for the first time. A soft beeping indicated that my heart was still beating and the rise and fall of my chest told me I was breathing on my own.
"Wow." I muttered. John was never angry, he never let emotions show when it came to this kind of things. He was calmness himself, the diplomat. I had already seen him cry and now I saw him angrier than I had ever seen Scott. All about words? Words don´t hurt, he told me, ignore them. And now. "Wow." I repeated and sat down om my bed.
"Yes, and this isn´t the first time that one of your brothers did this. It won´t be the last time. The only one who can get a clear emotion out of John is you." Mom looked to John who was standing a few feet from the door, tears running down his cheeks. He turns around and walked away. "They are protective of you because you are a part of them. Gordon is walking again because you needed him, he lashes out the jokes he does to make you laugh. That makes him happy, your laugh. Virgil's music pieces or paintings, when he´s stuck he goes to you, he looks at how you sleep, calls you at school. You´re his inspiration. John is day and night alone among the stars. But you're always there to cheer him up when he feels alone. Scott ... He loves you more than anything else, you´re the most important thing in his world. You just saw him, he was in denial. Soon he continues his life wondering what if. And your father, even though he doesn´t always act that way, he really loves you. We all do. And as much as I love you. It´s not time for you to leave them yet. They need you more than I do. And I can see from up there till you´re old enough to join me."
A doctor came in and closed the door behind him. I knew him. "That's not a doctor." I said, grabbing my mom´s hand. "That is the man who kidnapped me."
"I know. He's afraid you wake up. He thinks that it takes too long for you to die on your own and takes matters into his own hands. You must wake up to expose him. Your brothers are just around the corner talking with the real doctor. If you wake up and you yell for them, you can still save them."
"save them?" I asked confused.
"Yes, they can´t go on without you. You are a part of them. By saving you, you save them. Go now. "
"But how?"
"Put your left hand on your left hand." When I did this, I felt a warm glow going through me. "Close your eyes darling. And remember I´m always with you and I love you and your brothers so much. Remember that. "
Everything about my body ached. It was cold and hot at the same time and everything was brightly lit."
It was hard to open my eyes so I kept them close. With all the strength I had, I shouted the name of my guardian. "SCOTT! DAD! ANYONE HELP! "
There was something covering my face and it became impossible to breathe. "Please come on time."
Scott's P.O.V.
The doctor told us our options. They all sucked. Alan was breathing on his own and the brain itself indicated that there is a sign of life. In other words, there was brain activity. But he was trapped in his own body. If he´ll ever wake up they didn´t know. or if he was in pain or could hear us, they just didn´t know. They knew nothing.
"SCOTT! DAD! ANYONE HELP! " Rang through the halls and everyone looked up startled.
"That's Alan." I cried and ran straight to the room. Under the blankets wrestled the youngest Tracy. Over him was a grown man with a lab coat on. He held a pillow over Alan´s face so he couldn´t breathe.
Without thinking I ran towards them and pulled the man away from him. Right in the hands of Gordon and John who held him tightly.
I threw the pillow away and looked at the monitor. His heartbeat was faster then I would have liked but not dangerous. Alan coughed a few times and I let the doctors take over. Meanwhile, the security arrived and took the man away.
My father was scolding a few people out about security. Alan was abducted from a hospital once. Did he had to be killed there too?
After a few minutes, the official doctor came out. "He has been awake and even aware of his surrounding but is now asleep again. He said something about keeping bad guy away from Scott and Johnny? Care to explain?"
"Are you sure he said, Johnny?" Asked Gordon with one eyebrow lifted and pointed at he only blond in the room. "As in John?"
"Yes that´s what he said." The doctor looked in his papers. "Do you want to sit with him for when he wakes up? "
"Can we?" Virgil looked at him with wide eyes.
"Yes, but no more than two at a time and I warn you. He´ll be in much pain. We can only give so many painkillers. But I'm afraid it's not enough."
"Thank you." Dad turned to us. "I'm going to make sure that the security is taken up. This won´t happen again. Scott and John, you take the first watch, after an hour Virgil and Gordon take it over from you and then you four go out for some dinner while I sit watch. I want Alan guarded around the clock. Understand?"
Said and done, not much later I was back next to Alan's bedside. The past few days since John was freed from the IV for his dehydration, we have done nothing more but sit in this hospital waiting till Alan woke up, praying that he did.
"Please Alan, I know you can do this, open your eyes." a voice wispered but Alan didn´t even stir.
Only one long chapter left.
xoxo Flora