Chapter 25: Virgil's POV
Billie is so dead, I don't care if she nearly died, you don't pull a stunt like that, especially to your older siblings, it scared the crap out of us. But I think which annoys me the most is the fact she ran out of her hospital room with her twin and her younger brother, and she could hurt herself badly. I ran fast through the hospital corridors, only to find Alan and the twins staring at a man, scared out of their lives. Billie rubbed her temples and suddenly fell, only for Gordon to catch her before she fell past his shoulder. Alan rubbed his arm in attempt to soothe the pain. Alice, John + Scott came around the corner and crossed their arms before staring at the twins.
Scott looked to the man and apologised for the inconvenience of our younger siblings. The man looked to Billie , then smiled and simply stated; "It's ok, I was just like them, it's understandable. However this is a hospital, and people are sick, just like young Billie Esther here. I know you 7 are the children of Jeff Tracy-"
Is that all we're known for? Being the children of the famous Ex-Astronaut, Billionaire Jeff Tracy? Seems that way. The paparazzi always used to swarm us like angry bees when we were little, god I hated it. Scott thanked him for his understandings, before the man looked towards John, before walking away. Scott, John, Alice and myself turned to the three and drummed our fingers on our arms as we crossed them. Scott and John then picked Alan up, Alice grabbed Gordon's ear and I placed Billie over my shoulder and we walked back to the twins hospital room.
Alan started squirming and trying to wriggle free of Smother Hen and Space Case's grip, Gordon started to whine and was trying to push Alice away and Billie was simply punching my back in order to get free. "Put me down Virg, this isn't fun!" She persuaded, to be honest, it was really fun. Her 'punching' my back was quite relaxing and it was massaging my back rather than hurting it - I should do this more often. We entered the twins hospital room, where we threw all three of them onto Billie's bed.
"Billie that wasn't funny" Scott admonished "you scared us, we thought we lost you"
"Sorry old man, I was just having a bit of fun. I need some after these past couple of years, you know." She looks towards Scott and smirks.
"What did you call me?" Scott challenged, Gordon and Alan jumping off the bed just in case Scott was about too attack. Billie looked down to the ground, I couldn't help but go over to her. Billie leans on me and hugs me tight, I missed her these past two years, I always loved playing with her hair, it always calmed me. I run my hands up and down her back and feel something wet and sticky on my hands, then when I retract them do I realise it's blood.
"Uh guys..." I stare at the blood and my hands starts to shake, I wasn't surprised to see John turn around and turn pale- the first sight of blood and he's gone. My mouth is open and I just keep sitting there and staring at it.
"Alan! Get the nurses!" Scott commanded, but there was no need, Alan was gone, but he ran back in with two nurses, himself wincing as the movement jolted his arm. I got up and carefully laid Billie on her stomach, the nurses lifted her gown top and started to work on the...the...
I thought Billie had cut herself and she bust her stitches, but this was more than cut skin, more like penetrated; 3 circular wounds, blue around the edges, dark purple almost fading black, in the centre, she didn't cut herself, she got shot in the back. Gordons eyes were wide like saucers and his mouth agap in shock of his twins scars. Scott, Alan, John + Alice's faces were full of worry and fear, as they looked at the wounded and bloodied back. "What are those?!" Gordon demanded, he was worried and angry, not at Matt but himself. Billie turns her head to face the 6 of us who were more than freaked out.
"Bullet...wounds" Billie says hesitantly, she turns her head back and faces the wall as the nurse applies new stitches to her bullet wounds. With every prick of the skin when the needle went in, Billie flinched in pain; she hissed through her teeth and her knuckles whitened every time she grasped the pillow covers. The nurse applied the new dressings to each wound and left the room, leaving the seven of us in silence, until Gordom spoke up once again.
"Billie, I can't believe this happened to you" Gordon spoke quietly, still worried.
"Gordon, this is nothing compared to your hydrofoil accident scars." My youngest sister rebutted. "Metal ripped through your spine and you were told there was a high chance of being paralysed from the waist down, me, I got shot in the back. I haven't hit any major organs or the spine - I'm okay really I am." She said this with reassurance and this made Gordon smile, he kneeled by her bedside and placed a kiss on her forehead, before whispering something in which made her laugh.
She turned on her back and sat up, placing her back against a stack of pillows, before she wriggled over to make way for her twin on her left. I placed myself down and sat on her right and Alan sat at the end of her bed, Scott, John and Alice sat down on the couch next to the bed. After a while, we started to talk like how we used to as kids, as if none of the dramas ever happened. Then we started to talk about International Rescue, the Thunderbirds in general and the prank that Gordon and Alan pulled.
"Let's get one thing straight! Thunderbird 1 looks better pink, Thunderbird 2 looks better in orange and Thunderbird 3 looks better in blue!" Gordon argued, I will never forgive Gordon for that- never mess with another Thunderbird otherwise there will be hell to pay directly from the pilots themselves. Dad wasn't also happy, he made the boys repaint the birds and wash them still they sparkled. Alice and Billie exchanged looks and remembered that prank, however, they weren't on the island at the time.
"If only Alice + Billie were there, they could've have helped with dealing with the two of you." Scott suggested "It's a shame Alice had that faulty Air Force plane to fix and Billie had to go to Essex for her monthly study review"
"Oh come on Scott the worst you + Virgil could do to us is throw us in the pool or recreate that episode with the whipped cream 8 years ago!" Alan joked, we all laughed at that memory, all because Scott + I spray painted Billie's cat, allegedly. After we calmed down and looked at that, Alice then asked about the past two years on Tracy Island, something that the 5 of us wish we could forget.
"Honestly girls, it's something I wish we could take back, really" Scott started.
"Yeah, it wasn't the best, Gordon, myself and Scott would be at each other's throats everyday" I continued, wishing I could take back everything I said.
"It wasn't encouraging either, we'd only ever talk properly to each other on rescues, otherwise, words would cut like daggers." Gordon concluded. We talked about the one time when Alan witnessed all four of his brothers fighting with each other and ran out of the house, only to be found 5 days later, crying in the forest by Tin Tin. Scott also brought up the time when Gordon and I got into a fist fight and didn't stop, as well as John + Scott, theirs took the longest to resolve. The girls looked at us shocked that their brothers would be like this without their presence, it really has fallen apart over the past couple of years.
"What about dad? Is he okay? Does he know about last night? Does he know that we're alive?" Billie inquired. None of us had called dad about last night to tell him about last nights events or the surprise return of our sisters.
"Well.." Scott started "You see-"
"Your father's okay, he certainly does know about last nights events and how there was a hostage situation, a shooting and then an explosion." We all turned around at the sudden enterance of the voice. "And I can say now, I'm happy to have my little girls back home, alive and well..." Dad was standing there, smiling and hands on his hips, we moved out of the way so that we could, showcase the girls. He stood there, before walking up to them before a flurry of chestnut brown and sandy blonde hair ran into him.
"We missed you daddy..."