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Chapter 29 – It's All Over but the Paperwork
Jeff, Scott, and Alan Tracy were running towards the main villa when the report of a gun echoed over the island vista. The three men, still streaked with dirt from the rescue in South America, froze in horror. It was Alan who first recovered his senses. "C'mon, the shot came from that direction."
The Tracy father and firstborn son ran to keep up with twenty-two-year-old. Scott raised an eyebrow at his parent as they ran, "Maybe we got lucky and Katie shot him."
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Shouting at Kyrano to "wait a minute, we don't wanna scare the kids" Sarah pulled down several large palm fronds and covered up the body of the Hood, while Tin-Tin had grabbed the cord that had previously bound Julie's wrists and tied the unconscious woman's hands behind a tree. "That'll hold her," Tin-Tin panted in satisfaction.
Just as she had finished securing the scientist to the tree, Alan's voice could be heard drifting into the clearing. Bursting into the open space, the blonde gaped at the sight before him. Staring first at the unconscious scientist, then at the feet that Sarah hastily covered with another frond, before scanning the faces of his apparently unharmed wife and sisters-in-law, Alan shook his head before walking towards the shelter. Speechless, he punched in the code and opened the door. The entrance had not completely opened when the four oldest Tracy grandchildren ran out to their respective mothers. Onaha, carrying Keith and Kyrano, holding Samantha, walked out slowly smiling at their daughter and son-in-law. Alan snatched his baby girl out of her grandfather's arms and stomped out of the clearing passing his father and oldest brother as they ran in. Scott already had his arms full of his youngest son, while Jeff was checking on everyone else, when they heard Alan's voice echo back through the jungle.
"Anyone want to tell me why the hell we were worried about them? We should post a warning sign around the island perimeter: Beware of Wives."
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By the time Thunderbird Two had landed, Jeff, with Kyrano's help, had secured the Hood's body in a storage locker in the basement. When the three middle Tracy brothers ran into the lounge, they were struck by the sight in front of them. Kate sat on one of the sofas, leaning into her husband, their sons happily chattering on their laps. Alan lay exhausted, his head on Tin-Tin's lap while Samantha lay on his stomach. Emily smiled up from where she was examining Brains. Onaha and Sarah were holding Michael and Keith, looking out at the ocean, while Julie sat on the floor with Elizabeth showing her a picture book. The little girl screamed, "Daddy!" and ran into John's arms. The father picked her up and held her so close that she eventually began to wiggle with discomfort.
Julie smiled as her husband ran towards her. Pulling her to her feet, Gordon immediately took her in his arms, muttering over and over, "You're OK, you're really OK."
As the husbands looked over their wives and children, grateful for the chance to be with their family again, Jeff and Kyrano reentered the lounge, a bound Transom between them, blood now dried on her face. Virgil smirked at the sight of the defeated scientist. "Hey, Scottie, you really should tell that wife of yours to watch her temper. I think she broke Transom's nose."
Sarah, who was examining the henchwoman's injuries, glanced up at her spouse. "Wrong brother to be lecturing – and don't bother Alan or John."
The Tracy men all stared at Julie who shrugged as she patted her stomach. "She kept pointing a knife at my babies. I lost my temper."
Gordon grinned before correcting his wife, "Julie, you mean she threatened our baby… Wait, she threatened both you and our baby? Transom, you bitch!" Before he could complete his threatening move towards the woman, Julie returned the correction.
"No, Gordon. I saw the ultrasound. It is still in my bag on Tracy Four but I saw them. We are having two babies – twins." The redheaded Tracy son froze and slowly turned back to his wife. He looked at her before looking over at Emily who smiled and nodded. Turning back to Julie, she did likewise as he held up two fingers before pointing to her stomach.
Luckily, Alan and Jeff were close enough to catch him when he fainted.
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After Jeff had contacted Penny – who in turn would be rendezvousing at the Island with certain trusted "associates" from the global justice community - the Tracys, now cleaned up from the rescue, and command/control returned to Jeff's home office, gathered back in the lounge where a now conscious Gordon seemed to alternate which woman he was warily watching: the woman who had threatened his family or the woman who was carrying his twins.
Making sure the children were happily eating sandwiches and chips under Onaha's watchful eyes, the Tracy wives stood with their husbands as Transom once more began to threaten Jeff.
"I will expose you. The Hood never felt we should but I always believed if we were to expose you, you would be helpless. Vulnerable to enemies you never even knew you had." Glaring at Kate, who had made a threatening move towards the woman, she snapped, "What, are you going to kill me as well?"
Kate seemed to be considering the idea when Julie stood up, coming to stand between the two women. "I do not think so. You are returning to prison. You still have your original sentence, plus charges from your escape, aiding the Hood's escape, kidnapping and criminal threatening. If you behave, you may leave prison alive. Breathe one word of the Tracys connections to International Rescue and my vow to God – you will not."
Smirking, the redhead glared at Julie. "Oh, the little convent girl is threatening me?"
Julie smiled. "Have you ever heard of Yuri Ivanovitch?" The scientist went pale at the name, but Julie simply continued, now also addressing the Tracys. "I attended Sainte Catherine's with his daughter Katrina. She used her mother's maiden name, so most never connected it. When we were fifteen, some enemies of her father tried to kidnap her. They had not planned on returning her unharmed. I helped her get away. He swore that day, as he took her back to Russia, that he owed me a blood debt. I have never collected on that debt. Expose my family and I will." Glaring at the woman, Julie resumed her seat next to her husband.
Alan whispered loudly to John, "Who is Yuri Ivanovitch?"
John, his blue eyes wide and fixed on Gordon's wife, said loud enough for the whole room to hear. "The head of the Russian Mafia."
Julie smiled at her husband's family. "Uncle Yuri – he has always insisted I call him that – is very fond of me. He even sent a wedding gift. Oh, Gordon, I forgot to show you it." Standing once more, she went over to a table and returned with a small box.
As Gordon opened the box, he nodded to his wife. "It's pretty honey. Um, what is it?"
Frowning at her husband, Julie pointed at the item and said, "An egg, silly."
Emily leaned over the box before reverently picking up the object. "Julie, is this real?"
Smiling, Julie nodded. "Uncle Yuri had it in his Paris office. I always thought it was pretty. So he told me if I married a man worthy of me, he would send it to me as a wedding present. In truth, I had forgotten about that. But when I wrote Katrina to tell her of my marriage and new address, she must have told her father."
Looking after her husband, Emily quietly said, "A Faberge Egg."
Gordon once more looked like he wanted to faint.
a/n - Guess Julie is just attracted to trouble makers. Just the epilogue, then a one shot. Then I am taking a little time off to catch up on my housework and my sleep. When I write, I like to really commit to it, and I have to let other things slide. But I do have some other ideas and have been playing with the ideas of some crossovers, bringing other fandoms I love together with the Thunderbirds. And of course, Alan will probably end up in jep. But he will still be the nicer one. I always based my Alan on what I saw in the young actor who played him in the movie. Brady always seemed to show him as a kid who was more hurt than spoiled. I always thought that if his family were to keep realizing that he was just needing some proof that he was as important as IR, he would become a really good person. I also thought that all of the boys deserved to have their own happily ever after, because life on a tropical island can get boring after a while. I hope I managed both. - CC
