Title: The Indigo Children, Part 5
Fandom: Codename: KND
Characters: Tommy Gilligan/Numbuh T/The Tommy
Prompt: #15 (blue)
Word Count: 391
Rating: T
Summary: They are young and strong but somehow they still need to find where they belong. A new generation of the KND begins. Thomas Francis Gilligan has worn many hats during his childhood, but he is a hero for the ages.
Author's Notes: Part 5 of 10.
It begins.
Tommy Gilligan was seven years old and just wanted to be with his big brother. Is that so wrong? So he finds a group of kids in the area who all want to join the Kids Next Door and they all sign up together. While they wait for their letters to come (all accepted immediately, but the letters take four weeks to come back) they hang out and do kids stuff together.
They always come home with dirt coating their feet and smiles on their faces.
HarveyLeeSonyaPaddyTommy.
Only four of them attend academy in the Arctic. Numbuh 60 learns Harvey Mackenzie is already well-versed in everything an operative needs to know, so Numbuh 363 is commissioned as an officer right away.
But the four of them fight of Father and at least twenty ice cream men, and when security footage reveals what they've done…
"Numbuh 362, sir!"
"At ease, Numbuh 60."
"Look at this, sir."
"…I see. What do you wish to do?"
"Early graduation. Medal for bravery, and commissions for all of them, maybe Global Command recommendation for the girl."
"Sis… don't commission them. I'd like them… I'd like them to join me in Sector W. We'll be the best there ever was."
They're back together for graduation, but now it's Numbuhs 363838485T and they are unstoppable. Even though Paddy is still trying to bite his butt after a stint as an Irish setter, everything is back to normal.
Sort of.
"Thomas Gilligan, we regret to inform you that you have been officially discharged from the Kids Next Door. Your numbuh has been officially retired and your bravery commanded in the history books."
He tells them all that he'll just freelance for a while. He dons a deep blue hat and a matching cape and runs off into the night.
One by one he watches them be edged out; first Harvey, then Paddy, Sonya went to the TND, Lee… no one knew, really. The kid just sort of disappeared one day.
The Tommy had a partner the next night, though. A quiet teen, clad in a ushanka and an old Russian military uniform. The Volk fought alongside the Tommy that night and every other night for a long time.
And if the Tommy noticed that the guy always hung around when the TND showed up, he never said anything.
