Scott frowned as he watched Virgil walk into the lounge holding his tub of popcorn, "you know?"

"Yep. It's hardly been touched. Bare in mind I was working to save your life again."

"That's not the point," Scott snatched the tub out of his brother's hands, "it was for everyone."

Alan bounded into the room, "ah yes, popcorn!"

Scott groaned as the tub was stolen out of his hands again, "oh come on!"

"What's the matter Scotty, you did say it was for everyone?"

Scott growled as his brothers settled on the sofa with the popcorn between them, "so you're not even going to offer some to me?"

"Get over here then," Virgil budged Alan up the sofa, "oh, I saw Marion Van Arkel was there today, did your heart skip a beat?"

Scott blushed as he sat down, "Virgil, you know fully well Kayo and I are together."

"Yeah, but that doesn't stop you flirting with every woman you meet on rescues," Alan added which made Virgil laugh.

"We were not flirting. I'm sure she's seeing someone anyway."

"Did you ask?" Virgil grabbed a handful of popcorn with a smirk.

"No, why would I ask her? I wouldn't tell her I was going out with Kayo, it's not something you discuss on missions," he scratched the back of his head as he remembered what he had said to Marion when he saw her again and his remark that they should meet up somewhere less dangerous if they met again, "I'm sure she's not interested in me, we always clash on something."

"What was it this time?" Virgil droned as he shared a grin with Alan.

"I saved Fuse's life today, and she wasn't happy about it."

Alan almost choked on the piece of popcorn he was eating, "what?! You saved Fuse? Why?"

"There was no way I was going to let him be blown up by the uranium and his own bomb. That would be almost as bad as murder."

Virgil's eyes widened, "he wouldn't have done the same for you."

"I think you're wrong to say that, you're not the one who got us out of that tunnel you made," Scott replied pointedly.

Gordon hobbled in on crutches, "oh you're back, and the popcorn is back too. Dammit Virgil, I came into the lounge and it was gone, I must've left for only five minutes."

"May I remind you that it was my popcorn in the first place?" Scott frowned at him as he made his way slowly down to them, "anyway as I was saying, Fuse was the one who overode the door mechanism and got us out. You would've made it through but we would've been, how to put it?"

"Swimming in poison apparently, according to John," Virgil raised an eyebrow seemingly amused at the acronym.

"Yes, well that's how you would've found us."

Gordon put his crutches down, "I'm assuming you guys are detoxed?"

Scott nodded, "first thing we did when we got back. Is everyone still up for this movie?"

"Sure am," Alan grinned, "is John coming down or beaming in?"

Virgil shrugged, "no idea."

John walked into the lounge, "you weren't going to start without me I hope?"

Scott smiled, "this is more like it. What exactly happened this morning?"

"Oh you mean Gordon and I disappearing?" Alan sat up.

Gordon smiled, "I wanted a bath before the movie but it proved difficult trying to protect my leg cast, so Alan was helping me, but we ended up having a huge water fight. By the time we got dry I gave up on my bath and we saw Thunderbird 1 take off so gave up on the movie too."

Alan piped in at that point, "but we knew that you were getting popcorn and guessed you weren't going to take it on the mission as that would be problematic for you, but then Virgil must have sneaked up into the lounge at some point because we heard him play the piano and then sudden silence."

"Yeah I found the lounge empty and John must've turned the movie off when he called in to inform Scott of the situation so I went up to the piano to get my practising out of the way."

Scott watched the three-way conversation with a childish grin on his face, "and this is where John comes in right?"

John nodded, "I was monitoring your situation and saw that you were stuck, so I called down to Virgil suggesting that he should be on standby in Thunderbird 2 in case you needed backup like last time."

Virgil interjected, "and you did and I thought, well I'm hungry so I'll take the popcorn along as a journey snack and the rest they say is history."

"Yeah but it doesn't explain why you took it in the first place when you knew I was making it for you guys anyway," Scott chuckled, "oh you know what, it doesn't matter now. I'll just stay skinny whilst the rest of you get fat."

"As if," Virgil chucked a piece of corn over at Scott and it bounced off his head.

"Hey!" He reached over and chucked some back.

"Ow that hit my cheek."

"You started it."

Alan threw a handful at both of them, "stop it."

Scott smirked, "I wouldn't have done that Alan, not one of your smarter moves."

A popcorn fight broke out and the lounge soon became the scene of laughter, even Gordon had joined in from where he was sat on the sofa, John, however, stayed away from the fight.

"Children."

"Grow up John," Alan flicked a piece of popcorn at him and it hit the astronaut in the forehead.

"Alan!" John barked, "cut it out."

"It's just popcorn John, what's the matter?" Virgil asked as he popped a piece into his mouth, "we've stopped now anyway, I want to watch this movie."

"It was an episode of Stingray right?" Scott smiled, "we'll have to restart it since you two left it running."

"We did?" Alan asked as he sat back down next to Gordon after glaring at John.

"That's why I wondered if you two had gone off on a mission or something. Then I remembered that you two just love to waste electricity."

"That's not true!" Gordon pouted, "I was happy missing a bit of the movie because I've seen the episode so many times, but then I needed help. So you could say we left it on due to an emergency."

"Sure you did," Virgil raised an eyebrow, "an emergency," he smirked before pressing the button on the holo-screen and sitting back on the sofa, "from the beginning then?"

Scott nodded as he yawned, "yep."

Halfway through the episode they were interrupted by the sound of Scott's phone chiming happily that he had a text, he rolled his eyes and apologised as the four glared at him, he unlocked the screen thinking it was just a scam number then read the name, Marion.

"Ooh Scott, it looks like she wants to meet up," Virgil teased.

"Who wants to meet up?" Kayo asked with a glare as she walked in and Scott blushed scarlet.