Ok here is chapter 3. I would like to thank my beta reader for being an angel and taking on the job of betaing my work she has done a fantastic job. This chapter is quite short but the next 2 chapters shall be up shortly. Oh and yeah thanks for the reviews. I love them all good and bad. Please read and review. Killhill.

Two weeks had passed since John had last seen his family and although International Rescue had been extremely busy, not a single moment had passed that he didn't think about his wife and child. It was getting hard around Tracy island not to notice their brother's withdrawal from them. Of course John was the quiet one who, granted was withdrawn from time to time, but this was bad, even for his standards.

"What's up Johnny?" said Virgil.

Virgil had lost the game of straws and was then forced by the rest of his family to find out the problem of his older brother.

"Huh." John said coming out of a dream. "Is there a problem? Am I needed on a mission?" He said looking all worried as if he had missed the warning siren.

"No Johnny. It's just, well you've been rather quiet since you came back from the mainland and I was just wondering if there was anything bothering you."

Virgil said with a caring tone of voice.

"No nothing I didn't even realise I was being quieter than usual. Guess I'm just used to thinking to myself up there, that's all." said John whilst pointing to the position of thunderbird 5. There was something up, but like hell he was telling his younger sibling what was up, because he knew right away that out of all the remaining people on Tracy Island Virgil had been the one to pull the short straw and was now going to give his father a full report.

"Ok, then fancy a game of poker? Alan isn't here so it means that at least someone else will win some money rather than that tedious brother of ours."

"Sure Virgil, I haven't played poker in ages."

Half way through the game in which John was doing pretty well, meaning he was down $50 which was nothing compared to his usual amount whenever Alan played, there was a call out for International Rescue.

"Okay boys, I'll need all 4 of you out on this one. The Eiffel tower in Paris has just about collapsed. One of the legs has crumpled and there could be a lot more structural damage which means the whole tower could fall. Scott I want you there right away to set up Mobil control. Remember the tower is in the centre of Paris but there is enough room on the patch of grass at the back of the tower to land the Thunderbirds. I've been told by Alan that the tower is leaning towards the road which is dangerous at the best of times so all be careful. FAB boys."

As Thunderbird 2 reached the centre of Paris they were given full updates on what was happening. They would need their heavy lifting equipment to lift the bits of debris that had already fallen onto cars which travelled beneath the tower. Once Thunderbird 2 had landed Scott had ran over to debrief them on the situation at hand. "Ok there are 3 cars trapped under the fallen leg of the tower. We'll need to lift it and then try to save the people inside the cars. From what I can gather the people inside the 3 cars are still alive but we can't afford for any more of that tower to fall so we got to get to work ASAP. Virgil I want you and Gordon to work the heavy lifting machinery, and John, the minute that they have got that bit of metal lifted and start to secure that tower I want you in there and help the civilians out of their cars." "FAB", said the 3 other brothers in unison.

Once Virgil and Gordon had lifted the fallen leg of the tower and were starting to secure it John rushed over to the cars which had been trapped under the tower. He checked all 3 and no one seemed to be badly injured just mainly shaken up. He got the ones out that could walk first and then went to help the injured ones. When he was just about out of the danger zone he heard some creaking from above and heard screams. He quickly threw down the injured person and cover him with his own torso. All of a sudden the heavy lifting machinery gave way and all you could see was the bit of the tower that had been secured, fall to the ground and crush John and the victim.

"John nooooooooooooooo!!!" screamed Virgil as he saw his brother and someone else being buried under the part that they thought had been secured.

tbc

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