Jeff stood in his study watching his youngest son via a monitor. Alan was just about to tell Jeff John's secret and he assumed he wasn't going to like it, by the expression and tone of urgency with in Alan.

"Um sir, John never told you this he never told anyone except me. That um…"

"Would you just spit it out, Alan!" the reaction of Jeff at this moment told Alan that his father was not in good mood and it was best to just get it over with.

"Sir, John has a wife."

"A WHAT?!!" Jeff screamed hearing this news.

"A wife." Jeff looked utterly shocked by this revelation. Granted, he knew his second eldest son was secretive but this beat everything.

"Alan, are you telling me that your brother has been married in the past to a woman that I never knew existed."

"Sir, um John is still married. He and um his wife are still together I think that she should be told about John."

Alan was cringing as he told his brother's secret. He knew that his father would never forgive him from keeping this from him. Jeff still didn't understand how his son could possibly have a wife. It just wasn't possible, he lived here, he would never see his wife. Except during his monthly leave. I have never asked him questions about his leave. He must have met her then. "Alan do you know this woman."

"Yes sir." Alan said looking down ashamed.

"I need you to call her and tell her about John. She can't come here because of security." Jeff was losing it. He had no idea how to handle the situation. His son was lying in a coma, he had just found out he was happily married and he couldn't risk bringing her here to the island as it was a security risk.

"Sir," said Alan looking up from his ashamed position. "John told her everything about International Rescue. She might already know that he has been injured but I should call to tell her anyway." By this time Jeff was furious. He had asked his sons never to tell anyone about International Rescue and now his son had told a woman, a stranger to the Tracy family, possibly endangering the whole organisation.

"Right Alan, I will send Brains and Virgil up to collect you. Can you put the automatic rotation on the satellite. Do any of your brothers know about this?"

"No sir, I was the only one John has told and he trusted me dad, he trusted me not to say, but I had to tell you. Dad you need to send someone for her. When I tell her she will be beside herself with worry."

"Yes, I had thought of that and I'll send Scott. He will go collect her and bring her to John."

"She lives in Atlanta dad. You better send Scott now, before I tell her. That way she will have less time to wait for Scott."

"Yes Alan," Jeff sounding angry "I will, now please go and tell that poor woman that her husband has been injured."

"FAB Dad"

Once Jeff had finished his shocking conversation to Alan he called the remaining 3 of his sons and his chief engineer into his office. As he told the four men sitting right in front of them the news that John had a wife, the four of them looked utterly bewildered. They had no idea that their brother was married.

"Okay boys, I need Virgil and Brains to go and collect Alan. The boy was as white as a sheet when I told him about John. Scott, I need you to go and collect John's wife. I don't even know her name, Alan left out most details but she will meet you at Atlanta airport. FAB boys."

Around the same time Alan was about to have the worst conversation he had ever cared to be part of. Telling Pipa about John's accident.

"Uncle Alan!" Said his 5 year old niece as she answered the vid phone with a pleasant grin.

"Hey Luce, is your Mommy there 'cause I really need to talk to her." Trying not to sound to urgent cause he didn't want to upset the little one.

The 5 year old ran off, screaming "Mommy! Mommy!" at the top of her lungs. Her mum came quickly.

"Sweetie, what is it?"

"Uncle Alan wants you."

"Okay sweetie, can you go out to the garden and go play with your auntie Tash whilst I speak to Uncle Alan." The child nodded and ran for the garden where her mother's best friend sat.

"Alan, what's wrong." She guessed this by looking at Alan pale exterior, that he was still in uniform and that he never called at this time of day.

"Pip, John was involved in an accident earlier today. He has some broken ribs and is in a coma. I don't know how bad it is only from what my father has told me."

Pipa just clasped her hand to her mouth out of shock. Not her John! How could this happen to her John?!

"Alan, Alan, I need to see him! I don't care about security, just tell your father, anything, I just need to see him." Tears were running down her face now. She was desperate to see him, she needed to see him, to make sure he was still in one piece.

The thoughts were running through her head. What happens if he dies?! She would be alone and totally destroyed. John was her world, her life, her child's father, she needed him.

"Pipa, I've already told him. He is sending my brother Scott to collect you at the airport and I will meet you at Tracy Island."

Alan told her when and where to meet Scott and not to be too worried. Alan cut the communication just as Pipa hit the floor with tears flooding out of her eyes. Her friend Tash walked in to see her lying there and rushed desperately to comfort her. "J-J-Johns been i-i-injured pretty bad" she stuttered through her tears as Tash cradled her.

"Oh dear lord, Pip, honey, where is he? Did they say?"

"Um yeah. A plane is meeting me in 2 hours at the airport to take him to wherever the hell he is." She said blankly. This was too much of a shock. All she wanted was for John to there to hug her. "Um Tash I need you to help me get Lucy ready and drive me to the airport. If you don't mind?"

"Of course Hun, um, why don't you have a cup of tea and I'll bung some stuff in a case for you and the kid."

"Thanks."

Pipa was still in shock and the next few hours for her were going to be the longest in her life.

"Tash, what will I tell Lucy?"

"Tell her nothing for now. Just that you're going on a little trip. Pip if you want I can look after the kid until John is a bit better."

"No, John will need her to be there, I know he will, he loves her more than anything on this earth."

"What about John's family? Have you told them. I know you don't know his father but maybe Alan could tell him for you."

"They know, Alan told me. His father is arranging for the aircraft to take me to John."

"Wow, is John's dad Jefferson Tracy or something!"

Pip at this point just gave a sweet smirk, as to say that Tash was being stupid.

As Thunderbird 3 reached Tracy Island, Alan ran to the medical room to see his brother. He had filled in his brothers on the way back down to Earth about John's secret life. He had also told them about Lucy and how he had been desperate to tell them. Surprisingly both Brains and Virgil sort of understood why John had kept this secret to himself. When he reached the medical room of Tracy Island, Alan let out a gasp of horror as he saw his brother connected to all those tubes and other things he didn't understand. Gordon at this point had been sitting by and noticed his brother's arrival.

"Alan, he will be OK. Dr Smith already said so, all he needs to do is wake up. Come on Johnny, you need to do that for us, please!"

Alan moved forward to sit with his 2 brothers with silent tears running down his face.

Pipa arrived at the airport looking rather harassed and worried, holding Lucy in her arms and bags on her back as she went in search for someone to help her find the aircraft she was looking for. Finally she was directed to the private lounge area where she sat and waited for an employee of the airport to tell her that her aircraft had arrived. She was thankful at that point that the airport attendant helped her with her bags to the aircraft. As she approached, she saw a man and she knew that this had to be Scott. He was the double of his father from what she had seen from pictures of John's father. As she started to walk towards the aircraft, she struggled to keep hold of the mischievous 5 year old. Scott noticed the child. His father never mentioned a child! How the hell was this possible!

"Um hello, I'm Pipa, John's wife, and this is our daughter Lucy."

"Hello ma'am, I'm Scott, John's older brother. The flight to Tracy Island should take a few hours. I'll get an update on John once we are in the air." She just nodded at this and began to climb onto the aeroplane that would take her to her husband.