Hope you enjoy this chapter and again I do not own the thunderbirds some rich person does. Big thanks to my beta reader and also tikatu who picked up that I made a mistake I have now made the amendment and changed it to say LA. Reason behind it was I had been studying New York all day about their airports and obviously hadn't escaped my mind as I would have hoped. Enjoy.

Once Virgil had landed at LAX airport, he went to find an attendant that would direct him to his grandmother. Unfortunately, due to bad weather and the amount of air traffic, it was going to be around 12 to 24 hours before he would be able to leave the airport.

Virgil was dreading telling his grandmother that it would be another day before she would be able to see her wounded grandson and also her great grandchild.

"Virgil, Virgil. Over here." Tin-Tin was jumping up and down trying to attract his attention.

Virgil at once noticed them and went straight towards them. He immediately hugged his grandmother tightly which showed a great deal of emotion between the two. He also hugged Tin-Tin but in a more friendly way. After a long 12 hours in which Grandma had made them wait around the airport just in-case there was an earlier time in which they could take off, Virgil was glad to be back in the air and quite frankly, was sick of his grandmother pestering to get every single detail of information out of Virgil's head.

All Virgil wanted was some sleep but he didn't even get a second of sleep between the hard aircraft seats and his grandmother's pestering. He was glad they were finally given clearance to take off.

"What's she like? Who did she take after? What colour is her hair? Whose personality has she got?" This was all she kept asking on her way back to Tracy Island.

Virgil and Tin-Tin could not wait to get home and get some peace.

"Tracy One, permission to land." said Virgil as the came in for landing.

"Permission granted" came Scott's low and stubborn tone over the frequency.

Virgil sensed that something must have been wrong and was actually thinking of parachuting his grandmother out of the aircraft and hightailing it to the North Pole.

Instead Virgil landed the aircraft on Tracy Island, where, as soon as the plane stood still, his grandmother climbed out and went straight towards his fathers study.

"Jefferson Tracy I want a full report right now." She ordered as she entered the living quarters.

Jeff obeyed his mother and took her into his private study to fill her in on the last day's events. The young Dr Haley was even called in at one point. Virgil and Tin-Tin walked into the kitchen to find Gordon innocently trying to sneak away, by crawling along the floor.

"Where are you going?" said Tin-Tin as she looked down at a crouched Gordon.

"Anywhere but here right now. Grandma sounds in bad mood, Dad's in bad mood, Scott and Alan are in a bad mood."

"Why?" asked Virgil, actually wanting to know.

"Well, yesterday morning Alan was phoning someone, I dunno, one of John and Pipa's friends or something. Anyway he was giving her an update on John and naturally dad walked in and thought that this was a security breach and well, dad at his finest overreacted and took chunks out of Alan. To make matters worse, Scott then took it upon himself to yell at Pipa about the phone call, which she really didn't need. So Alan yelled at Scott, Dad yelled at Alan and Pipa, who I though was quiet and wouldn't say boo to goose. Blazed at dad, saying things she really shouldn't have said to Dad. 'Cause well, you know what he is like with his pride and such. So there is now a whole house divided or should I say Island. Haley is trying to stay neutral and well I'm staying out of it. Hence why, I am running away."

"What about Lucy?" asked Tin-Tin looking quite anxious.

"She's a great kid." Gordon said grinning.

Virgil faked to kick him but just said "No, you moron, where is she and please tell me no one yelled at her!"

"Yeah, I know. Well, dad yelled at her when she called him granddad and Alan took offence at this. You know, I really didn't know he and John were that close. When do they see each other? Anyway, Scott and Dad keep ignoring her so she is upset. What's with you running away when you did? She feels neglected." Gordon quickly moved to get out of Virgil's reach. "Virgil, I was kidding! No need to kick me. Anyway, Alan has been looking after her while her mom has been glued to John's side. Oh yeah, he is breathing on his own now. Still sleeping, but breathing."

"Yeah well, I suggest we hightail it out of here before grandma goes on the rampage." said Virgil beginning to move out of the kitchen and heading for the sleeping quarters of the house, quickly followed by Tin-Tin and Gordon.

Meanwhile in Jeff's study, Grandma was trying to stay cool but her son was beginning to make her see red.

"You yelled at Alan, you yelled at that young girl. How irresponsible are you, Jefferson?"

"Mother, he was making a call without any regards to security."

"Oh Jeff, shut up, that is your son and daughter-in-law's best friend. Of course she would be worried. Alan had every right to call her and tell her things were ok."

"Mother that is not the point"

"Yes it is Jeff, and you know damn well that it is." Josie was trying to stay calm but it wasn't working very well. "As for that eldest son of yours, I'll be seeing to him. Yelling at that poor little girl. Honestly, as if she doesn't have enough to worry about without him doing his finest impression of you. I'm pretty glad she told you a few home truths, Jefferson. I bet she hasn't left John's side and I can also safely assume that you haven't attempted to get her to eat anything."

"Mother!" Jeff said, sounding angry.

"Don't even go there, Jefferson." Josie said as she marched out of the room, heading towards the medical room. When she marched into the medical room her heart gave a leap.

She saw her grandson lying on a bed with monitors attached to him and also saw his beautiful young exhausted wife almost asleep by his side. She silently crept up to her granddaughter-in-law and tapped her on the shoulder.

"Sweet heart, wake up."

Pip startled and looked up, afraid of who had woken her.

"Hullo." she said full of sleep and fear. She was far too tired to have another argument with John's family.

"I'm John's grandmother, please call me Josie." she said in a sort of mothering way and Pipa knew right away that this woman was not about to argue with her.

"Hello," she said with a weak smile "I'm Pipa."

"Well dear, now that we have met, I suggest you go and get some sleep. Don't argue with me dear, you need some sleep and a decent meal and so does that Doctor over there. So I suggest the both of you go and I don't want to see you back in this room for another 8 hours."

They were both too tired to argue so they just nodded.

"Good, now give me five minutes till I get one of my grandsons down here to watch John and I can show you to the guest quarters then. Pipa, if you don't mind, I would gratefully appreciate being introduced to my great-granddaughter."

She looked down to her wrist where her com watch was located.

"Gordon could you please come to the medical room and wait with John, now please." "Sure thing Grandma, be there in a second." his voice came from her watch. A few moments later Gordon appeared. He hugged his grandmother and then sat down.

"Gordon, I'll send one of your brothers to watch him in a little while, just stay here for now and if there are any problems, get Brains and only if extremely necessary, you can get Dr Smith out of bed, you hear me?"

"Yes ma'am." Grandma moved out of the room and headed towards the sleeping quarters. Haley and Pipa followed. She showed Pipa to John's room. Grandma told her that she was married to John so therefore it was her room too. She also told her that in that room she would get some peace and quiet and no whining from a 5-year old. Pipa reluctantly agreed and as soon as her head hit the pillow she was far away in the land of nod.

Grandma then showed Haley to a small room at the end of the corridor. Haley turned to look at Josie in a kind-hearted way.

"Thank you. I was about falling asleep on my feet, seriously. Not to be rude or anything but there wouldn't be a spare T-shirt or anything I could borrow as, well, this is all I have?"

"Oh of course dear." Josie ran off like a bullet "Don't you worry dear, I'll get one of my grandsons to bring one along, oh, and a tooth brush."

As she was running along the corridor she spotted Virgil and ran straight towards him. She told him that Haley had nothing with her and that she needed an old of his to sleep in. Virgil just nodded, too tired to say anything, except that Tin-Tin had about the same size. Grandma didn't seem to hear as she was already running somewhere else, so Virgil headed to his room, grabbed an old T-shirt and headed off to Haley's room to give it to her. After a few hours had passed, Josie had finally met her great-grandchild and she loved her more with every second that passed. They had resided in the kitchen all afternoon, cooking dinner. Alan was glad of the quietness that he was getting with his grandmother teaching Lucy how to bake fairy cakes. Alan headed off to see Virgil as he had hardly seen him at all for the last few days, but Virgil wasn't in his room. Alan just shrugged and headed off to see Tin-Tin. He entered Tin-Tin's room and all he could see was a heap of clothes all over the place. Tin-Tin noticed him and went to give him a quick kiss on the cheek.

"What the hell are you doing?" he asked chucking.

"Oh your grandmother asked me to sort out some clothes for that Doctor."

"Tin-Tin, you could clothe a whole country with this!"

"Yes, I know and no more of your jokes, Alan Tracy. I'm mad at you."

"Why?"

"Cause you never told me about John. You and your secrets!" She said mockingly way.

"One tiny little secret you could have told me." Alan just enclosed Tin-Tin into a hug and said: "Well, I would, but then John would have killed me and you wouldn't have wanted that. Come on we better sort out some of these clothes."

Hours later the family all sat down for dinner. Grandma had asked Brains if he would mind watching John for an hour. She promised him extra fairy cakes for doing it. Brains agreed and went quietly to John's room with 5 fairy cakes on a plate.

Virgil and Haley were the first to arrive for dinner. They entered looking quite cheerful in a happy heated discussion about super heroes. Haley was wearing some of Virgil's old clothes which were far too big for her but nevertheless she looked happy wearing them.

After the rest of the family had arrived, dinner passed quietly. Jeff kept staring at Pipa in his disapproving glance and Alan kept looking at his father as if he was about to blow. The moment Alan started to open his mouth, a call from Brains came through.

"D-D-D-D-Dr. Haley!!! I-I-I-I, you are needed in the medical room straight away!"