Again all my big chancrous Gerry Anderson my beta reader etc etc. Again I own nothing absolutely nothing of anything so try and sue the most you'll get is a cheeseburger.

Haley instantly made a run for the medical room. She was followed by the majority of the family excluding Tin-Tin who grabbed young Lucy and tried to entertain her with sea shells so she would not worry.

Haley barged through the hospital doors and rushed to her instruments to check what the problem was. She refused to let anyone in the room while she went over all John's monitors and also kept asking Brains what happened.

Then, after half an hour of checking John over, she went outside to tell his family the bad news.

When she left the room, she had seen that the family were again at each others throats, blaming one another. She knew this was going to be the hardest talk she had ever had to give.

"Um, I have some news, not great news, I'm afraid." She said in her rough English accent. "Although John has made some improvements, he is still in a coma. But he has started to regain movement with a few twitches here and there. His heart rate has also changed back to where it should normally be. These are good changes but I had hoped that he would have been awake by now, but not to worry, I'm sure he'll wake up soon."

The family relaxed. The tension dismounted. They had all thought the worst, but no, John wasn't dead, just asleep.

Pipa was so relieved that nothing bad had happened with John. Suddenly it dawned on her that Lucy was nowhere to be seen. She immediately got up and ran to the dinning area.

"Lucy!" she cried as she entered the dinning room. She spotted the blonde 5 year-old and also noticed that she was soaking wet, followed by a drenched Tin-Tin.

"What the?"

"We went to collect sea shells, but Lucy wanted to go swimming 'cause uncle Gordon has 'taught' her to swim, obviously not very well." Tin-Tin looked and sounded very un-amused. "Anyway how's John, what was wrong with him."

All Pipa could do was smile. Lucy had drenched Tin-Tin who had been wearing a simply beautiful outfit.

"He's still in coma but was twitching a bit so it scared Brains. But it is a good sign." said Alan walking through the door to the kitchen and also noticing a very drenched Tin-Tin "Why did you go swimming in your best cloths?"

"Your redheaded brother is the reason." she said storming off.

"Um." said Alan looking bewildered. "I'd better go after her. She could kill Gordon and, well…" a long pause "we couldn't have that."

"Bye Alan, have fun, oh and where's the bathroom? I better get this one cleaned up and put to bed." she said lifting Lucy up into her arms.

"No mommy, I want to swimming, I can, honestly, uncle Gordie taught me." sounding all hyper and wanted to impress her Mommy.

"I'm sure he did, but you upset Miss Kyrano. So we better get you out of harms way and I promise to read you a story."

"Yeah!" she said as her face light up. "Can it be the one with the stars? That's my favourite!"

"Sure Hun, come on, bath time for you."

As Pipa and Lucy left the kitchen they bumped into Josie.

"Good heavens, what happened to her?" she asked, staring at Lucy.

"Little miss naughty decided to take Miss Kyrano swimming."

Lucy just grinned as Pipa carried her to the bathroom.

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As the days went on, John's condition failed to change. He was twitching a lot more and seemed to be in an unearthly sleep but sadly he was still in coma. International rescue on the other hand had to get back to routine. This meant someone having to go and man Thunderbird 5. Alan assumed, being the only other astronaut on the island, that he would have to do it. However his father visited him the night before International Rescue was going back to duty to tell Alan that he could stay here and wait till John woke up. Alan didn't understand. There was no one else able to man it. His father went on to explain that Tin-Tin was well trained and she could manage the space station for a month quite easily. Alan was shell shocked. Tin-Tin? Why on earth would she agree to go into space? He asked Virgil and Haley who he met on the beach.

"Well quite simple. Lucy, our loving little niece, is driving her mad." said Virgil who looked a bit annoyed as to say Alan was interrupting something. "She went and asked, no I'll rephrase that, begged Dad to let her go to Thunderbird 5."

"I believe her exact words were: "I'll pay you ever single penny I have on my name just get me off this Island." Haley added giggling.

"Huh, I though she liked kids?" said Alan looking bewildered.

"Yeah, everyone loves kids, just not hyper ones like that little monster. Put it this way, Tin-Tin is used to a tropical island with no kids in sight. She, well, she isn't the motherly type." said Haley trying to put it nicely.

"Well, true, she never was all lovy dovy ( emotional and aw of cuteness sort of for the beta reader.) with kids. But it's a lie saying there no kids on this Island. You have Gordon and Alan." Virgil said.

"Fine, be that way." said Alan storming off.

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International rescue had been busy. Since the 2 days it had been back in operation, the boys were overwhelmed and hardly had a moment's break. Even Jeff was beginning to feel the stress from being constantly at his desk. After a successful mission from which it would take the boys a few hours to head back to base, Jeff took the opportunity to get out and have a nice long walk along the beach front. As he walked, he saw Lucy and Pipa sitting on the beach front.

He assumed that Pipa had been barred from the medical room again and was enjoying some peace and quiet with her daughter. If that was ever possible. Jeff, over the last few days, had taken a liking towards 5-year-old. He admired her character. She was so much like Gordon, Alan and of course John. As Jeff finally reached Pipa, she looked up.

"Hello Mr Tracy." She said.

"Hello Pipa, may I sit down?" Pipa nodded. "I assume that my mother has yet again banned you temporarily from the medical room." Jeff said in a simply humorous way.

"No." Pipa said with a slight grin. "I think she needed a break so I told her that I would spend the afternoon with little Miss-I-can-not-stay-out-of-trouble."

Jeff just chuckled and went on to say: "You know, she is exactly like Alan and Gordon but unlike those 2 she actually is quite intelligent, much like John at that age."

Pipa smiled sweetly. She then turned to face Jeff with a more serious look on her face.

"Mr Tracy, I know that we haven't got off the best of starts. Well, with John getting injured and you finding out about me the way you did. However I was out of order last week, with the way I yelled at you. The whole argument was my fault and I am truly sorry. I mean you didn't have to allow me and my daughter to come here." Tears were streaming down her cheeks.

"Please don't cry. The argument was both our faults. I guess we both have a stubborn steak, but you are John's wife and I can tell you love him dearly." at this point their conversation was interrupted by a call from Haley for Pipa via her brand-new watch.

"Hey Pipa, you better high tail your tiny bum to the medical room. I got a surprise for you and if you see the pit bull, you better tell him his dear son has finally decided to bless us with his full attention."

"Really?!" Pipe's voice was high and excited. "Mr Tracy is here, we'll be there right away!!"

Jeff looked at Pipa. "You better go. I'll stay here with Lucy."

"Thank you!!" she yelled as she ran towards the medical room.

Thank you for reading and hopefully you won't be waiting too long for the next chapter. If I ever get round to finishing it. One more chapter to go again hope you enjoyed.