A.N- I'd just like to quickly thank everyone who has reviewed my fic, it means so much to me and the fact that they're actually good reviews is awesome! I'll make sure that Brains, Kyrano and Onaha are off the island hopefully in this chapter, if not the next, and it definitely looks like the chocolate bars catch up with John! Thanks again to everyone who reviewed! I'll stop boring you all now and actually get on with the chapter!
Jeff watched Thunderbird 3 disappear out of sight from the window, and then got on with un-packing his own things. As he threw his spare uniforms and shirts into the wardrobe, he noticed something sticking out of a shelf at the top, and pulled it out. 'Hm...' He thought, as he looked at the half-naked woman on the poster, 'Not bad.' He looked around at the empty walls and decided to put the poster up on the wall opposite his bed. "I'll discipline John later"
Alan and Virgil had finished raiding the kitchen about twenty minutes ago, and had decided to play volleyball in the pool for a while until John and Gordon got home. Scott was lying on a sun lounger with a book and a cold drink, putting his sunglasses on as the sun was in his eyes.
"Scott you did remember to put suncream on, didn't you?" Virgil asked, throwing the ball in the air and hitting it hard, making Alan topple over backwards trying to hit it.
"Yes Virgil, yes I did" Scott replied, loosing the place in his book.
"Good. We don't want a repeat of what happened last time now, do we?" Virgil reminded him with a cheeky grin.
Scott groaned as he thought about an incident he had a few weeks ago. It had been the hottest day of the year, and he was reading a book by the pool like he was now, and he fell asleep. Virgil was in the kitchen, helping Onaha cook the dinner, and Gordon and Alan thought it would be funny to just leave Scott sleeping, so they went off into their rooms. Scott got woken up an hour or so later by footsteps running past him and to the dinner table, and when he sat up he felt like someone had left him in an oven for a week. He was bright red on one side, and still light-tanned on his back, and he had white marks where his sunglasses had been. Gordon and Alan made the most of teasing him, and even Virgil had joined in. "Don't make me hurt you Virg..." he warned teasingly.
Jeff sat down in his chair and sighed happily to himself. Being up in space wasn't too bad. It was quiet, for a start... He looked around and spotted the cardboard box lying on the floor with 'Dad' written on it. "Might as well open it now..." he said to himself, picking it up and tearing the cellotape off it.
Inside were five different objects, each with a little note stuck on from each of his sons. Jeff pulled out the first item, a personal CD player, with a CD inside. The note stuck to it read: 'Hey Dad, thought you might want a bit of music to keep you company, it's one of Gordon's old CD's from when he was little, I'm sure you'll recognise it! Miss me loads, Alan x' Jeff stuck one of the headphones into his ear and pressed play. The music blared out: 'I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world' Jeff laughed as he pressed stop, remembering something from a few years back. Gordon was 6 years old, and hadn't responded to any of Jeff's calls, telling him that dinner was ready. He came upstairs to see what was going on, only to find Gordon jumping on his bed with a hairbrush stolen from Tin-Tin's room, singing 'I'm a Barbie girl'. Gordon had been very embarrassed, and asked Jeff to promise not to tell his brothers, something which Jeff used against Gordon to get him to behave himself. That had lasted a week tops, and Alan still reminded him of it from time to time, much to Gordon's annoyance.
Next in the box was a packet of chocolate bars, Jeff didn't need to look at the note to tell who they were from. He looked at the note: 'Hope you're having a nice time up there Dad! The others told me they were putting a box together with some stuff to remind you of all of us and how much we care, and what better way to say I love you with chocolate! Just make sure you save me a couple...you know what it's like down here, if you don't run to the kitchen within twenty seconds, all the good food is gone! See you soon, John x' Jeff smiled and put the chocolate bars in a drawer by the monitors. Chocolate seemed to be one of John's only companions when he was up in Thunderbird 5, and they seemed to be starting to catch up with him. 'At least he'll get some exercise chasing Gordon and Alan around the island for a month' Jeff thought.
A.N- Next chapter, the rest of the gifts! And also Gordon and Alan try to get rid of any other adult authority on the island, excluding their brothers though! Should be up soon, fingers crossed! Please review!