A/N: Hello all! Phew, what a lot of chapters! I have a question for you all as I'm about three quarters through this fic now...would you like a happy ever after ending or something a little not so perfect? I'm torn between the two but I dislike soppy endings where they live together forever in happiness...any suggestions on which way I should go?
Thanks to Lozzie, nikki-browneyes, Winchester-Dream, Assena, Cap'n Phoenix, f1r3 fa3r13, kazza, pepsemaxke, Thunderbird-Shrapnel and reditt.
Answers to some points made here:
Hair colours. I'm just making up their hair colours as I go along! I wrote somewhere Virgil was dark then blonde! I'm confused because in so many fanfics, they've all got different hair! I do apologise as I like to stay as true as possible but I'm not so good (See the whole Thunderbird One in space saga!)
Gordon: I'm sorry, I like Gordon. He's sweet. It's just so many people hate him and it cracks me up. Movie Gordon is so sweet though, with his all of two minutes screen time. Bah, get rid of Tin-Tin and have more Tracy action!
Dominic Colenso: -giggles girlishy- Yes, he is fine. Glad to see some Dom love, he's nothing to be ashamed about! The glorious Willow-Tracy has a great website for TB's with delicious pics of Dom and one of him at the premier with short hair...mmm. Check it out!
Presents: Here's as I promised a URL for a gorgeous Dom collage I found on a messageboard. If you own it, thanks! Just copy and paste and remeber to delete the spaces as it was the only way FFNET would let me post it! And after the http, there needs to be two slashs - wouldn't let me have those either! http:img.photobucket. com/albums/v80/ Isis3110/virgil.bmp
Scott closed the door to the room they were and fumbled for a second while he found the light switch.
He clicked it on and instantly the room was cloaked in a golden glow.
Sophia looked around. It wasn't a cupboard as first thought but a library. An extremely unused library mind, due to the two inches of dust covering everything.
The curtains were closed, thick heavy drapes hanging across the windows also marinating in dust. The pattern of them was barely visible. On one wall, there was a blacken fireplace with a great mantle and a large gold gilded mirror hanging above it.
"Tell me what happened Sophia," Scott said, pulling his gloves off and walking over to a small table which had two dirty chairs huddled around it.
Sophia followed him and sat opposite, as she sat down a huge clod of dust emerged making her cough. She realised, with a sad sigh that this was a table for chess.
"Penny told us about that Harry guy. Is it him Sophia?" Scott pressed. She nodded.
"So what happened? How come you're here first?"
Sophia looked up at Scott, tears sparkling in her eyes for the first time in months. Her bottom lip quivered but Scott wasn't looking reluctant to leave without knowledge. They had his whole family after-all.
"On The Hood's orders, I was taken off the beach into a submarine and taken here. One of the men thought I was Penelope. They never wanted me, they wanted Penelope all along but he made a mistake. I don't know how Harry is involved," Sophia explained quickly and quietly. She could feel her tears threatening to spill, she'd really had enough for one day.
"So, about Harry. Are you going to tell me about him?" Scott said, more gently this time.
"No," Sophia replied at once, knowing she was being pretentious but not caring. Harry was not a subject for conversation, especially with Scott Tracy.
"Why?" Scott pressed, looking hard at her.
"Because! Because...it hurts," Sophia whispered, forcefully wiping her eyes. "See? I cry just thinking about him."
"OK but anything could help Sophia. I know it's hard but they have all my family and your sister," Scott said softly.
Sophia looked at him and took a few breaths.
"I met Harry at school. It's so stupid really because everyone fancied him and he was never without a girlfriend who was always unbelievably gorgeous," Sophia explained.
"Ah, someone like me," Scott joked lightly with a smile. Sophia smiled back momentarily. "Carry on."
"Well naturally, I was very flattered when Harry expressed interest in me," Sophia added, blushing. It was weird talking with Scott about Harry when she was involved with his little brother.
"Naturally," Scott agreed with a nod.
"I'd known about his reputation but that just didn't really come into it. I was very naïve but he just knew what to say. Classic womaniser," Sophia sighed, blushing at her foolishness. It had been so obvious but she was happy with Harry and didn't want to believe it.
"How'd he get you into so much trouble?" Scott asked, really beginning to understand a whole different side to Sophia. She was quite a bit more than blonde hair and a smile.
"Well, I don't really know. It all happened so fast. Harry made some new friends, clearly bad ones. He started to act different then before I knew it I was in the middle of all this business I had no idea about," Sophia explained sadly. "And as I was the girlfriend, I was a primary target. Except they didn't know Harry couldn't care less whether I was safe or not."
Scott was quiet. He didn't really know what to say after that, what could he say?
"It wasn't your fault," He said, settling on that. Sophia smiled gratefully.
"How are we going to get our family back?" She asked, hoping Scott had a better idea than hers. Actually, Sophia didn't have any ideas at all.
"I don't know. We need to work fast though, they'll be on the look out for us. I don't even know where they are," Scott admitted, running a hand through his hair. He wasn't used to making decisions without his brothers.
"I know where The Hood -," Sophia began but Scott hushed her. They listened in silence, eyes wide.
Someone was coming.
