Disclaimer: Thunderbirds is not mine...etc...

Sorry about the wait for this chapter...i had a little bit of homework and revision to finish. I'm just a poor school kid after all! (year 8 to be exact :P)

This chapter will be telling (briefly) the story of Childhood Sweetheart for you guys who haven't read it...

Remember Me?

Chapter 4 - An Ideology Realized

Brains made to say something; he looked confused and opened his mouth. He was quickly silenced by a look from Virgil, who had remembered what seemed familiar about her. He would have smiled but as he looked back over to his younger brother kneeling on the floor, helplessly, he was worried and quickly ushered Brains and Gordon out of the room. They came reluctantly, but they came never the less. After they were long gone, and the muttering had died out slightly, John looked up to the bed again and slowly shuffled forwards. He reached the bed and slowly raised a hand. He saw the cold tear that was on her face, and gently wiped it away. He smiled...it didn't feel like forever...it felt like yesterday...

He whispered softly to the girl lying motionless in the white bed. "I never did forget you sweet heart...but...do you still remember me?" His expectant soul quailed in the silence and he broke down and sobbed into the sheets. "I'm so sorry, I never wanted to leave you, it was the hardest thing I ever wanted to do...f-forgive me?"

Brains peered in through the door. "J-John? It might help a person in a coma if you switch the Radio on. Music, especially favourites can help return a person." John turned round and smiled thankfully as Brains put a small radio on the bed-side table.

"Also, I was w-w-wondering, we have all the t-t-technology n-n-needed to support her l-life on the I-island...I have noticed your r-r-r attachment and was w-w-wondering..."

John, who had looked back at the pale body lying still in the sheets, looked back at him amazed. He felt a mixture of feelings: happiness, hope but also...anxiety. What would he do when...if...Holly woke up? Would she remember him? Would she still love him? The last question brought a wave of nausea over his gentle conscience. He pretended not to hesitate and said surely, "Really? Oh, thank you so much Brains." He tried to sound optimistic and he smiled slightly. He put a hand on Holly's forehead and stroked her hair softly. Brains checked a machine on the wall before turning on his heel, and walking gingerly out of the room.

Brains walked back up to the flight deck and sat down in the passenger seat. "D-D-Don't worry about the hospital Virgil, I w-w-will be l-l-looking after our patient on the i-i-island.

Virgil smiled faintly. "Do you know who she is Brains?" The engineer didn't reply. "She and John met at high school. Holly was a year 8 (grade 9) and John was in year 9 (grade 10). They were incredibly happy together...and despite their age, they fell in love. But then, once every thing on the island was ready, he had to leave. It broke both of their hearts..." His smiled faded as his voice did and he concentrated on flying Thunderbird 2 back home. Brains sat nervously in his seat and fiddled with his notebook. None of them talked for the remainder of the journey, even lively Gordon sat solemnly in his position as co-pilot. In Virgil's memory a clip was playing, like an old video.

A girl with long chestnut hair, her skirt flowing in the wind, is crying...standing on the gravel driveway of the Tracy's former home. Tears are trickling down her fair face as she looks skyward and sees the small plane pass her by, and fade into the horizon

John sighed and tore his eyes reluctantly from Holly's immobile face. He reached for the switch on the portable radio and a slow, moving song filled the room. He got up slowly and took one last glance at his childhood sweetheart before padding slowly from the room.

And as the radio played its revolving, mournful tune Holly Hazel blinked quickly before falling back into her dark oblivion.

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