Mudslide

Me: Yes ! another chapter of Mudslide. Hope you enjoy this one as much you enjoyed the others.

Disclaimer: Don't own TB's…

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Chapter 4 : Trust

After a few hours, Virgil awoke again and looked around. He saw that he was alone. He looked at his watch and saw it was the afternoon. Virgil sighed and stood up. He looked around again and then saw his uniform on a chair nearby, with his boots under it. Virgil grabbed it and started to dress. When he had put his boots on, he stood up and went to the door. Virgil sighed and then opened the door. Virgil started to walk, or better said, limp around in the village and noticed that people were staring at him.

Women pushed their children inside their houses or called to them. The men looked at him as if he was a monster or something that had just caused terror to their village. 'What's wrong with these people?' Virgil said to himself. 'Why do they keep staring at me? Did I do something wrong?' Virgil was thinking deeply when he saw an old man who was having trouble with carrying a large wooden board on his back.

"Let me help you, sir." Virgil said, running over to the man. The man looked confused at him, but accepted Virgil's help. Together, they carried the large wooden board to his home.

"Thank you." the old man said and smiled.

"It's nothing," Virgil said, grinning at the man.

"Virgil!" somebody yelled.

Virgil turned around and saw Jessica running to him. "Hey Jessica," Virgil said with a smile.

"I've been looking for you everywhere, you shouldn't walk alone around here," Jessica said, looking worried at him.

"Huh? Why? How come?" Virgil asked, confused.

"I might be able to answer that," the old man said, who now was standing next to Virgil. Virgil looked around confused at the man and Jessica.

"But, Mr. Preston…" Jessica said.

"Now now, Jessica. This young man isn't like the others who were here before. I'm sure he won't do any harm. Besides, he helped me with this heavy wooden board," Mr. Preston said, while looking at Jessica. Then Mr. Preston turned to Virgil. "Would you like to have some coffee, Mr….?"

"Just call me Virgil, sir and I'd love to," Virgil said with a smile and held his hand out to the old man.

"And you can just call me Mr. Preston. It's what they always call me around here." Mr. Preston smiled and shook Virgil's hand. Then Mr. Preston walked back to his house and opened the door. Jessica and Virgil followed him and went inside his house.

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Meanwhile, at Tracy Island

"I just can't take it anymore!" yelled Alan angrily. "How the hell could they do that? Send us away like that! He could still be alive! We must do something dad!"

"What could we do Alan? They won't let you guys go back there. Besides you didn't find him. You did everything you could do, Alan." Tin-Tin said, who was sitting in one of the seats of the Tracy lounge.

"Don't be so negative, Tin-Tin. I know he's alive! I can feel it!" said Alan while walking to her and looking at her with angry eyes.

"Alan, if he was alive, then I would have found a location on his watch." John said, who had returned from Thunderbird 5 a few days ago. John was replaced by Braman, Brains robot.

"His watch could be broken, John! Geez! What is it with you people! Why can't you all hope that Virgil is still alive? Our brother is alive!" Alan said while looking around at everyone in the room.

"How can you be so sure, Alan? Can you prove that he's still alive?" said Gordon, not facing his youngest brother.

By that Alan frowned at Gordon, not saying anything for a while.

"No, but I still can hope that he's still alive." Alan said after some minutes. "I'm not like Scott, going to Virgil's room every night crying, thinking that Virgil is dead!"

"Leave your brother out of this, Alan. You know he's down about what happened." Jeff said, who was sat behind his desk.

"Oh for God's sake dad! Do you think I wouldn't be like this if one of you died, if I really knew you were dead! Scott is just a crybaby because he thinks Virgil is dead! Well I'll tell him something, Virgil isn't dead!" yelled Alan angrily at his father, and stormed out of the lounge.

Jeff sighed when Alan had said that. For some reason he felt Alan was right. He had a feeling that his third son wasn't dead. Jeff sighed again.

"I'll go after him dad." Gordon said, who stood up and went after Alan.

"I…I'd better go and see if Mrs. Tracy needs any help with cooking," Tin-Tin said, walking out of the lounge.

Jeff sighed and stared down at his paperwork.

"Dad?"

"Mmmh?"

"Alan, for some reason is right dad. I just know it." John said while walking up to his dad and leaning against his desk.

"Why do you think that, John? I mean, your brothers didn't find his body." Jeff said, while looking at his second eldest son.

"I don't know…I just know it. Besides, like Virgil would say in his artistic ways, a person can't cry if there are no tears to cry for. I didn't cry when they told me that Virgil was dead dad. I don't know why, but for some reason I didn't." John said looking at his father.

Jeff sighed. "I wish you could prove that, John…"

"Me too dad." John said, He lay a comforting hand on his father's shoulder and left the room.

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Inside Mr. Preston's house, Virgil and Jessica were sitting at a table with a cup of coffee each.

"So, if I get it right, the people don't like strangers in their town because of the drunken tourists and the fights they have?" Virgil said, still a bit confused about why they didn't like tourists.

"Well, yes and no. We don't like strangers because some of them did bad stuff to our village." Mr. Preston said, while giving Virgil some more coffee.

"They had set some of our houses on fire and hit the women and children." Jessica said to Virgil. Virgil looked shocked when he heard that.

"Now I understand why they keep looking at me and go into their houses." Virgil said with a sigh.

Suddenly a little boy stormed into the house. "Jessica! There's a fire! Tommy is trapped in his house! He can't get out!" the little boy said with fear.

"Oh no!" said Jessica, jumping up and running out of the door. Virgil jumped up too and followed Jessica.

When they were at the house they saw that the flames were already burning out of the roof.

"No! I'm too late!" Jessica said when she saw it.

"Let me go inside," Virgil said suddenly.

"What! Are you crazy!" Jessica said to Virgil.

"No, but I've been trained to deal with situations like this. Please let me go."

"Okay then."

"Okay," Virgil said, looking around for a piece of cloth. He found some and tied the cloth around his mouth and went into the house.

In the house, Virgil wandered around. "Hello! Anybody here! Can anybody hear me?" Virgil yelled as a professional member of IR. Virgil walked around in the house, looking for the person in the house.

"Can you hear me?" yelled Virgil.

"Yes, I can hear you," A frightened voice of a child said.

"Where are you ?" said Virgil, then he saw the boy standing against a wall. He was trapped by a burning beam. "Don't worry, I'll come and get you."

Virgil went closer to the child when suddenly pieces of the roof fell down. By then the child started to scream. "Ahhh! Help me ! Please help me!"

"Don't worry! I'm here…just don't move!" yelled Virgil while coming closer to the child. When he was next to the child, he held him close to his chest. The child was as frightened as hell and started to cry.

"Shhh, it's okay. Don't worry, we'll get you out of her." Said Virgil and then suddenly, half of the roof felt down. Then the child screamed and cried louder.

Virgil held the child even more tightly to him. "It's okay. I'm with you…" he said, "Come on, let's go." Virgil picked the child up and held him to his chest. Then he stared to run when he saw that everything was starting to fall apart. Virgil was looking behind him for a while when he heard something. Suddenly a beam dropped down. Virgil just looked back in time and jumped over the beam. Then right in from of him, he saw a window. 'Yes!' he thought. 'This is my chance!' Virgil ran to it and jumped out. He quickly landed on his back rolling into a squatting position.

Virgil laid the child on the ground and looked if he had a pulse. He still had a pulse. Virgil sighed and picked the child back up and walked to the people who were standing at the front door. When they saw Virgil coming with the child they all looked worriedly at him. "He's aright,." Said Virgil with a smile and the people sighed in relief.

Virgil went to Jessica's grandfather, who took the child in his arms and went to his house. Jessica went standing next to Virgil and laid a hand on Virgil's shoulder.

"Nice job." She said with a smile.

"Thanks." Smiled Virgil back.

Jessica smiled back to him, when suddenly she saw Virgil sinking down to the ground. Luckily she caught him in her arms and laid him down on the ground. "Virgil! Virgil?" she said while slapping his face.

Virgil suddenly felt dizzy and heavy when everything started to spin. His legs were shaking like hell and it felt like they couldn't hold him anymore. He saw Jessica smiling back to him and that's when his legs couldn't hold him anymore. He sank to the ground. He felt someone holding him. He wanted to look at the person, but couldn't see them, because his vision was getting hazy. Then he saw a shadow above him and then everything went black.

Me: I'm sorry it took so long, I didn't have much fantasy anymore…Well, see you all next time at the next chapter of mudslide.