Title: A Little Chaos
Part 2
Author: Gumnut
May 2019
Fandom: Thunderbirds Are Go 2015/ Thunderbirds TOS
Rating: Teen
Summary: A little conversation in less than optimal conditions.
Word count: 1853
Spoilers & warnings: Virgil/Kayo, Scott/Em.
Timeline: Sometime after 'Gentle Rain'
Author's note: Yeah, I should be writing 'The Bellini Incident', but this was supposed to be a quick fic, but then so was Bellini. This one will not be anywhere near as long and I will be back to Bellini asap.
The prompt: From a series of OC prompts. Kylorr asked for 5. Have they ever cheated on anyone before? And 7. How many partners have they had? I don't know if I'm going to answer either of them, but this is the fic that happened. I hope you enjoy it :D
Disclaimer: Mine? You've got to be kidding. Money? Don't have any, don't bother.
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"You're what?!" He stared at Virgil, who was standing across from him in the sunken lounge. John hovered in the centre.
"I'm sorry, Scott."
Em's voice cut into him, but was overridden by Kayo's professional report.
Virgil's hands curled into fists at his sides, but he said nothing.
"We're on our way. John is speaking with the GDF and local police. We will get you out of there." The thought of the two of them, stuck in a closet with gunmen running around...his own fists clenched.
Em's breath hitched. "You stay safe, Scott. You hear me?"
A pause. "You do the same." Please be safe.
"I plan to. We both do. Don't do anything stupid, flyboy."
"No promises." He caught John's eye and the comms were muted. "Keep that line open, John. I want to hear everything." He turned to Virgil. Kayo was injured. Not seriously, but he'd have to watch his brother. "You okay to do this?"
The brown gaze that hit him glared. "Stupid question."
A blink. His brother was right. Stupid question.
"Okay, we'll go together in Thunderbird Two. John, I need a map of the building, all points of access. See if you can hack into the perpetrators' communications. Liaise with the GDF. I doubt they will enjoy our presence, but they will just have to put up with it." A breath. "Thunderbirds are go."
It wasn't often Scott rode co-pilot with Virgil and, to be honest, he really wished he could take his 'bird. He felt naked without her. But this was definitely a job for the green behemoth. They had enough speed to get across the small expanse of ocean between Tracy Island and New Zealand, and Scott had no doubt that Virgil had enough equipment on board to tear the building apart if they needed to.
Didn't stop Scott from grabbing a couple of jetpacks and extra grapple packs on the way down to his brother's 'bird.
It wasn't until TB2 was spinning in her hanger going through her launch sequence that the expected call from Colonel Casey was transferred down from TB5.
"Scott, what the hell are you doing? This is a local police matter."
"I'm sorry, Colonel, but International Rescue personnel are trapped in that building and I'm planning on getting them out."
"How exactly? You are a rescue organisation. An unarmed rescue organisation." And her glare was furious enough to throw that statement into doubt. "You have no jurisdiction and will do little more than hamper the plans of those who do." She drew a breath. "Scott, I know Kayo is important." Her gaze flickered to Virgil, whose determined expression was ignoring her as he taxied his bird onto her launch platform. "But please, leave this to the local authorities."
"I'm sorry, Colonel. I can't sit out on this one." And he doubted he could hold his brother back. "You have my guarantee that we will liaise with the local authorities."
"Scott-"
But it was at that moment Virgil activated the rear thrusters and the roar and sudden acceleration into the air drowned her out.
"Thunderbird Two out."
The great ship clawed into the sky, Virgil banking her into a turn as soon as her flight was stable. Neither brother said a thing. Neither felt like talking. Wellington was minutes away.
"So how long have you known Virgil?" Em's voice echoed through the cabin and it took Scott a split second to remember that he had asked John to keep the line open.
When Kayo answered, Scott couldn't help but noticed Virgil's grip tighten on the yoke.
"Eight. I was eight."
It became very apparent, very quickly that they were listening in on a private conversation.
"Scott...we should..." Virgil was frowning.
"I..." He wanted to keep it open to keep tabs on what was happening.
"We should let them know we can hear them." His brother's voice was firm.
"The two bullet wounds in his back." Em's voice was pained.
Scott swallowed.
"Scott."
He reached for the comline.
"What about you?"
"Huh?"
"When did you realise it was mutual?"
"Oh, uh, Scott just..."
His hand hesitated as Em spilled forth what attracted her to him. At first, he smiled, followed by a flush of heat as Virgil turned and frowned at him.
Then Em said she was only half a woman.
Em...
Kayo's cutting words beat him to it.
And they were talking about Virgil.
"Scott, this isn't right." Virgil's voice was pained.
"I know."
"Then do something about it. Or I will." Virgil reached for the control.
"First serious relationship. Not my first sexual encounter."
His hand froze. "Shit." It came out between his teeth.
"Why Virgil?"
Scott stared at his brother.
"Out of all five brothers and every other person on this planet, why Virgil? You don't have to answer..."
"No. I just thought the answer was obvious. He's Virgil."
"Really? Nothing in particular? You two are very different people."
"As are you and Scott. Do you have a favourite aspect of your 'flyboy'?"
It was like watching a car crash. He didn't want to listen, but couldn't not.
"I like his arms, his hands and those eyes of his are stunning, but I have to say his passionate care attracted me the most. He will do anything for you, for Virgil, for his family. But even more, he will spread his wings to protect strangers. He's smart, clever, commanding, a damn hero, and I admire him, but he also makes me laugh, and sometimes I need that more than anything else."
As Wellington appeared on the horizon, he turned to look at Virgil. His brother was flushed, his lips thin as he stared out the windscreen, his knuckles white on the yoke.
"Virgil looks after me."
His brother's eyes closed for a moment.
"He's an idiot. A self-sacrificing heroic idiot. An adorable idiot who hates having his hair mussed, who is so dopey before his morning coffee, he has been known to put his shirt on backwards and then wonder why it is hard to button up. He's ambidextrous at EVERYTHING. He's a soppy, sentimental, artistic softie who can bench press half the family. And for some reason all of his own, he decided he loved me."
"He's Virgil."
There was no way Scott was going to dare comment on that. Kayo knew his brother. God, she did. If he smiled at all, it was all internal. There was no blood in his brother's knuckles at all.
"Wellington Air Control, this is Thunderbird Two on approach. Emergency in Wellington central, permission to enter. Situation urgent." Virgil Tracy, ever the professional, spun off coordinates ignoring the conversation between the two women still echoing through the cockpit.
"Thunderbird Two, Wellington Air Control. Permission granted. International Rescue permit protocol identified and confirmed. The sky is clear, you may proceed."
"Thank you, Wellington. Will keep advised."
"Roger, Thunderbird Two."
Ocean turned into mountains and then houses as the huge plane dipped below the skimpy cloud cover and targeted Wellington's central business district.
"No, Scott is not my first relationship and you damn well know it."
Scott climbed out of his seat as Virgil kicked in VTOL as he flew between skyscrapers bringing his 'bird to a hover beside the building entrapping his fiancé.
"You're going to ask about Jim."
Scott froze.
"Jim is out of the picture. You know that."
"You were engaged, Em."
"Yeah, well some things just aren't meant to be forever." A pause. "Now who's doing the interrogating?"
"Em-"
"Just...just leave it, please, Kayo. He broke it off and I don't blame him. I was no longer the woman he loved and he had every right to call it quits. It's all in the past and it can bloody well stay there."
Jim? Engaged? Em...
"Scott?" Virgil had grabbed his arm.
Blink. "We need to get down there."
"Two will need to hover. There is nowhere nearby to put her down and I want her within reach." Virgil hit his comms. "John, could you take Two?"
Their brother confirmed and all the controls flashed into the blue of auto.
A sudden gasp over the comline and Scott spun back to the dash. A male voice. "Found ya."
Shit.
Virgil didn't need prompting.
They moved.
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Em had never seen Kayo move so fast.
The bleeding arm was ripped from her grasp and her friend leapt into a spin, her foot meeting yellow teeth before Em had had a chance to draw in a breath. Her friend followed through with a punch that floored the man.
A moment. Kayo's chest heaved. Silence.
A click of metal on metal and a gun appeared in the doorway. "My, you are what they say you are."
Kayo didn't blink. Her arm came up from below, grabbed the gun and she twisted her body, drawing the weedy man from the shadows. His arm creaked and he snarled.
She slammed his wrist against the doorjamb and followed through with a kick which he caught in his gut, expelling all the air from his lungs.
The gun dropped to the floor.
A wrench and Kayo had his arm behind his back and his face in the carpet. "Who are you?"
Em eyed the gun and reached for it.
A shadow grabbed a fist full of her hair and pulled. The pain was so unexpected, she cried out. The gun was whisked from her sight.
"Now, now, you know you shouldn't play with guns."
Her head was bent backwards and she got an eyeful of a dark-haired man wearing a grey suit. His hair was greased back, a stud earring sparkled in one earlobe. His lips were pink and glistened in the fluorescent lighting. They split to form a grin. Teeth far too white to be real and an equally pink tongue running across them.
A split second of sickening horror and Em reacted.
She had no movement below her waist, but her harness extended above that and gave her leverage. She grabbed the fist in her hair with both hands and pivoted just below her ribcage, bringing her hoverscoot up in harsh pendulum into his gut.
Her nails dug into his hand and he yelled.
Momentary freedom as he let go.
Em gunned her hoverjets and darted out of reach, just as Kayo moved in on him, her fist fixing those perfect teeth forever. He stumbled into the wall. Her friend didn't stop, bringing her foot around to finish the job.
A gun fired.
Em didn't see where it came from, but there was a splatter of blood on the floor and her friend went down hard.
"Kayo!"
She moved in and came face to face with a smoking barrel.
"Now, do I have to shoot you, too?"
A hard face, blue eyes, blond hair, female. "Quite impressive. Three of my men and you are both still standing." She eyed Em's hoverscoot. "In a manner of speaking." Thinned lips and an arched eyebrow. "Oh well, easy fixed."
A blur of motion and a fist slammed into the side of Em's face.
Pain and she blacked out.
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