Thunderbirds and the Tracy boys are the creation of Sylvia and Gerry Anderson
IloveSam: Although it hasn't been mentioned you could take it as read that Jenna would know now there is a Thunderbird 5 as I'm sure during conversations John would have said that's normally where he would be.
Chapter 35
As Jenna watched him totally concentrate on doing his exercises she knew he was worth it and she was proud of his steely determination to get back to a reasonable level of fitness. At that moment Tin-Tin called her attention and the two girls swam and floated lazily as they talked and laughed, Tin-Tin being. glad of the extra female company as it made a change from the boisterous antics of the Tracy boys. A few times Jenna caught him watching her, though it was hard to tell with his shades on, she could only tell he was looking in her direction.
Scott was watching her, watching her relax and enjoy herself, as she well deserved for she had barely left his side, always seeing to his every need. He thought how at home she looked as she laughed and talked with Tin-Tin and how happy and contented she seemed; hoping that in some small measure it might be due to him. His thoughts were interrupted by Gordon reminding him to concentrate but try as he might Scott soon found his attention wandering.
After half an hour Jenna decided that he had had long enough exercising and began to swim towards them, noticing now that Scott seemed to be tiring. Gordon eyed her with a wicked gleam, causing her to become instantly suspicious. "That us done then, Jen?" he asked, his voice full of mischievous intent.
"Y..e.a.h, that's good enough for a first outing," she replied cautiously, already absent-mindedly starting to back paddle.
"I guess it's play time then," Gordon grinned, giving a nod to Alan and John, which Jenna didn't like the look of.
She now started to swim backwards as Gordon cruised like a predatory shark in her direction, being flanked by Alan and John. "Don't you even think about it, Gordon Tracy," Jenna warned, obviously to no avail as Gordon continued to cruise.
"A little payback, Jen," Gordon reminded her with a cheeky, boyish laugh and at that Jenna turned, striking out for the farthest end of the pool as it was the only direction left to go. She didn't stand a chance, of course, not with Gordon having been an Olympic swimmer.
Knowing he was right behind her now Jenna decided to turn and face the music only to see him dive down almost to the bottom. With the water of the pool being such a clear aqua blue she could see Gordon quite easily swimming underneath her and looking up at her with wide mischievous eyes. Before she could swim away he had reached up, grabbed her ankle and giving it a sharp tug had pulled her under. Jenna just had time to draw in a lung full of air as she felt herself go beneath the water, much to the delight of everyone including Scott, who was happy she was enjoying a little playtime.
Once under the water Jenna sculled her hands back and forwards, looking around to see where the little joker was, only to find him still holding her ankle, smiling and winking at her. He was so naturally at home in the water and so cheeky with it that she couldn't help but her eyes crease into a smile, though she also had to remind herself not to laugh outright as she didn't want to swallow the contents of the swimming pool.
There was an eerie silence about being under the water with all noise from above shut out and only the sunlight filtering through, causing dancing shimmers of light on the pool floor and walls. As she looked about all she could see were legs and she wondered if she would know whose were whose if she hadn't already known where everyone was. The swimwear too, of course, gave everybody away but as she looked across to the pool wall where two pairs of legs trod water Jenna smiled to herself as she thought, "I would know Scott Tracy's legs anywhere."
Gordon soon let her go, knowing that very few people could hold their breath under water as long as he could. No longer feeling held Jenna struck for the surface, drawing in a great gasp of air as she came to the top and wiping the water from her eyes in order to see again. Treading water slowly she ran her fingers back through her wet hair smoothing it away from her face, catching Scott watching her intently as she did so, now that he had pushed his shades to the top of his head in order to get a better look. At that moment in time no one else existed but the two of them as their eyes locked under the intensity of his gaze.
The moment was soon shattered, though, as when Gordon swam lazily to the surface Tin-Tin and Jenna were subjected to more dunking and splashing when Alan and John joined in, accompanied to the sounds of much laughter. The girls did manage to get their own back at times as they joined forces to mete out their own brand of retribution. One of the girls would swim under water, try to yank down their trunks and as the boys were trying to hang on to their vestige of modesty the other would quite easily push them under.
"You should go and join them Virg," Scott urged, knowing his brother was only staying on the side lines because of him but on seeing Scott's rather forlorn expression at not being able to join in gladly declined. There was no way he was going to leave his brother to go and join the fun knowing Scott could only watch, a gesture for which Scott was very appreciative.
Before long Jenna told the boys her part in their play time was over as she was going to see how Scott was doing, reminding them again that it was their eldest brother's first time out. Doing a slow breaststroke Jenna made her way across the pool to where Virgil and Scott had been watching the fun and games. "How ya doing?" Jenna asked, still slightly breathless and excited from all the activity and Scott assured her he was OK. "Why don't you go and join the others Virgil," she offered, as she looked in the direction of all the noise. "Scott and I are going to head down to the shallow end for a while," she said, looking at Scott, thinking he must be getting tired by now.
"Well, if you're sure," Virgil replied, looking forward to getting stuck in and helping John and Tin-Tin against the 'terrible two'. "Do you need any help?" he asked, not wanting to think they were going to struggle and only too willing to lend a hand.
"No thanks, buddy. We can manage," Scott replied, wanting to be able to spend some time alone with her, as much as one could be alone in a pool full of boisterous brothers.
Jenna changed places with Virgil, coming under Scott's left arm and slipping her right arm round his back to hold his side. "Fancy going for a swim?" she asked with a gentle smile to be rewarded by a slightly apprehensive nod. Jenna assured him he could do it, promising to stay by his side and telling him not to worry about her, that it was mostly the water that was supporting him.
Pushing off from the pool wall they fell into a slow, synchronised movement of legs in unison, Jenna using her left hand to stretch forward, then cupping her hand to push back through the water. With Scott using his right hand to do the same they moved as one body towards the shallow end. Half way down they turned to look at each other and as Jenna gave him an encouraging smile he leant forward, giving her a wet kiss.
His brothers paused for a moment in their seemingly boundless energy filled play to watch their eldest brother progress slowly down the pool, supported by Jenna on his left side. It was hard for them to see him like this as Scott was an excellent and an extremely strong and powerful swimmer who would have been right in there in the middle of them, giving as good as he got. They hadn't failed to notice the affectionate kiss he gave her but decided to leave them alone, just for now, though, diving back into their fun.
Before reaching the steps at the shallow end Jenna and Scott came to a stop, allowing their legs to sink downwards until their feet were on the bottom. It was an intoxicating feeling being able to stand on your own two feet, as it were, the water now coming up to just below his mid chest. Knowing he was totally supported in the water and with Jenna by his side Scott took his first few bouncing steps, feeling rather pleased with himself at such a simple but, for him, a big achievement. Jenna couldn't help but smile at his boyish grin of satisfaction, as if saying, 'Hey, look what I can do', like a child having first learned to swim. As he grew in confidence she moved away from him, letting him feel for the first time total independence.
Having felt that he had now mastered this technique of bouncing steps while keeping his balance Scott now looked at her with a decidedly more desirous gleam in his eye. No longer was she his support or helper but the beautiful young woman in a stunning bikini who he was longing to kiss and not just affectionately. Another thought crossed his mind, she was upright and now he was upright and mobile too.
"Scott, what are you doing?" Jenna asked, slightly suspicious and warily smiling at him as he started to walk towards her.
"Me? Nothing Jen," he said, smiling that boyish smile in all wide-eyed innocence as he continued to walk to her.
Jenna started to walk backwards, very aware of the impish gleam in his eye until she came up against the hard, cool tiles of the pool wall. Now, with nowhere to go, she could only watch him advance towards her.
Perhaps it was the intoxicating feel of being able to walk or the warm tropical evening and the sensuality of the water that was going to his head but soon Jenna found that she was face to face and looking into the deep blue pools of a very upright Scott Tracy. She had only ever seen him lying down or sitting up in bed. He continued, though, moving forward until he was right up against her, pressing his body against hers, making her sigh and feel decidedly weak.
"S..S.c..o..tt,..wh..at…are…you doing?" Jenna tried to say, only to have it come out in a hoarse whisper.
He didn't speak, only continued to look at her with that impish smile and gleam in his eye as he now started to sway against her as if they were on some invisible dance floor. Perhaps he thought he was in that little Italian restaurant and swaying to the dance they had imagined themselves to be having.
"Dance with me, Jen," Scott asked, with such a devastatingly wicked and boyish smile, how could she refuse.
She had wondered what it would be like to dance with him in a slow sway after they had shared their imaginary 'dinner' but she hadn't expected them to have had so very little on and she had only ever held him close from the waist up. This was an altogether different experience, to feel the full length of his hard and muscular body pressed up against hers. She easily slipped her arms around his neck and crossing her wrists behind him moved with him in an evocative slow sway as he put his arm around her waist
It wasn't long, though, before they realised this wasn't doing either of them any good, only serving to make them want each other all the more. "Scott, I don't think," she begged forlornly, torn between wanting him and knowing they weren't, exactly, in a private place.
"Yeah, I know," he agreed, stopping his action but not pulling away from her. Instead they leant their foreheads together, reconciled to the fact that they were just going to have to wait.
"What?" Jenna asked with a puzzled laugh, wondering why, all of a sudden, his smile just got wider.
"Well, I was just thinking. There's a place I know," Scott started to say, smiling as he thought of the wonderment of the place. "Right here on the island. It's…," he added, then leant forward to whisper in her ear.
"Really. It sounds absolutely beautiful," she remarked, her eyes crinkling in a smile of pleasure.
"Yeah, but that's not all," he continued in a tantalizing and teasing fashion, grinning as he saw her puzzled expression. He whispered again in her ear only to have her eyes grow in wide shocked amusement.
"You're kidding me, aren't you? You don't," Jenna said laughing, as she took in what he was saying and wondering whether to believe him or not.
"Sure do," he assured her with that impish grin. "Totally and completely. All the guys do," he remarked matter-of-factly and shrugging his shoulder as if it were the most natural thing in the world to do.
Jenna looked down towards the deep end of the pool where four boisterous Tracy boys were still playing and laughingly tried to shake off the mental image that was forming in her mind.
"I'll take you," Scott promised. "When I'm better," he now said with conviction, although he didn't know just how better he was going to get. On noticing her slightly worried look as she glanced towards his brothers he laughingly added, "Don't worry, it'll just be the two of us." She wasn't sure if she should be even more worried by that statement. Giving her a look, now, that spoke of desire, he whispered again about what they would do there, causing a small whimper to escape her throat.
"You are one naughty boy, Scott Tracy," Jenna said, giving him a wry smile and trying not to laugh, making him grin with boyish mischievousness.
After a few moments he gave a half laugh and closed his eyes briefly, opening them again to find her watching him with an unspoken question. Aware that she had kept her promise and never asked him any questions he felt now he wanted to tell her this as the idea of being in the pool with what lay beneath them was just too tempting to resist. "Do you know what's down here?" Scott asked as he looked down and back at her again.
She bit her lip, trying to stifle a laugh in anticipation of the answer she knew she was going to give him. "Of course I do," she answered quite casually. "I wash you every day, don't I," she added with as straight a face as possible.
"Ohh lady……and you call me naughty," he laughed, shaking his head at the suggestively playful remark.
"Sorry, couldn't resist. Now what were you saying," she said, trying now to be serious.
Scott leant forward again to whisper about the secret that lay beneath the swimming pool and her eyes grew wide in amazement.
"You're joking. Under here?" Jenna continued in a voice of mild disbelief. Scott nodded, amused by her reaction. "You mean you just shoot up outta here," she added, as if saying it would help her to believe it.
"Not exactly the phrase a pilot would use to describe lift off," he concluded with a laugh. "But yeah, I just shoot up outta here," he said, still laughing and thinking it was as good a phrase as any.
Jenna could see that his eyes now clouded over with sadness as he thought more about what they were talking of. He had found himself talking and momentarily forgetting his present condition in the euphoria he was feeling at being able to stand and walk about and also at being close to her like this, it was almost as though they were just a regular couple out on a date. She put her hand lovingly to his face, holding it and telling him not to think about it right now, he was out here to have fun and enjoy himself now that his exercises were finished.
As he looked at her now, his expression changed from sadness to one of want and desire and he leant forward as if to whisper something else. Instead he began to softly nibble and caress her ear lobe with his lips causing her to sigh with pleasure. His kiss followed the line of her face until he found her lips and settled himself into a deeply intensive and sensual movement of his mouth on hers. The deeper the kiss went the more he pressed himself to her and the more they became lost to everything but each other; so much so, that they failed to notice the raucous play at the other end of the pool had ceased and now four silent shapes, like torpedoes homing in on their target, were swimming under water towards them.
Silently they broke the surface and on a given signal, being an agreed nod to each other, they cupped their hands in the water and drawing them sharply upwards sent a great deluge of water cascading over the two lovers. The effect was sudden and dramatic as both Scott and Jenna pulled apart from the hot and heavy kiss breathless and gasping to the sounds of sidesplitting laughter. Scott shook the water from his hair, ran his hand over his face to clear his vision and turned to see the source of the deluge, though he already had a pretty good idea. Jenna, too, was wiping the water from her face and smoothing her hair back as she tried to get her breath, not only from the deluge, but also from the effect that Scott Tracy's kiss had on her
"You two looked like you needed cooling down," Alan laughed, making sure he had backed off far enough from Scott's limited reach. Under normal circumstances Scott would have been chasing Alan up the pool by now and giving him a good dunking but as it was, Scott was far from feeling that confident in the water yet.
"Yeah, this water's warm enough without you two making it boil," Gordon added, to much laughing from everyone else except Tin-Tin, who had by now joined them and was shaking her head and looking disapprovingly at them for their juvenile antics. She felt Scott and Jenna should have been left alone for a while to enjoy each other's company and had told the boys so but, of course, they took no notice, calling her a hopeless romantic. She said someday they would see the need for some space when it happened to them.
By now Virgil and John had manoeuvred themselves either side of Scott and with another nod to each other in one swift move they had hooked their arms under Scott's, grasped his shoulders and pulled him backwards down into the water. As they started to swim away with him on his back John lifted Scott's left arm and placed it across his chest.
"Sorry Jen, we're just kidnappin' Prince Charming for a while," Gordon grinned as he raised his eyebrows up and down in quick succession. Jenna could only laugh at their schoolboy antics and was more than happy to see that his brothers had wanted to include Scott in some fun. She told them just to be careful with his arm and Gordon gave her a salute, then holding his nose with one hand and slowly sinking under the water waved to her with the other. What would you do with him she thought to herself as Tin-Tin came to join her and the two girls watched for a while as they took Scott on a tour of the pool? Gordon and Alan also allowed themselves to be dunked a few times by their eldest brother as John and Virgil took it in turns to support his left side and just for a little while Scott felt it was a normal evening out in the pool.
After their bout of fun they brought him back and Jenna said they would go and sit for a while on the pool wall seat. This was a ledge that was part of the pool wall and below the waterline so that when you sat down the water came comfortably to waist height, allowing you to sit and relax in the water. They watched the relentless fun and games for a while and when Jenna turned to Scott, giving him a loving smile he gave her an affectionate kiss, which she returned gladly, though she could tell from that and his posture he was getting tired.
"I'll try and get their attention and we'll get you in," Jenna promised, turning her attention to the far end of the pool and beginning to wave. Of course, it's always typical that when you don't want their attention you have it and when you do want it they ignore you. She felt Scott rest his head on her shoulder and thinking it an affectionate gesture Jenna leant her head against his but something didn't feel quite right. Lifting her head and looking at him she became worried. "Scott!"
