Over the next two months, Naomi and Virgil's wedding came along. All of the guests had replied with yes. International Rescue had been set up with a message saying that they would be unreachable for two days either side of the 14th of July due a special date in the calendar. Virgil had chosen his suit out and so had his brothers. Everything was ready but the dresses of the Bride's party and the flowers. In the middle of June, Virgil had two weeks in Thunderbird 5 rostered. John had organised the rotation and everything else to Naomi's benefit. He was pretty sure that he was the only one of his brothers who knew that Naomi had yet to get a wedding dress. Selecting two weeks in the middle of June, he had spoken to Lady P to come over to America to take Naomi, Tin Tin, Ohana and Naomi's friends dress shopping. He had done it with Naomi's permission of course. Naomi was not someone he wanted to be on the bad side of. The plan was this; Virgil would go up to Thunderbird 5. John would return from space. After having some food and water and a little rest, he would then fly Naomi, Tin Tin and Ohana out to California. They would be meet by Naomi's friends and Lady P at the airport. John had been informed that Siobhan, one of Naomi's bridesmaids, had connections to a high end bridal dress shop. All while Virgil thought that Naomi was going to visit her uncle and aunt. And that's what happened.
Naomi hugged her fiancé.
"You have fun up in space," She told him.
"Want a picture of the Southern Cross?" He joked.
"Nah. I have this amazing picture of it already," Naomi smiled.
"Have fun at your Uncle and Aunt's," Virgil kissed her before heading down to Thunderbird Three's Hanger.
Naomi was writing up the last part of her proposed act when John came out of his room. She saved her work and shut her laptop down.
"Are you ready?" She asked. John nodded. He yawned.
"Do you want a cup of coffee before we leave?" Naomi asked, sympathising with her soon-to-be brother-in-law. John nodded again.
"Well sit there and I'll go make some," Naomi commanded. A few minutes later John was nursing a cup of hot coffee.
"Thanks Naomi," He told his soon to be sister-in-law.
"No problem – and I can get Gordon to fly me out to LA if you're still tired," Naomi said
"No, I'll fly you. Everyone else thinks that we're flying out to Kansas," John said "I'll be fine,"
"If you say so John, I'll go load the luggage and find Tin Tin and Ohana,"
The flight was a smooth one. Not as smooth as Naomi's flight from America to Tracy Island the first time, but still pretty smooth. They landed in LA. John said goodbye to the three ladies before actually flying to Kansas. Someone had to keep up appearances. Tin Tin, Ohana and Naomi were greeted by the bridesmaids.
"Ohana and Tin Tin, these wonderful people are Megan Greenwood, Caitlin Falconer, Siobhan Coulson and Emma Wood. Megan, as you know is a doctor, Caitlin has a successful restaurant chain, Siobhan is a Biology teacher and Emma, last I heard, is still doing a music degree," Naomi introduced her bridesmaids to the two females who had a lot of input in the Tracy family's island life "Guys, this Ohana Kyrano and her daughter Tin Tin. They live on Tracy Island and work with the Tracy's," Naomi's friends and the Kyrano's got to know each other.
"We should get going," Siobhan spoke up "My friend's shop closes at two and she said she could keep it open another hour just for us,"
"If you're telling us that you want to get going," Naomi told her friend "Then you haven't changed one bit since college,"
"Actually – my friend text me a few minutes before your plane landed," Siobhan laughed "Plus aren't we missing someone?"
"All the wedding party is here though," Emma frowned "We have the bride, the Maid of Honour, the bridesmaids and the flower girl,"
"We're missing Lady Penelope," Tin Tin spoke up "She should be here,"
"Sorry I'm late," A feminine British accent spoke up "Parker had a terrible time trying to find a park here," The wedding party turned around to see a fashionably dressed woman with long blonde hair followed by an older man who was dressed smartly.
"'Orrible parking this airport does," The man agreed "Miss Kyrano, Mrs Kyrano. Lovely to see you again,"
"You too Parker," The Kyrano women replied in unison.
"Lady Penelope and Parker are good friends to the Tracy Family. Both Virgil and Scott assure me that she has excellence taste in clothes which is why I invited her," Naomi introduced her friends to friends of her future family "They were not wrong – you look wonderfully amazing Lady Penelope,"
"Thank you, Naomi," Lady Penelope smiled "Our ride is awaiting ladies, I believe we need to get going,"
Linda Irwin was in the same high school class as Cameron Muter. Admittedly, she had hooked up with him during a few parties. Drunk. Sober. Tipsy. It didn't matter. She lusted after him. Then college came. Or in Cameron's case, the Navy or something water based organisation. They went their separate ways. Linda still lusted after him. She hadn't seen him since high school graduation. At she hadn't until two weeks ago. Cameroon looked much older but still looked has good looking as ever. It would be lying if Linda had said she didn't want to take him right there and then to the alley behind her store. Making small conversation, Linda asked what had brought Cameron to the store. Was it to book a slot for his daughter so she could be beautiful for her wedding day? Cameron shook his head. Maybe it was for his future bride? Again, Cameron shook his head. He said his cousin's daughter was friends with Naomi Winchester and he was double checking the date and time for the fittings for her. While there were obvious repercussions for sharing this information with outsiders given the nature of the bride's new status in society, Linda saw nothing wrong with sharing with Cameron. She told him everything about the fitting – the number of people expected at the fitting, the time of the fitting and even which dresses Linda and her co-manager Jane were thinking about showing the party. Cameron thanked her for her time and left the store. Now she was waiting for that party. They were five minutes late. And so was Jane.
"Sorry, sorry," Jane apologised, coming to a stop next to Linda "My bus was late," Public transport. Always unreliable. Always a good excuse. Linda huffed.
"Just remember to lock it up tight. We have priceless dresses in here. Miss Winchester may choose a dress tonight and we do not want the Tracy bride to have her dress stolen,"
"I have it under control Linda," Jane said, "It wouldn't be the first time we've had the rich and or famous come into our store," Jane smiled sweetly. Linda rolled her eyes and left. Linda ran into a group of people coming into the store.
"Watch where you're going," She hissed and pushed through the group.
Naomi came out of the dressing room for the third time. She did not like this dress. Too much poof.
"No. Take it off," Tin Tin said straight away "That is not you," The rest of the group agreed. Naomi turned to the rack of dresses. She skimmed through the dresses. Naomi picked one from the rack.
"I think this is the only one I want to try left," She smiled and took a deep breath. Naomi went back into the dressing rooms. 10 minutes later, she came out. The dress she had chosen was tight fitting around the torso and waist and slowly became less skin tight as it went further down. It was strapless but the wedding party could see the white bra straps.
"I think this is it," Naomi declared "Just needs some straps but this is it,"
"What about your scar?" Caitlin asked, "You never used to wear anything shorter than ¾ sleeves at college,"
"Things have changed since college Kit," Naomi smiled "And Virg and I decided on the date to be the same as the crash. And as much as I hate the crash, if the crash didn't happen I wouldn't have meet any of you guys. I wouldn't have meet my best friend. I wouldn't have meet my fiancé. I wouldn't have meet the rest of my life,"
"I'm so glad you liked it. We'll get someone in at some point and we add the straps for you," Jane said, smiling.
Cameron Muter was not above using Linda Irwin's lust for his own advantage. The day after the Tracy bride's fitting he popped into her shop again. He said his cousin's daughter had left something behind after the fitting. Linda had no problem taking him to see the dress. It turns out that someone else had in fact left a clutch at the fitting so the employee with the group had kept the dress and the clutch together. This gave Cameron the perfect opportunity to place a bug into the dress. Eventually the bride would retrieve the dress and the bug would pick up location and sound. It would help The Voice with everything that was going down.