AN – alright you lovely lot here is the last chapter before Christmas. I hope this lives up to what your all expecting and leaves it in a good place for you over the holidays.

Enjoy

I do not own Arrow or Thunderbirds

CHAPTER 34

Scott landed Thunderbird 1 to the ground. It was a deserted dessert no buildings or vehicles that the Hood might have been using.

"Thunderbird 1 to John." Scott called as he closed down the engines.

"Go ahead." Scott hated hearing his brother sound so down it sucked sometimes being in their line of work.

"Are you sure this is the location, there are no building or vehicles for miles."

"It's the right place, are you saying he's not there?" John asked.

"Negative on a visual, there is still an hour on his deadline we will wait to see if he arrives." Scott answered.

"FAB." John finished the call.

"Thunderbird 1 to Thunderbird 2, over."

"Thunderbird 2 here go ahead." Virgil replied.

"I have a funny feeling about this, make sure you and the others are careful." Scott warned.

"FAB Scott were on final approach now."

"FAB good luck." The comm. went dead.

"Thunderbird 1 to cargo hold over."

"Cargo hold receiving over." Tin-Tin replied.

"We are at location but no signs of life or even civilization here waiting until deadline time. Thunderbird 2 is on approach to their location now." Scott informed them.

"FAB awaiting further instruction." Tin-Tin confirmed.

"Where are the windows I thought this was the most advanced way to travel?" Roy joked.

"I am afraid you were down graded, something to do with false identity and I thought you might feel more at home?" Scott wittily replied back.

"Touché." Roy replied. "Remind me to never try to challenge you."

"Noted Thunderbird 1 out." Scott cut the connection.

"Now we wait." He stated the obvious.

"Have you set up the IR and EM scanners?" Jeff asked watching the desert in front of them.

"Yes." Scott answered.

PAUSE

"This is Thunderbird 2 to H-Birds." Alan called over the radio.

"H-Birds receiving you loud and clear over." Virgil replied.

"Comms checks complete?"

"FAB." Virgil replied.

"Suits all fitted and secure?"

"FAB."

"A-OK we are approaching the estimated radar horizon are you all ready to deploy?" Virgil looked about the group in the platform room. Everyone nodded as he made eye contact with him. There was Oliver, Diggle, John and Gordon.

"We are good to go." Virgil replied.

"FAB. While your gone I'll just take 2 for a quick ride to see the stars." Alan joked.

"You dare I swear if you do I will repaint 3 black with purple stripes." Virgil threatened Alan.

Oliver and Diggle looked to each other, Dig rolled his eyes but Olive just looked more unimpressed.

"Comon Virgie. Drop countdown in five." Alan replied getting back to business.

The hatch in the floor opened up and Virgil took a step towards it testing the wind pull.

"Four." Virgil turned to face the others showing a thumbs up sign and receiving one from each person in return.

"Three." The pause between numbers seemed to get longer. "Two." Virgil braced his feet ready to dive through the hole. "One."

Pushing with all his might Virgil went first through the hole and head first plummeted towards the ground. "Virgil open your wings your at 300ft." Alan's voice sounded over the wind noise in his ears. He responded immediately opening his arms out and his legs.

The decent speed stopped instantly and he propelled forward, carefully he altered his arms and legs keeping a level flight as he had ten miles to cover. An easy feat to cover, the world record was held at just past sixteen miles and in their practice time they had beaten it hands down but with the secrecy they had kept quiet.

"All H-Birds are in horizontal flight, you have eight miles to go." Alan updated him. Which continued every mile until the last. "Last mile Virgil initiate slow decent." Virgil did as instructed and he lifted his legs slightly and dropped his arms "Perfect keep up that path while I set the other up."

Virgil watched the green fields and trees whizzing past as he descended closer to them at an alarming rate. He trusted his brother with more than his life and continued on course as the speed increased.

"Virgil up ahead the barn coming into view that is your target." Alan hurriedly instructed."

Virgil set himself up ready to deploy his parachute. The barn rushed up at about 100 yard out he was well below the height of the trees he deployed his chute and braced for the sudden jerk of the wind resistance.

Carefully he directed the chute and his feet towards the ground with a soundless landing. As he unclipped and rolled up his chute he walked forward as the next one landed exactly in the spot he had been moment ago.

Within a minute everyone was on the ground and chutes rolled up and away. "H-Birds to Thunderbird 2 we are down and approaching the target." Virgil informed his youngest brother.

Oliver and Diggle took the lead now after they had unzipped their wings and unloaded their weapons from the sleek backpacks on their fronts. "Everyone ready?" Oliver asked as he put his mask into place and hood.

A chorus of "Yes." Returned. The Arrow pushed forward in the direction of the barn.

As they neared the barn a helicopter came into view Arrow notched an arrow in his bow and took aim, he released it and watched as it collided with one of the tail blades.

Then he lead the way closer to the barn. "Dig." He whispered. "Go around the side with Gordon and cover the large doors, I'll take this one."

"Right." Diggle agreed.

Diggle moved away from the ground in the direction of the other doors and Gordon followed.

Arrow moved to cover his door poised to open it waiting for Dig's signal.

"In position Oliver." Came over the comm. line.

"Now Dig." He loudly whispered as he pulled open his door stepped inside and simultaneously notched and drew his bow. He scanned the room as he sighted down his arrow, making sure he was ready for anything he was not taking any chances with this madman holding Felicity.

The barn was bare save for a cell type box in the middle of the floor space and Arrow honed in on it straight away. Inside the structure he could see a hunched figure in black clothing and gold embellishments. Underneath the figure he saw another figure that looked like Felicity.

Moving swiftly towards the cell he kept his bow locked on the figure in black. "Dig I've got eyes."

"Copy that black and gold in the cell?" Dig replied.

"Yep." Arrow didn't glance towards Dig's location he needed to make sure he was ready for any movement Felicity's life was in danger he was not going to lose her.

"Ah we have company, such a shame it took you so long to get here." A silky sounding oriental voice projected from inside the cell.

"Move away from HER!" Arrow growled low and threateningly.

"Of course." He replied raising his head and then upper body until he was standing then he turned to face Arrow. "Such an outdated weapon couldn't the Thunderbirds equip you with something fancy." The Hood mocked.

"I could kill you where you stand." Arrow threatened.

"Oh I doubt that." His eyes began to glow. "Lower your bow."

Arrow looked into the glowing eyes and he felt his control slip, his body tried to obey the instruction but he fought. He had dealings with hypnotism and how to overcome it and he put that into practice now. Pulling his shoulders he ensured the bow was taught and he forced his eyes to look at the arrowhead before him making sure it was aimed at a kill shot. He was not going to live if he continued playing this game Felicity was worth the cost.

"Nice try but your games won't work on me." Arrow almost bragged in his growly voice.

The Hood turned his eyes to focus on the man approaching from the other side. "Shoot him." He commanded.

Arrow heard the pull of a trigger, he was standing side on to Diggle so he threw himself forward into a gambol dodging the bullet and finishing on his knee bow once more trained on the Hood.

"Fight it Dig." Arrow growled.

"Hit a nerve have I?" The Hood teased. As movement sounded the Hood turned his attention towards the tall brunette and blonde Tracy, his eyes still glowing. "I don't think so stay where you are I will deal with you two shortly." The footsteps stopped.

"And you." The Hood continued. "Shoot the Arrow both of you KILL HIM!" The Hood was losing his temper.

Arrow waited for the shots and dodged them as best as he could. A few grazed him. "Fight IT DIGGLE!" Arrow demanded. He had to try any other way first but it was looking hopeless and the bald man was laughing now.

Arrow growled in frustration, as he had been moving around he could see Felicity on the floor at the Hoods feet, she looked pale and her gunshot wound was still bleeding. Her eyes were closed and she was unresponsive to the commotion going on around her Oliver knew she needed medical attention now.

"Enough of this. Stop now and I will spare your life." Arrow threatened.

The Hood laughed. "You do not kill. I know all about you Oliver Queen. You want to be a great hero, killing me won't achieve that."

One of the bullets grazed across his chest. "You don't know me at all. There is one thing I value more than being a hero." He stopped drew back his bow and aimed it straight for the Hoods chest. "Felicity being alive." He whispered as he released the arrow and watched it imbed the Hood.

Another bullet hit him in the shoulder and he winced in pain clutching the wound. He remained watching the Hood as he collapsed to the ground and his eyes returned to a normal non-glowing human colour.

"What the hell man!" Dig cried out as he regained his control. There were a couple of loud thuds as John and Virgil regained their control and collapsed to the floor. Gordon rushed to them as Diggle moved to Oliver. "I'm sorry I couldn't control anything I was doing." He apologized.

"I know it's a type of hypnosis. We need to get to Felicity." Oliver raised his voice telling the others.

"I got it, you need some medical attention too." Virgil said clambering to his feet with Gordon's help.

"I'm fine." Oliver growled moving towards the cell. Virgil was inside first closely followed by John and Gordon, sent Diggle in next then he followed.

"H-Birds to Thunderbird 2 receiving over." Gordon started to speak as John and Virgil collapsed at either side of Felicity.

"Danger over you are cleared to land, we need a hover stretcher ASAP." Gordon continued. "FAB"

John cradled Felicity's face in his hands. "Felicity. Come on open your eyes." He cooed.

Virgil picked up Felicity's wrist and held on checking for a pulse and he watched her chest closely. He felt someone bump into him while he was counting. After 20 seconds things didn't look good, her breathing was shallow and fast and her pulse was weak and high. Her skin felt clammy under his touch, all the classic signs of shock. He quickly unzipped his front pouch and pulled out a medical bag, he had prepared it for the gunshot wound after seeing the video.

Dig had come alongside him and he was applying pressure to Felicity's side. "Thanks." He said placing a thick wad of gauze over Dig's hands. Dig moved his hands and then placed them back over the gauze.

"Gordon lift up her feet, she's in shock." Virgil instructed tackling each problem in order.

"Can I do anything?" Oliver asked watching everyone else being involved with helping Felicity and he felt useless.

"You're injured so take it easy we have this covered." Virgil replied never losing his focus of Felicity. "I'm going to start bandaging can you keep the pressure on?"

"Sure." Diggle replied. Virgil started to bandage he went for a rough job to see Felicity into Thunderbird 2 where he could refine his work.

As he finished securing the bandage the barn door banged open, he had heard the engines and the landing in the background it had been a fast one but he would let Alan off it was desperate times.

Alan raced up out of breath with a hover stretcher in tow. "John can you life her head and shoulders?" Virgil asked.

"Yes." John replied.

"Gordon your on legs, Dig can you do lower body and I'll do torso. In position everyone ready?" He received a chorus of "Yes" from them. "On the count of three we lift straight up and Alan will slide the stretcher under." He paused before counting. "One…Two…Three."

Everyone lifted at the same time and easily they raised her a few feet into the air and Alan carefully positioned the stretcher underneath. Very gently they lay Felicity down. "Elevate the stretcher Alan." Virgil instructed and Alan responded programming the stretcher which slowly rose the feet end and dropped the head end. At the same time Virgil pulled out a strap and wrapped it around Felicity's middle and then repeated around her shoulders then legs securing her.

John hovered around the stretcher following it closely as it started to move out of the cell. Gordon collected the first aid kit and followed on with Oliver and Dig in front of him. He took one last glance back as he stepped through the doorway to leave the barn. Seeing the Hood still on the floor arrow sticking up in the air he felt a huge sigh of relief that menace was finally gone from their lives. He knew he should feel bad they all believed in saving everyone no matter who they are but the Hood had just done too much to him and his family. Carrying on out the barn he slammed the door shut and jogged after the others.

PAUSE

Inside Thunderbird 2 Virgil set about organizing everyone. "Alan your pilot get us home as fast as you can, no holding back."

"FAB Virg." Alan replied seriously his eyes dropped to Felicity's pale face. "I'll inform Thunderbird 1 to meet us there." He ran off towards the flight deck.

"Gordon guide the stretcher for me while I get out of this." Virgil ordered. As Gordon drew lever with him and took over he dropped back a few paces and started pulling the zips and extracting himself from the flight suit. All the while he kept up with the group and when they entered the med bay he was ready for action.

"On the table nearest the cabinets." Virgil instructed falling along Felicity's side opposite Gordon. "On the count of three John your going to lift head and shoulders, Dig your on legs and I'll do middle. One…Two…Three."

As Felicity rose up Gordon slide the stretcher out and moved it out of the way. He started removing his own flight suit while his older brother was checking Felicity.

Virgil picked up Felicity's wrist again to check for her pulse, and at the same time he watched her chest. He let 20 seconds pass and the findings were not good, her pulse had been difficult to find and her breathing was even more frantic.

"John I need you to get a monitor set out. Gordon I need an IV kit and a saline bag warmed." Virgil ordered. "Dig I've got this help yourself to the supplies and sort Oliver."

"Thanks, man." Dig replied staring Oliver down as he showed signs of protesting.

John hesitated at leaving Felicity and Gordon went straight into action opening and closing cupboards. Virgil opened a draw and removed scissors to remove Felicity's clothing. When he came back to Felicity's side John still hadn't moved.

"Now John." He raised his voice but it had the right effect John moved into action.

Virgil started to cut up Felicity's sleeve to her shoulder and then up to the collar and repeated the action on the other side.

Gordon brought him the IV kit and he started with that task. First he picked up the two gloves in the tray and put them on next he massaged the back of Felicity's then examined the veins on show, once he spotted one he uncapped the needle and inserted it in one smooth motion. Once that was fixed he connected the tubing to it and gave Gordon more instructions. "I need you to push that bag in as fast as you can but don't break the vein."

"I got this." Gordon replied picking up the saline bag and gently squeezing.

By this point John finally came over holding sensor pads. Virgil mad a cut down the centre of Felicity's clothing and pulled back the layers until it exposed her chest to place the pads down. One by one he took them from John and put them in place and then he connected the monitor resting it at the side of Felicity's head.

After a few seconds a quiet fast rhythm beeping joined the other noises of the room. Virgil looked at the readout confirming what he had already known her pulse rate was extremely high.

Next he set about rummaging for bandages and gauze to redress the wound, he also got tweezers and needle and several sets of needle and threads.

Back at Felicity's side Virgil started to cut away the rest of her clothes and the bandage. The gauze was starting to redden from the still bleeding wound.

"John pressure here." Virgil instructed firmly. He stepped back giving his brother the space to stand and then he started unwrapping the tweezers and a fresh gauze pad. When he had what he needed he stood very close to John over the wound poised.

"OK." Virgil said and as John moved his hand back, the bandaging and the blood stained clothing Virgil moved straight in. He lay the gauze over the wound and twisted it back to reveal the hole, carefully but quickly he inserted the tweezers into the angry red area and felt around for the bullet.

His initial check earlier had revealed no exit wound which complicated his job now. If she had been in a better condition he would have waiting until back at the island to do this but the bleeding needed to be stopped now.

Something clinked against his tweezers and Virgil knew it was the bullet, he scrapped the tips of the tweezers around the surface of the bullet until he found that he could grip it. Following the path he took in he extracted the bullet and as it broke through to the surface so did another flow of blood.

As Virgil pressed the gauze down over the wound to try to stem the blood flow the heart monitor went crazy until an even steady tone sounded. The rush of adrenaline had Virgil into action. "John pressure here as much as you can. Gordon get the defib kit." As soon as John's hand pressed over his he removed it and dumped the tweezers and bullet on the tray and moved to Felicity's head.

He tipped her head backwards opening her airway and he leant over her mouth with his face facing down her body and he watched and listened. Ten long seconds passed and Virgil felt his heart sink, she wasn't breathing either.

Virgil burst into movement again and he transferred his hands to the middle of Felicity's chest, as he set up his hands his foot instinctively moved towards a pressure had in the floor near the centre table support and as he stepped on it the table lowered. Virgil started chest compressions as Gordon came over with the rubber pads, he placed them down one above and off to the side of where Virgil's hands were and the other below and opposite the first pad.

While Virgil continued compressions Gordon readied the defibrillator device and as Virgil started to count he picked up the paddles. "Twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine." He did the last compression without numbering and moved to tilt Felicity's chin up more and pinch her nose, he blew twice into her mouth.

"Clear." Gordon called. Virgil stepped back and he grabbed John's arm pulling him away for a moment. His eyes wandered and he saw Oliver without his leather jacket on partially patched up watching his face was blank and Dig was still working on his injuries. He was glad they were keeping out the way.

The sound of the shock being administered brought Virgil's attention back to the job at hand, he watched the heart monitor continue to sound – no change. "John keep pressure. Gordon get a bag of the AB neg and swap the saline." Virgil instructed returning to chest compressions.

Gordon found the blood and warmed it as he had the saline, he swapped the lines over and started pushing the blood into Felicity as fast as he dared.

"Twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine." Virgil counted approaching the final set of compressions. Gordon was on the paddles poised ready to give the next shock.

After Virgil gave two breaths to Felicity Gordon shocked her and they all waited with held breaths for the heart monitor but it continued its long beep.

Everything repeated again, and again. By the sixth minute the bag of blood was empty Gordon pushed the last bit in before he had to take up his defib duties, Virgil was huffing heavily but he refused to change with Gordon.

"Twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine." Virgil huffed with each compression, as he finished the last one and moved to give two breaths he inhaled deeply once for himself then another to give to Felicity.

Gordon called clear before administering the fourth shock at the highest setting. The atmosphere changed in the room instantly, something was different. The continuous sound from the heart monitor that had been droning on in the background had stopped, it was now little regular blips.

Gordon threw the paddles back in their cradle, Virgil collapsed down into a squat resting the back of his wrist against his head in relief. John let out the breath he had been holding for the last eight minutes, he returned to applying pressure to Felicity's wound. He felt so useless and disconnected from what was happening it was like watching a TV show, you could watch it happening but had no control over what was going on.

A hand rested on Virgil's shoulder and he turned to look who it is and saw Diggle standing over him. He rose to his feet quickly. "Look take five and let me stitch that wound." Dig offered.

Virgil was going to protest but John spoke up. "Virg it's okay." If John was happy to let him then who was he to argue, he needed that five minutes CPR had never been so exhausting before. He had hated it when John had gone into cardiac arrest but a few sets of CPR and one shock later he was fine, Felicity had been much longer.

Nodding his agreement Virgil pointed to the pressure pads on the floor. "Use that to raise the table to the height you want." He wasn't going to hover there was other jobs he could get done.

An announcement sounded in the room from Alan. "ETA to Base five minutes." Virgil looked at his watch and smiled impressed at his youngest brother, he had always been the best at speed and once more he was proving his skills.

He moved around to the counters and picked up a tablet from the cupboard then started making notes on it. Gordon moved up to his side, "How bad is it?" He whispered.

"Gordon." Virgil warned in a whispered growl, he didn't want to answer that question. "Keep pushing the saline through." He changed the subject.

Once he had made all of the notes to the latest point he went into another cupboard and pulled out a thin blanket. Turning he moved over to Felicity, John was hovering over Diggle's shoulder. "How are you getting on?" He asked Dig.

"Final stitches now, I've put a few internal ones just to make sure it's neat and will hold." Dig answered.

"Good, thanks for taking over." Virgil replied.

"No problem, Oliver can lick his own wounds now. Nice job on removing the bullet." Diggle complimented.

"Thanks." Virgil felt a little swell of pride at the compliment. He placed the folded blanket on Felicity's legs and started carefully pulling away the remains of Felicity's clothes that had been cut away earlier.

As he slid the back of the clothes out Diggle finished applying the square bandage gauze over the wound. "Do you want to add a pressure bandage to help?" Virgil asked.

"It won't do any harm." Diggle replied. Virgil grabbed a roll of bandage and between the two of them they wrapped it around Felicity's middle and over the injury. Next they both lifted her shoulders and slid the blanket under her and wrapped it around her arms and front, protecting her modesty and keeping her warm.

Virgil felt the deceleration of the engines through the floor. "Let's get her on the hover stretcher." He announced to the room. Oliver walked up to them with the stretcher that Gordon had moved earlier. "John you operate the stretcher, Oliver get the head and shoulders, Diggle the legs and I've got the middle.

Everyone moved into position. "On the count of three. One…Two…Three." All lifted and John slid the stretcher underneath, he then started to attach the harness over Felicity.

"We are coming in for landing. Prepare for minor turbulence." Alan announced over the speaker.

"If he bumps her at all I'll kill him." Virgil commented. He returned to the blanket cabinet and pulled out another one. "Here John put this over too I don't want her getting cold on the transfer." He tossed one end to John and they tucked the edges in after draping it over Felicity, Virgil let the saline line hang out. "John take over from Gordon would you. Gordon can you restock in here and clean?" He asked.

John nodded and moved around to swap with Gordon. "Sure." Gordon replied he sounded annoyed but as soon as John had taken over he started to tidy up.

Virgil picked up the tablet from the counter and he added a few more notes before uploading the information to their server so it would be waiting for him in the island infirmary. He replaced the tablet back in its dock station.

"Thunderbird 2 is docked." Alan announced over the speakers.

"FAB. Complete post flight shutdown, checks and refuel for me." Virgil replied.

"FAB. Do you have any news on Felicity?" Alan asked the worry evident in his voice now.

"She's still with us and fighting." Virgil replied.

"OK." Alan replied before cutting the connection.

"Lets move." Virgil instructed he started guiding the stretcher towards the doorway and then through Thunderbird 2 until they were out in the hanger then he led the way through to the medical section they had.

PAUSE

Virgil rushed Felicity into a room and everyone following including John was instructed to wait outside. John knew what the room contained there were too many visits by all of them there to check for broken bones and internal bleeding.

"Why can't we be in there?" Oliver growled in frustration.

"It's got the x-ray in there." John answered still staring at the door while leaning against the wall opposite.

Oliver turned on him. "You've got all this money, equipment and resources why did you need to bring her into this?" He demanded.

"It was her choice no one forced her. You have her involved with your work which I know has had her shot, rigged with a bomb, almost buried alive, captured, arrested and 'demoted' from a job she loves." John replied in a deadpan tone.

"Yes but I'm not involved with her my enemies can't use her to threaten me." Oliver shouted back angry at John's lack of interest.

"I love her and she knew who I was and didn't care she saw me for me. She saved me when my family couldn't I owe her my life." John replied his minds eye replaying their night under the stars how he loved her company and how we felt when they cuddled together.

Oliver went mad. "All the more reason to push her away!" He yelled. "Our jobs are dangerous we have enemies everywhere to have someone we love close puts them in more danger. Your just as selfish a rich boy as the rest."

The words hit John with a force, was he selfish to love her and keep her close. Alan and Tin-Tin have no problems they are both aware of the risks. He was aware of the risks to Felicity and himself and he believed she was too and she willingly stayed. At least close he could stand more of a chance of saving her if she had been on Tracy Island the Hood would not have gotten her. If she wasn't helping the Arrow Slade would not have had her for the Hood to get her. If he hadn't asked her back to Tracy Island they wouldn't have gotten so close and she wouldn't be an agent. If the Arrow had protected her in the earthquake John would have never met her.

There was blame on both sides to Felicity being where she was now but ultimately it was Felicity's choice where she wanted to be and with whom. "She chose this, you pushed her away and keep doing so but she chooses to still help you. She has seen the dangers we face knows the risks and stayed at any point she can walk away I would not stop her even though it would break me. When she pulls through this if she wants to leave she can but everything she went through she chose it, she could have sold us out to save herself but she didn't. I think you're the selfish one pushing everyone away." John argued finally facing Oliver and meeting his eyes without hesitation.

"You're the reason Felicity is here and if she doesn't make it I will make sure you suffer." Oliver threatened.

"Fine. But as it stands I'm her next of kin." John replied inside he wanted to smile at the slapped face look Oliver now had. "Check her medical and QC file. Which means I have say over her and if you believe what you do then we should keep away from each other and you can see her when I'm not around. Follow that corridor it'll take you to the main villa." John pointed and he went back to watching the door and his right hand wandered up to the bump of Felicity's locket under his uniform.

Dig listened to the argument he knew Oliver was pissed with John and feeling helpless with the situation at hand. He did like John he took care of Felicity and from what he saw he was nothing but good for her even with this bad hiccup, Oliver had led her into bad situations time and time again and she always followed whether Oliver argued or not. When John triumphed him with being Felicity's kin he got ready for a fight, with the instruction to leave he took control and ushered Oliver away.

AN - so please let me know what you think of this I hope killing the Hood was okay I want them to have a nice peaceful ending in the 'no enemy hanging around waiting to pounce' and I thought Oliver could bear the weight of that killing. Oh and I apologise with any of the medical procedures/terms are wrong I did my best on what I know from my first aid course and TV shows and tried to be as accurate as possible with of course the drama. Anyway MERRY CHRISTMAS to you all! All those that review with their accounts I will send a sneak peak of the next chapter to you on Christmas morning :) UK time