Introduction notes: So I've decided to put all my Thunderbirds one shot stories under one label, they are going to be mostly TAG based with elements of the TOS mixed in to help fill out the back stories, some of the headcanons that went into the Stories written in the notes.
The ages (for these stories) for the boys and Kayo in 2060 are: Scott 27, John 25, Virgil 23, Gordon 21, Kayo 19 and Alan 17 (yeah I also think the ages and age order that they gave the boys in the TAG written material is a joke). While the ages of the boys may not by a factor in all the stories, there might be some where it is.


Title: Privacy
Rating: T for obvious reasons
Summary: Sometimes the Tracy Brothers want a little bit of privacy.
Notes: The idea for this story came from the Thunderbirds are Go episode Slingshot, particularly the parts where John coms into Alan's bedroom without warning and can obviously see well enough into the room to tell a half asleep Alan he is walking into his closet. Well after thinking about that for while it occurred to me if John can com into any of his brother's rooms when there's an emergency he's bound to catch his brother's out doing… Yeah… I think you get idea ;)
Disclaimer: I don't own it, I'm just playing with an idea that would NEVER come up in the actual show/series.


Privacy

"Thunderbird four you are… uh god… Gordon!"

"What the hell John!?"

Scott rolled his eyes as he ran down to the launch shoot of Thunderbird one, something had to be done about the video coms in their bedrooms, as that was fourth time this month that John caught one of their brothers in a comprising position while trying to do his job.

Granted that the person John caught out most of the time was Gordon – and his second youngest brother had very little shame – but Scott knew John had caught them all out at least once or twice since their father disappeared.

Most of the Tracy Island household was wired with video coms so anyone working on Thunderbird Five – which was mostly John – or on a mission, could get in contact with anyone on the island in anyplace. The only places where there were no 24/7 video coms were in the bathrooms as well as the bedrooms of Kayo, Grandma, Brains and their father.

Privacy was next to non-existent on Tracy Island because of this, so all the brothers had to figure out the island's blind spots if they wanted some 'alone' time, but this didn't always guarantee privacy because if someone went looking for them… well the brothers hoped the person looking for them wasn't Grandma or Kayo.

Especially Kayo, the one time she caught one of them out she screamed blue bloody murder and threw the culprit – which happened to be Gordon – into the pool.

Alan wouldn't talk to Gordon for a week after that – even then it took a month before Alan would have a non-mission conversation with him. It probably didn't help that Scott, John and Virgil didn't let Gordon (or Alan for that matter) forget it.

But it was now getting to the stage where John was starting to really complain about being dropped into situations where there wasn't enough brain bleach in the world that could erase the stuff he had seen… yeah enough was enough.


The rescue was a simple one… well simple for them anyway and now they were on the way back to Tracy Island when Scott decided to take some mercy for John (and to a certain point Alan) and brought up the issue about the coms with Brains.

"Brains?"

"Yes, Scott?"

"When you have the chance can you do something about the video coms in our bedrooms?"

"What's wrong with them?"

"Nothing really, except if we are getting changed or doing other 'private' things when calls come in, John cops an eyeful."

"An eyeful of what?"

Scott rolled his eyes – if he wasn't flying Thunderbird one he would have face palmed, "I am so not going to answer that… Look, Brains, just fix the coms so when John first coms in he doesn't actually 'see' what we are doing."

"Ok, Scott."

"About time." Virgil commented, from Thunderbird two.

"Finally!" Alan called back from Tracy Island – he had been left behind again. "I'll help you fix them when you're ready Brains."

"That would be appreciated." John added from Thunderbird five, "I've seen more than enough to scar me for life."

"It would be nice to able to have some me time without Big Brothers or Little Brother watching." Gordon added, from next to Virgil in Thunderbird Two.

"GORDON!" All the brothers yelled at the same time followed by a smacking sound over Thunderbirds two's speakers.

"Ow!" Gordon yelped, "Gees Virgil, what was that for?"

"You know what that was for," Virgil replied. "And it's not funny."

Scott rolled his eyes again, then started to get prepared for his final approach to Tracy Island.


So the coms were fixed and the boys started to enjoy a bit more privacy on the island – but even the fixed cameras couldn't save the brothers from Gordon's latest streaking episode when Grandma Tracy and Kayo were off the island visiting Penny.

But that's another story.

The End.

Notes: Feel free to review.