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Both nurses sat nervously across from Jeff and Dianne. This was it. This would determine which one of them would work there or if both of them had been accepted.

"First of all, I want to thank you both for being so willing to come here and interview," Jeff began. "I know you had to take time from your work schedules, and for you Dominic, it meant bringing Joshua along, something that you may have found logistically difficult. I... we appreciate your time and effort."

"Bringing Josh has not been a problem, Mr. Tracy," Dominic responded. "Your daughter has been wonderful with him."

"I'm glad to hear it," said Dianne with a smile. "And I hope you've both enjoyed your stay here on our Island."

"Oh, yes, Dr. Tracy!" Nikki gushed. "I shall hate going back to cold, wet England after all the tropical sun and the beaches. I feel like I've had a vacation!"

All four laughed at her statement, and somehow the ice was broken a little.

"I'd be sorry to be going back to cold, wet weather, too," Jeff agreed. "But it's not all sunshine and warmth here. Wait until monsoon season!"

When the chuckles had died down from his quip, the Tracys grew serious.

"On the way here, Nikki asked a very pertinent question, one that I'm sure you've both asked yourselves as you've toured our home and seen our sick room and its equipment," Dianne began. "How much work can there really be for a doctor and one or two nurses? And why do we need such advanced equipment?" She leaned forward and gazed back and forth between them, catching each nurse's eye. "The answer is something that we hold very close and secret. Yet, we want to be upfront with you about everything you'd be signing on for. Especially you, Dominic, since your decision would affect not only you, but Joshua."

"Does this mean that we've been accepted?" Nikki asked.

Jeff nodded. "Yes. We are offering both of you a job of nurse to the Tracy family. But, there's a more important job involved and you need to know about it before you make a decision."

"I'm not so sure about this, Mr. Tracy. Do you keep secrets from all of your family's staff?" Dominic asked, suspicious.

"I made the mistake of trying to keep it from my wife when she first came. It's not a mistake I care to repeat."

Dianne added, "What we are about to show you must remain here. You must never tell anyone else about it." She rose, as did Jeff. "Please, follow us."

Nikki and Dominic looked at each other again as they got up and followed their host and hostess. Down a flight of stairs to the lower level, around a corner and past the sick room, around another corner to where the corridor dead-ended. Jeff pressed a hidden button on the wall, and a small control panel opened. He placed his palm on the panel and it was scanned, then a red light below the scanner turned green. He pressed a series of buttons, and a portion of the wall slid away.

"This is a lift to a monorail system that runs through the complex in the rock beneath our home," he explained as he opened the door to the lift and they all got inside. Nikki was getting more and more nervous about the situation, and Dianne gave her a reassuring smile. Dominic stayed cool, but inside, his suspicions were growing.

The lift deposited them in a small, plain, but well-lit room hewn from the rock. The walls were as smooth as if they had been poured concrete and it was clean and dust free. A red monorail car waited for them. Jeff indicated that they should all step inside, and he took the controls, letting the monorail make its way through a wide, well-lit tunnel.

"Must cost a pretty penny to light all this," Dominic said as he looked around.

"We have our own power generators," Jeff explained. "As well as our own desalination equipment and sewage treatment plant. We're really quite self-contained."

The monorail track rounded a bend, but Jeff stopped the car and they all disembarked. Another lift took them to the floor of a massive room. Nikki's eyes widened at the size of it, but Dominic's eyes were drawn to the huge green machine that stood on stilts and dominated the room. He gave a low whistle.

Dianne led the way over to the green monster. The two nurses could see that sitting on the floor, its very top fitting neatly between the front and back of the big machine, was a garage-like structure, flat on the bottom and rounded like an ancient Quonset hut. A flap door was open, and inside the garage was a gleaming white vehicle.

"It looks like an ambulance," Nikki breathed. "But the biggest ambulance I've ever seen!"

Dianne smiled slightly. "In a way, it is an ambulance. This is Thunderbird Seven, the newest vehicle in the Thunderbird fleet...."

Dominic jumped as if stung and his face paled. "Thunderbird? Thunderbirds? As in... International Rescue Thunderbirds?"

Jeff nodded solemnly, and Nikki gasped, putting a hand up to her lips. "Yes, Dominic, Nikki. International Rescue Thunderbirds. Our family is International Rescue."

"And... we are asking you both to join us," Dianne added softly.

Post by Tikatu on 09/06/2004

Jeff heartbeat Dianne plain My IR:TNP OTP!

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