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Thursday, April 12, 2068, 3:30 p.m., Tracy Island.
Virgil was heading back up to the villa kitchen to snag himself something to drink, taking a break from the maintenance he and Brains had been doing on Thunderbird Two. As he walked down the hall toward dining room and kitchen, he saw lights on in the infirmary and the door open. ~I wonder if Mom's in there? This would be a good chance to talk to her about Kat's problem.
He stepped inside and saw the figure of Dianne sitting in her office, working at her computer. She looked up at him as he entered, giving him a smile. "Well, Virgil, what brings you here? Are you feeling all right?"
"Uh... yes, I am. Why would you ask? Do I look sick?" Virgil asked in consternation.
Dianne chuckled. "No, you don't look sick. It's just that you boys come down here with great reluctance and only when you're at death's door it seems. Or when you are ordered to be here. Finding one of you here without being deathly ill is an unusual event."
"Oh, okay," Virgil said, wiping of the imaginary sweat from his brow. "Whew! I thought maybe you saw some illness in me that I hadn't seen myself."
"Nope," Dianne said. She saved her file of equipment inventory and gave him her full attention. "But something has brought you here..."
"Yes," he admitted. "When Brains and I were showing Kat around Thunderbird Two this morning, preparatory to her starting to learn how to maintain it, she fainted."
His stepmother frowned. "Fainted?" She reached over to the computer and began to bring up Kat's medical history. "Could she tell you why she fainted?"
"Yes, as a matter of fact, she did. She said she had a low blood sugar problem and that it had been too long since breakfast."
Dianne glanced at the screen, and made a little "mm-hmm" noise. "How long did it take for her to come around?"
"No more than ten minutes or so. We had just made her comfortable when she began to stir."
"Okay." She glanced at Kat's chart again, transferring it to a data pad so that Virgil couldn't see it. "What did you do then?"
"Helped her back to her apartment and poured her a glass of orange juice. I remembered that fruit juice is good to give a diabetic patient if their blood sugar drops too fast."
"Precisely right." Dianne said, looking up at him with a smile. "It looks like I need to have a little chat with our Ms. Williamson. It may have to wait until after the trip, though."
"What trip?" Virgil asked.
"We were going to tell you this evening at dinner. Your father and I are flying Dom out to Kansas for corrective eye surgery. We'll be gone for a couple of days."
"Oh!" he exclaimed. "Dad's been cleared to fly again?"
The doctor's smile grew wide. "He most certainly has. In fact, he's down in the simulator refreshing himself on procedures and he might take Tracy 1 out for a little spin later on. With John as back up, of course. We'll be discussing who is in charge of what at dinner."
"Great! It's wonderful that Dad's back in the cockpit again!" Virgil enthused. "It has felt like such a long haul for him to heal completely."
"Earlier in the century it would have been longer, a lot longer," Dianne admitted. "But we've made so many advances in medicine. Dom's surgery is a good example of that. He'll be done within a half-hour and be able to see without glasses the very same day."
"I bet he'll love that!" Virgil rose from his seat. "So, you'll take care of things with Kat?"
"Yes, I will. Leave it with me."
He leaned over to give her a kiss on the cheek. "Thanks, Mom."
"You're welcome," she said with a smile.
Virgil left the infirmary with a lighter heart, safe in the knowledge that his stepmother would take care of Kat.
Dianne sighed and began to compose an email, summoning Kat to the office at a convenient time after she and Jeff returned from Kansas with Dom.
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