"Everything Happens for a Reason"
Prologue - or my chance to do a bit of explaining.
This story, 'Everything Happens for a Reason', is initially set in 2046, and then in 2068,
I think that "Thunderbirds" is set in 2067. I know that the calendar in "Give a Take A Million" reads 2026 - But Christmas day in 2026 is a Friday not a Sunday. It's a Sunday in the episode. Whereas, in 2067, Christmas day is a Sunday. I think the calendar is one of Gordon's practical jokes. The day and date is correct but the year wrong.
I tried to keep the Tracy boys dates of birth and relative ages to what 'Fanderson' (the Gerry Anderson Fan Club) says they should be, according to the information they provided to "Slow Dazzle" for their calendar series. I thought that as they had Gerry Anderson as an honorary member they should have 'accurate' information. The problem is that their dates of birth (years), is one thing up to the 2000 calendar and then it changed from 2002 onwards. (I haven't got a 2001 calendar - yet) The only constant was that Virgil was born on 15 August 2041.
They also originally had John as the oldest and Scott as second oldest. My story worked better with their 'seniority' reversed.
So I've thrown the idea of accuracy out of the window and decided to utilise my 'Poetic Licence'. (And I can show it to any accuracy police that ask.)
I've read of two 'official' stories as to what happened to Lucille Tracy, Jeff's wife. One is that she died giving birth to Alan. A bit hard on Alan, I've always thought, no matter what you think of him.
(In the latter calendars the boys were also born so close together that maybe Lucille did give up the ghost when Alan came along.)
So this is my 'take' on the second version. I gave it to my mother and had her crying on Christmas Day. So my apologies in advance if you find you need a box of tissues.
Happy reading.
Purupuss
Prologue - or my chance to do a bit of explaining.
This story, 'Everything Happens for a Reason', is initially set in 2046, and then in 2068,
I think that "Thunderbirds" is set in 2067. I know that the calendar in "Give a Take A Million" reads 2026 - But Christmas day in 2026 is a Friday not a Sunday. It's a Sunday in the episode. Whereas, in 2067, Christmas day is a Sunday. I think the calendar is one of Gordon's practical jokes. The day and date is correct but the year wrong.
I tried to keep the Tracy boys dates of birth and relative ages to what 'Fanderson' (the Gerry Anderson Fan Club) says they should be, according to the information they provided to "Slow Dazzle" for their calendar series. I thought that as they had Gerry Anderson as an honorary member they should have 'accurate' information. The problem is that their dates of birth (years), is one thing up to the 2000 calendar and then it changed from 2002 onwards. (I haven't got a 2001 calendar - yet) The only constant was that Virgil was born on 15 August 2041.
They also originally had John as the oldest and Scott as second oldest. My story worked better with their 'seniority' reversed.
So I've thrown the idea of accuracy out of the window and decided to utilise my 'Poetic Licence'. (And I can show it to any accuracy police that ask.)
I've read of two 'official' stories as to what happened to Lucille Tracy, Jeff's wife. One is that she died giving birth to Alan. A bit hard on Alan, I've always thought, no matter what you think of him.
(In the latter calendars the boys were also born so close together that maybe Lucille did give up the ghost when Alan came along.)
So this is my 'take' on the second version. I gave it to my mother and had her crying on Christmas Day. So my apologies in advance if you find you need a box of tissues.
Happy reading.
Purupuss