WriterFreak001:
I am doing a series of Waige one-shots. I will post them here as well. Each chapter will not be connected to the chapters beforehand. They are single stories that will have nothing to do with each other; I would just like to have them all in one place. :D
This is my first one-shot request. I was given permission to post it onto FFN. :)
Title | A Mother's Instinct
Fandom | Scorpion (CBS)
Description | What happens when Cabe drops a screaming baby into the team's hands and tells them to look after the infant until the baby's father can be located? How will the team respond? (Cute one-shot requested by kstarbear on TUMBLR)
Rating| This fanfiction will be rated T for mild sexual themes and fluff.
POV | Limited Third Person
Disclaimer | While CBS owns Scorpion, I am the owner of this masterpiece.
Claimer | I am human; there are bound to be mistakes. If you feel like something should be changed, you have the power to send me a review/private message. I can't guarantee if I'll change it every time, but I do read all of my reviews and all of my private messages!
NOTE:
This short story will take place in the future…. Sometime after Walter and Paige become canon, but before the rest of the team knows about it. (I have a feeling that whenever they become canon, they'll be hiding their relationship from everyone else for a while).
A Mother's Instinct
Written by WriterFreak001
One-Shot
~ SCORPION ~
Walter descended the stairs of the garage and found everybody working on their own projects. Sylvester was at his board, Toby was reading, Happy was tinkering away at her desk and Paige was cleaning breakfast dishes in the kitchen. A smile found Walter's lips as he slowly made his way to the kitchen where Paige was softly humming to herself while scrubbing a pan with soap.
"Morning," Walter muttered softly as he gently rested his palm against the small of Paige's back.
She jumped from his sudden touch but quickly recovered with a soft smile. "Careful," she whispered, "We don't want to give a certain shrink any ideas."
"Right," Walter nodded and withdrew his hand from her back before pouring himself a cup of coffee. "Did you, um, did you sleep well last night?"
"So-so," Paige shrugged with a grin. "You?"
"Same." Walter muttered before taking a sip of his coffee. "Sorry, I couldn't swing by last night. Things got hectic here…, and once Toby and Happy left, I had to give Sly a ride home since Cabe had to leave early for some Homeland business."
"And I've told you before," Paige lightly poked him in the chest after she placed the pan onto the rack, "you don't need to apologize every time you can't follow through with our plans; we both lead busy lives. I have Ralph, and you have this team."
"I know," Walter ran his hand through his hair. "But…it's happened a lot lately, and I…feel bad about it."
"Don't be." Paige said as she grabbed his hand and pulled him to an abandoned area of the garage. She hooked her arms around his neck and added, "Ralph returns from Portland in three days. You have more than enough time to make things up to me." She pulled him down for a quick kiss. "And… if you can't make it over to my place, I'll come over here tonight." She smiled and cupped his cheeks. "We'll figure it out, Walter. We'll find our balance."
As his palms found the small of her back, he forced a smirk. "Is there, um, is there any chance I could make it up to you right now?"
"I wish," Paige laughed lightly as she gently smacked his cheek. "Tonight seems promising, though." She paused and then pulled him into a heated kiss; as her tongue found his, he hoisted her into the air and set her down on the hood of his long, forgotten car that Happy never fixed for him. She wrapped her legs around his waist and muttered, "Then again, tonight is so far away," against his lips.
Walter hummed in agreement as his hand crawled up underneath her shirt, found the clasp of her bra and unhooked it with ease. He began to pull at her shirt, when -
"Got another case!" Cabe bellowed over the sound of a crying infant from the front of the garage.
Walter groaned and pulled away from Paige as he raked his hand through his hair. "I'll go see what Cabe wants," Walter muttered to Paige. "Take the backstairs to the loft. You can fix your clothes up there."
"Okay," Paige gave him a quick kiss and made her way to the back as Walter straightened his tie and fixed his collar. He cleared his throat and quickly made his way towards Cabe.
"Where the hell have you been?" Cabe asked him as the infant continued to whine.
"Busy," was all Walter said on the matter. "Why…do you have that in your arms," the 197 IQ genius pointed to the baby. "And why can't you get it to stop crying?"
"The baby's mother," Cabe started to yell but paused and made his way over to Happy. "Hold her for a minute."
"Uhh, I know nothing about babies." Happy's eyes grew wide.
"I'm not asking you to nurse her; I'm just asking you to hold her." Cabe groaned.
Happy held her hands out at arms' length, and Cabe placed the child in her hands. She quickly handed the baby to Sylvester. "Here."
"Why me? Babies are covered with germs, Happy!"
"Because you have more cushion." Happy replied as she shivered on her way back to her desk and muttered, "I hate babies."
Sylvester grimaced at the mewling, screaming baby and also held him out at arm's length.
Cabe continued as he and Walter walked away from the human calculator and the crying baby. "The baby's mother was convicted today. I need you and the team to find the father of the child; you have 24 hours before social services takes her away."
"Okay… Shouldn't be too hard…. But's it's going to be difficult to concentrate with all of that screaming." Walter frowned.
"Well… I think she might need a diaper change. I'd have to go to the store to buy some though." Cabe crossed his arms.
"Okay. You do that. I'm sure we can figure out what to do with her until then." Walter swallowed. He knew nothing about infants. "Once Paige comes back down -"
"Where is she?" Cabe's eyebrows lifted.
"Um… in the loft," Walter answered quickly without explanation. "Anyway," he folded his arms, "Once Paige gets down here, I'm sure she'll know what to do."
"All right. I'll stay until she comes back down." Cabe nodded as Sylvester made his way over to Toby and told the shrink to take the baby girl.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you," Happy called out to Sly. "He's a spiller, remember?"
"Yeah. Butterfingers and babies do not mix," Toby said as he carried the infant at arms' length and gave her to Walter. Walter held the infant in his hands and looked at the little girl as though he had never seen a baby before.
"And just what makes you think I'm any better with babies than you?" Walter glanced at Toby and then quickly looked back at the screaming child. He was so afraid he was going to drop her.
"I don't know?" Toby shrugged. "You handle Ralph pretty well."
"Ralph is eleven, dumbass." Happy called out to Toby. "He's potty trained and isn't annoying as hell."
Before Toby could answer, Paige came running down the stairs. Thank God. She carefully took the baby out of Walter's hands and held the child close to her chest. "Well no wonder you're so fussy," Paige laughed as she felt the baby's diaper. "Definitely a dirty diaper."
"That's my cue to leave then," Cabe said quickly and then left. Paige ordered Walter to fetch a cloth and safety pins. She then told Toby to find a washcloth and damp it with water. Paige sent Happy to find a blanket, and she didn't bother sending Sylvester anywhere; he was too busy disinfecting himself with hand sanitizer.
"This is the only blanket I could find. It was in the loft." Happy said as she came down the stairs. "What do I do with it?"
"Put it on the ground as neatly as you can." Paige replied; once the blanket was on the floor, Paige gently placed the baby on top of the blanket. Walter returned with a clean cloth and a handful of safety pins. He didn't know how many Paige would need.
Toby scrambled back into the office with a damp cloth and handed it to Paige. "Now what?"
"Now, you just leave everything to me." Paige replied with a smile. "But first, I need someone to watch the baby while I go and wash my hands." Toby, Happy and Sylvester took three giant steps away from the baby as Walter watched the mewling infant with curiosity. "Thanks a bunch!" Paige smiled at him and disappeared.
"Wait, what am I doing?" Walter's eyebrow twitched.
"Just make sure the baby doesn't kill over," Toby patted Walter's back and then rushed off to his desk.
Paige returned a minute later and worked quickly. She removed the diaper and hollered "TRASH CAN!" Toby grabbed Sylvester's trash can and handed it to the mother. Sylvester balked and Toby only shrugged in response as he placed the bin on the ground next to Paige. Walter watched Paige clean the girl with the damp washcloth. He watched Paige with fascination. Once the infant was clean, the cries started to lessen. As soon as Paige pinned the dry cloth onto the baby's bottom, she picked the girl up and shushed her as she rocked her in her arms.
She rose to her feet and slowly walked about the garage, softly humming to the infant after ordering Toby to dump Sylvester's trash bin into the dumpster out back. Walter's eyes followed Paige; the baby was starting to fall asleep. Walter wondered if the way Paige was coddling the baby and singing to her was how she took care of Ralph when he was an infant.
Walter knew Paige was a great mother, but seeing her interact with an infant gave Walter a brand new perspective as to how he saw Paige's mothering skills. She was a natural. While everyone else on the team were too afraid to drop the baby, it took barely five minutes for Paige to change the baby's diaper and rock her to sleep.
She took a seat at her desk and wrapped her jacket around the baby as she held her in her arms. She caught him looking at her, and she smiled. For a moment, Walter had a glimpse of what life could be like in the future.
As he watched the woman he had fallen in love with continue rocking the infant to sleep, he could see himself having some sort of future with Paige….
That maybe, just maybe, having their own children would be a very similar experience. He would be frantically running around, trying to figure out how to calm their child, and she would just pick the baby up and sing him or her to sleep.
And as he approached her, he realized that a future with Paige was exactly what he wanted. And he had to wonder if she wanted it too.
~ SCORPION ~
WriterFreak001:
I hoped you liked this cute one-shot.
If you want a one-shot written for WAIGE, you can either send me a request on my TUMBLR: a-beautiful-mind-wf001 or PM me if you don't have a TUMBLR. I won't write these as frequently as my own stories, but I promise I will get to them. :D
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