Hi fellow Scorpion fans ! Thank you for deciding to click on MY story! So I was going through the stories on here and realized there was no Sylvester/person romance stories. I love Walter/Paige and Toby/Happy as much as the next girl but what about lovable goofball Sylvester!? Well so I thought "Me i could be the first!" . And this story happened!But dont worry there will be something for everyone! Also this being my first fic and all I would love some tips on writing a "genius no EQ character". Now to the story!
Don't panic, don't panic. People, people everywhere. She felt as if the world was closing in on her. She couldn't breathe, her vision was blurring. Then her body hit the pavement.
Paige's POV
"Ralph , we're here!" She said as she pulled the car in front of the Scorpion warehouse , or headquarters as Ralph says sometimes. She quickly got out of the car and went to help Ralph with his backpack.
Her gaze stopped on him, his eyes clouded over as they looked into the distance at, well, nothing.
"Come 'on Ralph, lets go see the team." she said excitedly, trying to get him to look at her. Which she should know wasn't going to happen.
"Mom" his quiet voice that she didn't her often ,got her full attention .
"Yes?" She said trying to hide her obvious excitement.
"There's a person. In the alley , they're on the ground." He pointed to the alley beside the warehouse.
Paige walked over to Ralph and looked .
"Oh my. Ralph go get the team."
She ran towards the person, girl, she could tell from the clothes and hair. As soon as she got to the girl she checked for a pulse. She released a breath when she felt the fast beat.
Paige inspected the girl. Her clothes were ripped , probably from falling. Her bright blonde hair was shaggy and ragged. Plus her eyes were red as if she had been crying.
"She's probably a drunk or homeless. What's this got to do with us?"Happys' unhappy tone brought her back to reality .She turned around to see the uncertain faces of her teammates.
"Because, when you see a person passed out and could be hurt . You help them. Okay guys can you help me pick her up?"
Sylvester's eyes widened, obviously thinking about all the germs that could be on her from the alley ground.
"Never mind, Toby? Walter?"
They hoisted her up and they followed them to the warehouse.
"You realize the possibility of her having a disease is 81%. Should we really be bring her into our nice , clean workspace?" Sylvester was standing of in the corner , watching them lay her on the couch.
Paige ignored him , not to be rude , but there wasn't a good response . He was right.
"I know her!" Toby yelled as he ran over to his desk. "I've seen her file, chronic anxiety, panic attacks, basically can't be around people for more than five minutes!" He made that sound like a good thing, she thought.
"Name?" Walter said looking at Toby.
"Eliza Hakim! IQ of ... 154! She's a legend in the shrink community! Her case, panic attacks starting from the age of 5. She should be around 24 now!"
Toby's excitement was odd to Paige. The most emotion she had seen from him since Vegas and casinos. She watched him run around his work space, an obvious glow from his face.
"She's been missing since she was 16, rumored she ran away! No shrink understood it, the anxiety! They put her on tons of medicine; she refused to take it because apparently it didn't help!"
"How does she work, if she can't be around people?" Paige asked confused.
But before she could get an answer the girl, Eliza, started to move.
Eliza's POV
The ground was quiet soft; she didn't remember the ground being this nice. Her head was still pounding and her face was sticky with tears.
She opened her eyes to be met with 6 people. 6! She instantly sat up from the apparent couch and looked around. Her heart thudded against her chest, this was her worst nightmare. She'd actually had this one.
They stared at her with wide eyes not saying anything. One, a guy with a hat, had a giddy expression. He must be a shrink, her heart beat harder and her stomach clinched. She stuffed her hand in her pocket and pulled out her Xanax.
"I-I n-need w-w-water." She stuttered to these random people. A girl with bangs quickly went and got some.
"Here you go." The girls' voice was sweet and calm. It almost made Eliza not a scared. Almost.
She chugged the water like her life depended on it, which it felt like it did. She laid back on the couch, this once thankful for her medicine.
She closed her eyes and tried to control her breathing. She tried to forget about the 6 people watching her, they most of found her after she passed out. She didn't have enough time to take her medicine, which she hated doing but helped her in the long run.
She envied these people who could be normal. No medicine no shrinks trying to read them. She hated being read, after all these years she learned to shield herself.
After she calmed her breathing, she slowly opened her eyes. The 6 people, one a child, still just standing around. A guy wearing glasses looked as scared as her, odd.
"Hi, your names Eliza right?" The girl from before asked. Her voice was calming, better than any shrink.
Eliza took a deep breath before trying to answer. "Yes." she nodded her head as she said it. No stutter. She took another deep breath and went on. "How did you know that?" She had a suspicion the guy with the hat was a shrink, and probably heard of her. She just wanted to be sure.
"My friend over there, Toby, recognized you." She pointed towards hat guy. Looks like she was right.
She took another deep breath; so far this was going good. No shaking or head thumping. She could do this. "Who are you all?"
The girl smiled "I'm Paige. The little boy is my son Ralph. Guys?" She looked towards the others.
"Walter."
"Happy."
"Toby."
"Sylvester. Um… we have a shower. You were on the ground, there's an 81% chance you could now have a disease or sickness of some sort." He rambled. She decided he wasn't bad, he had anxiety like her. That calmed her. She smiled, but only for a second.
"Um, I'm still a little weary of all of this. And you guys probably want me to leave. Thanks for taking me in." While she talked she looked at Sylvester, like Paige , he calmed her. She stood to get up.
"Wait! I have tons of questions!" Toby ,hat guy, looked at her with wide eyes.
"I have some questions too." Walter said "You're a genius , right?"
"Guys she not comfortable!" Paige objected, noticing her wide eyes and trembling fingers. "Eliza, my teammates have some questions. Are you up for answering some and OH, staying for dinner?"
"Sure. But could I take that shower first?"
The rest of the day included of them telling her what they were, Scorpion. How they're all geniuses, minus Paige.
Toby asking her a million questions about her condition. Who she wasn't sure of, she just didn't like shrinks, or all there questions.
Then they quizzed her to see if she was really was a genius which had to be the weirdest part. They gave her calculus then timed her on how fast she could do it. Then gave her a book and timed how fast she could read and comprehend it. They said she passed.
It was almost the end of the night and she noticed Paige and Walter talking in the corner. She paid no mind and went back to asking Sylvester about his parents, who like hers, just didn't get it, the anxiety or the mind.
She decided she liked Sylvester; he was a lot like her .Not having many friends, or none at all in her case. Anxiety, other things. He was her first real friend, and hoped they stayed friends.
"You know you're really cool. And thanks for not thinking I'm crazy or weird." She confided, he was the first person she'd ever opened up to. It was nice.
He smiled at her.
The only difference between them was the EQ. Walter explained it earlier. High IQ equals low EQ, but not with Sylvester. He has high IQ and EQ. She had moderate EQ not as low as Walter's but not as high as Sylvester.
She forced herself to smile back, probably looked weird but she was trying.
