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I have revised this chapter due to some grammatical errors and added a line or two. For the most part the story hasn't changed.
It is Christmas Eve and everyone has left the garage which leaves Walter alone and a lot of time on his hands to think.
Chapter 1 Memories
Walter's POV
It's Christmas Eve night and Walter was all alone in the garage. He had been up in his loft sitting on his couch thinking about what had transpired that day.
Getting to the cabin and help decorating it, volunteering to go help pick out a Christmas tree only to have Toby telling me in so many words that I was incapable of it while Tim was there and able to take care of it while at the same time bond with Ralph a little bit more. Then if that wasn't enough, running into the gunrunners and unknowingly bringing one of the them back to the cabin with us and putting everyone in danger, especially Ralph.
This was suppose to be a quiet family Christmas with no technology allowed according to Paige so everyone of us geniuses minded Paige's one rule: NO TECH ALLOWED. But guess who broke that one rule? Paige, she sneaked in her cell phone via her boot. But that was ok because it was Paige and if I had done anything like that I would have been called out by her on the whole issue. Well, I kind of did the same thing but not really considering it was suppose to be a present for her. I gave her a rebuilt laptop that I had been working on for a while. So in a since I didn't actually break her one rule at least not like she did.
Lets not forget about the heated argument with Tim that Paige walked in on and didn't here all of its verbal content. Like that would have help win her back at all. Not that she would have taken my side anyway considering we haven't been us for months now which feels more like years. I'm beginning to wonder if there is any chance at all to winning her back. Maybe Toby is right. I should just move on but I don't think I can. Maybe I'm destine to become ferret chow after all who knows.
Then to make matters worse Ralph gets kidnapped by the person who led us to believe that he was and undercover ATF agent who we found out by the gunrunners that we apprehended to be one them and the reason he was shot was because things went south among the group. What a day!
Then it all dawned on me. The look in Paige's eyes when she left with Ralph with Tim in tow like they were a perfectly happy family said it all. Paige was blaming me for the whole holiday gone bad. First it was Thanksgiving when I took that job for an engineering contract which turned out to be her mother and that whole day turned out to be one debacle after another and Paige's turkey was ruined by the end of the day. She blamed me for the mess that today turned into. Which in a way Thanksgiving was kind of my fault. Ok, I will take part of the hit for Thanksgiving but she can blame her mother for the rest. But, why blame me for Christmas? Never mind that Tim and Cabe was with me at the time. She's putting the blame all on me because I'm the genius, the eldest genius, that I should have known better, brought back trouble to the cabin and put her son in danger. She blames me just like she blamed me for when Ralph ditched school and sneaked passed all of the first responders and into the bio-hazard lab where I had a gun pointed to the back of my head and not knowing he was on the premises and I pulled the cords that controlled the whole building and nearly causing Ralph to fall into the incinerator. Granted, if I had known he was in there I would have taken the bullet to my head just to protect and insured his safety without a doubt. But this, this is not all of my fault. If she is going to place blame on anybody for this then she needs to blame Tim and Cabe as well not just me.
Then a realization hit him. Everything came flooding back like a dam had broke in his mind. The part that hit him the worst was the memories from the capsule. He distinctly remember telling Paige that it hurt him to see her and Tim together and the fact that she chose Tim hurt most of all and telling her that he loved her and he distinctly remembering Paige saying I love you back to him and that if he took her hand or pulled a lever, that part was rather fuzzy for some reason, but either way they would be together forever. And yet, they are not together but instead she is forever flaunting her personal relationship with Tim in front of him every day. All of the hugging and kissing done in his line of sight was done on purpose. Did she hate him that much or despise him that much. Exactly when did things become so broke between them. He knows it didn't phase him when Happy said she needed their divorce sooner than expected because she thought at the time that she was pregnant with Toby's baby. He was rather happy for both of them when the news came out but unfortunately it was never the case because the cadmium poisoning but what Paige had done was excruciatingly painful and purposefully done.
All of a sudden a lot of hurtful things started to come to mind by each one of the team members. Paige's hurtful actions and that one lie that hurt the most, Cabe pretty much telling me to let Paige be with Tim because he was the better guy for her and telling her that I loved her then was being selfish. Come to think of it, Cabe said in so many words that I wasn't good enough for Paige and Tim was a better choice for her anyway. Toby telling me that I should move on because Paige has moved on with Tim. Hell, it was Toby who was pushing for two years to get me to admit that I had feelings for Paige and when I finally admit to being in love with her Toby does this whole 360 degree turn and tells me to forget about her all together and move on because she seems happy with Tim.
Happy hasn't hurt me so much as the others did. She told me to ask Paige to Tahoe and I failed to do so. I sent Paige with Tim instead. Yes, I admit it was my fault but when Tim called on Paige's personal phone I felt like I could never compare to a normal guy like Tim and she had already made that decision in her life. If I had to compare, Tim is like Drew just with a better job so therefore I just disappointed Happy altogether on that point. So I don't see where she had hurt me in any of this beside supporting Paige's and Tim's relationship. Sylvester on the other hand never really said anything about the whole situation. He did try to bring us back together which was a failed attempt but then again he was too busy going behind my back with other things. First it was him dating my sister and not telling me for a while, then it was him marrying my sister without saying anything at all and me finding out after it was all said and done, then it was him having this whole relationship with my parents and never including me or telling me and then I found out everything when we went to Ireland for Pattern's Day and he got a greeted by my parents like he was their son that hasn't been home is so many years unlike me who was the actual son and barely got noticed except when it came to the childhood bullies and they noticed him right away but for all of the wrong reasons.
Ralph on the other hand is really too young to understand the adult concept of the whole situation but then again he is a genius after all just like me. But I really feel like I lost him too when he told me that I should have been the one to take his mom dancing and him and I could have been partners forever. If it was up to Ralph, I feel like I would have been Ralph's first choice but it isn't up to Ralph, it is all up to Paige so therefore, I feel like I lost not only the better part of myself but everything that went with it. So, of course I can't be mad at Ralph, he is my boy and always will be regardless if Paige and Tim likes it or not. I just hope Ralph doesn't shut me out of his life altogether since Tim seems to be becoming a permanent part of his.
At some point, Walter jumped up from the couch not even thinking about his actions but grabbed his carry on bag, passport, and all of his identification that he needed for travel. He grabbed paper and pen and started writing notes to each member of the team as well as to the whole team in general. He then called an Uber and while waiting on the car he distributed the notes to everyone's desk and left Ralph's note on the table in between his and Paige's desk as well as the note to the whole team. He even left a note for Tim. After making sure everything was secured and turned off and locked down the car had arrived to pick him up. He got into the back seat and told the driver where to take him. "LAX please."
"Sure thing." said the driver. I hope you make it to your destination before Christmas. Travel during the holidays are brutal especially at this point in the day."
"I know but if I don't get there before Christmas is over then it will be ok either way. It is currently 6pm here so I should get there by 6pm tomorrow. Everything should work out."
Arriving at LAX, Walter got out of the car and went to the ticket counter and ask if there were any direct flights to the east coast. If at all possible he was going to try to get direct flights to his destination. He needed some space to think and this is the only way he can think to get it.
