Hey guys! I'm pretty sure you're all dying too after the finale (Dying of angry, disappointment or sadness, or it all at once hahaha) So, I thought about writing this, what could happen between Waige after that episode, because I dont know how i'm gonna survive 5 months waiting for an answer. Anyway, as a reminder, I'm Brazilian and I don't use translators or have beta readers so please forgive me and let me know if I wrote something wrong or out of context. Hope u enjoy 3

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"Where are you going?" Toby asked confused.

"I'm going to stop Paige." He answered with a frown on his face. He didn't seem so sure about whas he was going to do, or say. He just knew he felt the need to run after her and tell her what he'd been hiding for over a year. "I love her." As soon as these words flew out of his mouth, he knew there was no going back. That was the first time he said out loud the thought that been haunting his mind frequently lately. He really does love her. "I'm a moron" He said almost as a self-thought, and then bursted off the door. He ran away to his car and drove as fast as he could. He tried to call her, but her phone was off.

"Dammit." He was now even more nervous. without her voice to calm him out. Anyway, he hadn't think about what he would say if she had answered. Focusing on the road, he tried to concentrate all the things he needed to tell her, and all the things he had to apologize for.

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A few hours later, he got to Tahoe and to the hotel where they'd been at. It was almost 3 a.m and Walter had no idea what he would do or say. Nor had any idea if they had already arrived or their room number.

"Walter?" He heard a voice calling from behind him. "What are you doing here?"

He slowly turned around and faced Paige, her face was shocked and confused at the same time, and she was right to be that way. What the hell was he doing there? She gave her so many chances to make it right. Just before she leaves to Tahoe with Tim, she gave him one last chance, one last chance for him to say that he wanted her to stay. But he didn't. As always, he pretended to feel nothing and just let her leave. Again. And with Tim.

After she turned around and got into Tim's car almost 8 hours ago, she decided that she was moving on. Walter clearly already had. He was frequently pushing her away, and she was done with that. She had wait. She waited for so long, and he never seemed to be ready. He was ready for that speed date non sense. He was ready to a realationship with Linda, but never ready for her. What the hell was that? She couldn't wait forever, she thought. She had a son, a life. Even though she loved him more than she ever loved anyone else (even more than Drew) she couldn't keep waiting on ifs. If he would ever be ready. If he loved her. If it would work. So after the moment he said all that things about caring and thinking about a woman and she said "Are you talking about… Toby?" and again, he hide everything, she decided she couldn't keep doing this. It wasn't fair to her.

To be honest, she wasn't being fair with Tim too.

Tim was a great guy, really. Even though she was emotionally and mentally attached to Walter, she kinda liked him. He was handsome, funny, very smart, kind, gentle, good with Ralph. He was everything she could ask for and even more, but there was just one issue: he wasn't Walter.

"What if he isn't Walter?" She thought to herself. "Maybe this is a good thing. Walter and I will never be a something, as soon as I accept that, the better" Was that the thoughts that surrounded her mind while he was in the car with Tim, listening to his storys about his navy times.

"Walter, what are you doing here?" Paige stepped close to Walter and repeated the question after a few seconds passed of him just staring at her.

"I..I needed to, uh, talk to you" he answered, his eyes never leaving hers.

"And you drove all the way here? Couldn't you have just called?" She asked looking deep in his brown eyes, it seemed that al lhe wanted to talk she could read right there, in his gaze.

"Actually.. No." He answered in a low tone, but was interrupted by another familiar voice.

"Walter! What are you doing here?" Tim asked surprised as he approached them and placed a hand on Paige's back, an action that didn't go unoticed by Walter, and his reaction didn't go unoticed by Paige too, but Tim seemed oblivious of all of it.

"I needed to talk to Paige" he said firmly, directing his eyes to him.

"Couldn't you have just called?" Tim asked confused.

"Dammit, no! I couldn't have just called!" "Sorry" he lowered his tone after he realized that he unintentionally screamed. He was nervous, scared, he didn't know what to do.

Tim seemed to sense the tension between the two, and the thing he already predicted was being confirmed. Since the day he'd first been in the garage, he noticed something was going on between them. The looks they gave each other, Walter's behavior around her and about her. After a few moments near them he figured it out, but kept quiet. Paige accepted his invite to have a meal, then another ones. Walter "encouraged" him to invist on her. And he had confirmed with Sly and Cabe that they really weren't in some kind of relationship, so whats the deal?

But he wasn't feeling right about it. He saw the hurt look on Walter's face, and saw the even more hurt look on Paige's as she gotten into the car after a few seconds alone with Walter. He knew he was getting in the middle of something way more bigger that his mere attraction for Paige.

She was awesome. Extremely beautiful, smart and wiser, funny and an excelent person and mom. She was thoughtful and what the any guy would consider the perfect package, but it was just it. Tim liked her, but thats all. They just knew each other for a month. He could move on. But what Walter felt was way beyond his simply attraction, and he knew what Paige felt for him was way beyond that too. He could tell by the way she stayed silent the entire ride that she was extremely upset and heartbroken, even though she was trying her best to seem interested and happy to being with him. She was too kind to even think about hurt him, and he knew that. And he truly appreciated that. But he couldn't keep doing this. Walter standing right there in front of them was the proof that he was really getting in the middle of something that he shoudn't, and even though it wasnt going to be easy just let Paige go and forget his interest in her, he knew it was the right thing to do. She loved Walter, and Walter loved her. What could he do? Walter, even though a jerk sometimes, was a really nice guy, he deserved love. And Paige, she deserved love to.

"Look. I know what is going on here." Tim said removing his hand off Paige's back and putting into his pockets, pulling the tickets and handing them to Walter.

"What? Tim.. I'm sorr.." Paige was startled by ther sound of Tim's voice, since she was deeply attached to Walter's eyes. Wondering so many things. Wanting to yell at him, hit him like that day in the train, but she wanted at the same time to just jump onto him and crash ler lips to his.

"Paige, relax. Im not mad. You are great, but we both know I'm not the person you wished were here with you." He paused and then looked at Walter "The person you wished is right in front of you" he gesture to him who stared at them silently. Unsure what to say.

Paige seemed sad and ashamed at the same time. She was feeling horrible for making Tim pass through all of that, even though she knew it was the right thing to do. She couldn't keep using him like this.

He handed Walter the tickets again and he silently took it off his hands, staring blankly at them. He felt ashamed too, Tim didn't deserve it. Actually, he didn't deserve the way Walter acted around him at all. Now it was clear to Walter that he acted so childish because he was afraid of losing Paige.

"Umm.. I'm.. Uh.. I'm sorry Tim." He lifted his eyes from the tickets. "I acted like a jerk with you these past few weeks, even though I barely knew you. You didn't deserve that, you've been very good to the team. You really helped today."

Tim nodded with a smile, knowing that those genius wouldn' t ever stopping surprising him, even though he knew them for so short. That's one thing he never thought he would see: Walter O'briend apologizing to him.

"You two need to talk and solve this. I imagine you came with your car Walter, so Im leaving her in your hands." He gestured towards Paige, giving her a little smile. "Get her back safe to work monday. See you guys." And with that, he went in the direction of where their suitcases were, next to the balcony where he was checking-in and grabbed his bag. He didn't seemed mad at all. Sad, maybe, a little. But he knew he was doing the right thing.

After they both watched Tim just leave, without another word, Paige turned abruptily to grab her bags.

"What are you doing?" Walter asked following her.

"I'm going to my room, it's been a long day. We can talk there" She said in a low tone and turned towards the elevator.

"Okay." Walter simply nodded and followed her, all the words he wanted to say seemed to have dissapeared from his mind.

As they approached the room with number 515, Paige slowly opened the door and entered the room. Walter was following silently behind her. As she put her bags down next to the couch beside the bed and turned around to face him, she was surprised by him, standing mere centimers away from her.