A/N: Okay. This is crazy, I am used to getting like two reviews a chapter, now I've got over twenty in two chapters. I love this fandom. Into the chapter, there will be SOME quintis, but I want this fic to be mainly focused around Waige. NOW, into the chapter.
"Thanks for giving that news to me lightly, Happy. But tell me something I don't know." Walter sighed. He knew he was going to die. It was practically imminent. The weight of the Ferrari, plus him, and the undoubtably unstable rocks both underneath him and at the top, adding the 300 foot drop, pretty much equaled out into certain death. He knew that. "Okay, I'm guessing you don't know that you have a large Boulder that may as well be a knife at the bottom waiting to cut you up in case the fall isn't good enough." Happy told him. Walter looked down. He couldn't help thinking, as he looked down, about that cliché. How they always say 'don't look down' he didn't see why not. If he didn't look down, he wouldn't know how high up he was, or how long he estimated to have, all of the things that would probably end up in a solution. If there was a solution.
"Mom?" Ralph asked. Shaking his mother awake. "Hmm?" She replied. "Phone." He said simply, before hurrying a 'bye' and 'I'm going to the library.' Paige dragged herself out of bed and just managed to get the phone before it stopped ringing. "Hello?" She called into the phone. "Have you calmed down yet?" The voice asked. The voice was the unmistakable sound of Drew. Without another word said, she hung up. Cabe. It suddenly hit her, like a thousand bricks. Cabe was also leaving Scorpion, except he wasn't leaving on his own terms, he was being kicked out. If anyone could help her get over Scorpion, it was Cabe... And probably alcohol. But that's not the point, she dialled his number.
The only thing audible to two panicked geniuses, was the sound of the third genius hyperventilating. Happy, was trying to make phone calls, the authorities, Cabe, and the one she was dreading the most. Paige. Although Happy, much like Walter, didn't understand sentiments, she knew there was something between Walter and Paige. She'd never seen Walter cry, not even when he found out about Megan's MS. But when Paige talked about leaving, tears pricked his eyes, she saw that, Paige and awaited had something special, and now she had to call her and tell her that the man she cared so deeply for was dangling 300 feet of a cliff. Eventually, Sylvester managed to calm down. "Buddy, Walter needs you. If you're here, hyperventilating, who's gonna do the math and help him outta that thing? Nobody. So you better straighten out your breathing because a man's life depends on it!" Toby had urged, he knew it would work. And then, sure as day, Sylvester stopped hyperventilating, and lost himself in numbers instead.
Happy and Toby, between them, had called, the authorities, Megan and homeland. Now, they had only two people left to call, Cabe and Paige. "Right, I'll take Cabe, you take Paige." Toby had said bluntly before scurrying off to make the call. Happy had known she would end up taking the call, but had also hoped that the phyciastrist would be a little more... Sensitive. Oh well.
Walter, meanwhile, was trying to work out how to get out, but was finding this increasingly difficult to do as pictures, and memories of Paige wouldn't leave him. He could picture her yesterday. Tears threatening to fall from her eyes because of him. He had made her cry. Why was this bothering him so much? He had a man fired on the spot in Vegas despite his desperate pleas. He had done so many things, and the one regret he felt in the moments before he could possible fall to his death, making one woman cry. But then, this wasn't just any woman, this was Paige. This was his connection to the real world. This wasn't nothing. He could picture all of her features in a second, and still smile despite the fact he's seen them hundreds of times before. What they had was special, something he'd never felt before. Could it be? Could it be possible that he, Walter O'Brien was in love? Surely not. Surely that's not possible.
Oh, but it was.
A/N: I just realised that this chapter was meant to go up hours ago, oops. I think this is my favourite chapter so far. Tell me whatcha think.
~Blaze x
