Hey! So, it took me a bit longer than I had expected to finish chapter 4, but I finally did! The chapter starts off right where things left off, with Happy leaving the garage to see Toby. Hope you enjoy this and please leave some feedback, it is much appreciated! Enjoy! :)
I don't own Scorpion or any of it's characters.
Chapter 4: A Hint of Perfume for Courage
Happy takes her motorcycle since her truck is still parked over at Toby's place. She makes it to Toby's in a few minutes and she takes off her helmet but can't get herself to get up.
'Come on Happy, you can do this!' She gets herself up but freezes as she walks over to the building.
"Why is this so hard?' Happy thinks as she looks at the building.
"I can't do this," she mumbles to herself and gets on her motorcycle, completely forgetting that she had to look for her truck.
A few minutes later she's in her apartment, trying to distract herself with anything she can. She manages to put together a new desk she bought, in a matter of minutes and has finished washing her clothes and now finds herself pacing around completely angry.
'Stupid doc, I hate you for making me feel this way,' Happy thinks as she squeezes a stress ball, 'I was perfectly fine before you came along…'
Happy leans against her new desk and opens the gallery on her phone. She has the same picture that Toby has on his phone's lock screen, it's her favorite because she's never been so happy on Christmas and he had a lot to do with that. Her heart aches as she realizes that Toby was totally angry and if she doesn't try to fix things, she may lose him forever.
That's enough to push Happy to get up and go, she checks the time on her phone and it says 5:00PM. She has enough time to at least shower, since she wasn't able to this morning. She takes off a hoodie that she had put on when she got to the garage, that she used to cover up Toby's shirt. She takes off the shirt and smells it, it smells just like him and even though she feels so awkward doing this, she also feels close to him in some weird way.
A half an hour later she is starring at herself in the mirror, she finds herself wanting to look nice for Toby, so she puts on her best skinny jeans, a tank top and a black jacket and a bit of makeup on. She wants to make an impression on him but she doesn't know why. It wasn't like her to want to look good for someone else but this situation was different…it involved Toby.
"Okay let's do this," she smiles at herself in the mirror and catches a glimpse of her small perfume bottle that sits on top of a drawer.
She remembers the promise she made to herself after Toby stood her up but she decides to break it and sprays just a bit on her neck.
'I must be feeling pretty guilty, if I'm breaking my promise.'
And she does feel guilty. She shakes off the feeling of sadness that has captured her and folds Toby's shirt and puts it in her bag.
She wants to bring her truck home so she decides to walk to Toby's apartment, plus it will give her some time to calm her nerves.
Happy arrives at Toby's apartment building around 6:15 and walks up to the second floor. She stares at Toby's door for a second and hears music playing but no voices. Even though she's scared, she knows she can't chicken out this time.
She knocks on the door, but no one answers so she knocks one more time.
The door opens and standing there is a girl with blonde hair, green eyes, and wearing nothing but a shirt that barely covers her…and Happy recognizes it as one of Toby's. She's really pretty…and Happy knows this girl from somewhere, but where?
"Hi," she smiles her pearly whites at Happy.
It clicks at that moment that this woman…this really pretty women is Toby's ex-fiancée. She knows this only because she saw a photo of her when Toby received that text from her about having dinner and she also knows from the text that her name is Kelly. Happy's heart is completely crushed at this moment and forgets that she's even there.
"May I help you?"
Happy snaps out of her thoughts, "Oh, uhm I was…I live next door." She decides to lie.
The woman nods along, "You must be looking for Toby. He's actually taking a shower right now, do you want to come in and wait for him?"
Happy is starting to put things together, his ex-fiancée in one of his shirts and Toby showering…she shakes off the image of them together and the pain that she is feeling, it's like a sudden pang of sadness and anger. She wants to run into the bathroom and punch Toby but instead tightens her jaw as to ignore her feelings.
"No, I just came to drop off this shirt he lent me," Happy hands the beautiful woman the shirt, "Thanks."
"No problem," she smiles and Happy forces a tight grin before walking away. She is breaking inside. Kelly is truly gorgeous and Happy feels like she could have never competed against her. It makes sense why Toby chose her and Happy realizes that she was right, Toby never really liked her…she was just a distraction. Happy wants to run out but her limbs are like jelly, so she slowly makes her way down the stairs.
Back in Toby's apartment, he walks out of the shower and into the living room with just a towel around his waist as he's drying his hair with another towel.
"Hey, was someone at the door?" He looks at Kelly confused, "why are you wearing my shirt?"
Kelly laughs, "you know how clumsy I am Toby, I totally dropped some wine on my dress. I hope you don't mind that I borrowed yours. And yeah your next door neighbor came by and I invited her in but she seemed a bit out of it."
Toby is completely confused, he doesn't talk to his neighbor and the person next door is an elderly man.
"Anyway, she told me to give you this," Kelly gives Toby the shirt and he grabs it and extends the shirt.
"Oh sh*t," Toby curses under his breath as he realizes that this is the shirt he put on Happy the night she was drunk.
"What's wrong?" Kelly asks.
Toby's heart is racing, "Were you wearing just my shirt when she came?"
"Yeah, I told her you were in the shower and asked her if she wanted to wait but like I said before she was totally out of it," Kelly recalls the events of a few minutes ago.
"Sh*t! How long ago did she leave?" Toby asks as he grabs a hoodie from the couch.
"Like two minutes ago, why?" she asks following Toby, "Are you going out like that?"
"I'll be back," Toby is out the door with just a hoodie and a towel around his waist.
He is trying to run down the stairs but the lack of clothing is making it extremely difficult. He bumps into Mrs. Russell, who lives across from him, as he makes it to the main floor, "Young man, please be careful," she takes a look at him and shakes her head, "and please put some clothes on!"
"Yes, Mrs. Russell. I'm sorry," he apologizes and rushes outside.
Happy is outside the apartment building now, looking up and down the street for her truck but she can't spot it, it isn't helping that her eyes have filled up with tears and she can't see very well.
"Ugh, I could have sworn I left across the street that night," she mumbles to herself and tries to force the tears to stay in.
"Happy!" She hears the too familiar voice and turns around and is in utter shock as Toby rushes down the stairs practically naked.
She looks around to see a few people starring, "What in the world are you doing?!"
"I need to talk to you," he wobbles his way towards her, holding onto the towel.
Happy gulps as she can now see the muscles under his open hoodie but snaps out of it as she remembers Kelly wearing his shirt, "I don't think we have anything to talk about."
"So, you just came all the way over here to come drop off my shirt and you didn't even wait for me to get out of the shower," Toby says and he can now see that her eyes are flooding with tears and decides to lighten the mood, "you should have stayed, I know how bad you wanted to see me shirtless."
Happy shakes her head trying not to smile, it is amazing how he can find comedy in every situation, "You have a guest over, and I didn't want to intrude. It seems like you guys were pretty busy."
Happy doesn't notice how sharp her words came out but Toby catches it right away.
"We weren't busy doing anything Happy, I swear we were -"
Happy cuts him off, "don't bother telling me," she bites her lip as her body tenses and she turns away from him, "I don't care."
Toby knows that isn't true, "Really, Happy? You don't care?" his voice is a bit louder now, "then turn around and look me in the eyes and tell me that you don't care."
Happy can't hold back the tears, she wipes them quickly and turns back to him, finding it difficult to look him in the eyes as she lies, "I don't care."
"Happy…your crying," he wants to get close to her, just to hold her but she takes a few steps back as soon as he takes one step forward.
"No, I'm not. I just got something in my eye. No big deal," she wipes her eyes.
"I don't believe you and I don't believe that you don't care about what I was doing with the woman upstairs," he says and lowers his voice, "what's wrong Happy?"
"Your the shrink, you figure it out!" she yells at him.
"Okay," he happily takes on the challenge, "you came here, not to bring me my shirt back but to talk to me about our argument from this morning. The shirt was simply a starting point because you were nervous to come over. I know it took a lot for you to come over because I saw when you came earlier and couldn't even make it to the door of the building," Toby says as he looks Happy in the eyes and starts inching his way closer to her, "I know you came here to tell me something important because you dressed yourself up…for me?" Toby smirks and Happy can't help but roll her eyes.
"Happy, you shouldn't have! You could have came in pajamas and you'd still get my attention," he smiles at her.
"I'm sure you would have liked that, perv!"
He chuckles as he closes the space between them. He can feel how tense she is and she can feel his breath, it makes her shiver.
He reaches to move a strand of hair from her face but she takes a step back but finds herself pushed against a car.
Toby tries again and tucks the strand of hair behind her ear and lets his hand run down the side of her face and he can feel her gulp and her body tense even more.
"What did you come to tell me Happy?" he hovers over her and he places his hand on her chin and tilts her face up to him.
Her body is weak now. He has made every part of her body lose composure and she has made his body weak too. As he looks at her this closely, he finds that he loves every part of her. He leans a bit closer and can smell a hint of perfume.
"Are you wearing perfume, Miss. Quinn?" a smirk tugs at the corners of his lips.
"Maybe," she whispers softly as she smiles up at him.
He is completely intoxicated with her and he can't help himself he wants to feel her lips again.
He is inches from her lips and she doesn't seem to complain so he decides to go for a kiss, right here in the street with just a hoodie and a towel around his waist.
He leans in to close the gap but they both jump as they hear a voice, "Toby, is everything okay?"
They turn to the voice and it's Kelly.
He can feel Happy tense up right away and she pushes him away so hard he almost loses his towel.
"Sorry, for interrupting. I just wanted to remind you that our reservation is at 7, so we should leave soon," Kelly says.
"Okay, I'll be right up Kelly just give me a few minutes," Toby says and Kelly walks back into the building.
But when he looks back, Happy is nowhere in sight.
That's Chapter 4! Sorry for the wait, I really hope you all enjoyed it! I want to thank those who left me some wonderful comments for the last chapter, it means a lot to me :) I love to hear from the readers, so please leave me a comment if you have a chance! Thanks loads! P.S: Did anyone watch the videos of the Scorpion cast at Comic-Con?! Totally excited for season 2, aren't you? :)
