Chapter Four

Once the trio arrived at HQ, Walter picked up Ralph and carried him into to building, because he wouldn't be able to keep up with him and Paige. They made their way to the same office space they were previously in.

"Cabe, did you find an agent that could watch Ralph?" Walter knew that him and Paige wouldn't be able to do anything if Ralph was in their presence because the bombing could frighten a young genius, and encourage him to sneak out and try to help them on the case.

"Yeah, he just needed to finish filing something and will be up here in a couple minutes."

Walter returned Ralph to the ground, "okay, we'll just wait for the agent to come, before starting the case."

Walter motioned Cabe to come to the corner of the room before whispering, "on our way back there was another bombing, I couldn't tell where it was coming from. But, it wasn't too far off in the distance. If you could go find out where the bombing was, that would be great."

"On it." With that Cabe walked out of the room and towards to exit.

"Walter," Ralph's eyes looked concerned.

"Yeah, buddy."

"Was there an explosion behind us, when we were coming back?"

Walter didn't want to lie, but he knew that if he told him there was a bombing he would grow skeptical. He also knew that if he didn't tell the truth, Ralph could find out later and question his reasoning for not telling him. "Uh, yeah, there was."

"Why didn't you go help the people behind us?" Ralph was confused as to why he wouldn't help those people, considering that's what he did everyday, save people.

"That's actually what the case is about. That's why we brought you to Homeland, so you would be safe."

"Oh, okay."

"And Ralph, I know you may want to help at points of the case, but I really need you to withhold instincts. This is very dangerous and if you put your life in danger, we might not be able to save you."

"Okay, But how will I know if you and my mom are okay, I don't have anything to watch." Ralph knew that the bombings would be all over the news, so if he could watch them he knew that he wouldn't be as worried about his mom and Walter.

"Here." Walter went to his brief case and took out a small tablet, "here's one of my extra tablets, you should be able to watch TV on this. You can have it."

"Thank you!" Ralph enveloped Walter in a tight hug.

He ruffled the boys hair, "no problem, I've got quite a few, just in case I need them."

An agent walked into the room, "I was told by Agent Gallo, to come watch a little boy named Ralph."

Paige, Walter and Ralph approached the agent, "uh, yes. We are working a pretty bad case and I want you to keep an eye on my son until we return." Paige figured they needed to start the case as soon as possible, so having small talk wouldn't be beneficial.

"He's special, a young genius, so he gets curious and will find loopholes, don't yell at him it won't affect him. I gave him a few things to keep occupied, so I trust he will behave." Walter really wanted to keep Ralph safe to make sure that Paige didn't contemplate leaving again. "Oh and Ralph, the tablet is brand new, so it's not set up yet. I'm pretty sure you'll be able to figure it out though."

"Okay, let's get going on this case. I'll see you in a little while, sweetie." She leaned down and kissed his forehead

"Bye, mom. Bye, Walter."

"Bye, buddy." He ruffled the boy's hair again.

Ralph and the agent left the room, "you gave him a tablet? Where did you get it from?" Paige didn't really mind the gift, but it was a pretty expensive one.

"It's one of my extras, he wanted to make sure we were okay on the case, so I gave him the tablet so he would always be able to know we're safe."

"Okay," she gave him a small grin, showing her approval.

Paige had been standing in the corner of the room waiting for someone to call with information, while Walter accompanied Sylvester in going through footage.

"Hey, did you find anything?"

"Maybe, I still have to see footage from later that day, but I seen a guy walking around the building and he looked a little suspicious and had to relocate a small device multiple times. It would have been footage from around 6 PM, last night. School wasn't in session, so people are allowed to wonder the grounds."

"Well, if that was the guy, then Paige might be right. If he's acting really suspicious, and not able to pin-point an exact location on the first try, he was probably just looking to test out how effective the bomb would be. Which would explain why he kept relocating it, maybe he found a gas line pipe behind a bush and put the bomb there to cause a bigger explosion."

"When Toby gets back you might want to have him watch that part of the footage. He might be able to read his body language and tell if he was on a job or if he is our suspect." Paige really didn't like the idea of schools getting blown up, she didn't refally like the idea of anything getting blown up.

"Meanwhile, me and Paige will go survey the school that exploded earlier today. Sly there was another explosion near Ralph's school, I want you to see if you could find anything suspicious there, and it more than likely is connected to the other bombing. So see if the people look similar,I'm not sure of the exact location, but I'm sure you'll be able to find it." Walter grabbed Paige's car keys.

"Alright, if I find anything I'll call you. Once you get there, it would probably be a good idea to update Toby and Happy on the situation."

"Okay." With that Walter walked out of the room with Paige in tow.

Once they arrived at the site, they saw Happy and Toby across the street questioning people coming out of the other building. "Okay, we need to be careful, because if your right and they are targeting anybody associated with the government then they could try to drop a grenade here to take out everyone here. I need you to stay by me, incase that were to happen."

"Okay, what should we be looking for, in order go find evidence?" Paige was trying to hide her fear, by redirecting her attention to the case like usual, but for some reason it wasn't working this time.

"Maybe particles that could be from the bomb, they won't have any finger prints because of the fire, but it could be a rare type of bomb and it could give us information as to where it is from."

"Okay."

They cautiously made their way over to the scene, and examined the ground surrounding the building. They circled the building and saw nothing out of the ordinary.

"I don't get how there is absolutely nothing suspicious around the building, I would have figured there would be something." Walter pondered through all the possible things that could have been lying around the perimeter of the building.

"We should go get Happy and Toby up to date with the case. And tell them about our luck."

"Yeah, then we can head back to HQ, hopefully Sly found something."