Chapter 4: Testing Times

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A.N.

Well readers, thank you so much. I posted this story went to watch The Apprentice and came and saw that I had plenty of reviews. Keep reading. Keep happy. Keep enjoying.

Regards Sophie

Lillian hated school. Of course, most children do. However Lillian wasn't like most children. School meant she had to sit through endless hours of boring and pointless lessons like adding fractions in maths, when she knew the stuff by the time she was 3. That's the life of a genius: you don't find many people who are as smart as you and that meant when you tried to speak about the things you know, the things you really are interested in ,like how much is the exact volume of the earth squared or how many decimal points of PI can you recite, (for Lillian it was the 2000th digit which was 0.) and why 0÷0 has no defined value, to most people, you just got strange looks and confused grunts. However Lillian had Scorpion, at school she had Ralph and that was all that mattered.

One thing that puzzled her was Walter. Most geniuses had a low EQ like see did, which meant love, other emotion and social interaction was hard for them to process. However Walter seemed to have a high EQ around her, attending to her emotional needs and trying to keep up any traditions she used to have which both she and Walter thought were pointless. Why was it special to keep doing something just because you have been doing it for ages? That made Lillian think that Walter was really acting, she heard he had managed it once, and would start questioning her. She was right.

As soon as she had left the room having showered and changed Walter integrated her. Questions about her intelligence were mainly the questions asked. He no longer seemed to want to make sure her needs were met just because he was her father.

"I gave you half of my genetics. Why does that mean I have to make you happy?" he had explained

Lillian had taken a break to get breakfast and when she returned she saw Walter holding a piece of paper.

"What's this?"

"General knowledge."

"Not more questions surely! What's this the Spanish Inquisition? I thought you were Walter O'Brien leader of Scorpion not Ferdinand II of Aragon."

Walter than proceeded to start the quiz asking her some tough one which Lillian had to think about and other ones which she knew straight away, Lillian starting getting really fed up with the questioning. She felt that now, Walter was trying to make sure she was who she said she was which was quite understandable really - for a normal.

However Lillian had more pressing things to deal with. First of all, making sure she was downstairs in time for Paige to take her to school. She had found out that first impressions counted though she couldn't imagine why – surely showing her intelligence would be better. Then the teacher might not then the teacher might not explain everything to her so it would be for efficient. So she left the breakfast table and headed towards the door and just got the door handle when she felt a sharp scratch in her arm and looked up to see Walter holding a vile of her blood.

"Walter! What are doing with my blood?"

"Testing it. Just to be sure. Now, shouldn't you be downstairs waiting Paige?"

"That's where I was going 197 before you stole my blood." She retorted before going back to the door, rubbing her arm.

Paige and Ralph were already there when Lillian entered the garage and walked right over to them.

"Ahh Lillian there you are. I was just going to send someone up to look for you. It's time to go." Paige told her. Lillian groaned but followed Paige to the door. Meanwhile, Cabe walked from the kitchen and towards the main table, inquiring where Walter was and after pointing upstairs, Lillian left the garage with Ralph at her side.

In the car Ralph and Lillian talked about equations and science while Paige looked on happy to see that for once Ralph had someone his own age to talk to. Yes he had Walter, Happy, Sylvester and Toby but she felt that it would be better for Ralph to make friends his own ages after all the age gap restricted how much they could see each other and that meant that often Ralph was isolated and unable to talk to anyone.

Finally the car arrived at the school and Lillian and Ralph got out. After introducing Lillian, the teacher started the lesson, which both Ralph and Lillian ignored. Instead they whispered to each other quietly about cases that Scorpion had been on previously. One of Ralph's favourite was the bio-hacking one, which a girl got sick from a disease specific disease made for her. This made the lesson go by quicker and things were going well until show and tell.

As Lillian had nothing, the teacher didn't expect her to stand up and do it, however Ralph did have something so they shared it. After they explained what the piece of aluminium was and what the story was behind it, trouble started brewing.

"Yes, that's a nice story but I did say to tell the truth. It's not good to lie." The teacher scolded

"We were telling the truth." Ralph insisted "Just because you're too stupid to understand doesn't make it false."

"Yeah, put together we have quadruple your IQ. That means we are telling the truth as we only state facts."

"Well, Master Diene and Miss O'Brian tell me this. What does one teacher do when two students are rude? He or she sends those people to the principal's office. GO." The teacher ordered crisply. As they were leaving the classroom, they heard giggling and their teacher's voice again.

"Ralph will lead the way and show you where to go."

"No need: photographic memory."

"I suggest you stop talking. Not a good first impression this."

When they got to the principal's office they were immediately lectured for half an hour before being told that they would have to stay in at break and write lines. They'd also get a phone call home and would have to write a letter of apology to their teacher. It didn't matter; they didn't like going out anyway so this felt more like a reward then a punishment. So when break did come round they wrote their lines and then tried to calculate the exact surface area of the clock in front of them.

The rest of the day seemed to drag but finally the big hand and little hand reached the 3 while the bell rang out signalling the end of the day. Children ran from their desks and into the playground celebrating their freedom. Bags waved in the wind, goodbyes were said as the ecstatic students flew into the arms of their parents.

Paige was waiting by the car and one look of her face told the geniuses that she was not at all impressed but she didn't say anything, not at first. It was only when they got to the traffic lights did she open her mouth.

"Well? What do you two have to say for yourselves?"

"It's not our fault the teacher didn't believe us!" Lillian protested really not seeing how any of these was their fault.

"Mrs Ramp found it hard to believe that's all. She's not used to people being able to do the things Scorpion do."

"Yeah well Mrs Ramp's an idiot." Ralph reasoned trying to get his mum to see his point of view.

"Ralph! Mrs Ramp is an adult and you will show her some respect. Do you know what Walter and I were doing the phone call came through? We were hiding from armed drug runners. My phone ringing altered them and they nearly escaped."

Silence.

"Well, that made you be quiet. Ralph, you're grounded for a week. Lillian I suggest you speak to your father when I drop you off."

Walter was working on his rocket for Megan. Lillian hadn't learned much about her aunt only that she had MS and Walter's plans to save her. Paige had been getting Walter to take Lillian to see her but he kept refusing, while Lillian tried to show that she didn't mind. She did, form what Sly had said, she was really nice.

Lillian didn't know many people but she didn't mind that. She felt the more people you knew the more people you could let down however that didn't mean she didn't want to meet Megan. Brains always fascinated Lillian that's why she drew them most often and labelled them. She loved knowing the different parts of the brain. She even had a favourite part (Inferior Frontal Gyrus because it was responsible for critical thinking.) The fact that Megan's brian was failing interested her also, Lillian didn't have many relatives, and felt that having relatives was normal which she often tried to be.

Ralph waited in the car while Paige dropped of Lillian and spoke to Walter.

"Hey Paige, where's Ralph?" Walter asked

"Grounded" Lillian answered for her before dumping her bag on the sofa. Everyone else looked up. It was not normal for Paige to punish her son, though she sometimes told him off. Paige had told everyone how she disciplined her son in case they were to look after him and that was putting in him in a time out or grounding him. They didn't like it because they loved having the kid around but had said nothing because last time Paige had given them a logical argument for it which was something they couldn't argue with.

"Can I talk to you?" She asked

"Well physically, obviously you can, you're doing it now."

"Aren't you going to punish her?"

"Who?"

"The First Lady. Who do you think genius?"

"Don't be sarcastic Paige it's the lowest form of wit and doesn't suit you. I take it you mean Lillian then?"

"Yes. Are you going to punish Lillian?"

"What for?"

" Flying to the moon with out permission. Err Hello? For this morning."

"Again with the sarcasm. Anyway why would I? She was right, they both were."

"Be that as it way, they shouldn't of spoken to the teacher like they did. You're her father aren't you? That means you have to provide for her emotionally and physically. I know you can process emotion let alone provide which is why I try and help. This also means that you have to punish her when she does something wrong." Paige explained "You hired me to translate the world. I have translated it."

"What are you going to Ralph?"

"Well, he's grounded for a week, so he won't be coming here and he can't go on his electronics. When we get home, he's going to his room. I'm not going spank him, if that's what you're thinking I'd never lay my hands of him that way."

Walter nodded and walked towards his daughter. He hated it when Paige was right. He didn't know to punish her. He'd never hit her either, he had decided that as soon as she had met her. Paige wouldn't do that to Ralph and as the only other person with a kid (that was alive anyway) so he'd try and do what she did. Luckily, he had decided before he reached her.

Walter nodded and walked towards his daughter. Everyone looked up to see what was going to happen.

"We need to talk. I know that it's hard for people like us to speak to people nicely especially when they're factually incorrect. However what you did can't happen again."

"You're right and it won't" she answered walking away from him. Walter reached out, and grabbed Lillian's arm to prevent her from leaving making her flinch from old memories.

"I haven't finished. As your dad I am meant to discipline you when you do wrong. You did wrong thus I must punish you. You must realise that I'd never hit you like they did in the orphanage but I will still punish you, not that I like it. So you're grounded like Ralph, for a week."

"Fine. Fine. I understand, you know Walter you are a good- wait, 'As your dad' you know for sure?"

Walter smiled and dug into his pocket, pulling out a piece of paper and giving it to her. Lillian looked at it – DNA test results and it said 'positive' on it

"I am about 99.98% sure. Now go to your room"