This takes place in the middle of season one for Scorpion and right after revelations/big game for Criminal Minds. Walter met Reid while he was getting his second PHD and wanted him to join Scorpion but that *obviously* didn't end of happening. Though they are friends and all of team Scorpion minus Page who doesn't know Reid at all like him. Cabe knows Reid but not as much as the rest of the team minus Page. I don't own Criminal Minds or Scorpion, and both belong to their respective owners.
Cabe's P.O.V
Cabe walked in dreadfully slow. They had just solved a case, and this was the team's reward. At least he was ok, it could have been worse. It almost had been worse. His traitorous brain reminded him. You know what happened. Walter doesn't though, he should. You kept that from him. We had a case Cabe reminded himself. The case comes first. Walt was the kid's emergency contact. The only one that could have done anything anyway. He deserved to know right after the call came out. He… was going to tell him now. He steels himself as he walks up to Walter.
"Hey, kid." Wow, way to start this.
"Hey Cabe, what's going on? Do we have a case? You didn't call me."
"It's about Spencer."
"What about Spencer?"
"He got kidnapped and it wasn't pretty."
"What happened? He's hurt but they must have evidence that points to him still being alive or you would have started with that. We can help them find him."
I go to stop him, but he yells for the others before I can.
"O'Brien! It's over, they found him. He's going to be ok."
"Walter, what's going on?" Toby asked as the team files into the room.
"Something's wrong with Spencer, I'm trying to get the details out of Cabe." Walter answers as all heads turn to me.
"Who's Spencer?" Page asks already confused.
"When did this all happen?" Walter asks going back to questioning me.
"Over the past two days, they found him last night and he's on a plane back to DC if you want to talk to him."
"Yes! I want to talk to him, and why wasn't I immediately contacted when it was confirmed he was missing?"
My look downward tells it all as he stumbles back slightly "No... you withheld it from me?"
"Walt, we were in the middle of a case. If it makes you feel better his mother wasn't even told."
"I'm his only sane contact, we could have helped, and it was my right to know what was going on case or no. He states before turning away.
"Walt" I start.
"Just start the video call ok."
"Walter."
"Ok!"
"What's wrong with Spencer?" Sylvester asked.
"He was injured, Toby will you hack into the records for me?"
"Sure."
"Who hurt him, and can I take a wrench to their scull?" Happy asked sitting on the table.
"Who's Spencer?" Page asks again confused by the rise in tension.
"He's an honorary member of Scorpion and genius with a 187 IQ." Walter says pulling chair into the main room.
"So, what's his thing?" Page asked as I help Happy set up the skype while Toby and Sylvester hacked into his medical records.
"He's a bit of all of us, his IQ not much lower than mine but he speed reads, and had a better memory then Sly." Walter starts.
"He has an eidetic memory and can read 20,000 words per minute." Sylvester explains.
"He's with the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit, which is a team that profiles almost like Toby."
"Hey! I'm better than him at that at least." Toby snarks
"But he's a doctor three times over so he wins the doctor off. Plus, he's better than you at cards." Happy snarks back.
"He cheats! Plus, they're PhD.'s."
"Still has three of them! He counts cards." Happy explains.
"And he was raised in Vegas I mean it's not like I had a chance."
"So, he's a card counting, profiling, speed reading, FBI agent." How old is he?" Page asked as if wondering if she got it all right.
"He's barely 23. He's a good kid." I add.
"What about Walter being his emergency contact?" She asks finally picking up the pieces.
"His mother has schizophrenia which means she's not always the most reliable when it comes to these things so she isn't informed unless he dies, however, I'm his contact in case of injury or death so I should have been informed." Walter says looking at me.
"And Cabe interfered, I get it now." Page says sitting around the computer Happy setup and Toby went to get the report.
A face popped up on the screen as we crammed in front of the computer.
While I knew what had happened, I hadn't seen him yet, he looked like…
"You look like death warmed over kid." I start as he cringes.
"Thank you Cabe." He says as sarcasm leaks out of every word.
"Properly done sarcasm from Doctor Spencer Reid now I know you have a head injury." Toby says passing the file to Happy who read it before passing it Walter.
"The guy's dead, so I can't break his face with my wrench so I'll go for the next best thing, get your boss overhear so I can yell at him for that whole LSDK Philp Down thing." Happy says aggressively setting down her wrench.
"Happy, It turned out fine."
"He cracked your rib." She says harshly.
"Great and now he's coming over here because he did not know that."
A man I know as Aaron Hotchner came on the screen as Spencer set the computer to a point where we could see his whole team. Walter passes the file to Sylvester
"You never told me you cracked your rib." Aaron says carefully.
"It's fine."
"No, it's not."
"You ever do it again and you'll be the one with the broken ribs, kay?" Happy promises
"Kay." Hotch agrees.
"We just read your medical report, how do you feel?" Tobias asked his doctor side taking over.
"Fine."
"You were kidnapped and beaten for two days you want to try that again?" He asks
"I don't feel that bad." Spencer starts.
"You died, you legally died, for a minute and half. Plus, all the other injuries, I'm with Toby here." Sylvester says looking Spencer over.
"Who are you guys anyways?" A man asked in the back.
"We're friends of your teammate Agent Morgan, geniuses, just like him. We're a team of government contractors. The man who's face hold about a man emotions as a brick wall to my right is Walter O'Brien, the scary lady who threatened to hurt your boss is Happy Quinn.—" Toby starts but is interrupted by Happy
"Promised." Happy interjects
"I promised to hurt your boss, I don't make empty threats." She explains
"Okay the one who promised to hurt your boss is Happy Quinn, the nice one is Page Dineen, the kind man behind me is Sylvester Dodd and the older gentleman next to Walter is Agent Cabe Galo with Homeland, now I'm doctor Tobias Curtis, but everybody just calls me Toby, on behalf of Tobias's everywhere I'm sorry for this Hankel's behavior. Now we know all of your names because Spence here talking about you constantly." Toby finishes introductions but before he could fall back into doctor mode Morgan starts talking.
"You never told us about them Pretty Boy." He says messing with Spencer's hair, Spencer cringes.
"I saw that! Does your head hurt? I'm not seeing anything about a concussion, but I want one of you to watch that." Toby says as a small blond that must be JJ raises her hand.
"Now here's the thing I know you don't want to talk about, but you really need to do. What did he drug you with? I used to live in casinos you knew I'd be able to tell, what was it?"
He muttered something to quiet for anyone of use to hear.
"You're going to have to speak up." Toby says speaking gently.
"Dilaudid." Spencer muttered again quietly.
"Yeah, ok someone is really going to want to watch that withdraw, now I see your breathing looks fine but I still want to check on your ribs considering you did get CPR, I'm assuming they're bruised?"
"The skin is but the actually ribs are fine Toby. You know I know how to check."
"Yeah. Okay, doctor time over."
"Spencer I'm sorry we couldn't help your team find you, but we were busy not knowing you had been taken. Though I do believe the kinks have been worked out there so next time. We're on the first plane out, okay?" Walter promises throwing me another look.
"Thanks."
"No problem. You solve the code I sent you?" Walter asks as if he hadn't just promised something deeply serious.
"Of course! It was easy."
"You've always been better than me at codes."
"One of the few things I am better than you at."
"I'll admit to that, when are you coming out to L.A?"
"The next time we have a case in L.A?" Spencer asked like it was obvious.
"Is Spencer making Walter act like a normal person?" Page whispers to me leaning in to avoid Walter hearing her.
"Your kid and Spencer are the only ones who have managed to do it." I whisper back.
"It's a wonder." She whispers smiling.
"How's the team doing?" Spencer asked quietly curling in on himself.
"Fine, we're making real money now, remember. I got a super fun guy t-shirt." Sylvester says now smiling
"Of course I remember. I can't forget."
"How's the chest? I heard you were getting shrapnel taken out of it."
"I'm choosing to take that as a rhetorical question considering your medical history doesn't allow you to critique anyone else." Sylvester muttered.
"It was nice talking to you guys again."
"You to Spencer, take it easy, will you?" I ask in vain.
"What's that?" He jokes, in vain indeed.
"Don't worry we'll make him take it easy." Garcia said smirking.
"We won't let him carry anything bigger than his bag." Prentiss promises.
"Or let him do anything physically harder than making a cup of coffee." JJ says backing them up.
"Maybe not the coffee, he tends to burn himself." Prentiss jokes.
"Yeah, but do you really want to deal with a Reid without coffee? Sounds like a nightmare." JJ says smiling.
"It is, trust me." Gideon says not even looking up from his newspaper.
"No, Cabe. They're going to gang up on me know."
"Good, you need your whole team on your ass to stop you from doing something stupid." Happy says smirking.
"Take care of our boy Hotch or it's on your head." Happy threatens.
"I think it's also Gideon's fault." Toby mutter to Happy.
"Yeah, but it takes no effort to beat up an old man, trust me I know." She replies.
"I'll just take your word for it." Toby says backing off.
"We will." Gideon says still not looking up from his newspaper.
"We're going into taxi in about five minutes, so we need to wrap this up." Garcia says quietly
"It was very nice to meet you Spencer." Page says smiling as we all say our goodbye and close out of the service.
We all go our own ways until only me and Walter are left.
"I don't believe what you did was right. I understand that you thought it was though. So, I'll forgive you, on the occasion that it never happens again." Walter says sharply.
"Kid I understand why you're upset, but—" I start but he cuts me off.
"Do you Cabe? First and foremost, I don't get upset and even if I did it wouldn't be because of something as trivial as you not telling me something that I had a right to know not that I'm not bothered by it.
We're all that he has Cabe, the only people he can rely on are us and his team. We need to be there for him because if we're not there for our own then what good are we? We're no better than his father, or the other people who have left him." Walter says harshly.
"Ok, if something else happens I won't hide it. I promise."
"Thank you Cabe."
I didn't say no problem because it was didn't no big deal because it was your welcome felt dumb because as much as I hated to admit it, I was in the wrong. So, we sat there.
And sat there
And sat there
Till somehow Walter put us all out of both out of our misery and said.
"Glad we had this talk."
And that was it.
Cool, so this was fun to write. Since most of us can't leave our houses I spent a few hours writing this. Stay safe out in this big scary world folks.