"Where the hell have you been?" Happy nearly screamed at Toby as he came around a corner of the hallway as she was on her way back looking for him.

"Sorry, I had to hit the head." Toby explained. He looked around but didn't see Terry or Richard.

Happy looked at him for a moment and then stepped up and kissed him. "Let's go. I got a few words to say to BravoCompany89."

Toby laughed as they made their way down to the infirmary.

Walter and Paige sat on the side of the gurneys as they were on looking into each other's eyes as they continued to breathe the oxygen rich air inside the nebulizer masks. Both of them had smiles as they seemed to be blocking out everyone in there. Sarah stepped up and did a more thorough examination of both of them. Making sure pupil reactions were normal and everything.

As the medicine ran out the medics removed the masks and Sarah listened to their lungs and smiled. "Good, you both sound perfect. But if either of you have any symptoms later you call me ASAP."

Walter nodded as he jumped off the gurney and took a step forward quickly coming to stand between Paige's knees. He bent over partially as he took her face in his hands and pressed his lips against hers.

Everyone stood there grinning as they watched the couple continue to kiss.

Toby and Happy entered the room and they both smiled seeing Walter and Paige kissing. Their arms around the other as their hands were caressing each other's arm. Happy stepped over to Dustin who still had a disgruntled look on his face. She smacked his bicep with the back of her hand.

Dustin looked over and smiled at Happy as he shoulder bumped her. Toby quickly stepped up to Happy's other side and put his arm around her waist. Happy and Dustin just laughed.

Layla looked at Toby. "Did you see Terry out there?"

Toby shook his head. "Well the power went off while I was in the restroom, so he might be trying to get to the breaker box?"

Layla nodded before stepping over to the door and looked down the hallway, worry on her face.

Richard had convinced Terry to step into a side room and talk for a moment. "Look Terry, I know you are upset and I don't exactly blame you. But can't you see we were only trying to do what we thought would bring them together? That was our only care. We didn't even know that Sarah was working with them. So we didn't have a clue how well they were responding to her therapy. I mean I understand you feeling the need to tell Layla, and if she thinks Sarah needs to know, so be it. But please don't quit. You are a hell of a researcher and I'd hate to lose you."

Terry looked up at him. "Even knowing how low I think of you now?"

Richard swallowed before he nodded. "Look, I've done some rather despicable things the last couple of years business wise so I think pretty low of myself. But I really care about Walter and his team. Getting him back together with Paige has been forefront of my thoughts since they broke up. So I was willing to cut corners and manipulate the situation to bring them together. And odds were low that it would work, I think the therapy Sarah has been conducting actually increased the odds it did."

Terry shook his head. "The first rule my Sensei taught me. Respect yourself. I can't very well do that if I continue to work for you."

Richard nodded. "I can understand that. But is there anything I can do to bring some honor to me in your eyes so you can?"

Terry brought his hands up behind his back and locked them together before he turned and paced about the room. Richard stood there watching him as he made lap after lap around the eighty foot room. Terry finally stopped close to Richard and looked up at him. "The city's out reaches to help the poor at Thanksgiving and Christmas really needs help."

Richard nodded. "I can make some calls to find out what they need and meet those needs. I have no problem with that."

"Does a handshake still mean anything to you?" Terry asked.

Richard nodded as he reached out to Terry. Terry sighed as he took his hand and shook it. "Do better going forward. Respect yourself so I can respect you."

Richard nodded before Terry turned and left the room.

Layla stood by the door looking down the hallway while occasionally watching Sarah and the medics finishing up with Walter and Paige.

Terry came around the last corner to the hallway that ran by the infirmary and Layla grinned and walked out to greet him. She kissed him deeply and pulled back smiling at him. Her smile changed as she saw the mixed feelings on his face. "What's wrong?"

Terry shook his head. "We can talk about it when we get home. I don't want to talk about it here."

Layla nodded as she wrapped an arm around his and they walked down and entered the infirmary.

Toby saw Terry enter the room and he stepped around and gave him plenty of room in case he wanted to pass by.

Terry stood there with Layla and just watched when Richard finally stepped in the room.

Richard looked warily at Terry before he spoke to Sarah. "What's the verdict Dr.?"

Sarah smiled back. "I'm releasing them. Just recommend they call me immediately if they experience any unexpected symptoms."

Richard smiled as he nodded. "That sounds good to me."

Walter and Paige smiled again before Walter took a step backwards and held her hand while she stood. They shared a kiss before Paige turned to leave. She frowned when Walter didn't move with her. "Walter, aren't you coming?"

Walter smiled. "I need to speak with Richard for a minute if you don't mind, alone preferably."

Paige frowned but nodded before kissing him and then leading Centipede Partners out of the infirmary.

Layla looked at Walter questioningly.

Walter just nodded and Layla nodded. "Come on Scorpion, the boss needs the room." She turned and pulled on Terry's hand and he stepped out with her along with the rest of Scorpion.

Richard nervously cleared his throat. "Give us the room guys." He told all the medics and they all slowly left the room closing the door behind him.

Walter's expression went from benign to anger instantly. "You think I don't know a set up when I see one? What the hell do you think you were doing endangering Paige that way?"

Richard held up his hands. "I know this doesn't look good but she never was in danger. Everything had been precisely calculated by Toby to ensure her safety above all else. While the mild vacuum seemed threatening, the room was being fed with pure oxygen."

Walter's hand slammed down on the counter next to him. "I don't give a damn, this was totally uncalled for. Paige and I were beginning to come back to a good place mentally and emotionally from our break up."

Out in the hallway they heard the impact of Walter's hand on the counter. Paige involuntarily stepped forward and as her hand reached out for the door handle Layla gently stopped her. "I don't know what is going on in there, but we should give them a few minutes."

Paige shook her head. "This wasn't Richard's fault. Walter shouldn't blame him."

Layla smiled. "We don't know what is going on Paige. Let's trust Walter."

Paige swallowed but nodded as her hand fell back to her side.

Richard nodded. "I know that now. Terry informed me about that as he raked me over the coals about this when he discovered what happened. He thought things were a little odd and had hidden in the control room when everyone left to come here. Toby had pulled in Tim and Veronica to help set this up."

Walter looked up with a bit of shock on his face. "Veronica, I should have guessed. This definitely is something underhanded she'd come up with helping Toby." Walter looked speculative for a moment. "What was Timothy's task in this?"

Richard smiled. "Veronica thought if he came back and acted like an ass towards you and hit on Paige it might help steer Paige back to you. He went along with it because he felt he owed you for the experience he gained working with you and to honor how he used to feel towards Paige. He's actually married now."

Walter shook his head. "If you ever do something like this again Richard, I'll go online and in the matter of minutes I will erase you completely. And then I will release every project your company has in development to all of your competitors. Is that understood?"

Richard slowly nodded.

Walter reached out his hand and Richard looked surprised but reached out and they shook hands.

The door opened and Walter came out first and stepped up to Paige as she stood there waiting. Walter took her hands in his as he looked at Sarah. "The three of us need to have a conversation, now."

As he turned to lead them into the infirmary Terry cleared his throat. "Do you mind if Layla and I come with you?"

Walter looked back and shook his had. "I don't mind, but just the two of you, no one else."

As the door shut behind them Happy looked at Toby. "That is really odd. What the hell is going on?"

Toby swallowed nervously but didn't comment.

Terry spoke up. "I'm guessing Walter already knows the truth and I just want to say for the record I only learned about it myself after you guys came down to the infirmary."

Layla looked at Terry frowning. "Terry?"

Terry shook his head. "It's Walter's show, let him tell it."

Layla nodded slowly as she hugged his arm a bit tighter against her.

Sarah and Paige looked back to Walter. "What's going on Walter?" Paige almost pleaded.

Walter nodded as he reached out and took her hand in his. "I can't in good conscious remain silent about what transpired here today. I just want you to know Paige I had no idea what they were doing. When I saw the Trojan on the computer system in the control room I knew that this had been a ruse. It was a variant of that worm that destroyed the smart building, just with a lot of its teeth missing." Walter began explaining what he had just confronted Richard over.

"Why those complete asses." Paige and Layla both exclaimed at once.

Sarah quickly took charge and began talking with Walter and Paige about what happened and how it made them feel. Layla and Terry stayed with them for support.

Sylvester looked at Florence. "It sure is taking them a long time. I wonder what is going on."

Florence shook her head. "I suppose we'll know shortly."

Finally the door flew open and Paige charged out and got right up in Toby's face as Layla got into Richard's. As they both tore into the conspirators the rest of both groups stared unbelievingly at what they had done.

As their anger finally began dissipating as they vented at their targets Sylvester's anger was just building.

Happy smacked the back of Toby's head. "I can't believe you did this jackass. When we get home, you are going to start paying for this."

Suddenly Sylvester stepped up glaring at Toby. "All that time I was standing there blaming myself, that somehow I screwed up and put Paige's life in jeopardy and you couldn't take a moment and figure out how to help me?"

Toby glared back at him. "Just calm down Sylvester, it wasn't that big of a."

Sylvester shoved him before he could say another word. "Is that what you did when you found out that Walter was married to Happy? No, you attacked him."

Paige stepped in between him and Toby. "Let it go for now Sly, we can talk about it more back at the office after we calm down. For now let's just get our things and get back to the office."

Sylvester shook his head as he huffed. "I'm taking the rest of the day off."

Paige nodded. "That isn't a bad idea. Maybe we should all take the rest of the day off."

Florence reached out and tugged on Sylvester's hand until he stepped up to her. "I'll take you home if you want. If that is okay with you boss?" Florence looked over at Walter.

Walter nodded. "In fact Scorpion, take the rest of the week off and I'll see you all on Monday."

Dustin frowned. "I can't. The part I need to finish the Henderson job will be in tomorrow. And with the rain coming in this weekend I want to get it installed so there isn't any moisture problems. So I've got to come in tomorrow."

Happy looked up at him with eyes wide. "You guys got that job? Oh man, I've wanted to look around their facility since they first opened the doors. You don't need a hand installing it do you?"

Dustin smiled. "I don't mind if the boss doesn't."

Toby spoke up. "I certainly do mind."

Happy glared at him as Dustin smirked and pointed at Walter. "He's the boss. You are just a flunky."

Walter smiled inwardly even as Happy laughed.

Paige mentally reviewed the work they had and nodded. "Well if it is okay with Walter, it is okay with our work load Happy."

Walter nodded his head. "I don't have a problem with it. But Layla should call and make sure they don't have a problem with Happy going with you. You might have to sign a non-disclosure agreement first."

Layla smiled at Walter. "I can do that, it shouldn't be an issue. I'll just need for Happy to sign a waiver releasing Scorpion from any financial responsibility in case she gets injured. I have to come in tomorrow anyway. I've got to calculate the bill for today's emergency assistance for Richard."

Walter grinned as he nodded.

With everything seemingly taken care of they all started to leave when Florence frowned. "Wait, I can't take you home Sly, I forgot I road here in Cabe's SUV."

Terry looked at her. "Don't worry about that. Layla can ride home with me and Sylvester can take her place in the SUV and you can take him home from there."

Paige reached out and touched Walter's arm. He stopped and looked at her and saw the slight smile on her face. "Would you like a lift back to the Garage?" She'd asked softly.

Walter smiled and nodded. "Actually given the time, perhaps we can pick up Ralph and we can go out for an early dinner?"

Greetings! Hoping this finds you all well! Doing okay here. I was having a lot of trouble writing this past week. All I really seemed to want to do was play games. As I was talking with a friend on Twitter when I finally realized why, being the first Christmas without the wife. Amazingly enough it was the first Christmas since 1990 I spent without her. I haven't even started chapter 12 so it might take me a few days to write it what with New Year in a few days as well.

Railman - *laugh* King of the twist huh? I hope Chubby Checker doesn't get mad!

Franxine - I'm so glad you are home and recovering!

To the Adventure! -Tim