Hope everyone is doing okay in these crazy, messed-up times we live in. I recently rewatched Scorpion and saw how the writers put Happy through a lot in a 3 episode window, so this kind of came from that. I also started an AO3 account under the name SchereZade so I will be crossposting stuff over there and posting anything too mature for this site. Hope you enjoy! -Zade
Happy hadn't moved all weekend. She hadn't budged from her spot on the bed, eyes fixed on the wall, lost in her thoughts. For the most part, Toby had given Happy her space, making a few exceptions to coax some food into her and holding her when the inevitable tears came.
Harsh breathing startled Toby from his thoughts on the couch. Looking in the bedroom, he saw Happy lying rigidly in place, eyes fixed unseeing, her breath sharp and ragged. "Oh Hap" Toby breathed and padded quietly over to the bed.
Toby carefully lay down on the bed next to her. Snaking his arm around her chest, he pulled Happy backward into his chest and held her tight to him. At the sudden movement, she stiffened, but slowly relaxed when she understood what was happening. Slowly, Happy's breathing started to slow and deepen, sounding less harsh. After a few minutes, she rolled over in his arms, so they were face to face. She looked up at him, dried tearstains on her face. "Hi Princess" he whispered and gently kissed her forehead.
At his words, her eyes squeezed shut, trying to hold back more tears and she buried her face into his chest. Toby murmured comfortingly and squeezed her harder as a tear or two of his own slipped out at the sight of her pain. Hearing a few soft mutters at his chest, he pulled back "What was that Sweetling?"
"I'm sorry" Happy uttered hoarsely "I shouldn't be like this. Everyone and everything is fine. I should be doing better than laying here like-"
"Hap-" Toby interrupted "Look at me" when she didn't meet his eyes, he raised her chin until they met "You have been through so much in the past few weeks with your father, the fungus gas, and then thinking you would lose Aida. You haven't truly had time to grieve and come to terms with any of it before the next crisis. I hate seeing you cry Love, but I am glad you are getting to process through everything."
"Why is everything good always ruined?" Happy gasped out, her eyes filling again "I lose my dad, I 'almost lose my only non-Scorpion friend, and I-" she breaks off her voice cracking.
Toby shushed her, stroking her tangled curls "I know it's hard and scary, having all of this happen at once, but you haven't lost anyone Sweetheart. It seems like a long time, but your Dad will be out before you know it and you two will be back to fixing up old buckets-of -bolts in no time. Walt is looking for a way out for Aida and soon you two will be a dynamic duo the type of which the world has never seen- and might not survive" she gave a watery chuckle at that and he pressed his lips to her forehead again "and as for me Honeybear, you are stuck with me. You said yes and let me put a ring on that finger and now I am never letting you go. I love you so much Happy Quinn, and I am not going to do anything to make you doubt that."
"Thanks Doc" she said scratchily, wiping at a few of the tears on her cheeks.
"Anytime, Love, anytime," he murmured back "Is there anything else I can do?"
"Just hold me" Happy responded in a fragile voice, burying her face back into his chest.
"Of course Sugarplum, as long as you need."