A/N - One more chapter after this one. Can't believe we are almost to the end.
Railman - Gotta love the twins. They are looking forward to the prank if they can figure out how to pull it off.
LouBe - Kat and Paige together was fun. Hopefully it makes you laugh. Walter knows better than to do that, Toby on the other hand may have tried something. Paige has loved all of her honeymoon, I'm sure she will love the chance to experience that too. Sorry you had a bad day. Glad to make you smile.
Pearliegirl - thank you for all the kind words. I know, only 2 chapters left. Uploaded my next story the last couple of days. Will proof it and have the first part ready to go once this one ends. Glad this last chapter was a surprise for you. No more dancing from Walter; it must have been an island thing.
Part 29 Thursday July 16, 2018
Their last morning in the city that never sleeps. Paige wanted to relax for a few more minutes in the amazing bed they had at the hotel, snuggled up under the ultra soft down comforter. So Walter went downstairs to grab a couple of coffees for them. As he was waiting for them to be finished, he bumped into none other than their new friend Kat McPhee, who again was just finishing running on the treadmill.
"Thank you for allowing Paige to go with you today. She is really excited to go."
"My pleasure, besides I owe you guys for letting me hitch a ride back to LA. You sure it's okay?" Kat asked wanting to make sure she wasn't intruding.
"Yes. Paige wouldn't want it any other way. She was excited for you to join us. And I need to apologize again if I said anything that offended you, that was not my intent. You two are strikingly similar." Walter let her know.
"No reason to apologize, it was perfect. Let me ask you something though, is she going to be okay singing on stage if I am able to arrange it for her?" Kat asked. "It can be overwhelming at first."
"Yes, she will be fine. She really is fearless. She may be apprehensive at first, but she doesn't back down from a challenge. She will be amazing too." Walter proudly told her.
"I can see how much you love her. That's good! Now we need to take a selfie." Kat told him.
"A selfie? What do we need to do...?" Walter was saying as she snapped a pic of the two of them on her phone.
Surprised my hubby for coffee and he's down here buying some for another girl. I'm gonna have to keep my eye on him. Coffee with cinnamon, my new fave! See ya soon twinkie!
After ordering another coffee for Paige, since her first one was confiscated, Walter finally made it back to their suite.
"Mmmm thanks for this. It's yummy. What took you so long?" Paige said hiding a smile.
"Do you really need to ask, twinkie?" Walter told her while Paige's smile grew into a giggle.
"I hope you were nice to her today." Paige said with another smile as she pulled the covers back over her and laid back down.
"Are you saying I wasn't yesterday? I even apologized in case she was offended by anything I said."
"That's my hubby. I love you Walter. This has been the greatest honeymoon ever."
"And it's only the beginning of our journey together."
"That's so sweet. You know, I could just skip going with her to Broadway and stay in bed with you some more." Paige told him. "I'm sure we could think of something to do together in this amazing bed."
"As good as that sounds, I know you wouldn't want to miss an opportunity like what you are about to experience. Which you only have about thirty minutes for before you are supposed to leave." Walter told her laying down next to her for a quick kiss. "I'm so proud of you by the way. You will be amazing."
Paige got to live out a childhood fantasy. Not only did she get to sing a number on a Broadway stage; she absolutely nailed it. Kat was nice enough to have it recorded and sent to Walter so he would be able to see his wife belt it out, just like he told her she would. Even got to pretend to be the lead in the play for about ten minutes before the director realized she didn't know all the lines. Kat found it hysterical. As did all the stage hands who had no clue what was going on. The director didn't care for the fun and games.
Walter met up with Paige and Kat for a lunch at an outdoor café that Kat frequented. The wait staff all thought she was having lunch with her twin sister, and Walter didn't even try to correct them this time.
And now with Paige and Walter's honeymoon over, they were set to fly back to Los Angeles, with one stowaway in tow. Luckily for them, they had Paige's Jeep waiting for them at the airport, so no one else would be there to pick them up and ruin the surprise.
"This is the Jeep that was out on Sunset isn't it?" Kat asked as they approached Paige's car.
"You have got to be kidding me." Walter said with a smile. "Maybe you guys are twins."
"Oh, I test drove it twice. Once when they first got it and then before I left for New York. I was going to buy it next month if it was still there. At least I know it went to a good home. It had so many extra features. Oh, they are so much fun to drive." Kat told them.
Paige could only smile at Walter as he hopped in the back seat.
"Thanks for the lift home too. And I would have gotten in the back, you didn't need to sit back there Walter."
Fifteen minutes after they dropped off Katharine McPhee at her home, Paige pulled into their driveway to a big Welcome Home Newlyweds flashing sign in the front yard. There was definitely something that had went on while they were gone, the grass on the side of the yard looked like it had been trampled down from something big. But before they could investigate everyone started spilling out to greet them. Ralph led the way.
"Mom, dad how was your trip?" Ralph asked as he ran up to them. "Did you guys have a lot of fun?"
"Amazing, we had so much fun, how have you been? Did they take good care of you?" Paige asked as she gave Ralph a huge hug.
"What kind of question is that Mrs. O'Brien?" Toby joked. "I'm almost offended."
"A good one, and what happened to the grass on the side of the house?" Walter wanted to know. "By the size of the tire tracks I would say it was a ..."
"Hey, too many questions, why don't we all step inside." Toby said before Walter could continue.
"Toby, what's going on, or should we ask Sly and get the truth?" Paige asked and glanced at Sly knowing he would have to tell the truth.
"Come on, inside, both of you, you are almost as bad as the mister." Toby told them. "You'll find out soon enough."
They reluctantly went inside and were surprised to see their house in perfect condition. No pizza boxes out all over the kitchen, or glasses in the sink. Or remnants of experiments gone awry. Everything looked spotless. She was impressed.
"Walt, Paige the grass will grow back in a few weeks. But we wanted to get you guys a present for your wedding, and in true Scorpion style, we needed to go big." Happy started. "Real big."
"I think I might need to sit down for this. Please tell me not to worry." Paige asked as she sat down and pulled Walter with her. "Maybe leaving a cyclone of geniuses around here wasn't a good idea. Cabe, I am going to hold you responsible if it's bad."
"This was actually Ralph's idea." Cabe informed them.
"As I was saying, so we all wanted to chip in and do something special for you guys." Happy finished.
"You guys didn't have to do that." Paige told them.
"We didn't have to. We wanted to. You guys gave us our jobs back, you were so generous with your gifts to us before we left, and you brought us with you on your wedding. It was the least we could do." Sly told them.
"Well the wedding wouldn't have been the same without you guys there." Paige told them. "It really was out of this world."
"And Scorpion wasn't the same without you either." Walter added.
"Do you guys want to see the surprise?" Ralph asked them not wanting to wait any longer to show them.
Ralph led them to the deck on the back of the house and stopped before they walked through the doors. He wanted them to walk through first, so he moved out of the way.
At first glance, they didn't see anything, but as they approached the edge of the deck, they could see an amazing fully landscaped pool, complete with a waterfall and a grotto. Just like the ones you see on television. They were at once shocked and thankful for the kind gesture from their friends.
"How on earth did you guys get this done in a little over a week, it is incredible. And way over the top. This must have cost a small fortune."
"Well, you guys gave us each more than a small fortune, it was the least we could do." Cabe told her.
"It was a team effort. Happy drew up some plans with the company that installed it. Toby and Sly ordered all the stuff we needed. And me and Cabe supervised from up here." Ralph told them. "Cabe also cooked us a bunch of food."
"But it wasn't even two weeks. How did you get this finished so fast?" Paige asked.
"We are a bunch of geniuses you know." Toby told them.
"Yeah, you're my geniuses. I love you guys." Paige told them all.
"And look, it's remote control." Ralph showed them. "Should we try it out?"
"You guys waited for us?" Paige asked.
"Well, Cabe may have tossed Toby in once or twice, or maybe more like ten times; but other than that, no one has been in."
"And in my defense…" Toby tried to say.
"Can it Doc. Nobody wants to hear it." Cabe told him to laughter from everyone.
Everyone wasted little time in making their way to the pool area. They needed to make sure it was going to be safe for the party in two days anyway. Walter and Paige took a seat in one of the lounge chairs around the pool and watched as everyone else enjoyed the gift they had gotten for them. Ten minutes later they were both passed out asleep holding on to each other sharing the one chair. Jet lag and everything else finally catching up to them. They slept together out there pretty much all night. Everyone else, other than Cabe and Allie, went back to the house and crashed in the big game room upstairs and hung out with Ralph as they played video games together into the early hours of the night. The foursome of geniuses dominated in all of the games they played together.
Still somewhat jet lagged on Thursday as they awoke, Walter and Paige were happy to be back home. They took a nice walk around the lake after they had a cup of coffee trying to shake off as much of the sluggishness as they could.
A romantic morning swim and some alone time in the grotto was just what the couple needed as everyone else was still asleep.
The rest of the day Friday was spent getting ready for what was to come. Walter responded to several dozen emails from work clients about upcoming job opportunities. While Paige went over the list of everything they needed to get done for the big celebration happening tomorrow night. Good thing most of the big items on the list were all taken care of before they all left for the wedding.
Paige delegated out tasks to the members of her team that spent the night with their son playing games in the coolest game room on the block. Happy finished setting up the sound system around the pool while Toby and Sly made sure all the tables and chairs that were delivered for the party were also set up and ready to go.
After a lunch break catered in from Kovelsky's, Walter told them he needed about an hour to finish up a project he had been working on, telling them he thought he was close to a major breakthrough. The same one Ralph had hinted to everyone while Walter and Paige were on their honeymoon.
"You seriously think you made a breakthrough in your cloning device?" Toby asked him before he left. "You've been tinkering with that thing for years."
"A few more minor tweaks and yes I do." Walter told him trying to act the part.
"Come on Walt, even you aren't smart enough for that." Happy added.
"I don't know guys; I ran dad's last set of numbers the other day. They looked really promising." Ralph told them.
"I'll believe it when I see it. And I don't think I will ever see it." Toby told them.
Paige smiled listening to them go on. The hook was set. Time to reel them in tonight.
"All right, I'm not paying you guys for talking about silly inventions, or not so silly inventions, sorry honey. You guys are here to work. Now nerd up." Paige told them as Walter walked past her and she gave him a slap on the behind and a wink.
"Honey?" Toby started to say. "He lets you calm him honey?"
"Watch it Dr. Curtis." Paige admonished him.
By 3:00 everything was finished. And while they all were hanging out in the pool again, Walter and Paige took the opportunity for another stroll around the lake. They had come to enjoy it. Holding hands, talking about things and just unwinding from everything going on. They liked swimming by themselves better any way.
"You think they bought it?" Paige asked.
"I really think they did. Ralph helping with this may be the key. I just hope you can keep a straight face tonight when this all plays out." Walter told her.
"Hey, you don't worry about me, mama's gonna bring it. I just don't need you chickening out when it comes to hugging Kat when she comes in the kitchen."
"As long as you don't try to grab her breast again, I think we will be fine." Walter told her raising his eyebrow and smiling.
"Dork, I think your still jealous you missed your chance." Paige told him with a kiss that lingered for a few minutes. "I missed sleeping in bed with you today."
"Me too. We must have been pretty tired to fall asleep by the pool last night."
"Yeah, and that was so nice of everyone to do for us by the way."
"It was, although they all seem to be enjoying it as well."
"You know we can always sneak down there at night and have our own little pool party. I might need to find some nice little bikinis to wear just for you." Paige told him as she watched his eyes start to smile.
"I like the um sound of that." Walter told her.
"Good, once we get past this weekend, it's just gonna be me and my pool boy." Paige told him as they were making their way back to the house.
It was 6:00 which meant it was time to see if they could pull one over on everyone. Kat texted Paige that she was on her way, and she would call when she pulled up. Paige was going to open the garage door for her to pull her car in and then they would sneak her to their bedroom.
Ralph was upstairs with everyone playing games while Cabe was sitting on the back deck enjoying the view while he was grilling. Walter and Paige were making sure everything else was set up and ready to go.
Paige got the call and she let Kat in. They quickly and quietly snuck her into their bedroom to have her wait for her entrance. Paige sent Ralph a text message saying it was time to wrap it up. His code word for the rouse to begin.
As they made their way to the kitchen, everyone saw Walter and Paige sitting at the table talking.
"Looks like you guys made it down just in time for dinner." Paige told everyone.
"Toby got lucky, cause Happy was just about to beat him again at Super Smash Bros." Ralph told her.
"Not true Ralph. I had her just where I wanted her." Toby tried to point out.
Paige sneezed, and then again.
"Damnit." Walter said gruffly as he slammed his fist in the table. "Not again."
"I think bless you or gesundheit is the correct response, 197." Toby told him. "Has nobody ever taught you manners before."
Cabe had just made his way into the kitchen as well to tell them everything was finished when he heard and saw what Walter did.
"Walt, chill out boss, it was just a sneeze." Happy told him.
"No, it wasn't. She isn't supposed to sneeze. I didn't program sneezes in yet." Walter said getting stares from everyone.
"Hey Walt, what the hell are you talking about." Happy asked.
"No, no, no. I thought I had it. Damnit." Walter said in a panic. His voice elevated. He looked extremely aggravated as well. Everyone was looking at him.
"Hey Walter, I think you're scaring Ralph." Sylvester told him seeing how Walter looked.
"Son, you need to calm down." Cabe added. "Tell me what's going on."
"What did you do dad, what's wrong with mom?" Ralph yelled.
"She, she…" Walter said in a panic.
Paige sneezed again.
Walter started mumbling numbers and letters as he had his head shaking back and forth rapidly. And then he lifted up the back of Paige's hair and smacked her head causing her to drop her body on top of the table, banging it head first.
"The hell you just do O'Brien?" Toby screamed as he moved towards Paige.
"Dad, why did you hit mom?" Ralph loudly asked. "What did she do to you?"
"Not good." Happy added.
Just about that time Kat/Paige walked through the kitchen door.
"Hey Honey, did we get the invoice from the furniture company?" Kat/Paige asked. "I haven't seen it."
Sylvester passed out. Toby started shrieking like a little 10 year old girl. Happy started cussing up a storm. Cabe turned to the sink and barfed.
"What the hell is going on?" Toby said as he regained his male sounding voice. "Walt?"
"Yeah, I put it with the ones for the party." Walter said as he went over to Kat/Paige and hugged her and even added a kiss to her cheek for good measure.
"What's up with them?" Kat/Paige said as she lifted Paige up by the hair and dropped her back down on the table. "You really think she looks like me? Seriously."
"Wait, if you're Paige, who or what the hell is that thing?" Happy asked.
"Be nice, that thing, is Paige's…" Walter started to try and say knowing he would be interrupted.
"Oh shit, you didn't." Happy said. "Did you? Tell me you did."
"Holy crap Walt you did it, how the hell did you do it. Sly he did, Sly?" Toby shrieked and then saw Sly out on the floor. "You're a genius Walt."
Walter picked up Paige by the waist and carried her over his shoulder and out of the kitchen as everyone else was in shock at what they had just witnessed. Kat/Paige playing along the whole time, none of them the wiser.
"You guys really think she looked like me? I mean the face, the nose, it looked all off to me." Kat/Paige asked while moving her hand around her face.
"Paige, are you blind. She was you. We walked in on Walt having a conversation with you, I mean her, it, you. This is huge. Like earth shattering huge. How the hell did he do it?" Toby said while biting his hand at the end. "He really did it."
Sylvester came to just as Walter was walking back in with a newly reprogrammed "Paige". And when he saw them standing side by side, down he went for the second time.
Kat/Paige decided it was time to freelance for a second and grabbed Paige's boob; again.
"Did you seriously make her tits a full cup size bigger than mine? Pervert." Kat/Paige said.
"Fu-full, n-no. It was um only a ha-half size and I d-d-didn't think you wo-would even be able to notice." Walter told her. "Sorry, I can um fix it."
"Doesn't this break the rules of all time and space continuums?" Toby asked as he felt of each of their arms and poked their faces.
"What the hell Toby." Kat/Paige said as she slapped his hand away. "And of course I could notice them, they are huge."
"Amazing, the arms and faces both feel like real skin. Is it all real? Sorry, stupid question. This is unreal Walt." Toby said still in disbelief. "Seriously, does it all feel like the real thing?"
"You touch anything else of theirs, and you're gonna be down a few appendages." Happy informed her husband.
"Paige?" Cabe yelled out not knowing what else to say.
"Yeah." They both said as they turned in unison towards him causing him to turn towards the sink again and puke some more. After they spoke, Paige turned towards Kat/Paige glaring at her.
"Mom?" Ralph asked pretending to be concerned.
"Yes sweetie." They both said again in unison. And again, Paige glared at Kat/Paige.
"Oh my god. I can't freaking believe you did it. You actually cloned a real human being." Toby said amazed.
"Toby, no, you can't say…" Walter tried to say as he reached towards Paige.
"Cloned? Who did you clone?" Paige said as she turned to Walter.
"P-Paige you um you um need to just sit down for a second." Walter acted scared as he tried to grab her arm and have her sit. "He didn't mean it."
"Honey, what's going on?" Kat/Paige said pretending to not understand.
"Bitch, what did you just call my husband." Paige said to Kat/Paige.
"Your husband, uh huh, hell no, he is my husband. Clone." Kat/Paige said to Paige getting up in her face.
"I may have just started Waige War 3." Toby said, realizing he should not have used the word clone. He was getting nervous as to what was about to happen. But he couldn't make himself look away.
Paige turned to Walter and kissed him hard on the mouth in front of everyone. Claiming her man. Causing all of them to gasp. They were all under the impression that Kat/Paige was now the real Paige.
"What do you think about that?" Paige said wiping her mouth while glaring at Kat/Paige, running her hand down Walter's face.
"You touch him again and I'm gonna rip both of those fake tits off of you and shove them up your ass." Kat/Paige told Paige.
At this point Paige turned towards Walter and grabbed his hands and placed them on both of her boobs and proceeded to kiss him again.
"Son of a bitch, get me a knife, I'm gonna carve that clone up." Kat/Paige told them.
That was about the time they lost Toby, and Sly again for a third time as he had just come to. Happy to her credit did not pass out, but she was at a loss not knowing what to do still dropping serious language every other word.
The eruption of laughter from Paige and Ralph and Kat brought a little levity to the situation. Walter smiled, proud of himself for not screwing anything up. And as the geniuses started to realize they had been tricked, smiles slowly crept across their faces.
"I knew it the whole time." Toby said when he came to. "Good try though. You almost had us."
"Whatever dumbass." Happy told him.
"I did. I knew it the whole time."
"Yeah, then which one is Paige?"
"The hell if I know." Toby admitted getting more laughs from everyone.
The Kat was out of the bag, and they spent the next several hours talking to her all about missions they had been on and stories about each other while they ate the feast that Cabe had cooked on the grill for them. Kat told the rest of them all about how she met Paige and Walter and the instant connection they had. As they were getting ready to leave for the night the geniuses had to pay their respects.
"Walt, only you could get away with telling a beautiful woman that her face was askew and not get popped in the mouth. And Paige, well done Mrs. O'Brien. This does leave you open to revenge though. Ms. McPhee, it was a pleasure meeting you tonight." Toby told them. "Not a word about this to anyone, our reputations are on the line."
"Walt, Paige I gotta hand it to you both, you had us fooled, one hundred percent. Kat you did amazing, I know where to come if we need to find another Paige for the office." Happy told them.
"That's a high compliment from her." Cabe told Kat. "It was a pleasure meeting you, sorry about that ah sink incident. As for you two, well done. And we are all glad you are back home."
"Thanks for scaring the living bejeezus out of us. It was a pleasure to talk to you after the other part though." Sylvester told her.
Kat stayed behind with the O'Brien's and got a tour of the house. And when they made it up to the game room, Ralph had a surprise for everyone.
"I set up a hidden camera in the kitchen this morning when no one was around and hooked it up to the server dad set up for our personal network. We should have a recording of the whole thing." Ralph told them.
"Wait, we can watch the whole thing play out?" Kat asked Ralph.
"Yes." Ralph told her. "You do look just like my mom, by the way."
"That's sweet, thank you. I don't look anything like her according to your dad though." Kat told him nudging Walter in the side.
"Watch it bitch." Paige told Kat making her burst out laughing. "Sorry sweetie, I shouldn't use that language around you. It was only a joke, and Ms. McPhee knows it."
"So can we watch it?" Kat asked.
And they did. Several times. It kept getting funnier, even when they knew what was coming every time. They couldn't pick a favorite part, it changed every time they watched it.
Kat then asked about the video from after their wedding, she wanted to see when they told Ralph about Walter adopting him. It was priceless and they all had tears in their eyes.
"That's a video I will never get tired of seeing." Paige told them as she kissed Walter and Ralph.
"Keep your lips off my husband, clone." Kat told Paige getting her to snort.
And then to top off the night, they watched Marryoke as well.
"Mmm, you do sound better than I do. You guys look so comfortable together out there."
"Thank you, not true, but thank you. Walter was a little out of his comfort zone, but he was amazing up there on stage." Paige told Kat.
"It looks like you guys had so much fun." Kat told them.
"You could join us next year." Ralph told Kat.
"Next year?" Kat asked.
Paige explained the whole story to her, including the flirtatious coordinator. Kat found it hysterical.
"Hey, if my schedule is free and you guys are offering me a week in Tahiti, don't be surprised if I join you. I might have to give Lisa a piece of my mind though for hitting on my man." Kat told them.
It was well past midnight before Kat left their house. She had lunches lined up with Paige for the next couple of times she was going to be around.
"And if you want to bring my hubby along with you, feel free." Kat told her as she was leaving.
"Thank you again for hanging out with all of us tonight. It was so much fun." Paige told her as they hugged.
"Honestly, that was the most fun I have ever had. You guys are awesome." Kat told them.
"And thank you again for letting Paige spend the morning with you at your rehearsal. And for the video of it." Walter said with a smile surprising Paige who didn't know it was recorded.
"Hey, you told me I get a kiss on the cheek for that." Kat told him, and Walter obliged. "See you in a couple of weeks twinkie. Bye hubby."
They waved to her as she drove off and then the two of them turned to head back in the house.
"I can't believe you kissed her on the cheek, Mr. O'Brien, and right in front of your new wife." Paige told him as she kissed him, reclaiming what was rightfully hers. "I am going to really keep my eye on you mister."
"I can't believe you let her grab your boob again, Mrs. O'Brien, and right in front of your new husband." Walter told her and then he took her to their backyard grotto to reclaim what was rightfully his. "I am really going tii on have time keep my hands on you twinkie."
They were going to make good use of that pool and all its surroundings.