"Walt, we're close, what's going on?" Cabe yelled as his computer answered the call.
"Cabe, how far away are you guys? We may have to go in before you get here. Amy has suspended Happy by her wrists on a hook & hoist and is currently moving her up & out over some kind of pool of liquid." Walter said quickly.
"Walter we're just under five minutes out." Sylvester called out.
"Is Happy conscious at all?" Toby asked a bit subdued.
"Toby, it doesn't look like it. Amy had to drag her up to some platform to get her on the hook. But she looks okay. And now Amy has stopped moving her and has stepped away from the controls. It is almost like she is waiting for something." Paige told him.
"Okay first, can we just refer to her as the whack job? But man what does that whack job want from her?" Toby said quietly.
"Son, you're the behaviorist. You'll have to enlighten us." Cabe told him as gently as he could.
Toby shook his head. "I'm not sure. If I could see her and what was going on I might be able to make educated guesses. But from what Paige said my guess is she's expecting me. We've got to hurry up and get there Cabe, can't this heap go any faster?"
"Excuse me?" Cabe said all offended.
"Cabe, I am just starting to hear your siren, you better turn it off." Walter warned him.
Sylvester reached over and flipped the switch before Cabe could and it went silent.
"The protocols for that system she was using to move Happy is heavily encrypted. It's going to take me a while to hack into it." Walter said mostly to himself.
"If anyone can do it Walt it's you son." Cabe said trying to encourage him.
"Walter, do you know what door we go in?" Paige asked as she looked at the aerial map on her phone.
"She parked by the closest door but there is also another door over here that would be a good place for most of us to go in. Toby since you believe she is expecting you, when you get here I think you should go in the door by Amy's, excuse me, whack job's car. Buy us as much time as possible. Once inside I might be able to access the system easier and stop whatever she has planned." Walter told them.
"That sounds like a solid plan of action. If this other door can get me a clear shot I'll just take her out. She's not harming my daughter." Cabe said fiercely.
Paige looked at Walter. "Since you are saying it's going to take you longer to hack in from here, let's move on up to the other door and wait outside. So we'll be ready to move."
Walter looked at her for a moment and finally nodded before they moved out of the car. Walter shoved his laptop and modem into his backpack and they began walking around the corner.
"We should hold hands and look like we're engrossed in each other. We should look like young lovers walking, looking for some address." Paige whispered. As they walked Walter started holding Paige's hand and he pointed off far past the warehouse and on the opposite side of the drive that ran past the warehouse with Amy's car.
"What are you doing Walter?" Paige asked quietly while barely moving her lips.
"Since I couldn't shut down the CCTV system I'm following your advice. So if she looks at a monitor she'll see me pointing somewhere else and hopefully not realize the truth." Walter told her just as quietly while nuzzling her neck before he looked towards the north away from the warehouse.
Walter's eyes glanced temporarily towards the camera that had them in its field of vision for a moment before they moved on past it. He gestured and they both ran over to the door and stood there while Walter pulled his laptop back out and checked the CCTV feed and nodded. "If she saw us she didn't realize she knew us. But she is also really paying attention to the other door."
"Walt, we're pulling up behind Paige's car. What's the play?" Cabe asked.
Walter looked back. "Cabe, let Toby walk around the corner and come down to the other door first. Once he enters the warehouse then you and Sly come around, walk normal until you get across from the 2nd door past Amy's, the whack job's car. You'll be out of the field of vision of the camera. Then move over quickly and join Paige and me inside. But be as quiet as you can when opening and closing the door."
"Alright Walt, Toby is moving around the corner now." Cabe told him.
They looked back and seeing Toby Walter looked at the CCTV feed and he saw Amy smiling. Walter handed his phone to Paige. She seemed to understand what he wanted and hit hang up on his phone. And then she put it on airplane mode and shoved it into his shirt pocket. She pulled out her phone and put it in airplane mode as well and put it back in her pocket.
"I already unlocked the door." Walter told Paige before he put his finger to his lips and pointed at the door and Paige nodded as she reached out and gently turned the knob and pulled.
The door opened and they quickly moved in and Paige slowly closed it. Walter smiled and nodded at her as he moved to a control computer and began working. Paige moved forward and carefully looked out the small glass window of the door and saw in the warehouse. From Paige's vantage point she couldn't see Amy and figured she couldn't see the door either. But Paige could see part of Happy. She bit her lip as she waited her leg was jerking back and forth because of her nerves.
Cabe saw Toby almost to the entrance of the warehouse and he reached up and loosened his tie and slipped it off and stuffed it in a jacket pocket as he reached up with his other hand and unbuttoned his collar button.
"That's smart thinking Cabe." Sylvester told him.
Cabe grinned.
"This is going to take longer than I thought it would." Walter whispered.
Paige nodded without looking back. Her eyes were watching the warehouse and then she saw light from outside pour in as Toby opened the door and he slowly moved in. Paige carefully opened the door and stepped out into the warehouse keeping the scaffolding between her and Amy.
Cabe gestured and they stepped out and began walking down the opposite side of the driveway that ran by the warehouse.
Happy slowly began to regain consciousness.
"I knew you would come." Amy called out as she looked at Toby when he slowly stepped out into her view.
Toby kept as far from the area Paige was standing at so Amy had no reason to look over. "Of course I did. How could I not, but before anything else happens can you tell me why you are doing this?"
Amy frowned. "I'm doing it for you, for us of course."
Toby nodded. "So that was you last weekend, wasn't it?"
Paige moved over and carefully moved up the scaffolding and from the 2nd level she was still protected from Amy's view but she could now see Happy and she was about ten feet above her.
"Yes!" Amy said excitedly as she stepped forward half a step. "And now I am pregnant with your child. We can be the family you always wanted us to be."
Toby smiled. "I like the sound of that. But why do this to Happy?"
"That's simple, because she isn't worthy of you." Amy told him as she turned and took a step back towards the control panel.
"I get that Amy and I've never gotten over you. I always felt like I had settled for Happy. But, you know our boss right?" Toby asked stopping her from moving back to the control board.
Amy turned back around and frowned as she stepped further from the control panel. "Of course I remember that clod. Why bring him up?"
Toby nodded. "Good, I'm glad we're on the same page about him. But the problem is, I found out while I was at the conference he started sleeping with Happy."
Walter swallowed hard hearing Toby's words. He gave up trying to hack into the computer controlling the winch, there was simply too much encryption. It would be different if he had the Garage server for brute force. He stepped over and slipped out of the door. He saw Paige about fifteen feet above him and he stepped over and began slowly climbing up.
"Why that two timing bitch, don't you worry Toby. This will take care of her for you." Amy said before she turned again.
Cabe and Sylvester quickly moved across the drive to the other door of the warehouse.
Happy's eyes opened wide and she looked at Paige and Paige could see panic in her face. Paige shook her head as she mouthed. "You're going to be okay Happy."
"Wait Amy! That isn't all." Toby said to make her turn back.
Happy swallowed hard and barely nodded.
Amy frowned. "What more is there?"
Toby swallowed as he nodded. "The problem is I don't want you to kill Happy."
Amy's eye brow rose up. "Why wouldn't you want me too?"
"Two reasons. First we found out a few weeks ago that Happy is expecting my child too. I don't want our child to grow up not knowing their sibling. I especially wouldn't want the child to grow up knowing that you murdered Happy and my other child." Toby explained.
Walter stopped climbing as he looked back when he heard the outer door open and he saw Cabe and Sylvester moving into the room.
"Wait, you really trust that she is pregnant with your child? How can you be so sure since you know she cheated? And how would our child ever know that, were you planning to tell them?" Amy asked as she leaned forward as she put her hands on the railing in front of her.
Toby shook his head no. "Of course I wasn't planning to tell them. Before this past weekend though I was with Happy all the time, so she didn't have a chance to have an affair with anyone, we simply weren't apart long enough so she has to be pregnant with my child."
"The other thing is that Walter knows you kidnapped Happy. That's how I found this place. He'd sent me an alert thingy." Toby held up his phone as he took a step closer.
Cabe stepped up to the door and looked out. He saw Paige up above on the scaffolding. He saw Walter halfway to the level Paige was on. He also saw Toby but he couldn't see Happy or Amy.
"I'm going out there." Cabe said quietly before he carefully opened the door and then shut it silently.
"He's most likely already called Homeland by now and is probably rushing over here to save Happy. If you let me get her down, I can tell her it is over between us. I can tell her that I'm going to file for a divorce because she cheated and I'm going back to the one person I truly love and who truly loves me." Toby told her taking another step closer.
"But I want us to keep the house. It is in a really great school district. Our children will need that to help develop their genius IQs." Amy said as she looked at Toby.
"Hey, you want us to keep the house? No problem. I can guilt trip Happy so bad over the cheating she'll gladly give it to me in the divorce. Besides, Walter won't leave the Garage to live somewhere else. And Happy won't want to do a split living arrangement either. And I won all that money at the casino Amy. I'm going to be able to take such good care of you and our children with it." Toby stepped closer to the edge of the walkway.
"But how will that stop that clod O'Brien from turning over what he has on me?" Amy fretted.
Toby grinned evilly.
"Easy. When I found out they were cheating I was looking through the Garage cam system, I captured the evidence. Happy is naked on video pleasuring him. It is on my laptop back at the house. Happy knows I have it, as I confronted her after I got home. If he doesn't destroy the evidence I'll upload it to the internet and use it in the divorce proceedings. He'd be too embarrassed and he wouldn't want Happy displayed like that where she could be seen by everyone." Toby told her before he looked down at the pool.
"What is that stuff?" He looked back up at her.
Walter had stopped as he listened to Toby's words. He felt a wave of nausea as a metallic taste swept through his mouth.
Cabe looked at Walter stopped above him. "Walt, are you okay son?" he whispered quietly.
Sylvester stood in the room looking at the CCTV system. "That's it Toby. Keep her distracted. You are doing great."
Sylvester turned and looked at the screen of the computer Walter had been working on. "I've never seen protocols like that. I wonder who designed this software. There isn't any identification on the software. I suppose it could be something that was generated in house."
"I used my genetics training to create that liquid. Knowing exactly how the bonds of our DNA adhere themselves to each other, it was child's play to create it. It's a special solvent to break down organic material. In less than five minutes it would render a normal adult into nothing that could be detected as human, let alone organic." Amy told him proudly.
"Impressive." Toby smiled at her. "Maybe one day we'll be able to use it on Walter."
Amy smiled at him as he started to walk around towards the ladder that ran up to the platform on the opposite side of the scaffolding that Paige was on. He wanted to keep her from seeing Paige.
Amy frowned. "Wait. Why would you want to kill him?"
Cabe climbed to the other side and up to face Walter. He saw the distant look in his eyes. "Son, this is a horrible time for you to flashback. You've got to ground yourself." Cabe whispered quietly.
"Are you kidding? He made a fool out of me with my wife. And it would serve her right. I was great to her and she betrayed me like that?" Toby stopped to look at her. His eyes went wide.
"No, something isn't right here. Why wouldn't Walter just contact Homeland or the police? Why send you a map where I was? And how did you get here that fast if that was the case?" Amy turned and move towards the control panel.
"Amy, don't do it!" Toby yelled.
Cabe looked up and began climbing up faster to where Paige was leaving Walter clinging to the framework.
Happy couldn't see what was going on but her eyes went wide as she looked up at her hands. She pulled hard against the rope in a jerk which caused her to rise up just enough that she grabbed the hook with her hands. Happy began swinging her legs which made the line the hook was on begin to sway with her.
"Happy!" Paige said scared.
Amy turned and looked and her eyes went wide before she grabbed the lever and pulled it. They all heard the motor of the winch that began turning, lowering the hook down.
Happy's brilliant mind calculated the swing and height distance to the platform Paige was on and she was just in range and she swung one more time and then tried to let go as the hook swayed to its apex to the platform.
The rope binding her hands together snagged the tip of the hook point and was just enough to not only keep her from reaching the platform but flipped her upside down as she began falling towards the pool of liquid.
"Happy!" Paige and Toby both screamed.
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Greetings! I hope everyone is well! Yep, cliffhanger again. Sorry, but not sorry. *grin* Just to clarify, Toby misled Amy, excuse me, whack job, he doesn't have a recording of Happy pleasuring Walter. The recording he has is of Happy and Paige...
Railman - Thank you! Glad it was a surprise, I would have been crushed had you guessed! Great question, one that Happy is going to be demanding in chapter 25 I think it is...He did reveal that he slept with a woman at the casino that looked like his ex in Dr. R's office. He had started to tell her in the parking lot but interrupted by the receptionist. Walter knows he went to a hotel room in the casino with a woman, but he didn't know who she was. He'd seen it through the hotel's cctv feed. Nope, Paige didn't have the patience...lol
Margaret - Thank you! hehe Back in chapter 1 of this story Toby had a flashback scene of what happened Friday night at his hotel for the conference. He knew the woman looked shockingly like Amy, excuse me, whack job. In the show her hubby had betrayed her, he left her to die with the team in that smart house and then he stole her identity, so she really got the worst end of the deal. lol Toby came to her rescue in the show and helped get her identity back while incurring the wrath of one Happy "Freaking" Quinn! As for what Toby knew/didn't know about the woman he was with, it will be revealed later.
Lucy - Sorry...kind of...not really. *maniacal cackle* And here is another one for you to enjoy! lol Yes, whack job is definitely that! lol
To the Adventure! -Tim
