Chapter 2 – Walter, In the Lab, With An Experiment

Olivia was definitely in need of a break. After spending the whole day doing paperwork that had accumulated because of her week in DC for the annual FBI update on law, ethics and security, which was always so much fun, she'd had enough of secretary work. By now she was even missing their wildly odd and bizarre cases.

Looking at the lab from her office she could see Peter messing around with some electronic parts scattered around his bench. He was sipping at his coffee completely oblivious to Walter watching him. Olivia didn't think too much of it, just Walter being Walter.

She toyed with the idea of asking Peter to join her for a real cup of coffee or maybe a drink, after all she had been away from her team for a week and it would be a good opportunity to catch up with what had happened during that time. Just two colleagues and friends, relaxing and catching up, that was all it would be.

To be honest she did really miss hanging around with Peter, his carefree attitude and the way he always had some smart ass comment about everything, which wasn't as annoying as she often made out to be. It actually made her laugh and feel better, not that she would ever confess that to him.

Not giving any more thought to it, she grabbed her coat and left the office, walking by Peter's bench on the way out.

By now Walter was watching Peter overtly, which the younger Bishop couldn't fail to notice. "Do you need anything Walter?"

"Oh no Peter I'm fine, thank you son."

"So why do you keep watching me?" Peter asked irritated by the observation and even more so by Walter not getting to the point - if there was one.

"Oh that?" Walter blurted, as if surprised his observation had been noted by his son. Then he gave a sweet smile as he began his explanation, "Nothing really, I am just trying to ascertain if your penis has already acquired sufficient state of readiness to engage in sexual intercourse."

"Come again!?" Peter gaped, shocked at the response.

Olivia stopped in her tracks, already too close to Peter's bench to not listen to what Walter had just said. Definitely nothing good was coming out of that conversation. On the other side of the lab, Astrid raised her head, stopping the search she was doing on her computer and turning her focus completely on both men.

"Pay attention boy. Do I have to explain everything to you? If you hadn't dropped out of school there would be no need for that! I'm just trying to determine if you are sexually aroused." Walter noted the look on Peter's face, but in truest Walter fashion, he misinterpreted the look of mortification as confusion and therefore he pressed on, offering further explanation, "If you have an erection."

A snort almost came out of Astrid's mouth but she managed to stifle it with her hand in front of her face before it came out. Oh this was definitely going to get interesting.

"Walter, I understood very well the first time, what I don't understand is why on earth you are trying to determine such a thing!" Peter said felling is irritation growing.

By now Walter was watching Olivia who was standing a few feet from Peter trying to disguise the awkwardness of the situation, fiddling with her phone and pretending not to listen to that very strange conversation between the Bishop men.

"Of course, silly me, it wont do." Walter babbled, "Wrong environment with too many variables, we will have to try again later son, when we're alone in the lab."

"Walter..." Peter paused for a few seconds trying to gather as much patience as he could, especially knowing that Olivia was standing a few feet away listening to the whole God damned conversation.

"Now, from the beginning explain everything to me. Why are you expecting me to be... sexually aroused and what do you want to repeat again later when we are alone?"

"Oh yes, yes, I shall explain. The compound I put on your coffee a few minutes ago when you went to the bathroom is a powerful sexual stimulant I'm testing. I needed to know if I got the right dosage for a young man of your age and if it acts as quickly as I posited it would. But I forgot that Agent Dunham was here and that alone is enough to give you an erection, so my experiment is biased, hence we'll have to repeat it later once Olivia has gone home," Walter said, like if it was the most natural thing in the world.

By now Olivia was wishing she could disappear, the shade of red her face had turned was only a bit lighter than Peter's, who was dumb struck listening to his father's words. Nearby Astrid had ducked down pretending to get something from a low drawer in her work station, in order to hide behind her bench. She was trying really hard not to laugh her ass off.

"You put something in my coffee...?!" Peter's irritation was by then reaching near boiling point.

Before he could continue Olivia grabbed his arm getting is attention. "Peter let me get you a new cup of coffee, let's get out for a while I really need a break."

"Yeah, I need a break too," was all that Peter could muster as he was leaving the lab trailing behind Olivia.

A/N The next chapter will bring the case. I'll update as soon as I can.