Chapter 4.

Paige POV:

Paige followed Scott as he lead them to the South wing, and Paige could hear Walter murmuring how it was actually West. Ralph was listening intently to what Walter was saying, clinging to his every word. Paige chuckled quietly and realized that they had reached their room. 318. Scott held open the door and Walter and Ralph filed in.

"Thank you, Mr. Johnso-Scott." Paige amended herself, remembering he told them to call him by his first name. "We appreciate the efforts to include us in this project and all the work you have done." Paige told him before she walked through the door.

"Thank you, Ms. Dineen. It has been a pleasure so far to work with Scorpion." Scott said an easy smile on his face. Paige chuckled and walked through the door. Scott was obviously lying. No normal person took to the team so easily or quickly.

"They get better. Don't worry, Scott." Paige said with a smile. "And please, call me Paige." She added, wanting to have both their first names being used.

"Paige it is." Scott said with a smile and placed a light hand on her back, leading her through the room. Paige walked forward quicker to get his hand off her back, but Scott moved just as quickly. Walter was suddenly at her side and he stared at Scott with a downright murderous glare. Scott removed his hand from her back immediately with a surprised and confused expression on his face. Walter walked back over to Ralph who was on one of the many computers around the room. Paige was in shock from the level of emotion she had seen in Walter's eyes at that moment. She saw Scott move behind her and she quickly followed Walter, wanting to get as far away from Scott as possible for the moment being. She was sure the gesture was just meant to be friendly, but it resurfaced bad memories, from the diner, of guys hitting on her. Paige walked over to Ralph and stood on the left side of him and Walter stood on the right. The room had rows cubicles lined up and each of them had a computer inside. Each computer seemed to have a test sign-on screen on them. Ralph was already signed on and answering the test questions faster than Paige could read them.

"How did he get into the test? He doesn't have a username!" Scott said, sounding astounded. Paige smiled, remembering her first day meeting the team and how she was dumbfounded at their abilities as well.

"He hacked in. It's really not that hard, your test system is weak." Walter said factually and sat down at the computer next to Ralph who was on to the second part of the test already. Paige saw that the first part of the test was 100 questions and was only slightly surprised to find that he had finished all of them in this amount of time. Walter and Ralph peaked their heads out from their cubicles and looked at each other for a moment, then turned back to their screens. Walter's computer screen was at the beginning of part 2 as well and they both hit the start button at the same time. Paige watched as they raced through the questions at lightning speed and both finished a minute later, Walter only slightly ahead in finishing.

"Wow. Not expecting that." Scott said and Paige refrained from laughing. He shouldn't be so surprised; these were geniuses not just regular smart people. "Did you actually answer the questions or were you just clicking?" He asked and Walter's jaw clenched.

"We both got perfect scores." Ralph said pulling up a screen that showed his score and Walter did the same. Both showed their answers to the multiple choice questions, and they were all right.

"How do I know you didn't hack the sheet to show the right answers?" Scott said sounding accusatory and a wave of anger flowed through Paige. He was accusing them of randomly choosing answers and now hacking the computer to give them the right answers.

"They did not cheat and even if they would've it still shows that they were smart enough to know how to do that in the first place, which is smarter than you will ever be." Paige said and Scott's face morphed into a shocked expression. Paige couldn't help but notice the change in personality in Scott. Just a minute ago he was holding the door open for them and now he was being downright rude. That seemed kind-of odd. Paige turned to watch Walter and Ralph on the computers and noticed they weren't on the test page. The screen had a black screen filled with white numbers and letters, which they were adding upon.

"What are you doing?" Paige asked them curiously. It looked like they were-

"Coding." Walter said affirming her suspicions. A few minutes later he pressed a key and they beginning, regular test screen popped up. "Now, the test is hard enough. It was extremely easy before. This should help you be able to sort through the math inclined geniuses easier." Walter said, the corners of his mouth quirking up. Ralph started up the program and Paige saw that Ralph's computer seemed to have Walter's new program. The questions were much longer and looked harder. Ralph smiled at the screen.

"This is better." Ralph commented and solved some of the problems. Walter tussled Ralph's hair and stood up from his own chair. Scott stood off to the side, a disturbed look on his face but he wisely kept his mouth shut.

"The kids and parents will be here any minute." Scott said and started to walk towards the door.

"Don't let the parents in." Walter said staring at Scott's back with a blank look on his face.

"What?" Scott said, stopping in his tracks. He turned around and stared at Walter and Paige noticed a spark of well concealed frustration in his eyes. Walter didn't say anything for a moment so Paige stepped in, knowing what Walter was trying to convey.

"We don't need more people in the room, and the kids should be fine without their parents." Paige said staring Scott in the eye.

"Some of the kids might not want to leave their parents." Scott said and Paige noticed he folded his hands behind his back.

"Geniuses most of the time aren't connected with their parents so that shouldn't be an issue, and they can handle themselves, Mr. Johnson." Paige said calmly with a 'don't question me' look on her face. Scott's phone started ringing and he walked out of the door and stood outside of it. Paige couldn't hear what he had said when he answered so she turned her attention back to Ralph. He was still working through the problems Walter had set up and it looked like they were taking him longer this time.

"I don't like that guy." Walter said, still staring out the door. Paige looked over at him and had to agree.

"I don't like him either."

Sylvester POV:
"Sylvester you will be going to the West Wing." Scott said and Sylvester waited for him to say that someone else was going with him. No such luck. He was going to be in a room with approximately 200 kids over the course of 4 hours. That was around 50 kids an hour. And he was going to have to do that all alone. Not good.

"Are you sure Paige can't come with me or someone else?" Sylvester rambles, wringing his hands in front of him.

"We already had plans for you to be alone and Paige, Ralph and Walter to go together." Scott says staring at his phone, which Sylvester guessed had a schedule on it. Paige glances over at him apologetically and pats his shoulder. Paige wanted to stay with Ralph, who wanted to stay with Walter, who wanted to stay with Paige and Ralph. No place for him in that equation.

"Fine." Sylvester said and started walking towards the South Wing, reluctantly.

"Don't you need to know what room you're going to?" Scott asked and Sylvester turned around for a moment.

"It's 412." Sylvester said and smiled in his head at Scott's bewildered expression. He had seen the layout of the building and could figure out the room numbers and 412 was a computer lab in the West Wing; it was the most likely possibility to the room number. That and 426, but guessing by Scott's reaction, it was 412. Sylvester turned around and kept walking towards the room; it would take him 3 minutes 23 seconds. As he walked down the hallway a girl, with long brown hair and bright brown eyes, was walking on the other side of the hallway. She was talking with a co-worker and laughing at something he had said. Sylvester felt a pang in his chest and kept walking, but he couldn't figure out why he had felt sad at the sight of the happy girl. Sylvester rubbed the band-aid on his hand with his thumb, and it came to him. The girl's hair, eyes and smile all reminded him of Megan. Her name sent a wave of sadness and despair over him but he kept walking, determined to keep it together while he was here. For the children. He was reminded of a conversation he had with Megan.

Megan sat in one of the chairs in the lounge in the hospital. She was lying back on the chair with her eyes closed and for the first time in a while, she looked happy and content. She peeked open her eyes and smirked at him.

"What are you looking at?" She asked a sly smile on her face. He hadn't even realized he was staring at her and fidgeted in place avoiding her question. He didn't want her to think he was some crazy person who stared at her for no particular reason other than the fact that she was beautiful. Which she was. "Sylvester…" She said, stretching out his name out over 5 seconds. He looked up at her and he couldn't lie, or not answer.

"You're beautiful." The words popped out of his mouth and he gazed down at his lap, not able to look her in the eye when she told him to leave. It was always a possibility; that she would tell him to go and never come back.

"Thank you." She said lightly and he saw she was smiling when he looked up. A pair of parents walked past them, swinging a giggling child between them. "I had always wanted a child." Megan said out of the blue. Sylvester's brain automatically ran the odds of her being able to have a child, and he hated himself for it. Her odds were slim to nothing. "The happy, giggling bundle of joy I'd get to share with my one and only." Megan glanced at him when she said this. She took his hand in hers a squeezed it.

"Maybe when you get better we can adopt?" Sylvester said, keeping himself from saying 'if you get better'. Megan's eyes seemed conflicted between sadness at the realization that she probably wouldn't get better and the prospect of adopting a child with him. She chose the later, it seemed when she pressed a kiss onto his lips.

"I'd love that." She said and leaned against his shoulder, smiling.

A/N: Hey, guys! So super sorry I haven't updated in a while, these past weeks have been hectic. I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter and hopefully I'll be able to update soon! Please comment and PM me on anything, you reviews inspire me to write and make sure I'm doing this right!

-FandomFan2

P.S. Who else hates Scott? I certainly do.