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Camp part 2:
"Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!" Paige's voice called from outside.
"Do you think, if we don't move, she'll leave us alone?" Happy asked groaning lifting her head to look at him.
"I'm willing to try it," Toby agreed keeping his hands around her. She leaned her head back on his chest and closed her eyes. "Did you sleep well?"
"Mm, what about you?" She murmured.
"Never a better night's sleep in my entire life," he smiled. "How long do you think she'll leave us for?"
"Not long enough."
"Can't we just sit out today?" He begged.
"She wouldn't let us," Happy sighed.
"Come on guys!" Paige yelled, "We'll be late for swim tests. We can't go out if we don't pass. Come on! Come on!"
"We still aren't going to move," Happy commanded.
"Nope," He agreed.
"Happy! Toby! We're waiting for you two!" Paige called again.
"We stay where we are," Toby instructed.
"I will not hesitate to open this tent!" Paige yelled just outside.
"Call her bluff," Happy whispered.
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"Out," She ordered them firmly. She didn't even flinch at the sight of the two of them in the tent. She had been mentally preparing herself for worse. Neither person moved. "Out! Before I drag you."
Happy crawled out of the tent with Toby following quickly. "Alright, let's get going," Paige said smiling.
"Can't we change? Or eat breakfast?"
"We will do all that when we get there. Bring your bathing suits and a change of clothes. The lake is pretty close to here."
"So we are just going to have fun around here all day?" Ralph asked his mother after they each passed their swimming tests.
"Well, no but most of the day. We still have to have the sail boating competition but I figured we could hang around here and do that at around 3. Later we can even have a campfire."
They all began to set up their stuff for their day by the lake. Happy found herself sitting on a rock watching everyone go about their business. Walter was sitting with Paige talking. The idiot was still trying to figure out his feelings for her. He obviously had them. He even knew he had them, but he didn't know how to act on them. She wondered if that's how she looked to the rest of the world.
Toby, Sylvester, and Ralph were playing some strange complicated form of hide and seek. Ralph seemed buried deep in the mechanics of the game, desperate to win. Sly was calculating all the probabilities of the game. He wanted to make the best decisions possible. However Toby didn't seem interested in winning at all. He wore one of the biggest smiles she had ever seen on his face as he ran around playing his invented game. He didn't care about winning. He cared about playing, and having a good could watch them play for hours.
"I swear if you screw this competition up for us Doc, I will never speak to you again."
"You will," Toby said. They were in teams of two ready to compete in a sailboating competition. Happy wasn't worried about losing to Paige and Ralph, but she knew Sly and Walter would be fierce competitors.
"I won't," she threatened once again. "I am in charge of the machines on this team, if we lose a competition racing one then what's the point of me being here?"
"Would you relax? There's no way we don't win."
"I can't believe we didn't win," Toby sighed.
"I knew we would beat Walter and Sly, but to be beaten by Ralph and Paige?" Happy questioned.
"I mean, I would like to point out that I wasn't the one that took charge of steering the boat. This is on you," Toby accused happily.
"Shut up," she ordered.
"We will win next time," he assured her. "This was just a fluke."
"S'mores," Paige called. Her group of geniuses gathered around her intent on eating more food.
"And you're sure the marshmallows are not contaminated?" Sylvester checked for the seventh time.
"Yes," Paige repeated. Happy sat down next to Paige and quietly started to talk so only she could hear.
"Thank you for being here, and taking care of us," She said not making eye contact. "No one has ever done anything like this for any of us before."
"Happy, you dont-" Paige started.
"No, I know I test you, and I want to make sure you know that we appreciate your putting up with us."
When they finally arrived back at their tent, Happy was completely exhausted. She lay down quickly, and was falling asleep before Toby even had a chance to get inside the tent. He wrapped his arms her around her quietly, and when she didn't punch him he began to talk, "Happy, what are we?"
"You really want to do this now?" She questioned half asleep.
"I can't think of a better time. You know what I want. Now it's time you tell me what you want. I think it's only fair that, after all this, I get to know." She shifted in his arms to turn around and look at him.
"Ok," She said.
"Like ok as in yes you'll give us a go? or ok as in-" She elbowed him quickly.
"Don't make me regret this," She cautioned him. She then turned back around, lay down, and wasted no time in falling asleep. Toby just lay there in silence for a few minutes, stunned. She had finally said yes.
