Hey guys! What's up? Guess who has ten fingers and worked as hard as she could to get this done on time? This girl. God, it's been rough. At this point I'm in a wifi-less hotel room in Washington DC. The wifi thing is mostly a problem because I generally keep all my chapters on google drive. Oh well, I guess it's all worth it in the end. WHAT DID YOU THINK OF LAST NIGHT'S EPISODE AND THAT FRICKIN AMAZING QUINTIS KISS? Thank you for reading. Let me know what you think and send me your ideas

-Aislin

"Curtis," She called over to him. He entered her workspace grinning.

"You know, Happy, I'm pretty sure we're on a first name basis by now," He taunted. "For god's sake, we have a child together." He rested his hands on her shoulders.

"Not the time, dumbass," She waved him off. "Did you tell Paige she could pierce our daughter's ears?"

"I might have," He stated uncertainly. "She attacked me when I was tired. You know how I am, Happy. When I'm tired, I just say yes. This is why I need you."

"Clearly," She snorted. "Well, now Paige thinks that she can take Nessa and get her ears pierced, and you have to fix this. She is not puncturing holes in my baby's ear."

"Our," He corrected. "Why can't you?"

"Your mistake, your correction," Happy shrugged. Toby wrapped his arms around her, and kissed the back of her head.

"Don't make me do this," He whined. "Please? You love me, right?"

"Always," She answered quickly. "Now, go fix your mistake."

"You suck," He let go of her, and started to walk off to find Paige. He paused to continue to try and get her to do it for a minute. "What's so bad about getting her ears pierced anyway?"

"We are not going to get them pierced until she says she wants it done," Happy decided.

"Why?" Toby questioned.

"She deserves a choice, doesn't she?" When Toby nodded, Happy shooed him away once again. "Go."

"It's good to know how much my wife loves me."

"Paige?" He tried to get her attention gently. There were no cases in the garage, so Nessa was staying here. Paige was cuddling her, and cooing at her. She was ahead on her paperwork, and had nothing else to do but parade the baby around the garage. Nessa's parents wouldn't have been able to get her back if they had tried.

"Yeah, Toby?" She prompted him. She pressed small kisses against the three month old girl. Nessa gurgled happily in response. Toby swallowed nervously. "Come on, Toby, I don't bite."

"Technically," Walter started to interrupt.

"No," Paige stopped him. "You're not technically-ing me right now. I don't need it. It's an expression." Walter flashed the thumbs up at Paige. Ralph giggled from beside him. At fourteen years old, he was still Walter's biggest fan. "Now, what do you have to say?"

"Do you remember when I agreed to let you get Nessa's ears pierced?" He asked slowly and cautiously.

"I do," Paige sighed.

"Well, as it so happens you can't," He stated bluntly.

"Why not?" Paige suddenly turned very scary. Toby could see the rage behind her eyes.

"Because Ha-" Happy interrupted him by clearing her throat from her workshop. "Because you can't."

"But that's not fair," Paige complained. "You agreed."

"It's totally not fair," Toby agreed. His tone was high pitched and forced which let Paige know that he wasn't actually conceding.

"But you made a promise," Paige whined. She clutched Nessa slightly tighter. Nessa was calmer than Ralph ever was as a child. When he was a baby, he was constantly kicking and screaming at the slightest annoyance. As if he has always known how he wanted to be treated. But Nessa was different. She just let you cuddle her and hold her tight as if she didn't ever want to be let go.

"Which in retrospect was utter nonsense," Toby shrugged.

"Can I at least take her shopping?" Paige requested. "I'll bring her back later. I just want to buy her some pretty dresses."

"Of course you can," Toby yawned.

"Toby!" Happy groaned.

"Did you really have to give her Nessa?" Happy questioned. It had been ten minutes since Paige had left the garage with the child. Happy was having trouble comprehending how he had let that happen.

"I think you're forgetting how long it has been since we had anytime together," He pointed out. "Alone."

"Oh, you're right," Happy started to grin. She quickly threw all of the tools she wanted to bring home into her bag. "Walter, we're leaving!" She announced into the garage.

Walter immediately appeared by the door. He seemed to be guarding it. He clearly didn't want anyone to leave work early. "Why?" He asked arms crossed over his chest.

"Walter, I'm going to break this down very, very gently for you." Toby started. He took a step closer to Walter, and placed his hands on his shoulders.

"Doc," Happy warned.

Toby chose to ignore Happy, "As much as Happy and I love Nessa-we love her more than the world- she is a very, very loud child. As a result Happy and I haven't so much as…you get the picture… since she was born. But today, your bossy and persistent wife has our very, very loud and lovable baby with her. Happy and I are going home to enjoy some time alone."

"My ears!" Sylvester cried from across the garage. Happy shot a glare over at Toby who shrunk back and raised his hands in defense.

"Hey! I thought that was pretty delicate," He grinned. Happy rolled her eyes, and grabbed his hand. She pushed past Walter and pulled Toby out the door with her. Toby mock saluted Walter as he was dragged away. Sometimes Walter didn't know how this company ever stayed afloat. Right then was one of those times. Only one of his employees ever seemed to do any work.

Paige returned Nessa to them with three new outfits and two new toys five hours later. Happy had been holding their daughter close ever since. Toby had left the room to go and cook dinner. He could still see Happy and Nessa even from the kitchen. Even though this new way of life meant they had to give up their free time, he didn't think he would give it up for anything.