Paige watched frantically as they moved her bed around and then got Walter's bed out of the room headed for a CT scan and then on to the OR. The mobile x-ray unit had shown Walter had blood on his brain. They needed a better image and they were probably going to have to drill a hole and drain the blood. Cabe and Ralph stood beside Paige's bed as they watched helplessly as they disappeared out the door.

Happy kicked one of the chairs and walked out of the room. She hadn't gotten to apologize to Walter like she wanted and now he was going down to have a hole drilled through his skull. She really wished she was normal EQ wise. She'd love to say a prayer right now. But who would a genius pray too…then she remembered something she'd read once. A patron saint of students…St. Gemma Galgani. It would probably be the closest thing she would ever find in that regard. She turned around just before getting to Toby's door and headed down to the elevators and took one to the first floor.

She had to get directions but finally found the chapel within the hospital. She was greeted by a priest shortly after walking in. After a short discourse the priest walked with her to the altar where they both lit a candle for Walter while invoking St. Gemma Galgani on Walter's behalf.

"Oh look, my so-called wife has finally decided to return." Toby said sarcastically as Happy more or less dragged into his room.

"You know, you can be all pissy if you want and I really don't care. Keep it up and you can be pissy at Sylvester's place until you find a job and can afford your own place." Happy snapped back at him.

"What's got you so upset?" Sylvester asked carefully.

"Walt's in trouble. The piece of metal that struck his head and cut through Toby's lung has caused a bleed in his head. They think the pressure is affecting his long term memory. While he seems to remember most things, he doesn't remember his life with Paige. They rushed him down for a CT scan and then they'll take him to Pre-Op to wait on possible surgery." Happy told them as she sat down in a chair beside Toby's bed.

"Well surely that isn't all he isn't remembering. It would be weird if only things about Paige are missing." Toby said.

"It isn't like we got a chance to grill him on what he did and didn't. He remembers most things up to the wedding, but he didn't remember that Paige and Tim broke up. He didn't remember much about the time on the island and not sure what he remembers after we were rescued. He didn't remember much of anything after the Gettleman bid. I guess he had seen us come out of the offices acting like real jerks before getting an Uber to go home." Happy sighed.

Toby grimaced and reached his hand out towards Happy.

"I'm sorry Happy, I haven't been very supportive or anything through all of this." Toby said sincerely.

Happy sighed as she nodded and took his hand for a moment.

Toby looked at Sylvester.

"Hey Sly, see if you can hack into the hospital's network and pull up Walter's record for me. Let me take a look at what they got written in there. Maybe I can give them a second opinion." Toby told him.

Sylvester pulled his laptop out of his backpack and quickly connected to the wifi and worked his skills and hacked through the hospital's security system and pulled up Walter's charts. He closed the case and reached it out and Happy took it and handed it to Toby who began reading through all the information.

"Man, Walter got lucky. If that piece of metal had struck just a few centimeters forwards of where it did, it would have struck the pterion. That area of the skull is really thin and it might have actually cut into his brain." Toby sighed.

"So how does the x-ray actually look?" Sylvester asked.

"It is concerning Sly. The CT scan is the right call. If we're really lucky the bleed has clotted off and his body will reabsorb the blood before any real damage is done. I'd hate for them to have to reopen that hole we drilled into his skull back at Christmas." Toby sighed. "That might even be why this bleed happened."

"So we're to blame?" Happy asked.

"No. No, not at all. Whoever put the bomb in Walter's car is to blame. We saved his life in an emergency situation." Toby told her.

Paige was barely paying attention to the physical therapists who had come to work with her. Walter's condition was unknown and she was worried beyond belief. But she did her best and they were understanding, it was just an insurance thing so they couldn't just let her coast.

Ralph hovered over his Mom as she moved through the paces the therapists set. He refused Cabe's offer to take him down to get pizza for lunch. If it hadn't been the weekend he'd be going out of his mind in school. He worried about Walter but having almost lost his Mom twice in such a short time, with one of the times right before his eyes, they had significantly impacted him emotionally.

Paige finally just asked Cabe to go get the pizza alone and give Ralph the time he needed with her.

They sat as a small family with a Grandfather taking the Father's place, eating the pizza. It would be fairer to say Paige was what you could call charitably nibbling on a slice. Cabe had dropped off a pizza to Happy and the guys before he rejoined Paige and Ralph.

Happy suddenly ran into their room.

"Hey, Toby's been keeping an eye on Walter's charts and he said they have canceled the surgery. The CT scan shows the bleed has clotted and they are comfortable that they don't need to relieve the pressure caused by the bleed. The volume is minimal and they believe his memory will return in a day or two at most. Toby agrees with their prognosis." Happy said excitedly.

Paige began crying in relief even as Cabe hugged Happy tightly in gratitude. Ralph moved over and threw his arms around his Mom as Walter's fortune seemed to come through for him again.

"Paige, I know a lot is going on, but as soon as Walter regains consciousness, you have got to help persuade him to let me apologize and not shut me out." Happy said somewhere between begging and demanding.

"I don't know Happy. I've got my own long road with Walter, but I'll try, I promise." Paige smiled at her. "And thank you for bringing us the news."

Happy gave her a short smile and nodded before returning to Toby's room.

Paige looked at the pizza and smiled.

"I think I want a second slice now." Paige told Ralph who was only too happy to get one for her.

Walter was brought back about three hours after he'd been taken downstairs. Paige was barely able to wait for the nurses to get done getting everything set back up for him and then they moved her bed back over so she could take his hand in hers.

Walter had a few moments of consciousness as time passed slowly. But he clearly wasn't Walter during them. But that didn't stop Paige from enjoying those moments. Walter had said many wonderful things about her as he slowly recovered from the drug he'd originally been given for the pain. Most of them from when he first met Paige and then brought her into Scorpion. By dinner time they'd given him a low dose pain med drip to help with the pain but not incapacitate him. Walter insisted so Cabe and Ralph went down to the cafeteria to get food for the three of them as Walter was still on restrictions. Everything going into him was being carefully monitored.

"I'm so glad you are okay and back up here Walter." Paige told him.

Walter smiled and nodded.

"I just wish I had my memories of our time together. From everything you've told me, it really shocks me that we made it through all of what Toby did to keep us apart. From what was said about what happened, and I don't know if I apologized for it or not, but I am sorry I didn't tell you about taking Florence to that lecture." Walter told her.

"Oh Walter, I don't give a damn about that anymore. Other than to say, remember this for the future." Paige smiled.

"No, what I'll remember is, I'm not taking anyone else but you, to anything again. I don't even want to ever give you a wisp of a notion that I'm doing anything behind your back. All I'll ever need is our love and whatever comes of it." Walter smiled as he reached through and touched Paige's stomach.

Next Day:

Cabe walked into Walter and Paige's room with Ralph. He'd had a sour disposition since shortly after getting off the phone with Homeland. But he began grinning seeing the young couple cuddled up with each other in one bed.

"Should we wake them?" Ralph asked.

"Naw, let them sleep a little longer. We can go grab some breakfast." Cabe said softly.

"I'm awake, Cabe." Walter said softly.

Cabe grinned.

"Good morning son, how are you feeling?" Cabe asked as Ralph ran around the beds.

"Hey buddy." Walter said as he reached a hand backwards and squeezed Ralph's hand. "Much better really. I'm remembering more of what happened between us. I believe I remember everything up to Mark escaping from us."

"That's something at any rate." Cabe nodded.

"You seem like you got something you want to say." Walter said as he looked from Ralph to Cabe.

"They caught Florence last night. She was trying to get across the Mexican border with a fake ID." Cabe told him.

Walter sighed.

"I had hoped she hadn't been involved but, if she was doing that…" Walter said.

Cabe nodded.

"Yeah, it really ticked me off too. We trusted that woman." Cabe said.

"Well we weren't too kind to her even before I fired her." Walter sighed.

"That's true. She confessed by the way. She even gave them the exact chemical formula of the explosive she made up. Claimed she decided if she couldn't have you then no one would." Cabe told him.

"Funny she put the explosive under the passenger seat then." Walter frowned.

"She'd hoped it would kill Paige and then let you linger a few days knowing Paige was dead before you died." Cabe told him.

"Wonderful." Walter sighed even as Paige began stretching. "Good morning love, Ralph and Cabe are with us." Walter told her.

"I heard." Paige smiled sleepily.

"About Florence too?" Cabe asked cautiously.

"I did." Paige sighed.

"Well that's a better response than I thought I'd get." Cabe shrugged.

"She's caught, behind bars, no point in getting upset over it now." Paige said before she looked at Walter. She grinned and they shared a kiss. "Jokes on her, Walter will always be mine and she can spend the rest of her life behind bars."

"You got that right." Walter smiled before they kissed again.

"Good morning Ralphy." Paige smiled at him even as she reached out her hand.

"Good morning Mom." Ralph said as he gripped her hand in his.

Happy walked into the room shortly after lunch and found Walter and Paige talking quietly with Ralph and Cabe.

"There's a happy family, if ever I saw one." Happy smiled as she paused.

"Hey Happy." Everyone greeted her.

"I was hoping to maybe talk with you a bit?" Happy asked.

Walter slowly nodded.

"Paige said you wanted to say some things." Walter told her as he pointed at a chair on his side of the beds.

Happy walked on around the beds and sat down in the chair.

"Ralph and I will go down and get that tea you wanted." Cabe told Paige.

Paige nodded as the two men got up and walked out of the room.

"Walter, I can't begin to say anything meaningful to apologize. You and I have known each other for so much longer than the others have known you. We've been the best of friends for years and I am very grateful for all you have ever done for me." Happy told him.

Walter held out his hand and Happy stared at him for a moment but reached out and took his hand.

"Happy, I want you to know I fully agree with what you said. And while I think you and I could rebuild our friendship one day, one day." Walter repeated. "But I will never forgive Toby and Sylvester. I believe you reacted out of fear that night. And from what Paige has told me off and on I believe you have had regrets. True and genuine regrets and so I accept what you are wanting to say. But what Toby wanted to do to me and Scorpion, what he did to Paige, I will never forgive him. And as long as he never comes around us again I'll never seek vengeance on him. That's where I'm at on this matter." Walter told her.

Happy nodded.

"I completely understand Walter. Umm…I don't know what that will mean in the long run though. After Paige quit, I quit and the guys shut down CP. So we'll probably have to move to find work." Happy told him.

Walter nodded.

"I'm sorry to hear that Happy. If you'd like I'll put some feelers out and see if anyone would be interested in hiring you." Walter said.

"That would be really awesome if you were able to Walter. I rather like my life here and my only friends are here." Happy smiled looking at them both.

"I'll do my best." Walter promised.

Happy nodded and stood up after they let go of their hands.

"Happy." Paige said suddenly as she started to step out of the door.

"What's up?" Happy asked as she turned and stepped a bit closer.

"Going through those job sheets, I remember a company that could use a genius mechanical prodigy. I could set up an interview for you if you want. I know they are well versed in what you have done in the past. Walter and I have communicated with them a lot." Paige told her seriously.

"Really? I'd appreciate that." Happy smiled.

"When is a good time for an interview?" Paige asked as she picked up her phone.

"Anytime really. Our savings haven't been that great, maybe two months at best." Happy said as she watched Paige dial.

Happy frowned as she heard a phone ring and then Walter answered his phone.

"Hello." Walter said.

"Yes, Mr O'Brien, this is Paige Dineen. I was calling on behalf of a friend of mine. I know you know her, she is quite gifted as an engineer. Would you be willing to sit down and give her an interview?" Paige asked as Happy struggled to keep from crying.

"Ms Dineen, it is always a pleasure speaking with you. I'd be happy to interview her, as soon as possible." Walter replied.

"Thank you Mr O'Brien, I am so grateful. Have a great day sir." Paige smiled.

"You too Ms Dineen." Walter said as they both hung up.

"Are you serious?" Happy asked about ready to hyperventilate.

"Happy, I'd be a fool to turn you away. But one stipulation. Under no circumstance is Toby to come to work with you. We do not want him around. If he does, it will be grounds for immediate termination." Walter told her even as Paige nodded.

"We don't want Sylvester either, but we can't put that on you." Paige told her.

"Deal." Happy told them with a grin.

Greetings! I hope this finds you all well! So far both culprits are now in custody! Finished chapter 6 of Unconsciously Conscious yesterday. I might just get it done soon! lol I don't think it will be more than 8 chapters. So I might go ahead and post it next.

Railman - Well so now we know...Not sure how accurate I'm being with his condition, but, it makes for a good fiction I guess. lol

Lucy - Looks blood induced! hehe Hopefully it isn't too much of a stretch for believability.

JerBr23 - Agreed, I don't think Walter would have believe anyone else at that point. Well, Paige probably could eventually have made him see the truth.

2LawDog - Yep, kind of like messing with Momma Bear, don't mess with a genius cub bordering on the cusp of a becoming an man I guess! lol It would have to be so frustrating to have shards and glimpses of things but nothing to put then in order or into perspective with. Hopefully I did it justice. hehe "Buckle up nerd" is definitely a winner! You got your hope! lol She is indeed in custody! hehe Tim just grumbled at your advice. lol No we did not...I'd imagine Ralph and Cabe cared for him. The story never said.

LouBe - It definitely sounded bad for our boy! And now we know it was Florence...I guess she really did have some kind of feelings for him. *shudder* I didn't even notice the there/their/they're gaff! LOL I got a sweet friend...her autocorrect really is drunk! LOL And I think its last owner was a squid...most a/c will change curse words to something else...hers likes to change words into curse words! LOL

Susan - hehe Yeah, Tim is something else in this story...thankfully not as bad as in Uncivil War! *yikes* Cabe...well...things aren't what they seem there. lol And yes, I had a hard time like Toby in this story. Funny, was looking at the revision history of this story, it is 10 months old. Hard to believe I had started writing this almost a year ago now.

To the Adventure! -Tim