Walter and Paige sat on the patio outside the living room door rocking back and forth on the swing. Walter's right arm over Paige's shoulders and her left hand on his right thigh. Paige was smiling at the sunset and she sighed in contentment. She looked at Walter and frowned seeing him looking a bit stiff.
"Walter?" Paige said, hoping his melancholy hadn't returned. Walter's eyes blinked but he didn't respond. Paige looked about and didn't see anyone and so she moved her left hand up his thigh. Dragging her nails slowly along his flesh. Pushing the short pants leg up with her hand. Her fingers grabbed hold of the flesh of his inner thigh just short of where the leg was bunched up by his crotch and squeezed that tender flesh gently.
Walter's head jerked and he looked at Paige.
"Paige?" Walter asked, puzzled.
Paige laughed and shook her head.
"I said your name and you didn't respond." Paige told him as she released his flesh and moved her hand back down along his leg. "I was a little worried that the melancholy came back. What were you thinking about?"
"Oh, no, nothing like that. Dad is worried about the guy Happy's been communicating with in America. How he got all of Happy's information and sent her that stuff to the classroom she was actually in. I was just thinking of how to hack my way into finding out more information." Walter told her.
"Well, you can think of that some other time. This is our time you need to think about me. But he knows all of that because he's the one that designed the algorithm that matched up the students." Paige grinned.
"That's right, Happy told us that day we walked home from school." Walter smiled as he nodded. "Definitely." Walter said before catching the grin on her lips. That grin had always meant, "kiss me you fool." He turned slightly and brought his lips down to press into hers.
Paige grinned as she brought both of her hands up and slipped them around Walter's neck as their kiss grew serious. Walter's hand, over her shirt, slipped up her side and moved over and cupped her right breast. Paige grinned in the kiss feeling his touch.
They heard the living room door open and Walter tried to pull back quickly but Paige kept her arms locked around his neck and continued to kiss him. His hand had quickly fallen away from her breast.
"Ahem." Ralph's deep voice seemed to echo into the fading light.
Paige broke the kiss with Walter even as she sighed.
"You know, you have this uncanny ability to ruin a moment." Paige told her Father as she looked at him.
"Good. Let's hope that continues." Ralph grinned at her expression.
"Was there a purpose to you interrupting us?" Paige asked calmly.
"Besides interrupting you?" Ralph grinned. "I was curious where you two disappeared too. You've been gone for an hour. Why don't you come back in and be part of the family?"
Walter stood up quickly wanting to get on Ralph's good side in case he saw him groping Paige.
"Walter, sit back down, we can go inside in a minute. We're not done talking. And I will be glad to be in college soon, then we won't have to put up with these interruptions." Paige said defiantly to her Father.
"Paige, we are giving the two of you great leeway in your relationship pumpkin, you are only fifteen and Walter is sixteen. But you know we don't want you doing something that can make your futures more difficult." Ralph told her trying to keep his anger in check.
"I do Daddy, and we appreciate it. But seriously, we spent three hours with everyone from before supper to after. We have one measly hour to ourselves and you have to come try and get us to come back in to be with everyone. Don't you trust us? Do you really think we're going to have sex on this swing out here where anyone could see us? I mean if we were in one of the spare bedrooms on the third floor or the balcony on the third floor maybe I could understand your worry." Paige grinned as her Father turned his head trying not to think of finding them there.
"Great I better talk to Sylvia about the guest rooms on the third floor now." Ralph said sarcastically as he turned towards the door.
"Well if anyone has done anything in those rooms it wasn't us, just to ease your mind." Paige gave him his sarcasm right back. "Walter has never been on the third floor as far as I know."
"You are my daughter." Ralph grinned as he walked inside.
Paige pulled Walter back down on the swing and over to her and kissed him. Paige rolled her eyes.
"Seriously? You can't let Daddy bother you like this Walter." Paige glared at him.
Walter swallowed and kissed her a bit more earnestly. Paige grinned as the kiss deepened. And then the door opened again as Happy stepped out. Paige sighed as she shook her head.
"Don't give me any grief. Dad said I had to stand out here until you came into the house." Happy complained.
"Let's just go inside for a few minutes, we can always sneak away." Walter grinned.
Paige grinned back as she nodded.
Walter sat in his room later after saying goodnight again to Paige but this time over their webcams. He had a thought and he pulled up a browser and quickly browsed into the servers in Norway and masked his IP and then hacked into the Dineen internet connection. He knew the computers on the network so he knew which one was Happy's and he began searching the log for where her computer had connected to and through it he found the IP to the matching computer in the States.
Armed with the IP he hacked his way into the IP registry and found which provider had that IP address. He attacked the provider's servers and slipped in easily as he laughed at their security. He searched their records and found the address and name of the account for the time that IP had been used. He hacked his way into the Cambridge Police Dept and did a search. He shook his head not liking what he was reading. He printed out the sheet on Dr Tobias Curtis. He had to hack into the court system and went through the juvenile records. Finally printing them out.
He frowned after he read over them. He hacked into Harvard and got his transcripts. Slowly he became a bit impressed. Clearly Tobias wasn't as intelligent as he was, but he was well into the genius level. Walter considered his options and then hacked back into the Cambridge Police Dept and erased Tobias's record. Next he crashed the system so that if they discovered the lost data they'd blame it on the glitch. He went back into the Court system and did the same to it. He felt bad, like he was betraying his Dad, but he felt a certain connection to Tobias and he didn't want Ralph hating him on spec.
Walter pulled the webcam software he designed back up and saw Paige's computer still online. He clicked on the call button and waited.
"Walter?" Paige answered the call confused. "Is something wrong?" Paige asked as she finished sitting down on her chair.
"Sorry, I hope I didn't wake you." Walter smiled.
"I was just writing in my diary." Paige smiled.
"Are you alone?" Walter asked.
Paige grinned and nodded while wondering what he had in mind.
"I found out some information about Tobias." Walter told her.
"Who is Tobias?" Paiged asked, clearly confused as this didn't seem to be going the way she was kind of hoping.
"He's the guy that Happy has been talking to in the States." Walter explained what he had found out. "And the thing is, I kind of feel a connection to the guy so I deleted his records and crashed the systems so hopefully they never find out what happened and Dad won't learn the truth."
"Oh Walter, that wasn't a good thing to do. I mean, if he's been in trouble with the law for drinking and gambling at his age. Dad really should know that. But what if they discover that you did it?" Paige asked.
"I know, I kept a paper copy to show Happy just who he is so she could decide how she wants to proceed with him or if she wants to give it to Dad. I just know how I always got in trouble and I just wanted to give him a chance." Walter explained.
"But Walter, until now other than hacking NASA and IBM you hadn't really done anything to be in trouble for. This guy actually did things to get in trouble for. He was underage and getting in trouble over booze and gambling. And Happy, I mean she is very intelligent but do you really think she should be making a decision like this?" Paige fretted.
Walter shrugged.
"I guess I do since I already did it. Are you mad?" Walter asked.
"At you? No, never Walter. I'm not happy about you doing this, but I'm not mad at you. I'm just really concerned about this guy now. I think we need to talk to Happy first. Make sure she knows who this guy is. She isn't going to like this, Walter. She's probably going to make your life hell for it." Paige warned him.
Walter nodded.
"Well I would think she would be glad I protected him for her more." Walter said defensively.
"Let's hope so. I hear Dad out in the hallway, we better go. I love you." Paige blew a kiss.
Walter smiled.
"I love you." Walter said and then Paige flashed her bra at him again before giggling and disconnecting.
"What's this?" Happy asked after she arrived with Paige at the O'Brien farm. She'd been expecting to examine Megan's braces since Paige said they were having some difficulty with them. But Paige led her back to the barn where they found Walter.
Walter stood there in the barn holding the print outs of Dr Tobias Curtis.
"Walter was a little concerned for you after Daddy told him about your penpal and him sending you that gift to your class. Walter wanted to look into the guy's record. So last night Walter figured out who he was and did a little digging on him. He has a police and juvenile record, Happy, or rather he did. Walter felt a kind of connection with him, so he deleted the records and crashed the computers that had it stored. He printed out a copy so you could see what he's been doing and you could make up your own mind." Paige tried to present it as Walter looking out for her.
Happy growled even as she grabbed the pages and yanked them out of Walter's hands and began reading.
"Happy, we just wanted to be sure you knew everything so you could make your own mind up over him. We're not trying to push you in any way. We just think forewarned is forearmed." Paige told her as she stepped up to Walter and they both put an arm around each other as they hugged.
"We know how much alcohol use bothers you and he's had a number of significant run ins with it. Makes me worry how much he's gotten away with if he's gotten caught this much." Walter told her. "Plus I feel a certain connection to him. He's quite intelligent. I mean, he isn't as intelligent as me or you but he isn't far from us. A kindred spirit so to speak."
"Damn it Walt, why did you have to do this? Now I feel guilty, like I did something wrong. And worse, like I'm betraying my Dad if I don't show this to him." Happy complained as she punched his arm.
"I'm sorry Happy. It was just too important to me. You're my little sister, I wanted to protect you from the worst, but that meant exposing you to feeling that way. I just hope you can understand. I didn't mean to hurt you." Walter told her.
"Of course I understand that. But what do I do now?" Happy asked.
"Well, if you are legitimately asking, I'd recommend you cool things with this guy. I mean if you like talking to him, fine, but don't do anything more. I mean, you can always ask about this stuff, maybe some of it isn't exactly his fault. You know, wrong place, wrong time kind of thing. It isn't like you are interested in him as a boyfriend, right?" Paige asked.
"What? No way. He's just kind of interesting. He seems genuinely interested in me and my ideas. He's even hoping we can develop the braces for Megan into something to help other sufferers of MS or even spinal injuries." Happy told her.
"You told him about them?" Paige asked, surprised.
"Sure, why not?" Happy looked at her funny.
"What if he tries to steal the design?" Paige was worried.
Happy shrugged.
"Braces aren't new, and without my sensor tech and motors or Walter's computer code it is worthless. I'm not sharing any secrets with him." Happy told her.
"Oh, okay then. He hasn't tried to get you to tell him more about them?" Paige asked.
Happy shook her head.
"Hey, what are you kids up to?" Sean asked as he came in from the field.
"Hey Dad." Paige immediately answered him. "Happy wanted to double check Megan's braces."
Happy nodded as she folded the papers Walter gave her and slipped them into the back pocket of her jeans.
"Good morning Father." Walter just smiled at how easily Paige could come up with a lie. "Paige and I were going to walk into town for a while. We might have lunch there and come back here for dinner."
"Are your chores done?" Sean looked back at the trio.
"Yes sir." Walter promised.
"Alright, make sure you let your Mother know boy." Sean told him as he got some supplies to take to the quarantine paddock.
"You can take the SUV back to the house. After you take a quick look at Megan's braces." Paige whispered to Happy as she nodded.
The trio stepped into the kitchen and spoke with Louise and Megan for a few minutes before Walter told her their plans and then the pair left followed by agents Todd and Makle as the SUV driver waited for Happy.
"I can't wait until we have our own place." Paige told Walter as they walked down the road hand in hand.
"Something wrong with Callan?" Walter frowned. Before he met Paige there was plenty wrong with Callan but now with her there, he was truly starting to appreciate the place.
"No, but I'm tired of always sneaking around, of trying to find out of the way places to spend some serious time alone with you. Feeling like we're doing something wrong being together. Plus, as exciting as it is in finding a quiet place to share our love, I'm tired of the risk of being caught in the act. But if we can get into a coed dorm, or even our own apartment once we both graduate it will be a lot less stressful." Paige told him.
"Coed dorm? You mean where someone of either sex can walk into your shower?" Walter shuddered.
Paige laughed.
"Oh Walter, you are so proper. I guess we better plan on getting an apartment then. I wouldn't want you to see some other girl naked and get any ideas." Paige teased him.
"There aren't any other girls for me." Walter promised her. "You are my one and done."
Paige grinned as she hugged him tighter as they walked.
Greetings! I hope this finds you all well!
LouBe - You're welcome! Me too, but it looks like he is getting himself into more trouble...*sigh*
Railman - Definitely...one and done for sure! lol At least she still finds the expressions of love between a couple disturbing...so I think we're safe for now. lol
RiseofDespair - lol Well, I won't give you the whole book, but I'd be happy to share bits with you. Sides, the whole book isn't written yet. Just to Sept 2003. lol
Margaret - Oh trust me, Ralph is still highly concerned about Walter and Paige. But he said that concern isn't nothing compared to the fear from the idea of some deviate getting their hands on one of them.
For those of you wanting Lady Knight story, I'm almost done with the next leg of it. I think there is 1 more chapter, and that will take us to chapter 88 in that storyline. Once it is done I'll post it on off days for this story.
To the Adventure! -Tim