Walter sat in the far corner of the reception area of Bryson and Company . It had been four weeks since the rest of Scorpion had walked out on him . Two weeks since he had seen them at the Gettleman bid , which was when he found out they had started their own company to compete with Scorpion , it had felt like the final stab in the back for him .
His mind went back to that day , the looks on all his old team's faces showed him exactly what they thought of him . It was the look on Paige's face after he had called her name and she had let the door shut on him , in his mind it was one of total disgust .
The journey back to the garage , in Cabe's SUV. with Florence sitting in the back , was done in complete silence . Once back in the garage , he told Cabe he was going to cancel his contract with Homeland immediately , so he may as well return to Homeland's offices . Turning to Florence he told here he would no longer require her services as he would only be bidding on coding jobs in the future .
That night he spent a sleepless night , the fourteenth night in a row , the main reason because all he saw when he closed his eyes was Paige's face , until that night always with a smile on her face , tonight it was the face he saw as the door shut today , the one one of pure disgust .
At 6.00am the next morning he had managed to struggle down from the loft into the kitchen of the garage and put on a strong brew of coffee . After a couple of strong cups of coffee his mind had begun to clear . He began to go through all the paperwork to see if anything needed to be dealt with urgently .
He came across an E-Mail , asking for bids for a large coding job for Bryson and Company . The day of the presentation was two weeks away . He checked out the specification that was required , there and then he decided to put a bid in for it , his swan song before he turned his back on Scorpion and America .
He drank another cup of coffee and decided he should get a breath of fresh air to clear his head . He went out of the front of the garage and walked over to his car and sat on the bonnet , watching the change in the colour of the sky as the sun began to rise higher into the sky . This simple task calmed his mind and he began to go over the bid in his head , that he had seen in the E-Mail . He stayed in the same position for almost a hour , before he decided to return to the garage . as he approached the door , he saw a padded manilla envelope leaning against the door .
He bent down and carefully picked it up , turning it over , he saw his name scraweled across it , in a writing he recognized as Florence's spidery writing . He walked into the garage and made his way over to his desk , were he placed the envelope , before fetching another cup of coffee . Bringing the cup of coffee back to his desk he sat down , took a sip of his coffee , then with a letter opener , he slit the top of the envelope .
He tipped the contents of the envelope on his desk . He was surprised at the first thing that came out , a bunch of keys , followed by three sheets of paper . He picked up the keys up and immediately recognized them as Florence's lab keys , looking at them he began to wonder why she would leave her keys by the garage door .
He picked up the papers that had also fell out of the envelope , unfolded them and again saw Florence's spidery writing , he straightened it all out , took another drink of coffee before he began reading .
Walter , could you please hand my keys back to the landlord . I am leaving because my work here is done .
At first i was just going to leave this as a request to returning my keys , but i feel you deserve an explanation because i do like you as a person , but i could never have feelings for you . If i was to have feelings for anyone at Scorpion it would be towards Paige or Happy at a push .
Maybe i should start at the beginning , first i was not pushed out of my company , that would be impossible as i own 70% of the shares . I took a twelve month sabbatical to carry out a project for my favourite cousin , Tim Armstrong . Nine months after he broke up from Paige he came over on leave from Jordan and came down to see me in Texas .
You need to understand Tim, even as a child he did not like to loose at anything . He had found out you and Paige had become a couple , it really made him mad . He knew all the time Paige had been with him , she was only really in love with you , even though as far as he was concerned she was the love of his life .
He was determined to split you up by what ever means he could . The plan was that i should intergrate myself into Scorpion and cause Paige to become jealous and at the right time , to admit i had feelings for you . Those lecture tickets were a real help to begin to bring the plan together and bring it to an end . Although you helped so much , although you did not realize you were doing it . At Christmas when you had your accident , then you had that dream were you were married to me . Telling Paige certainly put a little doubt in her mind , then you spending all that time with me working out solutions on the white board when you really should have been with Paige , big mistake , it put even more doubt in her mind . She had already told Tim about her fear of abandonment so you appearing to show interest in me her mind must have began to fear you were getting bored with her as she could not match you IQ .
Then when you returned from Africa you had withheld information from her, so when i walked in , having been asked to come in by that big piece of blubber who appeared to have taken a liking to me , some chance . It took all myself control and will to even to be nice to him at anytime we met , even the gifts were just an excuse to get into the garage and try and work on you .
It was a good thing as Paige said , your EQ was only that of a sixteen year old , or you may have picked up on my plan . I am very surprised that Mr Harvard did not pick up on some of my actions , he obviously is not as clever as he really thinks he is .
As i have already said , my work here is done , in fact a lot better than even Tim or myself expected , the aim was to break you and Paige up , but to break up Scorpion itself as well . What a bonus .
Goodbye , it as been a pleasure for me , but not for you or that spoilt prima donna Paige . One other thing my real name is Florence Armstrong .
Once he had read the letter , he put his head in his hands as tears began to fall down his face . How long he stayed like that he did not know , but when he finally bought up his head , the garage was in complete darkness . He made his way both slowly and carefully back up to the loft and collapsed on the bed , but was unable to sleep again .
Next morning he had made his way back downstairs , again he made a fresh pot of coffee , once he had finished one cup of coffee , he poured himself another cup of coffee and went over to his desk . He spent the next few hours on the computer , using all the tools he had built into his computer , he found out all the details of Tim's passport , then he managed to break into Border patrols unwanted aliens list and entered all of Tim's details on it . This should cause Tim a lot of trouble , when he next tried to enter the country . If anyone could begin a trace on the hack , they would end up with a server in Istanbul Turkey .
Next he started a new search of Florence's company . After thirty minutes he had found out all he needed . He began using the tools on his computer and was soon reading research records for the various things the company were investigating . Within a hour he had shared all the information on the open net . This time if anyone tried to follow the hack , they would end up with a server in Moscow Russia .
He was bought out of his thoughts by a voice he heard entering the reception area . He looked up and saw members of Centipede Partners entering . Paige saw him and immediately lowered her head as if in shame . But in the short glimpse , Walter noticed Paige had lost weight , her face was beginning to look gaunt , her eyes had no sparkle and she seemed to be walking bent over .
Sly immediately began to walk over to him and as he got closer he began to berate him over Florence , Happy did try to pull him back but Sly was in no state to stop .
Walter stood up from his seat , reached into his pocket and pulled Florence's letter out . In a very calm voice he said . " I think you should read this , in fact you all should read it . " As he pushed the letter against Sly's chest .
This stopped Sly immediately . " What is this ? "
Walter sat down again . " A letter from Florence . " He answered .
" Oh , she is writing you love letters now . " A snarky Toby said .
" Not exactly . " Walter answered , in a low voice .
Sly had opened the letter and began to read it , once he had read the first page , Toby snatched it out of his and carried on reading it . Toby swallowed hard as he finished reading the page and gently handed it to Paige , almost before she read the first of the pages tears were streaming down her face . By the time she had read the third page she was sobbing heavily .
At this point Walter got out of his seat and walked over to the receptionist . " Excuse me , could you please give my apologies to Mr Bryson , but Scorpion is removing their bid for the job . "
He began walking to the exit , he glanced back at Centipede Partners and said in a very low voice . " The Cyclone is broken .
The last thing Walter heard was Paige's pitiful voice calling his name as he walked out the door letting it close behind him .
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