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Walter had finally awakened, he had a tremendous headache at first but it seemed to dissipate as he ate. Everyone was back in the room with them when the computer announced "Life forms detect, launch protocols are offline." They all looked at the security monitors and saw Happy and Cabe standing in the Launch room along with two other people.
"Happy!" Toby screamed and ran out the door, everyone else hot on his heels as Walter took his time to help Paige to stand and they made their way down to the Launch room. Richard stood outside the door on his phone. Toby and Happy were all over each other as Sylvester and Ralph were hugging Cabe even though he was retching into the trashcan.
Paige was all smiles as she saw them when she entered the room with Walter, "Thank You Lord." She said looking up to the ceiling.
Kara and Barry stood back smiling as they allowed the family to reconnect. "Guys, we have such an awesome story to tell you, but we'd like to introduce you to two of our new friends." Cabe told them. "This is," Cabe was interrupted.
"By the Scepter of Ravens wood, Supergirl and The Flash," Sylvester exclaimed as if just seeing them for the first time.
Paige took out her phone and called Allie who quickly left work. One of the guards entered the room with Sasha who flew on into the room as soon as she saw Happy and jumped into her arms and cried.
There was a lot of excitement, especially on Sylvester's part. He didn't even rub his hand on his shirt after shaking Barry and Kara's hands. Barry and Kara enjoyed the attention and seeing the happiness in everyone's faces and even stood for pictures with everyone. They tried to persuade Kara and Barry to stay and visit for a little while longer but they promised to visit some time later if at all possible and then they watched as Barry opened the breach and they both jumped through.
Cabe just stared after them until the breach closed, he sighed knowing the adventure had concluded. He knew he was going to miss them a lot and he said a silent prayer to God for Barry and Iris and their daughter and for the best outcome for whatever the crisis that was coming for them was.
"Big Belly burger," Sylvester said, "It's just like in the comics! Man, I can't believe I missed that adventure."
They all sat inside the conference room while Cabe ate after throwing up his lunch. "They were the best burgers I ever ate let me tell you." Cabe told him.
The conference room door opened and Allie rushed inside, she cried seeing Cabe and ran over to him. Cabe smiled and stood and took her in his arms and hugged her tightly as they kissed. Ralph stood up and moved over next to his Mom so Allie could sit next to Cabe. Cabe looked at Happy and she nodded her head, "No more secrets." She said to him.
Cabe looked at everyone as Walter asked, "Cabe? What is she talking about? What secrets?"
Cabe cleared his throat, "Guys, I haven't been honest with you these past months. Back at the hospital when Walter was in his coma or whatever it was, and that Dr really upset me, I actually suffered a heart attack." Everyone gasped. "Now, I didn't know it at the time I know it hurt like hell, but as I looked Allie in the eyes it all calmed down and I thought it was just anxiety. I knew since then things weren't the same with me. I had a lot of different problems but I attributed them to age and I was reluctant to say anything for fear of Homeland sidelining me. But when we were over on Earth thirty eight they did a physical on us to be sure there was nothing wrong as a result of going through that breach thing. She showed us a three dimensional image of my heart and the damage looked really bad. But the good news is they have amazing technology there. They gave me something called," he looked at Happy.
"Nanites," she told them.
"Right those little robot things. Twelve hours later I was cured." Cabe finished.
"I'll say; I watched him run three miles in just under twenty minutes. It was like a miracle." Happy told them.
Allie looked into Cabe's eyes, "I'm really glad you are home and that you are now healthy, but we're not finished with this conversation Mister."
Cabe flinched from the anger that flashed in her eyes. "I've stared down drug lords, machine gun drones, got in Tim's face over Walter and never once was I scared. You just scared the crap out of me." He told Allie.
"As well I should," she said with some steel in her voice.
Walter looked thoughtful for a moment, "What is this crisis thing you told us about?"
Happy and Cabe both shrugged, "Not sure, they wouldn't go into much detail about it. Seemed to me like they were trying to protect us," Cabe said. "All I know, whatever it is, it is going to hit their world and Barry's friends have to allow for him to die for their world to survive."
"Preposterous," Walter said. "Why would they have to allow him to die to save their world? That makes no sense."
"I don't know Walt; I talked with Cisco about it for a while. He is really torn up over it. And let's face it; they've known stuff for quite sometime that we're only just now barely even thinking about." Happy told him.
"They really had their own super collider?" Sylvester asked.
"Yep, well Barry and his team did yea. I don't know about Kara and her people." Happy told him.
"So you're sure they told you our baby is fine?" Toby asked Happy.
Happy nodded, "Their medical tech is out of this world, she was able to show me a three dimensional image of him."
"Him?!" Toby asked incredulously.
"Did I forget to mention we're having a boy?" Happy asked with a shocked expression.
Toby just nodded his head up and down. Happy reached into her pocket and pulled out a small box and sat it on the table, she pushed a button and the top lit up and about 6 inches above was a rendered fetus. Toby stared at the image for a moment and then he broke down and cried. Sasha stood up on her chair and stepped onto Toby's lap and sat down and hugged him. Toby smiled and hugged Sasha tightly to him. "Daddy okay?" Sasha asked.
"I am now Sasha, thank you." Toby told her as she patted his back but continued to sit on his lap.
Richard came into the conference room, "Hey guys, why don't you take the rest of the week off and come back next Monday? Spend time with each other; there isn't that big a rush on this project."
Walter stood up, "That is very kind and generous Richard, are you sure?"
Richard nodded, "You guys deserve it after all of that. Lana can go over your equations you wrote to bring them back and see if any of it can help fix the reentry protocols in the mean time. Man, I still can't believe we've discovered other Earths. I thought this tech was just going to help explore our own universe and now we'll be able to use it to explore other Earths as well."
Walter nodded and shook his hand.
As Richard started to leave he stopped and looked at Cabe, "Hey Cabe, I've got a guy who's applied for my chief of security position. He put you down as a reference; can I talk to you for a minute about him?"
Cabe nodded, "I didn't know anyone was doing that but yea, sure."
Richard sat down across from him, "His name is Russell Mitchell."
Cabe blinked, "Rusty? I didn't know he was thinking of leaving Homeland, he hadn't said anything to me. Rusty's a good man. He was my commanding officer when I was in the special ops team in the Corps. He always had a way of sizing up a situation for his people. We never lost one member of our squad. He isn't the kind to sit back and let someone else take all the risk. He has been an excellent Homeland agent. And as you know he was part of the team that helped protect Scorpion when Dr Michaels was attacked."
Richard nodded, "That's what I thought, but I still wanted to get your opinion since he listed you. Thank you."
Cabe nodded as he shook Richard's hand.
"Hey Richard," Happy said, "What's going on with Sarah?"
Richard nodded his head, "Actually I was going to talk with you guys about this Monday but might as well do it now. I was talking with the Detective this morning. He told me they were able to identify her fiancé, he's actually a security guard for Dyne industries. They'd set this whole thing up to trick her into getting them this tech. All things considered I am reluctant to press charges against her; she's a victim too, if you two are okay with that."
Cabe and Happy both nodded, Toby got a little irate, "Are you kidding me? She needs to be locked up too."
Happy looked at him, "Hey, she thought she was doing the right thing to save the man she loved. She probably already feels foolish, not to mention she's going to be looking for new employment. Plus she's going to have a hard time trusting another person again, so she is going to be lonely for a long time."
Toby stared back at Happy and finally he just nodded.
"Good, I'll let the detective know. Dyne industries on the other hand, I'm going to become the biggest pain in the butt for them and their stockholders plus pursuing legal action with the DA against those who are responsible. My attorneys have already filed injunctions preventing them from selling or moving assets or anything." Richard told them before leaving the room.
Cabe and Allie followed Walter, Paige and Ralph to the Garage, Cabe wanted to spend a few minutes with this part of his family, just them. As they parked they saw Rusty get out of his car and wave. "Rusty?" Cabe called out.
"Hey Cabe, how you doing," Rusty replied smiling.
Cabe stepped up and they shook hands, "Why didn't you tell me you were going to leave Homeland? I figured you'd end up dying on the job." Cabe said laughing while they walked over and entered the Garage behind the others.
"Well to be honest, I came over to tell you about it now, but I can only guess Mr. Elia must have already talked to you. I have to leave Homeland, I don't have a choice." Rusty told him.
"Wait, you have too? What the hell Rusty, what's wrong? You got some kind of health condition?" Cabe asked worried.
Rusty smiled and shook his head, "Not exactly."
Allie put on a pot of coffee while Walter went with Paige upstairs so she could change clothes.
Cabe and Rusty sat down, "You remember my wife Allie right?"
Rusty smiled, "How could I forget one of the most beautiful women in the world? Hi Allie," he said.
Allie smiled, "Hey Rusty."
"Okay, come on Rusty, what's going on?" Cabe prodded.
Rusty smiled, "Well something happened a few months ago and I began seeing this wonderful woman and she's the reason I have to leave Homeland."
"She doesn't want you taking risks as an agent?" Allie asked.
Rusty shook his head, "No, she's my superior and I don't want her risking her job so I decided I would go into the private sector so we wouldn't have any problems. I was surprised when I heard of Mr. Elia's position being opened and jumped on the change. I was going to talk with you guys about coming to work with Scorpion, figured Cabe could always use a hand keeping the kids safe but, I couldn't pass on the opportunity to work with Elia."
Cabe sat looking at Rusty, his thoughts turning over in his mind, "Wait, your supervisor is a Ron Cleets."
"Honey, he said superior not supervisor." Allie told him. Rusty laughed as Cabe's cheeks blushed a tad.
"Wait, are you tell me that you and Katharine?" Cabe's mouth hung open.
Rusty smiled, "She's a remarkable woman Cabe. She visited with me everyday at the hospital as I recovered from saving her from those shock cuffs. One thing led to another and it seemed to me we were getting really serious and I don't like the idea of sneaking around risking everything she'd ever worked for. So I told her I was going to find job and resign, well retire I guess since they are honoring my time in the Marines."
Cabe smiled and thrust his hand out, "Congratulations Rusty, I'm happy for you." Rusty shook his hand. "Have you told Simone and Nick yet?" Cabe asked.
Rusty shook his head, "No, I wanted to let you know first, still got to figure out how to tell them. It won't be easy; we've been a team for so long. Maybe if Mr. Elia hires me I can offer them employment and we can stay together."
Allie got up and poured coffee for them and they heard Walter and Paige coming back down the ramp. Rusty stood up as Paige got close to them, "Congratulations to you both." Paige smiled as she took a seat at the table and Walter sat down next to her after shaking Rusty's hand.
"Thank you Rusty," Paige told him.
"Walter, you want some coffee? Paige would you like something?" Allie asked.
Walter nodded and Paige just asked for a bottle of water. "Did I hear correctly Rusty? You had wondered if there was a position here at Scorpion for you," Walter asked.
Rusty nodded, "Well until I heard about the position at the Elia Corporation. That's just too big of an opportunity to pass up, sorry."
Walter waved it off, "I can't fault you for that. But if things don't work out with Richard, I think team Scorpion could find a place for you to help." Walter looked at Paige and she just smiled as she nodded her head.
Then Walter looked at Cabe and Cabe sighed as he looked back at Walter, "Alright, go ahead, I saw you biting the bit the entire time since I told you about the heart attack. Let me have it."
"Cabe, what did we talk about when I was trapped in that car on the side of the cliff?" Walter said with some heat.
"That you didn't want anymore secrets between us," Cabe admitted.
"And yet you chose to hide this from me? From us," Walter said.
Rusty frown, "Wait, you had a heart attack?" Rusty was dumbfounded, "Why didn't you say anything?!"
"Well I didn't know it until the other day. I just knew something wasn't right, so I ignored it so I wouldn't give Homeland a reason to bench me." Cabe told him and then looked at Walter, "And just remember Walt, you weren't upfront with me when you left rehab early either."
Walter nodded, "Okay, you got me there."
Allie turned in her chair and pulled his face to look into hers, "You knew you were having problems and yet you asked me to marry you without disclosing it to me. Now, while it wouldn't have changed a thing for me, but I could have been with you and helping you through all this time with it. And if you EVER not tell me something that is going on with you again you won't need the couch to sleep on, you'll be sleeping on the welcome mat." She stared hard into his eyes.
Cabe smiled and nodded, "I hear you loud and clear." Allie smiled and kissed him.
Later that night Walter and Paige lay in bed, it was just past midnight, Walter had his arms around Paige, her back pressed tight against his chest and his one hand running gentle circles around her belly. "You know, we don't have a lot of time left now." Walter said.
Paige smiled and nodded.
"What do you think about us hiring you an assistant? They can learn all about what you do and how you do it in the next few months so when the time comes they can keep everything going until you are ready to come back." Walter told her.
Paige considered that, "Well that's not a bad idea, I had actually thought of maybe trying to arrange our cases so we'd all just take a long vacation and then come back after."
Walter kissed her neck, "You know, I think I like that idea better. We could have our home completely to ourselves instead of sharing it throughout the day."