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Paige sat on the edge of the tub in the loft bathroom, her head in her hands as she felt the nausea ease ever so slightly. They were supposed to be getting on the plane for Ireland in a few hours, she looked at her watch and it had been 5 minutes since she took the test. Her hand shook as she reached over to the wash basin and clumsily picked up the test monitor. With her eyes closed she brought it back towards her, was she ready for this? Was Ralph? Walter? She took a deep breath and opened her eyes as she focused on the small device.
"Pregnant" Her lips curled up in a slight smile as tears built up in her eyes and she let out an almost giddy breath. She heard a knock on the door, "Paige?" she heard Walter call out.
"The door is unlocked," she replied.
Walter turned the handle and stepped in as the door opened, his brow furrowed as he saw her sitting on the tub's edge. "Paige? Are you okay?" He asked as he sat down next to her.
She half turned and quickly threw her arms around him and buried her head in the crook of his neck, surprising him. He brought his arms around her slowly and she squeezed him tighter as she felt his arms embrace her. "Oh Walter," she said with tears in her voice.
"Paige? What is it? Are you okay?" He began to become worried.
Paige brought a hand up and wiped back the tears from her face, "I'm fine Walter, I-I think you are going to be a father."
Walter kind of paused for a moment turning over what she said and he pulled back a little. "I thought you already considered me a father for Ralph?" He said worried.
She looked at him for a moment and then pressed her forehead against his. "Of course you are, but I mean, I think I am pregnant now, with our child."
Walter's eyes opened wide as he stared into her face. His mind normally thinking on 3 or 4 different things at a time had hit a wall and his mind was completely blank for the first time in his life. His cheeks raised as his lips peeled back in the largest grin Paige had ever seen on his face. "Does that mean you are happy with that possibility?" She asked.
His heart seemed to explode as he pulled her tight against him. Tears ran down his cheeks as they continued to hug. "I never thought I could feel happier then I did the other day when we got married." He finally told her.
Happy and Sasha was going through her new wardrobe deciding what to take for their trip to Ireland. Of course Sasha wanted to take everything so it kind of became a game of tug of war between them and it quickly became more about playing then actually packing. Toby heard all the giggling and laughing going on as he stood outside the bedroom door with his back to the wall. Looking at his watch he knew they needed to really settle down and get Sasha's bag packed but he was loathed to interrupt. They had to make a stop by the adoption center before heading to the Garage for Ms Williams to conduct a short interview before signing the final paper allowing them to take Sasha with them to Ireland.
Cabe sat in his SUV outside of the company Allie worked for, waiting for her to return. He saw the door open and as Allie emerged he could tell something wasn't completely okay. He removed his hand from the key without turning it back on as he waited for her to get in the vehicle. She finally opened the door and quickly got in. "Is everything okay Allie?"
"Yes and no, my supervisor isn't happy about me being granted this vacation with so little notice plus I haven't been working here all that long. But since the owner agreed to it, there isn't much she can do to stop me but I am sure when I get back she will be a pain in my backside." Allie said as she kissed him, "Now let's get out of here and pick up the kids!" She grinned. Cabe smiled as he started the SUV and they took off.
Sylvester was boarding the bus to the Garage like he did most days he didn't either stay at the Garage or at Florence's. Most of the riders knew him and so were use to his quirks of wiping down the seats and arm pads. As the bus took off and accelerated to the street limit a figure walked up from the back of the bus and sat down behind Sylvester, "Well hello there old friend."
Sylvester's eyes shot wide open and sweat began to break out on his forehead, "Mark?"
"I heard you had a new girlfriend, I just had to see you personally and congratulate you in person. I would have congratulated you on your marriage to Walter's sister but if you recall I was being held against my will at the time." Collins told him.
"You were in prison for almost causing a nuclear emergency," Sylvester corrected him sternly.
"My, my, Sylvester, you never use to have such steel. Whatever happened to the sweet lovable man child?" Collins asked.
Sylvester turned his head, "What do you want Mark? You must want something to risk getting captured."
Collins just smiled, "Not much chance of that. I've led the Feds around the world so many times now it's really pathetic and here locally, well let's just say that I hacked their database and they have no clue who I am, let alone that I am wanted by the Feds." Collins looked out the window, "But you are right, there is something I want. While circumventing Walter and your computer servers trying to track me isn't difficult it is becoming tiresome."
"So I am going to make you a deal. You alter the algorithms searching for me and I will disappear again and never come back to haunt any of you ever again. Refuse and the first thing I will do is make sure that the happy little family getting off to their start won't suffer a refusal of adoption for little Sasha, just think how sad she and Happy will be when the authorities come and rip her out of Happy's arms and what that will do to both of their psyches." Collins told him.
Sylvester's eyes opened wide, "Mark, you wouldn't."
"Wouldn't I?" Collins responded, "Why wouldn't I? It's not like we're friends."
Sylvester turned halfway in his seat to look Collins in the face. "That was your choice, your decision. You continually played games with everyone's head. Well everyone but Walter. You never once treated us as friends or like we mattered to you, you continually looked down your nose at us. Walter was the only one you were congenial with, at least until he had you committed."
Collins looked down for a moment, "Perhaps, or perhaps it's because you were all jealous of me and what I could do that you weren't open to being friends so you saw everything I did as some kind of manipulation."
Sylvester kind of jerked his head back a bit, "You mean like you are trying to do now? Manipulate me, threatening Happy's family?"
Collins looked hard at Sylvester for a moment, "You really are surprising me Sylvester. You've really tapped some serious source of strength. But, my stop is coming up, do we have a deal?" Without waiting for a reply he reached up and pulled the wire to request a stop.
Sylvester shook his head, "I don't think so, I don't know what game you are playing, but I know if we let up for even a minute you will launch some kind of attack against us."
As the bus slowed down Collins stood up, "Too bad, well it's been nice seeing you again Sylvester; do say hello to the gang for me would you? Oh and tell your girlfriend congratulations for me too."
As Collins stepped out into the aisle way a figure that had gotten on at the last stop stood up and stepped up behind Collins. Collins felt something hard press into his back. "Mark Collins, you are under arrest," Cabe told him.
Collins looked up and closed his eyes. "How did you find me?" Collins asked.
Sylvester stood up, "That would be my doing. I wrote an app that all any of us had to do was launch it, it would tie our phones together notifying them where we were and broadcasted the audio from our phone to the others."
As Cabe handcuffed him Cabe told him, "Since I was already in the area, I was able to meet the bus at the last stop and you were too preoccupied with your conversation with Sly thinking you were too smart to get caught I walked right by you. Once you were no longer in a position where you could hurt Sly I was free to arrest you."
Cabe marched Collins off the bus as Sly followed behind them. Allie pulled the SUV up after the bus took off. They stood there waiting for a few minutes until a squad car pulled up. As the LAPD officers tried to put Collins into the back of their car he resisted and glared at Sylvester. "When I get out again, and I will, I'm coming for you first."
Sylvester bent down and got in Collins's face. "Try it and you'll regret it more then you now regret your decision to come talk to me." He then stood up and turned his back on him and walked over to Cabe's SUV and got in the back.
Cabe just smiled as he walked over and got into his SUV, "Sly, I'm really proud of you. And that app you made was a stroke of genius. Feels good knowing that nut job is going to be in jail while we're on vacation."
Sly smiled back, "Thanks Cabe, I appreciate it."
Paige started to walk over to the steps to go down to the main floor of the Garage when Walter stopped her, "Paige, maybe we should take the ramp?"
Paige looked at Walter and smiled then arched her eyes at him, she knew it was just a side effect of finding out she was probably pregnant. "Okay Walter, but let's keep things like this to a minimum, at least until we find out if I really am pregnant."
They made their way down the ramp and found Florence and Ralph talking excitedly. "Hey guys, what's up?" Paige asked.
"Mom," Ralph exclaimed as he ran over to them, "Sly's app worked and Grandpa Cabe arrested Collins."
"Why didn't our phones go off?" Paige asked.
Walter smacked his head and ran back up the ramp after dropping the two suitcases. Paige and Ralph watched after him both of them smiling. "Ralph, do you mind putting the suitcases over by the door please?" Paige asked him.
Ralph quickly grabbed them and half carried/dragged them over to the door as Louise walked up to Paige. "Good afternoon Paige." She embraced Paige and kissed her cheek.
"Good afternoon Mom," she replied with a smile. Paige had been so desperate for a positive mother figure in her life for so long. Louise had filled that void abundantly and she was truly grateful.
Louise still holding Paige's shoulders, and suddenly a smile parted her lips, she drew Paige back in and whispered "Paige dear, are you pregnant?" It took all her self control not to scream the question out.
Paige was shocked and it took her a few moments to finally respond, "W-We think so. I'll have to go see a Dr to make sure though. How did you know?"
Louise hugged her tighter whispering, "I've been around a lot of pregnant women in my life time, I'm so happy for you and Walter Paige."
The Garage door opened and Happy walked in carrying Sasha followed by Toby, "Can you believe it?" Toby nearly shouted, "Sly actually caught that lunatic!"
Happy put Sasha down and Sasha giggled as she ran over yelling "Auntie Paige!"
Paige stooped down and embraced her and picked her up kissing her cheek. "Hi Sasha, how are you today?"
"Happy, excited!" Sasha replied and kissed Paige's cheek in return.
Ralph walked up, "Hi Sasha," he said as he took her hand.
Sasha bent over in Paige's arms and kissed his cheek, "Hi Ralph."
"We brought the pick up, figured everyone could put their suitcases in the back of it, that would free up a lot of space and we'd only need Cabe's SUV and Paige's car to get everyone else to the airport." Happy told them.
Paige set Sasha down, "That's a really good idea Happy. Louise, Ralph and I can ride in the back of my car, Sean and Walter can ride in the front. Everyone else can ride in the SUV then.
Sasha smiled really big and held her arms out to Louise, "Grandma Weez!" Louise smiled and picked Sasha up and hugged her tightly then kissed her face several times before putting her down and she ran off with Ralph to find Grandpa Sean in the kitchen.
"Was there any problems getting that final paperwork from the adoption agency?" Paige asked Happy and Toby as they watched Sasha and Ralph run off.
Happy's smile erupted on her face as she shook her head no, "It actually went really smooth; Ms Williams had already signed it and just wanted to see us together with Sasha again. She was duly impressed with how much progress Sasha had made. Said she was going to do her best to push the adoption through as fast as she can. Maybe even by Halloween!"
Toby kept eyeing Paige, his mind working quickly looking at little body movements and suddenly it all clicked as Walter joined them handing Paige her phone. "You're pregnant!" He said in an excited whisper.
Paige and Walter's faces both went slack in shock and they looked at each other and back to Toby. "Fungus, knock it off of course she isn't preg-nant," her face went slack in shock as well as she looked at Paige and realized he was right.
"We don't know for sure, but the early test said I am and I am about three weeks late." Paige whispered back. "But I want to see a Dr and get a definitive test back before announcing it." She looked at Walter, "That reminds me, Mom figured it out as well." She finished as she turned her head and saw Sean and Louise now in the kitchen with Sasha and Ralph.
"If you want, I can write an order for a blood test and we can stop by a lab on the way to the airport. They can send the results to my email and we'll know for sure by the time we land in Ireland." Toby volunteered.
Paige looked at Walter and his eyes opened wider and he nodded his head quickly.
Greetings! I hope this finds you all well!
To the Adventure! -Tim