Scorpion: A New Member

Chapter 30: What just happened?

SYLVESTERS POV
We get into the car and start driving down to the facility. I watch Meghan as we drive, She's smiling.
"What's making you so happy?" I ask her.
"Oh nothing." She responds.
"Your lying." Toby says from behind me.
"Yeah I am." She says still looking out the window.
"So why are you really smiling?" I ask her.
"Can't a girl just smile?" She asks me.
"Not you." The whole team says in unison.
"Fine well I grew up in New Jersey and I missed it, I like being back." She tells us.
"Really? When did you come to California?" Happy asks from the passengers seat.
"I came to Cali when I was ten. That was my first and only time on a plane." Meghan tells us.
"Can we ask you a few more questions?" Toby asks.
"What is this a police interrogation? Sure go ahead." She says still smiling.
"What's the deal with that bracelet?" Walter asks.
"Oh this. It's nothing." She says playing with the bracelet.
"Your dad was in the military wasn't he?" I ask. She looks at me still smiling, nothing can bring her down in her home state.
"Yeah." She says with out taking her eyes off me.
"Last question, who is Maxwell?" Paige asks her voice gentle. Meghan's smile fades away.
"He was my brother." She says so quietly I could hardly hear.
"Was?" Toby asks.
"He died 2 years before I was born at the age of 13." She says still very quietly.
"Are we there yet?" She asks Cabe who is driving.
"Just about." Cabe says pulling into small parking lot. We walk over to the training area. I will be with Walter in the training area running calculations and Walter will be hacking. Happy, Toby, and Meghan will be in the main control area Toby and Meghan will be analyzing the people and Happy will be working on the mechanics and telling us what to do. Cabe and Paige will be watching how we do with homeland.
"Go!" They shout. Walter and I run into the garage like area, Walter starts hacking while I calculate the probability of the correct password and the odds of surviving.
"Gun!" I hear Happy shout into the ear piece. Walter hits the guy holding the gun knocking him out. There is a man watching what we do to make sure we do it right, this has to be as realistic as possible adding more pressure.
"The man watching you is going to do something." Toby says into the ear piece.
"He's going to take the computer." Meghan says after him. The man goes to grab the computer.
"Quick run the odds of him figuring out the password then of Happy, Toby and Meghan getting caught." Walter yells at me.
"Uh...um..." I say I'm to nervous I can't focus.
"Quick Sl..." I hear Meghan say into the ear piece and then the line goes silent. The man takes the computer and another man takes us and pushes us out of the door. When we get pushed out we see Happy, Toby and Meghan walking up in hand cuffs.
"They caught us." Toby says stating the obvious. Happy kicks the guy and elbows him in the gut.
"What's with the full contact Gallo?" The man asks.
"Your team is not qualified to be doing these cases. They blew a mission that that was borderline easy for their brilliant minds, because they couldn't control their anxiety or stay focused." The head of homeland says looking at me then the rest of the team. We all stay completely silent.
"These are the best minds of this or any other generation, they are capable of so many things. Just because they screwed up this time doesn't mean they haven't done extraordinary things in the past and will in the future." Cabe responds.
"Well until farther notice I don't want team scorpion on any more cases." He says while the men takes the hand cuffs off of Meghan, Happy and Toby. We walk back to the car. When we get in the car Cabe asks
"What was with the physical contact?" Cabe asks looking at Happy who is sitting in the back with Toby and I.
"It's not my fault that guy was getting handsy." Happy responds her face slightly angry.
"Where did he touch you exactly." Toby asks looking at Happy. Happy rolls her eyes at him.
"I'm sorry I blew the mission guys." I tell the team.
"It wasn't your fault Sly those guys are idiots." Meghan says you could hear the anger in her voice. She rubs her wrist.
"What happened to your wrist?" I ask her even though I can tell she's trying to hide it.
"Nothing it's just a cut." She says looking down at her wrist. I can see some blood.
"Let me see." Toby says gesturing for Meghan to show him her wrist. She extends her arm to show him. There's a big bloody cut along her wrist.
"Yeah you got a pretty nasty cut from those hand cuffs. I'm going to wrap it." Toby tells Meghan.
"No I'm fine you don't need to wrap it." She responds covering her wrists.
"Fine then let me just clean it." He says getting a wet wash cloth out of his bag and patting it in Meghan's wrist she doesn't even flinch.
"She's just as stubborn as you with these things." He whispers to Happy, Happy glares at him.
"Done." He says taking the wash cloth and putting it back in his bag. Meghan goes back to holding her wrist in the same position.
"Wow these guys could have been a little more gentle." Paige says looking back at Meghan.
"It's not their job to be gentle it's their job to get the task done." Meghan says looking at Paige.
"Well I guess we won't have any cases or tasks for a while." Cabe tells us you could here the sadness in his voice.