Scorpion: A New Member

Chapter 32: Happy Birthday.

(This is about a month later)
Toby's POV
"Does anybody know what day it is?" I ask walking into the garage.
"Tuesday?" Sylvester says.
"It's Wednesday and no it's Meghan's birthday." I say to the whole team.
"How the hell did you know that?" Meghan asks walking down from her bedroom.
"I hacked your computer." I respond.
"Thanks for violating my privacy." She says sarcastically.
"If you guys do anything, so help me." She says, she obviously doesn't want a party or anything. Her phone rings and she goes to pick it up.
"How old is she turning?" Happy asks her hand on her stomach. Her stomach is getting bigger now, she is two and a half months.
"Sixteen." I respond.
"Oh the big one six." Paige says walking into the living room, she just dropped Ralph off at school. Meghan walks back into the room her face is pale.
"What was that call about?" Walter asks.
"Nothing. I'm going to go somewhere I'll be back in a few hours." She says walking out of the garage with her keys. I scrunch up my eye brows and watch her as she walks out.
"Perfect she will be gone for at least three hours, that will give us enough time to throw her a surprise party!" Paige says excitedly.
"She said she didn't want a party." Happy says without looking up from her project.
"I know but sixteen is special, she's going to love it just watch." Paige says.
"Walter and I are going to decorate this place, Toby and Happy you are getting the snacks and Sylvester you are going to run and get the present." She tells everybody.
"What does a sixteen year old girl even want?" Sylvester asks.
"I don't know make up? Perfume?" Paige answers.
"Yeah that sounds like Meghan." I say sarcastically.
"Visa gift card it is." Sylvester says. He can't drive so Walter drives him to the store to get the gift card and some stuff to decorate. Happy and I drive down to the store to get some snacks.
"How are you feeling Babe?" I ask Happy.
"I said don't call me babe and I doing fine." She responds.
"Good." I say taking her hand she flinches a little bit but then relaxes. She only lets me hold her hand when nobody is around either way she hardly ever lets me do it.
"I see your getting used to me." I say smiling at her. She pulls her hand away.
"Just for that I'm not holding your hand." She responds. I give her a sad face.
"No." She says. I turn and look at the road. I feel her watching me.
"Oh fine." She says taking my hand. We arrive at the store and go to the snack isle.
"What does she even like?" Happy asks looking at the options.
"I don't know we just eat whatever Paige is making." I say seriously. This makes Happy chuckle. We end up getting plain lays chips, Cheetos and Doritos because everybody likes those. When we get back to the garage we see that the garage is almost completely decorated. We walk in and put the chips in bowls and place them on the table. We do a few touch ups on the decorations and then we sit down and work on our projects until Meghan gets home. It's been three hours since Meghan left and she should be home soon. Just as I get up to get a drink I hear Meghan's jeep pull in. We decide not to hide or turn off the lights. She walks in.
"Surprise!" We all shout in unison. I see the tears well up in Meghan's eyes, but their not happy tears. She runs out of the garage.
"What the hell just happened?" Paige asks confused.
"I don't know but I intend to find out." Happy says running to the computer.
"Toby vin number." She says. I run over to the counter where the vin number is written on a post it. I take it and hand it to Happy who types it into the computer.
"Ok I see it lets go." Happy says running out the door.
"Let me drive." I tell Happy.
"Toby I am 2 and 1/2 months pregnant I'm not dying." She says sitting in the drivers seat.
"Fine but be careful." I tell her, I sit in the passengers seat. We get there in less then 5 minutes. We are near an opening, we walk out of the car.
"You see a car, I see no car." Happy says walking around.
"There!" I say pointing to Meghan who is sitting at the edge of the opening looking out over the city.
"I should go alone." I tell them. They all nod and I walk over to her.
"What a day." I say sitting next to her, she looks up at me but doesn't say anything then looks back at the view. There's a long silence.
"Remember when I got that call this morning?" She asks me.
"Yeah."
"It was the hospital, my dad was in a car accident... he died." She tells me tears streaming down her face.
"I'm so sorry Meghan." I tell her she nods but doesn't say anything.
"Meghan I don't want you to remember today as the day your dad died."
"So you want me to remember today as the day I killed my mom."
"You didn't kill her."
"Then what would you call it?"
"Life?" She shakes her head and looks down at her tan combat boots.
"I'm just tired of running." She whispers.
"Then stop." I tell her.
"I just... I can't I have no where to go."
"How about the garage."
"I can't go back to the garage. One of you could get hurt or possibly die and I would not be able to handle that. If I keep running I can't get hurt."
"Where going to get hurt, its part of the job. But we would never hurt you Meghan, you are so important to us and we could never hurt you. And trust me were not going anywhere."
"Thanks Toby." She says leaning her head against my shoulder.
"You're like brother to me Toby. Your exactly what I would have imagined Maxwell to be like. Thank you for being like a brother to me." She says.
"Anytime, you are my sister." This makes Meghan smile.
"But I thought you didn't exactly like your dad?" I ask her.
"I don't, but I didn't want our last memory together to be us fighting. He did raise me until I was eleven."
"Well it doesn't seem like he was very good at it."
"That's for damn sure." She responds.
"He loved you."
"I know."
"Let's go back to the garage." I tell her helping her up off the ground. We're going to leave her car here over night and get it in the morning. We walk over to the van, Everybody is staring at us.
"I'll explain when we get back." I whisper to the team. Happy drives back, when we get back to the garage I explain to the team what happened while Meghan's in the bathroom. You could see the sadness on each one of their faces. When Meghan comes out of the bathroom her eyes are dry.
"So is there anything you want to do for your birthday?" Paige asks.
"Let's order pizza." Meghan responds. At this point Ralph is home from school and he can join in on the fun. Meghan turns on music while Paige gets the pizza. We all eat the pizza, laugh and hang out it's really fun and I think Meghan is having a great time. We promise that we will take Meghan to help her pick out her fathers grave tomorrow and Happy is going to take her to the batting cages. This day turned out better then expected.

AUTHORS NOTE:
Sorry I posted late last night and tonight. I was at my brothers baseball game, I also had track. love you guys! I'll post earlier tomorrow!❤️