Scorpion: A New Member

Chapter 46: missed opritunitys

(2 weeks later)
WALTERS POV
I walk down to the garage mostly everybody is there except for Meghan who slept in this morning. It's been two weeks since she miscarried and she's been pretty upset. She comes walking down the stairs and sits at her spot. She's wearing black distressed jeans, white shirt that is tied up in the front so it shows her stomach, a red flannel that is wrapped around her waist, and red and black nike sneakers.
"How are you doing?" Paige asks Meghan, she's asked her everyday for two weeks.
"I'm fine, same as yesterday." She responds with out looking up from her book.
"Are you sure? Your really quiet today." She responds.
"I just have a lot on my mind." Meghan responds leaning back in her chair making it tilt a bit.
"I have a case!" Cabe says walking into the garage.
"What is it?" I ask.
"It's about Meghan's dad." When Meghan hears this she falls back in her chair hitting her head on the floor.
"Are you ok?" Toby asks kneeling down next to her.
"What about my dad?" She asks sitting up and ignoring Toby's question.
"We need to find out how he died we don't believe it was an accident." He responds.
"I thought I was finally done with this shit." She says under her breath, rubbing her head and getting up off the floor. We walk to the van and get in, I drive, Meghan sits in the passengers seat, Cabe and Sylvester sit in the middle and Paige, Happy and Toby sit in the back seat. We drive down to the investigation office. We get there in about a half an hour, when we get there we all walk in together. It's pretty quiet and there isn't much people there.
"What do we do first?" Meghan asks.
"Wow I've never heard you asks what to do before." Cabe says smiling.
"And I've never been so stressed out before." Meghan responds, you can hear the frustration in her voice.
"Hi I'm Officer Fairmen. You must be team scorpion." A large man says. We all nod.
"And you must be Mr. Jacobs daughter." He says looking at Meghan. Meghan nods and looks down at her shoes, she looks upset.
"Your last name is Jacobs?" Happy asks. Meghan nods again.
"So where do we start?" I ask Officer Fairmen, changing the subject.
"Finger prints." He responds guiding us to the finger print section of the building.
"Ok so we have the steering wheel here and we need to test the prints on it." The Officer puts a powder on top of the steering wheel making the finger prints stand out. He takes the prints and put them through the machine. They pop up almost instantly.
"How did you get the prints that fast?" Paige asks.
"He's been to jail before." Meghan says quietly looking up at the computer screen.
"For what?" Toby asks clueless, Happy punches him in the arm. Meghan doesn't respond.
"So what do we do now?" I ask.
"Well we know that he was driving, so it wasn't 1st or 2nd degree murder. Now we need to find out how the accident happened." The officer responds.
"What are our options." Meghan asks nervously but trying not to show it.
"Suicide, accident, under the influence... There's a lot of options." He responds.
"I could probably tell you which one it is right now." Meghan says under her breath, still looking at the computer screen.
"First we will need to get a blood test to see if he was under the influence. Then we can see if there was any reason for suicide." The officer says, Meghan raises her eye brows.
"It wasn't suicide." Meghan says without hesitation.
"Well we will have to..." The Officer starts but gets cut off by Meghan.
"I know my father and I know that's not it." She says sucking in her bottom lip.
"Ok then we are going to go get a blood test. You can come if you'd like." The officer says, we go to follow him but Meghan stops.
"I'll stay here, I would not like to see my dead father, thank you." She says sitting down at one of the tables that are in the open eating area. We walk with the officer while Meghan waits at the table typing something in her phone.
"Here is the man." A different officer says pointing to Meghan's dead father. Paige jumps a little bit. He has so many wounds and bruises, It's good Meghan didn't see this. The officer we just met takes out a DNA kit and takes a sample of his blood. We walk back out of the room and to the DNA analysis room, Meghan joins us in the room.
"Well I guess I have good news and bad news. Which would you like to hear first?" Officer Fairmen asks.
"Bad news." The whole team says in unison.
"He was on drugs and alcohol. Good news, it wasn't suicide." Officer Fairmen says. Meghan nods, she doesn't look suprised. We all pile back into the van and head home, we sit in the same seats.
"Why were we even on that case if they didn't need our help?" Sylvester asks.
"Because they either thought they needed our help or it was an excuse to get Meghan there." I respond. Meghan looks out the passengers seat window.
When we get there Meghan sits down at her spot and slides down in her seat.
"So what's going on?" I ask her.
"I don't want to say." She responds looking away from me.
"Just tell us." The whole team says softly. There's a long silence.
"I was offered two great opportunities yesterday and if I take them, it will change everything." She says still not looking me in the eyes.
"What are the opportunities?" I ask her.
"I was asked to join the NJPD." She says quietly.
"Don't you mean the NYPD?" Toby asks.
"No NJPD as in the New Jersey Police Department, it's a big deal for me." She responds.
"That's great news!" Paige says happily.
"And what's the other?" I ask her.
"I was asked to play for the Rutgers college football team." She says even quieter.
"Since when do you play football?" Paige asks.
"Since always, I just haven't done it a lot recently, but when I found out I had miscarried I was really pissed so I went to play in the park and a Rutgers representative saw me and asked me to play." (Fun fact: I actually went to Pre school with the couch of the Rutgers football teams son, true story) Meghan responds.
"That's great news! What's so bad about this?" I ask Meghan, even though I have an idea of what she is going to say.
"I would have to go to New Jersey no matter which one I choose." She says her voice is upset. The whole team inhales little.
"Meghan these are amazing opportunities, We know New Jersey is your home and we would understand if you accepted one of these choices." Sylvester says from behind me.
"New Jersey is not my home, it was never my home. Home is where the heart is or whatever and my heart is here, in LA, with you guys." Meghan says looking at the team. She thinks for a long time then says
"I'm not going to New Jersey, I will miss you guys to much. Your right these are great opportunities, but my family is here. I've never had a family since I've met you guys and I'm not loosing you." We give her a gaint group hug. She walks over to the counter and grabs her keys.
"I'll be right back. I'm going to Shawns house." She says walking towards the door.
"Ok." I respond watching her leave.

MEGHANS POV
I get in my car and drive over to Shawns house, I've had a long day and I really want to talk to him. I pull up in his driveway, right across the way from my old house. I knock on the door and Shawns mom answers.
"Hi Meghan, look at how big you've gotten!" She says looking me up and down.
"Hello, is Shawn here?" I ask her.
"He's upstairs." She says smiling and opening the door. I walk in and up to Shawns room.
"Hey." I say peaking my head into his room.
"Hey back." He says spinning around towards me in his spiny chair.
"Today was a long day." I say sitting down on his bed.
"Are you staying?" He asks. I told him about the opportunities before I told anybody else.
"Course I'm staying." I say smiling.
"How are you doing?" He asks me his voice gentle and caring.
"I'm ok, today we did a case on my dad and how he died, I can't say that wasn't stressful." I say laying down in his bed.
"Long day for you I see." He says sitting done next to me.
"It was a progressive day." I tell him I'm still laying in his bed.
"Hey Meghan there's always been something I've wanted to do." He says scooting closer to me.
"And what's that?" I ask looking up at the ceiling.
"This..." He says leaning down and kissing me, I've never felt this way before, like I am flouting on a cloud. He wraps his arms around me and we continue kissing. For a long time.

AUTHORS NOTE PLEASE PLEASE READ:
I just want to make it clear that suicide is never ok, you all have a purpose in this world even if it takes you a while to find out what that is. What people say now isn't going to matter in a couple of years when your graduating high school or college. The haters are always going to be there, but what you have to do is be brave and just be yourself, show them who you are and that you don't care what they think. It gets better, I can promise you that. If any of you are self harming or think about suicide, just don't do it. I love you and I promise to you that there is someone out there who loves you too. Also if you ever need anyone to talk to just private message me. I love you all so much, have a fantastic night.

P.S. Sorry about the two POVs I kinda screwed it up, that won't happen again!

P.S.S. {Sorry I have one more secret to tell you} YOUR SO FREAKIN BEAUTIFUL!