Scorpion: A New Member

Chapter 79: You're sick?

SHAWNS POV
(3 months later)
We've spent the last month helping Meghan move into my apartment, she had now officially been moved in for two months. I walk into our living room to see Meghan cleaning up Maxwell.
"Hello, beautiful." I say kissing the top of her head.
"Hey, Shawn. Max is sick." She says, cleaning up his crib as well.
"Oh no, he is?"
"Yeah, something with his stomach, I think." She wipes his mouth, then gets up to get him is sippy cup.
"Sweetheart, I will take good care of him while you are at work today, there is no school, so I can stay home all day, and in less than two months I will be graduating and I can watch him full time."
"That's amazing honey, and I'm very excited. But can you go into work for me today, I feel like I should watch Maxwell since he is sick today and I think I am starting to get it as well, I think it will be better if you go in for me just incase."
"Meg, I'm not as smart as you, I don't know how to do all the stuff you do everyday."
"Today should be an easy day and if anything comes up just give me a call, okay? Please."
"Okay, anything for you, I'm going to go get ready." I say, kissing her forehead, and walking into our bedroom to get changed.
"Thank you Hun!" She shouts, so I can hear her in the other room. As I get changed into my brown combat boots, black jeans, green tee and denim jacket.

I here somebody get up and run to the bathroom and be sick. I immediately know it's Meghan. I quickly get changed and run to help her, she is in the bathroom hunched over the toilet bowl. I crouch down next to her and rub her back, picking up her hair.
"Are you okay, babe?" I asks, looking at her pale face.
"Yeah, I'm fine." She says, wiping her mouth and flushing the toilet.
"You're a great mom you know that?"
"Yeah." She says, laughing a little. I help her up and walk her into the living room. The baby is sound asleep in the small crib next to the couch. I turn on one of her favorite fixer upper shows and help her onto the couch, putting a light blanket over her.
"You look cute today." She says to me, smiling.
"Thank you, sweetheart." I respond, kissing her head.
"Now get some rest, I'll call you if anything happens but try to rest. I love you."
"I love you too." She responds, waving as I walk out the door. I get into my small black Toyota and drive over to the garage. Once I get there I get out and walk into the garage. The first one to notice me is Toby, which I am not surprised by at all.
"Hey Shawn, where's Meg?"
"She's sick, I'm going in place for her today." I respond, sitting at her desk.
"Uh Shawn I don't know..." Walter replies, his voice trailing off and Paige, who is now almost six months pregnant, grabs his arm tightly, to stop him from continuing. He looks at her than stops talking.
"I know, I'm not as smart as Meghan but I want to do this for her, it should be a slow day, it's Tuesday."
"Let's hope." Walter adds and Paige hits his arm. At that moment Cabe walks in with six folders in his hand, followed by a tall blonde women.
"Where's Meghan?" Cabe asks, handing out the folders.
"Sick." All six of us say at the same time.
"I'm filling in for her today." I add.
"Oh... okay." Cabe responds, sounding slightly disappointed.
"We have a case today, there was a bank robbery, a repeated robbery to the same bank. It's our job to go to the bank to find out who is doing this and why they keep repeatedly coming to the same place." Cabe continues.
"Wait wait wait so we are going into a bank that was just robbed? Isn't that like the polices job?" I ask, in utter shock.
"Technically it is, but it's our job to find out why they keep returning to the same place." Walter responds, knowingly.
"Okay that makes so much more sense." I reply, sarcastically.
"You're new so you'll get the hang of it." Happy says, walking towards the door.
"Let's go!" Cabe shouts, throwing the keys to Happy and we all walk out to a big black van. Just as we are getting into the van we hear two big explosions and get down to the ground.
"Stay down!" Cabe shouts. We stay down on the ground for almost ten minutes before Cabe tells us to get up.
"Was that a bomb?" Toby asks, looking at the sky.
"No shit, Toby." Happy responds, getting up off the ground. Toby helps her up and Cabe makes a call. After about ten minutes he says goodbye and turns to us.
"We're clear to go, but we have to keep an eye out for falling wires and or trees." Cabe informs us, putting his phone back in his pocket and getting back into the van passenger seat.
"Two bombs just went off and we're still going to the bank?" I ask, in complete and utter shock.
"Of course, we save everybody." Walter says getting in the middle seat next to Paige and Sylvester.
"Well okay." I say sarcastically getting in the back next to Toby. I don't know why they let Happy drive, I'm pretty sure she broke a few laws but before I know it we are parked in from of a large white building that says LA Bank in bold lettering. We all get out and walk into the bank, when we walk in there is an Asian man with dark hair and dark eyes waiting for us by the entrance.
"Hello we're Team Scorpion here about the bank robbery." Walter introduces us, shaking the mans hand.
"Nice to meet you. I am Gavin, owner of the bank. We are so glad you could come today. As you know we are continuously getting robbed and broken into, we don't know why because sometimes they will not take anything and sometimes they will take everything we've tried everything but somehow they keep getting in without the cameras catching them." He says and I know realize he has a very thick accent.
"Okay, we are happy to help, do you mind if we take a look around?" Paige asks, nicely.
"Not at all, but the power is down so you will have to use a flashlight." He says, handing us each a flashlight.
"Thank you, Gavin." Paige thanks him. Walter leads us down a long hallway. At the end there is a room, we go in cautiously. Inside the room there is only a few chairs and an air vent.
"I don't think there is any evidence in this room." Sylvester says, taking in the scenery. Happy looks up and notices the air vent. She pulls the chair over so it is directly underneath it. She steps on the chair and tries to get up into the air vent but can't reach.
"Toby can you help me?" She asks her fiancé. He nods and lifts her up on his shoulders. Once she is on his shoulders she can reach the air vent and crawls in.
"Meet me in the room on the east side of the building." She instructs and closes the air vent crawling down the duct. We all nod and walk down to the other room. We wait there for about 10 minutes before we hear banging and Happy kicks the vent in. She crawls down slowly with something in her hands.
"I think I found out why they keep coming back." She says placing the object on the table. It doesn't take us long to realize it is a ticking bomb.
"They were trying to find the right place to put the bomb." Toby finishes for her, Walter takes the bomb and takes a good look at it.
"We don't have long before this goes off, it was suppose to go off with the rest." He says, examining it.
"I can call the bomb squad." Cabe suggests, taking out his phone.
"No we don't have enough time. We need to find a way to lower the impact." Walter states, looking around the room.
"I'll go see if they have any cement." Happy says, running out of the room.
"Okay Paige and Toby can you go and get everybody out of the building?" Walter asks, they nod and walk out of the room and around the building, pulling the fire alarms.
"Sylvester you can wait in the car because I know this is not your cup of tea, Cabe can you stay with him? Shawn you used to play football right?"
"Thank you!" Sylvester says, running out. Cabe goes after him.
"Yes." I respond, confused to how this could help the situation any.
"Then you are going to stay here with Happy and I and help us mix this, since you are obviously strong."
"Okay." I nod and just as I do Happy comes in with a container of cement.
"Last container we got lucky." She says, placing it on the counter. She opens up the container and then puts the bomb gently inside. She starts mixing the cement, while Walter adds salt. Once it starts to get hard for her to mix I take it from her and start to mix.
"Okay Walter and Happy you can go , I'll finish here." I state, mixing the cement until the bomb is almost covered.
"What? No Shawn we're not going to leave you." Happy responds, watching me mix.
"Trust me, I'll make it out in time, just as a percussion. Please?"
"Well if you know you're going to make it out then why can't we wait with you?" Walter asks.
"It's a percussion. Please? You're going to be a father soon and I don't want you to miss that of this doesn't work. And Happy you are he mother of a beautiful baby girl, you want to be able to go home to her. Please?" I say, mixing the cement with everything in me. "This will only take a minute. I'll make it out." I finish.
"Fine, but if you're not out in five we're coming for you." Happy replies, meaningfully. I nod and they leave. About two minutes later I go to leave and the door closes, I try to get out but it is locked and I immediately know I'm in trouble.

Happys POV
The team and I have been waiting out here for more then a few minutes and I start to worry.
"Guys, he's not out yet, I'm going to go check on him." I state, walking away.
"Fine but hurry, Happy. If he's not in there you come out, okay?" Toby shouts. I nod and run inside. I find the room and pull on the door but it's locked and I don't have a key. I pull on the door and I can hear Shawn banging on the door.
"Help!" He shouts, he doesn't I know I'm trying to help him. I start to hear the bomb speed up and I hear Toby shout for me to come back. I pull on the door one more time and then run to Toby. Suddenly I hear a bang and the place goes up in smoke and flames. I just barely make it out in time.
"Call an ambulance!" I shout at the top of my lungs and Cabe does so immediately. The ambulance is there in no time at all. They go in to retrieve Shawn and it takes them much longer then we want for them to find him. He comes out of the rubble on a stretcher. His lifeless body gives me chills. He's covered in burns and his head and abdomen are covered in blood. I quickly take out my phone and dial up Meghan.
"Hey Happy, how's Shawn doing on his first day?" She asks, but I cut her off.
"We're on our way to the hospital, Meghan."
"What?"
"There was an accident, Shawns being taken to the hospital, St. Lukes."
"I'll be there in ten." She says, hanging up. We all get into the car except for Cabe who has to stay and search the crime scene. It takes is a little less then ten minutes to get there and once we do we have to wait for the nurse to call us. I feel like we've been spending a lot of time here lately.
"Uh team scorpion?" A tall brunette nurse calls. We all come running up to her.
"Shawn is stable, he is still in a lot of pain from the burns and a pole that went through his stomach. We will have to do surgery to remove the pole, you can all go in and talk to him before we take him to the ICU for surgery." She states, leading us to his room. She opens the door to room 143 and let's us in. Shawn is laying on the bed, his face pale.
"Hey guys." He says, weakly.
"Hi Shawn." Paige says, kissing his head as if he was her son.
"Meghan should be here soon, she's worried about you." I add, standing next to his bed.
"Please tell her I'm going to be okay and I love her, if I don't see her before the surgery."
"I will." I assure him.
"I'm sorry this happened to you." Walter and I say at the same time. We look at each other then Shawn.
"This wasn't your fault, I'm Happy it was me and not you guys." I want to say something in response but before I can the nurse comes in and informs us that we have to leave because they are going to start prepping for surgery. We walk out of the room and just as we get back to the waiting area Cabe and Meghan come running up to us.
"How is he?" Is the first thing Meghan asks, which is probably the first thing Cabe was going to ask as well.
"They're prepping him for surgery right now." I inform her, gently.
"Surgery?" Just then Maxwell starts crying, Meghan picks him up and gently sways back and forth.
"A pole went through his stomach, he was stable last time we saw him. He should be out in about two hours." Paige tells her, calmly. She nods, obviously trying not to cry. She walks away and sits down on one of the couches, knowing there is nothing she can do. I go over and sit next to Meghan.
"Are you okay?" She just nods, rocking Max back and forth in her arms.
"He told me to tell you that he's going to be okay and he loves you." At that moment She starts to cry. She puts Max in his carriage and starts to ball.
"Meg, what's wrong?"
"Please don't tell anybody, but, I'm pregnant." She says, crying.
"What?" I ask, smiling a little.
"I was still feeling really sick about two hours after Shawn left and I started thinking that Max felt better two hours ago, so why am I still sick. And so then I decided to take a pregnancy test even though I knew I wasn't pregnant and well.. it turns out I am. And I'm so happy that I'm having another baby but I'm just upset because Shawn could be in a coma for all we know. But please don't tell anybody, I haven't even told Shawn yet." She explains, looking at Max.
"I won't tell anyone, I promise. And he's going to be okay, I promise and you are going to be able to tell him and raise your beautiful family together." She smiles at me, then looks down.
"You know he sent Walter and I out of the room because he wanted us to be safe so we could raise our children. He cares about people so much, Meghan. It could have been me or Walter, but he took it so we wouldn't get hurt." I say to Meghan, putting my hand on her shoulder. This time she smiles for real.
"Thank you, Happy, for telling me that." I smile and nod. Not long later Cabe stands up.
"I've got some information on the case. It turns out that the person placing the bombs was actually-"

AUTHORS NOTE:
I don't know why I feel like this chapter wasn't that good, I worked hard on it but it doesn't satisfy me🤔 Anyway, I went to my first 5SOS concert a few days ago and it was the best thing ever😍 I met a few of my friends there and we all watched together it was amazing and I got to meet Hey Violet! Listening to Sabrina Carpenter at the moment! 👍🏼
QOTD: Who's your favorite artists/songs?
AOTD: 5SOS- Voodoo doll/Jet black heart, Lukas Graham- Funeral, Sabrina Carpenter- Too young and The Girl and The Dreamcatcher- Someone you like
Goodnight/ Morning everyone! I love you all❤️ I hope you enjoy!

P.S. Next chapter is going to be a short one, but then I am going to update a long one not far after that one.