I'm So Glad I Found You : Quintis Fic

Code of Life

"Obviously Paige" Toby says, rolling his eyes and taking the binder away from Sylvester and pulling the it back into his lap, flipping through the pages again.

Paige rolls her eyes and releases Sage from her hug, but she stays seated next to her while Toby scans the pages and Sylvester reads over his shoulder.

"Walter, look at this" Sylvester calls to the busy man behind him.

"What information is there on Caleb? He is our main priority at the moment" he says, ignoring Sylvester's call.

Sylvester sighs in disappointment before forcefully taking the notebook from a reluctant Toby and spouting off the facts he finds hidden between the words. It takes time to decipher all the needed information because they were so well hidden, but with Sylvester's genius mind he was able to find every code. While Walter, Sylvester, and Happy were busy with Caleb, Toby, Cabe, Paige busied themselves with finding out more about Sage.

"So you like math." Toby states the obvious, nodding his head and attempting to maintain eye contact.

He watches as her face lights up and a large grin spreads across her face. For a moment she doesn't look nervous or stressed, she looks like she's an excited nine year old eager to talk, and it's the same face Sylvester, Ralph, or even he makes when someone takes an interest in what they like or what they are working on.

"Yeah, math is sort of my safe haven," she starts, "I mean...it's basically everything. Numbers alone is what keep our society from failing and it keeps us humans at the top of the food chain. I just find it amazing with how perfectly everything works together. The systematic treatment between the figures and forms, and relations between quantities expressed so symbolically throughout nature is just... I just find it beautiful," she says, with an innocent smile. When she looks up to see everyone staring, her cheeks turn bright pink and she drops her head to look down at her lap.

"Sorry! I um...just went on an unneeded little tangent there. I'm sure everyone here knows what math is."

Paige stares at her in 'aw'. Of course she has heard so many rants and raves about math, science, machines and anatomy over the past few years that she should be used to it. She can't even count the number of times the geniuses were speaking in such a foreign language to her that she simply just nodded and smiled, pretending she completely understood what they were talking about. She had just never seen such emotion during one of those rants, the way Sage had expressed herself without even having to try to connect the logic to the emotion just astounded her. It took her years to get any of the geniuses to come even close to having an understanding in that way, and apparently she wasn't the only surprised one, because even Walter had paused his work to send a curious glance in their direction.

"That's the most emotion I've ever seen from any of these emotionally stunted geniuses" Cabe says, barking out an amused laugh.

"In our defense, we didn't have very good teachers when it came the feelings stuff" Sylvester grumbled.

"Also, I had to learn quickly how to express myself in a normal way. Teachers aren't particularly fond of smart mouths" Sage adds in a rush.

"Anyway, back to the main subject," Cabe says, waving off any previous conversation, "what's with all these pages of codes, and how the heck did you get ahold of this information?"

Sage bows her head again, and rocks back and forth while tapping the tips of her fingers together. She's not sure as to whether or not she should tell them the whole story yet. Logic was yelling 'no' like a mantra, but her emotions were telling her that she could trust them. Sadly though, emotions had got her into a lot of trouble in the past, so she's just going to play it safe.