I'm So Glad I Found You : Quintis Fic

Till Next Time

Chapter 40

“Grandpa!” Sage shouts when she spots Patrick at the garage door. She runs up to him and he swings her up in his arms as she hugs him around the neck.

“How are you holding up today sweetheart?” he asks, pressing a kiss into her hair then placing her back on the ground and to her feet.

“I’m doing good, just a little nervous about everything,” she sighs, looking up at him with a small smile, “are you coming with us?”

“Of course I’m coming,” he says, “I wouldn’t miss something this important to you for the world, that is unless you don’t want me to come.” He looks down at her and raises an eyebrow playfully and she just grins back up at him because they both already know the answer.

“Hey dad,” Happy says, walking around the corner from the back of the garage. She heard Sage’s excited shout after the garage door open and she decided to go see what was up since the team had left her and the rest of the kids in the room by themselves as they talked about adult-y stuff. When Patrick sees her he envelops her in a hug, much like he did with Sage, it had been awhile since he had seen either of them.

“Oh Happy, it’s so good to see you. How are you and Toby doing with all the new… developments?” he asked, glancing down at Happy’s protruding belly. She was getting much larger and it started becoming more obvious once she began wearing tighter shirts after the team found out at while on the case during Maya’s wedding.

“We’re doing good. We had a checkup a couple days ago and they said that we should be able to find out the gender in the next month or so.” Happy answers with a smile on her face, “although Toby has been very… clingy ever since he found out.” Patrick laughs and squeezes her shoulder.

“That’s completely normal Happy, it’s probably a good thing that he cares so much.” Happy laughs and nods slightly along with him.

“I guess so.”

Sage smiles and falls into the couch with a sigh. Today was the day of Barnes’ trial and she was anything but calm, her mind was running laps in her head and if Toby would let her she would probably be doing the same thing around the garage. They took her to the track last night to let out some steam but it all built up again and she’s only getting more and more worried. Hopefully things don’t go as bad as she think it will.

Colby sat on the couch with a sling around his arm, it wasn’t the first time he had been shot at, but it definitely hurt like crazy. Aidan sat next to him with a book in his lap and his fingers tapping rhythmically at the corner of the pages which began to drive Colby a little insane. He became a bit more irritable ever since he got shot and nobody really blamed him for it. Sage had fallen into the couch next to Ralph who was staring blankly at his computer screen. Sage waves a hand in front of his face as Colby stands up in annoyance and storms across the garage as Aidan continues to mindlessly tap, he was already deep in his own little world.

“Hey mister, you in there?” she jokes, bumping Ralph’s shoulder with her own. He shakes his head in reply and drops his head before lifting it again to look over at her. He didn’t look at all okay.

“Would you get mad at me if I told you I didn’t want you to do this?” he asks innocently. Sage frowns a bit at the comment, but not because she was upset. She could tell something was really bothering him.

“Well… I don’t really blame you. I don’t think anyone wants me to do this,” she says shifting her body so she’s facing him with her legs tucked up underneath her.

“But it’s different for me, I don’t want you to have to see him again. I want you to stay happy, because whenever you’re sad or you cry it just makes me feel so helpless and I hate feeling helpless,” he sighs. “I know it’s selfish of me but I really don’t want you to get hurt again, I want you to be safe here with us. It just hurts me whenever you’re hurt.” He rambles on, shutting his laptop and laying it on the table in front of him then wringing his hands together.