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Chapter 1: Secrets and Being Recruited

Riley P.O.V

Flashback: Callan Ireland

"Walter please. Pretty please with a cherry on top. Please." I ask pouting with my puppy dog eyes on full blast.

"Fine." Walter says in exasperation put I can see the love and adortion shining in his eyes.

"Thanks, Walter your the best big brother ever." I say happily throwing my hands around him and hugging him tightly.

"How is it that you are only one year younger than me but you still act like a little kid?" Walter asks trying to sound annoyed but I can hear the amusement in his voice.

"Because I will forever be young at heart. No matter what the age." I say with utter confidence that makes Walter smile.

"That's my girl." Walter says ruffling up my hair before turning to his computer. He startes to hack NASA and I know within an hour the goverment are going to show up.

It's been an hour since Walter hacked NASA and surprisingly no one has shown up yet. As if to contredict my last thought there is a noise in the distance. Suddenly the air is filled with the sounds of helicopters. I peek outside through Walter's window and see three helicopters land and a bunch of soldiers jump out of them.

"WALTER!" Dad screams and I wince. We are going to be in so much trouble.

"You better hurry up." I says turning back around.

"Almost done." Walter says completly focused on his task.

"Walter! Riley!" Our mom screams.I hear them break through the front door and mom scream. I can't even imagine how scared Mom, Dad, and Megan are right now. Soon after mom screams I hear the pounding of many footsteps on our staircase. I quickly move so I am standing behind my brother.

They break through the door and they are standing there pointing their guns at us. As soon as the door is thrown open Walter picks up a pen and the papers he printed out to get us out of this mess and turns to the soldiers.

"This is a Immunity agreement and extradition waiver. Sign them, and I'll tell you how I hacked into NASA." Walter say standing ready to protect me if anything goes wrong.

"Corporal to command. We have Scorpion. He's just a kid." One of the officers says into his walkie talkie.

"Leaders maintain position to leave. Target is acquired." Somebody else says. They put handcuffs on both Walter and I and lead us out of the house where Mom, Dad, and Megan are standing.

"I just wanted the shuttle blueprints for my wall and my sisters wall." Walter says defensively to Mom and she starts to cry. Walter looks past our parents and sister to the driveway of sorts and I do the same. Two black stereotypical SUV's pull into the driveway and I instinctively move closer to Walter.

A slightly older but tougher looking Agent gets out and starts walking towards us. I whimper softly and Walter grabs my hand.

"What's your name, son?" Asks the Agent as he bends down so he is eye to eye with Walter and I.

"Walter." He reply's and tightens his grip on my hand which draws the guys attention to me.

"And you little one?" He asks.

"Riley and I'm not little." I say stubbornly and he laughs.

"Okay." He says simple smiling and all I can think about is happy and kind he looks when he smile so I inform him of that.

"You should smile more. You look much happier and kinder when you do." I say.

"Riley! Riley!" Someone shouts breaking me from my thoughts.

"What?" I snap looking up into the dark chocolate eyes of my now older and somewhat wiser brother, Walter.

"Are you okay?" He asks concerned.

"Fine." I snap again tense from not hearing from Cabe in four months.

"Really because Happy was "borrowing" power and you didn't stop her or at least complain and your not helping Sylvester with the formula he's doing." Walter says with a frown.

"I just got distracted." I says curtly and get up.

"I'm fine." I snap seeing Walter give me another worried look.

"Yeah you're fine just like you've haven't been snappy these last 4 months" Happy mutters and I snap around.

"What was that?" I asks sharply

"Nothing." Happy says putting her tools away while I glare at her.

"Shh! Keep your voices down! Just for a minute!"Toby say bursting into the warehouse and slamming the door close. He puts his ear to the door until he can hear the car speeding away, outside.

"Uh, Toby tell me you have the Lynwood payment." Walter says hopeful but I can tell by Toby face he does not.

"First, can I note how I nearly tripled the Lynwood payment?" Toby asks fidgeting and I roll my eyes and smirk.

"So those thugs are chasing you down to give you a big congratulations?" Happy asks sarcastically.

"I beat them in poker! They're born chumps! Pupils that dilate like saucers whenever they had a good hand." Toby says trying to defend himself.

"Come on! A Harvard-trained behaviorist should know that people don't like to get cheated!" Sylvester scolds Toby and I have to struggle to keep in my laughter.

"I hate you." Happy and I say in unison.

"No, you don't." Toby says out of breath.

"We have a combined I.Q. of nearly 700, and we can't even pay our bills." Walter says stressed and paces up and down.

"We had a bad day!" Toby says trying to calm Walt down but Walt doesn't let him.

"We've been at this two years! The whole reason why I started this company is because we have more to offer than just fixing routers!" Walter says frustrated.

"Walter, I'm reading a textbook panic response to normal financial stressors." Toby says and I roll my eyes.

"Not helping Toby." I say.

"Okay, if this thing is going south, Walt, just let me know, 'cause I have a cousin who owns a garage in Phoenix..." Happy starts to say but Walt interrupts.

"No matter how hard we try... and I know we're all trying... we're a million miles from normal." Walter says and I can tell he is starting to believe that.

"We'll be fine Walt. I promise." I say.

"How do you know that?" Walt asks but pounding stops me from answering. From the look on Toby face I can tell the thugs are back. Suddenly their are sirens and then knocking replaces the banging.

"Homeland Security." A voice shouts.

"Is this you?" Walt asks looking at Toby.

"No." Toby says casually and I have to hide my grin. I run to the back to see if we're surrounded and for once I am thankful for being able to hear everything very clearly.

"We're looking for Walter and Riley O'Brien!" The guy shouts and I hear a sliding sound which I can only assume is his badge being pushed under the door.

"It's a badge." Happy says confirming my suspicions and I start to head back. I get there and see Walter looking at the badge so I go join him. I hear the door open but don't look up. Walter hands the badge to me.

"No, no, no, no. Get out. Get out! " Walter says.

"I wouldn't be here if I weren't desperate, trust me." A familiar voice says making me snap my head up.

"Cabe!" I shout and run over to the Agent and hug him. He laughs and picks me up and spins me before setting me down.

"Hi, Mi Pequeño Luchador (My Little Fighter in Spanish)" Cabe says with a smile while the rest of the team minus Walt looks on confused. Walter just looks both hurt, angry and slightly confused.

"How you been?" I asks.

"Good but there is business to attend too." Cabe says and I nod.

"Wait! What!" Toby says confused and unable to keep quiet any longer.

"Who are you?" Happy asks.

"He's Federal Agent Cabe Gallo." Walt says tightly.

"And how do you know him?" Toby asks turning to me.

"We both knew from when we were all younger." Walter answers for me and I glare at him.

"Then why is she happy to see him and you not?" Happy asks.

"We worked together years ago. The outcome was unfavorable." Walter says and I wince.

"You didn't tell him?" Cabe ask but I stay silent.

" You said you were going to tell him." Cabe says slightly angry. Toby looks from Walter to Cabe to Me then back at Walter again then speaking up.

"So, what I'm getting is that Walter and Cabe have bad blood between them but Riley and Cabe do not. And that while Walter and Cabe had a falling out and lost touch, Cabe and Riley did not and Walter did not know that. Did I miss something?" Toby asks confidently.

"Nope." I say popping the p.

"Get out of here now." Walter snaps.

Put it aside, O'Brien. I need you. 45 minutes ago, there was an automatic software upgrade in the LAX control tower. It had a bug. Now the entire system's down." Cabe says going back into "Agent" mode as I call it.

"Wa-wait... all the communications are down?" Sylvester asks worried.

"Contact's been lost between Long Beach, LAX and Burbank. Incoming flights have been diverted. But the ones that were about to start their descent...56 of them... are out of comm range. NASA's trying to work a satellite hook-up. FBI's attempting a Morse code signal from the observatory. We need you on landing guidance, those planes run out of fuel." Cabe recites.

"And crash. And crash, Walter!" Sylvester says.

"Sounds like... catastrophe is imminent. So, go find someone else. Now." Walter says harshly.

"Really Walter! Really! Your going to let innocent people die because you hate Cabe for something that wasn't even his fault. " I shout fed up with his attitude but he ignores me.

"How about a certified Federal check for $50,000 in each of your pockets? I ran checks on all of you. Mechanical prodigy, world-class shrink, a human calculator. Brilliant minds working at half-capacity. You want to do something meaningful? Here's your chance. You don't, people and metal will be falling from the sky in less than two hours. It's your call." Cabe says and I know the idea of helping him is sounding even better to Happy, Toby, and Sylvester.

"Even with half my IQ, I wouldn't be dumb enough to believe you twice."Put it aside"?"Forget about it and move on" is not an option for people with photographic memories." Walter says to Cabe still not over the "incident".

"Give us a minute." Happy says patting Walter on the shoulder and walking away. Walter and I run after Happy.

"What the hell are you doing?" Cabe asks Toby when he notices Toby standing like him. I look over and smile.

"I was mirroring you so your subconscious can relate to me. I thought it would help you relax." Toby says and I snort.

"Do you think it's working?" Cabe asks with a glare.

"Don't bother. That doesn't work on him." I call out with a smirk and Toby sticks his tongue out at me.

"Breaking this down logically, we're not just going to let those people fall out of the sky." Happy says and Walter nods.

"I'm telling you... I don't trust him." Walter says frustrated.

"Oh get over it Walter. You and I both know that what happened wasn't Cabe's fault so why do you continue to blame him!" I shout fed up with Walter's attitude about the "incident" and finally saying something about it to him. Walter and Toby look at me shocked at my outburst, although both for different reasons. Walter because we never really talked about the "incident" and Toby because Walter and I never really fight. I glare at Walter and storm away over to Toby and Cabe.

"You okay?" Toby asks and I nod grateful that he didn't use his "shrink" abilities on me.

"I'm fine." I says aloud but I can't help but wonder if I'm trying to convince them or me.

"Time is wasting. We've got 56 planes to land." Cabe calls out still in "Agent" mode.

"I call that his "Agent" mode." I whisper to Toby before laying my head on his shoulder and I can feel him laugh.

" LAX Tower Control is the main hub for all the other airports. Fix the software there, it auto-corrects in Long Beach and Burbank. So, the new software's the glitch... first step is to delete that, then download the old software, should be enough for the planes to land." Walter says turning around and looks at Cabe.

"So you're doing it?" Sylvester asks and Walter nods.

"Thanks." I says and Walter nods but avoids looking at me or my eyes. I frown, hurt by him ignoring me. Toby gives me a quick hug then walks away.

"We go to LAX... we fix the software, we are at a 90% chance of success." Sylvester says calculating our odds.

"Grab your equipment."

"Mine, too, please?"

"Must have been keeping tabs on me to find me so quickly." Walter says coming to stand on the other side of Cabe.

"I got promoted to the L.A. office. Only make sense that I would track you down." Cabe says casually.

"Your body language suggests that's about half the truth." Toby says walking past.

"Of course, there's a 10% chance that everyone dies." Sylvester says worriedly.

"You cross me on this, I'll go online... and in less than a hour, I will erase you." Walter says with a dangerous glint in his eyes before turning and walking out of the warehouse.