I'm back to finish off my Scorpion fics! It's been like two years but what the heck it's never too late to finish what you've started. Am I still relevant?
Kovalskys was neither a big fancy restaurant or fast food. For Scorpion, it was a great genius family get along dinner night, but for Cabe in his current situation, it was perfect for a simple first date.
"Hello, Cabe. Welcome back." The waiter said. "Just you and the pretty lady?"
"Yep." Cabe said, popping the p. "Just us tonight, Stan."
"Then I take it you would like your usual?" Stan asked.
"Of course. Allie?" He turned to looked at her.
"Oh, I don't know. I'll just have the Italian beef." Allie shrugged and the waiter nodded, taking their menus and leaving. "I haven't been here before."
"Please tell me you're lying." The Homeland agent said, his eyes widening.
She chuckled. "No, I'm not. I just... never had the time."
"You'll love it, trust me." Cabe grinned and they both laughed.
The waiter came back with with a couple sodas. Leaving, he gave Cabe a thumbs up from the side so Allie wouldn't see before moving a couple tables away.
"I can't see him!" Toby whined. "You two are in the way!"
Happy rolled her eyes. "You'll get us caught. You're easy to spot."
"Oh and the backs of your oh-so-familiar heads aren't?"
"If I may interrupt, why are we doing this?" Walter asked. "It's invasive and if he finds out he'll kill us."
"We do it because we care." Toby said.
"And he'll probably mess up, too." Paige added.
"Which is why we're here. Okay, I'm all caught up now." Sylvester said.
"What about Ralph?" Walter said.
"I hired a babysitter. Said she'll keep him entertained the whole night."
"This is still wrong."
"And yet we're still here, 197." Happy smirked at her boss. "We're not leaving until they leave."
"Or sooner if he finds us." Toby muttered, stuffing a burger in his mouth.
"You could be a little neater." Happy growled, eyeing her boyfriend.
"Sorry."
"How is everything?" Stan asked.
"Great as usual, thanks Stan." Paige said.
"How's the lovely couple?" Toby asked.
"Talking about restaurants, work, things like that. Cabe keeps looking at her like he's about to lose his mind or something." Stan said.
"Head over heels. Perfect." Paige grinned.
"Also, Walter, we're doing this because we literally finished a case and we're all hungry." Happy said.
"I get it!" Walter grumbled before picking up a French fry.
Back at Cabe and Allie's table, things were going as well as Stan had told the rest of the team.
"Favorite movie?" Allie asked with a giggle.
"Got to be Speed. You?" Cabe grinned.
"Oh, I don't know there are so many..."
"Just choose one. Any."
"Fine. The Princess Bride." Allie rolled her eyes as Cabe snorted.
"Really?" He laughed. "You couldn't think of anything better?"
"Hey! You told me to think of something so I gave you the most recent movie I saw!"
Cabe was trying his hardest to contain his laughter. "I'm sorry, it's just that the last time I heard anyone talk about that movie was Sylvester convincing me to join his nerd club." He paused when he thought he heard a familiar angry whine.
"My "nerd club" is nothing to make fun of... and he joined it anyways!"
"Sylvester, shut up! You're going to get us caught!"
So, Toby and Sylvester are here. Great.
"What is it?" Allie asked, confused by Cabe's sudden actions.
"Nothing. Just thought I heard someone familiar."
"We're dead."
Yes, you are. Cabe thought.
"Cabe." Allie interrupted again. "You're doing it again."
"They're here." He muttered.
"What? Who's here?" The emotion of the night seemed to be confusion.
"Those damn kids." Cabe glowered, scanning the room before muttering, "I'm gonna kill them once I get my hands on them."
"Oh, shit." He heard Paige mutter.
"Abort mission!" Toby hissed.
"Is everything alright?" Stan asked, refilling their drinks.
"Tell those kids they're in too deep and not going to get out of trouble." Cabe said quietly.
"I'm sorry?"
"Just a message. You know the table."
"Alright, Cabe. But first, would you like dessert?"
"The ice cream cookie bowl." Cabe said. "Excuse me for a moment."
"Don't do anything to get us kicked out, Cabe."
"Not what I was going to do." He turned and headed to the bathroom.
Toby had gotten up after Cabe's little message. He knew that his friend was going to slip off and muse about what he was doing.
Cabe was washing his hands. The last thing he expected was the shrink to pop out of the stall behind him like some sort of cheesy horror movie villain.
"What the hell are you doing in here?" He asked after he calmed down. "Are you trying to give me a heart attack?"
"No, but I would like to know how you're doing."
"Not your business."
"Yes it is. We gave you the advice. We deserve to know."
"Too bad, if you can hear you can know."
"Just don't be stupid." Toby said as they walked back out. Before they went back to their separate tables, Cabe smacked Toby in the back of the head, making his hat fall.
"Idiot." He huffed as he watched Toby pick up his hat.
"You know, I have a limited number of these. You can't just smack 'em off my head for no good reason."
"I've seen your Amazon checkout list." Cabe rolled his eyes at Toby's comment and headed back to his table. "Stop watching me and Allie."
"Will do." Toby said while rubbing where Cabe smacked his head.
"See, stupid? Your ideas get us in trouble." Happy hissed.
"Yeah, yeah, I know."
"Sorry about that, Allie." Cabe smiled and sat down.
"Here's your order, Cabe. Enjoy!" Stan said as the two began to eat the dessert.
"This is great!" Allie exclaimed.
"I know, I can finish one by myself." Cabe chuckled and they dove into another conversation. This time about stories from their pasts. "This one friend of mine actually got me my Homeland job." Cabe smiled at the memory.
"Really?" Allie's eyes widened.
"It took a lot of convincing, obviously, but he got me the job after I saved his life." He sighed. "Haven't seen him in a few years. Last I heard he and several members of his family were kidnapped and the kidnappers made his niece and nephew go around the world on an errand run for some famous objects and their family heirloom."
"Are they okay?" She asked with a gasp.
"Hm, yeah. I suppose they're all taking a break in Australia for a while. Seems like they deserve it, though. With what they've been through." They finished off the dessert.
"That was amazing. I should come here more often." Allie grinned.
"I mean if you don't have a crazy family that stalked you to make sure you didn't "screw up" or something."
"Oh, you were perfectly fine." Allie's smile made him blush.
"Should we go? It's late and I'm sure there'll be a new case for us in the morning." Cabe said.
"It is getting late. Why don't we?" Allie got up after Cabe left the tip.
The drive to Allie's was a half an hour, thirty minutes for them to talk more. Laughter and singing whenever a song came on from Cabe's CD that they both knew. They pulled in to her driveway earlier than they had realized, so they sat there staring at each other for five minutes before Allie interrupted the silence.
"It's getting awfully dark. I should go in." She said.
"Yeah I guess." He said.
She kissed his cheek and the color drained from his face. "Good night."
"Oh, uh, g'night." Cabe mumbled.
He waited for her to go inside before leaving. It was going to be a long rest of the night when he got back to the garage. Once he was there, he made sure that he had a long speech about stalking your friend and his date. He opened the door. Yep, they were all there. Happy, Toby, Paige, Walter, Sylvester and even little Ralph. Cabe sighed and Ralph grinned.
"How did your date go?"
"One, it went great and two, you five are in serious trouble." Cabe glowered at the adults.
"I told them it was wrong!" Walter complained. "But did they listen to their boss? No, no they didn't."
"We were only looking after our buddy. We look after you and Paige all the time." Toby said.
"More like the entire team is looking after you and Happy." Walter muttered.
"Enough. Give me time to mull over your punishment and I'll get back to you in the morning."
"Would be better if it was never." Toby grumbled.
Cabe grabbed his original clothes from earlier that day. His once bloody white shirt had been cleaned and the suit pants had been washed as well. He gave the rest of the team a quick goodbye before heading home with a smile on his face.
That's the end of this little story! I just felt like I sort of abandoned this along with some of my other stories that I've been working on unlike the 39 Clues, which I'm writing for frequently. I just got a little upset after season four. And I heard somewhere that Netflix was supposed to release Scorpion in the US or am I hearing things? Oh, well. I'll update others when I can. See ya.