There are no words to describe how sorry I am that I haven't updated in a LONG time. I have been extraordinarily busy and I am just getting a bit of free time back. Thank you all for the continued support and I hope you enjoy where the story goes.

Please note there is minor violence in this chapter, nothing graphic.

"We're back!" Sylvester's voice echoed through the garage. The familiar voice had Ralph racing down the stairs.

Paige and Walter followed shortly after.

Toby handed Ralph a bag with all his videogames, which resulted in a thrilled reaction from the boy.

"And for you." Happy handed Paige a bag with clothes and personal supplies.

"Thank you." She replied gratefully. When she saw her phone in the bag, she recalled that she had misplaced her charger. "Oh, Walter, have you seen my phone-"

"Charger?" He replied before she had a chance to finish her question, "Yes, right here."

He handed her the charger off the counter and she plugged it into the wall.

Their eyes lingered, not going unnoticed by Toby.

Cabe entered and ended his call, "Homeland can't pin the break and enter on Dawson because there's no substantial evidence linking him to the scene."

Paige crossed her arms around her chest and Walter moved closer to her.

"To make things more complicated, there's no evidence of a break and enter. There are no signs of forced entry."

"What does that mean?" Paige questioned, simply wanting the man responsible to be caught and put away.

"It seems he had a key. The forensics team is sweeping for prints so lets hope they find something."

"They won't." Ralph stated matter-of-factly.

When he received confused looks from the team, he explained.

"The man was wearing gloves. There won't be any fingerprints."

Paige looked disappointed and frightened; that man had a key, how did he get a key?

"Ralph?" Cabe questioned, "How much do you remember from that night? This is the first time you've mentioned gloves."

Ralph thought to himself for a second.

"More. I remember more now."

Paige knelt down and put her hand on his shoulder.

"Why does he need to remember more? It would be better if he could just forget it all."

As the words left her lips, the team knew that she was wished they both could forget it all.

"We can get a sketch artist to come in and then run the image to find a match." Toby chimed in.

Paige stood up and ran her hands through her hair. Immediately, she turned her head towards Cabe.

"I'm going to see my dad."

Cabe was shocked, "Don't get me wrong, I'm glad. But why the sudden change of heart?"

"If anyone knows how to stop them from coming after us, it's him."

Walter pulled her aside, clearly concerned.

"Are you sure you want to do this?"

Paige kept her thoughts to herself. She wasn't really sure.

"Paige?"

"Can you watch Ralph?"

Walter looked into her eyes, trying to figure out what was going through her mind.

"Yes, of course."

"I just don't want to introduce him to Ralph until I can talk to him first."

"You don't need to defend yourself. It's your choice."

He smiled at her as she visibly relaxed.

"Thank you."

"We're coming with you." Toby and Happy said after looking to each other first.

"No," Paige said politely, "I need to do this by myself."

The team looked at her full of concern.

"He's in a building full of law enforcement officials… nothing's going to happen. Cabe can you arrange it?"

"For when?" He asked as he pulled out his phone.

"Now."

Paige walked through the hallway. Her eyes were fixated on the white walls and the lack of windows. Occasionally, there was a picture in a frame. She tried to focus on the beauty of the art, but the only image playing through her mind was the night her family died… the night she thought her dad had died.

"Ms. Dineen, he's right behind this door here." The officer pointed to a metal door a couple steps away from her."

"Is this where he has been staying?" She needed to understand where he has been for the last decade.

"No. He's been staying in safe houses all over the country. This is just an interrogation room."

She didn't reply.

After waiting several moments, she placed her hand on the door handle. Her eyelids clenched as she opened the door.

"Is that all you can remember?"

"Yeah." Ralph replied.

"Okay… here we go." The sketch artist turned her drawing around, does this look familiar?

Ralph gulped as memories of that night filled his mind, "yes."

The artist handed Cabe the drawing as Happy showed her out.

"We'll scan it, and run it through facial recognition." Walter narrated as Cabe walked over to the scanner.

"You okay buddy?" Toby asked as he sat down next to the boy.

Ralph shrugged his shoulders, "When's my mom coming back."

"I'm not sure. Hopefully pretty soon."

"We've got a match"

"That quickly?" Ralph asked.

"I reconfigured the program to find key facial features at a speed 90x faster than traditional facial recognition software."

"Cool." Ralph replied, mentally trying to find a way to make it 100x faster.

"Wait. Is that?"

"I thought he-"

Walter slammed his fist against the wall before grabbing his keys and racing towards the door.

"Walter wait!" Toby yelled as he followed.

"Sylvester, Happy, you two stay here with Ralph." Cabe ordered as he quickly followed them out the door.

Paige had been staring at her father for nearly five minutes, and not a single word was exchanged.

"I'm sorry." He spoke quietly.

She didn't reply. She wanted to speak; she had a lot to ask, but her mind came up empty.

"I just need you to know that I love you."

"Love me?" All of a sudden, her mind was going so fast her mouth could barely keep up, "If that was true you wouldn't have let me think that you were dead for nearly a decade!"

"I'm sorry… It killed me everyday to know that you were suffering. I know there is no excuse, but I was doing what I had to do to protect you.

She could feel tears flowing down her cheeks.

"I nearly died when I heard your mother and sister had…" He couldn't place a word to the tragedy… "been killed."

Paige swallowed the lump in her throat as she looked up to the ceiling, hoping it would prevent more tears from spilling.

It didn't work.

"I need to know who is doing all of this."

He didn't respond.

"They came after me and my son! Tell me how to stop this!"

"They came after you and Ralph?" Her dad looked genuinely upset and afraid, "I knew I should never have agreed to testify."

"How did you know Ralph's name? I never told you that."

Before her concern had a chance to grow, he pulled out a white envelope. Her father emptied it and hundreds of photos fell onto the table.

There were photos of her at work, the park, the shopping mall, and ones with Ralph as a baby, a toddler, and a child.

"How-" She asked.

"I had someone keep me updated. I had to make sure that you were happy; I had to make sure that you were okay... I love you sweetie."

Before she could respond, an officer entered the room.

"Can we have more time please?" Paige's dad asked.

The officer didn't respond.

Concerned, Paige turned around. Her heart skipped a beat when she saw the officer standing behind her.

"Officer Welsh?" She questioned as she recalled the officer that had been placed outside her house and had since been declared missing.

"How is Ralph? I told him I would be seeing you guys again soon." He said as he pulled out his gun.

"Paige!" Her dad called from behind her, "get down!"

Before either of the Dineens knew what was going on, the sound of a gunshot consumed the room.

When Walter, Toby and Cabe arrived, there were ambulances and a strangely large number of police cars surrounding the front doors.

As they exited the vehicle they overheard a federal agent on the phone, "A gunshot has been fired in the interview room-"

Walter's heart sunk as he raced inside. Cabe showed his badge so they would all be let through. The worry and panic pulsating through Walter's veins had him running much faster than the others. When he got to the door where was Paige was, he had to push through a plethora of officers.

He saw Paige clenched over on the floor. He could only see her back. As he entered, everything appeared in slow motion. He made his way towards Paige and took note of the officer that was being handcuffed by other law enforcement officials.

"Paige…" He placed his hand on her shoulder and as she turned, he saw tears flowing down her cheeks… She was standing over her father, who had been shot.

She turned back around to her father.

"Dad! Dad!" she choked on her words as her head fell onto his chest, "I love you too."

When she realized he was gone, she fell into Walter's arms, which were already surrounding her.

Toby pushed through the officers and knelt down on the other side of Paige.

"Get her out of here." Walter demanded as he stood up. He didn't want to break their contact, but there was something he had to do.

He approached the handcuffed officer and began punching him. His force was so strong that the other officers, despite their efforts, couldn't pull Walter off of him. The sounds of people ordering him to stop were mere fuzz in his ears… he promised he would deal with the man who did this.

Suddenly, as if he was hearing for the first time, a soft voice broke him from the violence.

"Walter, please stop." Her words were barely audible to everyone except Walter.

He turned to face her.

"Please. We can't lose you, don't kill him."

As much as he wanted to make officer Welsh suffer, he wanted to be with Paige and Ralph more.

Walter stood up and held a shaking and teary-eyed Paige in his arms.

"Lets get out of here."