Stupid

Mick chuckles and nods to BJ, knowing that it would take a few more years before the boy understood everything. And that was okay.

"Might be easier to have a big sister," he reasons. "When Jade gets back, you can hang out with her, okay? For now though..."

He gives a little groan as he picks himself up off the floor, grabbing BJ and swinging him around before setting him down by the door. "...we need some breakfast."


"Ah. Dr. Garrison." Alec is sitting on his cot, one leg dangling over the edge, the other drawn up for his arm to rest on his knee. "I should have known they'd send you - top dog thinks I'm crazy." He twirls a finger around his ear.

Sighing, he shakes his head. "How have I been feeling? Trapped. I want out of here just as bad as the first time you talked to me. I really don't know what the benefit was to you even coming down here, unless Reese just wanted you to present some miraculous proof that I wasn't leading him on."

Seeing no understanding in Hope's face, Alec quirks an eyebrow. "Ahh... so he didn't even tell you. Interesting. Letting you come in here clueless?" He tsks the idea. "Dangerous way for him to play."

Leaning back against the wall, he shrugs. "I gave Reese some information on the Agency. Now he's thinking I got a cog loose. Write up whatever you want, I don't care. I just want out of here."


Trying so hard, only halfway into Libby's teaching, Ty gets a headache. He'd been told these very same things how many time? And they made just as little sense to him today as they had then. He tries though, he really does, but it just seems to hit a brick wall in his brain.

Leaning over the book, the rest of his lunch is forgotten as he tries to read with Libby's help. "...h...h...he.... w......." He scrunches his nose. "W...e...ee...ent... went....he went... to... t..... ha, no... the... the... went to the..... pe...pi.....pr..... no... I don't know."

He sighs. It was a R. He thought it was. I looked like a R... maybe. The sound, the sound.... how did it fit together with a P and an A? And there was a K at the end. They'd been sitting here for quite a while now, and he was beginning to feel stupid again. It was a four letter word... only four letters. Surely he could figure this one out.

Looking at it again, he tries once more. "He went to the p....a.... pa.... rrrr.....k." He grimaces. "Paherrk." That wasn't a word that he'd ever heard before. "Oh." Duh. Now he felt stupid again. "Park. He went to the park."

Leaning his elbows on the table, he rests his face in his hands, his palm rubbing his eyes. "It hurts my brain," he mumbles. "I can't do this."


"Ryan, hi." Reese moves forward from around his desk, extending his hand. "Please, have a seat." He gestures to a couple empty chairs before he sits back down behind his desk.

"I hope I'm not disrupting your day too much, I just had a few questions for you."

Leaning forward on his desk, he folds his hands, studying Ryan for several moments, but doesn't offer any information at all as to why she'd been called here or what was going on. "How did you meet Alec, Ryan? What's your relationship with him?"